-02:37:22	PAO	This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control, we're at T minus 1 hour 22 minutes and counting. Cabin purge has now been completed and the boost protective cover has been closed. The 65 percent nitrogen 35 percent oxygen mixture will now be enriched to a 60/40 mixture at liftoff. Just completed were some preflight command tests with the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston. These tests are to insure that Houston can send commands, and that they are being received on or by the launch vehicle. Also just completed was a first motion signal. This is the first motion of the vehicle as it lifts off the pad. A test signal is sent to the eastern test range and to the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston to assure that they will get this signal at liftoff. Also, we just received a final go for a Jimsphere release. The Jimsphere is a weather balloon which is the final weather balloon to go up before launch indicating the wind direction. C-band beacons are in check at this time. The C-band beacons aboard the launch vehicle are used in tracking. They give indications of range velocity during the power phase of flight. Q-ball sim command was just sent. The Q-ball is an angle-of-attack meter which is perched above the launch escape system, and it's read by the spacecraft commander in the spacecraft. It would indicate any deviation from the planned flight through. It reads zero as it sits on the pad and during the test a simulated command is sent to it, and Gene Cernan in the spacecraft reads off what he is reading in the spacecraft during that sim command. The checks in the spacecraft continue to run somewhat ahead of schedule. The spacecraft test conductor Skip Chauvin indicated their running ahead and looking good, to which Cernan replied, "we're looking good up here too." The countdown continuing to move along well at this time T minus 1 hour 21 minutes and counting. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
-02:27:41	PAO	This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control, 13 minus 1 hour 12 minutes and counting. At this time Spacecraft Commander Gene Cernan and the Spacecraft test conductor Skip Chauvin are going over some command checks. During these checks the Spacecraft Commander actually gimbles or moves, swings the main engine in the Service Module. He does this using his flight hand controller and this is a system which is done so that if there is a problem with the computer which normally flies these, he can take over and manually fly it. Normally, however, all burns of this engine are done by the computer. Out at the pad, the space vehicle is surrounded by searchlights producing some 225 foot candles of light, a total of 7220 kilowatt xenon lights and 260 kilowatt xenon searchlight banks provide this illumination. At liftoff, approximately 7500 foot candles will be produced from the flame of the Saturn V first stage engines. This is almost equivalent to daylight. Searchlight will also illuminate the Apollo 17 for the first 60 feet of it's flight. Our countdown continuing to go smoothly now as we approach the 1 hour mark. T minus 1 hour 11 minutes and counting. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
-02:15:33	PAO	This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. We're at T minus 1 hour and counting. T minus 1 hour and counting. Just completed were the C-band beacon checks. These are checks of the beacons, two of them aboard the instrument unit of the space vehicle. These are used in conjunction with C-band radar here at Kennedy Space Center to check the space vehicle during powered phase of flight. A check was just made with the superintendent of range operations who ran through the camera coverage looking at the weather around the various areas to see what camera coverage, and that appears to be satisfactory. Meanwhile, at the pad, the closeout crew has completed securing the white room area, and they are clearing the pad area themselves at this time. Just before they left, they indicated to Cernan that they were completed their jobs going back away from the pad area. Cernan said "We'll see you when we get back." The pad leader responded that "The next face you see had better be a frogman or you're in trouble." The weather appears to be satisfactory. We've been tracking some local buildups, but at this time they're just - they do not seem to be posing any problem for an on-time launch at 9:53 p.m. EST. Now, T minus 59 minutes, 32 seconds and counting. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
-02:10:31	PAO	This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. We are at T-55 minutes 54 seconds and counting. Stoney, astronaut Bob Parker, the capsule communicator here in the firing room who has a variety of of functions during this mission; one of which is to set the elevators at the 320 foot level. He actually commands the elevators which are part of the egress system, emergency egress system, for the astronauts. He has just reported that the elevators have now been set at the 320 foot level. In an emergency the crew could come out of their spacecraft into these elevators where they would be lowered at a high speed, 600 feet per minute, to the ground floor or A level floor where they can exit from there into a variety of escape modes; one of which would be down a chute into a blast danger area or a safety area, or they could continue on out and be picked up by armored carriers. Underway at this time with the launch vehicle are some checks of the secure range safety systems aboard the vehicle. These are actually checks of the receivers in that system. A range Safety Officer could terminate the flight of Apollo 17 if it became erratic by initiating emergency cut off, or if necessary a propellant dispersion command. These systems are located on each of the flight stages. There are three stages of the Saturn V. Two receivers in each stage, and they would receive a signal from the range safety officers and then sending through them, through these receivers, they could perform the propellant dispersion. These actions, of course, will be taken only if the vehicle were so erratic that it were endangering some land areas, and of course, only after the crew had used one of the escape options open to them. The test going well at this time. Our countdown continuing T-54 minutes 6 seconds and counting. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
-02:06:30	PAO	This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control at T minus 50 minutes 55 seconds and counting. Preparations are underway in the launch control center at this time for a critical power transfer test. The space vehicle at this time is being fed from an external power source, but shortly before liftoff it will be transfered to the internal flight batteries. This test is to ensure that all electrical systems aboard the vehicle function properly on the internal flight batteries. The test takes about five minutes during which time the various elements of the launch team monitor their systems and report in then to the test supervisor, Bill Schick here in the control room that everything looks good during the test. Depending on local weather conditions the various areas around the United States, the flight of Apollo 17 will be monitored or be able to be seen by people as far as 500 miles away. This is the flight as seen of the first stage of powered flight. This would include a large portion the southeastern United States, northern tip of Cuba and the Bahama islands. The power transfer test is now underway; first stage, second stage, third stage, instrument unit now all going to internal power. Countdown continuing to go well T-minus 49 minutes 35 seconds and counting. This is Kennedy Test Control.
-02:01:30	PAO	This Apollo Saturn Launch Control, we're now T minus 45 minutes 55 seconds and counting. Various elements of the launch team reporting in to test supervisor Bill Schick, that they experienced no problems during the power transfer. We now transferred back again to an external power source, which will feed the vehicle systems until approximately 50 seconds before liftoff, at which time the final power transfer to Internal takes place. At the T minus 45 minute mark, we'll be watching for swing arm number 9. That's the swing arm which gives access to the Spacecraft to swing back to a retract position, 12 degrees back from the Spacecraft. This is a park position, a standby position, where it remain down until the final moments of the countdown. T minus 5 minutes, it swings back to the full retract position. Once it swing backs, the launch escape system aboard the - atop of the Spacecraft can be armed and this system could be used to pull the Astronaut crew to safety in any disaster. Now T minus 44 minutes 52 seconds and counting, this is Kennedy Launch Control.
-01:56:35	PAO	This is Apollo Saturn - This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. We're at T minus 40 minutes, 51 seconds and counting. Swing arm number 9 just retracted a few minutes ago, and, as it retracted, the astronaut crew aboard the space field could feel it moving away from the spacecraft. Eugene Cernan the spacecraft commander commented, "We're really hanging out here in the breeze now." Spacecraft test conductor, referring to the weather indicated that that was just a small breeze. The launch escape system has been armed. The system now could be used to carry the astronauts to safety if necessary. It's also used during the initial phases of powered flight to carry the astronauts away in an emergency. It would fly away in a high arc pulling them to a height, enough so that their parachute systems could deploy, and they could make a normal landing. The system is about 33 feet long. The motor develops 147 thousand pounds of thrust. This is almost twice the amount of thrust of the Redstone rocket, which powered astronaut Alan Shepard, America's first man into space. The countdown continuing to move along smoothly now. T minus 39 minutes, 36 seconds and counting. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
-01:50:47	PAO	This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. We're at T-minus 35 minutes 11 seconds and counting. Spacecraft commander Gene Cernan just reported back to the spacecraft test conductor Skip Chauvin. He said, "You've delivered us the best now it's our turn. Thank the guys we want to see them as soon as we can when we get back and I guarantee you we'll do that." Meanwhile C-band beacon checks are going on with the space vehicle. The liquid hydrogen liquid oxygen fully aboard and being replenished at this time to ensure a full load at liftoff. Countdown continuing to go smoothly as we approach the half hour mark T-minus 34 minutes 34 seconds and counting. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
-01:46:30	PAO	This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control, T minus 30 minutes 54 seconds and counting. Manned Spacecraft just indicated to the test supervisor Bill Schick that we are go for the terminal countdown sequences. Final propulsion checks have been completed and the C-band readouts, once again repeated have been completed. Beach boss reports the launch sight recovery force helicopters are on station and ready. Digital range safety command checks are now underway as the countdown continues smoothly aiming for the T minus 30 minute mark. Now at T minus 30 minutes 24 seconds and counting, this is Kennedy Launch Control.
-01:41:29	PAO	This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control, T-25 minutes 54 seconds and counting. Command Module Pilot Ron Evans at this time has armed the reaction control system aboard the service module. He does this by allowing the hypergolic fuels to move down the lines to the engines. At this time he is reading out the temperatures, pressures and fuel quantities in that system. Our weather continues to look good. The major frontal area which had been of some concern earlier, has remained well west of the launch area also some smaller buildups which we have been monitoring do not appear to be coming close enough to cause any concern for our 9:53 PM launch time. That launch will be aiming Apollo 17 for the Taurus-Littrow area of the Moon. This area is named after the Taurus Mountains. These in southern Turkey and the Austrian astronomer, Littrow. The site is expected to yield some of the oldest and some of the youngest lunar samples returned during the Apollo flights to the Moon. Now T-24 minutes 50 seconds and counting. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
-01:36:30	PAO	This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control, T-minus 20 minutes 55 seconds and counting. Short time from now we we'll begin chilling the propulsion systems aboard the second and third stage of the Saturn V vehicle. This is necessary to condition them for the flow of the super cool liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen. Just a few moments ago the crew aboard spacecraft America was given an updated weather forecast. Cernan reported, "I hope it's as beautiful out there as it is in here." Countdown continuing to move smoothly at T-minus 20 minutes 24 seconds and counting. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
-01:31:33	PAO	This is Apollo - This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control, T minus 15 minutes 52 seconds and counting. The Vice-President of the United States, Spiro Agnew has entered the launch control center now. He'll observe the final portions of the countdown from here and also the launch. Arming and checking of the Service Module reaction control system has now been completed and in progress is the chilldown of the S-II, or second stage start tank. Checkouts continuing to go well, some running a little bit ahead of schedule, all on time. T minus 15 minutes 20 seconds and counting, this is Kennedy Test Control.
-01:26:32	PAO	This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control at T-minus 10 minutes 55 seconds and counting. At this time some computer checks being run with the launch vehicle. The spacecraft has now gone to full internal power. Up to this point the spacecraft fuel cells have been sharing the power load with an external source. Also going on at this time are some checks of the astro comm circuit. This is the circuit which is used by the launch operations manager, spacecraft test conductor, Stony, and the three astronauts at launch time. This is to ensure that they are not getting any extraneous voices or are having to listen to any of the other network which might be carrying on a conversation which they don't need at that time. Countdown proceeding smoothly T-minus 10 minutes 15 seconds and counting. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
-01:23:35	PAO	This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control, T-minus 8 minutes and counting. T-minus 8 minutes and counting. The Vice-President in the firing room at the launch control center, observing the final minutes of the countdown and he'll watch the launch from here. The countdown has proceeded smoothly since picking up at 11:53 A.M. this morning. Weather continues to look good as we aim toward a 9:53 P.M. Eastern Standard Time launch. Now T-minus 7 minutes 37 seconds and counting, this is Kennedy Launch Control.
-01:21:31	PAO	This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control, T-minus 5 minutes 54 seconds and counting. At this time entering the final phases of the countdown various elements of the team reporting into Test Supervisor Bill Shick with the GO NO-GO for launch. At launch time a water deluge system at the pad will spray water over the entire area of the pad, some 400,000 gallons of water. More than the average family would use in three years will be spread over the pad and the swing arms protecting them from the searing flames of the Saturn V first stage. Various elements reporting in now. First stage reporting they are GO. Range Safety, Superintendent Range Operations they are GO. Launch Operations Manager reports he is GO for launch. Launch Director Walter Kapryan has given a GO for launch. We've passed the 5 minute mark, T-minus 4 minutes 55 seconds and counting and swing arm No. 9 now coming back to the fully retracted position. The launch escape system setting atop the spacecraft, spacecraft named America by the crew, now could pull the crew to safety if there were any problem while the vehicle remains on the pad or during the early portions of the flight. At the T-4 minute mark we'll be standing by for word from the Launch Vehicle Test Conductor Norm Carlson, giving a clear for launch for the launch vehicle ignition. At T-minus 3 minutes 7 seconds we'll go on an automatic sequencer. It's called the terminal countdown sequencer. The astronauts on the Astro com circuit now reporting and thanking the launch team for all their prayers and all their help. T-minus 3 minutes 55 seconds and counting. Apollo 17, the launch team wishes you good luck and God speed, reports the launch operations manager over the Astro com circuit. T-minus 3 minutes 40 seconds, the countdown continuing to go along smoothly. Once we go on the terminal countdown sequencer, the countdown will be automatic from there on out. The countdown sequencer will initiate the various functions from that time on; however, the men here in the firing room will be monitoring their consoles, watching temperatures, pressures, various readouts. They could override that terminal sequencer if necessary. Moving up now to the time when we'll go on that terminal sequencer.
-01:18:42	PAO	T-3 minutes 10 seconds and counting. Spacecraft ready light has come on indicating that the spacecraft is ready. We are now on the terminal sequencer. Launch sequence has started. The flowing of that water on the pad will begin at the 1 minute mark flowing on the flame deflector below the launch vehicle on the launch pedestal itself and along the swing arms which will be coming back at liftoff. Instrument unit ready light has come on. Emergency detection system ready light is on. All indications are we are GO for launch as we approach the 2 minute 30 second mark. Pressurization of the various propellant tanks now aboard the space vehicle is starting. At two, our second stage liquid oxygen tanks now pressurized. These propellant tanks are pressurized with helium to insure that during the flight the fuel flows properly down through the engine. It's quiet here in the firing room now as the men are monitoring their consoles, looking at the temperatures, checking pressures and a variety of parameters to ensure everything is in a GO condition. Pressurization continuing on the fuel tanks at this time we'll go to the critical power transfer at the T-minus 50 second mark in the count down. At that time we'll transfer external power source to the flight battery aboard the space vehicle. The final action by the crew aboard the spacecraft America will be a final guidance alignment conducted by the Spacecraft Commander Gene Cernan. The flight of Apollo 17 will be able to be seen depending on weather conditions, some 500 miles away as it goes into Earth orbit. Pressurization continuing, liquid hydrogen tanks now aboard the second stage have been pressurized, all propellants aboard the second stage now pressurized. A cover aboard the Q-ball, this is the Q-ball system on top of the launch escape system will be pulled off just shortly before launch.
-01:16:23	PAO	First stage propellant tanks have been pressurized. Now past the 1 minute mark and we are going on internal power. Now all systems to internal power. We'll be looking for the engine start sequence at the 8.9 second mark in the countdown. Engines will build up to a thrust of 7.6 million pounds.
-01:16:02	PAO	T-minus 30 seconds, we have a cutoff, we have a cutoff at T-minus 30 seconds. We are standing by at T-minus 30 second mark. We'll bring word to you just as soon as we get it. We have a cutoff at T-minus 30 seconds. T-minus 30 seconds and holding. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
-01:15:01	PAO	This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. We're holding at the 30 second mark. This was an automatic cutoff. Cutoff by the terminal sequencer as mentioned this sequencer initiates various actions. Each action must take place and must be completed before the next one can be initiated. If anything does not get completed in time there will be an automatic cutoff. This cutoff was automatic, done by the sequencer. We're standing by now to check just what the problem was. Now at T-minus 30 seconds and holding. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
-01:13:56	PAO	This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. The astronaut crew aboard the spacecraft going through their various safeing now. Safeing of all systems and the launch team here continuing through their emergency procedures. We'll be standing by to check out the problem just as soon as we can get word. T-minus 30 seconds and holding. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
-01:11:56	PAO	This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. The safeing procedures continuing at this time. Up to the T-minus 30 second mark the countdown had been proceeding smoothly. Weather conditions at launch were predicted to be and appears to be good at that time. However, we had an automatic cutoff from the terminal countdown sequencer and we're standing by to see just what caused that automatic cutoff. All systems being safed at this time. T-minus 30 seconds and we are in a hold. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
-01:08:45	PAO	This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. We're continuing in our hold at the 30 second mark, while the launch team assesses our problem. The swing arm, swing arm number 9 will be brought back to it's park position, which is 12 degrees back from the space vehicle. Continuing the safeing procedures this time and assessing the problem, holding at T-minus 30 seconds, this is Kennedy Launch Control.
-01:03:22	PAO	This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. We're continuing in our hold at the T-minus 30 second mark as the launch team assesses our problem. At this point swing arm number 9 is going back to the 12 degree park position. This is a position about 15 to 20 feet from the spacecraft. All safeing procedures have proceeded normally. We're continuing our hold while we assess our problem. at T-minus 30 seconds, this is Kennedy Launch Control.
-01:01:33	PAO	This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. The swing arm number 9 is now back to that retract position at the 12 degree position. Point out that the window we have tonight extends to 1:31am. So we have some time here to assess the problem and then continue - recycle and continue our countdown. We're continuing to hold at the 30 second mark at this time. 30 seconds and holding, this is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:54:27	PAO	This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. We're at T-minus 30 seconds and continuing our hold. The problem was with the terminal countdown sequencer, which failed to give the command to pressure, pressurize the third stage lox tank. The crew in the firing room, realizing this were seeing this happen pressurized the tank manually, but this did not happen fast enough to satisfy the automatic sequencer. As was mentioned earlier, during this sequence everything must happen at a certain time, before the next step in the sequence can take place. The next step that was to take place was the retraction of swing arm 9, and at the time that was to take place the terminal sequencer had not had an indication that the third stage lox tank had been pressurized. The plan now is to recycle to the T minus 22 minute mark in the countdown. Now this recycling procedure will take an additional 35 to 40 minutes. This still puts us well within our launch window. While we're recycling, we'll continue to review the data to determine just what the problem is and whether or not we can proceed from the T minus 22 minute mark for a launch later in the window. The crew aboard the spacecraft has been alerted to the problem and understand what is happening. They're standing by there at this time. Now at T minus 30 seconds and holding, this is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:49:26	PAO	This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control, We're remaining still in the T-minus 30 second mark. We'll remain here for some period. It will take approximately 35 to 40 minutes to recycle back to T minus 22 minutes, where we'll resume the count. To explain again what has happened was we were in what was called the terminal countdown sequencer. At 3 minutes 7 seconds in the countdown we go on to an automatic system called the terminal countdown sequencer. This countdown sequencer initiates various actions, the final actions in the count. Each of these must occur on schedule and in sequence. Now what happened at this particular time was, the third stage liquid oxygen tank was not automatically pressurized as it should have been. The launch crew here in the firing room, when they saw this, manually pressurized that system, but it was too late to satisfy the sequencer. The next event in the sequence was the retraction of swing arm number 1, swing arm going over to the first stage and at that time, the sequencer did not see that the tank had been pressurized and sent an automatic cut-off. So we had an automatic cut-off at the 30 second mark. We're standing by at the 30 second mark to go back to T-minus 22 minutes and we are reevaluating the problem, looking at the, what caused the sequencer not to automatically pressurize that tank, seeing what that problem is and seeing if there is a possibility if we go ahead and do this manually early in the sequence, if that will satisfy the sequencer and we can proceed. Now holding at the T-minus 30 second mark in our countdown, this is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:47:01	PAO	This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. We're continuing to stand by here at the T-minus 30 second mark in the countdown. The crew remaining perfectly calm in their spacecraft. They have gone through their safeing checks. The various safeing checks of the launch vehicle have been completed. We are now going through preparations for recycling to the T-minus 22 minute mark. Standing by at this time at T-minus 30 seconds. T-minus 30 seconds and holding in the countdown for Apollo 17. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:45:43	PAO	This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. We're continuing our hold at the 30 second mark. We'll recycle to the T-minus 22 minute mark. The T-minus 22 minute mark is chosen as the recycling point because this is the point where we start the chill down as was mentioned during that point in the countdown. We start the chill down of the second and third stages to prepare them for the influx of the liquid hydrogen, the cold liquid hydrogen and the cold liquid oxygen. This chill down has some very specific parameters and must be started at a certain time and cannot go beyond a certain time. So it's best to go back to that point in the countdown under these circumstances and to resume our count at the T-minus 22 minute mark. When a determination is made that we can resume. Continuing to look at the data here is see exactly what happened. There is no indication of ignition. Ignition was scheduled to come at the 8.9 second mark. Here in the control room a number of the people were looking through the remote cameras which have the capability out at the pad of zooming in on specific areas and a number of people here were looking right at those first stage engines and there was no indication whatsoever of engine ignition. We're continuing to evaluate all the data at this time as we hold at the T-minus 30 second mark. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:43:51	PAO	This Apollo Saturn Launch Control still in our hold at the 30 second mark. While the launch team here is busy recycling to the T-22 minute mark, the mission team out at the Manned Spacecraft Center also preplanning some of the new time for the mission. They are also at this time busily preplanning the new launch azimuth. The azimuth now if we go at the next opportunity would be the 81.06 degrees. This will be automatically fed into the instrument unit of the Saturn V vehicle from the Manned Spacecraft Center. All elements of the launch team now putting everything together, checking over data and doing their best to put us back into a recycle position ready to pick up the count at the T-minus 22 minute mark. Still evaluating data, however, and we have not at this time been given a GO for that resuming of the countdown. T-minus 30 seconds and holding at this time. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:42:27	PAO	This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control, continuing our hold at the 30 second mark. Back at the mission control center in Houston the flight controllers returning to their seats now after some consultation. They're back now giving status check and getting ready in case we are - it is determined that we can pick up the count. In the firing room here, the Apollo Program Director Rocco Petrone has moved into the viewing area where the President - Vice President Spiro Agnew and NASA administrator James Fletcher are and he is giving them a briefing and a run down on our problem. We are standing by at this time. The clock has now been recycled to the T-minus 22 minute mark; however, we have not picked up the count at that mark. We are now at T-minus 22 minutes and holding. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:41:15	PAO	This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control, continuing to stand by at the T minus 22 minute mark in the countdown. Recycling operations have gone well. We're back to the T-minus 22 minute mark and at this mark which we will pick up the count if we are given a go to resume. Check has been made of the Mission Control Center team at the Mission Control Center in Houston. All elements of that team reporting that they are ready to resume as soon as they get the word. Now standing by here at Kennedy Space Center, while data is reviewed and determination will be made if and when we can resume our countdown for Apollo 17. Now at T-minus 22 minutes and holding, this is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:40:16	PAO	This Apollo Saturn Launch Control. We are continuing to standby at the T-minus 22 minute mark. We are hoping to resume the count shortly. The problem has not been resolved. We're continuing to look into it; however, it has been determined that a resolution one way or the other should be able to be made shortly. So right now we are continuing our recycle procedures hoping to pick up the count perhaps just minutes from now. If the problem is not resolved by the time we reach the T-minus 8 minute mark after we continue to countdown, the clock will be held again. Right now we are continuing the recycling procedures hoping to pick up shortly at T-minus 22 minutes. We are now T-minus 22 minutes and holding. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:39:08	PAO	This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. We're continuing to stand by at the T-minus 22 minute mark. We've been given the word here in the firing room now that the count will be resumed at 11 p.m. at T-minus 22 minutes. At this time there still has not been a resolution to the problem, but we'll continue looking at that. We could continue on counting down while this problem is looked at. To reiterate what the problem was; the terminal countdown sequencer failed to give the command to pressurize the third stage liquid oxygen tanks. The crews monitoring this function saw that that happened and immediately manually pressurized the tanks, but this did not occur in time in the sequence and when swing arm one was to retract it had not received this signal. As a consequence an automatic cutoff was sent. There are several possible workarounds to this they are being looked into at this time, and we plan to resume our countdown at the T-minus 22 minute mark at 11 p.m. Now holding at T-minus 22 minutes. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:37:54	PAO	This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. We're at T-minus 21 minutes 10 seconds and counting. The countdown picked up, the launch team here made a quick check of the various elements, all reporting in to the test supervisor Bill Schick, indicating that they were ready to resume the count. Now counting at T-minus 20 minutes 53 seconds, and we'll continue to countdown here as we look at the problem which caused the hold at the T-minus 30 second mark. Now at T-minus 20 minutes 42 seconds and counting, this is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:31:19	PAO	This Apollo Saturn Launch Control. We're at T-14 minutes 35 seconds and counting in our countdown for Apollo 17. Back at the Mission Control Center the men there are updating the launch azimuth. Launch azimuth standing now at 82.54 degrees. This will automatically be feed into the instrument unit. The swing arm, swing arm number 9, the access arm to the spacecraft, remains at the 12 degree position it will remain there until the T-minus 5 minute mark in the countdown. Going on at this time are the recycling of some of the vents for the liquid hydrogen and the liquid oxygen. These are the vents which allow the venting of these gases as there is some boil-off occurring. It is necessary to continue venting these to ensure they do not freeze in either an open or closed position. The countdown proceeding smoothly now. T-minus 13 minutes 43 seconds and counting. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:26:38	Evans	Alpha. Okay, EDS AUTO is on up now.
-00:26:26	Evans	... verify AUTO. Launch vehicle rates, verify AUTO.
-00:26:20	Evans	RCS command is OFF. Release.
-00:26:17	PAO	This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. We're at T-minus 9 minutes 36 seconds and we are counting. However, we do plan to continue the hold at the T-minus 8 minute mark. We can hold at that point for 20 minutes and plan a 20 minute hold while the launch crew here satisfies themselves that they have worked out a good solution and a work around to the problem. The crew has been alerted aboard the spacecraft. Cernan indicated that perhaps they could start a nice conservation about a good book, Thomas Hardy or something like that. Countdown continuing now aiming toward the 8 minute mark at which time we'll hold. T-minus 9 minutes now T-minus 9 minutes and counting. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:26:20	Cernan	One at AC1, MAIN A. Two AC2, MAIN B.
-00:25:59	Schmitt	Okay, that's going to latch.
-00:25:37	Cernan	Roger, ATC. Understand Challenger is GO for launch.
-00:25:12	Schmitt	Okay, secondary PUMP switch is OFF.
-00:25:09	Schmitt	MARK it.
-00:24:38	PAO	This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. We're now holding at the 8 minute mark as planned. The hold at this time is planned for approximately 20 minutes. The crew feels that they have, that they have a work around to the problem, working around the indication going to the terminal sequencer that the tank has not been pressurized, when actually it had been done manually. They are checking all of their data, however, to insure that this is the proper method to work around the problem and that this will result in a smooth countdown from here on. Now at T-minus 8 minutes and holding, this is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:24:13	Cernan	Okay, we'll be looking for them.
-00:23:41	PAO	This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. We're continuing our hold at the 8 minute mark. The launch operations manager has gone over with the launch team their proposed solution a work around. The team appears to be satisfied that it is the proper one. They are now briefing management personnel on the problem and the work around. Out at the pad the liquid oxygen continues to vent from the vehicle and is replenished. Liquid hydrogen is also vented from the vehicle as there is some boil off. However, because it is quite a volatile fuel it is vented through a burnpond at the side of the pad. That burnpond is at the north side of the pad and there it can be seen burning in a controlled condition at this time. This is a normal condition, actually during the day this burns in such a pure manner that it cannot be seen. However, at night it is clearly visible. Our countdown continuing to hold at the T-minus 8 minute mark at this time. T-minus 8 minutes and holding this is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:22:25	PAO	This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. We're continuing to hold at the T-8 minute mark. Me an time the crew is getting a variety of updates in the spacecraft, updating them on various aspects and the changes to their mission due to this hold period. Also, at the Manned Spacecraft Center they are continuing to update the flight azimuth as they get new times for the launch. Launch Operations Manager Paul Donnelly just went through quite an extensive briefing with the spacecraft test conductor to pass on to the crew what they feel the problems were and how they plan to work around it. The crew aboard the spacecraft indicated that if the launch team was satisfied with these solutions, that they certainly were confident themselves. Now continuing our hold at the T-minus 8 minute mark this is Kennedy Test Control.
-00:21:58	Cernan	Okay, understand; full retract.
-00:21:47	Cernan	Skipper, thank you. We - we plan to, babe.
-00:21:40	Cernan	We're going to do our best, and we're also going to have a ball.
-00:21:21	Cernan	Thank you for the hardware, and the help, and the prayers, and everything else that goes into making a good mission.
-00:21:17	PAO	This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. We're continuing in our hold at the T minus 8 minute mark. At this time, it's been determined to take an additional 20 minutes, add an additional 20 minutes to that planned hold period. The reason for this is, the crews would like to take the work around that they have devised and at Marshall Spaceflight Center, where the Saturn V launch vehicle was developed, they have what is called a bread board or a system, which is similar to this one and run through the sequence and insure that it does operate properly. The crew aboard the spacecraft was informed of this additional 20 minute hold. They indicated that they expected to use all three stages of this Saturn V and they were happy to have the 20 minute hold if that was going to assure that all three were going to work properly. Now continuing our hold at the T-minus 8 minute mark, this is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:21:14	Cernan	I sure do, I've got 5 good bright ones.
-00:21:04	Cernan	... you're loud and clear.
-00:20:57	Cernan	We thank you, very much. Loud and clear.
-00:20:49	Evans	Air 5, program 02. Okay, we've got a VERB 75 do not enter. Please.
-00:20:06	PAO	This is Apollo Saturn Test Control. We are continuing our hold at the T-minus 8 minute mark. The reason the T-minus 8 minute mark is chosen for this hold as mentioned earlier has to do with the chilldown of the thrust chambers in the S-2 or second stage and the third stage. Both of these stages use liquid hydrogen, an extremely cold cryogenic fuel and the thrust chamber must be conditioned prior to flight so that it's ready at the time of ignition in-flight to receive these fuels coming in. To achieve the proper temperature the thrust chamber chilldown should not exceed 20 minutes, but it must be on for at least 7 minutes and 40 seconds. So rounding that off the hold was called at the 8 minute mark. We can continuously hold it at this point whereas if we continued on down we would have to watch these parameters very closely so that we did not exceed that 20 minute accumulated cooling time. At this point we can continue our hold and that continuation can be determined by the problem and we can pick up then at any time or continue as long as necessary. We're continuing that hold now at T-minus 8 minutes and holding. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:20:06	Cernan	Roger. 3 minutes, Bob. Forward ...
-00:19:14	Cernan	It's pull the bypass, skip.
-00:19:04	Cernan	Roger. 2 Minutes.
-00:18:28	PAO	This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. We're continuing in our hold at the T-minus 8 minute mark. Back at the Marshall Spaceflight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the crews there are at work on a bread board, or a mock-up of the system in question, where they're putting it through it s paces, checking out the work around solution, that is, jumping around this erroneous signal, and insuring that everything works properly. The crew still standing by in the spacecraft, updating various systems there, updating their flight plan, all continuing to go well there. The crew at the Manned Spacecraft Center also doing considerable amount of updating. They'll be continuing to update the azimuth, and the Launch Control Center here at Kennedy Space Center, the launch team manning their consoles, standing by to pick up the count, when we're given the word to go. However, we're standing by still. At this time, we have no word from the Marshall Spaceflight Center. We're expecting that to come within 10 to 15 minutes from this time. Now at T-minus 8 minutes and holding, this is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:18:24	Schmitt	Roger. Bus ties going on. The AC's on. DC's on.
-00:18:06	Cernan	Roger. 1 Minute.
-00:17:59	Cernan	CDR PAD COMM is OFF. LMP?
-00:17:49	Cernan	Roger. GDC align, and ball number 2 is coming in.
-00:17:25	Cernan	Roger. Understand, cut-off.
-00:16:55	Cernan	That's affirm, understand. We're just holding fast here.
-00:16:53	PAO	This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. We're continuing in our hold period at this time. Test Supervisor Bill Shick just announced here in the Firing Room that the hold is expected to last approximately 20 more minutes. Liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen continuing to be replenished aboard the 3 stages of the launch vehicle at this time. That replenishing will continue during the hold period and during the final minutes of the countdown. The countdown continuing in the hold. T-minus 8 minutes and holding this is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:16:33	Cernan	Okay, we'll just standby, hold fast.
-00:16:00	PAO	This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control at one minute to midnight, one minute to midnight. We are continuing to hold at the T-minus 8 minute mark. Work is still going on at the Marshall Spaceflight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Updating of the tracking continuing at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston. And the launch team here at Kennedy Space Center preparing to pick up the count. Hopefully, we will be given a go-ahead to pick up the count in approximately 10 to 12 minutes from this time. We are continuing to standby waiting to hear from the testing going on at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville. To recap the activities earlier today the countdown picked up at 11:53 a.m. after a planned hold period picked up at T-minus 9 hours mark shortly after that time the pad was cleared and we began loading the cryogenic fuels, that's the liquid hydrogen and the liquid oxygen aboard the space vehicle. Those operations actually went a little bit ahead of schedule. The astronaut crew went out to the pad, entered their spacecraft, began checking it out and those operations also running a little bit ahead of schedule. We went on to our terminal countdown sequencer at the 3 minute 6 second mark as scheduled. Everything seemed to be proceeding fine. At the T-minus 30 second mark we got an automatic cut-off. It was determined that this cut-off came because pressurization of the liquid oxygen tank aboard the third stage was not initiated automatically as it should have been when it was done manually the terminal sequencer did not sense that this had been done, and therefore gave the automatic cut-off. We're working the problem right now continuing to hold at the T-minus 8 minute mark. T-minus 8 minutes, this is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:15:45	Cernan	Okay, push to normal.
-00:14:08	Cernan	Roger. TVC servo 1 is OFF, and 2 is OFF. Roger, REAC valve to NORMAL.
-00:13:42	PAO	This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control, continuing to hold at the T-minus 8 minute mark. The hold continues to be planned for approximately 5 to 7 more minutes. However, the launch window should be pointed out tonight extends to 1:31 AM. Now if for any reason we could not make it in that launch window, we could recycle under our present configuration and resume our count aiming for a 9:53PM EST launch tonight. The window for tonight is the same as it was for last night and this morning - 9:53PM to 1:31AM, however the launch team appears to be optimistic with the solution they've found to the problem. They are just waiting for verification and confirmation from the testing that's going on at the Marshall Spaceflight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The time now is 7 minutes after midnight We're continuing to hold at T-minus 8 minutes. T-minus 8 minutes and holding , this is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:13:27	Evans	Okay, I've got a VERB 34. ENTER. Uh. ... That's affirm.
-00:13:10	Cernan	STC, CDR. The 5 engine lights all went on about a minute ago.
-00:12:58	Schmitt	Roger, going OFF and then AUTO. AC. DC.
-00:12:28	Cernan	Okay, CDR's PAD COMM. And LMP's ...
-00:12:14	PAO	This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control, continuing to hold at the 8 minute mark in the countdown. Still awaiting word from the Marshall Spaceflight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and the result of the test being run at this time up there. Meanwhile, here in the firing room, all elements of the launch team are assessing their position. They are assessing the effect of the hold and this amount of hold time on each of their systems. Everyone, at this time, busily at work here in the firing room, also at the Mission Control Center in Houston, busy there with their flight update. Now continuing to hold at the T-minus 8 minute mark, this is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:11:37	Cernan	TC, CDR. You're busy Skip, I just wondered if think it's going to be a GO for a recycle here. Okay.
-00:11:13	PAO	This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. We're at 15 minutes past the hour continuing to hold at the T-minus 8 minute mark. The supervisor just indicated that we finally pick up the clock at the T-minus 8 minute mark in 10 minutes. Planning to pick up the clock at 25 minutes past the hour. The tests being run or have been run now at the Marshall Space Flight Center and indicate that our system is good the way it has been reconfigured. All elements now during this 10 minutes will be preparing their various systems to pick up the clock at the T-minus 8 minute mark. Meanwhile, out at the Manned Spacecraft Center the flight controllers there also planning to pick up the clock. We just received a GO from the superintendent of range operations indicating that the range has been cleared around the new flight azimuth. The Manned Spacecraft Center Houston flight indicates that they are go to pick up the clock at 25 minutes past the hour. Now at T-minus 8 minutes and holding this is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:09:48	PAO	This is Apollo Saturn Launch control. We're continuing our hold at the T minus 8 minute mark. We have approximately 5 more minutes remaining in that hold. It's been determined that the workaround is a correct and satisfactory one, A bread board or a sample system at the Marshall Spaceflight Center was used to run through the entire sequence as it now configured and that operated satisfactorily. What happened was the - during the terminal sequencer, the liquid oxygen tank was not pressurized automatically. When this was done manually, the indication did not get to the sensors in time so that we had an automatic cutoff. The liquid oxygen tanks aboard the third stage, it has been determined, will be pressurized manually early in the terminal sequence and jumpers have been installed so that we can then feed the information to the sequencer so that it will not have an indication that the LOX tanks have not been pressurized. This - a bread board situation of this has been constructed at the Marshall Spaceflight Center in Huntsville and this has operated satisfactorily. So, it's been determined to go ahead with our countdown on this basis. We'll be planning to pick up the count at the T-minus 8 minute mark some 4 minutes from now. Now T-minus 8 minutes and holding. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:09:20	Cernan	Okay. Skip, we're just sitting tight. Okay. Yes, I'll get my pencil out, I guess.
-00:08:14	Cernan	Roger. Coming back to PARK.
-00:07:59	PAO	This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. We are now resuming the count. T minus 7 minutes 54 seconds and counting. At this time in the Spacecraft update is being given to the Spacecraft Commander, Eugene Cernan. The swing arm still at the 12 degree position, that is the park position, standing by at the Spacecraft. That will be brought to the full retract position at approximately T-minus 5 minutes in the countdown. The flight director just ran through the - his team - a status report from his team at the Mission Control Center. That team all reported they are in a GO condition. Now, at T-minus 7 minutes 20 seconds and counting this is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:05:43	PAO	This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control, T minus 5 minutes 40 seconds and counting. At this time the various elements of the launch team have been reporting in to Bill Shigby, test supervisor, indicating that we are GO to continue. Mission director Chet Lee just verified that we are GO for launch. Safety indicates that we have a GO, First stage test conductor, this is the man who has charge of those five first stage engines which will give us the lift-off, has indicated a GO for launch. Launch Operations Manager, Paul Donnley, also giving us a GO for launch, and finally the Launch Director, Walter Kapryan says we are GO for launch. We've passed the five minute mark now and swing arm number 9, this is the access arm to the spacecraft, is coming back to the full retract position. It moves back along side the mobile launch tower and it will remain there now through the final portion of the countdown and the launch. At the T-minus 60 second mark 20 nozzles will start flame deflector deluge of 13,000 gallons per minute of water pouring down on that flame deflector, so a great deal of what is seen at launch time, which looks like smoke, is actually steam as this water is burned off. This water's to cool the pad area and to cool the equipment along side the launch tower as the water also pours across the swing arms in the launch tower. We are approaching the 4 minute mark in the countdown now, T-minus 4 minutes 5 seconds and continuing to count. At the 4 minute mark we'll stand by for a final GO from Norm Carlson, Launch Vehicle Test Conductor. He has given a GO. The Launch Operations Manager now switching over to the astro COMM circuit, this is the circuit that the astronauts, the launch operations manager and the spacecraft communicator will remain on. They have this private circuit to keep extraneous talk off of their circuit. They are checking in, they are checking in now on the astro COMM circuit Indicating that they are GO. Spacecraft has indicated they are ready. Instrument unit ready light has come on. S-IC, that's the first stage, preparations are now complete as we approach the 3 minute mark. There is quiet in the firing room now as the engineers and technicians are monitoring their consoles. They are monitoring the various rates, pressures, temperatures, they can override the terminal sequencer if they sight a problem that it has not picked up. We are on that terminal sequencer now, we have passed the 3 minute mark T-minus 2 minutes 47 seconds and counting as we are on the terminal sequencer. At the T-minus 50 second mark we will be looking for that critical power transfer. This is where we transfer from the external power source, which has been feeding the 3 stages of the launch vehicle to internal power to the flight batteries aboard the space vehicle. It's expected that given proper weather conditions people will be observing this flight from as much as 500 miles away. This includes a large portion of the southeastern United States, the northern tip of Cuba and the Bahama islands. Now approaching the 2 minutes, 2 minute mark, MARK, T-minus 2 minutes and counting and the countdown continues to move along smoothly now in the terminal countdown portion. The automatic sequencer has stopped the replenishing of the liquid oxygen and the liquid hydrogen. We're standing by now to begin pressurization of the fuel tanks, the second stage fuel tank pressurized, third stage fuel tank pressurized. The countdown continuing to move along smoothly. T-minus 90 seconds, T-minus 90 seconds. Countdown continuing smoothly. S-IVB propellant pressurized, the indication now using the work around showing the S-IVB propellant has been pressurized. Now looking at the liquid hydrogen tank, as they become pressurized LH2 aboard the second stage pressurized. All propellants now aboard the second stage pressurized as we approach the 1 minute mark in the countdown.
-00:04:08	Cernan	Okay. We'll be ready when you are.
-00:01:00	PAO	MARK. T-minus 1 minute and counting. Now in the final minute of the countdown. At T-minus 45 seconds Gene Cernan will make the final guidance alignment - this is the -
-00:00:44	PAO	MARK. T-minus 45 and Gene Cernan made that final guidance alignment. That's the last action taken by the crew aboard the space vehicle. Now approaching the half minute mark. T-minus 33, T-minus 30 seconds and continuing on now - continuing on at T-minus 26 seconds ...
-00:00:30	CC	30 to go.
-00:00:29	Cernan	Okay, Robert. We're ready and we're GO up here.
-00:00:25	PAO	MARK. T-minus 25. We'll get a final guidance release at the T-minus 17 second mark. T-minus 17, final guidance release. We'll expect engine ignition at 8.9 seconds ...
-00:00:21	CC	Minus 20.
-00:00:10	PAO	10 ... 9 ... 8 ... 7 ... ignition sequence started - all engines are started - we have ignition 2, 1, zero - we have a liftoff.
-00:00:10	CC	10 ... 9 ... 8 ... 7 ... ignition ... 6 ... 5 ... 4 ... 3 ... 2 ... 1
-00:00:01	Cernan	Get the light.
000:00:00	CC	Liftoff.
000:00:00	PAO	We have a liftoff and it's lighting up the area, it's just like daylight here at Kennedy Space Center as the Saturn V is moving off the pad. It has now cleared the tower.
000:00:01	Cernan	Roger. The clock has started. We have yaw. Woo-hoo!
000:00:08	CC	Clear of the tower.
000:00:10	Cernan	Roger; tower. Yaw's complete. We're into roll, Bob.
000:00:13	CC	Roger, Geno. Looking great. Thrust good on all five engines.
000:00:17	Cernan	Okay, babe. It's looking good here. Roll is complete. We are pitching.
000:00:25	PAO	This is Mission Control. Gene Cernan reporting the launch vehicle maneuvering to the proper attitude, everything looking good at this point.
000:00:26	Evans	Wow woozle!
000:00:27	Cernan	Okay, babe. Let's check the angles.
000:00:29	Evans	Thirty seconds. We're going up. Man, oh, man!
000:00:32	Cernan	Thirty seconds, and 17 is GO.
000:00:35	CC	Roger, 17. You're GO.
000:00:38	PAO	First stage looks good. Altitude 1.1 miles.
000:00:43	Evans	Okay, 1 minute and 68 degrees.
000:00:45	Cernan	Okay.
000:00:46	Schmitt	Everything looks great over here, Gene.
000:00:48	Cernan	Okay. Okay, stand-by for MAX - coming up on MAX Q. We'll be at 68 degrees.
000:00:55	SC	... Okay.
000:00:56	PAO	Booster says we look good. We are now at 2.5 miles.
000:00:57	CC	17, stand by for Mode I Bravo -
000:00:59	CC	MARK. Mode I Bravo.
000:01:01	Cernan	Roger. I Bravo; we're GO at 1 minute.
000:01:04	CC	Roger, Gene. You're looking great. Right on the line.
000:01:06	PAO	Everybody says "Looking great - Right on the line." We're now 1 mile down range. Launch vehicle 4,2 miles high.
000:01:07	Cernan	Okay, we got the RCS command.
000:01:09	CC	17, you are feet wet - feet wet.
000:01:11	Cernan	Roger. Feet wet.
000:01:13	Evans	Man, this thing shakes like a son-of-a-gun.
000:01:15	Cernan	Yes, that's MAX Q. Wait until we get out of MAX Q. Stay down there Q-meter.
000:01:23	PAO	Coming up on maximum dynamic pressure at this point. 4 miles down range, 8 miles high and the velocity approaching 3000 feet per second.
000:01:25	Cernan	Okay. 1:30 and about 50 degrees.
000:01:30	Evans	50 Degrees. Okay, right on.
000:01:32	Cernan	01:30, and we are GO, Bob.
000:01:34	CC	Roger, Gene. You're looking great.
000:01:36	Cernan	2 gs. 2 1/2 gs. See it quiets out after MAX Q.
000:01:40	Evans	Yes. Quiets out.
000:01:42	Cernan	Pushing 3 gs.
000:01:44	Evans	I can't - can't hold my hand up there anymore. (laughter)
000:01:47	Cernan	Okay, we're out of MAXQ.
000:01:49	Evans	Okay. Cabin seal looking good.
000:01:50	Cernan	Alpha's PC.
000:01:52	Evans	Okay, standby for -
000:01:54	CC	Stand by for Mode I Charlie, 17.
000:01:56	Cernan	- I Charlie.
000:01:56	CC	MARK. Mode I Charlie.
000:01:58	PAO	And the flight dynamics officer says we look good on all sources, right on the trajectory.
000:01:58	Cernan	Roger, I Charlie. 2 minutes EDS.
000:02:00	Evans	EDS.
000:02:00	Cernan	EDS is OFF and we are GO. ...
000:02:03	CC	Roger, 17; you're GO.
000:02:06	Cernan	... 3 gs. 3 1/2. Standby for inboard.
000:02:07	PAO	Flight Director, Gene Kranz, taking a status for staging, we say we look good for staging.
000:02:10	CC	17, you are GO for staging.
000:02:11	Cernan	Roger. We're GO here.
000:02:12	Cernan	Did you get your VERB 82?
000:02:14	Evans	No.
000:02:15	Cernan	Standby for inboard.
000:02:16	Evans	Okay. That's VERB 82.
000:02:19	Cernan	Inboard cut-off.
000:02:20	CC	Roger. Inboard.
000:02:22	PAO	Inboard engines shutting down on-time as planned. Crew will experience maximum G forces of about 4 Gs at shutdown. Coming up on first stage shutdown. And we've had shutdown on time on the first stage.
000:02:23	Cernan	Okay, not hold on after staging.
000:02:24	Schmitt	Standby gang.
000:02:25	Evans	Okay. Here's 20. Where's the ...? Okay, it's 19.
000:02:29	Cernan	Now at 41. It's 41. ... seconds
000:02:30	Cernan	3 1/2 gs.
000:02:34	Cernan	Hold on!
000:02:35	Cernan	Okay. 5 seconds. ... gs. 4 gs.
000:02:41	Evans	Jesus Christ!
000:02:41	Cernan	I told you to hold on. Look at that son-of-a-bitch. Man!
000:02:44	Evans	Jesus crimany! (laughter)
000:02:48	Cernan	Okay, Bob. I guess we got all five.
000:02:49	CC	Roger. They're looking here - looking good.
000:02:50	Evans	Okay, standby to ...
000:02:53	Schmitt	Sure felt like it. I think we saw them all from here.
000:02:57	CC	Roger, Jack. And the thrust is GO on all five of them. They're running good.
000:03:01	Cernan	Okay; 3 minutes and we're GO.
000:03:04	CC	Roger, 17.
000:03:05	Evans	Geez, this is smooth. Okay, got some tower switches ...
000:03:07	Cernan	Come on, baby! Go!
000:03:10	Evans	Okay, 13.
000:03:12	SC	Okay, we just had skirt sep.
000:03:14	Evans	19, 15, 17.
000:03:16	CC	Roger. We confirm skirt sep.
000:03:17	Cernan	Watch it, Jack!
000:03:18	Evans	16, there it goes -
000:03:19	Cernan	There goes the tower.
000:03:20	Evans	Man, there she goes!
000:03:21	CC	Roger. The tower; you're Mode II.
000:03:23	Cernan	Roger, We're mode II.
000:03:28	Cernan	Okay, ... command.
000:03:32	Evans	Okay, alpha ...
000:03:32	CC	The steering has converged. The CMC is GO. You're going right down the pike, 17.
000:03:36	Cernan	Okay, Bob. I just confirmed guidance.
000:03:38	Evans	And, ELS SEP circuit breakers when you get a chance there, Gene.
000:03:41	PAO	That's the automatic guidance system, the inertial guidance system, performing properly.
000:03:43	Cernan	Okay, Bob, I got the ELS SEP circuit breakers. And we've seen it all: ignition, staging, and tower.
000:03:50	CC	Roger. Got you.
000:03:53	Schmitt	By the way, the cabin's sealed (laughter).
000:03:56	PAO	Apollo 17 now 65 miles high.
000:03:56	Cernan	Okay guys, we've got a long way to go.
000:03:58	Evans	Okay, ...
000:04:01	Cernan	Okay; 4 minutes and we're GO here, Bob.
000:04:04	CC	Roger, Gene. We're going round the room. Looks GO here.
000:04:09	Cernan	21 degrees. REMOTE 2, Ron.
000:04:09	Evans	Okay -
000:04:09	CC	You're looking real good, Gene. Right down the line.
000:04:13	Evans	Okay, H and H-DOT looks pretty good.
000:04:16	Schmitt	We got a 30 and a 430. I can't really see that, let's see.
000:04:27	Cernan	Okay; 04:30 and we're still GO onboard.
000:04:30	CC	Roger, 17. You're GO.
000:04:33	Cernan	Let me tell you, this night launch is something to behold.
000:04:38	Evans	Okay, H and H-DOT are good.
000:04:46	Cernan	Okay, I don't know if you'll be able to pick up any horizon. No, it's too dark - too light in here.
000:04:49	PAO	Coming up on 5 minutes. Everything still looks very good in the launch of Apollo 17. The launch vehicle spacecraft now 80 miles high, 230 miles down range.
000:04:55	Cernan	Okay, let's keep - on. One G.
000:04:58	Schmitt	I got some stars out on the right, but I don't see -
000:05:02	CC	Five minutes, Geno, and you're GO down here. You're looking great.
000:05:05	Cernan	... Jack, Okay.
000:05:06	Cernan	Okay, Robert. We're GO here at 5.
000:05:13	Evans	Coming up on S-IVB to COI.
000:05:14	Cernan	You guys believe me about that S-I staging now?
000:05:16	Evans	(laughter) I can't -
000:05:19	Schmitt	I can't believe how smooth this is.
000:05:19	Evans	I can't - I can't believe how smooth this is.
000:05:21	Cernan	Okay, let's keep this mother burning. We've got a long way to go. We're only half way there.
000:05:24	CC	17, Houston. Your times are nominal. Level sense arm at 8 plus 36; S-II shutdown at 9 plus 20. Nominal times.
000:05:33	Cernan	8 plus 36 and 9 plus 20. Roger.
000:05:36	Schmitt	Coming up on gimbal motors, Geno.
000:05:37	Cernan	Okay. ...
000:05:40	PAO	CAPCOM Robert Obermeyer, advising Gene Cernan and the crew aboard Apollo 17 the second stage shutdown at about 9 minutes 20 seconds elapsed time. That shutdown about 3 and a half minutes from now.
000:05:52	Cernan	I forget anything yet, Ron?
000:05:54	Evans	No.
000:05:54	Cernan	Okay, we're still MODE 2, coming up on -
000:05:56	CC	Standby for S-IVB to COI capability.
000:05:59	CC	MARK. S-IVB to COI capability.
000:06:01	Cernan	Roger. S-IVB to COI. We're GO at 6.
000:06:04	Cernan	Good. Gimbal motors?
000:06:04	Evans	Go ahead.
000:06:05	CC	Roger, Geno.
000:06:06	Cernan	PITCH 1.
000:06:06	Evans	Got it.
000:06:07	Cernan	And YAW 1.
000:06:08	Evans	Got it. Go ahead. ...
000:06:13	Cernan	PITCH 2.
000:06:15	Evans	Got it.
000:06:15	Cernan	And YAW 2.
000:06:15	PAO	Apollo 17 still right on the nominal trajectory at an altitude now of about 92 nautical miles.
000:06:16	Evans	Got it. Okay, got a plus 15.8 and a plus 19. ...
000:06:21	Cernan	Okay, Bob. We're got four good motors and we're GO at 06:20.
000:06:25	CC	Roger. And, 17, we copied the gimbals and watched them and they looked good.
000:06:29	Evans	One G? Just like sitting on the pad, isn't it? A solar storm.
000:06:35	Schmitt	Okay, our calibration on that tank changed a little bit again, apparently.
000:06:39	Cernan	Okay.
000:06:40	Schmitt	Down at 90%.
000:06:41	Evans	... On the tank 2?
000:06:44	Schmitt	On the hydrogen.
000:06:45	Evans	Hydrogen ...
000:06:46	CC	Stand by for S-IVB to orbit capability.
000:06:49	Cernan	Roger, Bob. ...
000:06:49	CC	MARK. S-IVB to orbit capability. And we'd like OMNI Delta, Jack.
000:06:54	Schmitt	Roger. You've got it.
000:06:56	Evans	Okay, 7 minutes ...
000:07:00	CC	Roger.
000:07:00	Cernan	7 ... 6 degrees. How does that sound?
000:07:01	Evans	Okay, that's good. 17, 3. Let's see, 119. We go to ...
000:07:03	PAO	Now 7 minutes in and we have sufficient velocity to make orbit with the Saturn third stage should we have an unexpected early shutdown of the second stage.
000:07:08	Cernan	Seven minutes, Bob. We're looking good onboard.
000:07:11	CC	Roger.
000:07:18	Cernan	Am I glad I took my hand off that abort handle!
000:07:19	Evans	(laughter) man!
000:07:20	Schmitt	So am I. (laughter) I'll tell ya (laughter)
000:07:24	Cernan	Okay, we've got to get through this one, and then through staging. Standby for inboard. Okay. ...
000:07:29	PAO	We're now less than 2 minutes from second stage shutdown and ignition of the Saturn third stage. And the center engine will be shutting down as scheduled in about 10 seconds.
000:07:34	Cernan	Standby for inboard.
000:07:35	Evans	Okay. Okay, we're at a G 1/2. Standby.
000:07:40	Cernan	We have inboard cut-off.
000:07:43	CC	Roger, Gene. Inboard on time.
000:07:47	PAO	And that inboard shutdown looked to be on time. Apollo 17 now 625 miles downrange, 93 miles in altitude.
000:07:50	Cernan	Okay, she pitches up just like the simulator.
000:07:51	Evans	Yep. Sure does. Pitches -
000:07:56	Cernan	(grunting noise)
000:07:56	Evans	Is that hard to reach ...
000:07:57	Cernan	Yes. ...
000:08:01	Cernan	Eight minutes, and we are GO.
000:08:03	CC	Roger, 17. You're looking great.
000:08:08	Cernan	Okay, ... standby for a PU shift.
000:08:12	Evans	Is that what that was?
000:08:14	Cernan	Yes, I think it was.
000:08:15	Evans	Yes, I think that was it.
000:08:17	PAO	The spacecraft guidance systems agreeing very closely with the Saturn guidance. It looks good.
000:08:18	Cernan	Okay, Ron. That level sense arm will be at 36.
000:08:20	Evans	36. Okay.
000:08:21	CC	17, Houston. You are GO for staging.
000:08:24	Cernan	Thank you, Bob. We are GO for staging up here.
000:08:29	Cernan	A little over a G.
000:08:32	Schmitt	There's a little chug.
000:08:34	PAO	Staging now less than 1 minute.
000:08:34	Cernan	Okay, we've got to get through this one. Coming in, we're level sense arm now.
000:08:40	CC	You have level sense arm this time, Gene.
000:08:42	Cernan	Roger, Bob. Level sense arm.
000:08:46	Cernan	Okay, Ron. Our next thing will be standby for MODE 4, and we'll have staging. I will call it out to you.
000:08:48	PAO	Apollo 17 traveling at 21,000 feet per second. It's achieved about 83 percent of the velocity required for a minimum orbit.
000:08:52	Cernan	And little S-IVB burn, baby burn. Gimbal ...
000:09:01	Cernan	Nine minutes, Bob, and 17 is GO.
000:09:04	CC	Roger, 17. You're GO here.
000:09:06	Cernan	Okay, standby. 10 seconds.
000:09:09	PAO	And about 10 seconds to staging.
000:09:16	CC	Standby for Mode IV capability.
000:09:20	Cernan	S-II cut-off.
000:09:21	CC	MARK. Mode IV capability, and we copy cut-off.
000:09:23	Cernan	Roger. Mode IV. And we do have S-IVB ignition.
000:09:28	CC	Roger. We see it, and the thrust is looking good on it.
000:09:30	Cernan	God, you see that glow ...
000:09:31	Evans	Geez!
000:09:31	Cernan	We saw that one, too, Bob.
000:09:33	CC	Roger.
000:09:33	Cernan	Did you see it go past us?
000:09:35	Evans	Yes.
000:09:36	Schmitt	We're right in the flame.
000:09:37	Cernan	Yes, that's what the Titan used to do. Used to fly through the flame ... Let's, let's press on here we've got a lot to do. We're MODE 4.
000:09:45	PAO	We're up to 23,000 feet per second - we'll be shooting for something over 25,000.
000:09:46	Evans	Yes.
000:09:47	Cernan	Okay, we're at - a little less than 1/2 G.
000:09:50	Evans	Less than half of a G.
000:09:51	Cernan	Okay, 10 minutes, Ron. I'll be at about fourty ...
000:09:55	CC	17, the steering has converged and the CMC is GO. You're looking great.
000:09:59	Cernan	Roger. The CMC is GO, 10 minutes, and 17 is GO onboard.
000:10:02	Evans	Okay, H-DOT's a little bit low, but not bad.
000:10:07	CC	17; Houston. You are GO for orbit - GO for orbit.
000:10:11	Cernan	Those are kind words, Robert. We're GO for orbit here.
000:10:15	CC	Good show, Gene.
000:10:18	Cernan	Okay, coming off about 3.0, Ron.
000:10:20	Evans	Okay.
000:10:20	Cernan	Doublecheck everything.
000:10:21	PAO	Coming up on 10 minutes 30 seconds after liftoff and the spacecraft launch vehicle now 11,000 - 1,100 miles, rather, downrange, altitude 93.4 miles.
000:10:22	Evans	3.0, 347 degrees. 23.9. Okay, we're a little bit high.
000:10:28	Cernan	I couldn't see a star if I had to right now.
000:10:29	Evans	I couldn't either. Velocity's a little high.
000:10:31	Cernan	Okay. 10:30 and we're GO.
000:10:33	Evans	H-DOT's a little high. A little bit low -
000:10:34	CC	Roger, 17. You're looking great.
000:10:36	Cernan	Okay, the cutoff is VI plus 100.
000:10:37	Evans	VI ... okay, I'll ... down.
000:10:52	PAO	And we're about 1 minute from shutdown, about 1 minute from orbit insertion.
000:11:04	Cernan	Eleven minutes and we are GO.
000:11:06	CC	Roger, Gene. And cut-off will be at 11 plus 47, 11 plus 47.
000:11:13	Cernan	11 plus 47. Roger.
000:11:31	Cernan	Okay. 11:30 and we're GO here. And - Standing by.
000:11:35	CC	Roger, Gene. Cut-off time is still holding good, 11 plus 47.
000:11:43	Cernan	Okay. Cut-off at 42.
000:11:47	CC	Understand. Cut-off at 42. Roger. We copy.
000:11:54	PAO	And that looked like a near nominal shutdown. At shutdown we show 25,600 feet per second. That also looks very close.
000:12:00	Cernan	We're looking at 93.5 by 89.5.
000:12:07	CC	Roger, Gene. We're copying the DSKY.
000:12:12	Cernan	Okay, Jack. Give - -
000:12:16	PAO	Gene Cernan reporting the on-board Indication of an orbit of 93.5 by 89.5. Now we'll be getting tracking and confirming that here on the ground.
000:12:20	CC	And the local horizontal maneuver has initiated, Gene.
000:12:45	Cernan	And, Houston, the - looks like the - tank pressures are venting.
000:12:54	CC	Roger, Gene. The range safety is safe and we - you are in a GO orbit, nominal.
000:13:00	Cernan	Roger. GO orbit, nominal. Thank you.
000:13:15	CC	And, 17, I'll be unable to update that AOS time, but 52:20 is looking good.
000:13:23	Cernan	Roger.
000:13:47	PAO	This is Apollo Control coming up on 14 minutes after liftoff, that liftoff coming about 2 hours 40 minutes late, and we'll be assessing the effects of that late liftoff on subsequent events in the mission timeline, passing those along. One of the effects will be a change in the acquisition of signal / loss of signal time and as we move along on the ground track -
000:14:10	Schmitt	Houston, can you confirm - MAIN BUS TIE A/C, OFF?
000:14:15	CC	Stand by on that, Jack.
000:14:18	Schmitt	I've been carrying very low amps on the BAT BUS, and I did not see a drop. I'm carrying about 2 amps now. Volts are 3 - 30.5.
000:14:40	CC	Jack, go ahead and take the B/C motor switch OFF.
000:14:47	Schmitt	Okay. It's OFF. And I confirm that one.
000:14:50	CC	And we think it's the EDS POWER switch and the fuel cell ... switch that are drawing the current that you're seeing there.
000:14:58	Schmitt	Okay. That could well be.
000:15:01	CC	Okay, Jack, we're going to lose you in about 1 minute off of Vanguard here and see you at 52:20.
000:15:06	Schmitt	Roger; we're pressing and thanks, Bob.
000:15:09	Cernan	Okay, Bob. Everything is looking GO onboard. Everything's stable. We can see the APS firing, and our attitudes look good.
000:15:20	CC	Geno, everything is in good shape down here. The booster's in good shape; you're looking good; and their AOS time is 52:20 as I'gave you.
000:15:28	Cernan	We got that, babe. We'll see you coming around.
000:15:30	CC	Good show, babe. A little late but a good show.
000:15:33	Evans	Outstanding ride.
000:16:26	CC	17, Houston. We're hanging with you here. Looks like you're hanging in Vanguard a little longer than we expected.
000:16:42	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 16 minutes 45 seconds after liftoff. We've confirmed Apollo 17 is in a near nominal orbit. The crew reported an orbit of about 93.5 by 89.5 based on their onboard calculations, and computations on the ground show that we're very close to the nominal 90 mile - nautical mile orbit. As a result of the late liftoff, the trans-lunar injection will be a little bit earlier than the flight plan Ground Elapsed Time but we don't have an update on this time yet. We expect that it will be on the order of 8 to 10 minutes early. We'll update that time as we get a later update.
000:17:39	PAO	We would expect that the time of arrival at the Moon will be approximately the same as the flightplan time in terms of Greenwich Mean Time. The Ground Elapsed Time will be somewhat earlier, and we expect that there will be clock update - a so called clock update - at some point where we make the clocks in Mission Control and aboard the spacecraft agree with the Ground Elapsed Time that they would be showing in the flight plan. The net effect will be that we'll arrive at the Moon in a shorter Ground Elapsed Time - in effect about 2 hours 40 minutes earlier than the flight plan would show, but at the same Greenwich mean time or local time here on Earth, that - that we would have had had we lifted off on time. We're in effect making up the time by speeding up the arrival at the Moon. The spacecraft at translunar injection will be going somewhat faster than a nominal liftoff translunar injection. Consequently, it will arrive at the Moon going slightly faster, and also somewhat earlier, about 2 hours 40 minutes earlier in terms of Ground Elapsed Time. This will also mean that the lunar orbit insertion will require a bit more energy to slow the spacecraft down and get it into lunar orbit. These details of course, will all be worked out in the time that we have before our lunar orbit insertion. And, when we get an updated translunar injection time, we'll pass that along.
000:23:56	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 24 minutes. Apollo 17 now in an orbit about 90 miles by 93 miles, and everything appears to be nominal aboard the spacecraft and aboard the launch vehicle, Saturn third stage. One additional impact of our late liftoff will be the loss of television coverage for the transposition and docking maneuver. The television coverage will not be possible because the ground track has shifted and we don't have the site coverage that had been expected for television. The translunar injection burn, reigniting the Saturn third stage to put the spacecraft on its trajectory to the Moon, is now scheduled to occur at a Ground Elapsed Time of 3 hours 12 minutes 35 seconds, or roughly 9 minutes earlier than the flight plan time. This again the effect of the late liftoff.
000:25:11	PAO	And we will be reacquiring Apollo 17 through the Carnarvon Tracking Station at a Ground Elapsed Time of about 52 minutes 20 seconds, roughly 27 minutes from now.
000:32:02	PAO	This is Apollo Control now 32 minutes after the liftoff of Apollo 17 and we have loss of signal with the spacecraft, we will be reacquiring through the Carnarvon Tracking Station in about 20 minutes. And from the President of the United States we have the following message to the crew of Apollo 17. The message reads: "As you set forth on the final Apollo expedition to the Moon, I want to have my personal best wishes for a successful mission and safe return. I am sure your voyage, your scientific exploration, will be the crowning achievement in a program which has expanded Man's horizons, brought great credit to your country and lifted the spirits of people all over the world. Godspeed to you all." Signed Richard Nixon. The flight Dynamics officer, continuing to process tracking data, following orbital insertions, reports that there is a small amount of out of plane error showing up in the orbit. This it is believed is due to a small error in the instrument unit of the Saturn third stage. However, the orbit is very close to nominal, about 90 nautical miles by 93 nautical miles. And we look very good, both with respect to the spacecraft and with respect to the Saturn third stage which must perform that burn, putting Apollo 17 on its trajectory toward the Moon. At 34 minutes, this is Apollo Control Houston.
000:35:33	PAO	This is Apollo Control. The postlaunch press conference at Cape Kennedy is scheduled to begin at 12:33 Central Standard Time, 1:33 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. Again, that time 12:33 Central Standard Time, 1:33 Eastern Standard for the post-launch press conference at Cape Kennedy.
000:51:00	PAO	- Control at 51 minutes into the flight of Apollo 17 and we're standing by to reacquire the spacecraft through the Carnarvon, Australia, tracking station. One of the things the booster engineer will be looking for when we reacquire and get good lock on the data will be the Saturn 3rd stage instrument unit. Looking at one brief bit of data before we lost signal, it appears that one of the four batteries in the instrument unit had a very high current drain on it. We will be looking closely at that to see if it was simply a telemetry problem or if, in fact, that battery does have some problem. And we should be about 15 seconds now from reacquiring.
000:51:00	CC	17, read you loud and clear.
000:51:00	Schmitt	Hey, we're going real well up here, Bob. Have no significant anomalies as yet; and we've just about completed our part of the insertion checklist. Gene has his SCS check yet, and Ron's got some P52 numbers for you. And the only thing I've seen so far is a - some spurious MASTER ALARM without caution and warning that seem to be associated with moving switches on panel 2.
000:51:00		CC
000:51:00	Schmitt	So far, it's been fairly random. Some that I remember is the SECONDARY COOLANT LOOP EVAP switch, the LAMP TEST switch, - see - I think I got one with the TEMP IN AUTO switch. Gene got one doing something. I can't remember exactly what it was.
000:51:00	CC	Okay - -
000:51:00	Schmitt	Probably random.
000:51:00	CC	- - we copy. Jack, we're standing by for that P52 data. We've only got about a 4-minute - a 5-minute pass here. We'll take the 52 data, and I got a few updates for you.
000:51:00	Schmitt	Okay.
000:51:00	Evans	Okay; 52 data is coming. NOUN 71 is 24 and 30; NOUN 05 is .01; NOUN 93s are plus .080, plus .029, plus .018; and we torqued at 35:25.
000:53:56	CC	Okay. We copy that. Okay, while we're filling in some here, you might want to know this, Jack. Your sunset and sunrise times in the Launch Checklist are all off by 8 - approximately 8 minutes and 30 seconds. That every - sunset and sunrise will occur about 8 minutes and 30 seconds sooner than in the - in the Launch Checklist. That's an approximate number.
000:54:20	Schmitt	Okay, we got you.
000:54:21	CC	Okay. And on page 2-17 of the Launch Checklist, you're going to want to delete all reference to Honeysuckle AOS and LOS and delete all reference to Canaries AOS and LOS.
000:54:35	Schmitt	Wilco.
000:54:37	CC	And we want to add an Ascension pass; AOS at Ascension, 01 plus 54 plus 00, and Ascension LOS will be 02:00:16.
000:55:00	Schmitt	Okay, Bob; you're going to have to repeat that.
000:55:03	CC	Okay, stand by. Let me give you a page. On 2-17 - let's go Hawaii AOS first of all. On Hawaii AOS, on page 2-17. AOS - -
000:55:14	Schmitt	Go.
000:55:14	CC	- - is 01 plus 17 plus 24. Hawaii LOS, 01 plus 22 plus 49.
000:55:35	Schmitt	Gotcha. Now what about the Ascension?
000:55:41	CC	Okay, here - give you the Ascension again now. AOS, 01 plus 54 plus 00. Ascension LOS will be 02:00:16. Over.
000:56:05	Schmitt	Okay, I got those. Hawaii is 01 plus 17 plus 24, and LOS is 01 plus 22 plus 49. And Ascension is AOS, 01 plus 54:00; and LOS, 02 plus 00:16.
000:56:21	CC	Roger, Jack. Good copy. And booster's looking good down here and you're looking good.
000:56:27	Schmitt	Okay, and I'll do a better job of itemizing those switches. We were pressing pretty hard, and I'll - I'll be able to go back and get most of them, I think. And We'll keep an eye on it - on the MASTER ALARMS.
000:56:40	CC	Roger, Jack. We understand. And I think we copied most of what you said there, and we're working on it.
000:56:46	Cernan	Okay, Bob; other than that MASTER ALARM, all is well on America, and I understand the booster is looking good to you.
000:56:52	CC	That's affirmative.
000:56:54	Schmitt	And, Bob, let me add that not - we did get spurious MASTER ALARMs without switch movement, but many came with switch movements. We've had about seven.
000:57:04	CC	Okay; understand.
000:57:10	Schmitt	That was only after insertion.
000:57:15	CC	Seven times that your heart doesn't need, huh?
000:57:20	Schmitt	Oh, we were paying attention to a sunset that was the biggest - -
000:57:25	Cernan	Sunrise.
000:57:26	Schmitt	- - or sunrise or something that we saw. It was the biggest rainbow I'd ever seen.
000:57:33	CC	Beautiful. We can't wait to hear what you had to say about that - the ignition on the S-II. It sounded pretty spectacular.
000:57:48	Cernan	Bob, just let it be said that that was quite a booster ride. When we get a chance a little later - -
000:57:55	CC	Roger.
000:57:55	Cernan	- - maybe we'll be able to tell you something.
000:57:56	CC	We're about ready to lose comm here. You're looking great, guys, and we'll pick you up in Hawaii here shortly.
000:58:03	Cernan	Okay, we're looking at the deserts of Australia right now and, again, everything's good onboard.
000:58:08	CC	Roger. Pick you up at 01:17:24.
000:58:12	Cernan	Roger.
000:58:12		STDN (REV 1/2)
000:59:03	PAO	This is Apollo Control. We're coming up now one 1 hour after liftoff for Apollo 17. And as you heard CAPCOM Robert Overmyer reporting to the crew that everything looks good, including the Saturn 3rd stage. Apparently the indication we had of a possible battery problem in the instrument unit nothing more than a bad bit of telemetry there. When the booster engineer got a good hard look at the telemetry on this pass, he reported everything looked good. We are ready at this point to begin the post-launch press conference at Cape Kennedy and we'll switch to Cape Kennedy and stand by for that press conference.
001:17:25	Schmitt	Hello, earthlings. We're back with you.
001:17:27	CC	Roger, Jack. Read you loud and clear; how us?
001:17:32	Schmitt	You're loud and clear. And no change systems-wise that I've seen.
001:17:37	CC	Roger, Jack. Any more MASTER ALARMs?
001:17:39	Schmitt	We had one when Ron's - looked like his neck ring hit panel 2. ...
001:17:44	CC	Okay. Sounds like we had something loose in panel 2, huh?
001:17:48	Schmitt	Yes. I don't know - it may be annoying, but so far it doesn't seem to be a problem.
001:17:53	CC	Roger. Just for your information, everything is looking outstanding and no problems. We're taking a good look at the data here at Hawaii, and we'll make a GO/NO GO decision about 60 seconds after acquisition at Goldstone. But there's nothing right now to lead us to believe that zero opportunity will be required.
001:18:13	Cernan	Okay, Bob, understand that. We are prepared, however. Spacecraft, other than those MASTER ALARMs, is looking very good. We got the docking probe extended. The SCS reference attitude check is complete.
001:18:30	CC	Roger.
001:18:38	Schmitt	Hey, Bob, I just remembered another switch that I think gave us a MASTER ALARM was H2O QUANTITY INDICATOR.
001:18:45	CC	Roger. Copy that, Jack. H2O QUANTITY INDICATOR.
001:18:51	CC	Roger we're - 17, we're going to lose you in about 30 seconds. But when you get over the stateside here, we're going to take - take the dump on the data, and we'll read it out real carefully so when you get in TLC we ought to be able to see where that MASTER ALARM glitch is coming in to.
001:19:08	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. And - yell at me if you want anything done on the comm with this change in AOS LOS stuff.
001:19:16	CC	Negative on that right now. We'll see you at 01:28:59 through Goldstone.
001:19:23	Cernan	Okay, 01:28:59, Bob. We'll be there.
001:22:26	CC	Roger, Gene.
001:22:48		GOLDSTONE (REV 2}
001:22:48	CC	17, Houston. We're back with you.
001:22:51	Cernan	Okay, Bob. We're still same as before and ready when you are for TLI.
001:22:58	CC	Roger.
001:23:03	Schmitt	I can see the lights of southern California, Bob.
001:23:07	CC	Roger, Jack.
001:23:11	Schmitt	We're going to be going a little bit south of that area.
001:23:15	CC	Right. Your ground track looks like it's taking you right up over the mid part of Baja California.
001:23:20	Schmitt	Yes, sir; I'll believe that. I'll bet you I can see Ensenada right now.
001:23:24	CC	Roger.
001:23:27	Cernan	Bob, I expect he'll probably be able to see the lights of Silver City, too.
001:23:31	Schmitt	Well, I'm sure going to be looking for them, I'll tell you.
001:23:40	CC	Jack, just for your information, you'll probably - when you come up a little farther in this orbit here and get over Mexico, you should be able to see all that bad weather that was giving us so much worry and had Tindall and New Orleans and everything all messed up this morning when I went through there. They had a pretty bad line of weather along there.
001:23:59	Schmitt	I was assuming it wasn't too bad. I think you made it, didn't you?
001:24:06	CC	Oh, yeah, I made it, but I had to - you know, I had to work at it. But it's a - we were - I was worried about it getting down as towards MILA there after - you know if we had to scrub and go tomorrow night. Boy, I'm sure glad we got you off tonight.
001:24:21	Schmitt	Guess who else is.
001:24:22	CC	No, I can't - I wouldn't believe that.
001:25:00	PAO	This is Apollo Control. 1 hour 25 minutes after lift off. During the post-launch press conference at Cape Kennedy, we had a short acquisition with the crew through the Hawaiian tracking station. During that period of conversation, and during that period of monitoring the systems on the spacecraft and the launch vehicle, we found that the situation was essentially unchanged. That is, both vehicles now looking good; the spacecraft and the launch vehicle. And we're progressing toward a normal translunar injection. 1 hour 46 minutes 50 seconds from now. The crew has discussed one unexplained series of events. It appears that when certain switches are cycled or moved on panel 2 which is the main panel in front of them, the center panel of the spacecraft, they're getting a master caution and warning signal. A light comes on - a tone comes on. This is to attract the crews attention that something may be wrong and the normal procedure is then to look at another matrix of lights which would zero them in on the problem. The light - the system or the subsystem or particular area being monitored, or which had the problem would light an individual light. However, when they go to this other matrix of lights, they find that none of them are lighted. This is leading the crew and the flight controllers here in mission control to believe that they are getting an spurious signal to the master caution and warning, when in fact nothing is wrong. We don't have any further explanation for the problem at this point. We will continue to look at the data and particularly during the translunar coast, we think we'll get a good long time to look at things in detail and try to find out precisely what is happening. At this point however, the problem presents no concern and one of the more likely explanations, or possible explanations that's been advanced is perhaps some contamination in some switches.
001:31:25	CC	Parker can't make it back. He's got to come back on the golfstream. So you might have to have Young on for a while after we do a TLI.
001:31:35	Schmitt	Hey, you just wouldn't believe, Bob, the lights you can see in the west right now. It must be absolutely clear.
001:31:44	CC	Roger, Jack. Sounds spectacular. Jack, people in the room here want to know if you've been down your checklist yet?
001:31:56	Schmitt	Oh, we got that out of the way in about 5 minutes. Have we missed something?
001:32:00	CC	There's a different checklist here we're talking about.
001:32:05	Schmitt	(Laughter)
001:32:05	Cernan	If you're talking about the Flight Plan, yes.
001:32:13	CC	Roger.
001:32:16	Evans	What a waste.
001:32:32	Schmitt	If I'm not mistaken, we must be just south of Arizona now. is that right, Bob?
001:32:38	CC	That looks real good. Yes, you're over Mexico there, and looks like you're - oh - maybe a hundred miles south of the border there.
001:32:46	Schmitt	Okay. I was pretty sure I was looking up in the Phoenix-Tucson complex there.
001:32:51	CC	Roger. Understand.
001:32:54	Schmitt	Beautiful -
001:32:56	CC	Little better than ... Florida.
001:33:02	Schmitt	The west is always that way. I wish it was daylight so we could see Sonora and that country. That's spectacular, I'll bet you.
001:33:13	CC	Roger. ...
001:33:15	Schmitt	Man's field of stars on the Earth is competing with the heavens, Bob.
001:33:22	Cernan	Bob, you're coming through with a large squeal right now in the background.
001:33:32	CC	Understand ...
001:33:47	Schmitt	Okay, I think we got the Gulf Coast showing up now by the band of lights, Bob.
001:33:54	CC	Roger.
001:33:58	Cernan	Okay, Bob. Assume the booster is still looking good, and we'll be GO for a nominal TLI.
001:34:04	CC	That's affirmative.
001:34:06	Schmitt	Okay.
001:34:07	Cernan	And you're still coming up with a loud squeal.
001:34:08	CC	Roger. ...
001:34:19	CC	17, how do you read?
001:34:21	Schmitt	Would you believe we're just south of Houston now, Bob?
001:35:17	CC	17, are you receiving Houston now?
001:35:20	Cernan	All right, Bob. You came up unreadable with the squeal that time.
001:35:24	CC	Am I still squealing? This is Houston.
001:35:27	Cernan	That's affirm. You're very loud, almost unreadable with the squeal. Bob, why don't you give us the short count?
001:35:43	CC	Geno, don't change anything. We think it's a ground site situation here, and just stand by.
001:35:49	Cernan	I believe it's in the VHF, Bob.
001:36:18	Cernan	Okay, Bob. I'm not sure exactly where we are, but I'm looking out - to an awful lot of horiz - lights on the horizon out there at 12 o'clock, and an awful lot of lightning in the clouds out there.
001:36:31	CC	Roger. I - we show you just about over the middle of the Gulf. Looking ahead, you're probably seeing the very southern tip of Florida there.
001:36:39	Cernan	It looks like almost the entire Florida peninsula has got lights - out by in it somewhere.
001:36:49	CC	Roger. How does my comm sound to you now, Gene?
001:36:52	Cernan	Okay, give us a quick short count.
001:36:54	CC	Roger. Short count follows: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; short count out.
001:37:01	Cernan	Bob, you're all right now.
001:37:03	CC	Okay.
001:37:05	Cernan	And can you give us a feel for what the final weather was at the Cape - at launch?
001:37:13	CC	Yes. Let me get that for you. The reason why we had that problem on the comm is we just handed over from Texas to MILA, and we're - and you're going through MILA now. And it's great. So we have a little problem with our Texas site.
001:37:25	Cernan	Okay.
001:37:27	CC	The television coverage had you all the way through staging very well on - and the S-II ignition. Then, you went right behind a cloud for a while, but they were tracking you pretty well.
001:37:39	Cernan	Okay.
001:37:41	CC	They also - cut in for about a half minute or so and showed a view of the crowd in just the available light from the booster, and it stood out pretty well.
001:37:53	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. We're going right over Florida now, looking down at Miami. A beautiful view of the Keys all lit up, and I just saw a shooting star right over Miami.
001:38:04	CC	Roger.
001:38:15	Schmitt	That's a very, very fine view of Miami. Hard to believe.
001:38:21	CC	I'll bet they sat there and watched you go.
001:38:43	Schmitt	Looks like we're right over the Bahamas now, Bob.
001:38:47	CC	Roger. I'll buy that.
001:38:57	Schmitt	Well, I'm not easily impressed, Bob. But I'm certainly impressed by this one.
001:39:01	CC	Roger. What's the CMP doing? We haven't heard much from him. is - is he at the other window?
001:39:07	Evans	He's crawling around looking for things down in the LEB.
001:39:10	CC	(Laughter) Okay. They won't let you have a window tonight, huh, Ron?
001:39:13	Evans	No, I'll catch one here pretty quick.
001:39:24	CC	Just a reminder, if you haven't already done it. There is no need to unstow the TV, because due to this late launch, there's just no site available.
001:39:31	Cernan	Okay, Bob. We're not going to unstow it.
001:39:36	Schmitt	Bob, I don't - I guess there's no site available for some time, is that correct?
001:39:42	CC	That's affirmative. And if I can pull one of you guys away from a window, I've got a TLI plus 90 pad.
001:39:46	Schmitt	Oh, I'd love to copy that. Just a minute.
001:41:28	Schmitt	Hello, Houston; Apollo 17. How do you read?
001:41:31	CC	17, Houston. Go ahead.
001:41:33	Schmitt	Okay. Lost you there for a minute. We had good signal strength all through that, so I figured it was your problem.
001:41:39	CC	Roger. We're just waiting here - You ready for the pad?
001:41:43	Schmitt	We were calling you, and you missed us. So you might think about that. Ready for the pad.
001:41:47	CC	Okay. It's a TLI plus 90, SPS/G&N; 66953; minus 0.59, plus 1.88; ignition time, 004:40:01.48; minus 0351.8, minus 0000.1, plus 3378.2; roll is 180, 073, 003; NOUN 94 [sic] is - HA is not applicable, HA is plus 0020.1; 3396.4, 4:50, 3380.8; sextant star is number 11, that's 11, 342.4, 32.3. Stand by. 17, Houston; are you still reading me?
001:43:33	Schmitt	Hey, Houston, if you read, we're reading you. Got you all the way through the trunnion on sextant star.
001:43:41	CC	Okay, we'll have to wait and pick you up at Ascension. We just had a keyhole pass at Bermuda, and a little bit of a pass at Vanguard.
001:43:49	Schmitt	Okay, I'll wait for you to finish that, and on the readback. Okay.
001:43:54	CC	That's affirmative. Stand by. We've got Vanguard, I can continue on with - after trunnion, the bore-sight Star is not applicable, Jack. NOUN 61, plus 13.29, minus 032.00; 1099.2, 34904; GET of .05G, 024:38:09. Want to read back that much of the pad, Jack?
001:44:41	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. It's TLI plus 90 pad, SPS/G&N; 66953; minus 0.59, plus 1.88; 004:40:01.48; minus 0351.8, minus four zeros 1, plus 3378.2; 180, 073, 003; HA is NA; plus 0020.1; 3396.4, 4:54, 3380.8; 11, 342.4, 32.3. Boresight is NA; plus 13.29, minus 032.00; 1099.2, 34904; 024:38:09. Over.
001:45:49	CC	Roger, Jack. Good readback except burn time is 4:50 and not 4:54. And we'll be losing you here in about a minute, so wait on the rest of that pad. Just a reminder for Ron, we'll be standing by at Ascension for the next gyro torquing and we, might have a drift update on the IMU there,
001:46:17	Schmitt	Okay, he copied that. And we'll wait for the rest of the pad.
001:46:21	CC	Okay.
001:46:22	Schmitt	Burn time was 4:50 - I think that was when you started to cut out.
001:46:27	CC	Roger.
001:48:10	CC	17, this is Houston through ARIA. How do you read? Over.
001:48:33	CC	17, Houston. Through ARIA, how do you read? Over.
001:48:50	CC	17, Houston. Through ARIA, how do you read?
001:49:31	CC	17, Houston. How do you read through ARIA?
001:50:33	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 1 hour 51 minutes. We're getting good telemetry data from Apollo 17 through one of the Apollo Range Instrumented Aircraft out over the Atlantic Ocean. Apollo 17 moving across the Atlantic now towards Africa. And on the next revolution, at about this point, the spacecraft will be on its way to the Moon during the Trans-lunar injection maneuver. Ignition for that burn is scheduled to occur 1 hour 21 minutes from now. During launch the flight surgeon monitoring heart rates on the 3 crewmen recorded peak heart rates of 130 for the Commander Gene Cernan, also 130 for Command Module pilot, Ron Evans, and 115 for Lunar Module pilot, Jack Schmitt. We should be reacquiring the command service module and reestablishing voice communications with the astronauts in about 2 minutes from now through Ascension.
001:53:47	PAO	This is Apollo Control. We should be acquiring the spacecraft through Ascension in about 5 seconds and reestablishing voice communications with the crew.
001:54:04	CC	17, Houston.
001:54:07	Schmitt	Go ahead.
001:54:08	CC	Roger. You're back with us. I'll finish up that TLI plus 90 pad so we can talk a little here if you want.
001:54:14	Schmitt	Go ahead.
001:54:15	CC	Okay. Set stars are Sirius and Rigel; RALIGN is 318; 148; 358. There'll be no ullage. Okay. Down at the bottom of the pad we've got the P37 for lift-off plus 9. GET is 009:00; DELTA-Vt, 4897; longitude, minus 175; GET of 400K, 033:49. Over.
001:55:02	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. Zero - Sirius and Rigel; 318; 148; 358; no ullage; 009:00; 4897; minus 175; 033:49. Over.
001:55:19	CC	Okay, Jack. Good readback.
001:55:26	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. We had - as usual - up here (laughter) a spectacular sunrise, and Gene wants to talk to you.
001:55:33	Cernan	I got some numbers on Ron's P52 for you, Bob.
001:55:36	CC	Okay; standing by to copy. Go ahead.
001:55:38	Cernan	Okay. NOUN 71 were stars 22 and 24; NOUN 05 are all balls; NOUN 93s are all minus. They're 00.037, 00.007, and 00.021. That's minus 37, minus 07, and minus 21; and they were torqued at 01:51:40.
001:56:05	CC	Okay. We copy.
001:56:20	Schmitt	Bob, we're over - what might be - intermediate to low stratus that have a very strong crenulation pattern - pulling out some geological terms here. I don't think I've ever seen anything like it flying.
001:56:38	CC	Roger.
001:56:38	Schmitt	Looks like about a north-south lineation with a very strong crinkling, roughly east-west.
001:56:47	CC	Roger. Copy that; that's interesting. You know, you're just directly over that South Atlantic area. Your - you - your path just kind of kept you going right between the - Africa and South America, right dead center all the way.
001:57:39	CC	And, 17, just for your information, we've searched all the data we can, and we cannot find anything wrong with the spacecraft or the booster at all. Everything is looking real fine, and the only problem in the air is that - those MASTER ALARMs that you have reported - we're not able to tie in anything common yet to any of those things either.
001:57:58	Cernan	Okay, Bob. We have not had any for - quite some time, I think, since the last time we talked to you about them.
001:58:05	CC	Roger. Understand. We'll probably get a good workout on that after TLI and try and track it down one more.
001:58:10	Cernan	Okay. But, also, we have not really been doing much switching since the insertion checklist was complete, either.
001:58:16	CC	Roger. Understand. It's got you glued to the windows, I guess, huh?
001:58:23	Cernan	They are interesting; I'll say that.
001:58:26	Schmitt	Well, I certainly am, Bob, and - again there's a big - a fairly continuous intermediate cloud deck, I think. And it has patterns comparable to what I've seen on pictures of ice floes.
001:58:40	CC	Roger. Understand.
001:58:40	Schmitt	And - of pack ice; I should say pictures of pack ice in the Antarctic.
001:58:56	CC	17, Houston. We've got two questions concerning the MASTER ALARMs. One, do you get the MASTER ALARM on the LEB also; and, two, do you get the tone with the MASTER ALARM?
001:59:10	Schmitt	We did get the tones. The MASTER ALARMs were on both - panel 1 and panel 3. I can't tell you about the LEB right now. Maybe Ron can.
001:59:20	Evans	No, I didn't pay that much attention.
001:59:23	CC	Okay.
001:59:24	Cernan	Hey, Bob, there was something interesting I wanted to get around to tell you. The - MISSION TIMER down in the LEB, when Ron went down there to get things squared away, was about 15 seconds or so behind all the other clocks.
001:59:45	CC	Roger. We copy that.
001:59:47	Cernan	Okay; and we reset it - re synced it - and it's been running okay. I don't know whether that's a clue to anything or not, but apparently it happened either during launch - or somewhere before we got down there right after insertion.
002:00:02	CC	Okay, we're going to lose you here in about 9 seconds. You are GO is looking great, and we'll work on it, and if you get another MEV, will you check the LEB for us?
002:00:11	Cernan	Yes sir, I sure will do, Bob. We'll see you. What's our next AOS?
002:00:16	CC	Stand by. Carnarvon at 2:25.
002:00:20	Cernan	Thank you.
002:00:41	PAO	This is Apollo Control. Apollo 17 now over the horizon from the Ascension site - will be reacquiring in about 25 minutes through Carnarvon. And, as you heard CAPCOM Robert Overmyer advising the crew, we've been getting a good look at all the data, and spacecraft, launch vehicles, look fine. No discernable problems. Gene Cernan did mention one anomaly and that was the mission timer. One of the - one of the numerous clocks aboard the spacecraft which was running about 15 minutes [sic] slow - and Cernan said it appeared that it happened either during the launch phase or shortly before they got down to take a look at it in the lower equipment bay. No explanation for that one at this point. And we show now 1 minute - 1 hour, rather - 11 minutes until ignition for the translunar injection maneuver, the burn with the Saturn 3rd stage which will place Apollo 17 on its trajectory toward the Moon. Ignition time and still holding at about 3 hours 12 minutes 35 seconds Ground Elapsed Time, and that burn will be about 5 minutes 45 seconds in duration, but we don't have the final calculated time from the flight dynamics officer which will undoubtedly vary somewhat from the premission Flight Plan time. At 2 hours 2 minutes this is Apollo Control Houston.
002:25:10	PAO	This is Apollo Control, at 2 hours 25 minutes. Apollo 17 now approaching the west coast of Australia. And we'll be reacquiring the spacecraft in about 35 seconds. During this pass over Carnarvon, we expect to pass up the first set of numbers to the crew that they'll use in the Translunar Injection Burn, to put them on their trajectory toward the Moon. That maneuver is scheduled to begin at 47 minutes from now. And we have acquisition of signal a little bit early.
002:25:30	CC	17, Houston. How are you doing?
002:25:40	CC	Stand by. It's Carnarvon at 02:25-
002:25:44	Cernan	Thank you.
002:25:46	Cernan	I see you're trying.
002:25:48	CC	17, Houston. How are you doing?
002:25:51	Schmitt	Well, we're pretty good. You're wavery here a little bit on signal strength.
002:25:55	CC	Okay. We've got a TLI pad any time you're ready to copy it, Jack.
002:26:03	Schmitt	Goodness; okay, let me get rid of something here. Ron, I'm putting that right underneath you.
002:26:07	CC	And, guys, we'd like P00 and ACCEPT, please.
002:26:13	Schmitt	Okay.
002:26:13	CC	You'll get a CSM state vector if you'll give us P00 and ACCEPT.
002:26:18	Cernan	Got P00 and ACCEPT.
002:26:20	Schmitt	Okay. Let me have my favorite pad.
002:26:22	CC	Okay. Here's the TLI pad. Time base 6 at 3:02:57; 180, 312, 000; 5:51; DELTA-Vc is 10359.6, 35582; 000, 345, 040; extraction will be at 300, 165, 320; 312.0, 306.0, 57:10, yaw is 0; ejection time, 4 plus 39 plus 00. Over.
002:27:40	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. Here's your TLI pad. 3:02:57; 180, 312, 000; 5:51; 10359.6, 35582; 000, 345, 040; 300, 165, 320; 312.0, 306.0 57:10, 000; ejection time, 4 plus 39 plus 00.
002:28:22	CC	Good readback, Jack; and we'd like OMNI Charlie, and it's your computer, and you've got your state vector.
002:28:32	Schmitt	Okay. You've got OMNI Charlie. And, Bob, we had almost a completely weather-free pass over Africa and Madagascar. And the scenery - both aesthetically and geologically - was something like I've never seen before, for sure.
002:28:56	CC	Roger.
002:28:59	Schmitt	We got odds and ends on the tape and quite a bit on the film.
002:29:04	CC	Roger; good show. Are you saying that you didn't have any weather over that southern Africa there?
002:29:10	Schmitt	Not very much. Barely broken clouds in some places. Most of the countryside was clear.
002:29:17	CC	Roger.
002:29:19	Schmitt	There were - patterns - like I haven't even seen in textbooks. Maybe I haven't been looking enough, but some of the desert and grassland patterns were - had the appearance of ice crystals almost, except on a megascale, if you - have ever looked at ice crystals in sand.
002:29:36	CC	Roger.
002:29:45	Schmitt	Or, better yet, ice crystals on your car window when you - get out early in the morning up in northern areas.
002:29:55	CC	Roger. And just be advised, we'll be standing by for the GO/NO GO for PYRO ARM when we get to Hawaii, and we'll be giving you a GO for TLI about that time.
002:30:06	Schmitt	Okay; and we'll be ready.
002:30:16	CC	And, Ron, in - on the Launch Checklist, on 2-25, on the manual and nominal S-IVB TLI-1, add 34 degrees on the nominal pad for all the pitch angles; and on the manual pad, add 34.5 degrees to all the pitch angles, and you'll have it right.
002:30:41	Evans	Okay, Bob. You ... - -
002:30:43	CC	And - -
002:30:43	Evans	- - let me get set. That's - okay, we'll just add 34 to the nominal and 34.5 to all the manual ones ... - -
002:30:49	CC	And you'll want to do that on your cue card also, Ron.
002:30:52	Evans	Yes, that's affirm.
002:31:00	CC	And we're about ready to LOS; we'll see you at Hawaii.
002:31:07	Cernan	Okay, Bob, we'll see you - -
002:31:08	CC	02 plus 50 at Hawaii.
002:31:11	Cernan	Okay, 50. And we'll be into our TLI checklist, and - we'll be ready for that PYRO ARM.
002:31:17	CC	Okay.
002:32:32	PAO	This is Apollo Control. We'll be reacquiring the spacecraft in about 18 minutes. And during that passover at Carnarvon, and we've passed up the numbers to the crew they'll use in the Translunar Injection maneuver. The burn is targeted to last 5 minutes 51 seconds with a change in velocity of some 10,359 feet per second. Accelerating Apollo 17 to the required speed to get it into an orbit that will intercept the Moon. And the time of ignition, 300 - 03:12:35 and we're showing an ejection time of 04:39. The transposition and docking maneuver which preceeds ejection, is somewhat fluid in that it's done when the crew and mission control are ready, following Translunar Injection. However, from the projected time for ejection, it would appear that transposition and docking will occur about 25 to 30 minutes ahead of the nominal Flight Plan time. And we're now 39 minutes away from the scheduled ignition for translunar injection. At 2 hours 34 minutes this is Apollo Control, Houston.
002:49:00	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 2 hours 49 minutes. We're standing by now to acquire radio contact with Apollo 17 through Hawaii. During this Hawaiian pass we're getting another good look at spacecraft and launch vehicle systems. The last look we had through Carnarvon everything looked very good. Flight Director, Gene Kranz, going over the status for these flight controllers observed that there appeared to be no problems that would interfere with TLI and we expect to have a normal translunar injection, about 23 minutes from now as Apollo 17 completes its state-side pass and moves out over the Atlantic Ocean at the start of its third revolution.
002:49:50		HAWAII (REV 2)
002:49:50	CC	Apollo 17, Houston.
002:49:51	Schmitt	Go ahead.
002:49:52	Evans	Houston, this is Apollo 17. Go ahead.
002:49:53	CC	Hey, Ron, you're sounding great. Good voice here.
002:49:58	Schmitt	Golly, we've got things all set up here and we're kind of standing by for a logic check whenever you guys can give us a GO.
002:50:09	CC	Roger. As soon as we get some TM in here, we'll give you a GO.
002:50:19	Schmitt	Okay.
002:50:33	CC	17, Houston. We're ready for the logic check.
002:50:37	Cernan	Okay, Bob. Okay. Wait 1.
002:50:50	Cernan	Okay. SECS ARM breakers are closed.
002:50:54	CC	Roger.
002:50:56	Cernan	Okay; and LOGIC 1 is ON MARK it;
002:51:00	Cernan	and LOGIC 2 is ON -
002:51:02	Cernan	MARK it.
002:51:12	CC	17, you're GO for PYRO ARM.
002:51:15	Cernan	Thank you; understand GO for PYRO ARM.
002:52:55	CC	17 - -
002:52:55	Schmitt	And, Bob, in case you're interested, there - all through the nightside pass here - there's a - quite a strong - well - stronger than I would have ever expected - horizon glow off to the north. I suspect that, I think Gene said a while ago that it's around on his side also.
002:53:12	CC	Roger. Guys , I've got the word you wanted to hear; you are GO for TLI - you're GO for the Moon.
002:53:20	Cernan	Okay, Robert. Understand. America and Challenger with their S-IVB are GO for TLI.
002:53:26	CC	That's affirmative.
002:53:29	Cernan	You're a sweet talker.
002:53:32	CC	We try to please here, Gene.
002:53:40	Cernan	You know, somehow, Bob, I knew you were going to say that - we were GO - and that you try to please.
002:53:47	CC	We've been working together too long, I guess.
002:53:54	Cernan	Not long enough, yet.
002:54:48	CC	And, 17; Houston. You're about 1 minute from LOS, and we'll pick you up at Goldstone at about 3 hours and 00 minutes; and that's only a couple of minutes prior to time base 6 start.
002:55:02	Cernan	Okay, Bob. We'll be with you.
002:55:04	CC	Roger.
002:55:07	Schmitt	Bob, that glow is actually above the horizon, just in case you're curious. I can see - stars below the top of the glow - down closer to the Earth.
002:55:19	CC	Roger, Jack.
002:55:21		GOLDSTONE (REV 2)
003:01:15	CC	17, Houston. We're with you again, and you're looking good.
003:01:20	Evans	Okay; mighty fine, Bob.
003:01:23	Cernan	And, Bob, we've got the PYROs ARMED now.
003:01:25	CC	Roger.
003:01:33	CC	And you can expect some different OMNI calls as we go LOS and AOS again.
003:01:39	Cernan	Okay.
003:01:40	Evans	I always expect that, Bob.
003:01:42	CC	Roger.
003:02:59	Cernan	SEP light is ON on time.
003:03:03	CC	Roger.
003:03:08	CC	And it shows time base 6 right on time, Gene.
003:03:11	Cernan	Okay.
003:03:21	CC	We'd like OMNI Delta, please.
003:03:27	Schmitt	Okay, you've got it.
003:03:28	CC	Roger.
003:03:30	Schmitt	I'll just switch, Bob. I won't give you a call.
003:03:33	CC	Roger.
003:03:39	Cernan	SEP light was OUT on time.
003:03:42	CC	Roger, Gene.
003:04:21	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 3 hours 4 minutes. We are now some 8 minutes away from ignition. Everything's looking good for the translunar injection maneuver, the combined S-IVB Saturn third stage and the spacecraft with an orbital weight of 308,298 pounds at the start of this maneuver.
003:06:15	Schmitt	Comm check, Bob.
003:06:21	CC	17, Houston; go ahead.
003:06:23	Schmitt	I was just checking with you; you're so quiet down there, we almost forgot you were there.
003:06:27	CC	Roger. Don't want to forget me. We're just watching everything; we can't find anything wrong, so we're just trying to keep quiet here.
003:06:37	Cernan	Okay, Bob. We're watching the S-IVB tanks pressurize.
003:06:41	CC	Roger.
003:06:50	Schmitt	You ought to look for the good things rather than the bad.
003:06:55	CC	Well, that's good when we don't find anything wrong.
003:06:59	Schmitt	Can't agree more.
003:07:32	CC	17, the chilldown is in progress, and the tank pressures are looking good.
003:07:38	Cernan	Okay, Bob; looking down here.
003:09:37	CC	17, Houston. You are GO at 3 minutes prior to ignition. You're looking good, and you're going to - we're going to have A - ARIA coverage all the way through the burn until Ascension.
003:09:51	Cernan	Roger; understand, Bob. 57:10, ORDEAL OPERATE -
003:10:38	PAO	And we're coming up now on 2 minutes until ignition. This burn, again, will be a 5 minute 51 second maneuver. The S-IVB engine, delivering about 225,000 pounds of thrust, and it will be increasing the spacecraft velocity in the current state of about 25,000 feet per second up to about 35,585 feet per second.
003:11:01	Cernan	We're in average G.
003:11:05	CC	Roger. We confirm it.
003:11:16	Cernan	SEP light ON at 3:06.
003:11:19	CC	Roger.
003:11:37	PAO	And booster reports the ullage engines are on. This is to settle the propellants in the S-IVB prior to ignition. We are at 53 seconds from ignition.
003:12:04	CC	17, you're looking great on the final status check here, and you're GO for TLI.
003:12:17	PAO	20 seconds now to ignition and we're maintaining communications with the spacecraft through one of the ARIA, Apollo range instrumented aircraft.
003:12:20	Cernan	... 42, the SEP lights are OUT.
003:12:26	CC	Roger.
003:12:29	PAO	10 seconds.
003:12:40	Cernan	The lights on and we have ignition.
003:12:46	PAO	And, very faintly we copy the crew reporting S-IVB ignition and that's confirmed by the telemetry and booster reports the thrust looks good on the S-IVB.
003:12:57	CC	17, Houston. You're looking good, and the thrust is GO.
003:13:02	Cernan	Bob, you're down in the mud, but we're GO onboard at 20 seconds.
003:13:06	CC	Roger.
003:13:11	PAO	And telemetry data from the Saturn instrument unit shows the velocity increasing up now to 26,000 feet per second, beginning to climb ever more rapidly. This burn was initiated at an altitude of about 97 nautical miles above Earth, and when finished, the spacecraft will be at about 150 miles above Earth, and on its way to the Moon, some 213,000 miles nautical miles away.
003:13:21	Schmitt	... antenna.
003:13:41	Cernan	One minute, Houston in the blind, and we're GO.
003:13:45	CC	Roger, Gene. We can barely hear you through the ARIA, but you're GO.
003:13:54	Cernan	You have reasonable signal strength, but you are unreadable.
003:14:10	PAO	Very weak voice communications and booster says the data is now static but at last look everything looked normal.
003:14:15	Cernan	Everything's GO at 1:30.
003:14:22	Cernan	Confirm a PU shift, and GO at 1:45.
003:14:34	CC	17, Houston, We can confirm PU shift, and you are GO.
003:14:55	PAO	That was CAPCOM Robert Overmyer confirming to the crew that our data showed the Saturn shifting its propellant utilization for a most efficient utilization of the propellant.
003:15:10	Cernan	Okay, Houston, 2:30 - in the blind - we're still GO.
003:15:14	CC	Roger, 17. You're GO; looking great.
003:15:18	Cernan	Okay, Bob. Got that. Understand we're GO from the ground; and it's a good ride, although it's rumbling around a little bit.
003:15:24	CC	Okay.
003:15:31	PAO	Coming up now 3 minutes into the burn and velocity approaching 30,000 feet per second.
003:15:41	Cernan	Three minutes, and we are GO.
003:15:45	CC	Roger, Gene.
003:15:53	Cernan	Bob, we're going to TLI right through sunrise.
003:15:58	CC	Roger; understand.
003:16:01	PAO	Gene Cernan reporting the TLI burn has taken them out of darkness and into sunrise now and we're showing a velocity of 30,463 feet per second.
003:16:06	Cernan	Okay, 3:30 is GO. We have - 17 is GO at 3:30.
003:16:16	CC	Roger, 17.
003:16:31	PAO	Apollo 17 now about 107 nautical miles above Earth and continuing to climb ever more rapidly.
003:17:05	PAO	4 minutes and 30 seconds now and everything continuing to look good. Apollo 17 at a velocity of 32,000 feet per second.
003:17:11	Cernan	Okay, Bob, 17 is GO at 4:30. You're still unreadable.
003:17:16	CC	Roger. How do you read me? You are GO, by the way.
003:17:23	Cernan	Okay, we got you that time. Understand we're GO on the ground, and we're still GO here, and we're TLI-ing right through sunrise.
003:17:29	CC	Understand.
003:17:41	PAO	5 minutes now, less than 1 minute to go, and booster engineer reports that we're very close to the nominal predicted shutdown time.
003:18:01	CC	17, Houston. Your burn time is nominal.
003:18:05	Cernan	Roger. Understand burn time, nominal.
003:18:11	PAO	Shutdown time now in about 21 seconds. Showing a velocity of 33,000 feet per second. Altitude now approaching 150 miles.
003:18:35	Schmitt	Cutoff at 52.
003:18:39	Evans	(Laughter) Did you read the DSKY?
003:18:42	CC	We don't have the DSKY. You have to read it to us, Ron.
003:18:46	Evans	Okay. VI is - I got a 00 and a 00 and NOUN 95 VI is 35573 - is a plus 9.
003:19:04	Cernan	And, Bob, the EMS is minus - EMS is minus 19.4, minus 19.4.
003:19:13	CC	Roger. We copy that.
003:19:17	Cernan	And it was an auto cut-off - auto cut-off on time.
003:19:21	CC	Understand a guided cut-off on time. Looking great.
003:19:27	Cernan	And I am watching tank pressures - are venting, the tanks are venting.
003:19:33	CC	Understand. The tanks are venting.
003:20:04	PAO	And, we're still getting communications through the Apollo Range Instrumented Aircraft. We'll be picking up through Ascension shortly, at which time we'd expect the communications to improve, the noise to drop off. From Gene Cernan's report, also from the reports from Ron Evans, it appeared that that translunar injection was extremely close to nominal. The crew read a cutoff time of 5 minutes 52 seconds. The premaneuver prediction was 5 minutes 51 seconds. And the cutoff velocity appeared to be very, very close to the planned normal. Booster engineer, Frank Van Rosilier reports the booster cutoff appeared to be exactly normal.
003:21:43	PAO	And booster engineer now predicting that the maneuver to separation attitude will begin in about 3 hours 33 minutes 27 seconds.
003:22:56	Schmitt	Okay, Houston, how do you read?
003:23:02	CC	17, Houston. We'd like OMNI Delta.
003:23:06	Schmitt	Okay. I picked it up a little bit. How do you read now?
003:23:09	CC	Read you loud and clear.
003:23:11	Schmitt	Okay. I hope you got all that. It was a beautiful burn, right through sunrise. Did you get the numbers?
003:23:17	CC	Yes, we copied your VI and your EMS numbers, and we've got a number for you. Maneuver start time will be at 3 plus 33 plus 27 -
003:23:49	Schmitt	Okay, we got you. Maneuver at 03:33:27-
003:23:57	CC	That's affirmative, Jack.
003:24:02	Schmitt	You guys didn't tell us we couldn't see anything going through the sunrise.
003:24:09	CC	(Laughter) Roger.
003:25:08	CC	17, Houston. We're making plans here for a spacecraft SEP time of 03 plus 43.
003:25:22	Schmitt	03 plus 43. Roger.
003:27:36	CC	17, Houston. We're copying cabin press of 5.9 this time.
003:27:42	Schmitt	Roger. We - we just got it, Bob.
003:27:45	CC	Okay.
003:27:46	Schmitt	Thank you.
003:29:42	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 3 hours 30 minutes. The flight dynamics officer has just reported that initial tracking, following the translunar injection burn, shows the spacecraft to be on a very nominal trajectory, and a relatively small midcourse correction indicated at this time. The pre-burn prediction on that first midcourse correction was around 5 feet per second and we expect that that will be updated as we get additional tracking following the burn.
003:30:28	PAO	In about 3 minutes the spacecraft should - the launch vehicle should be - begin maneuvering to the proper attitude for separation and we're predicting separation to occur at about 3 hours 43 minutes - or about 13 minutes from now.
003:32:04	Schmitt	Frame 65 for the LMPs mag November November.
003:33:28	PAO	About 10 seconds now until the Saturn third stage begins maneuvering into the proper separation attitude.
003:33:58	PAO	And booster engineer reports from telemetry data that the booster has begun maneuvering into the proper attitude for spacecraft separation.
003:34:21	Cernan	Okay. We - we are maneuvering, Houston.
003:34:25	CC	Roger. We're watching it.
003:34:52	Schmitt	Now we've got a few very bright particles or fragments or something that go drifting by as we maneuver.
003:35:02	CC	Roger. Understand.
003:35:07	Evans	There's a whole bunce of big ones on my window down there - just bright.
003:35:10	Schmitt	It looks like the Fourth of July out of Ron's window.
003:35:17	Schmitt	Yes. Now you can see some of them in shape. They're very Jagged, angular fragments that are tumbling.
003:35:25	CC	Roger. They look like fluid of some sort?
003:35:28	Schmitt	Not to me. They look like pieces of something.
003:35:33	CC	Roger.
003:35:34	Schmitt	They're very bright.
003:35:36	CC	Jack, we'd like OMNI Charlie.
003:37:04	Schmitt	Bob, for the most part, these fragments are not - or are tumbling at a very slow rate. I tried a couple pictures of them - different settings. You may get an idea of what, at least, the patterns look like.
003:37:20	CC	Roger. I've got you. We're all ears on these fragments if you think you can figure out what they might be.
003:37:25	Schmitt	Well, you know I - I don't know. There are a number of possibilities. If you had some kind of a - I got the impression maybe they were curved a little bit, as if they might be - off the side of the S-IVB. And that's a wild guess - -
003:37:40	Cernan	Okay. RCS LOGIC is ... --
003:37:43	Schmitt	- - ice chunks, possibly. Or maybe there's paint coming off of it.
003:37:46	CC	Roger. I noticed on one trip up the elevator last weak near one of the flags. I thought it was on the S-II, but it might have been on the S-IVB. Looked like it was peeling. Maybe that's what you've got.
003:37:57	CC	And the S-IVB maneuver is complete.
003:37:59	Schmitt	... In 1 minute.
003:38:03	Cernan	Okay. We'll set the old clock.
003:38:04	Schmitt	Okay. And the - with the maneuver complete, the fragment field is essentially static, except for very slight tumbling within the fragments.
003:38:13	CC	Roger. Cut in.
003:38:15	Schmitt	Every once in a while, a fragment of considerably higher velocity than the others goes across my window. But that's very rare.
003:38:23	CC	Roger.
003:38:34	Evans	Hey, that's that field of view I saw out my window Jack, do you see it now?
003:38:39	Schmitt	Yes.
003:38:43	Schmitt	And, Bob. At least, there - there's no apparent relative motion between fragments.
003:38:51	CC	Roger. Understand.
003:38:54	Schmitt	I'll take two pictures about a minute apart if I can. And it'll be Frame 70.
003:39:05	CC	Okay. Frame 70.
003:39:07	Cernan	And, Bob. This is Geno. My impression is that they are - flat, flakelike particles. Some may be 6 inches across. And, although there's no relative motion between the two, most of them seem to be twinkling. And I think, for the most part, they're all moving away from us.
003:39:31	CC	Roger, Gene. Thank you.
003:39:48	Evans	Okay. We've got 0180 and 0 on the old thumbwheels
003:39:53	Schmitt	Okay.
003:39:56	CC	Roger, Ron.
003:40:06	Evans	Okay. TRANS CONTROL is ARMED.
003:40:07	Schmitt	... two ARMED.
003:40:09	Evans	CONTROLLER number 2 is ARMED.
003:40:11	Schmitt	... SECS LOGIC ...
003:40:14	Evans	Okay. SECS LOGIC is CLOSED; SECS ARM are CLOSED; LOGIC POWER is ON.
003:40:20	Schmitt	Okay.
003:40:25	CC	17, Houston. You have a GO for T&D.
003:40:30	Cernan	Okay. A GO for T&D.
003:40:51	Evans	Okay. We'll ARM the PYROs. And we'll hit the GDC ALIGN.
003:41:13	Evans	And maneuver's complete. Okay 0180 and 0? On the GDC? No. It's just ... it's kind of diddling.
003:41:31	Evans	Okay. DELTA-V in NORMAL.
003:41:55	Evans	S-IVB, okay. Okay, switches are all set.
003:42:06	Schmitt	Okay; 59:30.
003:42:09	Evans	Okay. Let's start the DET.
003:42:12	Evans	Tickity-tick-tickity.
003:42:13	Cernan	Houston. We're running at 59:30.
003:42:15	CC	Roger.
003:42:19	Evans	Okay.
003:42:25	Evans	Okay. That's LAUNCH VEHICLE SEP, push button.
003:42:28	Schmitt	Okay.
003:42:32	Evans	MC in AUTO.
003:42:40	Evans	Next?
003:42:43	Cernan	SEPARATION, Houston.
003:42:44	Evans	Okay, check the covers. Okay. And check the other ones off.
003:42:52	Schmitt	They're all ..,
003:42:53	Evans	Okay, I'm going to start the - My gosh, look at the junk! Okay; there's 15 seconds. Pitch her up. Okay, we'll PROCEED on the - -
003:43:03	Schmitt	... normal ...
003:43:11	Evans	Okay, we've already PROCEEDed, Jack.
003:43:23	Evans	Okay, we've checked her out.
003:43:26	Cernan	Houston, we're right in the middle of a snowstorm (laughter).
003:43:29	CC	Roger. And we'd like OMNI Delta.
003:43:33	Evans	Hey, look at that burst. It's going to be bright as all get out.
003:43:35	Cernan	And there goes one of the SLA panels.
003:43:42	Evans	Yes.
003:43:51	Evans	We're not there yet. Long ways to go yet. It's on the other side of the Earth, if the simulator's any good.
003:44:07	PAO	Apollo 17 now in the process of turning around after having separated, blown the pyrotechnic charges that separates the spacecraft from the Saturn third stage.
003:44:08	Evans	Oh, man!
003:44:09	Cernan	There goes another SLA panel, Houston, going the other way.
003:44:10	Evans	Yes.
003:44:11	Cernan	I've - -
003:44:12	Schmitt	Hey, there's the booster!
003:44:19	CC	Roger. Bet you never saw the SLA panels on the simulator.
003:44:24	Cernan	No, but we've got the booster and is she pretty. Challenger's just sitting in her nest.
003:44:29	CC	Roger. We'd like OMNI Bravo, now, Jack.
003:44:38	Evans	Okay, we'll plus-X it. We'll see the - oh, you can't see ... Okay. Oh, I can't see my COAS.
003:44:53	Schmitt	And, Houston, some of the particles going by the window - -
003:44:56	Evans	Okay, did you change the DAC?
003:44:59	Cernan	- - were obvious enough - fairly obvious to me - paint.
003:45:00	CC	Okay. We'll buy that.
003:45:10	Evans	Okay. There it is. Okay, did you change the PAC? Got ATT l/rate 2?
003:45:32	Schmitt	Okay, Houston, you want the high gain?
003:45:40	CC	Roger. We're standing by for it, and the angles as published on L/3-3 should be good.
003:45:47	Schmitt	Okay.
003:46:16	Evans	Okay, it's flying pretty good.
003:46:37	Evans	Okay, we're in REACQ here.
003:46:57	Schmitt	Houston, how do you read? We don't have a very good knock - lockon here in REACQ.
003:47:01	CC	Roger, Jack. We're reading you pretty good - voice.
003:47:14	Schmitt	Okay. It looks like it's improving. It dropped off - signal strength dropped off, and now it's picking up again.
003:47:20	CC	Roger.
003:47:24	CC	We're getting good signal now, Jack.
003:47:32	CC	Jack, the high gain is looking good.
003:47:33	Schmitt	Oh, okay.
003:47:38	Evans	I'm guessing. I don't know - about a hundred ... - -
003:47:40	Schmitt	That's good news. It seemed to smoo - slew very smoothly, so it looks all right.
003:47:53	CC	Roger, Jack.
003:47:54	Evans	ATT 1/RATE 2?
003:48:25	Cernan	I can't tell you too much, Bob, from the center seat other than Captain America is very intent on getting Challenger at the moment.
003:48:33	CC	Roger. I can believe that.
003:48:41	Evans	Yes, I'm coming in a little slow, but we've got plenty of time.
003:49:05	PAO	Ron Evans now at the controls of America. Now moving in for the docking with lunar module Challenger.
003:49:13	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. While we're moving in here, I can see a few chunks of that platy material, possibly paint, down in the SLA sort of bouncing around between the S-IVB and the LM.
003:49:32	CC	Roger.
003:49:39	Schmitt	But, so far, LM looks very clean. Can't see anything abnormal from this view yet.
003:49:48	CC	Okay.
003:49:59	Evans	Isn't it, though? That thing is really stable out there.
003:50:31	Schmitt	Yes. Can you see it at all, Gene?
003:51:36	Schmitt	Got one little chunk coming out - it just came out of the SLA, and it's spinning along the long axis, and it looks very stable.
003:51:46	CC	Roger.
003:51:48	Schmitt	Every once in a while, a small particle flies off of it though.
003:51:53	CC	How big of a chunk are you talking about, Jack?
003:51:57	Schmitt	Say again?
003:51:59	CC	How big an item are you talking about?
003:52:06	Schmitt	Oh, I - reference to the thrusters, about the same diameter as the thruster on the LM.
003:52:13	CC	Oh, Roger.
003:52:16	Schmitt	That's how long it was, and about - oh, a fifth that thick or that wide.
003:52:23	CC	Roger.
003:52:24	Schmitt	And I don't think - I don't think it's more than a quarter of an inch or maybe even less thick.
003:52:36	Cernan	That same particle, Bob, came by and as it went spinning, it was throwing off pieces of itself - radially out.
003:52:44	CC	Roger. We copy.
003:52:48	Cernan	There's a small one come floating by and it looked like flakes. And I think I caught three of the four SLA panels going as we were maneuvering. I've got one out the hatch window now. It's quite a ways out.
003:53:10	CC	Roger.
003:53:11	Cernan	It's tumbling in all three axes.
003:53:16	Schmitt	And I saw the fourth one out my side, so we saw them all.
003:53:32	Schmitt	Area around the two spacecraft is cleaned up pretty well by now. There are just a few fragments moving around.
003:54:07	Evans	Now she's coming in.
003:54:23	PAO	The crew of Apollo 17 describing what appear to be paint or possibly ice flaking off the Saturn 3rd stage. But somewhat puzzling at this point is just exactly what the flakes or particles that they're describing might be. And Apollo 17 in the process of docking with the lunar module. Preparatory to extracting the LM from the Saturn 3rd stage. This occuring at some 5,300 nautical miles from Earth. And we're watching the spacecraft velocity drop off rapidly as that altitude increases rapidly. The velocity which at the translunar injection cutoff was around 35,000 feet per second down to about 22,000.
003:54:58	Schmitt	Rover looks in good shape, so far.
003:55:26	CC	Roger, Jack. Can you see down on that quad? is that what you're looking at?
003:55:32	Schmitt	Yes, I'm looking right at it. And I got a good view of the MESA top anyway. It's pretty well covered, but it looks all right also.
003:55:46	CC	Roger.
003:55:49	Schmitt	All the antennas look good; thruster quads all look great. I could see all four of them a minute ago.
003:55:57	Evans	Okay, about 10 feet there, Gene. Stand by for a ... on the barber pole.
003:56:14	Cernan	Okay.
003:56:41	Evans	All right; in good shape.
003:56:52	Evans	About now.
003:57:03	Cernan	Capture, Houston.
003:57:04	CC	Roger. We copy.
003:57:05	Evans	Okay, we're FREE; rates look pretty good. Let's lock it together.
003:57:14	Schmitt	Okay. You ready?
003:57:15	Evans	Ready. She's lined up not bad.
003:57:18	Cernan	Okay.
003:57:20	Evans	PRIME 1.
003:57:21	Cernan	MARK it. Stand by.
003:57:22	Evans	Here she comes.
003:57:28	Evans	Ka-chunk. My gosh!
003:57:31	Cernan	Okay, Houston, ripple fire; but we still have number A barber pole.
003:57:37	CC	Roger. We copy.
003:57:38	Cernan	And we have a MASTER - and a MASTER ALARM.
003:57:40	CC	Roger.
003:57:41	Cernan	We got - we got the most of the latches, but A is barber pole, and B is gray.
003:57:47	Evans	Okay, check both circuit breakers; they're IN. Yes, Okay.
003:57:57	Schmitt	We had one clear fire, maybe one or two latches and then a ripple fire on the rest.
003:58:07	CC	Roger.
003:58:10	Schmitt	And, by the way, I had a good view into the AOT, and I can still look in there, and it's very clean.
003:58:16	CC	Roger.
003:58:29	Schmitt	In fact - -
003:58:29	CC	Ron and Gene, we saw your MASTER ALARM. Did you have any - anything on the matrix light up?
003:58:37	Cernan	No, not a thing. I looked.
003:58:38	CC	Roger.
003:58:47	PAO	That appeared to be a repeat of the master alarm that has been reported several times previously by the crew. They get the alarm light and tone, but when they look for the exact location of precise indication of what's wrong it's not there, indicating some sort of a spurious response by the master alarm to a problem that doesn't exist.
003:59:38	Cernan	Okay, Bob, we're going to go ahead and take a look at that docking malfunction before we press on here further and check this barber pole out.
003:59:48	CC	Roger, We're working some words up here. We'll be back with you in a second on that, Gene.
003:59:53	Cernan	Okay. We're down on the checklist through the EDS POWER breakers, OPEN.
003:59:59	CC	Understand.
004:00:57	Evans	And, Houston, in case we didn't tell you, it's talkback A that's barber pole.
004:01:02	CC	Understand. We have it.
004:01:14	CC	Say - say, Gene, we don't think it's a problem. We'll find out what it is when you get in. We think we should just press right on with the Flight Plan checklist and keep going.
004:01:27	Evans	Okay, we concur with that. Okay, we'll press on, Bob.
004:01:58	Cernan	Okay, Bob. We just got a MASTER ALARM when I went to the RETRACT PRIME, from 1 to OFF.
004:02:07	CC	Roger. We copy that. Looks like panel 2 is jinxed up there, huh?
004:03:29	Evans	Okay, O2 HEATER number 3 went to AUTO.
004:03:35	CC	Roger. We copy that.
004:08:08	Cernan	Okay, Bob. We're reading a DELTA-P of greater than 4, and I'm going to open the PRESSURE EQUALIZATION VALVE now.
004:08:18	CC	Roger, 17. We copy that.
004:09:05	Cernan	Okay, the DELTA-P is coming down, Bob.
004:09:09	CC	Roger.
004:09:44	CC	Gene, while you're watching that, I just thought you'd be interested. We talked to some of our friends down at the Cape who watched the launch, and they said you were aglow all the way until you faded into - you couldn't tell you from a star. They saw staging, and they could just see you as a star way off in the distance until you faded out. Not a cloud in the way at all.
004:09:53	Cernan	Beautiful. Okay, we're at - we're at 2, and we're monitoring it for 3 minutes.
004:09:59	CC	Okay.
004:10:08	Evans	And, Houston. While we're checking the integrity here, on mag Alfa Alfa, there's about 50 percent.
004:10:18	CC	Mag Alfa Alfa, 50 percent. Roger.
004:11:59	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 4 hours 12 minutes. The crew aboard Apollo 17 at this time pressing ahead with their preparations for separating the lunar module and command module, now docked together from the Saturn third stage. You heard some conversation earlier about an indication that all of the docking latches have not locked up. Now there are 12 of these latches in the docking mechanism, 6 of which are instrumented, and of the 6 that are instrumented, there was an indication that one of those may not have latched. However, we are confident that more than enough latches have locked up to assure a good solid dock, and for that reason the crew is pressing ahead with their preparations for separation.
004:12:54	Cernan	Okay, Bob. That's 3 minutes. It's - DELTA-P change is less than 0.1.
004:12:59	CC	Three minutes and less than 0.1.
004:13:03	Cernan	We are pressing on.
004:13:08	CC	Roger; press.
004:13:11	PAO	That report from Gene Cernan indicating that they have a good seal at the docking interface. Once the hatch is removed between the two vehicles, the crew will get a good look at all of those docking latches and they will be able to tell how many - if any of them didn't latch up. We're pushing ahead now for - for extracting the lunar module separating from the Saturn third stage at Ground Elapsed Time of 4 hours 39 minutes.
004:14:41	Evans	Okay, you want cabin's at 4.8 now; REPRESS is about empty. Okay. No, not yet, it's still getting a little bit.
004:15:04	Evans	That REPRESS PACKAGE VALVE is kind of noisy.
004:15:19	Evans	That's all the REPRESS O2. We'll turn that OFF.
004:15:24	Cernan	Okay, Houston, the REPRESS PACKAGE is empty now, and we're down to a DELTA-P of 0.2.
004:15:30	CC	Roger. We copy that.
004:15:40	CC	And, 17. Just be advised, you're going to have an S-IVB nonpropulsive vent start 04:18:27- You've got about 3 minutes on that.
004:15:51	Evans	(Laughter) Okay. Thank you.
004:17:03	Schmitt	Can you reach ... there?
004:17:05	Evans	Yes, I'll get them.
004:17:07	Cernan	Okay, Bob. We seem to be holding DELTA-P at about 0.2. I suspect that's probably zero.
004:17:18	CC	Roger. We copy that.
004:17:24	Schmitt	And the cabin pressure's about 4.5. You want us to wait until 5 PSI for the EMERGENCY CABIN PRESSURE SELECTS?
004:17:42	CC	Negative on that. Let's just go ahead and let's press on.
004:17:46	Schmitt	Okay. They should be BOTH.
004:17:57	Evans	Okay, EMERGENCY register working.
004:18:09	Evans	Coming down though, Gene. Let's wait until it gets down a little ways.
004:18:28	Evans	Yes.
004:18:51	Evans	Yes. Straight up and down as well.
004:19:03	Evans	Up one one. Must be the nonpropulsive VENT that's banging. (Laughter) Here comes all the - look at all the stuff going again. It's really glowing.
004:19:14	Schmitt	Your nonpropulsive vent gives quite a glow.
004:19:18	CC	Roger, Jack.
004:19:24	Evans	It looks like a rainbow. Dark one.
004:19:40	Evans	Okay. REPRESS PACKAGE to FILL.
004:19:47	Evans	That ought to take the surge tank down a little bit ... about at what? About 400?
004:20:03	Evans	500 on the surge. No, they ought to be closed off by now, I think. Yes.
004:20:16	CC	17, Houston.
004:20:18	Evans	Go ahead.
004:20:20	CC	Roger. Be advised, you don't have to wait until 5 PSI cabin to go ahead and open the hatch.
004:20:26	Cernan	Okay, we're not, Bob. We're pressing on with it now.
004:20:27	CC	Roger.
004:20:30	Evans	Okay, it looks like we're going to maintain about 400 on the surge.
004:21:04	Evans	Okay?
004:21:18	Cernan	Okay, Houston. The hatch is coming out.
004:21:21	CC	Roger.
004:21:26	Evans	(Laughter) I don't know what you're going to do with it.
004:21:39	Evans	Put it up here in the - in the - on the couch.
004:21:57	Evans	There we go.
004:21:58	Evans	Hey, that's a lot lighter than it used to be (laughter).
004:22:04	Cernan	There's going to be a lot of happy people down there, Bob. I haven't checked them all, but visually, they're all locked.
004:22:10	CC	Understand, Gene. All of them are locked.
004:22:13	Cernan	Let me give them a good check.
004:22:15	Evans	Yes. You'd better check them, because we got a barber pole on that one.
004:22:21	Cernan	Okay, here's one that didn't come over.
004:22:25	Evans	What is the position of it?
004:22:27	Cernan	7 ***
004:22:45	Evans	7 and 9?
004:23:02	Cernan	Okay, Bob. Maybe we aren't all going to be so happy.
004:23:04	CC	Go ahead.
004:23:05	Cernan	Okay, 7, 9, and 10 - the handle is flush; the bungee is vertical, but the handle is not locked down, and the - and the red button is showing. And I can pull each one of them back slowly. I haven't done anything with them. That's 7, 9, and 10.
004:23:35	CC	Roger. We copy that. The handle is flush; the bungees are vertical, but the handle is not locked down, and the red button is showing on 7, 9, and 10.
004:23:45	Cernan	That's affirm.
004:24:23	Cernan	Okay, Bob. Bob, I just pushed the handle on 10 home a little bit and it did lock. And the red button is flush. So that leaves me 9 and 7.
004:24:36	CC	Roger; understand.
004:24:47	CC	Geno, go ahead and try the handle on 9 and 7; and, if that doesn't work, cock them and refire them starting with 9, please.
004:24:58	Cernan	Okay; the handle doesn't work. I'll have to recock them.
004:25:02	CC	Okay.
004:25:16	Evans	When you trip it with your - did you cock it twice?
004:25:20	Cernan	Yes.
004:25:21	Evans	And it took two cocks to make it go?
004:25:24	Cernan	Yes.
004:25:25	Evans	Okay.
004:25:30	Cernan	Okay, 9 cocked twice; it tripped. It is overcenter and locked.
004:25:34	CC	Roger. How about the barber pole now?
004:25:38	Evans	Okay. Wait a minute, I've got - DOCKING PROBE MAIN A circuit breaker's IN and gone to RETRACT, and it's gray.
004:25:44	CC	Okay - -
004:25:44	Evans	Aha! That did it.
004:25:46	CC	Roger.
004:26:13	Cernan	Okay, Bob. Cocked 7 twice and tripped it, and it's overcenter and locked.
004:26:18	CC	Roger.
004:26:20	Cernan	I think that takes care of them all.
004:26:25	CC	Good show.
004:26:56	Evans	Okay, DOCKING PROBE circuit breakers are OUT and EXTEND/RETRACT is OFF.
004:27:14	Evans	Because it belongs on the probe. ... it's painted yellow, it belongs on the probe.
004:28:34	Cernan	Okay, Bob. The umbilicals are connected.
004:28:39	CC	Roger.
004:29:33	Cernan	Okay, Houston, 7 Delta on the test meter is now reading 1.0, it jumped up to 2.6, and is now back to 1.0.
004:29:43	CC	Roger. We copy. That's good.
004:30:06	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 4 hours 30 minutes. About 9 minutes from now the crew will be firing the pyrotechnic charges that separate the lunar module docked to the command module from the Saturn third stage, and springs will push the LM CSM back away from the launch vehicle at a rate of about 1 foot per second, and at Ground Elapsed Time of 4 hours 52 minutes the launch vehicle will yaw to the proper attitude for an evasive manuever of about 10 feet per second to be performed at a Ground Elapsed Time of about 5 hours 3 minutes. This will increase the separation difference to assure no chance of recontact between the booster and the spacecraft on route to the Moon. On removing the hatch between the LM, the CSM, allowing the crew to get a look inside the docking tunnel, they found that 3 of the 12 latches had not locked up, but on manually recocking them and activating them, they latched up properly, which indicates that there's nothing physically wrong with the system. And we would expect that the next time the 2 vehicles come together to dock that the latches will function properly.
004:30:31	Schmitt	There we go. Okay. There, we're going up in the tunnel.
004:31:50	Evans	Pretty good ham sandwich.
004:32:30	Cernan	Okay, Bob, the hatch is back in.
004:32:36	CC	Roger, Gene.
004:34:24	CC	17, Houston.
004:34:27	Schmitt	Go ahead, Houston.
004:34:28	CC	Roger. We've got some new - new angles here for you.
004:34:43	Schmitt	Stand by a minute, and let me find a place to copy them.
004:34:49	Evans	What - what kind of angles are they, Bob?
004:34:52	CC	They're your NOUN 22 attitude maneuver for APS burn out of the hatch window. They're in the middle of the page L/3-5-
004:35:03	Evans	Oh, okay.
004:35:06	CC	Instead of 270, we want 274.
004:35:11	Evans	Wait 1. We're not quite with you.
004:35:12	CC	Okay.
004:35:42	Schmitt	Okay. I think I'm with you at 3-7; go.
004:35:48	CC	It's on 3-5, Jack, middle of the page there. Those NOUN 22s.
004:35:56	Schmitt	Okay, I take it back; 3-5, middle of the page.
004:36:01	CC	Okay. You notice there's three angles there - 270, make that 274.
004:36:13	Schmitt	Okay. That the only change?
004:36:14	CC	And the - no, the next one, the 129-8, change that to 164. And 4.3 on the yaw, change that to zero. It's close enough; zero on the yaw.
004:36:33	Schmitt	Okay. We got them 274, 164, 00.
004:36:36	CC	Roger, and the high-gain angles that you've got on the Flight Plan are close enough and should do it.
004:36:45	Schmitt	Very good.
004:39:13	PAO	Telemetry data now shows the crew loading the information into the spacecraft digital auto pilot in preparation for separation from the Saturn third stage. That should be occurring in the next minute or so.
004:39:53	Evans	Okay. We're 6 frames a second. Okay, what - what did ... RANGE ...
004:40:09	Evans	Okay, I'll - I'll leave it at 10 feet and about an f - f/8. Okay, ... at set. Because I had that one to 0180 to 0.
004:41:01	Cernan	Okay, Bob. We're aligning our GDC, and the next thing we'll pick up will be SECS ARM circuit breakers. And we'll give you a call on the LOGIC.
004:41:12	CC	Roger, Gene.
004:41:26	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. While we're waiting, does the balance on the - -
004:41:30	Evans	I see what you mean (laughter).
004:41:31	Schmitt	H2 and O2 flow in fuel cell 3 - well, actually, in all three fuel cells, look pretty good to you?
004:41:51	CC	Jack, the flows look just right for the current.
004:41:58	Schmitt	Okay. Used to seeing them more or less lined up, and I hadn't calculated any further than that.
004:42:04	CC	Roger.
004:42:05	Schmitt	O2 - O2 seems a little higher H2, relatively speaking. (laughter)
004:42:26	Evans	Okay. That's pretty close. Verified: SECS ARM breakers are CLOSED.
004:42:33	Cernan	Okay, Houston. We're ready to come up with the LOGIC.
004:42:42	Evans	Okay, Houston, LOGIC 1 is coming on now and LOGIC 2.
004:42:48	CC	Roger.
004:43:13	Evans	And, Houston, just to keep track of EMS null bias check that time, was - went from 100 to 100.7 in 100 seconds.
004:43:34	CC	17, we'd like to just verify on that top line S-IVB/LM SEP circuit breakers - both of them are CLOSED?
004:43:45	Cernan	Okay, we'll verify them again. We doublechecked them.
004:43:49	CC	Okay, we just didn't hear your call and we want to make sure of that. Didn't want to miss anything here.
004:43:53	Cernan	Okay. They are - they are verified CLOSED, and Jack just checked them again.
004:43:57	CC	Okay. You are GO for PYRO ARM and GO for extraction.
004:44:01	Cernan	Okay, GO for PYRO ARM; GO for PYRO extraction - or LM extraction (laughter).
004:44:09	Schmitt	Okay, PYRO ARM.
004:44:10	Evans	Okay, we'll ARM the old PYROs. There's PYRO A; PYRO B.
004:44:17	Schmitt	SERVO POWER number 1 ...
004:44:19	Evans	TVC SERVO POWER, AC 1.
004:44:21	Schmitt	TRANS CONTROL POWER, up and ON.
004:44:24	Evans	TRANS CONTROL POWER is ON.
004:44:29	Evans	Okay, ROT CONTROLLERS are ARMED. Okay, I'll wait just a little bit on that - EMS to NORMAL. Get DELTA-V ...
004:44:58	Evans	Okay, EMS to NORMAL? Push right there. Yes.
004:45:06	Cernan	Okay; on my mark, the S-IVB/LM SEP will come on.
004:45:09	Evans	Okay, and then I'll back it off to - Okay?
004:45:23	Cernan	Okay, on my mark, S-IVB/LM SEP: 3,2,1-
004:45:32	Cernan	MARK it. Okay, we got it.
004:45:35	Evans	Oh, ho! Man, did we! There she goes. Yes; LM came with us.
004:45:43	Evans	Okay, we're CMC, AUTO. All right. We've got 0.6. It's all right. Okay, whoopee-dee-doo!
004:45:58	Evans	Safe the PYROs. Okay, LOGIC'S OFF.
004:46:08	Evans	SECS - SECS ARM breakers are OPEN.
004:46:17	PAO	This is Apollo Control. America and Challenger are on their own. LM injection occured at 4 hours 45 minutes Ground Elapsed Time - at an altitude of 13,000 nautical miles from earth.
004:46:41	Evans	Now I think we ought to go to the maneuver pretty quick. Otherwise, the S-IVB will be so far away you can't see it. Okay, you ready to maneuver?
004:46:56	Evans	Okay, CMC in AUTO, caged. Away we go. That - that ... wasn't as bad as the original SEP.
004:47:12	Evans	Yes.
004:47:17	Evans	Came right out, though.
004:47:19	Schmitt	MAPPING CAMERA and PAN CAMERA are OFF.
004:47:29	Evans	Okay. POWER'S OFF. Hey, Jack. Hand me the Hasselblad. I think we're bowing the right direction. Yes, the Moon is there. The Earth is - that's the Earth.
004:47:52	Evans	SERVO POWER'S OFF, yes.
004:47:56	Evans	The Earth just fills up window 5. Okay, f infinity, about a 250th.
004:48:15	Evans	What - what do you have? A zero in there? Hey, I lost my watch. Turn the AC OFF. Yes, AC is OFF. Whoops, what a beauty! What a beauty! Yes, the Earth. I can see the S-IVB it's going ...
004:48:45	Evans	Look at that.
004:48:48	Evans	Yes, Madagascar and Africa. Got to be.
004:49:00	Evans	... see it.
004:49:02	Evans	Got to be.
004:49:05	Evans	Yes, as soon as I find the S-IVB, we'll -
004:49:21	Evans	Hey, there's Antarctica. It's all full of snow. Okay. You want to look?
004:49:35	Evans	Yeah.
004:49:42	Evans	Yes. Oh, there it goes, there. Looks kind of empty down there without the LM - -
004:49:53	Cernan	Okay, Bob, we're looking right up the dome of the S-IVB.
004:50:03	CC	Roger. We copy that. We're standing by for your GO for yaw maneuver.
004:50:19	Evans	We can give them a GO for yaw, can't we? We can see it now.
004:50:24	Cernan	Yes, we can see it. You've got the GO for the yaw.
004:50:31	CC	Roger. Thank you, 17.
004:50:42	Cernan	Looks like she came out of there clean as a whistle.
004:50:48	CC	17, Houston. The yaw maneuver will be starting in about 4 plus 52, a little less than 2 minutes from now.
004:50:55	Cernan	Okay.
004:51:16	CC	Sounds like you are taking a picture of that old dome out there, huh?
004:51:22	Evans	Oh, we're at the end. (Laughter) We're at the end - you know.
004:52:21	Evans	... In there.
004:52:35	Evans	Hey, there it goes. Look at the aft fire of the thing.
004:52:38	Cernan	Yes, we can see it fire now.
004:52:46	CC	Roger, 17. Yaw maneuver started.
004:52:54	PAO	The Saturn third stage now maneuvering into attitude for the APS evasive maneuver, a 10 foot per second burn using the auxiliary propulsion system that will assure -.
004:53:06	Schmitt	The old S-IVB had a flare for the dramatic, but it certainly did its job for us.
004:53:10	CC	Roger, Jack. Preliminary data indicate that you are about as nominal as you can be.
004:53:26	Cernan	That's the way we'd like to keep it, Bob.
004:53:28	CC	You'd better believe it.
004:53:31	Cernan	Okay. She's - as we're looking at it, she's pitching up. She was looking right at us - we were looking right at the dome - and now she's pitching up. The shroud around the IU seems to be totally intact. It - it looked like a super clean separation. I can't really see where there's any paint or anything externally chipped off the - the booster from here. We're beginning to - to pick up the bell. It's really a shame you don't have this - this whole thing on TV; it's really quite a sight.
004:54:12	CC	Roger. We concur with that.
004:54:25	Cernan	The Mylar and the gold coating on the inside of the shroud that's now visible is also intact. It looks like you could use it again if you could get it back.
004:54:43	CC	Well, it's got a job to do when it hits the Moon yet.
004:55:15	Cernan	Okay, Bob. We've - we're almost looking at it broadside now.
004:55:20	CC	Roger.
004:56:01	Cernan	Okay. She's spitting a little; looks like the yaw maneuver may be complete.
004:56:13	Cernan	We got a - full view of the - entire J2 from here; and no kidding, Bob, the whole bird, the shroud at the top by the IU, the separation plane down by the S-II, from here all looks as clean as a whistle, all the way.
004:56:32	CC	Roger, Gene. If you're happy, we'd like a GO from you for the evasive burn.
004:56:40	Cernan	Okay. You're going to burn on the boosters plus X-axis, is that right?
004:56:45	CC	That's affirmative.
004:56:48	Cernan	Let's get a picture or two here yet, and we'll give you a GO.
004:56:58	CC	And, Gene, it'll be about 7 minutes until the evasive burn; 5 plus 03.
004:57:03	Cernan	Okay. You have a GO.
004:57:10	Schmitt	And for your reference, at frame 105 I started a few 250-millimeter pictures of the S-IVB.
004:57:24	CC	Roger, Jack.
004:58:21	Cernan	And, Bob, the entire sky, as far as I can make it out through the hatch window, is completely filled with our twinkling flakes.
004:58:47	CC	Roger. We copy that.
004:58:57	Schmitt	I saw a couple particles go by the window awhile back, and it looked a little bit like insulation in this - these particular case - styrofoam insulation, but in flat flakes.
004:59:19	CC	Roger that.
004:59:22	Schmitt	That was right after we separated from the S-IVB.
004:59:28	CC	Roger.
004:59:29	Schmitt	CSM SEP - CSM SEP, Bob.
004:59:33	CC	Roger. Understand.
004:59:37	Cernan	Bob, I know - I know we're not the first to discover this, but we'd like to confirm, from the crew of America, that the world is round.
004:59:52	CC	Roger. That's a good data point. Have you gotten a good look at any of that weather down there on the Antarctic?
005:00:02	Cernan	Well, on Ron's window number 1 - maybe he can tell you a little about it.
005:00:09	Evans	You know, it's yeal funny there in Antarctica the - You can see the snow, but there isn't any weather at all in it. All of the weather's around it in the water.
005:00:18	CC	Roger.
005:00:20	Schmitt	That's where the moisture is.
005:00:26	Evans	I don't know what to take a picture of.
005:01:12	Evans	I can't see the U.S. at all.
005:01:14	CC	17, Houston.
005:01:16	Cernan	Go ahead.
005:01:17	CC	Look's like you've got a superconservative CMP up there. We've run off some numbers - Looks like you used about 40 pounds of RCS on the T&D, and you've used about a total of 42 pounds RCS total; so we're hanging right in there. Beautiful.
005:01:34	Cernan	Very fine; glad to hear that.
005:01:37	SC	... velvet touch.
005:01:40	Evans	Still a little bit too much, but that's not bad.
005:01:42	Cernan	We'll be glad to leave all that extra, I hope, in the service module when we get home.
005:02:47	Evans	It's in the Volkswagen pouch down there.
005:03:10	Schmitt	Oh, I'll change the lens now.
005:03:11	CC	17, Houston. It's about 30 seconds from the evasive maneuver burn.
005:03:17	Cernan	Okay.
005:03:19	Evans	Here, Jack, can you see him good? Check the settings there. I took an f/22 stop.
005:03:51	Cernan	There it goes, Bob.
005:03:52	Schmitt	There it goes; finally.
005:03:54	CC	Roger.
005:05:11	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 5 hours 5 minutes.
005:05:12	CC	17, Houston. The evasive burn is complete, and the LOX dump will be at 5 plus 24 plus 20.
005:05:23	Cernan	Okay; 5 plus 24 plus 20.
005:05:25	CC	Roger.
005:05:26	Schmitt	It's going to be gone, I think, before we see it.
005:05:41	Cernan	And, Bob, you can tell Frank to forget the - returning that phone call I made to him a couple days ago.
005:05:50	CC	Roger. Understand.
005:05:54	Cernan	All my questions are answered.
005:05:56	CC	Think you've had enough booster briefings, huh?
005:05:59	Cernan	Yes. I figure this is probably the best one of all.
005:06:04	CC	Frank said he'd guarantee all those S-IVBs would be just as good as this one.
005:06:08	Cernan	Okay. That's - fair enough.
005:06:21	Cernan	The S-IC and the S-II didn't put on a bad show either.
005:06:24	CC	That's right.
005:08:38	Evans	Houston, magazine November November is on about 1/23 right now.
005:08:46	CC	Okay, Ron. Magazine November November is on 1/23.
005:08:55	Cernan	And, Bob, we're on page 3-9 of the Flight Plan now. We'll check the LM/CM DELTA-P, get the cabin fan filter in. We'll go over the check - the Systems Checklist, get the primary EVAP and a few odds and ends, and start doffing our PGAs. How's that sound?
005:09:16	CC	Sounds like a winner, Gene.
005:09:19	Cernan	Okay.
005:11:01	Schmitt	I guess you saw that one, Houston. That had no caution or warning with it.
005:11:10	CC	Roger. That a MASTER ALARM?
005:11:12	Schmitt	Yes, sir.
005:11:14	CC	How about the LEB?
005:11:15	Schmitt	Gene's got ... say again. (Laughter) You caught me. I forgot to look. Keep after us; we'll get you that data point.
005:11:26	CC	Roger, Jack.
005:11:30	Schmitt	Gene's got his hands all over panel 2, which probably is what caused it.
005:11:52	CC	Jack, we think that might have been a real one due to the accumulator cycle with the O2 makeup flow going on there - it gave - it held the O2 flow higher for - greater than the16 seconds.
005:12:06	Schmitt	Well, that's certainly a possibility. We didn't notice it - Looked upright at the time. But it - Sure that was the right time?
005:12:17	CC	Well, EECOM's watching it here, and he feels it is.
005:12:24	Schmitt	Gee, I can't argue with him.
005:13:50	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. Ready to deactivate the primary evaporator if you concur.
005:14:01	CC	Roger, Jack. We concur.
005:15:50	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. VHF SIMPLEX Alfa's OFF.
005:15:57	CC	Roger.
005:16:01	Schmitt	And we're gradually moving into getting out of the suits.
005:16:05	CC	Yes. I'll bet you're looking forward to that.
005:16:10	Schmitt	Well, I'll tell you it's a different world without that old one G on you. The old suit's a little bit friendlier.
005:17:16	Schmitt	And, as you may have noticed, Bob, we've come to the end of the Launch Checklist.
005:17:23	CC	That's affirmative, and we've put ours away for posterity. We also stored it with our TLI zero data that we worked so hard to generate.
005:17:37	Schmitt	Well, I'm just happy - didn't - use it. That view of the Earth for a rev there was something I was looking forward to and I was not disappointed.
005:17:49	CC	That's great, Jack.
005:17:54	Cernan	Bob, you've got a pretty good size storm over the north - I guess the northwestern coast of India, where it starts to wrap up and around to the west. It's a - rounded out on the horizon, so I can't make out exactly where it is too well.
005:18:17	CC	Roger.
005:18:21	CC	Could we get a read-out on the LM/CM DELTA-P?
005:18:51	Schmitt	Plus 0.4.
005:18:56	CC	Roger. We copy that.
005:19:00	Cernan	Bob, Antarctica is what I would call effectively just a solid white cap down on the - South Pole. There's definite contact between the continent and the water. But, as Ron said, most of the clouds seem to be very artistic, very picturesque - some in clockwise rotating fashion but appear to be very thin where you can, for the most part, kind of see through those clouds to the blue water below.
005:19:45	CC	Roger.
005:19:46	Cernan	The continent - the continent itself is - is the same color as the clouds; but, of course, more dense - and striking difference than any of the other white background around because you can definitely see that contact with the water and with the clouds over the water.
005:20:05	CC	Roger. Understand. There'll soon be a comm switch over to Madrid here shortly. We may break ... In just a few minutes here. Or a few seconds, rather.
005:20:26	CC	And you might watch - your accumulator's going to cycle in about 20 seconds here. Let's see what happens on the MASTER ALARM.
005:21:03	CC	17, Houston. How do you read through Madrid?
005:21:07	Evans	You're loud and clear, Bob, and could you give us our distance from the Earth?
005:21:12	CC	Roger. I'm looking up at the board. I'd guess at about 19,000 miles. Want me to get it exact?
005:21:18	Evans	No, just approximate's good enough.
005:21:24	CC	18,100, FIDO says.
005:21:27	Cernan	Okay. And I suppose we're seeing as 100 percent full Earth as we'll ever see; certainly as I've ever seen. It appears to be - it may be a little bit - a little bit of a terminator way out to the - well, to the east - out beyond Australia and beyond India. But beyond that it's about 99 percent pure.
005:22:59	Cernan	Bob, it's these kind of views - these kind of views that stick with you forever.
005:23:07	CC	Roger, Gene.
005:23:09	Cernan	We've got a - I guess probably the continent of Africa dominates the world right now. It's covering the - oh, the upper third - upper and western third of the - of the world. We can see the Sinai; we can see up into the Mediterranean; we can see across the Mediterranean, although we can't quite make out the countries up there; we can see across into India. I catch a glimpse of Australia out in the far horizon. Got Zanzibar on the southern tip of Africa, the Cape down there just almost directly below us. And, I don't know exactly how big Antarctica is, but I guess we can certainly see more than 50 percent of it. And - the rest of it is all ocean. The Indian Ocean out into the Pacific Ocean and back into the Atlantic Ocean. And for the most part relatively clear of clouds except in the Antarctica region, and up towards Europe which is - which is on the horizon, across the Mediterranean, it looks like there might be some clouds back up in that way. I can probably - probably - well, not probably - I can make out the entire coast of Africa from Mediterranean around to the west, coming back to the south, back where it takes its big dip to the east, back around the Cape, back around up through the Suez Canal, almost perfectly.
005:24:59	CC	Roger. We understand.
005:25:02	Cernan	And there's one batch of clouds in northern Africa, just a small batch, it looks like it may be up near the - well, no, it's not near the mouth of the Nile; it's quite a bit west of that as a matter of fact, I can see the mouth of the Nile; I can see it running straight down towards us as it parallels the Suez, and then sort of fades out into the central darker brown or darker green portions of Africa.
005:25:37	CC	Roger, Gene. Sure be nice to have that on TV, wouldn't it?
005:25:42	Cernan	Boy, I'd love to give it to you; any way I could.
005:25:56	Cernan	You know - and there's no strings holding it up either. It's out there all by itself.
005:26:07	CC	Roger. I just was going through the 17 status report on CSM systems and, boy, everything is absolutely nominal, with the exception of ... glitching MASTER ALARMs that we're trying to still track down; but every other system is just nominal it's - everything is great.
005:26:30	Cernan	Okay. Sounds good. That's the way they built it for us.
005:27:29	CC	Gene, looking at our plot board, you're directly over the southern tip of Africa or just slightly out in the Indian Ocean there, according to our plot board, which isn't exactly accurate all the time. But shortly you're going to start going backwards on the Earth here and head back across the Atlantic. That ought to be some sort of a first. You cross the Atlantic twice, going from west to east, and then, now you're going to cross it going from east to west here shortly. All in a very short span of time.
005:28:09	Cernan	Yes. I guess that does sound like a first.
005:30:00	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 5 hours 30 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. The white team of flight controllers, headed by Gene Krantz, is in the process now, of handing over to the team headed by flight director Pete Frank. After 12 hours, the team came on about 3 hours prior to the scheduled launch time of 8:53 PM Central Standard Time. Of course, launch occurred 2 hours 40 minutes late at a Ground Elapsed Time of 11, - of a Central Standard Time rather, 11:33 PM. As a result of the late launch-time the trans-lunar injection, that's up through translunar injection, also slipped 2 hours, 40 minutes. We would expect that the translunar injection which is targeted to make up the difference will get us back on the nominal flight plan time by the time the spacecraft arrives at the Moon. In other words, arrival time at the Moon would be at the same Central Standard Time as called for in the Flight Plan at about 1:49 PM Central Standard Time, December 10. But, the Ground Elapsed Time would be about 2 hours, 40 minutes earlier than that provided for in the Flight Plan, the arrival being at about 86 hours, 14 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. The 2 hour, 40 minute difference being accounted for in a speedier arrival time at the Moon, a translunar injection burn being targeted just slightly longer than would have been the case in a normal launch. The spacecraft getting to the Moon in a total elapsed time 2 hours 40 minutes less, in effect, making up for lost time from the late launch. In order to get the flight plan back in agreement with the Ground Elapsed Time the GET, or ground elapsed clock, will simply be moved ahead 2 hours, 40 minutes between now and the time spacecraft arrives at the Moon. So, that by the time Apollo 17 is inserted into Lunar Orbit, the GET will once again agree with the flight plan GET and of course, the Central Standard Time of arrival will be the same as was originally planned by virtue of a speedier trip time. As a result of the late liftoff it was not possible to program television coverage of the transposition and docking. This was because of a shift in the orbital ground track moving the ground track away from the needed Manned Spaceflight network coverage for television. We simply didn't have an adequate ground station to receive the television signal from the spacecraft. There has been one recurring problem that is yet unexplained. That is in the displays and control system. The crew reported on several occassions that MASTER ALARM was occurring. The master alarm manifests itself in a form of a light that flashes in the Command Module. There are three of these lights and also a tone that comes on and a normal procedure is when the MASTER ALARM light comes on and the tone sounds, the crew then looks at another matrix of lights to determine precisely where the problem is. However, when looking at this matrix of lights none of them were lighted, indicating that some spurrious signal had ignited or lighted the MASTER ALARM light and that there was in fact no problem in the systems. There is at this point no explanation for the problem. However, engineers here in the Control Center, are looking into the past history of Panel 2, which is the panel on which a number of switches are located, which have triggered this master alarm, to see if there is a history of Panel 2 that would indicate a possibility of some momentary short in the caution and warning system, which could give a MASTER ALARM. The problem at this point is an annoyance, but does not appear to be a serious problem. All other spacecraft systems are performing normally, and the trajectory to the Moon is almost precisely as planned at this point. We do not anticipate a change of shift press briefing. The white team will be coming back on at the regualar Central Standard Time 4:00 PM tomorrow. And in light of this rather short turnaround we're going to forego the change of shift press briefing. At 5 hours, 36 minutes this is Apollo Control, Houston.
005:30:01	Cernan	Bob, I can assume that from what you said there will be - probably not be a midcourse 1?
005:30:02	CC	That's exactly what we're working towards, Gene. And I - I'm sorry I didn't convey that feeling to you a little earlier. There's no reason for mid-course 1 right now.
005:30:03	Cernan	Okay. Because we prefer to press on and get the suits off and hit the sack rather than make it, unless we have to.
005:30:04	CC	That's for sure. Roger. The earlier data showed us midcourse 1 would have been less than 3 feet per second, and we wouldn't have done it. And the data's been fluctuating, but they're smoothing it out, and it's still holding that way; so we won't be doing it, probably.
005:30:05	Cernan	Okay. Very good.
005:30:06	Schmitt	Bob, I'm looking over Gene's shoulder here at the Earth, and it must be an awful clear day for the so-called convergence zone across Africa. Gene, I think, Indicated, as it looked to us as we crossed it earlier, most of Africa is clear. Only some - probably are broken and scattered clouds -cumulus in the east central portion that are running along the line of - north/south lines.
005:30:07	CC	Roger.
005:30:08	Schmitt	Looks like a major circulation system off the southern tip of Africa, as Gene mentioned, plus one west of that, 20 or 30 degrees of longitude. Make that east of that.
005:30:09	CC	Roger.
005:30:10	Schmitt	And, southwest of the - make that south southwest of the tip of Africa at Cape Good Hope, there looks like an incipient circulation system developing about half way between the coast of Antarctica and Africa. If I had to guess, it's going to swing up north towards the Cape and - and then swing west The whole pattern, ... it looks like now, is a fairly equally spaced cyclones that are sort of circling around the Antarctic continent, as we can see it now.
005:30:11	CC	Roger, Jack.
005:33:50	Schmitt	But I would guess that South Africa is going to have good weather for several more days, at least. And if the pattern is - is apparent in the clouds we see is correct, the last disturbance I mentioned probably is going to pass south of the Cape also,
005:33:51	CC	Roger. Understand.
005:33:52	Schmitt	As we were going - over our daylight around the Earth in orbit, it was very clear looking at the various clouds, Bob, what were high clouds and what were low clouds, particularly when you had them together. The high clouds cast very distinct shadow patterns on the lower ones and, very commonly, had entirely different orientations -pattern orientations. The low ones seem to be more associated with arcuate front patterns; whereas, the high clouds were generally transverse to that, roughly north/south directions. That's not completely general observation, but I noticed it several times.
005:33:53	CC	Roger. Understand.
005:33:54	CC	I just noticed on the plot board here, it looks like you're come up on 20,000 miles out, right about now.
005:35:27	Schmitt	It feels like about, 20,000 miles.
005:35:27	CC	Okay.
005:37:28	Schmitt	Bob, I have the first hint of contamination on window 5. It's covering, probably, the central - well, I'd say, - roughly around - it's square about - 7 inches in - on the side with a very thin film that's catching the sunlight; and slightly irridescent, but also very finely granular - very finely granular. You can just barely tell what it is, actually.
005:38:09	CC	Roger. Understand.
005:38:11	Schmitt	Looks like very uniform in thickness right now.
005:46:55	Schmitt	Bob, this is Jack. We've got a UCTA dump scheduled, or is possible, at 6 o'clock. There's nothing sacred about that time, is there?
005:47:11	CC	Nothing at all. Whenever you're ready, just go ahead and dump.
005:47:15	Schmitt	Okay.
005:48:48	Schmitt	Bob, one of the things that we missed in our training is a good geography lesson, and particularly on Antarctica. I got the monocular out, and apparently the dark band that Gene - Ron mentioned as interface between the continental water is that between the pack ice and the water. And you can, by very subtle changes in the apparent smoothness of the ground, probably make out where the actual continent begins and the pack ice ends. There are a few exposed ranges, I guess it's midsummer down there now, and you can make out the snow-free areas scattered at least in the northern portion of the continent.
005:49:47	CC	Roger. Did you get any pictures of that, Jack?
005:49:50	Schmitt	Oh, yes. We got some pictures earlier. I'm going to get another one here in a minute. I'll tell you, if there ever was a fragile-appearing piece of blue in space, it's the Earth right now.
005:50:03	CC	(laughter) Roger.
005:50:06	Cernan	And we got a MASTER ALARM.
005:50:08	CC	Okay. We copy that.
005:50:11	Cernan	And there's one in the LEB.
005:50:14	CC	Okay. Good data point.
005:50:18	Cernan	And there are no caution lights.
005:50:21	CC	It came right at accumulator cycle, along with the high O2 flow again.
005:50:26	Cernan	Yes, I just checked the time, and I think you are right on that one. Well, we gave you your LEB data point.
005:50:39	CC	Yes, sir.
005:50:49	Schmitt	The problem with looking at the Earth (laughter) particularly Antarctica, is it's too bright.
005:51:00	CC	Understand.
005:51:02	Schmitt	And so I'm using my sunglasses through the monocular, which is not the best (laughter) viewing platform. I think I can see some of the areas of the Dry Valley, but, again, I'm not too sure of my geography Bob. There are clouds over the continent, I believe, but, of course, they're just as white as the snow, and you only see differences in texture brought out by - probably varying photometric return because of fairly low sun angles down there.
005:51:41	CC	Roger.
005:51:47	Schmitt	But you can see patterns of what I believe is pack ice - leading off from that sharp interface that was talked about earlier. And those patterns seem to merge directly with the patterns of the clouds as if the - at least near the continent - the oceanic currents are controlling the air currents, up to a point, along with the movement of the pack ice.
005:52:24	CC	Roger.
005:52:25	Schmitt	I'm distinguishing the pack ice from clouds mainly by the angularity of the patterns within them. There is no good clear color or albedo distinction. So, I could - I could be looking entirely at clouds, but I suspect there are some pack ice patterns, too. I'm not keeping you awake, am I, Bob?
005:52:53	CC	No, sir. Just keep talking; we're listening. And I'm sure not much of the world is listening, but this will all be recorded, and you can read it all when you get back and think it through and tie it up with the pictures. And I'm sure there's going to be people interested in this. And we're interested ourselves; just keep talking.
005:53:11	Schmitt	All I want to do is read what I say.
005:53:14	CC	Roger. If I had a little more geology training, I'd be asking you some better questions. I'm afraid, right now, I can't think of anything to ask you.
005:53:21	Schmitt	Well, I can't - I really wish I knew that geography. I don't know - I wish I'd thought of bringing a good map of Antarctica. Could somebody do a little researching for me and see if they could tell me if we're - have a Little American view - say on the eastern edge of the continent?
005:53:48	CC	Roger. We'll see if we can get some Antarctica geographers around.
005:53:53	Schmitt	Yes, I'd like to - and, also, whether or not they think the Dry Valley area is visible to us. Let's see, there's some - some of the people over there in Bill Bennett's group, I think, have a little Antarctic experience, or used to. They might be able to help you out.
005:54:10	CC	Okay. We'll see what we can track down on it.
005:54:13	Schmitt	Don't use up a lot of people's time on it, but - but I'd be interested.
005:54:18	CC	Roger. It's getting pretty empty around here. It's 5:00 in the morning, so - (laughter)
005:54:25	Schmitt	Okay. There is a good strong northern hemisphere cyclone up near India, and I think Gene mentioned that. It, I think, was one I saw in some of the forecast sheets as a dissipating hurricane or typhoon. I'm not sure which it is there. I guess it's a typhoon. And I see something here that I noticed in Earth orbit, Bob. That as you approach the terminator - and now I'm looking at the eastern terminator - have to keep all my directions straight here - yes, eastern terminator. The clouds - those associated with the cyclone over India and one that's - appears to be due south of there - maybe 30 degrees of latitude - have a gray appearance. The - instead of the brilliant white of other clouds as you approach the terminator, those - at least the high level clouds are gray. Now, when we were going over them in orbit, the lower level clouds were still white, and I think I can see a hint of that right now. The Sun gives a strong light reflection off of the buildups in the low-level clouds; whereas, the high-level and probably layered cirrus and maybe some of the intermediate level stratus tend to look gray because of grazing Sun, I suspect.
005:56:26	CC	Roger. You mentioned something in Earth orbit that kind of intrigued me. You mentioned seeing the rainbow, and we were trying to figure out how you saw a rainbow up there. And you were in orbit already at that time. Do you remember that?
005:56:41	Schmitt	Well, - we're not - we were speaking of the merits of the sunrise.
005:56:46	CC	Okay. Roger.
005:56:50	Schmitt	- having a banded color appearance that varied as you approached sunrise. I can't remember what we - I think we put some of that on tape, and we were probably LOS at the time. But the banded character of the sunrise in the atmosphere was very, very marked. There was a gray-blue upper layer followed - that merged or graded into a brilliant blue intermediate zone that was just above the cloud levels. And within the clouds, you got a orange to yellow band, getting more yellow as the Sun rose, that was broken by the dark patterns of the buildups.
005:57:54	CC	Roger. Good show.
005:57:59	Schmitt	The interesting thing was the continual glow on the horizon we had, even at night, on the darkside pass - and that glow was in the atmosphere because I could see stars rise over the horizon in it and then pass on through it.
005:58:19	CC	Roger. You were talking - the airglow, I guess, is the phenomenon most of the guys had seen before. It's kind of Interesting, huh?
005:58:25	Schmitt	Yes, that's - that's right. It's interesting - I guess standard airglow, but it is very striking that it's a continuous thing even in the dark pass.
005:58:36	CC	Roger.
005:58:42	Schmitt	I think I did see the eastern tip of South America, now.
005:58:56	CC	Roger. You're starting to back up now, coming the other way. So you're still over Africa, according to our chart here, but you're backing up towards the - South America.
005:59:07	Schmitt	Yes, I can see the part of South America that Mercator thought that fitted in with the bend in Africa some many decades ago and started people thinking about moving continents around on the crust.
005:59:25	CC	Roger. Jack, how'd the PGA doffing go? Most of you - are you all out of the PGAs now?
005:59:38	Schmitt	That's in work. We're taking it slow and easy up here, Bob.
005:59:41	CC	Roger. Understand. I'll just be curious to see if they all fit in that bag.
005:59:48	Schmitt	I think you'll find that Ronald Evans will also be curious about that. He's already made comments.
005:59:56	CC	Roger.
006:00:03	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 6 hours. As Jack Schmitt gives the description of the earth, Apollo 17 is 22,868 nautical miles from earth, velocity 12,520 feet per second.
006:00:17	Schmitt	Bob, you certainly do have a very clear intuitive impression, although the evidence is hard to pull together, that the - any frontal systems that move off the Antarctic continent do not take on any well-defined character until they get into the moist regions of the ocean. And when they do, they seem to pick up an arcuate circ - circulation that, in the view we have, seem to get fairly regularly spaced cyclone patterns that lie between the Cape of Good Hope and northern portion of Antarctica. And these - circulations of the cyclones follows roughly an east/west pattern, and the curve - and the arcs of the fronts are more north/south than - let's say northwest, swinging around to the south.
006:01:30	CC	Roger.
006:01:30	Schmitt	All of them - all of them very - very nicely defined as southern hemisphere cyclones. There - about four of those visible swinging around - oh, I guess, that's latitude - I'm having to guess here, but I'd say latitude 50 to 60 south.
006:01:55	CC	Okay; 50 or 60 south on that, huh?
006:01:58	Schmitt	Yes, I have to look at the map here in a minute and see if that puts me between Antarctica and the Cape.
006:02:03	CC	Roger.
006:02:08	CC	Well, the tip - the tip of Africa there is at about 32 south.
006:02:14	Schmitt	Well, that sounds like a pretty good guess, then. It looks like the intertropical convergence zone over Africa is starting to get more and more clouds in it now. I suspect as midday approaches, which is what we're seeing there, we can expect to see more and more moisture indications.
006:02:39	CC	Roger. They're - they're probably about noontime right there right now. It's 11:36 at the zero meridian at Greenwich, so it's just a little bit before noon right in that area you're talking about.
006:02:51	Schmitt	Yes, some of those masses of what I suspect are cumulus buildups - well, not really. They don't look like they're as concentrated and localized. More like just masses of fairly dense clouds that are developing in that band of green that crosses the lower portion of Africa.
006:03:17	CC	Roger.
006:03:55	Schmitt	Stay tuned for the next installment on the Earth. I'll try to get out of this suit.
006:04:01	CC	Okay. Just take it easy, Jack, and we'll be listening.
006:04:06	Schmitt	Man, I've never taken it so easy in my life. I'll tell you, Bob, I couldn't have believed this would be an experience like it is now.
006:04:15	CC	Roger.
006:04:21	Schmitt	Every time you turn around, there is something else to see and wonder what's causing it. Whether it's a particle zipping across the window, or one zipping across the cabin, or spring mechanics here in zero g; there's always something going on.
006:04:37	CC	Roger.
006:07:05	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 6 hours 7 minutes No midcourse correction number 1 will be performed. The value of the maneuver that would be required is less than 3 feet per second and midcourse correction number 1 will not be performed by Apollo 17. The spacecraft is now 23,682 nautical miles from Earth, velocity 12,301 feet per second.
006:09:55	Schmitt	Bob, if I'm not waking you up, an observer from another planet certainly - probably could decide that we have such things as clouds and at least large thunderstorms because right at the terminator you get a brightening of the sunlit side and a long, long shadow out to the - out to the east that is reminiscent of what we saw in the early days looking at the Moon at the terminator.
006:10:37	CC	Roger.
006:10:40	Schmitt	However, in the next pass around, I'll bet you wouldn't see them.
006:11:21	Schmitt	I've never been a big - Well, I didn't grow up with the idea of drifting continents and sea-floor spreadings, but I tell you, when you look at the way the pieces of the - of the northeastern portion of the African continent seem to fit together, separated by a narrow gulf, you could almost make a believer of anybody.
006:11:22	CC	Roger. It's beginning to look like the globe that you might buy down at the store, huh?
006:11:57	Schmitt	Oh, I don't think so, Bob. (laughter)
006:11:59	CC	Okay.
006:12:01	Schmitt	I don't think we'd better put this one up for sale. Somewhere there might be somebody who would like to buy it.
006:12:27	CC	Say, Jack. We noticed the O2 flow has dropped down now. We're wondering, did you all close the waste storage vent valve?
006:12:36	Evans	I don't think so; let me check on that. It might have gotten closed inadvertently in this game we were playing down in the LEB.
006:12:55	Schmitt	Ron says it's still on VENT.
006:12:58	CC	It's on VENT. Roger.
006:13:07	CC	Okay. We're noticing the flow is coming back up slowly; so something caused it to drop, and it's coming back up.
006:13:15	Schmitt	Okay.
006:17:41	CC	17, Houston.
006:17:44	Schmitt	Go ahead.
006:17:45	CC	Jack, just to ease those words I said before, we looked at the schematics here a second, and you'd be dumping urine out of that same line as that waste vent, and that would probably cause the pressure to build up enough to slow the O2 flow. And we noticed that the O2 flow is climbing back up to where it belongs.
006:18:08	Schmitt	Well, that's clever. Okay.
006:18:11	CC	Didn't mean to worry you there. Shouldn't have said it, I guess, before we looked at the schematic.
006:18:18	Schmitt	Oh, I really hadn't started to worry about it yet, Bob, so no sweat.
006:22:15	Schmitt	How'd the S-IVB work go Bob?
006:22:24	CC	They just finished their second burn, and it's targeted right where they want it. Just working perfectly.
006:22:34	Schmitt	Where were they going to put that one? I guess I lost track of that.
006:22:52	CC	7 degrees south and 8 degrees west, Jack.
006:22:57	Schmitt	Say again, you cut out on the first.
006:23:00	CC	Okay; 7 degrees south and 8 degrees west.
006:23:09	Schmitt	Okay. That ought to be interesting.
006:23:29	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 6 hours 24 minutes. The S-IVB maneuver that was just being discussed was performed with the auxiliary propulsion system; just completed Delta V of 13 feet per second to tune up the trajectory for S-IVB impact at the desired location on the lunar surface of 7 degrees south, 8 degrees west. That's approximately 200 kilometers east of the Apollo 14 ALSEP site where the seismometer is located. That impact is expected to be picked up by the other seismometers on the Moon, the other Apollo lunar surface experiment seismometers. Booster systems engineer is now maneuvering the S-IVB stage, the third stage of the launch vehicle to a solar heat control attitude. This is to minimize the heat into the instrument unit. They will then track the stage for a considerable length of time and determine whether another corrective burn will be required. At 6 hours 25 minutes into the mission, this is Mission Control, Houston.
006:27:06	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 6 hours 27 minutes. Booster systems engineer has just reported to the Flight Director that the S-IVB stage is in good shape, with 14 hours life time remaining. The limiting factor on the S-IVB is the battery life. Fourteen hours of battery life remaining on the S-IVB.
006:28:47	Cernan	Hello, Houston; how do you read CDR?
006:28:52	CC	Read you loud and clear, Gene.
006:28:55	Cernan	Okay.
006:29:31	Schmitt	Bob, LMP's going off the air for a little while.
006:29:34	CC	Roger, Jack.
006:29:39	Schmitt	It sounded like a sigh of relief.
006:29:41	CC	No, sir. Been enjoying listening to you; keeping - keep me awake down here.
006:29:48	Schmitt	You had a long day.
006:29:49	CC	Not as long as you've had.
006:29:52	Schmitt	I've just been lying around, floating around.
006:29:56	CC	You make it sound so good.
006:30:00	Schmitt	Piece of cake. I'll talk to you in a little while.
006:30:05	CC	Yes, sir.
006:33:26	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 6 hours 34 minutes. Apollo 17, now 26,553 nautical miles from Earth. Velocity 11,606 feet per second.
006:39:55	Evans	Houston, Apollo 17.
006:40:00	CC	Go ahead, Ron.
006:40:03	Evans	Okay; we had another MASTER ALARM, and I just glanced up and it was the MAIN A UNDERVOLT light that was on, just for a second.
006:40:18	CC	Okay. Ron, we didn't see anything at all on MAIN A down here. We did have an ACCUMULATOR cycle again. Don't know if that ties in or not.
006:40:28	Evans	Well, the MAIN A UNDERVOLT - I just happened to be looking right at the panel and the MAIN A UNDERVOLT light blinked on for a second. And, of course, obviously, MAIN A is up now.
006:40:45	CC	Roger.
006:41:45	CC	Ron, Houston here. We've checked the back room and the high-speed charts and that and don't see any glitch on MAIN A at all on our data down here.
006:41:57	Evans	Okay, Bob.
006:48:59	PAO	This is Apollo Control. It's 6 hours 49 minutes. Apollo 17 is 28,232 nautical miles from Earth; velocity 11,291 feet per second. We're continuing to operate at present on the normal GET of the flight plan, normal Ground Elapsed Time. Under that schedule the crews rest period will begin about 9 hours and 15 minutes into the mission. If, however, the crew completes the activities that are scheduled in the flight plan early, the rest period will probably begin early if they so desire. However, at the present time we are continuing to operate on the GET of the flight plan. At 6 hours 50 minutes, this is Mission Control, Houston.
006:50:00	PAO	On the GET of the Flight Plan. At 6 hours 50 minutes, this is Mission Control, Houston.
007:06:58	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 7 hours 7 minutes. Apollo 17 has just passed the 30,000 mile mark on its journey to the Moon. Now, at 30,039 nautical miles, velocity continuing to decrease now 10,932 feet per second.
007:10:10	Evans	Houston, 17. That was O2 FLOW HIGH.
007:10:14	CC	Roger. We copied that one. We saw it. Just about ready to call you when you called us Just now.
007:10:23	Evans	Okay. Mighty fine.
007:14:51	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 7 hours 15 minutes. Astronaut Bob Parker is now relieving Astronaut Bob Overmyer at the CAPCOM console and the commander of the backup crew, Captain John Young, has just left the control room. He has been sitting at the CAPCOM console with Overmyer since returning from the Cape early this morning. So the next CAPCOM voice you will hear will be that of Bob Parker.
007:34:01	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 7 hours 34 minutes. Apollo 17 now 32,697 nautical miles from earth velocity 10,457 feet per second. The crew a little over midway in the scheduled meal period in the flight plan.
007:49:58	Schmitt	Houston, 17.
007:49:59	CC	Roger. Go 17.
007:50:03	Schmitt	That little MASTER ALARM there, I can't be absolutely positive, but out of the corner of my eye, I think it was the SUIT COMPRESSOR light that glitched.
007:50:15	CC	Okay. We copy that. You - we believe down here it was the HIGH O2 FLOW.
007:50:22	Schmitt	Well, they're pretty close. I thought it was red and I thought, okay; that's good. That's the right time, I guess.
007:50:29	CC	Okay; because we'd just called it out. I was just read for you 5 seconds before you called me.
007:50:36	Schmitt	Very good, Doctor.
007:50:39	CC	Roger. And Tony is back in Houston on the console.
007:50:42	Schmitt	That's hard to believe. What are you doing back there? We're - we haven't even had time to go to sleep.
007:50:46	CC	Well, I tell you, it's a tale that's hard to believe. It's almost as miraculous as your escape from the pad tonight.
007:51:06	Schmitt	Did you enjoy the launch?
007:51:08	CC	Beautiful.
007:51:20	Schmitt	You've seen one night launch, you've seen them all. Huh, Parker?
007:52:15	Evans	We go to SCS. Okay.
007:52:36	Evans	Never know if this is it or not but we'll try it.
007:52:52	Evans	Dust whipping all over the place. The stars in there -
007:54:33	Evans	... Yes, let's do it a little better now.
007:56:44	Schmitt	... Bob, mag November November is 130 now. And I just took another set of Earth pictures.
007:56:57	CC	Okay. Copy that. November November at 130.
007:57:07	Evans	And, Houston, 17. You copying the torquing angles now?
007:57:15	CC	Roger. Stand by.
007:57:21	CC	Okay. We have them, and you're GO to torque them.
007:57:25	Evans	Okay. I'll torque it at 58:10.
007:57:58	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 7 hours 58 minutes. Ron Evans is realigning the inertial platform that was scheduled on the flight plan for 8 hours 15 minutes. That indicates that they are running 15 to 20 minutes ahead of the flight plan. Jack Schmitt is obviously taking some pictures. He gave Bob Parker a report on a film magazine that he was using.
007:59:01	Evans	... REFSMMAT.
007:59:04	CC	And, 17, we have a preferred REFSMMAT standing by if you want to give us ACCEPT, and we'll send it up before you do your second P52.
007:59:14	Evans	Okay, you have P00 and ACCEPT now.
007:59:19	CC	Roger. Understand we have updata. It's coming in. And, Ron, while we're sending it up to you, we'll also send you an update on the zero trunnion bias, as per the Flight Plan.
007:59:37	Evans	Okay. Mighty fine.
008:00:09	Evans	Somewhere. There it goes.
008:00:32	Evans	There they are, right there.
008:02:36	CC	Okay, 17 - Ron, you can go to BLOCK now. You've got your PTC REFSMMAT. You're free to do a P52 option 1 if you want. And, be advised we are suspicious from time to time you may have an open mike there.
008:02:51	Evans	Okay. Thank you, Bob.
008:10:05	Evans	Okay, Houston. Those are the differences in the gyro torque and I'll torque it - oh, 11, I guess. Eight ... 11.
008:10:14	CC	Okay. Copy that.
008:12:07	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 8 hours 12 minutes. Apollo 17 now 36,353 nautical miles from Earth, velocity 9,878 feet per second.
008:13:32	CC	Apollo 17, Houston. Over.
008:13:35	Cernan	Go ahead.
008:13:37	CC	Roger. We've been discussing the question of what your sleep configuration is going to be in terms of headsets or not, particularly with reference to all of these various MASTER ALARMs. And I guess we'd feel better if one of you guys slept with his headset on. We were curious as to what your plans are.
008:14:01	Cernan	Bob, since I've got to wear the biomed anyway, I might just as well go ahead and keep it on.
008:14:07	CC	Okay. The other option is for us, if we were trying to get hold of you, is to put the Klaxon up. But we're a little - un-in-favor of that, because of the possibility of one of these spurious things waking everybody up that way.
008:14:22	Cernan	Yes, I'll go ahead and keep it on and see how it works out for a while.
008:14:27	CC	Okay. We copy that. And, when you guys are ready, we have a couple of - we have three items to read up to you, three updates in the Flight Plan.
008:14:52	Evans	Okay. Go ahead, Bob.
008:14:53	CC	Okay. The first's in the Flight Plan itself, and it's the quads for the PTC spinup, and they'll be Alfa and Bravo.
008:15:19	Evans	Okay. For PTC spinup, quads Alfa and Bravo.
008:15:24	CC	All right, we just took that back. It should be Bravo and Delta for spinup; Alfa and Bravo only for damping. Copy Bravo and Delta for spinup; Alfa and Bravo for damping.
008:17:04	CC	And, 17, if you have that, I have two others. One's the Flight Plan Supplement Book, and the other one is in the G&C Checklist.
008:17:16	Evans	Okay. Go with the Supplement.
008:17:18	CC	Okay. In the Flight Plan Supplement, we have an E-LOAD update on page 1-43. Say; 1-43 - can give me a call when you get to that page?
008:17:42	Evans	Okay, Bob. I'm there.
008:17:44	CC	Okay. Under line - it's 30704, column Bravo - you'll find currently 33550. And let me give you a word of warning. When we change this, we'll be changing it again around 67 hours. These are primarily due to the launch delay. And we'll give you another GET update of this sort later on. The new number to replace 3 - -
008:18:15	Evans	Bob--
008:18:15	CC	Go ahead.
008:18:17	Evans	Let me get a pencil, please.
008:18:17	CC	Okay.
008:18:18	Evans	I'll use that instead of a pen.
008:18:20	CC	Okay.
008:19:21	Evans	Go ahead.
008:19:22	CC	Okay. Under - Again, I remind you, 30704 column Bravo, which was 33550, is now 34761. The line just below it, which is 05, also in column Bravo, is 15403. Over.
008:19:51	Evans	Okay, Bob. For 30704 Bravo, 34761; and for 31005 Bravo, 15403.
008:20:04	CC	Okay. Very good. And the next one is in the G&C Checklist under the P37 block data. And to help you find it, that's on page 4-23.
008:20:39	Evans	Okay. Go ahead.
008:20:41	CC	Okay. On the lift-off plus 15, be the first block. It's 01500, 3893, minus 174, 05756. The second block for lift-off plus 25 is 05 - Pardon me, start over again there; 02500, 6651, minus 175, 05725. Over.
008:21:37	Evans	Okay, Houston; Apollo 17. First one would be 01500, a DELTA-V of 3893, minus 174, and GET 400 K is 05756. The other one is Tig of 02500, DELTA-V of 6651, longitude of minus 175. GET of 400K is 05725.
008:22:14	CC	Roger. Good readback.
008:22:32	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. This is Jack. I'm going to be moving into the pre-sleep checklist here. Are there any things you want to change or alter in that? Are you ready for the waste - waste stowage vent to be closed?
008:22:49	CC	Roger, 17. We're ready for the vent valve to go closed. WASTE STOWAGE VENT to CLOSED. And we have no anticipated changes, at the present time, in the Flight Plan, Jack.
008:23:05	Schmitt	Okay, I'm just looking at 1-29 in the pre-sleep checklist and - wondering if there was anything there.
008:23:19	CC	Stand by, Jack.
008:24:00	CC	Okay, 17. For antenna management tonight we'd like you to select OMNI Bravo at the current time, and stow the high-gain antenna. And we'll take care of managing our antennas from here on.
008:24:19	Evans	Okay. We'll give you OMNI Bravo and stow the high-gain.
008:24:25	CC	Okay.
008:24:53	CC	And, Jack, we indeed do not have anything to add to the presleep checklist tonight.
008:25:06	Schmitt	Okay.
008:25:14	Schmitt	And - with your concurrence, I'll take the H2 FANS all to AUTO now.
008:25:22	CC	Stand by.
008:25:26	CC	Roger. We're ready for that. All to AUTO.
008:26:28	CC	Okay, Jack. I guess that you - we're not quite sure what you said or meant there - or what - what it is. In the Flight Plan itself, we want H2 HEATERS 1 and 2 to AUTO, and we want H2 FANS, on tank 3 only, to AUTO. They're three there for H2 tank 3.
008:26:53	Schmitt	Okay. You're teaching me to read carefully early, aren't you?
008:26:57	CC	We're trying. The 1 and 2 HEATERS will be in AUTO and 3 FAN will be in AUTO.
008:27:04	Schmitt	That's the way it is now, and consider the fans have been cycled.
008:27:08	CC	Roger.
008:27:12	Schmitt	According to the checklist, you might look at the third line on 1-29, and look at the H2 line on the Flight Plan, and see why I was confused.
008:27:37	CC	Roger. We were just discussing whether or not there was a fan or fans in each tank.
008:27:44	Schmitt	That ought to keep you awake this morning.
008:27:47	CC	Going to take something.
008:27:54	Schmitt	What I was really trying to do, Bob, was get out of chlorinating the potable water, but you wouldn't bite.
008:28:14	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 8 hours 28 minutes. Apollo 17 now 37,832 nautical miles from Earth; velocity 9,667 feet per second. Apollo 17 crew in the period now in the flight plan where they're making preparations for their rest period. Getting the systems in the proper configuration for a sleep period. The spacecraft has been maneuvered to the passive thermal control or PTC mode - attitude, rather. And just prior to the rest period the crew will spin up the spacecraft for thermal control during the rest period. The spin rate will be slow or approximately 3 revolutions of the spacecraft per hour but it will keep the thermal balance on the spacecraft. At 8 hours 30 minutes, this is Mission Control, Houston.
008:30:43	CC	Apollo 17, Houston. Over, Jack.
008:30:48	Schmitt	Go ahead. Over, Bob.
008:30:50	CC	Okay. We're going to give you a little high-gain antenna practice here. We'd like to pick up with the high-gain antenna again so that we can get your PTC or can watch your PTC develop. We'd like you to go to a PITCH of 40 and YAW of 275 on the HIGH GAIN. That's 40, PITCH: 275, YAW; and MANUAL and WIDE. Over.
008:31:27	Schmitt	Okay. You want the high gain selected, I presume.
008:31:29	CC	That helps, yes.
008:31:33	Schmitt	You got it.
008:31:35	CC	Roger. Our apologies.
008:31:44	Schmitt	Oh, I don't expect that'll be the last time you have to apologize. I think we're running about even now.
008:32:06	Schmitt	You're missing quite a view, Bob. Sorry you're not here.
008:32:12	CC	That makes two of us. White just said, "That makes three of us."
008:32:31	Schmitt	What are you trying to tell me?
008:32:36	CC	Look out.
008:32:39	Schmitt	Who's your friend off on your right, tonight?
008:32:45	CC	Wally Moon, would you believe?
008:32:50	Schmitt	Say again?
008:32:51	CC	Wally Moon.
008:32:52	Schmitt	Oh, a Moon, huh? Why don't you ask him what he's reading at H2 tank 3 quantity?
008:33:05	CC	Okay. I'm asking him.
008:33:16	Schmitt	In percent.
008:33:21	CC	Okay, 17. On tanks 3 of H2, we're reading 84.38.
008:33:30	Schmitt	Okay, it looks like we're reading almost the same nowadays.
008:33:37	CC	That's Good.
008:33:39	Schmitt	I thought we launched a little bias, but I guess that's gone now. We're a little higher than that.
008:35:27	CC	And, 17, Houston. We're seeing your rates are quite low enough to start the spinup to PTC.
008:35:45	Evans	Okay. We'll see if we can't get it right this time.
008:38:35	Evans	Houston, 17.
008:38:36	CC	Go ahead, 17.
008:38:38	Evans	Does it make any difference with the plus or minus roll there with the - now that you are going to use the high gain?
008:38:51	CC	Okay. Well, the Flight Plan says minus roll, why don't we do it that way?
008:38:58	Evans	Oh, okay.
008:39:01	CC	And after you start the roll, 17, we'd like to go back to OMNI Bravo and stow the high gain.
008:39:09	Evans	Okay.
008:39:11	CC	We only needed the high gain to just keep a good check on your rates.
008:39:32	CC	And, 17, that means stow the high gain after you - after the startup. We'd like to watch the startup itself.
008:39:40	Evans	Okay. I was just going to ask you when.
008:42:20	CC	Okay, 17 - We're ready for high gain to stow and select OMNI Bravo.
008:42:29	Evans	Okay.
008:49:35	CC	17, Houston. We gather you're ready for sleep, almost. One thing we'd like to check at the end here is your O2 heater configuration. Over.
008:49:48	Evans	Okay. Go ahead, Bob .
008:49:50	CC	Roger. Can you give us your O2 heater configuration?
008:49:54	Evans	Okay. We've got 1 and 2 in AUTO, and 3 is OFF.
008:50:00	CC	Okay. We'd like those per the Flight Plan; 1 and 2 to OFF, and 3 to AUTO.
008:50:08	Evans	Okay; 1 and 2 to OFF and 3 to AUTO.
008:50:12	CC	Okay. And do you have a final change or update on the film status - beyond that 130 that Jack gave us?
008:50:21	Evans	Stand by 1.
008:55:05	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 8 hours 55 minutes. As the crew of Apollo 17 prepares for a 5-3/4 hours rest period, the spacecraft is 40,165 nautical miles from earth velocity 9,349 feet per second.
008:58:04	CC	And, 17, your PTC is looking real good so far.
008:58:10	Cernan	Okay. That number on that mag is still 130, Bob.
008:58:13	CC	Okay. I copy that, Gene.
008:58:16	Cernan	And Alfa Alfa, that 16-millimeter mag, is about 25 percent left.
008:58:23	CC	Okay; copy that as well.
008:58:35	CC	And I guess as soon as you change the LiOH canister, if you have or haven't, and charge BATTERY Bravo, then we're ready for you to go to sleep at your leisure. Configuring your comm, remember the SQUELCH, ENABLE, and the VOICE, OFF, when you get ready to go to sleep.
008:59:31	CC	Roger, Apollo 17. We copy the film update, and we're ready for you to go to sleep once you've got the LiOH canister changed, if you haven't. And remember also the charge on brady - BATTERY Bravo. After that, it's just the comm configuration, SQUELCH, ENABLE, and VOICE, OFF, when you get ready to go to sleep.
008:59:31	Cernan	Bob, You're cut in and out. Stand by. We'll talk to you in a minute.
009:00:00	CC	Okay, I think we're losing an OMNI here.
009:00:01		REST PERIOD - NO COMMUNICATIONS
009:12:33	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 9 hours, 12 minutes. Apollo 17 now, 41,677 nautical miles from Earth, velocity 9,159 feet per second. The spacecraft has stabilized into a passive thermal control mode now. It is completing one revolution every 18 minutes.
009:25:58	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 9 hours 26 minutes. The Booster Systems Engineer has advised Flight Director Pete Frank that a second midcourse correction for the S-IVB, the third stage of the launch vehicle will be required. This maneuver is performed with the auxiliary propulsion system of the S-IVB, and the Booster Systems Engineer will command this burn at 11 hours 15 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. The magnitude of the burn is not known at this time. That will be determined shortly before the midcourse is performed. The purpose is to tune up the trajectory to more precisely target the S-IVB stage to the desired impact point on the lunar surface. Tracking to this point of the spacecraft indicates that a midcourse correction will probably be performed for the spacecraft at the scheduled midcourse number 2 time at 35 hours and 30 minutes. A preliminary look - that's a very early look shows it to be about 10-1/2 feet per second, but that will be refined as we get closer to the time. At 9 hours 27 minutes, this is Mission Control Houston.
009:30:44	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 9 hours 30 minutes. We have had no voice communications with the crew for some time now. But we do have indications that they have not yet fully configured the spacecraft for their rest period. Normally the voice switch is turned off the last step before the rest period. That voice switch is still on. Apollo 17 now 43,261 nautical miles away from Earth, velocity 8,964 feet per second.
009:48:02	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 9 hours 48 minutes. From the data that he is receiving, the Flight Surgeon, Dr. Sam P00l, reports that he believes the spacecraft Commander Gene Cernan is asleep. Cernan is the only member of the crew who is wearing the biomedical harness during the rest period, and therefore, is the only one that the flight surgeon is getting measurements on. But the indications are that Cernan is asleep and apparently the entire crew has gone to sleep. Apollo 17 now 44,749 nautical miles from Earth. Velocity 8,794 feet per second. The awake clock as operating in the Control Center shows wake up for the crew in 5 hours 10 minutes 37 seconds.
009:58:55	PAO	This is Apolio Control at 9 hours 59 minutes. The Flight Dynamics Officer, Bill Boone, has computed the half way marks for the spacecraft in both time and distance. We'll give those to you now. Apollo 17 will reach the half way point in distance at a Ground Elapsed Time of 30 hours 3 minutes. Its distance from both the Moon and the Earth at that time will be 114,787 nautical miles. Its velocity, referenced to the Earth, will be 4,522 feet per second; referenced to the Moon, 3,826 feet per second. The half way mark in time will be reached at a Ground Elapsed Time of 43 hours 8 minutes 6 seconds. At that time Apollo 17 will be 144,924 miles from the Earth, with an Earth reference to velocity of 3,551 feet per second. And it will be 87,561 nautical miles from the Moon, with a Moon referenced velocity of 3,403 feet per second. Apollo 17 will cross the lunar sphere of influence at the Ground Elapsed Time of 70 hours 43 minutes 24 seconds, at which time it will be 190,725 nautical miles from the Moon. Earth referenced velocity 2,340 feet per second. Distance from the Moon at that time, 33,639 nautical miles, with the lunar referenced velocity of 3,356 feet per second. At 10 hours 1 minute into the mission, this is Mission Control Houston.
010:29:37	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 10 hours 29 minutes. Apollo 17 now, 48,070 nautical miles from Earth, velocity 8,434 feet per second. Pete Frank and the orange team of flight controllers getting ready to hand over to Gerry Griffin and his gold team of flight controllers at this time. Astronaut Bob Parker will remain as the CAPCOM for a good deal of this next shift. Several spurrious master alarms that were seen while the spacecraft was still in Earth orbit are as yet unexplained. There are no obvious reasons for them. The spacecraft experts in the back rooms, the support rooms here at the Mission Control Center are still tracking this situation. It's not considered a serious problem. The more recent master alarms that have occurred during this shift and during the translunar coast phase after Apollo 17 burned translunar insertion, are attributed to a higher than normal oxygen flow at regular intervals in the cabin. The cabin is still being purged of the partial nitrogen atmosphere that it contained at launch that is being purged, a vent valve is open in the cabin and the higher than normal O2-rate has been introduced to help purge the cabin. Now, added to that when the water accumulator in the suit circuit cycles, there is a brief increase of oxygen flow over and above the higher than normal flow that we are using to purge the cabin. And this is just high enough to when the water accumulator cycles it brings it up just high enough to trigger the master alarm. It is not a problem. The last three or four master alarms that we have seen are attributed to this. However, the Earth orbit master alarms are not yet accounted for. But, they are not considered to be a serious problem. During this shift a midcourse correction number 1 was performed on the SIV-B stage of the launch vehicle, 13 feet per second performed with the auxilary propulsion system. A second midcourse for that third stage of launch vehicle is planned at a Ground Elapsed Time of 11 hours 15 minutes. The magnitude of the burn is not - is not yet known. These midcourses are to tune up the trajectory of that stage, to bring it closer to the desired impact point on the lunar surface. As far as the spacecraft is concerned midcourse correction number 1 was passed. We did not perform midcourse correction number 1. The magnitude at that time was less than 3 feet per second. We will probably perform a midcourse correction number 2 at 35 hours and 30 minutes. A preliminary look at that indicates about a 10-1/2 foot per second burn at that time. The Mission is going well. We have not heard from the crew for some time now and are confident that they are asleep. The spacecraft is in passive thermal-contro1 mode, stabilized in 1 revolution every 18 minutes, approximately 3 per hour. The crew is scheduled to be awakened 4 hours, 24 minutes from this time. At 10 hours 35 minutes into the Mission, this is Mission Control, Houston.
11:27:00	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 11 hours 27 minutes Ground Elapsed Time into the mission of Apollo 17. Approximately 11 minutes ago, as you were 6 minutes ago, the S-IVB corrective burn was performed roughly 14.2 feet per second to modify the trajectory of the S-IVB third stage in the Saturn V, targeting for impact just west of the crater Ptolemaeus at latitude 7 degrees south by longitude 8 degrees west. However, the actual impact location and the time of impact will be forthcoming after some additional hours of tracking of the stage has been gathered. We're looking now at a midcourse correction burn number 2 of the Apollo 17 spacecraft at 35 hours 30 minutes, with a change in velocity - a posigrade of 10.5 feet per second. Some 3-1/2 hours remaining in the crew rest period. All three apparently sound asleep at this time. And the passive thermal control mode puts the spacecraft at spinning at some 3 revolutions per hour. To repeat earlier statistics on half way in distance, time, and when the so-called sphere of influence is crossed will be at the half way point in distance at 30 hours and 3 minutes Ground Elapsed Time, in which time it will be 114,787 nautical miles either direction to the Earth or Moon. And a half way point in time will occur at 43 hours 8 minutes and 6 seconds when the spacecraft will be 144,924 nautical miles out from Earth; and 87,561 nautical miles out from the Moon. The so-called sphere crossing, or the point in which the spacecraft is assumed to come under the gravitational influence of the Moon, will take place at 70 hours 43 minutes 24 seconds when the spacecraft is 33,639 nautical miles out from the Moon and approaching. The air/ground circuit has been up all of this time since the crew has retired for a fairly brief rest period, and at this time we will take down the air/ground circuit until the wakeup call is made some 3 hours 29 minutes from now. And at 11 hours 30 minutes Ground Elapsed Time, this is Apollo Control.
012:27:00	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 12 hours 27 minutes Ground Elapsed Time into the mission of Apollo 17. And Apollo 17 at the present time is 56,948 nautical miles out from earth at a velocity of 7,609 feet per second. A short time ago the Booster Systems Engineer Frank Van Renseler reported that after the final APS burn in the S-IVB stage, which is targeting the stage to impact on the Moon, he reported that the S-IVB stage was tumbling intentionally, after that burn, and as he gathered up all his documents and packed his briefcase, he, on the flight directors loop, he said, "I've enjoyed working with you on the Apollo program." Flight Director in training Neil Hutchinson replied "It's been nice riding with you." The riding implication being that they were riding on his launch vehicle. Van Renseler is a Marshall Spaceflight Center Engineer detailed to the Flight Control Division here at Manned Spacecraft Center. Van Rensleser finished his job for the last time. He packed his launch vehicle documents and left the room. The booster systems console is vacant for the final time in Apollo. Some 2-1/2 hours remaining in the crew sleep period. No word from the crew. They have not talked to the ground nor vice versa in the last several hours and at 12 hours 29 minutes this is Apollo Control.
013:27:00	PAO	This is Apollo Control 13 hours, 27 minutes Ground Elapsed Time into the mission of Apollo 17. The spacecraft presently is 61,186 nautical miles out from the Earth, decelerating slightly in its velocity now 7,272 feet per second. Crew has another hour and a half of sleep period remaining. They will be awakened about 2:30 Central Time. This is a rather short sleep period slightly under 6 hours, the object being to get the crew back on to Houston time day-night cycle eventually. The cycle is disturbed somewhat by the, - initially what would have been a night launch, and ended up being a morning launch - early morning launch - at least by Cape time. Got a hand over to the Goldstone 210-foot tracking antenna, about 8 minutes ago. And that station at the present time is handling spacecraft data, and when the crew awakens will handle the voice transmissions between the Control Center and the Crew of Apollo 17. At 13 hours, 28 minutes Ground Elapsed Time this is Apollo Control.
014:27:00	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 14 hours 27 minutes Ground Elapsed Time into the mission of Apollo 17. Slightly more than a half hour remaining until spacecraft communicator, Robert Parker, wakes the crew of Apollo 17 up after a brief 6 hour rest period. Apollo 17 presently 65,273 nautical miles out from earth; velocity now 6,974 feet per second. And getting back on schedule with Apollo 17 because of the late liftoff and the hold situation early this morning. The translunar injection burn was targeted to get the spacecraft at the moon or into lunar orbit at about the same actual time as it would have had we launched on time - at 8:53 PM last night central time. However, to get the flight plan back on the actual indicated Ground Elapsed Times shown in the flight plan at approximately 64 hours they're going to have what is called a GET update some 2 hours and 40 minutes to force the event times in the flight plan to agree with actual Ground Elapsed Times flown in the mission. We'll come up again in about a half hour as Parker makes his initial wake up call to the crew and at 14 hours 29 minutes, this is Apollo Control.
014:57:53	PAO	This is Apollo Control 14 hours 57 minutes Ground Elapsed Time into the mission of Apollo 17. A 2 minutes mark remaining in the crew waken - wake period or sleep period before the crew is awakened. Spacecraft communicator, Bob Parker, should be calling them shortly and we'll stand by for that first wake up call. Rather slack day as far as crew activity today. After their post-sleep checklist checking over the systems. The flight director just advised the CAPCOM to hold off on the wake call until they switch antennas. There's some P-23 navigation sightings that will be run today, and that apparently is about all the activity scheduled during the - this work period. However, there will be at 35 hours and 30 minutes a midcourse correction number 2, which this time looks like about 10 and a half feet per second. Apollo 17 now is 67,365 nautical miles out from the Earth; velocity 6,829 feet per second. Spacecraft communicator, Bob Parker, has been joined at the CAPCOM console by backup Apollo 17 commander, John Young, and his relief CAPCOM, Gordon Fullerton. Standing by for the antenna arrangement to be sorted out. Spacecraft at this time, is still in the barbeque roll or passive thermal control mode, three revolutions per hour to stabilize the temperatures on spacecraft systems. They'll open up the air-ground circuit for the first call when it does come. At 15 hours and 1 minute, this Apollo Control.
015:02:45	PAO	Here we go.
015:02:59	CC	Apollo 17, Houston. Good morning.
015:03:09	Cernan	Hello, Robert.
015:03:11	CC	Glad to have you with us again. You guys got a good night's sleep, we think.
015:03:16	Cernan	Well, I'll tell you, it was (laughter) looked forward to.
015:03:31	Cernan	Give us a few minutes here and we'll - get operational.
015:03:41	CC	Roger. Give us a call when you're ready to talk to people.
015:03:48	Cernan	Okay.
015:09:44	Cernan	Yes, from the looks of things, Bob, down there, it looks like getting off last night was a good idea.
015:09:55	CC	Got a new CAPCOM now, Geno. Why? Looks kind of cloudy down there?
015:10:01	Cernan	Yes. Hello, Gordo. How you doing? Yes, I'm looking - oh, we're probably directly over - just west of the - out in the Pacific, but abeam of the bottom third of South America, I suppose. And I've got North America, Mexico, and the U.S. on the top third - the top 25 percent of the Earth. And it looks like you've got cloud cover from somewhere where the coast bends around Corpus right on north into the Great Lakes and is completely out into the Atlantic, including covering Florida out there.
015:10:43	CC	Roger. I can verify the part between the Cape and Houston, anyway.
015:10:57	Cernan	Yes, the Gulf looks like it's pretty well filled with clouds. Looks pretty thick from here.
015:11:03	CC	Roger.
015:11:07	Cernan	However, if you're interested in going to South America, the whole continent looks - looks pretty good. A few clouds; but, for the most part, you can see the entire continent.
015:11:18	CC	Roger. Guess it's summertime down there.
015:11:29	Cernan	Okay, Gordo. We're - we're stirring slowly. We'll get back with you here.
015:11:34	CC	Okay.
015:12:01	Cernan	Gordo, one question. How does the spacecraft look to you? I didn't hear anything all night long as far as any MASTER ALARMs or anything.
015:12:10	CC	I'm getting the word that nothing was seen here either. It looks absolutely super.
015:12:19	Cernan	Very good.
015:15:25	Cernan	Okay, Bob - or Gordo, I've got H2 HEATERS 1 and 2, OFF now.
015:15:32	CC	Roger, Gene.
015:16:52	Cernan	Hello, Houston; America.
015:16:57	CC	Go ahead, America.
015:17:01	Cernan	Okay, Gordo. I'm looking over the Flight Plan today. We'll be with you with the postsleep checklist, and primarily it looks like a P-23 day for Ron And what we'd primarily like to do is spend a good part of that time getting the spacecraft cleaned up, reshuffled, restowed a little bit, and get it in order for the next few days ahead. It doesn't look like today's that big of a day.
015:17:33	CC	Okay. Geno, I might give you some words on what we have in mind to get the GET back in sync here, if - if you want to hear those while you're looking through the upcoming hours.
015:17:57	Cernan	Yes, why don't you - why don't you pass a few words on that?
015:18:01	CC	Okay. The plan we're considering, and we're offering it to you now for your opinion, is at 65 hours GET, we'll update, and at the time the clock goes to 65, we'll update it 2 hours and 40 minutes to 67:40. And we're shaping your trajectory such that you'll arrive at the Moon at the same time GMT as you would have had you launched on time. In other words, your translunar time is 2 hours and 40 minutes less. So once we do that, we'll be back with all the right times in the Flight Plan without any updating. And the one thing we think of is that your next day will, which is now a 16-hour day, will shorten to a 13-hour and 20-minute day-. But that's about the only real effect we can see. How does that sound?
015:19:07	Cernan	Yes, we - we'll get to the Moon, you say, the same GMT, so all our sunrise, sunset, lunar-orbit activities, and Sun angle at landing will be the same. And let me - I'll - it sounds pretty good, Gordo. I just want to take a look at that day that you're shortening and see what we're doing in there.
015:19:27	CC	Okay. It doesn't cut out anything. In fact, we picked a time that's pretty much dead time as far as the Flight Plan goes. Take a look, and we'll talk about it later.
015:19:39	Cernan	Okay.
015:19:45	Schmitt	Good morning, Gordy. This is Jack.
015:19:47	CC	Good morning, Jack.
015:19:55	Schmitt	Let me fill my square on the postsleep checklist. I've got 24030, PRD.
015:20:07	CC	Okay.
015:20:09	Schmitt	And I slept in and out - probably totaled about 4 hours in that last period. But I feel pretty good in spite of that, and expect now that I've educated myself on how to sleep, that it'll pick up the next time around.
015:20:27	CC	Roger.
015:20:32	Schmitt	No medication yet, but I'm considering a couple of aspirin. I'll let you know if I take them.
015:20:37	CC	Roger.
015:20:41	Schmitt	And, fluids? Let's see, I guess I've had two of your little water-measurement-containers full so far, plus the meal I had in my pocket. And I'll catch up on - I think I'm a little dehydrated. I'll catch up on fluids with breakfast.
015:21:00	CC	Okay.
015:21:02	Schmitt	And my meal yesterday was the meal B in the pocket.
015:21:08	CC	Roger. Meal B.
015:21:18	Schmitt	And I guess consumables update. That's mainly yours.
015:21:25	CC	Roger.
015:21:25	Schmitt	There's plenty there. And I'll wait for your words on that. And the watch is wound.
015:21:31	CC	Roger. Okay. Got the consumables update numbers, if you're ready to copy.
015:21:45	Schmitt	Not quite, Gordy. I'll give you a buzz.
015:21:47	CC	Okay. No hurry.
015:22:37	Schmitt	Okay. The CMPs rad's, 1509.
015:22:43	CC	Okay.
015:22:43	Schmitt	15019. 15019.
015:22:48	CC	Roger.
015:23:33	Schmitt	Gordy, this is Jack. How do you want to send the consumable - consumables information?
015:23:40	CC	We were just discussing that here. Used to - in flights gone by, there was a place in the Flight Plan, a little form to fill out. But we're trying to figure out if there is such a place in the current data file. Do you know of one?
015:23:55	Schmitt	Well, I'll tell you what I've got. I've got the consumables curves, and if there are any major changes to those curves, I guess you could give them to me, and I'll put them on as points.
015:24:09	CC	There's no - -
015:24:10	Cernan	Hey, Jack.
015:24:10	CC	- - changes at all.
015:24:14	Schmitt	Okay. And why don't we just do it that way in the future in case there is anything. And that's on page 1-45 and subsequent in the Flight Plan Supplement.
015:24:25	CC	Okay.
015:24:31	Schmitt	Looks like you took good care of my space - my systems last night.
015:24:36	CC	No troubles at all.
015:30:59	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. Your friendly medical officer up here has some more information for you. CMP, continuing, had about 3 hours of sleep, had - three cans of fluid, of water that is. And he ate everything in meal B but the fruitcake, and he didn't use the brownies and the beverage in meal C.
015:31:33	CC	Okay.
015:32:30	Schmitt	Okay. And continuing, the CDRs PD - PRD is 17019. He had 3 hours of fair sleep, no medication, and 1-1/2 cans of water, and one-half a sandwich. The CMPs sleep was 3 hours. And I'll try to get more systematic as we go along here.
015:32:57	CC	Okay.
015:33:21	CC	Jack, we are assuming no - no medication on the CMP. is that right?
015:33:28	Schmitt	That's affirm. We haven't gotten that kit out yet
015:33:32	CC	Okay.
016:00:55	Schmitt	Gordy, this is Jack. Looks like the windows have cleared up pretty well in PTC from the - ice crystals, anyway, that were on window - window 1. The hatch window still seems to have a film of something on it. But, otherwise, they look pretty good.
016:01:13	CC	Okay, sounds good. Jack, while you're there, I might try - we've been talking about consumable updates and what would be the most meaningful way to give you the information. As a trial, for 14 hours, with reference to the charts in the back of the book, which in the case of - in case of all of them, are listed in percentages except the RCS, which is in pounds. On the cryo quantities, when I take all the tank percentages and plot them, it turns out that there's no real significant difference from the lines that are plotted on either hydrogen or oxygen. On RCS, you're running about 3 percent ahead of the line. And if that's a satisfactory way to put it, that's the way we'll give you the - the updates rather than giving you every tank percent by percent. Over.
016:02:25	Schmitt	Okay, that's good. That's outstanding.
016:12:20	Schmitt	MARK. Two aspirin for the LMP.
016:12:20	CC	Roger, LMP.
016:13:32	CC	Jack, next time the Surgeon would like a mark on each individual aspirin.
016:13:42	Schmitt	Well, I gave it to you since I swallowed them both simultaneously.
016:13:47	CC	Roger.
016:13:51	Schmitt	I knew they wanted that, Gordy, and that's why I only gave you one.
016:13:56	CC	Okay.
016:13:57	Schmitt	Would they rather have them go down one at a time?
016:14:05	CC	I'll have to go back to the backroom on that.
016:25:06	PAO	This is Apollo Control, 16 hours and 25 minutes. The Crew of Apollo 17 is now presently in a meal period. A little bit of levity a short time ago when Jack Schmitt, Lunar Module Pilot, called down to say: "This is LMP, mark, 2 aspirin." He had mentioned earlier in his post-sleep checklist that he was considering taking two aspirins. Apollo 17 is presently 72,843 nautical miles out from Earth. Velocity 6,477 feet per second. We're continuing to stand by on the air-ground circuit for further conversation as the crew finishes up their meal period and gets what few flight plan updates are involved in the days activity. At 016:26 and standing by, this is Apollo Control.
016:44:44	CC
016:44:57	Evans	Hey, okay, Gordo. We'll do that.
016:45:34	CC	17, Houston. Can you confirm that you did change the LiOH canister before going to sleep last night?
016:45:43	Evans	Well, we can confirm that we didn't. How about that?
016:45:48	CC	Okay.
016:45:48	Evans	We'll - Thanks - thanks for reminding us. We'll try that first thing this morning. I was just getting too tired, and the CO2 didn't look quite that high last night, so I - -
016:46:00	CC	Roger.
016:46:00	Evans	- - I let it go.
016:46:07	CC	Okay, that's - that's fine. We're not concerned about being late with it.
016:46:14	Evans	Okay.
016:53:05	Evans	Okay, Houston. That looks like a pretty good one that time. You note the star angle difference?
016:53:11	CC	Roger. We copy.
016:53:15	Evans	Okay (chuckle). I can't see squat out through that telescope. I just hope it lines it up and does the right thing. Okay. Those are the torquing angles, and you can let me know when you have them.
016:53:33	CC	Okay. Stand by.
016:53:38	Evans	The telescope is no different than any other time. There is just a lot of reflection from the lunar module. And even though everybody said that before, you don't quite believe it until you see it yourself.
016:54:08	CC	Okay, Ron. You're clear to torque it.
016:54:12	Evans	Okay. We'll torque it at 54:30.
016:54:16	CC	Okay.
016:55:25	CC	17, Houston. When you - if you can find a stenographer, I got some dictation, some pads for you and also a Flight Plan update.
016:55:50	Evans	Stand by 1, Gordon.
016:57:38	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy.
016:57:41	Evans	P37.
016:57:42	Schmitt	Oh, okay. Stand by. Okay, Ron's ready to copy.
016:57:52	Evans	P37 pad's first.
016:57:54	CC	Okay. Okay, the P37 block data for 35 hours. Well, we've got 35, 45, 55, 65. GET ignition of 035:00. DELTA-Vt is 5326, minus 175, 081:39. For a GET of 045:00, 7728, minus 177, 08l:l8. For a GET of 055:00, 5859, minus 175, 105:30. GET of 065:00, 4703, minus 175, 129:40.
016:59:34	Evans	Okay, I'll read that. Let's see, 35:00 at 5326, minus 175, and 81:39 At 45:00, 7728, minus 177, and 8l:l8. At 55:00, it's 5859, minus 175, 105:30. At 65:00, it's 4703, minus 175, and 129:40.
017:00:11	CC	Okay, that's correct. I've got a maneuver pad for you. It's a flyby maneuver at a time of 81 hours, which is 5 hours prior to LOI, This is required because you're presently on an impacting trajectory. And this is assuming you wouldn't do midcourse 2. Midcourse 2 will put you on a - on the proper trajectory. If you can get a maneuver pad out, I'll give it to you.
017:00:44	Schmitt	Okay. That's in work.
017:02:11	Evans	Okay, Houston. This is 17. Ready for the flyby pad.
017:02:23	CC	Okay, Ron. We were just watching your roll angle. You're going to - we're going to be updating the optics cal attitude. And the roll will be 164, and you're coming up on that. Maybe you want to stop the PTC near that roll angle first.
017:02:41	Evans	Hey, that's a good idea.
017:02:48	Schmitt	Gordy ...
017:03:10	Schmitt	Gordy, did you read Jack?
017:03:12	CC	Loud and clear, Jack.
017:03:14	Schmitt	I can take the pad, if you want to while Ron stops PTC.
017:03:20	CC	Okay. Why don't I give you the update to the Flight Plan, since that'll give you the new attitude and also the - change in the star for the P23. And then Ron can get on with that. The pad we can get after that.
017:03:36	Schmitt	Go ahead.
017:03:38	CC	Okay. Turn to 17 hours in the Flight Plan, page l8.
017:03:55	Schmitt	Go ahead.
017:03:57	CC	Okay. The "VERB 49 maneuver to optics cal attitude" right at the top of the page. Cross out the attitude numbers and replace them with "Roll l64, pitch 301, and yaw 348 at a high-gain pitch angle of minus 48 and a yaw of 315. Over.
017:04:34	Schmitt	Okay; 164, 301, 348, minus 48, and 315.
017:04:40	CC	That's correct. Now go down a few lines to the sighting attitude at - one's at 17 hours and 15 minutes. And cross out that attitude and the high-gain pitch angle and change to a Roll of 196, pitch 304, and yaw 348. High-gain pitch is minus 6l, and the yaw remains the same, 357. Over.
017:05:16	Schmitt	Okay, 196, 304, 348, minus 6l.
017:05:22	CC	That's correct. And now, on the first star of P23, we're going to change the star, so cross out - replace the NOUN 70 numbers with star 21. That would be three balls 21. And delete the NOUN 88 and the vector numbers there.
017:06:12	Schmitt	Okay, start 21 and no NOUN 88s.
017:06:16	CC	Right. And over on the right where it says "Merak," you can write in "Alphard." That's what 21 is.
017:06:35	Schmitt	Okay.
017:06:36	CC	Okay. Now down on the next page, at 18 hours 20 minutes, where it says "Optics calibration attitude." We got to put in the same thing as - the same change as above. We want, instead of 175, 298, 330, change that to l64, 301, and 348. High gain of minus 48 and 315. Over.
017:07:15	Schmitt	Okay, l64, 301, 348, minus 48, 315. Over.
017:07:21	CC	Okay. Now, about 10 lines down, delete "Charge battery A." We're going to leave battery A charged for a while longer, since we used up so much of it on the pad last night.
017:07:41	Schmitt	Okay. Delete "Battery charge A," and you want to leave it on B.
017:07:44	CC	Yes. Right. Flip the page. Might as well clean up all of these checklist changes. At 19 hours 40 minutes, change "Magazine Kilo Kilo" to "Magazine November November."
017:08:05	Schmitt	Okay. That's done.
017:08:06	CC	And then skip a few pages to 24 hours and 30 minutes
017:08:20	Schmitt	Go ahead.
017:08:21	CC	And just above the "CSM Systems Checklist" callout there, write in "Charge battery A."
017:08:37	Schmitt	Okay, I got you.
017:08:40	CC	And we'll be leaving it on battery A all night long. Okay, that's all the Flight Plan changes. I've got that flyby pad when you're ready.
017:08:55	Schmitt	Okay, I'm all set.
017:08:58	CC	Okay. Purpose is flyby, SPS/G&N. The weight is 66839; plus 1.21, minus .02 - correction, the yaw trim is a minus 0.12. Ignition time is 081:17:21.03 NOUN 81 is a plus 0091.1, plus 0204.1, plus 0459.3. Attitude is 121, 153, and 321, Apogee is NA; perigee, plus 0021.2. DELTA-V total of 0510.8, 1:17, 0506.3. Sextant star: 26, 096.5, 33.9. Boresight star is NA; NOUN 6l, plus 15-57, minus 175-00; 1099.9, 362.43; and GET of 0.05G is 153:24:11. PTC align stars are Sirius and Rigel; 256, 152, 069 - Ullage is none. And for remarks: number 1 is "Burn docked." number 2 assumes PTC REFSMMAT: number 3, LM weight, 3628l; and number 4 is "Assumes no Midcourse 2." Over.
017:12:30	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. You read that?
017:12:34	CC	I haven't heard anything since I finished the pad, Jack.
017:12:39	Schmitt	Okay. I'll push the other button then. Okay, your readback: Flyby, SPS/G&N; 66839; plus 1.21, minus 0.12; 081:17:21.03; plus 0091.1, plus 0204.1, plus 0459.3; 121, 153, 321; HA is NA, plus 0021.0; 0510.8, 1:17, 0506.3; 26, 096.5, 33.9. Boresight star is NA; plus 15-57; minus 175.00; 1099-9, 362.43; 153:24:11. Sirius and Rigel; 256, 152, 069. No ullage. Remarks: 1, burn docked; 2, PTC REFSMMAT assumed; 3, LM weight, 36281; and 4, assumes no midcourse 2.
017:14:02	CC	Okay. One correction on perigee of NOUN 44. That's a plus 0021.2.
017:14:18	Schmitt	Okay; 0021.2 plus.
017:14:23	CC	And one additional remark. This results in a 187-mile perigee - perilune.
017:14:58	Schmitt	Okay. I got that.
017:15:00	CC	Okay. For general information, we're planning midcourse 2 tomorrow at about 35:30, and it should be about 10 feet per second.
017:15:16	Schmitt	Okay, Strangely enough, that's even scheduled at 35:30.
017:15:35	CC	Roger.
017:15:45	CC	I have one reminder to open the WASTE STOWAGE VENT valve as shown on the - at 17 hours there.
017:15:56	Schmitt	Oh, okay. We were just going back to clean up. I think we owe you a LiOH canister change, too.
017:16:09	CC	Roger. We concur with changing it.
017:19:57	Evans	And, Houston. Apollo 17 will maneuver to the optics calibration attitude now.
017:20:04	CC	Okeydoke.
017:20:08	Evans	It's funny eating potato soup, and all the soup is all around the outside of the bag. And you get a little hole right down through the middle of it.
017:20:22	CC	How about that?
017:20:42	Evans	It's just like in one G. The sP00n isn't quite long enough to reach the bottom without getting your fingers on the side of the bowl.
017:20:51	CC	Roger.
017:23:53	Schmitt	Gordy, I don't know what your weather is like down there, but from here it looks like you're probably overcast today. Might even have a pretty good storm going.
017:24:04	CC	Well, it's gray and cold and a little rain, so your - your call is correct.
017:24:14	Schmitt	Yes, it looks like Mexico, in general, is pretty nice, although there is a band of east-west trending clouds that start from the Gulf of California, cross Sonora and probably up through New Mexico, and over into Texas as far around as I can see. Southern California looks like it's in pretty good shape today, but northern California looks like it's probably overcast. And a major system probably associated with that that stretches into the northern western United States. But a band of clear weather looks like it stretches from Arizona right on up through, I would guess it - through Colorado and Kansas and probably into the Midwest pretty well.
017:25:24	CC	Roger. You're a regular human weather satellite.
017:25:30	Schmitt	If Ron would just stop his maneuvers I'd tell you some more, but the Earth just set behind the LM.
017:25:38	CC	Roger.
017:25:40	Schmitt	More specifically, it set behind the Rover, which may be a space first. Pretty impressive storm system down off the west coast of Antarctica.
017:26:07	CC	Roger.
017:27:11	Schmitt	And, Houston. The canister has been changed. Number 3 is in A as per the earlier Flight Plan instructions.
017:27:24	CC	Okay.
017:27:26	Schmitt	Sorry we were late, but we got a little tired last night.
017:28:37	CC	Jack, Houston. We'd like you to go ahead and get that WASTE STOWAGE VENT open now, so we can keep to the schedule on cabin enrichment.
017:28:49	Schmitt	Okay; Ron is getting that. Keep nagging.
017:28:54	CC	Thank you.
017:35:28	Evans	That the same as I had before?
017:35:50	Evans	Hey, that looks like a pretty good optics cal right there. That's three times. Okay. No, that's not very good.
017:36:09	CC	Ron, we're copying your comments.
017:36:12	Evans	Okay. Think we'll use that one there for the optics cal.
017:36:20	CC	Roger.
017:36:41	Evans	Okay. Let's go to the old sighting attitude. Well, let's put the other thing in there first.
017:39:59	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 17 hours 40 minutes. In mission control at the present time we're in the midst of a shift handover. Flight Director Gene Kranz and his team of flight controllers coming on now to replace Flight Director Gerry Griffin. The spacecraft communicator at the present time is astronaut Gordon Fullerton. For the crew aboard Apollo 17 this is scheduled to be a rather short and - not too active period of time before they begin their next sleep period. They'll be performing a few midcourse navigation activities, also doing some routine maintenance on the fuel cells. And not a great deal of additional activity scheduled for them.
017:40:44	Evans	Yes. That's a pretty good VERB 49. I got the - got an orange Earth in the sextant. Let me put up the old EMP now. If you all don't need all that light in there, Jack, I could sure - Like the window shade might help a little bit, really. Not - not very much. Okay. Address 304, we want 06. Address 305, 24 44; 306, 60 06 ENTER; 307 was 77. Okay, at address 310, we want 15 62 ENTER; 311, we want a 52 05 ENTER; 330, we'll VERB 30 37. VERB 25 NOUN 26 ENTER 1. Okay. R-2 is a 44 ENTER. R-3 is a 140 - 5. Okay, ENTER that. Now, we're ready to go on the first star here; 7 ENTER; 23 ENTER. ... we don't want to do an optics cal. No, we don't want to do that. ENTER. Okay, first star is 21. ENTER. I am going to use the ... 110 ENTER. PROCEED. Son of a gun. Okay, we don't want to do the 180 option, so ENTER that one; 19630 ... getting pretty close. Okay. PROCEED.
017:43:54	Schmitt	... mike ...
017:44:02	Evans	Okay, we're CMC OPTICS ZERO'S OFF and low. Now let's see if we can see the old star in there.
017:44:14	Schmitt	Gordy, this is Jack. You guys did a good job fixing that MAS - MASTER ALARM problem. What did you do?
017:44:28	CC	Jack, did you call?
017:44:32	Schmitt	Yes, I was wondering what you did to fix the MASTER ALARM problem.
017:44:39	CC	Let me check and see.
017:44:45	Evans	(Laughter) Yes, I've got to find the subsolar point. A little bit of an error looks like. Let me see, we'll fix it down a little bit. That really jars us back, doesn't it?
017:45:16	PAO	This is Apollo Control. The participants have left Mission Control for the news conference, a change of shift press conference that should begin in about 5 to 10 minutes, in the MSC News Center Briefing Room -
017:45:25	CC	Jack, I guess all we've done is wish it away, Actually, we think it's still there, and you may -you may get them here later after the waste stowage vent - O2 flow gets on up.
017:45:48	Schmitt	Okay, but those were associated with the accumulator as I recall. Yes, the random ones is the ones I was interested in. They just seemed to stop. Of course, we haven't been moving switches on 2, but we were getting them without doing that also.
017:46:13	Evans	Okay, there's the old star. Works just like the simulator; you can't see the star when it goes down in the Earth (laughter).
017:46:21	CC	It's still being worked on, Jack. Though we don't have any real concrete story to give you on it yet.
017:46:31	Schmitt	Okay, it seemed to be pretty quiet last night, so that's the only problem. Okay. Gene, you want to give me CMC FREE?
017:46:40	Cernan	Okay.
017:49:45	Evans	Let's see. 379, okay. That's not too bad. There it is; ENTER. Release 23; ENTER.
017:51:32	Evans	Okay.
017:53:07	Evans	Yes, I don't know what - what's -
017:53:44	Evans	Okay, those would punch a hole in it.
017:53:47	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 17 hours 54 minutes. The change of shift press conference is ready to begin at this time in the MSC News Center Briefing Room. We'll take down the live air-to-ground, record, and play back immediately following the press conference.
017:55:22	Evans	I think that's five on that star. Do you concur that that's five on that star, Houston?
017:55:31	CC	Stand by. Let me check.
017:55:34	Evans	I think it was. I'll take another one just in case.
017:56:15	Evans	Okay, Gene. CMC AUTO.
017:56:18	Cernan	Roger.
017:56:20	Evans	Okay, Betelgeuse. All right. That's all right; don't move.
017:57:11	Evans	20. Okay. Earth's far horizon; 25 ENTER. Plus 02745 ENTER. Plus 99128; 28 ENTER. Plus 12885 - 12885 - 12885. Okay. Hit. It's okay; want the 180 option, no? Computer ... Betelgeuse. Okay, that's Earth's far horizon.
017:58:30	Evans	Punch a hole in them. Yes. Good. Okay, as soon as we're there - Okay. Set the old ... at the substellar point. Okay, it's the far horizon, the double line is down in the - down in the Earth. Shaft 280; okay. Reach up a little bit here.
017:59:55	Evans	Okay. Didn't do such a hot job of putting them on there. You want to go to CMC FREE. Okay. Give it a flip that way and a flip thataway and a yaw that way, two yaws that way.
018:01:46	Evans	(Singing) Holy mackrel.
018:01:57	SC	Yes. That was a good ...
018:02:01	Schmitt	Gordy, this is LMP.
018:02:06	Schmitt	Hello, Houston; 17. Are you reading?
018:02:09	CC	Go ahead, Jack.
018:02:12	Schmitt	Yes, you got any news today - to read up to us?
018:02:17	CC	Well, yes. As a matter of fact, we have a little bit made up here. I guess along the personal line, we checked with Barbara and Jan and the kids, and they're all back home safe and sound and they mentioned that they're going into their own personal quarantine period, glued to the squawk box. Over.
018:02:48	Cernan	Okay.
018:02:48	Evans	I was afraid you were going to get too personal there, for a minute. (Laughter)
018:02:55	CC	I'll run down a few quick summaries of this morning's news. Former President Harry Truman has rallied slightly, despite his weakened heart and labored breathing. His doctors report that their main worry is whether his heart is strong enough to withstand the strain, the physical strain of 88 years. Despite the slight rally, Truman's condition is still considered critical. In Paris, Henry Kissinger met with Hanoi's Le Du Tho for 4 hours yesterday in planned secret talks. Paris newspapers report an imminent cease-fire, but neither Kissinger or Tho indicate that this is true. After the 4-hour talks, Kissinger shook hands; and his aid - got a little typo error here - but neither representative made any comment concerning their meeting. At Camp David, Maryland, President Nixon's press secretary, Ron L. Ziegler, said that Kissinger and Nixon are in close communication by cable concerning the secret peace talks. But Ziegler declined to provide more information about progress in the talks. President Nixon selected Claude S. Brinegar, a California oil executive and a doctor of economics, to be Secretary of Transportation succeeding John A. Volpe. Volpe will become the U.S. ambassador to italy. Here's one concerning last night's launch. Mrs. Spiro Agnew reportedly made a wish on a falling star just before the delayed launch of Apollo 17. Sitting beside her at the VIP viewing site was Barbara Cernan, who said that she was nervous when the lift-off was postponed. She added, "But Al Bean was there with me. He said not to be concerned." Mrs. Cernan was accompanied by her daughter Tracy, and her mother, Mrs. Jackie Ashley. Mrs. Ron Evans, who saw the launch with her children, Jamie and John, said that she was never worried because everybody knew what they were doing.
018:05:19	SC	(Laughter)
018:07:36	Cernan	Good summary, Gordo. We thank you, and our best wishes for the return to health of Mr. Truman.
018:07:46	CC	Roger.
018:07:50	Cernan	Gordo, we were figuring up here that we probably launched on the 6th of December in Houston and on the 7th of December in Florida.
018:08:00	CC	That's right. You called it right.
018:08:06	Evans	Okay, CMC AUTO there, Gene, please.
018:08:12	SC	Oh, boy.
018:09:04	Evans	Okay, let's use the VERB 23, ENTER. Oh, what did I do there. ENTER, let's see, is a 110. There, okay. VERB 25 - ENTER. Oh, Gamma Prime Leonis. (Coughing) Okay, minus 8490 - 84900, I mean; plus 40299 plus 40299 ENTER; plus 34176, plus - 76, ENTER; okay, PROCEED. 202 ... l8, okay. There already. ... I guess. We'll try that one more time. ... CMC, AUTO? 196306.
018:10:26	Schmitt	Gordy, you still there?
018:10:27	Evans	Okay; that's right.
018:10:31	CC	Go ahead, Jack.
018:10:34	Schmitt	Yes, I mentioned to Bob yesterday how - when we moved away from the Earth - how fragile a piece of blue it looked to be, and that impression certainly grows the farther you get from it. I wish everybody could have a chance to get that impression. Things might go a little easier for us.
018:10:57	CC	Roger.
018:11:06	Evans	Okay, Gene, ... CMC FREE?
018:11:11	Evans	(Singing) ... must be making the vector worse and worse instead of better. (Laughter) Well, it was on the substellar point that time except it was halfway through the Earth almost. Not really.
018:12:41	Evans	Hey, Gordy, we haven't really had a clear and detailed description of what you or somebody else saw at the launch, in terms of the lighting around the countryside, the state of the flame, and how long the - exhaust was under the S-IC. Do you have anything to add to that?
018:13:12	CC	Well, I can give you my feelings, anyway. It was a spectacular sight, and no doubt about it. I'd say the level of illumination would have made it easy to - to read a newspaper or anything like that from my vantage point near the VAB. The - the plume itself actually looked no larger or - or even any brighter, really, except in contrast, than it does on a day launch by comparison. But - well, the effect, I guess, was about what I expected just trying to extrapolate previous launches into a nighttime situation. The weather was very clear. That was one advantage gained by delaying the launch the 2 hours and 40 minutes that you did. By that time, there were very few clouds around at all. And we could see a brilliant flash there when the first stage cut off and the second stage ignited. And I lost you visually probably, oh, 4 to 5 minutes into the second stage, as best I can remember. Part of the problem was the brightness of the plume during the first stage, it kind of burned a spot on my eye; and so then I was - had reduced efficiency at looking for a small point of light from there on out. Stu's here with me and he was watching it, too. I'll see if he has anything to add.
018:15:14	Evans	Stu who?
018:15:19	CC	He said after that comment he has no comment.
018:15:23	Evans	(Laughter) I'm sorry, Stu. I can't believe that; Stu always has something to add. (Singing) Houston, in case you just noticed, I forgot the VERB 67 until just now. Although, in reality, all we're trying to do here is get a DELTA-H measurement anyhow. And, Houston, do you have any feel yet for what the DELTA-H is - line has been?
018:15:59	CC	Stand by, Ron.
018:16:14	CC
018:16:28	Evans	Okay, that's mighty fine.
018:16:32	Evans	Okay, Geno, CMC AUTO? Let's see what's on this star here. Kalinan [sic] - that's Menkalinan, I guess. Okay, Earth far horizon; 23, ENTER 120, ENTER, 25 ENTER ... (Coughing) (Singing) Plus - 7073 ENTER, plus 70644 ENTER. Okay, that is the unit vector of the star.
018:22:14	Evans	Okay, it's a l80 option we don't want. ... the real option. (Laughter) I guess they're getting - Houston, you must be getting all the good data without the high gain, huh?
018:22:38	CC	That's affirmative, Ron.
018:22:40	Evans	Okay. Okay, let's ENTER that.
018:22:55	Evans	Okay, Gene, you go CMC FREE now? Yes, that's about a half a sextant diameter above the - above the horizon. Substellar point looks pretty good, though.
018:25:51	Evans	Hey, guys, -
018:28:58	PAO	This is Apollo control at 18 hours 29 minutes. During the change of shift press briefing, flight director Gene Kranz reviewed the status of the mission with each of his flight controllers everything essentially normal at this point. Flight dynamics officer reported that they have not yet gotten sufficient tracking on the S-IVB trajectory to give an impact point based on tracking. We should have that in a matter of hours. And we'll get a report as soon as a set of coordinates for the S-IVB impact are available. Also, capcom Gordon Fullerton read up a news report to the crew. And it's been relatively quiet for the past 5 or 10 minutes on the air to ground line. We'll replay the accumulated tape and as soon as we've caught up with the tape we'll stand by for live conservations with the crew.
018:30:54	Evans	- Yes, not yet.
018:31:11	Evans	Yes, it's on there.
018:36:43	Evans	30 ENTER - oops! CMC AUTO ... Now, last star. What was that? I'm going to go back to the calibration attitude.
018:38:04	Evans	Okay, CMC auto engaged, and away we go.
018:38:11	Evans	Hey, we ... dump the waste water, too - to 10 percent.
018:38:21	Evans	164, 301, and 318 - that's the optics calibration attitude that we want to start with. Put the landmark line of sight mark on star 22. Also the optics line of sight, with optics zero. Let's see, I'll the optics, I guess first.
018:45:43	Evans	Okay, Houston, looks like optics calibration here is 89995 - I get that half the time and 997 the rest. So (laughter) we'll use 995, I guess.
018:45:57	CC	Roger.
018:46:07	Schmitt	Okay, Houston, you ready for some purges and dumps?
018:46:11	CC	Let me make sure here. We're standing by.
018:46:43	Schmitt	Okay. I'll get going on the 0 purges on the fuel cell.
018:46:43	CC	Okay.
018:49:28	Schmitt	Well, I had my clock on the wrong scale. is that about 2 minutes, Houston?
018:49:48	CC	That's good, Jack.
018:50:09	CC	Did you copy that, Jack? They said that was fine.
018:50:13	Schmitt	Yes, sir, Stu; I copied that. How are you?
018:50:16	CC	Okay; swinging.
018:50:21	Schmitt	That's good to hear.
018:50:24	CC	Sure am enjoying your descriptions.
018:50:31	Schmitt	Well, if I could get Ron off his - work with the optics, we'd look at the Earth some more. But that will come. Right now I'm seeing all sorts of little ice crystals of various composition, (laughter) that are moving around, and every one of them bounces off the LM that I can see. No, none of them stick. I noticed that some of them will go into a corner with a fairly high velocity and either be turned around by a double bounce, or just get lost in the corner and have very low velocity when they come out.
018:51:10	CC	Roger.
018:52:06	Schmitt	Most of them look like they have at least a foot or 2 per second.
018:52:13	CC	Roger.
018:52:24	CC	Hey, Jack, I was surprised when you said when you got Ron off the optics. Don't tell me that Ron is going to let you look through his optics.
018:52:33	Schmitt	Oh, heavens no! We just move the windows. (Laughter)
018:52:37	CC	(Laughter) Okay.
018:52:38	Evans	That's for sure.
018:52:47	PAO	The CAPCOM at the present time is Astronaut Stuart Roosa, backup Command Module Pilot for Apollo 17.
018:53:08	Schmitt	Stu, apparently you get - do get some particle/particle collisions, because some of the trajectories are back towards us.
018:53:22	CC	Okay; we're waiting for the explanation of that.
018:53:29	Schmitt	Well, I think it's because the particles and - some of them, you know, are bouncing off the LM and get out into the stream, which normally would have no collisions. How's that? You can say it's not very good. I don't care.
018:53:55	CC	Got to use tact here.
018:54:32	PAO	That animated description of the behavour of a cloud of ice crystals drifting along with spacecraft is coming from Jack Schmitt. Apollo 17 at this point is 81,654 nautical miles from Earth, traveling at a speed of 5,972 feet per second. And we see from the telemetry data that the fuel cell purge called for in the flight plan at this time is progressing. This involves flowing, in this case, oxygen at a high rate through the fuel cell for a short period of time to remove any build-up of contaminants. And, as a routine maintenance or housekeeping procedure, same thing is also done periodically for the hydrogen.
018:56:15	CC	You can terminate the purge on fuel cell 3 - O2.
018:56:21	Evans	Yes. I even forgot to listen for the ding on that one. Thank you.
018:58:32	CC	17, we'll be having a communications handover to Honeysuckle in about a minute and a half.
018:58:41	Cernan	Okay, Gordo.
018:58:45	Schmitt	That's great. Next time I look at the Earth, I'll see what's happening in Australia.
019:01:24	Cernan	Okay, Houston. We're starting our waste water dump.
019:01:29	CC	Okay.
019:01:30	Cernan	Wish us luck. Wish us luck.
019:01:38	Evans	Hey, that really goes out!
019:01:52	CC	Can you give us P00 and ACCEPT? And we'll give you a new state vector.
019:02:01	Evans	Probably need one after all those ... Okay, you've got P00 and ACCEPT.
019:02:09	CC	Roger.
019:04:11	CC	Okay, the vector's in there. It's your computer.
019:04:18	Cernan	Okay, Gordo. Thank you.
019:06:58	PAO	This is Apollo control at 19 hours 7 minutes. The crew aboard Apollo 17 has completed the next item in the flight plan in the way of housekeeping duties aboard the spacecraft. That involved dumping waste water. Water is accumulated in a 7 to 8 gallon tank on the spacecraft which is produced as a by-product of generating electricity in the fuel cells. These fuel cells generate quite a bit more water than the spacecraft is able to consume for cooling and for crew drinking purposes. The excess goes into a waste water tank and periodically it's dumped down to about lO percent, and the crew has just completed that activity. We're going to take advantage of a relatively quiet time in the flight plan at this time to replay a portion of the air-to-ground conservations with the spacecraft which included among other things a rather detailed description of earth given by Jack Schmitt, some weather patterns. This replay is necessitated by a problem that we had with a portion of the public affairs release circuit between 4:40 and 5:05 p.m. central standard time this afternoon in which a portion of the release circuit did not receive the air-to-ground and for the benefit of those people who missed that portion of air-to-ground we'll replay the tapes at this time.
019:09:51	Schmitt	Houston, you going to want to cycle some film here?
019:09:56	CC	That's affirm. We're planning on it. Let me make sure they're ready, though, before you do it.
019:10:07	Schmitt	Well, I didn't want to bring it up, but you're about - 20 minutes late on your cue.
019:10:18	CC	You must have missed our first call.
019:10:23	Schmitt	I probably did.
019:12:21	CC	Jack, we're ready for the pan and mapping camera film cycling. You haven't started into the procedure yet, is that correct?
019:12:32	Schmitt	No, not yet.
019:12:34	CC	Okay, at your convenience, we're ready to - watch you do it.
019:12:42	Schmitt	Okay. And were those last high gain - I guess they're still good, huh? You want the high gain on it?
019:12:53	CC	Okay; we'd like you to use PITCH at minus 50 and YAW 320 and acquire the high gain.
019:13:03	Schmitt	Okay, will do.
019:14:06	CC	You have 10 percent waste water now. You can terminate the dump.
019:14:12	Schmitt	Okay. We're just about there.
019:15:07	Evans	Okay, the old IMAGE MOTION is OFF.
019:15:12	CC	Roger.
019:15:13	Schmitt	DATA SYSTEMS are going ON. AUX TV is going to SCIENTIFIC.
019:15:23	CC	Jack, we'd like AUTO and NARROW on the HIGH GAIN.
019:15:38	Schmitt	There you go. Okay?
019:15:41	CC	Thank you.
019:15:43	Evans	Okay. SM/AC POWER is coming ON. MAPPING CAMERA is going to STANDBY; talkback's gray. PAN MODE is verified in STANDBY. PAN CAMERA MODE? Yes. Okay PAN CAMERA is going to POWER - now. Barber pole
019:16:19	Cernan	Okay, the PAN CAMERA just went to POWER. Okay, Ron's talking to you. Didn't know that.
019:16:28	CC	Roger.
019:16:31	Evans	PAN CAMERA SELF TEST has gone to HEATERS.
019:16:38	Cernan	High bit rate. Okay; waiting your cue, Gordy.
019:16:45	CC	Okay, stand by.
019:16:50	CC	Okay, Ron, we're ready for the film cycling.
019:17:45	Evans	Okay, MAPPING Camera is going ON.
019:18:15	Evans	Okay, PAN CAMERA SELF TEST is going to SELF TEST. That makes barberpole. Okay, I forgot to time it, yes.
019:19:08	Evans	Okay, talkback went gray on the PAN CAMERA.
019:19:12	CC	Roger.
019:19:27	Evans	Okay, PAN CAMERA POWER is OFF.
019:19:54	Evans	Okay, MAPPING CAMERA is going OFF.
019:20:34	Evans	Okay. SM/AC POWER is coming OFF, huh?
019:20:42	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. Film cycling is complete.
019:20:45	CC	Okay. It looked real good on both cameras.
019:20:52	Schmitt	Very good.
019:23:49	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. If your friends there on your left are wondering what strange sounds they're hearing, I just got the harness on.
019:23:55	CC	Roger.
019:24:00	Cernan	And, then, I guess if you're through with the high gain, I'll go back to OMNI Bravo.
019:24:07	CC	Okay. We concur with that idea.
019:24:12	Schmitt	And if I could ever get Ron out of the kitchen, we'd get into PTC.
019:24:21	CC	Jack, you'll be glad to know your heart is beating normally. We have a good signal.
019:25:07	Schmitt	Just so long as it's beating, Gordy. About 20 hours ago, I wasn't so sure.
019:27:06	Cernan	Gordo, (cough) we're maneuvering to the PTC attitude now.
019:27:11	CC	Okay.
019:29:20	Evans	Houston, Apollo 17. Any recommended quads for damping the PTC rates?
019:29:29	CC	Stand by on that, Ron. We'll give it to you in a minute.
019:29:39	CC	Ron, we're recommending AB for damping and Bravo Delta for roll spinup. I'll say again. Alpha Bravo for damping and Bravo Delta for roll spinup.
019:29:52	Evans	Okay, Robert, and welcome back aboard.
019:29:55	CC	Roger, sir.
019:30:01	Evans	You know, this eating in zero G is not so bad if you keep your bags right side up. If you keep them that way, you get the right perspective. It's sure something funny, if you turn the bag upside down, and it still doesn't fall out, you know.
019:30:19	CC	Roger.
019:31:41	Evans	Having a little peach ambrosia for a snack here.
019:33:00	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 19 hours 33 minutes. That completes our replay of the segments of the air-to-ground that were lost on a portion of the Public Affairs Release Network earlier today. During that replay, we accumulated about 5 or 6 minutes of additional tape with the crew, the activities involved during that period of time or completion of waste water dump, the crew dumping excess water produced by the fuel cells and stored in a storage tank on the spacecraft, and they dump it down to about 10 percent of its quantity, or its capacity. And, also completed one other routine housekeeping activity. That was cycling the film in the panoramic and mapping cameras contained back in the service module scientific instrument module bay. That bay, of course, still has the door over it. The door will be jettisoned before going into orbit around the moon exposing those cameras for use in lunar orbit taking high-resolution and very accurately controlled mapping cameras - mapping photos of the lunar surface. The cycling of the film is made necessary by the fact that the film is under some tension in the magazine in the transport mechanism. This tension tends to put pressure on the emulsion, and if the film is not advanced, oh, four or five cycles, at least once every 24 hours, it tends to create striations in the emulsion, and this is done during the translunar coast when the cameras are not being used periodically, once a day to prevent these striations from developing in the emulsion of the film. We'll replay that accumulated tape for you and then continue to stand by live.
019:42:07	PAO	This is Apollo control. That completes our replay of accumulated tape we'll now stand by for any live conservations with the crew. One thing additionally that we get out of cycling the cameras the panoramic and mapping cameras as an indication of how they are performing mechanically. As you heard based on the telemetry data that we got here on the ground both cameras appear to be functioning properly tucked away in the scientific instrument module bay of the CSM. You also heard some conservation with Jack Schmitt who is wearing the biomedical harness during sleep periods it's customary for one of the three crewman only to wear the biomedical harness which allows them to get heart rate during the sleep period and the crewman take turns wearing that biomedical harness and during the sleep we are getting good biomedical data - good heart rate data on Schmitt at the present time. Also, Ron Evans commented on getting the spacecraft in the PTC attitude. Essentially, this attitude has the spacecraft oriented at right angles to it's direction of travel. Right angles to the Earth Moon plane so that the Sun is essentially shining on the sides of the vehicle of the CSM and LM. And, then using the reaction control system thrusters on the command module they set up a slow roll rate so that the two vehicles docked together are rotating at the rate of about three revolutions per hour. And, if this is done properly and it's a tricky maneuver usually crews get more and more experienced at it as they go through the mission, and tend to have the most problems early on in getting it set up. But if it is set up with all of the rates damped and everything very stable when the roll is started it will maintain this roll without wobbling out of it throughout the rest period. The purpose of this is to maintain a proper thermal equilibrium on the spacecraft so that the heating on one side from the Sun the cooling of the other as it is exposed to the black of space is uniform and nothing gets too hot or too cold. At the present time Apollo 17 is 84,482 nautical miles from Earth and the velocity continuing to decrease gradually down to about 5,824 feet per second, just a little over one mile per second. We'll continue to stand by live now for any conversations with the crew. This could continue to be a relatively quiet period based on Ron Evans or I guess it was Jack Schmitt's comment that Evans was in the kitchen leads us to believe that they are probably getting ready to eat. This is Apollo control at 19 hours 45 minutes.
019:51:21	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 19 hours 51 minutes. On the telemetry data that we have here in the Control Center, we're watching as the spacecraft is automatically killing off its rates, in preparation for setting up it's passive thermal control mode. They're getting the vehicles very stable, and they're measuring rate changes in thousandths of a degree per second. And when it is as essentially as stable as it appears possible to get it, they'll then fire the thrusters, to begin rolling at a slow 3 revolutions per hour rate. This is the second passive thermal control mode established.
019:52:11	CC
019:52:20	Cernan	Okay, Bob.
019:52:35	PAO	The crew set up the spacecraft in the passive thermal control mode before their previous sleep period and experienced no difficulties, and they appear to be going very smoothly, in this passive thermal control setup. You heard CAPCOM Robert Overmeyer who's come in to relieve CAPCOM Gordon Fullerton, advise them that the rates have been killed off sufficiently to begin rotating the vehicles now.
019:54:40	Cernan	Okay, Gordo. We're in PTC. Or, Bob, I guess you're down there now.
019:54:51	CC	Roger, Gene.
019:55:36	Schmitt	Bob, did you ever find out what part of Antarctica we were seeing at various Earth orientations?
019:55:46	CC	Jack, I've - I tried that this afternoon, and I couldn't get hold of anybody, and I looked on a map for a while, and I - I'm not sure where Little America was. I can't truthfully say I did it - get it. I'll keep looking at it.
019:55:59	Schmitt	Okay. I - at any rate, it looks like there's a very well-developed front coming out of the northwestern portion of Antarctic ice shelf. And ... and it - let's see here. Well, stand by 1.
019:56:25	CC	Roger.
019:56:26	Schmitt	Have to change windows.
019:58:42	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. That front looks like it starts and develops as a small - - it actually seems to start with an anticyclone development off the coast of Antarctica. Moves up across New Zealand, looks like the South island primarily, a little bit of the North island is still visible, and into the eastern coast of Australia. And I'll give you a spot where it intersects and crosses the whole of Australia. However, it - it breaks up and is not very well formed, once it gets inland away from the coast. I see no well-developed waves on it at this time, so it's hard to say how strong it is. There might be one developing just to the south of New Zealand or right off the coast of New Zealand.
019:59:55	CC	Roger. I copy that, Jack.
019:59:58	Schmitt	There at least is some sinusoidal motion or appearance to the front ... And you'll have to wait, because I lost it again.
020:00:16	CC	Roger.
020:00:22	Schmitt	I took two 5 - 50-millimeter pictures. Mag November November is on 132.
020:00:33	CC	Roger. November November on 132. Those are pictures of the - -
020:00:39	Schmitt	And that was the -
020:00:51	CC	Jack, Houston. Was that - were those pictures of those fronts you are talking about?
020:02:39	PAO	That was Jack Schmitt giving us the description of the weather patterns developing off the northwest coast of Antartica and extending up towards New Zealand and Australia. Apollo 17 at the present time is about 85,500 nautical miles from Earth and situated over the south Pacific. The spacecraft now essentially fixed with the respect to the Earth and Moon, but the Earth rotating beneath it as the earth rotates - -
020:03:14	Schmitt	Bob, I got our orbital map out now, and that front is going off across to the coast of Australia north of Sidney and largely a little south of Brisbane and - and swings across the whole of Australia and seems to come - near as I can tell, go by into the Indian Ocean about - well, where the Great Sandy Desert intersects the northwestern coast of Australia.
020:03:53	CC	Roger, Jack.
020:07:15	CC	17, I've got a Flight Plan update here.
020:07:23	Schmitt	Stand by, please.
020:07:24	CC	Roger. It's just a short one. One item to change.
020:07:31	Schmitt	Well, if you saw my hands right now (laughter), you'd know why I said wait 1.
020:07:34	CC	Understand. I'm just - just waiting for your call. Just didn't want you to think we're going to give you a whole rafter of it.
020:07:43	Schmitt	Oh, we know you wouldn't do that.
020:08:03	CC	If you're eating, Jack, just go ahead and eat. This is nothing that can - we can just wait, and any time, just go ahead.
020:08:11	Schmitt	Yes, I'm not panicking.
020:09:13	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. Go with the update, and LM/CM DELTA-P at 20 ... 09.
020:09:30	CC	Want you to know, Jack, we just cut out by the antenna switching. Say again the LM/CM DELTA-P.
020:09:36	Schmitt	Okay, 0.6 at 20 plus 09.
020:09:43	CC	Roger. Okay. My update is just simply on the botton of page 3-23 at 2300 hours in the Flight Plan or 23 hours in the Flight Plan. "WASTE STOWAGE VENT valve, CLOSED." Just delete that one, and move it over to 24:30, That's because you got started late on that.
020:10:10	Schmitt	Okay. You could've just said, move it.
020:10:12	CC	Okay. Just change it down to 24:30.
020:10:17	Schmitt	24:30.
020:12:00	Schmitt	Okay. Bob - about revision one on my previous discussion of the weather around Australia. That front does cross - probably Brisbane is probably cloudy. It does cross about that area, and - however, there is a bank of clouds that runs off of it down the coastline. So Sidney is either cloudy or has some pretty nice clouds off - off shore. And the remnants of the front as it dissipates in the hinterland of Australia dies out at about the Great Sandy Desert, and there is not a good indication that it crosses into the Ind - Indian Ocean. But we're getting over near the LM, and that's a little hard to tell.
020:12:53	CC	Roger.
020:13:03	Schmitt	Now, it - more - looks more and more like the cyclone circulation developing right over the top of New Zealand; the South island, I think. And now I'm looking with the binoc, and as much - that anticyclone circulation is centered on the ice shelf. And I think that - well, I Just don't know - I think that's the Ross Ice Shelf, but I'm not sure, off Antarctic. And the clouds from that circulation do extend over the ice shelf and barely into the Antarctic con - continent.
020:13:45	CC	Roger, Jack.
020:13:58	Schmitt	Now to the north of Antarctica. Let's see now. I ought to give you a better orientation than that. But, anyway, there is a large cyclone circulation pattern that has its southern extremity right on the edge of the ice shelf. And that - that is east by 20 or 30 degrees of longitude of the front that I just was discussing. By the way, that front intersects Antarctica.
020:14:40	CC	Roger, Jack.
020:16:22	Schmitt	Between New Zealand and Australia, the front I was discussing previously has some fairly strong transverse cloud patterns. It's hard to say whether they're high cirrus or not. But the clear area to the south of the front suggests that maybe the jet stream is roughly paralleling that front in that area.
020:16:53	CC	Roger. I'd have to look up and see - -
020:17:01	Schmitt	If I had to guess, I'd -
020:17:01	CC	- - if they do have any jet stream down there right now.
020:17:05	Schmitt	I - if I had to guess, if you were flying - west from Sidney this afternoon, you'd have a pretty strong tailwind behind you, Bob.
020:17:23	CC	Roger.
020:17:27	Schmitt	Let's see, did I get that right?
020:17:34	Schmitt	Would you believe a headwind?
020:17:36	CC	Okay. I'll believe that.
020:17:49	Schmitt	But the bulk of Australia is very clear, all the south and the north. It's just that one line of - of clouds that crosses the center section.
020:18:04	CC	Roger.
020:18:56	Schmitt	That put all the major cities of the south, Perth and Adelaide, at least, and Melbourne, certainly in the clear. And in the North Darwin, in those areas, are very nicely clear today.
020:19:15	CC	Roger. I hope we can get this out to them and let them know that you're watching and tell them how good the weather is.
020:19:28	Schmitt	Oh, that's all right. I'm just having fun, Bob,
020:19:31	CC	Understand. I imagine they'd appreciate it though.
020:35:18	Schmitt	Bob, I tried to pick out the Hawaiian islands on that last little turn here through window 5. And I can't say that I did. I think I've got them - the area spotted. It looks like they might be under some fairly heavy cloud cover today. I do not see the islands. I'm not sure I could, if it was clear.
020:35:38	CC	Roger. Hey, Jack, I got some answers to your question from last night on where Little America is with respect to - on Antarctica.
020:35:51	Schmitt	Go ahead.
020:35:53	CC	There's a - inden - indentation that looks like a gulf that's called the Ross Sea, and on the northwest edge of the Ross Sea is Little America, That's the location of it.
020:36:09	Schmitt	Okay. And that would be the coast of Antarctica that sort of faces New Zealand and Australia. is that correct?
020:36:18	CC	Negative. According to the map I've got, it's - the Ross Sea looks like it would be more facing up towards the South America area. It's actually kind of facing up sort of the middle between Australia and South America, Jack.
020:37:01	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. You cut out, and I presume you meant that - the Ross Sea was facing north - sort of the Pacific between South America and Australia?
020:37:12	CC	That's affirmative, Jack. It's a very sharp indentation or sea or gulf onto the Antarctica.
020:37:29	Schmitt	Okay. I think I know the area you mean, and I'll check it out again when it comes by.
020:37:35	CC	Okay. That's Little America on that west-northwest edge of that Ross Sea. That's where Little America is.
020:37:46	Schmitt	Yes, all that - those names are familiar. I just had forgotten my geography. I'll see if I can recognize them.
020:45:11	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 20 hours 45 minutes. We're occasionally picking up a bit of noise on the Air-to-Ground circuit. This is due to the fact that the spacecraft is in the passive thermal control mode, as it rotates. We're gradually losing contact through one of the OMNI antennas and re-establishing adequate signal strength on another one. And as it moves from antenna to antenna on our coverage, we get the noise. This is a characteristic that becomes more pronounced as the spacecraft gets farther and farther from Earth. Here in Mission Control, the Flight Activities Officer has been actively involved in figuring out how in the flight plan we're going to make up for the 2 hours 40 minutes difference from the flight plan liftoff time and the actual liftoff time. One of two things happen when you lift off late for a mission. Either the events that are called out in the flight plan occur at a different Earth time, Central Standard, Eastern Standard, or Greenwich Mean whichever reference you happen to be using, or the elapsed times change. And the flight planning is all done in terms of elapsed time for the most part. Events that are called out in the flight plan are listed by the amount of time that has elapsed from liftoff. At the present time, in the Apollo 17 flight plan, the amount of time that has elapsed since liftoff is unchanged from the pre-mission flight plan time. However, as, by the time we have approached or reached the Moon, because of the speeded up translunar coast time, occasioned by slightly faster or slightly greater amount of energy that was put in during the translunar injection burn, we'll have to make up 2 hours 40 minutes. In other words, we'll be arriving at the Moon 2 hours 40 minutes earlier than flight plan allowed for. This means that all of the events that are called in the flight plan to occur between now and lunar arrival have to be accomplished in 2 hours 40 minutes less time than the flight plan allows for. This creates no serious problems, because it's a relatively quiet period of the mission. It's very easy, by adjusting sleep period slightly and moving the activities up to accomplish it. However, the flight planning officer, flight activities officer, prefers to accomplish this shift in two increments rather than a single one. And this could be likened to a change of daylight savings time, where you don't want to make the jump too big at once, and you might start interfering in a way that would be noticeable, say, with sleep periods. But by accomplishing it in two segments, the change is relatively insignificant. And what this amounts to is that at two different times in the flight plan, we'll read changes to the crew, and they will go down the flight plan, moving a series of events approximately 1 hour earlier. The second time that this is done, they'll actually be moving events 1 hour 40 minutes earlier and at the same time, we'll update the clocks in Mission Control, the Ground Elapsed Time clocks, which serve as the key to where you are in the flight plan to agree with the changes we have made in the flight plan. And from that point on, the GET clock will be back in synchronization with the flight plan. This clock update is presently scheduled to occur at 66 hours Ground Elapsed Time, rather at 67 hours 40 minutes Ground Elapsed Time, and we'll move the clocks to 66 hours. Apollo 17 at present time is 88,091 nautical miles from EARTH.
020:50:13	Schmitt	Okay, Bob, checking on the Ross Sea, and if I've got her pegged right, it's got a fair amount of open water in it this time of year.
020:50:27	CC	Roger.
020:50:27	Schmitt	Although it's completely surrounded, I think, completely surrounded, I think by portions of the icepack. And off to the west of there, it looks like there's an area that might be - clear of snow, and - does my memory serve me correctly, that that's where McMurdo Sound is, and some of the dry valleys?
020:50:57	CC	I believe so. That's the Little America area right now, all that general vicinity, Jack.
020:51:11	Schmitt	Okay. It looks like the prime recovery area and the Samoa island region is clear, and my guess would be from the fairly subdued zero phase point, that they might have fairly nice seas out there. The boys on the Ticonderoga are probably enjoying themselves immensely, I hope.
020:51:36	CC	Roger.
020:51:42	Schmitt	Indonesia looks like it's having a nice day, with the possible exception of the region over just north of Australia. New Guinea and that area they - some clouds in there. I can't tell whether they are high or low clouds though. They look like they're probably fairly high clouds. But north of New Guinea, there's a strong concentration of clouds. Although small, it looks fairly dense like there might be a little tropical depression in that area.
020:52:20	CC	Roger.
020:52:36	Schmitt	The folks in Carnarvon ought to be enjoying a very nice day.
020:53:30	Schmitt	I've been trying to spot tropical storm Teresa, which is - a couple of days ago was in the Philippines. But I can't - I don't think I quite have that visible to me right now.
020:53:47	CC	Roger, Jack. Say, you might want to put something in the back of your mind here a minute. We made a run of the DSE recording just now of the TLI to get an idea of the quality of the DSE recording, and Gene came through loud and clear. Ron was very weak and almost unreadable, and we never caught you, Jack, in there. We don't - maybe you weren't saying anything during TLI, but we never did catch anything you said.
020:54:17	Schmitt	Okay. I don't recall talking too much during TLI.
020:54:21	CC	Roger. Understand. Now Gene - Gene came through real loud and clear. So whatever technique he was using went on that tape real well.
020:55:26	CC	Hey, Jack; Houston.
020:55:31	Schmitt	Hello.
020:55:33	CC	Hey, Jack. Just a couple more comments on that DSE. I think, as you well know, it's very critical on the position of your - of your boom there, and those areas that you're critical in, why, make sure that you've - you've really got those beauties up or you're talking right in - right into it. And this - this really makes a difference, because the DSE - The volume is - is fairly low, and if you're muddled just the least bit, why, it - it's going to be difficult to pick it up. So talk slow, and - and get right up next to the mike, because I know you - you're doing it. Just some voices come across a little better than others.
020:56:18	Schmitt	Roger, Stu. Thanks for the comments. As a matter of fact, you probably called it just right. I think during - once I got the helmet off, I loosened up my chinstrap, and my mike booms had moved away from my mouth some. And I'll keep that in mind. Thanks for the reminder.
020:56:38	CC	Yes. It's - that's probably the most critical item is that - is the position of those, and this has been true of - in the past, and it just really makes a difference in - in that - being able to pick up the data off the voice.
020:56:54	Schmitt	Roger. I've - Ron and I did some experimentation with that in the chamber, and couldn't agree more. But I sometimes don't remember it. Thank you.
020:57:05	Cernan	Well, Stu, I just - -
020:57:07	Schmitt	I - I
020:57:07	Cernan	- - thought I'd -
020:57:10	Schmitt	Okay. Go ahead, Stu.
020:57:12	CC	No, I was saying I was - I'm sure you - you're aware of that, but I think the fact that the volume is - is down just accentuates the - the problem.
020:57:28	Schmitt	Okay. Gene had something he wanted to ask you.
020:57:31	Cernan	Stu, I - I just thought you'd like to be aware of it, as much time as we've all spent down at the cape, probably May is one of the nicest months down there. However, having had the opportunity to - to be up here during May, I find out that it's not nearly as nice up here.
020:57:53	CC	Okay.
020:57:59	Cernan	And I'd like to - to thank all my friends for that
020:58:03	CC	Okay.
021:03:21	PAO	This is Apollo control at 21 hours 3 minutes. Things continuing to progress smoothly and very quietly here in mission control and aboard the spacecraft. And we'd like to have a bit more discussion of the Ground Elapsed Time update after first making the disclaimer that GET clock updates are not done for the purpose of confusing people; although, I'm sure it seems that way at times. And, by way of clarifying the previous description of this GET update we should point out that the amount of time that the clocks are changed both here and mission control and aboard the spacecraft will be 2 hours and 40 minutes and this clock change is scheduled to occur as mentioned previously at about 65 hours Ground Elapsed Time. In other words when the clocks here in the control center and the clocks in the spacecraft keeping track of the time that has elapsed since liftoff reach 65 hours they will be arbitrarily jumped ahead 2 hours and 40 minutes so that at that point the clocks agree with the flight plan. However, in order to account for these 2 hours and 40 minutes which are suddenly going to disappear from the amount of time available to the crew to accomplish their activities to make it easier on the crew it will be done in two increments. The first increment of 1 hour and the second increment of 1 hour 40 minutes. And, at about the time the second increment of change is made in the flight plan we'll also simultaneously update the clocks. Apollo 17 at this time 88,909 nautical miles from Earth and the velocity continuing to decrease gradually down now to 5,603 feet per second. Very little activity is scheduled in the flight plan between now and the time the crew begins it's rest period. This day aboard the spacecraft has been planned as a relatively short one recognizing that the crew would not get a great deal of sleep on that very long - as a result of the very long launch day. And a relatively short sleep period following. This day was intentionally kept short. They're now - should be completing their eat period although they really have nothing showing in the flight plan until about 22 hours or about another hour from now where they have alloted time for exercise. They will be changing the lithium hydroxide canisters that remove carbon dioxide from the spacecraft cabin atmosphere. They will be realigning the spacecraft platform the stable platform that's used as an attitude reference by the guidance navigation and control system. Then they have one more eat period and go through the pre-sleep checklist beginning an 8 hour rest period at about 25 hours Ground Elapsed Time or a little less than 4 hours from now.
021:10:18	Schmitt	Bob, you with me?
021:10:24	CC	Roger. We wouldn't go away, Jack. We're listening. Did you call?
021:10:29	Schmitt	Well, I just - Yes, I almost lost a pass here, and just a couple more words about Australia. As a - as a general landmass, it's red. Very strong red hues, except for the north and eastern coasts, where that red gradually merges into a greenish-gray. It's as - as red as portions of - of northern Africa appeared to be yesterday.
021:11:12	CC	Roger.
021:11:13	Schmitt	Very striking color. It would be more of an orange-red, really, with brown subduing it. It's not - obviously not crimson or anything like that.
021:11:29	CC	You think it's a function of Sun angle Jack? Or is it just - just a red like we see out in New Mexico area sometimes - some of the areas?
021:11:37	Schmitt	Yes. No, it's not Sun angle, because that'll hold a good red color right - right in towards sunset or sunrise. It's - it's due primarily, I'm sure, like most desert areas, to the oxidation of the iron-bearing minerals in the sands and rocks in those regions.
021:11:58	CC	Roger.
021:11:59	Schmitt	Getting limonite and hematite. Little geology thrown in there, Bob. Sorry.
021:12:08	CC	That's all right. Got to keep you warmed up for the next couple of days.
021:12:30	Schmitt	Well, I think the Flight Plan will probably keep me warmed up, too.
021:12:35	CC	Roger. We thought that time around T&D was just outstanding.
021:12:44	Cernan	Hey, Bob. We - I think we've pretty well got impressions from you down there on that - on that night launch. I might give you a few of mine.
021:12:54	CC	Go ahead, Gene.
021:13:34	CC	17, Houston. Are you there? You're right on the edge, if you read me. We're getting a lot of static. If you'll just hang on a minute, we'll be back into some calm air.
021:13:59	CC	Gene, Houston. Go ahead.
021:14:47	CC	17, Houston.
021:14:49	Cernan	Go ahead.
021:14:50	CC	We're just standing by for your comments you wanted to make. I think we lost comm there a minute. We're back with you.
021:14:58	Cernan	Okay, Bob. The entire boost itself was not unlike what you've heard and what Stu down there understands from the physical cues, and what have you. But the significant part of going at night is that as soon as we did have ignition down there in the bottom of the S-IC stack - even though I only have a little slit out of - out of the rendezvous window here, and Ron doesn't have much of a hole in the boost protective cover out of the hatch window, we could definitely confirm ignition because we could see the reflected light on out through in front of us. It was by no means blinding, of course; we had the cockpit pretty well lit up. We - as soon as we lifted off, that light immediately went behind us. We came into just S-IC staging, and I had an opportunity to say, "I told you so," to Jack and Ron. It was just like the great train wrecks of the past. I definitely could see the S-II ignite; and, then, of course, the - I could see the significance of the reflection through the window, besides all the other cues we had for ignition, very much like the S-IC lit up the windows on the stack. Tower jett was pretty spectacular. I could see - the entire boost protective cover and some flame from somewhere - I'm not sure - maybe it was through the hole in the windows - but I could definitely see it. Of course, it disappeared in short order. When the S-II shut down, the delay time between shutdown there and the S-IVB igniting, the entire - the entire flame overtook us, and we literally through - flew through the S-II flame when the S-IVB ignited, if you can imagine that. It's very similar to the Titan staging, where you actually fly through the fireball on the S-II. And that's something you never see - none of those things you ever see quite that way in daylight. On the S-IV, I could see - Of course, once we got going, I couldn't see any light from that plume again, but we could see the APS firing all the way through the burn. And once we got in orbit, as other guys have seen, you could see the APS firing at night without any difficulty. One of the most significant things about TLI is the fact that we, of course, started at night and flew right on up and through a sunrise, which in itself was a pretty spectacular thing. But, when you do it during a TLI burn, it even adds a little bit of momentum to your effort.
021:18:17	CC	Roger, Gene. Any comment you might make on the possibility of picking up your yaw, if you'd lost your platform at that time - remember the discussion we had about the yaw in the late - like a Mode IV or something like that?
021:18:32	Cernan	Yes, Bob. I not only will comment - I was aware of it, and I was looking for it. And during parts of the S-II and parts of the S-IVB burn, I even turned the lights down in the cockpit - in hopes that I could see stars out there; but I could not make out a one. Ron, I think, may have saw Saturn out the overhead hatch; but looking through the rendezvous window, during a boost phase and during a time-critical phase like a Mode II or Mode IV, I am very much afraid that we would not have been able to pick up that reference.
021:19:08	CC	Roger.
021:19:11	Cernan	As I remember it, as low as I had the interior lights there for a period of time - and I didn't want to keep them that low, of course - to see if I could get adapted very fast because we were in a dynamic phase of the burn. But my window just gave me a very deep purplish hue, a hue of which I could not, literally, see through to look to see any stars at all. Now, that may have been due to the very low intensity of our interior flood lights.
021:19:45	CC	Roger, Gene.
021:20:01	Schmitt	Bob, this is Jack. A little lay impression there. I think I - saw just about everything Gene was talking about - as far as his description - and felt like it was - although everything was an amazing experience, each one in itself, after each one was over, you could think back and say, "Yes, that's what other guys said it was like." The old Saturn V has got to be a pretty consistently performing vehicle. But - with the added night-time contrast, I think it made it probably the best ride any three guys have ever had.
021:20:45	CC	Roger.
021:20:48	Cernan	Bob, I might add, that the S-I was, as usual, pretty shakey on lift-off. I saw all the maneuvers as I called them out - the yaw and small reverse roll. Going through Max q, I got up to 25 percent; but my yaw attitude error was zero and my pitch attitude error probably wasn't even at - oh, certainly less than 2 degrees. After Max q, she smoothed out by comparison quite a bit ; and the S-II was a very quiet ride, a very smooth ride. However, you are always aware, due to just a little rumbling out in the S-IVB, that she was still burning for you. The S-IVB, I think, was just a continually - rumble but smooth or consistent ride, all the way through TLI.
021:21:54	CC	Roger.
021:21:56	Schmitt	Gene I think one of the big things that impressed me was the - how instantaneous the decelerations were of each one of the boosters when they cut off. That included the S-IV TLI cut-off. No physical appreciation of tailoff at all.
021:22:38	Schmitt	And, Bob, from my rendez - from the right-hand rendezvous window when the tower jett occurred, there seemed to be a lot of burning particles streaming away from it. I could not see - did not notice or remember seeing the actual cover or tower itself; but I - we were inside the cone of the burn and with a lot of streaming. It looked very much like a sky rocket - portion of one at any rate. Reminded me of the Fourth of July out in Silver City a few years ago.
021:23:16	CC	Roger. Say, any time you got your Flight Plan handy, I've got a discussion here I'd like to run through with you on the - how we're going to recover those 2 hours and 40 minutes from the launch delay - and you'll need to copy it into the Flight Plan. And then just wanted - want you to be advised, we're not happy with the PTC. We get a half angle of about 17 degrees; and so sometime after the P52 coming up at 23:00, we'll want to do another PTC, or initiate PTC again.
021:23:54	Cernan	Well, that was the commander who initiated PTC, and I've already heard about that.
021:24:00	Evans	(Laughter) You bet he has. Okay. We've got the Flight Plan here, Bob. Which part of it are you talking about ...?
021:24:06	CC	Well, let's just talk some words here for a minute, and then I'll go through some specifics that you can just write down on a page because you don't want to do it until a little later. Okay, what we're going to set up here - You will arrive at lunar orbit at the same GMT time. The landing Sun angle - Sun elevation angle - and the camera settings and everything will be unchanged when you get to lunar orbit. To compensate for the 2 hour 40 minute late launch, we're going to hack 2 hours and 40 minutes out of the timeline. And we're going to - They'll be out of the TLC timeline - and we're going to do it in two groups. And this is where you might want to start copying now, Ron. Delete 1 hour from 46 to 47. From 46 to 47, we're just going to delete the activities that are presently scheduled at 46:30 to 47:00, you'll perform at 45 - move those to 45. Let me read that again. Delete 1 hour from 46:00 to 47:00. The activities that are listed at 46:30 to 47:00, perform at 45:00.
021:25:31	Evans	Okay, Bob, looks like we delete 1 hour from 46 to 47 hours. And then the activities that are at 46:30, we'll do those at 45:00.
021:25:40	CC	Roger, Ron. And then starting at 47, just take - just scratch 1 hour off of each time, just subtract 1 hour from each of those times up through 66 hours. Just subtract 1 hour from 47 up through 66.
021:26:10	Evans	Okay, we can do that. Subtract 1 hour from 47 through 66 hours.
021:26:14	CC	Okay. And then just for your information - you won't have to do it - but we're going to play the old simulator step-ahead game at 66 hours of the old time, which will be 65 hours of the new time. So however you want to call it, we'll call you; and we're going to sync you up at 67:40 at that point. We'll play the old step-ahead game there.
021:26:33	Cernan	Okay, Bob. That means that you're not going to actually do any clock updates or syncs until - until somewhere in the 60's there and not in the 40's.
021:26:46	CC	Roger. It'll be 65 hours of the new time or 66 hours under the old time; depends on how you want to look at it. But that's when we'll sync you up.
021:26:55	Cernan	Okay.
021:26:57	CC	You'll be in sync all the way out to that time; just - we're just going to delete and jump you to 67:40.
021:27:06	SC	Okay.
021:27:10	CC	And just another note of interest - You don't have to write this down - what - let's see; I'll read it to you. The awake periods will be - on day 3, you'll be 15 hours, 8 hours sleep starting at 11:33 CST; then at day 4, you'll be 14 and 20 hours, with 8 hours sleep. So - it actually just shortens a couple days there.
021:27:37	Evans	Okay. Mighty fine.
021:27:45	CC	The beauty of that - that Tommy came up with on that, Ron - is that all you have to do is go subtract those 1 hours and no more reading or anything else; just subtract them and we're in business.
021:27:57	Evans	Yes, it looks real fine.
021:28:02	CC	We're going to give Tommy a gold star for that one.
021:28:07	Evans	(Laughter) You bet.
021:28:24	Schmitt	(Cough) Bob, this is Jack. I'm going to try and get a little exercise. I'd be interested to know how high I can get my heart rate just fooling around up here.
021:28:33	CC	Okay, if we can - We'll keep you posted, Jack.
021:28:59	Cernan	Bob, just to keep you and the people there thinking a little bit, today is a relatively short day; but it is a good day because it gives us a chance to again get acclimated finish our stowage and just generally go through all the things that have to be gone through for the rest of the mission. We've got 3 eating days today, and judging from what we're thinking and talking about now - that the last two are going to be sort of stretched into one eating period because three meals on this particular day just is not really going to be stomachable.
021:29:47	CC	Roger. We understand that.
021:29:57	SC	I think you'll find out that our eating and drinking, for the most part, is starting off relatively slow; but - I think we'll pick it up here by tomorrow.
021:30:12	CC	Roger.
021:33:04	Cernan	Bob, one other thing while I'm thinking about it. The PU shifts were all noticeable, but probably the one that really caught me a little bit by surprise was the PU shift on the S-IVB during - during TLI.
021:33:20	CC	Roger.
021:33:23	Cernan	It just felt like you lit in the other burner.
021:33:27	CC	Roger. Understand.
021:33:47	CC	Just for Jack's information, you're running in the 80s on your heartbeat. We saw a 91 or 2 there for a few minutes. Are you working - still working out?
021:33:59	Schmitt	(Laughter) Yes. That's sort of discouraging.
021:34:04	CC	I'm sorry, babe (laughter).
021:34:11	Cernan	Hey, Bob, what was Jack running before he started that?
021:34:20	CC	He was running in the 60s; the count's somewhere in the mid 60s.
021:34:26	Cernan	Okay.
021:35:15	CC	Okay, Jack. You're running about 105 and 103 right now.
021:36:02	CC	Kind of interesting, Jack. You slowed down, and then you're back up to 105 right now. Now you're slowing down again.
021:37:00	PAO	Flight surgeon John Zeigelschmitt is watching the heart rate of Jack Schmitt, as Jack exercises aboard the spacecraft using a modified exerciser, that consists primarily of a cylinder and a cord that comes out of it allows him to adjust the amount of tension or resistance to pull that the device has, and there are a variety of ways in which it can be used, allowing him to pull against the adjustable tension - this bungee like device - and he's gotten his heart rate up somewhat in excess of 100 beats per minute .
021:39:55	Cernan	Hello, Houston; 17.
021:39:55	CC	Go ahead, 17.
021:39:55	CC	Go ahead, 17; this is Houston.
021:39:55	Cernan	Hello, Houston; this is 17.
021:39:55	CC	Roger. Go ahead.
021:39:55	CC	17, Houston. Go ahead.
021:39:55	Cernan	Hello, Houston; this is 17-
021:39:55	CC	Roger, 17. Go ahead. Roger, 17. Go ahead.
021:41:25	CC	Hello, 17; Houston. You read?
021:41:28	CT	Honeysuckle comm tech, Houston comm tech, net 1. Goddard voice, Houston comm tech, net 1.
021:41:38	CT	Goddard voice.
021:41:39	CT	Roger, Goddard. I'm reading you loud and clear, Honeysuckle. I'm not getting to him.
021:41:44	Cernan	Hello, Houston; this is America. Over.
021:41:47	CC	America, Houston. Stand by. If you read us, don't change anything in the cockpit yet.
021:41:53	CT	17, Honeysuckle.
021:41:56	CT	Roger, Honeysuckle. I read you - -
021:41:57	Evans	Hello, Honeysuckle. 17's reading you loud and clear.
021:42:00	CT	Roger. We have a comm outage and I'll be right with you.
021:42:05	Evans	Okay. Very fine. How are things down there today?
021:42:08	CT	Fine, your weather report was beautiful. ...
021:42:14	Schmitt	Oh, your country looks beautiful from here.
021:42:30	CC	Okay, 17; Houston. How do you read now?
021:42:36	Cernan	We got you, Bob.
021:42:37	CC	Okay. That was our network problem, not your problem onboard.
021:42:43	Cernan	Okay thank you, I just figured out what happened on my PTC. Here - with his exercises, Jack is shaking all of America in all three axes, here.
021:42:54	CC	Roger. He finally got to 115 on the heart rate.
021:43:01	Schmitt	Yes, my rate needles are bouncing back and forth a half a degree (laughter).
021:43:04	CC	Roger. Got to find something to pin it on.
021:44:55	CC	Jack. Surgeon over here says you got a 120 on the heartbeat for a moment there - 122 right now. Okay, 130, Jack. 130. 140 , Jack, 140.
021:46:16	PAO	The numbers reported to Jack Schmitt by CAPCOM are his heart rate. And you heard him report a heart rate up to about 140 beats per minute as Jack is apparently continuing to exercise vigorously with the onboard exerciser. This is aimed among other things at keeping the cardio vascular system which tends to get lazy in zero gravity in condition.
021:47:25	CC	17, we've got a serious one here. You might be interested. All that exercise banging around in there has destratified tank 3 O2, so it stirred it all up good.
021:47:38	Schmitt	Yes, glad we brought him along then. We found some use for him. Once an EECOM, always an EECOM. I have to cre - create my own G in order to run in place.
021:47:55	CC	Roger.
021:48:01	Schmitt	How high up did the heart rate get, Bob?
021:48:05	CC	We got you at 140, Jack. Were you running in place? is that - -
021:48:09	Schmitt	140 was - Yes, I was - I'm underneath the right-hand couch holding on to the main Y-Y strut with my hands and running against the LEB.
021:48:23	CC	Roger. It worked real well. 140 and you were running in the mid-60's, so you picked up about - almost 70 beats there, no problem. The surgeon is very happy.
021:48:34	Schmitt	Roger. (Laughter) Well, I'm happy too. You know, it took a while to find a technique I was - initially, I got up to 90 with just isometrics - pushing against the couch, and the running is obviously what it takes .
021:48:55	CC	Roger.
021:48:55	Schmitt	But I don't - Bob, I don't I really don't feel - I guess I lost you.
021:51:38	Schmitt	Hello, Houston; 17. You still there?
021:51:41	CC	Roger. We're with you. We had a little comm problem there as - you know, coning on this - as we were changing on the antenna - but we're with you.
021:51:52	Schmitt	Okay. What's the heartrate right now?
021:51:57	CC	Right at - Stand by. We had a data dropout, Jack, that's why I'm holding up. And it just came on and we'll tell you in a second here. About 60, Jack. Right about 60 even.
021:52:23	Schmitt	Okay. That's where I was when I started, so that's - you certainly recover fast. I don't know whether that's faster than in one G or not.
021:52:35	CC	Well, we're happy with it - the Surgeon is happy with it, so it's good.
021:52:40	Schmitt	Well, I just - How does that compare - do they have any data on how that compares with the recovery - say, the 5 minute recovery time on the ergometer?
021:52:51	CC	We can look it up, Jack, if you're interested. We - we'll have to check your records, they don't have it right in front of us.
021:52:57	Schmitt	Well, no big deal, just curious.
021:52:59	CC	Roger.
021:55:50	CC	Jack, just for your information - the Surgeons pulled out the recovery rate data and it's the same with our data, which is a little rough here. It's the same for zero G as your one G ergometer data.
021:56:12	Schmitt	Okay. That's very interesting.
021:56:15	CC	Roger.
021:59:46	Schmitt	Bob, since we've got a few moments to talk - which I know we won't have later in the mission. Something I don't ever remember happening, but it's happening now in the windows. That's the 1, 3, and 5, but not 2 and 4, is that in the center of the window about 6 or 8 inches in diameter, as you come through the night side of the rotation, you pick up a very light - oh, you might call it even a frost. Very light frost on the window - more like a - a moisture frost, film of moisture, or film of frost - not very thick like crystals at all. As you come through the sunlight, it tends to sublime away, but never - you never fully lose it until you go back into darkness again. The very artistic definite ice crystals that we had on my number 1 window over here yesterday - I think we reported to you this morning that they were gone or they sublimed away. But the impression they left on the window is still there; it's very sharp and very evident.
022:01:16	CC	Roger. We copy that.
022:02:38	Schmitt	Bob, I don't know whether you were copying Honeysuckle's call to us, while you lost comm there for a while.
022:02:45	CC	Roger. We copy.
022:02:46	Schmitt	But they said that they had - Okay.
022:02:55	CC	They kind of concurred with your - -
022:02:56	Schmitt	Okay - -
022:02:57	CC	- - weather report there, Jack.
022:03:00	Schmitt	Oh, lucky guess. I might say that the sub - the zero phase point that we're looking at is right at the northeast coast of Australia, and it's much brighter. Very - it's a very bright point now - oh, it's hard to say how far across. But, quite unlike what I mentioned being in the vicinity of the Samoan islands earlier. And it's right at the shore, and it could be just that the shore area has somewhat choppier seas. So maybe - maybe the brightness of that point is a function of sea state, although I don't know exactly what type of seas it would take to brighten it up. I suspect choppy seas are better than long swells.
022:03:55	CC	Roger, Jack.
022:04:15	Schmitt	That front is - seems to have slowed down its progress. It's about in the same position, possibly slightly farther north than when I started talking about it this morning. The wave that has - seems to be developing off the - now off the southwest coast of New Zealand is much more pronounced than it was. Definitely seems to now have a slight cyclonic pattern - clockwise pattern. And I wouldn't be surprised if the next couple of days that moves along the front over towards Sydney. And maybe a little farther north than that might - Brisbane is probably more likely.
022:05:06	CC	Roger, Jack.
022:05:11	Schmitt	Except I got the movement wrong again. Although it does seem to have progressed west from New Zealand.
022:05:26	CC	Roger.
022:05:31	Schmitt	I take back what I said about forecasting Sydney's weather. I think that will - I would suspect that would move to the northeast like - now that I look - it seems like an earlier front, which is partly dissipated, had the same kind of motion, and now lies considerably north and east of the one I've been talking about.
022:05:58	CC	Roger.
022:06:44	Schmitt	Thinking back on some weather briefings we had last week, Bob - Are you there?
022:06:49	CC	That's affirmative.
022:06:54	Schmitt	I'll talk to you later. I think you're - We're losing you for a little bit here.
022:06:59	CC	Okay, Jack. We're reading you loud and clear right now. Oh, you're going out a little bit now.
022:10:33	Schmitt	You back with us, Bob?
022:10:36	CC	That's affirmative.
022:10:41	Schmitt	Okay, I was going to try to recover there from that last few statements. As I recall, the weather briefings that we had at the Cape last week, that - talking with Ken Nabor and Jim Nicholson down there, that the patterns we were seeing from the satellite pictures in their forecast - or analysis anyway, charts in the New Zealand part of the Pacific, those waves formed along the front would move north and then curve east. And that appears to be the pattern that was visible in one of the older fronts. And I suspect if that pattern would hold with the wave that's developed off the coast - right on the coast of New Zealand now, that it might move on up the western coast of New Zealand. We'll probably have a chance to watch that the next few days and see what happens to it.
022:11:49	CC	Roger, Jack.
022:12:40	Cernan	Houston, how are you reading now?
022:12:42	CC	Reading you loud and clear.
022:12:46	Cernan	Okay, Bob. As I look at the clock, we're - just 24 hours ago we were about within our hold somewhere. For this period yesterday we were in our hold, and I think it goes without saying; but we'd sure like to pass on our bit of gratitude and thanks for the response that the people down at the Cape came up with. And particularly at Marshall. I think we all knew no one would be going anywhere unless everyone was satisfied that we were going all the way. And that's certainly the way we felt, but we do want to thank everybody who had a part in making that come true.
022:13:28	CC	Roger, Gene. I think it was a superb show between the Cape and Marshall and Houston and probably even Goddard, with the Network and just about everybody concerned, really, had to do some work there to bring it off. And it went off real smoothly.
022:13:46	Cernan	Yes. After flying with Stafford a couple of times and having that happen a few times back, I thought maybe he was aboard.
022:13:54	CC	(Laughter) Okay. I think that was a first for getting a Saturn V to 30 seconds before ignition and - or rather actually 30 seconds before liftoff and holding there.
022:14:12	Cernan	It got mighty quiet onboard about 30 seconds.
022:14:16	CC	I sure imagine.
022:14:19	Schmitt	We all felt like old hands the second time around, though.
022:14:23	CC	Roger.
022:14:28	Cernan	Bob, I've been at that 30-second count one other time and it's no different the second time around.
022:14:36	CC	Roger.
022:14:40	Cernan	But we do appreciate the work, and I think it's typical of - of what made this manned space program such a super program. The response of people like that.
022:14:52	CC	We concur with that, Gene, wholeheartedly.
022:15:13	Cernan	And with that in mind, tell everyone to stick around because there's a lot yet to be done.
022:15:18	CC	You better believe it.
022:20:20	Schmitt	The old accumulator cycle again, I guess, gang.
022:20:25	CC	Roger. We're seeing it. It looks like you got a MASTER ALARM. is that affirm?
022:20:35	Schmitt	Yes, sir. That's how we tell these days. Although it doesn't happen all the time, and I guess as long as - Whenever we have that WASTE VENT, CLOSED, we probably wouldn't be bothered by it at night.
022:20:49	CC	Roger. That's - that's our feelings here, Jack.
022:21:16	CC	Say, Gene and Ron, I talked to your fraus on the phone here a little while ago, and they gave me a very interesting observation you might appreciate. They were standing close to some water when launch and they noticed that when the booster lit up, something scared all the fish because the water literally began to boil with fish jumping from the light, I guess, or from the shock wave or something. It was - made a very distinct impression because that's the first thing both of them told me about.
022:21:54	Evans	Yes, that's pretty neat.
022:21:58	CC	A neat way to go scare up the fish, I guess.
022:22:02	Evans	(Laughter) Right.
022:22:14	Cernan	How are they doing today, Bob?
022:22:17	CC	Really fine, really fine. They're just - like I said, they're just really tickled pink, and Barbara said that she wants you to know she's going into quarantine until after the weekend here, until after landing.
022:22:31	Cernan	If she goes into quarantine, it'll be a space first
022:22:34	CC	Roger.
022:22:44	CC	You got to be careful about all this.
022:22:45	Cernan	Well, you know what to tell them -
022:22:49	Cernan	Go ahead, Bob.
022:22:49	CC	You got to be careful now - The hotboxes are open - the hotlines are open at the houses there, so everything you say is being listened to.
022:23:03	Cernan	Yes; okay. In that case, just want to say hello and we're having a super good time looking forward to what's coming, and we thank you for the news, Robert.
022:23:19	CC	Roger.
022:23:24	Cernan	And my impression of the world, philosophically, I suppose you'll be getting from time to time, but it sure hasn't changed.
022:23:32	CC	Roger, Gene.
022:23:33	Cernan	It's sure beautiful. It's sure beautiful and, looking back at it, there's several billion people who have got a lot to work for because it's one of the most beautiful sights we've ever seen here.
022:23:51	CC	Roger, Gene. You guys are sounding great and doing real great. We're pressing right on here.
022:23:59	Cernan	I just want to emphasize, Bob, that these first 2 days - of course, yesterday was a pretty good day, but today we're catching up and - and, as I say, on the food consumption, don't be expecting too much.
022:24:14	CC	Roger.
022:24:27	Cernan	Acclimation and familiarity, and stowage, and preparation, and enjoyment and relaxation - are ready to call it a day today, which is probably the most ideal day in the Flight Plan to put it, because it's probably the only one we'll have.
022:24:43	CC	Roger.
022:24:47	Cernan	Not that they aren't all going to be enjoyable.
022:24:52	Schmitt	Hey, Bob, your hourly weather report is due and - I'll wait awhile (laughter). I keep losing your comm.
022:25:04	CC	Okay.
022:25:56	Schmitt	Bob, you there?
022:25:58	CC	Roger, Jack. We're standing by.
022:26:02	Schmitt	Okay, I had a quick - quick look and just to bring you up to date, we're starting to be able to see the coast of Asia. The Philippines are wide open today. And the - that tropical storm Theresa that I mentioned I thought I could see - indeed, I'm sure that's what that little concentrated mass of clouds was north of New Guinea. And, I suspect, although I didn't get a good fix on it, that the folks in Guam may be in for some heavy weather.
022:26:37	CC	Roger.
022:27:27	Schmitt	Oh, and, Bob, I got another pair of pictures. And that would be up to 134.
022:27:27	CC	Roger. That's on November November, is that affirm?
022:27:31	Schmitt	That's affirm.
022:27:32	CC	... Good show.
022:27:41	Schmitt	And that was taken - the last pass, about 10 minutes ago, if you want to keep track of GET.
022:27:48	CC	Roger. Thanks, Jack; I'm doing that.
022:28:22	CC	Just for some information for Ron, in particular. We've evaluated the data from the mapping camera and the pan camera cycling there and it looks real good. Everything looks right normal.
022:28:34	Evans	Hey, that's outstanding. Good deal.
022:34:47	Schmitt	Bob, how do you read 17?
022:34:51	KRANZ	17, read you 5 by.
022:34:59	Schmitt	That's the strangest sounding Bob I ever heard.
022:35:04	KRANZ	He's taking a short break.
022:35:06	Schmitt	Okay. Good. Nice to talk with you. Hey, I don't know whether you were around, Gene, the other day when I was talking about the circulation patterns around Antarctica. We were looking then at the Indian Ocean - actually, South Atlantic in the Indian Ocean region. And you see the same pattern at about the same latitude, say 60 degrees south, where all the linear cloud patterns which presumably are - reflect the various cold fronts have - are arcuate with their convex sides, or more actually, almost pointed sides are all lined up in a west-to-east direction around that latitude. It's quite a spectacular appearing circulation pattern. And the little wave that I mentioned on New Zealand seems to be beginning to form another arrow or another convex point on that front that's fitting right into the same circulation pattern.
022:36:28	KRANZ	Okay, copy.
022:36:32	Schmitt	That would make four of those major convex fronts that I can see from this view crossing - south of Australia up into the South Pacific.
022:36:49	KRANZ	Okay.
022:37:04	Schmitt	On - on that tropical storm that was Theresa, I don't know whether they're still calling it now - that now, but I'm not sure it may be a little south of Guam. Guam may not be in trouble with that one.
022:37:21	KRANZ	It looks like it's just a bit to the west of Manila there - about 5 or 6 degrees, no more than that about. It looks like it's about 5 degrees west of Manila and about 5 degrees south. And it is still called Theresa.
022:39:37	Schmitt	Okay, Gene, if you're still there, I don't like to argue with you but I think our analysis chart is a little more up to date.
022:39:44	KRANZ	Okay.
022:39:45	Schmitt	That center - that area that you just mentioned is very clear now - east of the Philippines. Did you say west or east of the Philippines?
022:39:55	KRANZ	West of the Philippines.
022:40:01	Schmitt	Okay, that area that you mentioned, 5 degrees east, is very clear and the center of the - what appears to be the storm that I'm speaking of, would be about 142 longitude and maybe 8 degrees north latitude.
022:40:19	KRANZ	Okay.
022:40:19	Schmitt	Which would put it south of Guam.
022:40:22	KRANZ	Okay, yes, you're over in the area between Guam and the Carolines, then.
022:40:26	Schmitt	Say again, Gene?
022:40:27	KRANZ	You're over in the area between Guam and the Carolines, then. You're saying it would be just about due west of the Carolines, then. Okay.
022:40:38	Schmitt	Yes, you're probably looking at a - oh, I don't know - maybe a what - a 12-hour old prog, or something?
022:40:44	KRANZ	Yes, that's the one I had for launch date.
022:40:49	Schmitt	Okay. Well, it's - it's - moved quite a bit now, and I guess it's the same storm; still seems to be very well organized but quite concentrated and small.
022:41:02	KRANZ	Okay. I'll get a new prog in and compare your estimate there.
022:41:10	Schmitt	Okay. I think that's pretty good - those - 142 and 8 degrees would be pretty good center of that storm. I've got some pretty good coor - I can see Mindanao, and I can see the - let's see - just a second - what is that on Australia?
022:41:52	Schmitt	Yes, of course, that is Port Moresby. I can see that point there, and between those two - I can pin that one down probably within a couple of degrees.
022:42:02	KRANZ	Okay. We'll get a satellite photo and bring it in here in just a bit.
022:42:54	PAO	The conversation over the past few minutes has been between Flight Director, Gene Kranz, and Jack Schmitt. Apollo 17 at this time, almost directly above the northeast coast of Australia - some 94,000 nautical miles from earth.
022:50:00	Schmitt	Houston, canister number 4 is in Bravo now.
022:50:09	CC	Roger. We copy that.
022:56:11	Schmitt	Houston, 17.
022:56:24	CC	Go ahead, 17.
022:56:33	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. That storm off the - just off the southwest coast of New Zealand is still intensifying and has both high and low level clouds as you can see by shadow lines. It looks like it may go into pretty - pretty fair storm system. Borneo is very clear today; and, as is the Philippines. And as I mentioned, there's a - looks like a very strong frontal system that stretches from, oh, let's say, the south coast of - or southeast coast of Vietnam up - up between and across Tai - between the Philippines and Taiwan and across Taiwan. And right along, and I can't tell I think, just off - just south of Japan. I can't tell whether Japan is in the front or not. I'll look at it some more. The strongest storm center that I can see on that is - is way north, and probably - Hokkaido is - has a fair amount of weather from that storm system. There seems to be a tropical depression just north of Borneo. A very strong circulation system north of Borneo and, I guess, just south of - of Vietnam.
022:56:34	CC	Roger.
022:56:36	Schmitt	Probably south - probably southeast. I hadn't noticed it before, but it's extremely concentrated northern hemisphere cycl - cyclone pattern. I don't know whether that's on your prog or not. That's not what's left of Sally, is it?
022:58:58	CC	Stand by. Let me look at the prog over here a sec. Okay. We - it doesn't show on the old one; the new one is coming in there shortly, Jack.
022:59:07	Schmitt	Okay. If that is a developing depression, it's approaching Luzon and not very far away - 2 or 3 degrees of longitude now, although Luzon is clear.
022:59:25	CC	Roger.
022:59:36	Schmitt	I can see Korea quite well, Bob. It's clear today.
022:59:43	CC	Yes, we - we've got the fronts. The leading edge of the front on our prog was past Korea and on Japan, and you've got it moving quite a bit further east there.
022:59:54	Schmitt	Well, I'm not absolutely sure -
022:59:57	Schmitt	MASTER ALARM on the accumulator.
023:00:01	CC	Roger. We copy.
023:00:06	Schmitt	I can't make out Japan spe - specifically yet; but it's clearly past Korea, and, by - by inspection, it looks like it would be also past Japan by now, the trailing edge of the front. However, the circulation center on farther northeast may be affecting Hokkaido, as I said.
023:00:33	CC	Roger. Like I said, the front on the old prog for yesterday showed that front on the other side of Japan, so it's moved across pretty well.
023:00:59	Schmitt	As I recall, they had a tropical storm called Sally that went into - ... a few days ago, and so I suspect this new one that seems - that I think I see between Borneo and Vietnam maybe something else; a new depression or I may be - be fooled by it.
023:01:49	Schmitt	Mainland China, Bob, was the last pass here. I can't see the Ear - see the Earth now, but Mainland China looked like it was clear as far as I could see. There might be another front quite a ways inland, but that gets right at the LM, and I can't tell. But Korea, Yellow Sea, and the regions of China south of there - Shanghai , Nanking and those places are - look as if they are quite clear today. I'll check that again next time around.
023:02:21	CC	Roger.
023:02:28	CC	And, Jack, we are ready to terminate the charge on BATTERY B and start the charge on BATTERY A.
023:02:38	Schmitt	Okay. That's in work.
023:03:55	Schmitt	Houston, for your information, system test 7A is about 0.6.
023:04:02	CC	Say that again, Jack. I missed that. 0.6 on system test 7A?
023:04:07	Schmitt	That's affirm. Battery compartment pressure.
023:04:12	CC	Thank you, Jack.
023:04:45	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. BATTERY A is being charged now.
023:04:51	CC	Roger, Jack.
023:06:30	Schmitt	Bob, you got any of the LMies in there today?
023:06:36	CC	Any of the LMies? Roger. They're all sitting by. Just gave me a big thumbs up, Jack.
023:06:44	Schmitt	Okay. Give them a thumbs up on the rendezvous radar antenna. It looks real good.
023:06:55	CC	Roger.
023:06:57	Schmitt	I'm nose-to-nose with it practically here at about 2 feet, and it's extremely clean. And I see absolutely no sign of any - anything abnormal with it.
023:07:18	CC	Roger.
023:07:31	Schmitt	Matter of fact, compared to some of the flaking problems and things like that we've heard about in the past, I never saw a cleaner piece of hardware that that LM looks right now.
023:07:41	CC	Roger.
023:07:50	Schmitt	Appropriately, finally we're getting - we're starting to use it during the Christmas season. It sure looks like a Christmas package with all the orange tape on it.
023:07:59	CC	Roger.
023:08:08	CC	Ron, we got your NOUN - NOUN 05.
023:08:13	Evans	Okay. I'll go ahead and accept that one this time.
023:08:59	CC	We got the 9 degrees, Ron. You can torque.
023:09:06	Evans	Okay. I'll torque at 940.
023:09:14	CC	Okay. We got it.
023:09:26	CC	And, Jack, we've been looking at our records. We don't have a previous SYSTEMS TEST reading for 7 Alfa. Do you recall any previous readings on that one?
023:10:03	Schmitt	Okay, that looks like another accumulator cycle - got a MASTER ALARM.
023:10:15	CC	We dropped data just then, Jack, so we can't concur or confirm it. That's exactly the right time - -
023:10:25	Schmitt	... all right.
023:10:34	Schmitt	Bob, you cut out about your SYSTEMS TEST meter discussion.
023:10:38	CC	Roger, Jack. Do you have any previous 7 Alfa readings? We don't have any in our log here written. We're just wondering what the past readings on that was.
023:10:51	Schmitt	No, I think that was the first one we would have been called to make after a battery charge, right?
023:10:57	CC	That's affirm, Jack.
023:11:28	CC	Go ahead, Jack. I - you're coming in very weak.
023:11:35	Schmitt	Well, I didn't intend to be transmitting. We were just discussing the battery vent and things. We may have missed something in the dump checklist. We'll check it out.
023:11:44	CC	No, sir. We don't think so. We just thought may you might have read it earlier.
023:11:50	Schmitt	Oh, yes, you want the battery vent - it should be closed now, right?
023:11:56	CC	Stand by, Jack.
023:12:00	Schmitt	Okay. Ron says it ought to be open.
023:12:02	CC	That - that's affirm - -.
023:12:03	Schmitt	... So let me check the checklist.
023:12:04	CC	- - it should be open. That - there's no question about that. It should be open.
023:12:09	Schmitt	Okay. It's open.
023:12:12	CC	Really, there's no problem, Jack. It should be open, but the value appears a bit low to us, and we'd like to read it again before you go to sleep. We may want to close it. And a nominal reading would be 1.7 - -
023:12:31	Schmitt	Okay. We - we closed it when we were doing all our dumping some time back and neglected to open it again. So, it was closed when I gave you the reading, and it has been closed during some 2 hours, anyway. I'll - you can figure out how long.
023:12:52	CC	Okay. We - we copy that.
023:13:26	CC	Jack, would you mind opening the vent and watching the system meter concurrently with it?
023:13:38	Schmitt	Stand by.
023:14:39	Schmitt	Well, it's - it's CLOSED now, and it's still reading what it - 0.6. Do you want us to open it again?
023:14:49	CC	Roger. Open the VENT and - -
023:14:50	Schmitt	I mean, it's open now. I'm - I'm sorry, Bob. It is now open and reading 0.6. It read 0.6 when it was CLOSED.
023:15:00	CC	Okay. Just leave it open now.
023:15:05	Schmitt	Okay.
023:15:07	CC	And we will want to still check it prior to your sleep period.
023:15:14	Schmitt	Okay.
023:15:34	Schmitt	Okay, Bob, a little update on the coast of Asia. It looks like some residual cloudiness would be affecting the Pusan region of Korea. And, also, that's residual after the frontal passage. And it looks like maybe Shanghai, after all, may have some storms associated with it, but it's really hard to pick out exactly - the exact coast line of Asia, but I - there are some clouds in the Yellow Sea behind the front, Look like they might be possibly some high cirrus is all.
023:16:21	CC	Jack, do you still see that storm that you said was sitting between Guam and - Borneo in that area?
023:16:34	Schmitt	Okay. I see there is this cloud concentration between New Guinea and Guam. The more I look at it the less well developed it appears to me compared to some of the other circulation patterns. It could be just a residual depression from Teresa that has moved out into that area. It is an isolated, a relatively isolated cloud pattern, fairly small, but apparently fairly dense. But has - does not have a strong cyclonic pattern to it. Nothing at all like the pattern that now exists above Borneo and seems to be moving towards Luzon.
023:17:18	CC	Roger. We copy.
023:20:04	SC	Say ...
023:21:33	Evans	Okay, Houston. We're moving in the pieces of a Presleep Checklist. Here's some onboard read-outs for you. BATTERY C is 37.0; PYRO BAT A, 37.2; PYRO BAT B, 37.2; RCS A, 95; Bravo, 94; Charlie, 94; Delta is 96.
023:22:10	CC	Roger. We copy that. And if you've started it, we don't want you to reinitialize the PTC until about 2400 on the timeline.
023:22:27	Evans	Okay. We're - we're just getting a little ahead - we - took us longer last night on the presleep than we expected. We're trying to work it out again.
023:22:35	CC	Yes. We don't to - we want to terminate the waste stowage vent at that time, because we think that that vent is what's contributing to our PTC coning.
023:22:46	Evans	Okay. We're - we're not - we're not really ready to go to sleep yet, but we're just moving ahead.
023:22:52	CC	Roger.
023:22:58	Evans	And if it's okay, I'll cycle the H2 fans.
023:23:07	CC	Roger. We're standing by.
023:24:16	Evans	Okay. The fans are off.
023:24:18	CC	Roger.
023:24:36	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 23 hours 25 minutes. The crew has completed realigning the inertial measurement platform, the platform used as a stable reference. The spacecraft guidance and control system uses it as a reference in determining its own attitude. They've also been charging the two entry batteries that are used during peak electrical loads of liftoff, and then are recharged during the translunar coast when the fuel cells are producing a surplus of electrical energy. They've recharged one of those two batteries and are in the process of recharging the second one at this time. And you heard the crew describe going into their pre-sleep checklist and getting things aboard the spacecraft configured for the sleep period, which is scheduled to begin at 25 hours Ground Elapsed Time or a little more than 1-1/2 hours from now. Apollo 17 at this time is 96,244 nautical miles from Earth, traveling at 5,264 feet per second. And all spacecraft systems continue to function almost perfectly as planned. A little while ago the lunar module officer - control officer - confirmed from telemetry what Gene Cernan was reporting visually out the window and that is that the lunar module appears to be in very good shape. Of course we have a limited number of telemetry readings on the LM at this point. But one of them that we do have gives us an indication of the integrity or tightness of the LM cabins. We can see that in the amount of pressure decaying. It appears to be a very tight vehicle.
023:28:27	CC	Say, Jack, we got a request in here from our ARIA friends.
023:28:38	Schmitt	Go ahead.
023:28:40	CC	They were just wondering if your looking out that way, if you could give them some sort of update of what the weather in the Wake island - Kwajalein - the south of the Wake area looks like.
023:28:51	Schmitt	Okay. Let me work on that one.
023:28:53	CC	Okay. You're going to mearn - earn your American Meteorological Society badge here pretty quick.
023:29:07	Schmitt	Okay. Let me get the monocular, and we'll look at Wake island. I miss having all those nice latitude and longitude lines on the globe.
023:29:23	CC	Yes sir.
023:29:43	PAO	The ARIA friends that CAPCOM, Robert Overmeyer, is refering to, are the crews of the Apollo Range Instrumented Aircraft used in supplementing the manned spaceflight network coverage. They'll be leaving from Patrick Airforce Base prior to the end of the mission and flying into the Wake island area to be on station during Apollo 17's reentry and splashdown.
023:33:44	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. I'll probably have to work on this one a little more, but - but it looks like around Wake, or in the vicinity of the Kwajaleins and north of Wake, about all you have is a lot of cloudiness although - and in a generally - over a wide part of that Pacific, I'm talking about 15 or 20 degrees of longitude and latitude, there's a - roughly a clock - a clockwise circulation pattern. But the clouds do not look very dense or concentrated in any one area. And at leading off to the southeast from that general cloud mass, there're cyclonic - anticyclonic cloud mass is a - is one of the old fronts - or at least one of the old linear cloud patterns that extends down into the South Pacific.
023:35:06	CC	Roger, Jack. I'm sure that the ARIA troops are listening down at Patrick and caught all that.
023:35:14	Schmitt	Well, my guess is, Bob, and it's purely a guess, is that there - probably - if they were out there right now, would be experiencing an intermediate layer of clouds with scattered showers. And a not too strongly developed circulation system, so I can't predict the winds. But I wouldn't expect them to be anything - anything what might be down - associated with the remnants of the tropical depression Theresa. Now that Theresa - what's left of it, if I'm correct in - in picking it out there, probably is - is moving in that direction, although it looks weak enough that, right now I don't think it would be any big problem. And it may, in fact, go south of there.
023:36:11	CC	Roger. The prog I got in my hand for 3-hour-old weather has Theresa located just about in the Manila area. Did you concur with that, or do you think it passed the - the Philippines?
023:36:25	Schmitt	Well, I don't - Manila's clear. The only thing approaching near Manila is - is this other storm center that now is north of Borneo. And to the east of Manila, it's clear all the way over to this little cloud mass that I was guessing might be Theresa.
023:36:44	CC	Roger. All I say, this is 3 hours old so - -
023:36:46	Schmitt	- - And that's about - I gave Gene Kranz some coordinates on it. You can look it up. Those were pretty good coordinates for that cloud mass. Now whether that's really Theresa or not, I don't know.
023:37:02	CC	We got one thing with - for the last couple of hours here, we've been getting high-bit-rate data through our new facility - a new facility at Tidbinbilla, Tidbinbilla is to a 210 dish, and they're covering the first - -
023:37:14	Schmitt	- - between Wake in the Kwajaleins , Marshall islands, in that area, it doesn't look like a very concentrated weather pattern, although it looks like you'll have ceilings in that region. And they're overcast ceilings rather than broken. Except around the fringes of it.
023:37:31	CC	Roger.
023:37:35	Schmitt	We'll keep an eye on it of course.
023:37:51	CC	Jack, how do you read us now?
023:37:54	Schmitt	You're loud and clear.
023:37:56	CC	Okay, 17, for the last 2 hours, we've been getting high-bit-rate data from a new facility, the facility at Tidbinbilla and they're working their first Apollo flight ever, you might give them a cheery hellow.
023:38:21	Schmitt	Tidbinbilla, is that correct?
023:38:24	CC	That's affirmative. It's very close to the Honeysuckle base - -
023:38:28	Schmitt	Where is that?
023:38:29	CC	Very close to Honeysuckle.
023:38:33	Schmitt	Well, how you doing - how you doing mikes? We certainly appreciate you guys being on the loop for this one.
023:39:23	PAO	That new 210 foot dish antenna at Tidbinbilla, which is near Honeysuckle Creek, which in turn is near Canberra, now online and accounting for our excellent signal strength from the spacecraft. Apollo 17 at this time is 96,958 nautical miles from Earth. The speed is 5,233 feet per second.
023:40:01	CC	17, Houston. We'd like ACCEPT, and we'll update your gyro drift, the pitch, roll, and yaw drifts.
023:40:12	Cernan	Okay, got ACCEPT and P00.
023:40:16	CC	Roger.
023:45:12	CC	17, Houston. The computer is yours. And you can go back to attitude and reinitialize PTC whenever you want to.
023:45:18	Cernan	Go ahead, Bob.
023:45:21	CC	The computer is yours, Gene - -
023:45:22	Cernan	Go ahead. We're reading you.
023:45:23	CC	You can go to attitude and reinitialize PTC whenever you want to.
023:45:30	Cernan	Okay. Did you mean to leave the computer with VERB 21 NOUN 01 up?
023:45:36	CC	Roger. That's your computer with that - as you got it.
023:45:41	Schmitt	Okay; that's right. That's l462.
023:46:43	Cernan	Okay.
023:50:09	CC	17, Houston.
023:50:14	Schmitt	Roger. Go ahead.
023:50:15	CC	Roger. We've got a recommended configuration for your H2 fans and H2 heaters. We would like the H2 HEATERS 1 and 2 to AUTO and H2 FANS 1 and 2, OFF; 3 to AUTO. Your O2 heaters look good.
023:50:45	Schmitt	Okay. Let me verify that I've got these right. H2 HEATERS 1, 2, AUTO. O2 HEATERS, 1 OFF; 2, OFF; 3, AUTO. H2 FANS - H2 FANS, you want OFF; OFF; and AUTO. is that correct?
023:51:07	CC	That's what we want on the H2 FANS. And the O2 is fine, as you've got it.
023:51:14	Schmitt	Okay. They're OFF, OFF - Okay; H2 FANS: OFF, OFF, and AUTO.
023:51:20	CC	That's affirmative, Jack.
023:51:33	Cernan	Okay, Bob. I just cleaned the suit circuit return valve screen, here. It was probably, as expected, a little crud on it. A few things have collected, but really not too bad.
023:51:48	CC	Roger, Gene.
023:53:29	Schmitt	Bob, a little more about Wake and the Marshalls and Kwajalein. That large pattern of what appear to be broken overcast clouds in a - a clockwise circulation pattern - crosses the equator region now that I've tried to project that through.
023:53:53	CC	Roger, Jack.
023:57:25	CC	17, Houston.
023:57:32	Evans	17, go ahead.
023:57:33	CC	Roger, Ron. When you stop the present roll on the PTC to reinitialize, pick a roll angle of 315 or 130 for stopping, so that we have good comm during the damping period.
023:57:51	Evans	Okay. 315 or 120, okay.
023:57:53	CC	130, Ron.
023:57:57	Evans	Okay. 315 or 130.
023:58:03	CC	Roger. That'll give us good comm to watch the data on the damping.
023:58:08	Evans	Okay.
023:59:35	PAO	This is Apollo Control, now 24 hours after liftoff and Apollo 17, 97,917 nautical miles from Earth. The crew, at the present time, is stopping the passive thermal control mode. They'll be reestablishing it. It had begun to diverge a little bit - it had begun to wobble about the axis. The concern in going to sleep with that sort of situation is that it will wobble through the point at which they would have gimbal lock and of course we would wake them up before then but in order to avoid having to disturb the crew's sleep they'd like to get the passive thermal control very stable, so that it will hold up during the entire sleep period.
024:00:29	Cernan	Hello, Houston. How do you read?
024:00:31	CC	Read you loud and clear, 17.
024:00:34	Cernan	Okay. We're at 300. Do you want us to go to 315 yet, or is 300 going to be okay?
024:00:39	CC	That's good enough, Gene. And we'd like you to close your waste vent at this time, please.
024:00:56	Cernan	Okay.
024:01:07	Cernan	Okay. It's CLOSED now.
024:01:09	CC	Roger.
024:01:32	CC	And, 17, Houston. We've got the same recommendation. We recommend Alfa and Bravo for damping; Bravo and Delta for spinup. Over.
024:01:48	Cernan	That was Alfa and Bravo for damping and Bravo and Delta for spinup.
024:01:52	CC	That's affirmative
024:04:51	CC	17, Houston.
024:04:55	Evans	Go ahead.
024:04:58	CC	If one of you want to break out the Flight Plan Supplement, we have a change to the E-LOADS on page 143 due to the change of gyro-compensation parameters. If you want to copy them down when you get the Supplement out.
024:05:14	Cernan	Okay. We'll give you a call.
024:05:15	CC	Roger. We'll be standing by.
024:06:27	Cernan	Okay, Bob. We're in our - we're on our damping cycle now.
024:06:34	CC	Roger. We're watching you, Gene.
024:08:16	PAO	This is Apollo Control. We're in the midst of turning over the shift now to Mission Control, to the team of Flight Director, Pete Frank. Gene Kranz and his team will be going off shift in about 25 minutes. we do not plan to have a change of shift Press Briefing. The crew aboard Apollo 17 is scheduled to begin an 8 hour sleep period in a little less than one hour at a Ground Elapsed Time of 25 hours. And we have no major activities in the flight plan before that time. At 24 hours 9 minutes, this is Apollo Control, Houston.
024:12:13	Cernan	Bob, I just hit the control stick. It's locked again in roll; it may have burnped it a little bit.
024:12:20	CC	Roger, Gene. We copy.
024:17:15	Cernan	Houston, 17. Okay if we CLOSE the waste stowage vent now? Oh, okay. I'm sorry. It's CLOSED.
024:17:23	CC	Roger, 17.
024:17:28	Cernan	Forget it. We got it, I - I was left out.
024:17:53	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. On the film status, we're still where we were, November-November, 134. And I'll probably take two more pictures before we go to sleep.
024:18:11	CC	Roger. We copy.
024:19:38	CC	And, 17, if one of you are down in the LEB, could you give us a read-out on SYSTEMS TEST 7 Alfa?
024:19:45	Cernan	Stand by. ... Okay
024:20:58	Cernan	Houston, 17. 7 Alfa is 0.6.
024:21:03	CC	Roger. 7 Alfa equals 0.6.
024:22:51	Schmitt	Okay, Houston; 17. Are we configured properly now for comm?
024:23:04	CC	Stand by, Gor - stand by, Jack.
024:23:11	Schmitt	Okay. I've got - I'm on OMNI Bravo right now.
024:23:24	CC	We're in good shape on the comm, and we'll be controlling the OMNIs.
024:23:54	Schmitt	Roger, Bob.
024:24:01	CC	17, the rates look great. We're ready to initialize PTC.
024:24:12	Cernan	Okay, Bob.
024:27:14	Cernan	Okay, Bob. PTC is initiated.
024:27:18	CC	Roger, Gene. We copy, and we watch the roll start.
024:33:03	Cernan	Hello, Houston. I think we've got everything done on the checklist. The chlorine has been - water has been chlorinated, we're in PTC, and I think Jack picked up everything else. How does it look to you?
024:33:19	CC	Roger, Gene. Let's - let us make a check through the room here, and then just a reminder that I've got that addition on the E-LOADS for the - in the Flight Plan Supplement.
024:33:35	Cernan	Yes. Stand by. Jack's going to keep the headset on and the biomed, and he'll close you out with that and if there's nothing else, I'm going to go off the air.
024:33:46	CC	Roger, Gene.
024:33:49	Cernan	Okay, say goodnight to my friends back there.
024:33:53	CC	We certainly will.
024:33:56	Cernan	Hey, Just so that we know, it is about midnight, right?
024:34:00	CC	It's about 7 minutes after midnight, Gene.
024:34:06	Cernan	Okay, Just didn't want - wanted to make sure it wasn't noon.
024:34:10	CC	Roger.
024:34:13	Cernan	Good night there, Robert.
024:34:14	CC	Good night, Gene.
024:34:20	Evans	Okay. Say good night, Dick.
024:35:55	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 24 hours 36 minutes as Gene Cernan says goodnight Apollo 17 is 99,714 nautical miles from Earth. Velocity 5,114 feet per second. The Lunar Module Pilot, Jack Schmitt, will be wearing the communications headset and the biomedical harness for the sleep period tonight.
024:36:44	Schmitt	Bob? This is Jack. Your last report for the day as the Earth goes past window 5. The first thing I noticed was that our zero phase point is not nearly as bright on the west coast of Australia as it is on the - was on the east. And it's looking right at the coastline now and see no bright spot in the center. Also, that circulation pattern or tropical depression possibly that I saw earlier north of Borneo is now even more strongly developed at the tail end of the front that stretches up toward Japan. And it - it really looks like a humdinger from here. Beautiful circulation pattern and very concentrated. And it is now east of Vietnam, and again between Vietnam and - and the island of Luzon.
024:37:56	CC	Roger. We copy.
024:37:57	Schmitt	And I'd be very - be very curious to know tomorrow morning if you - you people are carrying that one on their progs or on their analysis chart.
024:38:10	CC	Roger.
024:41:33	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. You want me to erase something on page 1-43 and insert something else?
024:41:40	CC	That's affirmative, Jack. On 1-43 under column A, down at line 11 and 12 and 13. Just to make sure you're at the right spot, the line 11 0-data is 00115. Do you copy that? Do you see that?
024:42:05	Schmitt	I'm with you.
024:42:06	CC	Okay. Change that line to 00377.
024:42:18	Schmitt	Go ahead.
024:42:19	CC	Change line 12 to 00050.
024:42:32	Schmitt	Go ahead.
024:42:33	CC	And line 13, 00523. Over.
024:42:45	Schmitt	Okay, I got that and (laughter) as you might imagine, when I said erase, I did. And do you have the 04 and the 05 again, please? That is, if they're pertinent.
024:43:04	CC	Stand by, Jack. I'm lost myself here a second.
024:43:10	Schmitt	See, you gave me an update on 30704 and 31005, and I just erased it.
024:43:19	CC	Okay, The 04 under column B is 34761, and the 05 line under column B is 15403. Over.
024:43:41	Schmitt	Okay. Here we go. In line Alfa, 31411, 00377; 31512, 00050; 31613, 00523. In line Bravo, 30704 is 34761; 31005 is 15403. Over.
024:44:12	CC	Roger. We copy, Jack. Just a reminder to be sure and configure the comm per the presleep checklist. And, just for your information, Jack, I - I hold you at 100,116 miles. I was going to give you a call at 100,000 even, and then I got talking to you. So you've crossed the 100,000 mark right now. Tomorrow, you're probably not going to be giving us our weather report, You'll be too far out, but we'll probably be starting to hear from the Moon, huh?
024:44:44	Schmitt	We're not going to see much of the Moon, you know. It's going to be pretty dark, so I'll have to keep looking at the Earth.
024:44:50	CC	Roger.
024:44:50	Schmitt	Pretty good - pretty interesting place. Very interesting place.
024:44:56	CC	I'm real sure.
024:44:58	Schmitt	And I guess - I guess, maybe, I - 100,000 miles. My goodness gracious. That's impressive.
024:45:08	CC	Yes, sir. You're slowing down all the way, Jack.
024:45:19	Schmitt	Well, it's sure downhill all - all the way back, isn't it?
024:45:22	CC	That's for sure.
024:45:37	CC	Jack, did the CMP get off the line, and is he sacked out now, too?
024:45:44	Schmitt	Yes, I lost both those guys. They - they decided they wanted to sleep, and I may be rumbling around here for a while but I took - we all three took Seconal, so I think we'll get to sleep before long.
024:45:57	CC	Roger. Just give us a call if you need anything, and we'll be watching everything there, and pleasant dreams.
024:46:11	Schmitt	Now, you don't really mean that, do you?
024:46:16	CC	Well, I can't come up and tuck you in so - hope you have a good sleep. You need lots of rest up there, gang.
024:46:37	Schmitt	I'll tell you, Bob, about halfway though this day, I think I acclimated. And I really feel good. I've been eating a lot better, and I'm not - the only thing I ever really felt was a slight headache. It really - not the fullness of the head that people described, I guess, but just a little headache. I could have been looking at the Earth too much. I don't know.
024:47:02	CC	Roger, Jack. You've been sounding good.
024:47:06	Schmitt	Oh, actually, I feel - I've been feeling fine. Just - none of us have felt like eating. And that's probably normal, and everybody's eating more now, and we'll start getting to sleep, I think.
024:47:18	CC	Roger. Jack, just a reminder on that comm for the presleep checklist. It's important to us because we can get the - we can get high-bit-rate data more.
024:47:48	Schmitt	Bob, he cut out, but I'm in the comm sleep configuration now. I'm working that way.
024:47:58	CC	Okay. Ed Grindell was shaking his head for a minute. Now he says as long as you're working that way.
024:48:38	Schmitt	Bob, you still cut out. Let's try it again.
024:48:42	CC	No - no problem, Jack, Just a reminder on the comm; that's all. We're watching you go through the checklist here.
024:48:49	Schmitt	Okay.
024:49:14	Schmitt	Okay, I'm on HIGH GAIN now, and OMNI Bravo selected.
024:49:37	Schmitt	How do you read, Bob, on the HIGH GAIN?
024:49:39	CC	Read you loud and clear, Jack.
024:49:44	Schmitt	Okay. And it's in REACQ and NARROW.
024:49:47	CC	Stand by. Stand by on that, Jack.
024:50:30	CC	Say, Jack, can we refer you to the checklist on S/1-27, a sleep configuration there, where you S-BAND SQUELCH, ENABLE, et cetera?
024:50:44	Schmitt	Roger. I'm ENABLED.
024:50:55	Schmitt	Oh, et cetera. Yes.
024:51:00	CC	Roger.
024:51:05	Schmitt	Okay. I'll get to that in a minute, Bob. Who knows, I might have something else to say.
024:51:08	CC	Okay.
024:51:32	Schmitt	Bob, I just probably ought to qualify all those remarks about the Earth's weather. It's purely a novice talking about something he is very unfamiliar with, except for having a longstanding interest in it. And I think the one philosophical point, if any, that comes out of it is that somebody, probably 3-1/2 billion years ago or so, could have looked at the Earth and described patterns not too dissimilar. And it was within those patterns that life developed, and now you see, I think, and obvious to everybody, what that life has progressed to doing. And I certainly think all of us feel that it has not stopped doing that progression, and we'll probably see it do things that even you and I can't imagine them doing I certainly hope so.
024:52:38	CC	Roger, Jack. We concur.
024:54:06	Schmitt	Bob, you always wished that you had a poet onboard one of these missions, so he could describe things that we're seeing and looking at and feeling in terms that might - might transmit at least a part of that feeling to everybody in the world. Unfortunately, that's not the case. But he certainly couldn't look at that fragile blue globe and not think about the ancient sails of life that are crossing its paths and wonder ahead to the - up to the present, to the modern sails of life that are represented by men that developed out of that life that are sitting there next to you and that are the country in all sorts of different guises and working towards the same end, and that is to put that life farther into the universe. I certainly hope that someday, in the not-too-distant future, the guy can fly who can express these things.
024:55:24	CC	Roger, Jack. You're doing a pretty good job expressing them.
024:58:25	CC	Jack, Houston.
024:58:30	Schmitt	Go ahead.
024:58:31	CC	Roger, Jack. We'd like to go to select OMNI Bravo, and stow the high gain the the normal stowage. It's customary we do not use the high gain for PTC going TLC.
024:58:55	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. I'm sorry, but the checklist indicated that you do all go back to OMNI Bravo.
024:59:04	CC	Roger. It's probably ambiguous. If you end up going up on the checklist, up to the top of 1-28, it shows you where you want OMNI Bravo.
024:59:25	Schmitt	Ambiguous is the best word I can think of for it.
024:59:30	CC	Say again, Jack.
024:59:34	Schmitt	Ambiguous is the best word I can think of for it.
024:59:37	CC	Roger. We - I concur. I should have probably called you earlier and just pointed out on the Flight Plan where it says presleep checklist. And then there's the word "comm," and it says "OMNI," and that leads you into the checklist and makes sure you use the OMNI setup for - for the sleep configuration.
024:59:58	Schmitt	Ho, ho, ho. Tricky fellows. I guess you're right.
025:00:06	CC	Yes, it's something we don't - we don't - sim PTCs, TLCs, and TECs very often. That's for sure.
025:00:21	Schmitt	Well, that's because we have a whole day to learn out here.
025:00:24	CC	That's affirmative.
025:00:31	Schmitt	OMNI Bravo.
025:00:33	CC	Roger.
025:01:16	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 25 hours, 1 minute into the mission. Apollo 17 is 100,953 nautical miles from Earth. Velocity 5,062 feet per second.
025:22:40	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 25 hours 22 minutes. We haven't heard from Jack Schmitt recently, however, the Flight Surgeon reports that his data indicates he's not yet asleep. Apollo 17 now at 102,000 miles from Earth velocity 5,018 feet per second. We'll continue to leave this line up until we get an indication that the Lunar Module Pilot is asleep. The other 2 crewmen are asleep at this time. At 25 hours 23 minutes, this is Mission Control, Houston.
025:25:37	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. I think I'll hit the hay. How does everything look to you?
025:25:50	CC	Looking pretty good, Jack. We'd like the S-BAND NORMAL VOICE to OFF, and S-BAND SQUELCH ENABLE, please.
025:25:59	Schmitt	Yes, I'll get that. I just want to make sure that PTC and everthing looks good.
025:26:04	CC	Yes, it looks real fine, Jack.
025:26:10	Schmitt	Okay, talk to you in the morning - or to somebody anyway.
025:26:13	CC	Roger. Parker will wake you up - I think. Have a good sleep.
025:26:17	Schmitt	Oh god.
025:26:26		REST PERIOD - NO COMMUNICATIONS
025:26:52	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 25 hours 27 minutes. Jack Schmitt has said "goodnight". We'll take the line down now and come back up with Mission Control reports hourly. Apollo 17 now 102,202 nautical miles from Earth, velocity 5,010 feet per second.
026:27:01	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 26 hours 27 minutes. The crew has completed the first hour and 1/2 of an 8 hour rest period. Here in Mission Control, flight controllers are monitoring spacecraft's systems while the crew sleeps. All goes well with Apollo 17. Spacecraft is 105,060 nautical miles from Earth. Its velocity is 4,893 feet per second. This is Mission Control, Houston.
027:27:11	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 27 hours 27 minutes. 5 1/2 hours remain in the crew's rest period. All spacecraft systems continue to operate normally. Apollo 17 is now 107,835 nautical miles from Earth, velocity 4,784 feet per second.
028:27:02	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 28 hours 27 minutes. Everything continues to go well with Apollo 17. Astronaut Bob Parker has come on duty at the CAPCOM console now, and he will send a wakeup call to the crew in 4 hours and 32 minutes. Apollo 17 is 110,561 nautical miles from Earth. Velocity 4,679 feet per second.
029:27:01	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 29 hours 27 minutes. Apollo 17 is 113,208 nautical miles from Earth. Traveling at a speed at 4,579 feet per second. In 36 minutes, Apollo 17 will reach the half-way point to the Moon in terms of distance, at a Ground Elapsed Time of 30 hours, 3 minutes, no seconds. Apollo 17 will be 114,787 nautical miles from both the Moon and the Earth. 3 hours, 32 minutes remaining in the crew's sleep period. At 29 hours 27 minutes, this is Mission Control, Houston.
030:27:02	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 30 hours 27 minutes. 24 minutes ago Apollo 17 did reach the half-way point in distance in its journey to the Moon. At that time in the elapsed time of 30 hours 3 minutes, it was 114,787 nautical miles from both the Earth and the Moon. Its velocity at that time was 4,522 feet per second. At this time, Apollo 17's distance is 115,842 nautical miles from the Earth. Velocity is 4,483 feet per second. Midcourse correction number 2 will be performed at an elapsed time of 35 hours 30 minutes. That's 5 hours, 1 minute from now. It will be a 10.5 foot per second burn. The crew still has 2 hours and 31 minutes remaining in the sleep period. At 30 hours 28 minutes this is Mission Control Houston.
031:12:10	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 31 hours 12 minutes. Apollo 17 is now 117,746 nautical miles from Earth, traveling at a speed of 4,415 feet per second. Flight Director, Pete Frank, and his orange team of flight controllers will hand over Mission Control duties to Gerry Griffin's gold team of flight controllers in about 15 minutes at 7 A.M. Central Standard Time. Each of the departing controllers is now briefing his relief. There will be no change of shift news conference. The orange team will double back after 1 shift, returning to the Control Center at 5 P.M. today to get back on a schedule which will put them on the EVA shift. To summarize the shift now ending, the crew began rest period at 25 hours elapsed time. Each crewman took a sleeping pill, and Jack Schmitt reported that Gene Cernan and Ron Evans were asleep shortly after the crew configured the spacecraft for their rest period. However, Jack Schmitt, who was the duty man to wear the head set and the bio-medical harness during this rest period, seemed almost reluctant to surrender his view of the earth to sleep. At 100,000 nautical miles from the Earth he broadcast a weather forecast, then indulged in a bit of philosophy as he gazed from his window, about mankind's achievements. He remarked that from his vantage point the Earth probably looks the same now as it did at the dawn of man. Apollo 17 reached the halfway point to the Moon at an elapsed time of 30 hours 3 minutes. At that time it was 114,787 nautical miles from both the Earth and the Moon. Spacecraft's systems are continuing to perform well and the CAPCOM, astronaut Bob Parker, plans to awaken the crew at 33 hours elapsed time, that's 1 hour 44 minutes from now. Midcourse correction number 2 will be performed at an elapsed time of 35 hours 30 minutes, 4 hours and 14 minutes from now. Present indications are that it will be a 10 and 1/2 foot per second burn. The latest prediction on the S-IVB is that it will impact the Moon at an elapsed time of 86 hours 58 minutes 23 seconds. Coordinates of the impact location presently predicted 6.73 degrees south, 9.7 degrees west. The impact time and the coordinates are likely to change prior to the impact itself, and continued tracking of the S-IVB will be performed. At 31 hours 16 minutes, this is Mission Control, Houston.
032:27:07	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 32 hours 27 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. The Mission of Apollo 17, which at this moment is 120,887 nautical miles out from Earth, velocity has continued to decrease to 4,305 feet per second. Slightly over a half hour remaining until spacecraft communicator Robert Parker gives the crew a wakeup call. And a relatively busy day ahead with midcourse correction - midcourse correction maneuver #2 at 35:30 Ground Elapsed Time, a 10-1/2-foot per second posigrade maneuver which will raise the trajectory slightly from an impact trajectory with a minus pericynthion at the Moon, raise it to about 60 nautical miles above the surface. Latest numbers on the S-IVB impact predictions is for impact to take place at a Ground Elapsed Time of 86:58:23 at 6.7 degrees south latitude by 9.7 degrees west longitude. The gold team of flight controllers have settled in for a 10-hour day here in Mission Control, which in addition to the midcourse correction burn, includes the first manning of the Lunar Module, first checkout, which begins at about 40 hours. They start actually, at 39:30 getting the probe and drogue removed from the tunnel, going into the Lunar Module. We'll come back up live with the air-ground when the first call is made to the crew by the spacecraft communicator. And at 32:29, this is Apollo Control.
032:58:01	PAO	This is Apollo Control, 32 hours 58 minutes Ground Elapsed Time into the Mission of Apollo 17, Almost 2 minutes remaining until the first wakeup call is made to the Crew of Apollo 17 by spacecraft communicator Robert Parker. Parker is joined this morning by Apollo 17 backup Commander John Young at the CAPCOM console, and it appears that Parker's relief CAPCOM, Gordo Fullerton, just walked in the door and likely will relieve Parker in the day's duties of getting off midcourse correction #2 burn, and the first housekeeping venture into the Lunar Module. Apollo 17 is now 122,186 nautical miles out from the Earth, velocity now 4,259 feet per second. We'll stand by with the circuit open for the first wakeup call the usual post-sleep checklist, and Flight Plan updates and all of the conversation that normally takes place when the crew first wakes up. Let's just open the line now.
033:00:38	CC	Apollo 17, Houston. Good morning.
033:01:06	Cernan	Is that the best you could do?
033:01:09	CC	That's not very good either. Give us a call when you want to talk to us.
033:01:18	Schmitt	Good morning to you.
033:01:55	Cernan	How's everything look, Bob?
033:02:08	CC	You guys look absolutely super. No problem at all.
033:02:15	Cernan	Nice way to wake up. Maybe we'll just sleep in for a few more hours.
033:02:22	CC	Stand by. I'll check on that.
033:02:24	Cernan	(Laughter).
033:21:09	Cernan	Bob, 17. How do you read?
033:21:12	CC	17, this is Gordo. Bob just finished up his workday with that last call, and I'll be on now.
033:31:24	Schmitt	Houston, 17. How do you read?
033:31:27	CC	Loud and clear, Jack.
033:31:31	Schmitt	Good morning, Gordy. How you doing?
033:31:33	CC	Real good. How about you?
033:31:37	Schmitt	We all feel pretty good this morning. Got some reports for you.
033:31:42	CC	Okay. Ready to copy.
033:31:45	Schmitt	Okay, on the CDR. PRD is 17025; 6-1/2 hours good sleep. One Seconal, which is the one I reported last night, so that's just one now. Had a - yesterday, midday or so - he had a nausea pill for gas. And we hadn't found the other gas pill, so he tried that one. And he drank, since I last reported, two and a half containers of water.
033:32:32	CC	Roger.
033:32:37	Schmitt	The CDR food intake, as with all of us, is a little bit random, and I don't know exactly the best way to report it, unless you want it all in detail.
033:32:54	CC	Let me check while you - Go on, and I'll see if they want a detailed description of the food or not.
033:33:13	Schmitt	Okay. LMP medical. PRD 24036; 5-1/2 to 6 hours good sleep, 1 intermittent. Again, I had a Seconal but that's the same Seconal I mentioned last night. And since last report - I guess one - two and a half containers of fluid. Water.
033:33:53	CC	Okay.
033:33:56	Schmitt	And just for checking on the water intake, you should have me down for six containers of water.
033:34:05	CC	Roger. Six total.
033:34:09	Schmitt	That's affirm.
033:34:20	Schmitt	CMP medical. PRD is 15023; 7-1/2 hours very good sleep. He had the same Seconal we had. And, since last report, has three water containers for a total of six now.
033:34:45	CC	Roger.
033:34:57	CC	Jack, I guess we do want an accounting of all the food. Whatever you think is the best way to report it.
033:35:20	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. Back on the CDR, and I'll just tell you what we ate. For the day 2. CDR: mixed fruit, that's the can, instant breakfast, one vitamin pill, a bag of tea, turkey and gravy, the wet pack, and orange juice.
033:36:01	CC	Roger.
033:36:07	Schmitt	Okay, The LMP: cinnamon toast bread, mixed fruit, instant breakfast, coffee, lemonade, peach ambrosia, one vitamin, one slice of bread, grapefruit drink, gingerbread, orange drink. And I have one complaint: somebody slighted me on a caramel candy in meal C.
033:36:50	CC	Roger. We'll start an investigation.
033:36:54	Schmitt	Yes, it was not there. Okay. CMP: the spiced oat cereal, mixed fruit, instant breakfast, and coffee, potato soup, and peach ambrosia. That's all for breakfast. And then later on, he had chocolate pudding and a grape drink. And let's see - we all - You might log him for a vitamin pill and me for a vitamin pill.
033:37:27	CC	Okay.
033:37:30	Schmitt	Oh, yes, I forgot. It's here; one frankfurter, for lunch.
033:37:36	CC	Roger.
033:37:44	Schmitt	And we just changed LiOH canister as per the Flight Plan.
033:37:49	CC	Okay.
033:37:54	Schmitt	And in a minute, I'll have weather report for you.
033:37:58	CC	Very well.
033:40:59	Schmitt	Hey, Gordy.
033:41:01	CC	Go ahead.
033:41:04	Schmitt	Gordy, the null bias check. Plus 0.9 and 100 seconds.
033:41:11	CC	Okay, one question G&C had. Do you do that null bias at plus 100 or minus 100 on the EMS counter?
033:41:23	Schmitt	Plus 100.
033:41:25	CC	Okay, and it's increased up to 101.9, right?
033:41:32	Schmitt	No, it increased to 100.9.
033:41:36	CC	Roger. Miscopied you; 0.9. Okay; thank you.
033:41:40	Schmitt	Yes, okay. Seems to me like last night it was 100.7.
033:41:48	CC	Roger.
033:42:03	CC	And for our part of the postsleep checklist, I have the consumables status, if you'd care to listen.
033:42:23	Schmitt	Stand by, Gordy.
033:45:17	Schmitt	Gordy, we'll take your consumables in a second. Let me bring you up to date on the weather around the world, if you're interested.
033:45:28	CC	Yes, we are; go ahead.
033:45:31	Schmitt	Africa, looks in pretty good shape. There is a - except for an area probably around Zambia and Rhodesia in the tropical convergence zone there, where it looks pretty cloudy and probably quite rainy. There's a very strong circulation pattern and presumably a storm off - just off the coast of northwest Africa. Very spectacular spiral formation of clouds in a cyclone development. It looks like there are probably two fairly weak cyclones - Southern Hemisphere cyclones in the South Atlantic. One, southwest of Cape of Good Hope, and the other about due west of - of the Falkland islands, maybe a little bit north of that. South America looks to be in quite good shape weatherwise, except possibly Uruguay and maybe northern Argentina which appear to have a - at least some fairly thick clouds there, although no strong circulation associated with this.
033:48:03	CC	Okay, Jack. We got all that up to Argentina, then the OMNI switch kind of cut you off.
033:48:59	CC	Jack, we got the - at least the first part of your weather report fine up through the clouds in northern Argentina, and then the switch in OMNIs cut you out.
033:49:12	Schmitt	Okay, that was about it, Gordy. That's - I'll talk to you some more later about it. I guess the main thing I need now is - are your consumables.
033:49:26	CC	Okay. By the way, you were looking back from more than halfway to the Moon. You're about 125,000 out now. On the consumables, the RCS is running at 1.3 percent over the Flight Plan line. On the O2 tanks 2 and 3 are right on the lines, and tank 1 is about 4 percent below the line. But it's been there all the way since launch, that same bias on tank 1. On the hydrogen: tanks 1 and 3 are right on the lines, tank 2 is about 3 percent above the line. All in all, you're looking real good consumablewise.
033:50:21	Schmitt	Okay. That's hardly worth writing down, I guess.
033:50:26	Evans	That's the way we like to see it.
033:50:30	CC	Same here.
033:50:41	CC	Oh, the only other thing I have in the way of updates is a PIPA bias update. You can load it yourself, or we can load it when we come up with the up-link prior to the burn. Your choice. And then We'll have an update to the erasable load update and a supplement to correspond with that bias update.
033:51:04	Cernan	Gordy, why don't you go ahead and load it yourself when you send up the vector?
033:51:11	CC	Okay, and I'll give you that update for the supplement. It's on 1-43 whenever you're - whenever it's convenient.
033:51:23	Cernan	Okay, Jack's getting that out. I ran another PIPA bias at minus 100, and it confirmed the first one. It ended up at 99.2.
033:51:36	CC	Roger.
033:51:41	Schmitt	Go ahead with your update on 1-43, Gordy.
033:51:45	CC	Okay. It's in the load A of the octal ID of 03, which now reads 77252. Change that to 77655.
033:52:33	Schmitt	Did you copy, Gordy?
033:52:34	CC	I didn't copy your readback; no.
033:52:39	Schmitt	Okay, 306 03 and Alfa 77655.
033:52:44	CC	That's right.
034:03:19	Schmitt	Gordy, how do you read?
034:03:24	CC	Loud and clear.
034:03:28	Schmitt	Okay. For the reference on - on those menus, at least for the LMP, I think I'm probably putting 8 or 9 ounces of water in the citrus drinks and those kind of things, rather than 7, which has probably upped my water intake some.
034:03:47	CC	Okay.
034:03:47	Schmitt	And I think that probably goes for everybody. That probably goes for - it goes for Ron and probably Gene also.
034:03:54	CC	Roger.
034:10:07	CC	17, Houston. I have a little synopsis of the news here, if you'd like to listen during breakfast. Let me know.
034:10:16	Cernan	Okay, mighty fine. Send it up.
034:10:19	CC	Okay, front page first. In Paris, Henry Kissinger met for 30 minutes this morning with French President George Pompidou at the Elysee Palace just hours before his scheduled conference with North Vietnamese Politburo member Le Duc Tho - Tho, that is. North Vietnamese spokesmen accused Kissinger of attempting to force a peace settlement by threatening further escalation of the war. As both U.S. and North Vietnamese negotiators expressed disappointment at the continued deadlock, Chief American delegate William J. Porter traveled to Brussels to brief Secretary of State William B. Rogers. Rogers will - will return later today from the NATO Conference of Ministers. This one is datel - date - datelined Brussels. Diplomatic sources indicated today that NATO allies will request negotiations with the Soviet Union and its allies on mutual troop reductions in central Europe. Exploratory talks expected to begin about January 31, with full-scale negotiations to follow sometime next fall. In Kansas City, vital life signs for Harry S. Truman appear to have stabilized. But the 88-year-old former President remains on the critical list at Kansas City's Research Hospital. Truman is suffering from lung congestion and heart weakness. In Argentina, aides to popular Argentine politician Juan Peron said that Peron will refuse the nomination to the presidency of Argentina and will return to exile during the coming week. And, on the sports page, Rice coach Al Conover is expected to reveal today - sometime today his decision to either remain at Rice as head coach or move to his alma mater, Wake Forest in a similar position. The Owl head coach has said that he has been offered the job and promises a yes-or-no decision today. There is some speculation that head coach Joe Paterno of Penn State may move to a head coaching job in the pros next year. Paterno is busy preparing his Nittany Lions for a Sugar Bowl meeting with Oklahoma and is refusing to discuss the matter until after the game. Locally, the state high school football playoffs - -
034:12:48	Cernan	Lost you, Gordo.
034:12:51	CC	Say again?
034:14:28	CC	Okay, 17. Continuing after being rudely interrupted by the OMNI switch, the state high school football playoffs here in Texas are underway and with a whole host of games scheduled this weekend. And the final item, the Major League Baseball Players' Association and the Commissioner's Office are going at it again. It must be getting close to spring training time.
034:14:53	Schmitt	Gordy, you cut out since the Nittany Lions.
034:15:03	CC	Okay. Did you hear about the - the high school playoffs?
034:15:09	Schmitt	No, the last we heard was the Nittany Lions.
034:15:13	CC	Okay. (Laughter) Paterno, the head coach at Penn State, may move to a head coaching job in the pros next year. He's busy setting up his Nittany Lions for a Sugar Bowl meeting with Oklahoma and is refusing to discuss the matter until after the game. Here locally, the state high school football players are - playoffs are underway with a whole host of games scheduled for this weekend. And the final item, the - the Major League Baseball Players Association and the Commissioner's Office are going at it again, which means it must be getting close to time for spring training.
034:16:02	Schmitt	No editorials, please (laughter).
034:29:28	Schmitt	Gordy, film update on mag November November. I'm on frame 138, and that includes a couple of pictures I mentioned to Bob I took just before I went to sleep. And also, two pictures this morning at about 33:30. Those are the Earth.
034:29:53	CC	Okay, Jack.
034:35:20	CC	17, Houston. A reminder. We need the H2 PURGE LINE HEATERS, ON, now. And I do have a maneuver pad for the midcourse when-you're ready to copy. Over.
034:35:36	Cernan	Okay. I've already got the HEATER, ON. And give me about 5 minutes, and I'll get the pad.
034:35:43	CC	Okay. And if you'll give us ACCEPT and P00, we'll get the up-link started just after the next antenna switch. We want to catch it between switches. Over.
034:35:57	Cernan	Okay. You got P00 and ACCEPT.
034:36:00	CC	Thank you.
034:46:19	CC	17, it's your computer. You have a state vector, VERB 66, and a target load, and a PIPA bias update.
034:46:27	Cernan	Very good.
034:49:49	Schmitt	Believe it or not, Gordy, I'm ready for your pad.
034:49:54	CC	Okay, Jack. It's a midcourse 2, SPS/G&N; the weight is 66786; plus 1.21, minus 0.13; ignition time is 035:29:59.09; minus 0003.4, plus 0002.1, minus 0009.8; attitude is 132, 194, 343; HA and HP are NA; DELTA-Vt 0010.6, burn time is 0:02, 0006.5; sextant star is 25, 233.7, 16.4; rest of the pad is NA. Ullage, none. Other remarks; LM weight, 36281. High gain angles: PITCH, minus 21; YAW, 181. And this will give you a perilune of 53.1. Should make everybody onboard feel a little more comfortable. Over.
034:51:59	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. We haven't been particularly uncomfortable, but knowing no way we would hit the Moon. Here's MCC-2, 7 - SPS/G&N; 66786; plus 1.21, minus 0.13; 035:29:59.09; minus 0003.4, plus 0002.1 And you cut out on DELTA-Vz. Give me that again, please.
034:52:34	CC	Okay. DELTA-Vz is a minus 0009.8.
034:52:45	Schmitt	Okay. DELTA-Vz, minus 0009.8; 132, 194, 343; NOUN 44 is NA; 0010.6, 0:02, 0006.5; 25, 233.7, 16.4; rest of pad is NA. No ullage. LM weight, 36281. High gain PITCH, minus 21; YAW, 181. Perilune, 53.1.
034:53:23	CC	Okay. That's a good readback.
034:54:21	CC	17, Houston. You can go back to BLOCK now.
034:54:33	Cernan	Okay. We're in BLOCK.
034:55:16	CC	Jack, a couple of quick items. We would like for you to terminate the BATTERY A charge now, and also turn the H2 tank HEATERS for tanks 1 and 2 OFF.
034:55:34	Schmitt	Okay. H2 tank HEATERS 1 and 2 are OFF, and I'll terminate the charge.
034:55:39	CC	Roger.
034:58:16	PAO	This is Apollo Control 34 hours, 58 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. Apollo 17 spacecraft, should at this time be coming out of the passive thermal-control mode and getting into the proper attitude for the midcourse correction burn #2, which is some 31 minutes and 23 seconds from now. Apollo 17, presently 126,988 miles from the Earth traveling at velocity of 4,098 feet per second. The midcourse correction burn #2 with an ignition time 35:29:59.1 has a velocity change in the posigrade direction of 10.6 feet per second, which for the service propulsion system engine is a BURP lasting 1.58 seconds. Purpose of this burn is to raise the pericynthion from an impact trajectory as it stands now, to one with a clearance over the Moon of some 53 nautical miles which will become the pericynthion of Lunar Orbit. Standing by on air-ground 1 at 34:59 this is Apollo Control.
035:02:54	Schmitt	Okay, Gordo, there's all balls and 05 on that P52 .
035:03:04	CC	Roger. That looks good.
035:03:05	Evans	And you're looking at NOUN 93. Okay, you're looking at NOUN 93.
035:03:27	CC	Okay, and we GO to torque it.
035:04:06	Evans	Houston, Apollo 17. When we ran the DELTA-V test, we - we're reading minus 22.2 and I'm having a little trouble finding the SPS cue card. Wonder if FAO know exactly - knows exactly where that is?
035:04:23	CC	Stand by; I'll check.
035:07:09	Schmitt	Houston, if you saw a MASTER ALARM, it was the POWER SCE NORMAL switch getting hooked to OFF.
035:07:20	CC	Roger.
035:07:33	CC	As far as we know, the SPS burn card ought to be in with the rest of the cards in R-2.
035:07:41	Schmitt	Gordy, we finally found that thing. It was way back in the back; sorry.
035:07:45	CC	Okay.
035:08:23	Schmitt	We're starting our purges, Houston.
035:08:27	CC	Roger.
035:14:51	Evans	Okay, Houston, We'll get to the attitude in about another 4 minutes or so. Then we'll whip in the P30 and go right into P40. We're doing a waste water dump, urine dump, and - man, the sky is just full of little bitty particles.
035:15:12	CC	Roger, Ron.
035:15:54	Evans	Hey, I doubt if we can get the star sextant check, but you can try it.
035:18:47	Evans	Okay. Okay, 35:29:59:09 for the time. NOUN 81 - okay, NOUN 81s are loaded good.
035:19:10	Evans	Just the burn time's good.
035:19:44	Evans	Okay. We'll see if we can get the DET started here.
035:20:04	Evans	Okay; got the DET started.
035:20:07	CC	Jack, you can bring up the high gain any time now.
035:20:10	Evans	In 10 minutes, Jack so we're in good shape. Okay, got that. ...
035:20:27	Evans	Yes, he's dumping waste water. It's about 15. Yes. Yes, straight up to RELIEF, Jack.
035:20:40	CC	And, Jack, also we're showing 10 percent on waste water, now.
035:20:44	Evans	... 786, LM weight. Okay, ..., OFF; ..., OFF. That's what I'm doing now. To what? One three, okay. Here we go. Set ... IMU. Okay. Realign the old GDC a little bit.
035:21:45	Evans	Okay, GDC is aligned. STAB control breakers. All IN and good shape.
035:21:54	Evans	MANUAL ATTs are RATE COMMAND; DEADBAND, MIN; RATE to LOW. Yes.
035:22:06	Evans	Okay, TVC is in RATE COMMAND. LM/CSM is in LM/CSM. GIMBAL DRIVE is in AUTO. Okay.
035:22:14	CC	Jack, this is Houston. We're ready for the high gain.
035:22:21	Evans	(Laughter)
035:22:33	CC	17, Houston. Do you read?
035:22:42	Evans	I think there's no trim on this ... Flight Plan.
035:22:49	Evans	Okay.
035:22:54	CC	Apollo 17, Houston. How do you copy?
035:22:57	Evans	Okay, so that's ... trim, to 0.2.
035:23:07	Cernan	No trim if it's greater than 2 feet per second.
035:23:24	Evans	Yes, we're down to 6 minutes.
035:23:30	CC	Apollo 17, Houston. How do you read?
035:23:35	Cernan	Okay, Gordo. We got you.
035:23:38	CC	Okay, we weren't getting through there for a minute or 2. We're ready for the high gain now.
035:23:54	Evans	Okay. Minus - minus 21 and 181.
035:24:06	CC	And 17, You're GO for midcourse 2.
035:24:12	Evans	Okay. Sounds good.
035:24:19	Evans	And, Jack, you ready for GIMBAL MOTORS? - I mean the BUS TIES?
035:24:27	Schmitt	Ready for the BUS TIES.
035:24:42	Evans	Okay, TAPE RECORDER, HIGH BIT RATE, RECORD, FORWARD, and COMMAND RESET.
035:24:52	Evans	Check your HELIUM VALVES and check your ...
035:24:59	Evans	Okay. SERVO POWER 1 and 2, we got.
035:25:10	Evans	Okay, got SERVO POWER. AC1 and AC2.
035:25:16	Evans	AC, DIRECTS are OFF.
035:25:19	Evans	BMAGs, 1/2. Okay.
035:25:24	Evans	No hardovers. Okay. We'll go to SCS. Okay, PITCH 1, Jack -
035:25:33	Evans	MARK it. YAW 1 -
035:25:36	Evans	MARK it. Okay. Got a minus - plus 1.1, okay. A minus 0.13; that's almost zero. Okay. Whoo! Man, bounces it around! (Laughter) little difference.
035:26:02	Evans	Okay, we'll give it to the computer. Clockwise. Go TVC TVC. Okay, PITCH 2.
035:26:11	Evans	MARK it. Got it. YAW 2.
035:26:13	Evans	MARK it. Got it? Okay, got the trim, about a plus 12 and a minus 0.1. TVC, TVC, TVC, TVC.
035:26:28	Evans	Okay, give it to the computer. Returns to zero. Go TVC TVC. Okay.
035:26:38	Evans	AC/DC. DIRECTS are MAIN A/MAIN B.
035:26:42	Evans	Okay, zero BMAGs.
035:26:46	Evans	Okay, 50 18. PROCEED.
035:26:51	Evans	ENTER it.
035:26:55	Evans	Okay. Uncage BMAGs.
035:27:03	Evans	Okay. Let's try a gimbal test. Plus 2, minus 2, 0, plus 2, minus 2, 0.
035:27:23	Evans	Okay, she went to trim. 02:38 to go. Okay, we'll reach - SCALE was 5 what?
035:27:31	Cernan	39.
035:27:32	Evans	Okay. RATE to HIGH.
035:27:37	Evans	Okay, EMS NORMAL at 1 minute. Yes, we use bank A.
035:28:01	Evans	This second burn, use bank A only. Okay, so in 3 seconds, Jack.
035:28:16	Evans	Okay, cycle to ..., MIN, RATE to HIGH, DIRECT, CMC AUTO; uncaged, RATE COMMAND, GIMBAL MOTORS, LM/CSM and GIM - AUTO.
035:28:31	Cernan	Okay, Houston. 01:30 and we're GO onboard for the burn.
035:28:35	CC	Roger.
035:28:38	Evans	Okay, Houston. No ullage.
035:28:44	Cernan	Houston - Houston, I'm sure you've seen it. We're reading below the green band oxidizer pressure, about 163.
035:28:55	CC	Roger.
035:29:00	Evans	(Singing) Okay. Let's wait until 30 seconds and
035:29:09	Evans	CONTROL POWER is ON. ... DELTA-V THRUST A switch. Get it and EMS at 30 seconds. Ullage - no ullage.
035:29:29	Cernan	... an average G is coming.
035:29:30	Evans	Okay, average G is coming. EMS to NORMAL. DELTA-V THRUST A is ON. Okay, no manuals to it. You'll get the 99 - Okay?
035:29:52	Evans	10 seconds, Houston.
035:29:54	CC	Roger.
035:30:00	Evans	99.
035:30:03	Evans	Uh-hoo! There we go. Lift-off!
035:30:05	Cernan	Okay. The burn is on time and - au - auto shutdown
035:30:08	CC	Roger.
035:30:10	Evans	Okay. Let's see what kind of trim we got. Yes, we trimmed it. Trimmed it to 0.2. Yes. Less than 2. Okay, plus 7 on the EMS.
035:30:23	CC	Roger - -
035:30:24	Evans	I mean on the R-l. (Laughter)
035:30:30	Evans	Okay, we'll trim it out to 2. Plus 0.3. One more chance. Okay, there we go.
035:30:43	Cernan	Okay, Houston. You're looking at NOUN 85, and the EMS is minus 3.3.
035:30:49	CC	Roger, Gene.
035:30:50	Evans	Okay, gimbal motors check. Two -
035:30:54	Evans	MARK it. Two -
035:30:56	Evans	MARK it. One -
035:30:59	Evans	MARK it. One -
035:31:02	Evans	MARK it.
035:31:05	Evans	Okay. SERVO POWER is OFF.
035:31:10	Evans	TRANS CONTROL POWER and DIRECTS are OFF.
035:31:15	Evans	ULLAGE circuit breakers are OPEN. Hey, we just caught up with all the particles. They're all ... with us now.
035:31:34	Evans	Okay, DIRECTS are OFF. PITCH and YAW. PITCH, ROLL, and YAW 1 are OPENED. Okay, you got the DELTA-V counter?
035:31:58	Evans	Okay. BMAGs are caged. BUS TIES, JACK?
035:32:23	Evans	Okay. BUS TIES are OFF. BIT RATE to LOW, while you're up there.
035:32:58	Evans	That shouldn't change, I don't think; should it?
035:33:04	SC	Okay.
035:33:22	Cernan	Houston, America.
035:33:23	CC	Go ahead.
035:33:32	Cernan	Okay, the burn was on time. Looked like it was about 2 seconds. DELTA-Vx was 0,7. ROLL was .132, PITCH was 193, and YAW was 342. Residuals after trim were zero - plus 0.1, zero, and minus 0.1, and DELTA-Vc, is minus 3.3. OX 007. FUEL is 009 and DECREASE 50.
035:34:09	CC	Roger.
035:34:57	Evans	PAN CAMERA'S OFF. MAPPING CAMERA's OFF, huh? And SM/AC POWER will be coming OFF, shortly.
035:35:53	Schmitt	You know, Houston, we must of caught up with everyone of those particles. Because we're right in the middle of them. They're going kind of in a random fashion. Most of them are drifting right along with us. Some of them are going against us and away from us. But before we did the burn - you know, the propulsion, they got out of the vent. Sent them all away from us in what looked like - in more or less the X-direction.
035:36:21	CC	How about that.
035:36:26	Schmitt	... we really got a star field out there now (laughter).
035:36:30	CC	Roger.
035:36:31	Cernan	Say, Gordy, the LM/CM DELTA-P is 1 - That's 1.0. You want me to go to TUNNEL VENT?
035:36:41	CC	Stand by.
035:36:57	CC	Yes, that's affirmative, Geno. You have a GO for TUNNEL VENT valve, VENT.
035:37:03	Cernan	Okay.
035:41:09	CC	17, Houston.
035:41:15	Evans	Roger. Go ahead.
035:41:16	CC	Okay, we do want to put BATTERY A back on CHARGE as shown in the Flight Plan. And, also, I have a new flyby pad. No hurry on this one, but it's a flyby pad post-MCC-2.
035:41:35	Cernan	Okay, Gordo, how quickly should this tunnel vent?
035:41:41	CC	Let me get a reading on that.
035:42:12	CC	Geno, that should take about an hour. We'll try to remember to occasionally remind you to look at it.
035:42:23	Cernan	Okay. I'm glad you said that because I don't see any indication of it moving here yet, at all.
035:42:29	CC	Roger.
035:43:44	Schmitt	Houston, 17-
035:43:46	CC	Go ahead.
035:43:49	Schmitt	Never got to give you a 7-Alfa reading on a - after the last charge. It was 0.6 - decimal 6 as before.
035:44:04	CC	Okay. Ed Mitchell - Ed Mitchell must be working now. I was just about to ask you for that. And for Geno, one reminder, you will have to switch back to LM/CM DELTA-P in order to read the DELTA-P. Over.
035:44:25	Cernan	Yes, Gordo, I'm - I'm aware of that, and I've done it. But in the about 3 or 4 minutes that I vented, I didn't see any change yet.
035:44:33	CC	Okay. It's a pretty slow process.
035:46:32	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy, battery A is being charged.
035:46:37	CC	Roger, Jack.
035:46:44	Schmitt	And I checked that 7-Alfa in the VENT position, and it's 0.6 also.
035:46:55	CC	Okay.
035:52:18	Evans	Okay, Houston. How's the CMP's "zippen" or ZPN?
035:52:26	CC	Let me take a check to my left here.
035:52:30	Evans	I'll take a deep breath for you.
035:54:32	CC	Okay, Ron. Your ZPN looks good.
035:54:39	Evans	Okay, I don't have the other one on yet. But I was a little bit curious because I left the electrodes in this thing, and - you know, the little sponges, I left those inside the electrodes, but they stuck to - to the back of the electrodes and kind of corroded the inside of it there a little bit.
035:54:59	CC	Evidently, it's working okay.
035:55:03	Evans	Okay, mighty fine.
035:55:07	Evans	I'll put some new ones in.
036:07:47	Evans	Okay, Houston, is my heart beating?
036:07:53	CC	I'm sure it is, Ron, but I'll check to my left.
036:07:59	Evans	Okay.
036:08:08	CC	We'll wait a couple of minutes. It takes that long to settle down and give you a reading on it.
036:08:14	Evans	Okay. No problem.
036:09:17	CC	Ron, your EKG looks real good.
036:09:24	Evans	Okay. Thank you much.
036:09:28	Evans	That's all new, what you call it - those sponges and stuff, you know. And, Houston, I'm not - I'm not putting - putting any cover tape on it, so if it quits - you know, comes loose or something like that, well, let me know and I'll push it on again.
036:09:53	CC	Okay, will do.
036:10:55	Schmitt	You might make a note that Dr. Evans was assisted in that operation by Dr. Schmitt,
036:11:01	CC	Roger, Doctor.
036:11:09	CC	Jack, I've still got this flyby pad standing by.
036:11:17	Schmitt	Nag, nag, nag.
036:11:29	Evans	Can't talk with a mouthful of bread cubes, it all comes out.
036:11:34	Schmitt	Okay, what kind of pad you want to give me? Flyby, right?
036:11:38	CC	Right. A regular maneuver pad.
036:11:49	Schmitt	Okay, and I guess the other one I can cross out, right?
036:11:53	CC	That's affirmative. That's obsolete now that you've done midcourse 2.
036:12:12	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy, I'm all set.
036:12:14	CC	Okay, it's a flyby. SPS/G&N; 66678; plus 1.21, minus 0.13. Ignition time is 08l:l4:43.49; plus 0043.3, plus 0211.8, plus 0453.2. Attitude is 128, 146, 317; Ha is NA. Hp is plus 0021.1. DELTA-Vt is 0502.1. Burn time, 1:18, 0497.6. Sextant star is 25, 189-3 27.4. Boresight star is NA. NOUN 6l is a plus 15.60, minus 175.00; 1101.6, 36242. GET of 05G is 153:24:03 - GDC stars are Sirius and Rigel; 256; 152; 069. Ullage, none. Remarks: 1, burn docked; and number 2, assumes PTC REFSMMAT. And that's it. Over.
036:14:56	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. Here's your readback. Flyby, SPS/G&N; 66678; plus 1.21, minus 0.13; 08l:l4:43.49; plus 0043.3, plus 0211.8, plus 0453.2; 128, l46, 317. Ha is NA. Plus 0021.1; 0502.1, 1:18, 0497.6; 25, 189.3, 27.4. Boresight, NA. Plus 15.60, minus 175.00; 1101.6, 36242; 153:24:03 - Sirius and Rigel; 256; 152; 069. There's no ullage. Remark 1, burn docked - docked; and 2, PC - PTC REFSMMAT is assumed.
036:16:16	CC	Okay, that's a good readback.
036:17:55	Cernan	Gordy, I might mention for future reference that we've established a new list of consumables, or at least added it to the old one. Now includes gray tape and tissues.
036:18:07	CC	Okay, you want us to track those?
036:18:12	Cernan	It might help. We have a heck of a time finding them in here.
036:18:16	CC	Roger.
036:18:20	Cernan	Oh, you meant quantity-wise.
036:18:25	CC	Yes, we'll set up in a special back room.
036:18:33	Cernan	We could call it the T-T room. Tissue and tape, of course.
036:18:39	CC	Roger.
036:34:41	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 36 hours, 34 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. Apollo 17, 130,714 nautical miles out from Earth, velocity now, 3,985 feet per second, continuing to decelerate as we approach the so-called cross over between the sphere of influence from Earth to Moon. I can't recall ever seeing two pages of a flight plan as blank as these are, from 36 hours to 38 hours. Later on today, the - after the eat-period the crew will crawl through the hatch into the Lunar Module for some housekeeping chores, checking out of stowage of equipment in the Lunar Module. But the most exciting thing going on now, was the checkout of the Bio-medical harness on the Command Module Pilot. Midcourse correction burn went nominally on time. The velocity just at time of ignition was 4,058 feet per second. It jumped approximately 10 feet since there was a 10-foot per second burn. But then, within a few minutes it was down below the original velocity as the spacecraft continues to decelarate. Altitude at the time of burn, or distance from Earth, was 128,217. We show a pericynthion of 52.09 miles at closest approach after the burn. And standing by at 36:36, this is Apollo Control.
036:42:07	CC
036:42:16	Cernan	Okay; thank you. We'll do that.
036:43:13	Cernan	It's 2.2, Gordo; I put it back in VENT.
036:43:17	CC	Okay.
037:00:19	Evans	Hello, Houston; America.
037:00:23	CC	Roger, America. Go ahead.
037:00:26	Evans	Okay, Gordo. We're up to 2.5 on the tunnel and still venting.
037:00:33	CC	Okay. is that music we hear in the background?
037:00:40	Evans	Yes, sir. (Music: Up, Up, and Away by Brazil '66) They've been making fun of some of my music. ...
037:00:59	CC	Yes, it's coming down to us in living stereo.
037:01:05	Evans	Reminiscent of yesteryear. (Music: Up, Up, and Away by Brazil '66).
037:02:43	Evans	Music from America.
037:02:46	CC	Roger. Thank you for the concert. That was very appropriate.
037:10:07	Cernan	Gordo, Ron went off the air for a minute, and LM DELTA-P is now 2.6.
037:10:15	CC	Okay, Gene.
037:10:33	CC	Geno, we'd like for you to let it get up to 2.8 before closing off the VENT.
037:10:39	Cernan	(Music) Okay, Gordo. We'll make it 2.8.
037:10:45	CC	Roger.
037:20:42	CC	America, Houston. That was a sight handover, the reason we lost signal for a second there.
037:20:48	Cernan	Okay.
037:32:47	Cernan	Houston, 17-
037:32:49	CC	Go ahead.
037:32:53	Cernan	Say, are we going to have a pretty good view of the Earth out of any CSM windows at the LM checkout attitude?
037:33:02	CC	I'll check on that.
037:33:03	Cernan	We're sort of blocked right now.
037:33:05	CC	Roger.
037:42:31	CC	America, Houston. We're predicting that your LM/CM DELTA-P ought to be about right now, about 2.8.
037:42:41	Cernan	Okay.
037:42:45	CC	We would like a reading -
037:42:45	Cernan	We'll check it.
037:43:14	Cernan	Gordo, 2.9.
037:43:18	CC	Okay. Sounds good.
037:44:16	Cernan	...
037:44:30	Cernan	Gordy, the reason I asked about that view of the Earth, we were sort of thinking maybe we might go early, if it was all right with you, and watch the Earth a little bit more.
037:44:45	CC	Okay. We're still trying to get the answer on whether you'll have a window. Stand by. I might have it here.
037:50:05	CC	America, Houston.
037:50:09	Cernan	Go ahead.
037:50:11	CC	Okay. The LM inspection attitude that you'll go to results in kind of a marginal view of the Earth out of window 1, about 60 degrees away from it, bore-sight line of sight. And we're - we can - we've started to work on and if you wanted to do is you can go to kind of intermediate attitude, which will be the LM attitude except for roll which will be off by about 60 degrees, which will - will give you a good view of the Earth out of window 1. And then when we get ready to do the LM entry, you can roll that additional 60 degrees to get to the proper attitude, if you wish. Your choice. Over.
037:50:58	Cernan	Yes, if that doesn't bother anybody down there, we'd like to do that.
037:51:03	CC	Okay. We'll have something for you here in a few minutes.
037:54:00	CC	Okay. If you're ready to copy, I have a VERB 49 maneuver for you that will let you look at the Earth.
037:54:11	Cernan	Wait a minute, Gordo, and I'll just let you load it as we go here.
037:54:15	CC	All right.
037:54:27	Cernan	Okay; ready to copy.
037:54:29	CC	Okay. Roll is 240, pitch is 089, and yaw is 0. And the high gain for that attitude, we think it'll probably track to this attitude, is plus 29 and 27.
037:54:57	Cernan	Okay. Plus 29 and 27.
037:55:00	CC	Roger.
037:59:18	CC	America, Houston. Until you get the attitude, OMNI Charlie will probably work better.
037:59:35	Cernan	Okay, Gordy. We got you OMNI Charlie now.
037:59:37	CC	Okay; loud and clear.
038:05:15	Schmitt	Gordy, for your information we have our LM transfer items in the jettison bag ready to go over and we're pretty well squared away on the, all the command module stowage now with minor exceptions.
038:05:29	CC	Okay.
038:13:02	CC	America, Houston. We'd like you to go ahead and get on the high gain again since - and stop it just wandering around aimlessly. And how does the Earth look now?
038:13:30	Schmitt	Sorry, Gordy, to be so slow. Earth looks great, and we'll get the high gain up in just a second.
038:13:36	CC	Okay.
038:19:31	Schmitt	Houston, 17. How do you read?
038:19:35	CC	Go ahead. You're loud and clear.
038:19:40	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy, going from south to north on noontime, at least our noontime weather, it looks like there is a fairly strong mass of polar air moving from the southwest up towards Tierra del Fuego. It's mixed with some cloudiness that extends from that area all the way down to the Antarctic ice shelf. But it looks like some pretty good movement patterns from the southwest, north - northeast. No strong weather waves or cyclone development on that yet, although one may be picking up about halfway between Tierra del Fuego and the coast of Antarctica, the - where the front, or at least the cloud masses, curve from the east-west direction to an almost due south direction. Most of South America still looks like pretty good weather. There is cloudiness along the Andean Ridge and also in the Amazon Basin, stretching from the eastern coast of South America on up about, oh, two-thirds of the way towards Central America. It doesn't look like frontal weather there. It's probably tropical convergence weather. Now there is this - still this small, moderately developed cyclone pattern that's hanging pretty much over Buenos Aires now, I think. Uruguay and Buenos Aires. I think I mentioned that earlier in the day. And that still is there, and I suspect those folks are getting a fair amount of weather out of it.
038:21:54	CC	Roger.
038:22:00	Schmitt	Except for scattered clouds, Central America and Mexico, for the most part, are clear - as is most of the Caribbean islands - Cuba and the others are - all look like they've pretty good weather. There's a little clouds off - cloud pattern off to the east of those islands, but it doesn't look like any major weather in that area. The eastern half and Midwest of the United States is completely cloud covered right now. There - however, the - extending from Mexico to Sonora and up into Arizona and New Mexico, and possibly as far north as Colorado, is a clear band. But then there is more cloudiness to the north of that. The Pacific regions west of - The West Coast of the United States is cloudy, at least west of Southern California. I cannot see Baja, so that cloudiness extends down south of - into Baja California. I see no strong new frontal patterns, although I'm looking right across the limb at the Earth now. There may be one that would be lying maybe across northern California and - and into Colorado, with a little clear area ahead of it, possibly in Kansas. But then into this, a solid bank of clouds that stretches from Brownsville, at least, clear up to - well, along the Gulf Coast across the panhandle of Florida, up the East Coast and on out past Nova Scotia, I'm sure. Florida is clear. Florida - the peninsular portion of Florida is - it looks very clear and some of the deep turquoise green waters to the south and southeast of that area are - are very obvious at this time.
038:24:42	CC	Roger, Jack. I'm following along on the satellite weather picture here that's taken from about your same vantage point and - although nowhere near the detail that you're describing.
038:25:05	Schmitt	Have you seen today's analysis charts of the United States or North America?
038:25:11	CC	No, I haven't. I was just told, Jack, that the - the weathermen and a lot of other people around here, too, are following your weather reports with great interest.
038:25:40	Schmitt	Yes. Does that mean they're right or wrong?
038:25:47	CC	You've got the better view, by far.
038:25:52	Schmitt	That doesn't prove much. Okay, Gordy, I'm - I suspect that that's a pretty healthy front. I don't know. Your weather must be cloudy and bad today. is that right?
038:26:04	CC	It is. We've got about a half-mile vis and drizzly rain.
038:26:11	Schmitt	Okay. Well, I suspect comparable weather extends all the way across the eastern United States. That looks like awful dense clouds, although there's no obvious frontal pattern. It just stretches from the Midwest to the East Coast. And, also, there's no good indication of stratification of those clouds, as if they'd be fairly - fairly thick up into the cirrus levels.
038:26:51	CC	Roger, Jack.
038:26:52	Schmitt	Looks like Arizona, New Mexico, and northern Sonora probably have some - one band of high cirrus. But other than that, probably a beautiful day out in that area.
038:27:19	Schmitt	There's some transverse cloud patterns over the Mississippi-Alabama area. It suggests maybe that the Jetstream may be just north of that region. But otherwise, there's no good indication of Jetstream position right now.
038:27:42	CC	Roger.
038:29:11	Schmitt	Gordy, there is one minor weather disturbance, possibly just about over Puerto Rico or maybe just -just to the east of that island. No strong circulation patterns, although there's a hint of a cyclone development. There might be just a small depression in that area. I don't know whether your maps are carrying anything down there or not.
038:29:45	CC	I think I see what you're talking about on the satellite picture, but I don't have a surface analysis that goes that far. I do - I just now got a copy of the surface charts for the United States. And there's - there's a front stretching from northern Texas northeastward up through Tennessee and Virginia and another one sort of parallel to it. But, this way southward from Louisiana along the Gulf Coast across northern Florida and on out into the Atlantic. And I guess the two are kind of blending together to make that irregular mass of clouds you mentioned.
038:30:31	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. If I'd been a little more observant I could see that there was a little bit, looks like a decrease in at least the thickness of the clouds, vertical thickness, between the two areas you just mentioned. So, there is some indication here of those two fronts, although they are contributing to a general weather pattern in the eastern United States.
038:30:59	CC	Roger.
038:31:07	Schmitt	I think, with a little experience in this business, you might have picked those two out of that mass. But it's not immediately obvious.
038:31:15	CC	Roger.
038:31:23	Schmitt	You got anything on there coming in from the northwest now, say up in Wyoming and Colorado?
038:31:38	CC	The way it's drawn on this surface charts shows that - that northern front that I mentioned, just now, sort of curving on up through central Colorado, and then bending westward toward - through Utah. That's about the only other frontal activity. There's one, probably dry front, then a short one through central Arizona and southern Utah.
038:32:15	Schmitt	Okay. Well, that makes sense. That would match with that - what I was thinking was high cirrus in Arizona. And also I can see how you could bend - that's the northern front up through Colorado and then back westward to explain the patterns we're seeing in the clear areas south of that.
038:32:38	CC	Roger.
038:33:04	Schmitt	Gordy, the zero-phase point now is off the coast of Chile and Ecuador - oh, maybe 10 or 15 degrees of longitude, and it is fairly dull. It does not seem to indicate any great amount of choppiness or wave action in that area.
038:33:35	CC	Roger.
038:34:05	Schmitt	And about 15 minutes ago, Gordy, I took two more Hasselblad shots of the Earth.
038:34:14	CC	Okay.
038:34:29	Evans	And, also, Houston, frame number - let's see, that's 16 and 17 - were taken of the Earth about 15 minutes ago, too. And that's magazine Sierra Sierra.
038:34:45	Schmitt	Okay, Ron. We copy that.
038:34:56	Schmitt	Gordy, with respect to the icepack off the coast of Antarctica, it's difficult to distinguish pack ice from clouds, in general. However, the clouds seem to pick up reflection patterns with respect to the Sun. And using that as a - and some shadows in below as the criteria, it looks as if the pack ice in the South Atlantic would extend to a latitude almost comparable to that of Tierra del Fuego. I don't know whether that - that's reasonable or not.
038:35:46	CC	Okay. I don't either. But maybe someone who's more of an expert can clear up your question on that. I'll let you know.
038:35:57	Schmitt	Now to the southwest of Tierra del Fuego there's a - looks like a small cyclone developing, clockwise rotation, just off the edge of the pack ice, and - but it does not seem to be closely associated with the frontal activity that I mentioned when I started out speaking at this - this particular time.
038:36:37	CC	Roger,
038:36:37	Schmitt	There is another - there is another one, maybe a front, a little bit ahead of that cyclone that's now extending north-south. Starts in the pack ice area and extends up - oh, about halfway from there to Buenos Aires - in the direction of Buenos Aires. It doesn't look like a very major mass of air or frontal system. It may develop into something over the next couple days though.
038:37:12	CC	Okay.
038:38:09	Schmitt	And centered, Gordy, at about 45 south and say 30 west, there is another cyclone area that's ahead of the last front I talked about that doesn't look - I think I talked about it yesterday - still does not look too strong, although the clouds, as I recall, the cloud cover is somewhat more well developed, and circulation patterns seem to be better developed. It may be an intensifying storm over what we saw yesterday.
038:38:47	CC	Roger.
038:38:52	Schmitt	I cannot see that it's associated with any clear frontal activity, however.
038:38:58	CC	Okay.
038:39:05	Schmitt	That, I presume, should be migrating in the direction of the - of the southeast coast of Africa, so we'll keep an eye on it.
038:39:16	CC	Roger.
038:39:21	Schmitt	And that reminds me, did you get any information on the - that - what looked like a very strong, concentrated typhoon or hurricane in the South Pacific between Borneo and the Philippines?
038:39:45	CC	Let me check and see what we got on that. I wasn't here when you first talked about it evidently.
038:39:51	Schmitt	Well, it was one that they didn't seem to be carrying, and it looked extremely well developed from here.
038:40:35	Schmitt	Gordy, yesterday that - the one I'm speaking of - was centered at about 15 north and a hundred and - make that about 117 east.
038:40:57	CC	Okay. I've been informed that they are - the satellite people are carrying that one now. I'm not sure whether they had seen it before or didn't see it until after you did. But they are aware of it now and are tracking it.
038:41:19	Schmitt	Well, we're not competing. They just didn't have any information for me on it yesterday. We'll probably be able to see that again late this afternoon.
038:41:39	CC	Okay. The one that you just gave the coordinates on is - does have a name, - that's Therese, Hurricane Therese. And - so the - the other one must be the - must not have the name.
038:42:05	Schmitt	Okay. Now which one has - is Therese.
038:42:10	CC	The one you just - the coordinates you gave almost exactly pinpoint Therese.
038:42:17	Schmitt	Okay. That's near the Philippines.
038:42:19	CC	That's affirmative. Between there and Vietnam,
038:42:39	Schmitt	Okay. Well, then that sounds like - if that's an up-to-date position, it has relatively little movement since yesterday.
038:42:52	CC	Roger. They show it moving just very slightly westward.
038:43:00	Schmitt	Okay. Are they carrying anything south of Guam now that we talked about yesterday?
038:43:32	CC	Take a minute to get something on that. They don't have a current map showing anything in Guam right now.
038:43:46	Schmitt	And we also had a storm developing south of - or southwest of New Zealand. Might look at that one, too.
038:43:57	CC	Okay.
038:44:10	CC	Jack, are you making these observations through the monocular?
038:44:19	Schmitt	Yes, sir.
038:44:20	CC	Okay.
038:44:21	Schmitt	Although most of them - well, at this distance, Gordy, the circulation - detailed circulation patterns to say what's a cyclone and what isn't are not visible to the naked eye, at least not to mine.
038:44:36	CC	Roger.
038:44:38	Schmitt	The major frontal patterns are, however.
038:46:49	CC	Jack, that disturbance you mentioned near Guam isn't being carried on the current charts here as anything significant. They do show some cloudiness north of the tropical convergence zone, but just that.
038:47:08	Schmitt	Okay. Well, I had a feeling what I was seeing yesterday might have just been the remnants of Teresa [sic], which I think went - got into that area a couple days ago. It was not a very well-developed system, but did seem - seem to be isolated from the other cloudiness that I would have put into the tropical convergence zone. That was between Wake and Kwajalein.
038:47:38	CC	Roger.
038:49:04	Schmitt	Gordy, let me try to give you a description of something that is a little bit unusual than what we've been seeing. The - there's an axis that runs from, say, the outer portion of the Ross ice shelf along the - and just off the coast of Antarctica, then bends up so that it would pass just to the east of Tierra del Fuego and - and then continues on that heading so that it would intersect the far east coast of South America, if it continued. Now along that axis, the - what appear to be multiple frontal patterns or at least linear cloud bands, bend very sharply and change from a heading that roughly parallels the axis around the one that is roughly north-south. And some of the front - frontal direction changes that I gave you earlier, down in that area, are - also bend around that axis.
038:50:35	CC	Okay.
038:50:38	Schmitt	And there just, oh, there are probably a dozen, if you tried to pull them out, cloud bands between the Ross Sea and Tierra del Fuego that bend around the same axis. Quite striking.
038:50:54	CC	Roger.
038:51:07	Schmitt	Now there's some indications, to me at any rate, that the Jetstream in that area may be essentially east-west - oh, maybe 20 degrees of latitude north of the Ross Sea, and then bends down very sharply so that it intersects the - or approaches the coa- Antarctic ice shelf to the east of the Ross Sea, and then maybe it bends up and forms the axis that I just described that's causing that bending of the cloud patterns.
038:51:55	CC	Okay. Sounds like a good, theory.
038:52:09	Schmitt	There's a linear clear area in that area north of the Ross Sea that - and to the north of that is a sharply defined front that I talked about earlier. And then, both the - that front continues. The clear area is cut off by the axis that I described, a cloud axis.
038:52:36	CC	Roger.
038:52:36	Schmitt	Now that should show up real well on the 250-millimeter pictures we took. Gordy, I'm back looking at zero-phase. And now, apparently, the exact zero-phase was partially obscured by a cloud pattern earlier. Now, when I - There is a very, very small bright spot in the center of the zero-phase area. Nothing comparable to what I described off the coast of Australia yesterday, but an extremely small spot. I suspect that the size of your bright spot in zero-phase has some direct - or indirect, at any rate, relationship to sea state.
038:53:31	CC	Roger.
038:55:51	Schmitt	Gordy, as you might expect, the whole coastline of Chile is - or all of Chile, practically, is clear. Beautifully exposed to us here, particular the Atacama Desert, which is noted for that particular characteristic, and - at least among geologists it is. And the coast of Peru is also clear with clouds following the Andean Ridge, probably the - certainly the coast side of the Andean Ridge. Lima ought to be enjoying a very nice day today. The - Ecuador, however, looks like it might have a little more cloudy weather, although it doesn't look like any major storm activity.
038:56:56	CC	Roger.
039:03:14	CC	America, Houston. We have a couple of words here on medications. is everyone listening?
039:03:25	Cernan	Yes; we're on, Gordo. Go ahead.
039:03:27	CC	Okay. Geno, you mentioned taking a nausea pill for some gas yesterday, and we were looking into some of the side effects. You definitely don't want to use that particular pill for gas. One of the side effects is that it's an appetite depressor. And there are some pills loaded in A-7, along with the vitamin pills, specifically for the purpose of eliminating gas. We would appreciate if you'd give us a call in advance prior to taking any medications except the Seconal and aspirin. Over.
039:04:19	Cernan	Okay, Gordy, will do. I was aware that those gas depressors were around. At the time, we couldn't find them in A-7. And so I took one of those other things, whatever it is. And while you're talking about that, as per the preflight food check, gas is very evident on - particularly on me - and I think I'm suppressing it slowly. But is there any problem, or what do you recommend on that Mylinol [sic] or Mylicon or whatever it is?
039:04:59	CC	Okay. Stand by 1.
039:05:02	Cernan	This goes hand-in-hand with the amount of gas that I experienced preflight.
039:05:10	CC	Okay.
039:05:11	Cernan	And it's the kind of gas - it's the kind of gas that just stays in your stomach.
039:05:16	CC	Roger.
039:05:45	CC	Okay, Geneo. The recommended use of those gas pills is to chew one after each meal. And then, if needed, chew up another one before going to sleep at night.
039:06:04	Cernan	Okay; fine. I chewed one after breakfast.
039:06:08	CC	Okay. A little water after you chew it up, I guess, helps its effectiveness.
039:06:15	Cernan	That's a basic requirement, I believe. The effect of it has not been too obvious yet though.
039:06:25	CC	Roger.
039:07:53	Cernan	Gordy, you want the 02 HEATERS 1 and 2 to AUTO now?
039:08:00	CC	That's affirmative.
039:08:08	Cernan	Okay, They're there.
039:09:07	Cernan	Gordy?
039:09:10	CC	Go ahead.
039:09:14	Cernan	I don't want to cause any concern on that gas. It's no real great problem. It's just a slight discomfort; that's all.
039:09:20	CC	Okay, Gene. I think we understand.
039:10:33	Cernan	Gordy, I have just eaten my first peanut butter sandwich in orbit around the Earth.
039:10:43	CC	Roger. How was it?
039:10:47	Cernan	What's that? Well, it was just as good as it was when I was growing up - which means it was great. I grew up on those things, as I recall.
039:11:10	CC	Charlie Duke's here with me and he - -
039:11:11	Evans	Miss the lettuce. Sure have missed the lettuce and mayonnaise on mine though.
039:14:32	Evans	And, Houston, we'll go ahead and maneuver onto the LM attitude.
039:14:37	CC	Okay. We're watching you. Punch it in there.
039:14:40	Evans	Okay.
039:27:23	Evans	Okay. DIRECT O2 is coming OPEN now.
039:27:27	CC	Okay.
039:30:12	Evans	DIRECT O2 is OFF.
039:30:14	CC	Roger.
039:30:55	CC	America, before you open the equalization valve, we'd like one final reading on the LM/CM DELTA-P.
039:31:07	Evans	Okitydoke.
039:31:17	Evans	Okay. With this cabin pressure now, it's up to 3.5, almost 3.6.
039:31:25	CC	Okay, Ron.
039:33:58	CC	Jack, Houston. We're ready to terminate the charge on battery A.
039:34:10	Cernan	Standby. Good. CSM LM pressure equalization, huh? Okay, cryo pressure indicator to surge 3 and verify cryo. Oh, wait a minute. See if I got the right one here. Recto 2 is on.
039:36:06	Cernan	Okay, Gordo, I cycled the CRYO PRESSURE INDICATOR from up to down, back to SURGE/3. And we got a MASTER ALARM and there was no O2 HIGH FLOW with it at all.
039:36:26	CC	Okay.
039:36:34	Cernan	Okay, I just did it again to verify it. And that picked up - it picked up the MASTER ALARM, although it might be associated with the fact that the surge tank is down and coming back up.
039:36:48	Evans	No, I don't think so.
039:36:50	CC	Roger, Gene. Although, the surge tank shouldn't have caused it.
039:36:57	Cernan	Okay, let me give you one more try on it. Well, that time it didn't wait. All I did was go up to 1 slash 2 and the ALARM came on.
039:37:12	CC	Roger.
039:37:14	Cernan	Okay, I went back to surge/3; it did not. So maybe it's coming on when I go up to 1 slash 2.
039:37:21	CC	Roger
039:37:26	Cernan	Yes, there it is, Gordy. It's definitely repeatable. I can go up to PRESSURE CRYO QUANTITY 1 slash 2 and the ALARM comes on.
039:37:38	CC	Okay, Geno; understand.
039:37:39	Cernan	You might note that - hey -
039:37:42	Evans	Okay -
039:37:42	Cernan	Gordo, you might think about the fact that we were getting them when the cabin pressure was high after launch. And there might be some association there, also.
039:37:57	CC	Okay, a good observation.
039:38:05	Evans	EMERGENCY CABIN selector to OFF. We got to unbolt it down there somewhere. Underneath the commander's couch. Okay.
039:38:38	Evans	REPRESS PACKAGE valve OFF, should be OFF.
039:38:52	Evans	Okay; verify DIRECT O2 is CLOSED. Okay; TUNNEL VENT VALVE, LM/C0MMAND MODULE DELTA-P. Okay, it's greater than 3.1. It's up around 3-6.
039:39:38	Evans	Okay, we're going to open the pressure equalization valves.
039:41:09	Evans	Okay. DELTA-P is 2-1/2.
039:41:12	Schmitt	And, Gordy, battery A charge has been stopped and the battery compartment pressure is still reading 0.6.
039:41:22	CC	Roger, Jack.
039:41:36	Evans	Okay. There's the DELTA-P of 2. We'll close the equalization valve. Yes, we'll monitor for 3 minutes now.
039:44:01	CC	Geno, Houston. We just wanted to verify that no - none of the lights in the matrix were - flashed when you operated that switch and got the MASTER ALARM.
039:44:15	Cernan	That's affirmative, Gordo; none of the lights flashed at all.
039:44:18	CC	Roger.
039:44:21	Schmitt	When we get the cabin pressure down, Gordy, here, we might try one more time. Which Gene just did.
039:44:35	CC	Okay, and nothing happened?
039:44:39	Evans	That's affirm.
039:44:42	CC	Roger.
039:45:40	Evans	Okay, still holding at 2.0 on the DELTA-P.
039:45:48	Evans	Okay, we'll open the pressure equalization valve and when the cabin pressure gets to 4.0, hit the REPRESS O2
039:46:58	Evans	DELTA-P is about 0.6, we might make it this time.
039:47:20	Evans	DELTA-P's - Okay, I'm going to open her right up. DELTA-P is 0.2 now.
039:48:29	Cernan	Okay, Houston, the hatch is open.
039:48:32	CC	Roger.
039:50:39	Evans	Okay, the EXTEND LATCH is ENGAGED. Red is not visible. GN2 BLEED button. (Singing) Okay; GN2 BLEED. Not too much in there.
039:51:06	Evans	Okay, PRELOAD SELECTOR lever - rotate parallel to the orange stripe. Okay. PRELOAD HANDLE, torque clockwise to unload the old support beams.
039:51:32	Evans	(Clanking noise) Ah ha! The probe is big. Whoops - Oh, okay.
039:51:43	Evans	The probe is loose in the tunnel. Okay, rotate away from the orange stripe. (Singing) Torque -
039:52:25	Evans	Okay, we'll probe umbilicals. is the LM POWER OFF? Proceed - doesn't make any difference. DOCK PROBE CIRCUIT BREAKERS undone? ... That's good and tight.
039:52:56	Evans	(Clanking noise) Oops. This darn thing. Okay.
039:53:22	Evans	Son of a buck. Okay, I'm trying putting those things back on now, just for the heck of it. It's brand new; nice and tight.
039:53:48	Evans	Can you smell nitrogen? Smell something up here.
039:53:56	Evans	Okay, probe umbilicals disconnected and stow. Electrical connector covers are closed. Yes, yes, those are yellow ones. PRELOAD HANDLE, position against - against the umbilical connector. Okay, that's done.
039:54:18	Evans	SELECTOR LEVER is in the mid position. INSTALLATION STRUT.
039:54:31	Evans	Okay, INSTALLATION STRUT is unstowed. CAPTURE LATCH RELEASE HANDLE LOCK. Okay, the RELEASE HANDLE is unlocked.
039:54:57	Evans	Okay, RATCHET HANDLE unstowed to the full extension; boost to the first detent. That's good and tight going back to the first detent. Okay. Fold probe, looks like. Yes, it's out. (Singing)
039:55:31	Evans	Ooooh! There it comes. That's just like in the simulator. It comes down by itself. It comes - pushes me out of the way, as a matter of fact. Okay. I'll get it a little better.
039:56:00	Evans	Okay, RATCHET HANDLE pulled to full extension and then ratchet one stroke. Gets it so it gets it off the thing.
039:56:25	Evans	Okay, that's one stroke backwards now. Okay, RATCHET HANDLE and INSTALLATION STRUT are restowed. CAPTURE LATCH RELEASE HANDLE.
039:57:08	Evans	Okay, CAPTURE LATCH RELEASE HANDLE is rotated 180 degrees and it's back in the recess. Okay, let's see if it comes out.
039:57:20	Evans	(Clanking noise)
039:57:22	Evans	Ooops. There it comes. I couldn't see it awhile ago, Let me look - the PROBE STRUT's in the way. That's why you can't see it until now. Where do we want to go with this thing down over here at the -
039:58:23	Evans	Houston, it's a nice clean ... and release there on top of the probe. It's nice and clean down there. The button is depressed. There's play around the little button on the end of the probe there too.
039:58:40	CC	Okay, Ron. In about 1 minute, we're going to have a site handover. You'll be talking through Hawaii after that takes place.
039:58:53	Evans	Okay. What's the docking angle? Blew it, I guess. 1.2 degrees, huh?
039:59:23	Evans	Yes, I think I better ver - verify that, just to make sure. COAS looks great.
039:59:41	Evans	Hold a minute, Gene - wait a minute. You got - there we go.
039:59:51	Evans	(Clanking noise)
040:00:06	Schmitt	... even getting - ... any scratching on here now. ... I ... out there.
040:00:27	CC	Ron, this is Houston. We'd like to confirm the tunnel index angle - that's a positive - a plus 1.2, is that right?
040:00:37	Evans	Stand by. I don't believe it yet. I want to check it myself. Well, Gordo, that's what I read, but I figure it's his privilege.
040:00:50	Evans	I was just checking for any scratches on the drogue, but it doesn't look like there is any on there.
040:00:58	CC	Roger.
040:01:04	Evans	See ... (singing)
040:02:13	Evans	Okay, Houston. The roll docking index is on a 1.2 - a plus - one point - a plus 1.2.
040:02:23	CC	Roger. Plus 1.2.
040:02:28	Evans	And - I took a look up there in the docking latch number 4. The bungee is parallel. ... Bungee is parallel, but it's not fully extended. You look down in the end of it you know, and it's not fully extended. And the - capture - the docking latch itself or the docking lever is loose on the docking ring. So, it looks like to me that's when I ought to recock and fire it again.
040:03:12	CC	Okay. We copy that, Ron. Stand by.
040:04:08	CC	Ron, can you estimate in inches how far down the bungee piston is?
040:04:18	Evans	Yes, it's down about a half an inch.
040:04:21	CC	Roger.
040:04:25	Evans	And, when I take the - and move the handle back a ways and I can take the hook - no I did (laughter). I took the hook and I pulled it back off the docking ring and then it caught again, so now it won't go back over the docking ring. Maybe I just lifted the hook off the docking ... ring with my finger.
040:04:58	CC	Roger.
040:05:29	Evans	...
040:05:34	CC	Say, Ron, I would like to caution you again, sticking your finger around or under that hook - there may still be some spring energy stored up there that could release.
040:05:47	Evans	Oh, you bet you. Yes, I know that. No, I was just touching the top of the hook when I pulled it back off the docking ring. I'm pulling back onto the docking ring, and it looks like it's back in the cocked position now.
040:06:08	CC	Okay. I think we've got the picture.
040:06:42	Evans	Do you want me to open the hatch here, Jack, or do you want to - while they're thinking about that I'll get out of the way and come on and open the hatch.
040:07:22	Evans	(Laughter) Can't get up and can't get down - Okay - -
040:08:27	CC	We're having a long conversation about that latch, Ron. Why don't you all just press on down the checklist and leave it as it is while we think about it?
040:08:38	Evans	Okay. That's what we're doing here Gordo.
040:08:55	Evans	Okay, Gordo, do you want the O2 HEATERS 1 and 2, OFF, and 3, AUTO? That's what you've got.
040:09:12	CC	Yes, that's fine.
040:09:22	Evans	Okay. He's going to open the hatch and IVT. Gordo, let me give you a little more on that docking latch. When I looked at it, of course, my handle was flush against the edge and it was also - essentially - locked in position. But since the bungee was down on the thing I took hold of it, and I felt that the hook itself was loose. Okay, so I took the handle and the handle will come back - would come back once you pressed the little button, you know, to release the handle. The handle would come back to about a 45-degree position just like it normally does when you try to cock the latches. Okay, with the handle back in that 45-degree position, then I grabbed hold of the hook and brought the hook off of the docking ring with my fingers and back to about that 45-degree position again just like it was comparable to the first cocked position. And that's the way it is right now.
040:10:31	CC	Okay, Ron.
040:10:57	Schmitt	Okay, Gordo, I'm running up through the tunnel from America to Challenger.
040:11:03	CC	Roger.
040:11:19	Schmitt	Yes... Okay ...
040:11:25	Schmitt	One piece of tape coming up shortly, provided I can find the tape. Here it is.
040:12:25	Cernan	Piece of tape coming up ...
040:12:51	Cernan	I'll tell you, Gordo, it's remarkably clean up here. It doesn't look like the snowstorm that I remember coming into last time.
040:13:01	CC	Roger Geno.
040:13:07	CC	We tried to leave it all cleaned up - -
040:13:08	Schmitt	... up here. Hey, you did a good job, friend.
040:13:30	Schmitt	Hey, that's good. Where is it? Oh, you - straight out there? Let me see; I want to see. I want to take a look at it, too. Hey, there it is; sticking straight out.
040:13:59	Schmitt	Okay, Houston, America has a VHF antenna - looks deployed perfectly.
040:14:08	CC	Roger.
040:14:19	Schmitt	Hey, you guys are upside down in there (laughter). ...
040:15:13	Schmitt	The commander's window has a slight amount of condensation on the - along lower left edge - that's the left-hand edge, really. It seems to be just there when the Sun warms the window.
040:15:30	CC	Roger, Jack.
040:15:39	SC	Okay, Houston. 74 on 1-3.
040:15:43	CC	Okay.
040:15:55	Schmitt	Geez, what was that? (laughter) What was that from? ... What the heck is this?
040:16:29	CC	Sounds like the cabin repress is working up there.
040:16:34	Cernan	Holy smole. ...
040:16:38	Cernan	Man oh man, did the heart beat go up on that?
040:16:40	Schmitt	Sorry about that ...
040:16:41	Cernan	(laughter) ...
040:16:59	Schmitt	Turns out - there's Sun out in the AOT.
040:17:06	CC	Roger, Jack.
040:17:17	Schmitt	Okay. I'm looking out the AOT, and I see a VHF antenna and part of a umbra radar antenna in position 1. Position 2 looks right in the radar antenna, and, as I said yesterday, it looks beautiful.
040:17:48	CC	Roger.
040:17:50	Schmitt	Position 3, I see the other side of America and very, very clean AOT, very clean. Okay, I got a good view of the side of the service module, and you can see these little blisters in the side of the covering there quite distinctly. I think people were talking about those before.
040:18:39	CC	Roger.
040:19:04	Schmitt	Yes, I take that back. That's the side of - that's the side of the command module - looking at that has the little blisters on it. Got to get oriented up here.
040:19:46	Schmitt	Got a great view of the hatch - you ... watch your eyes there Gene. Look up, rather than into the Sun ...
040:20:51	SC	Okay. Step 1 on 1-4.
040:20:56	SC	Okay, Gordy. The LMP OPS is 6100 psi, 6100.
040:21:03	CC	Roger.
040:21:11	SC	And the CDR's OPS is 5900, that's five-nine-zero-zero.
040:21:17	CC	Okay.
040:21:20	PAO	This is Apollo Control. Cernan and Evans at this time have gone into the Lunar Module, and they're going through the housekeeping transfer of items from the command module into the lunar module and will proceed with the checklist of activating the spacecraft, or lunar module, spacecraft communications system, and the communications have been split into two links on Earth, Air-to-Ground 1 for the command module, and Air-to-Ground 2 for the lunar module. They're on hot mike or a voice-actuated circuit, so we can hear them run through the items as they accomplish them aboard the lunar module, Challenger.
040:22:24	SC	Okay. Zip bag coming up.
040:23:02	SC	You won't scare me any more if I come on up here with you, will you? (Laughter).
040:23:18	SC	I got to go back in there.
040:23:18	SC	Okay.
040:24:00	PAO	This is Apollo Control, a correction on the earlier statement, it is Cernan and Schmitt in the Lunar Module Challenger at this time. Evans had the detail of removing the probe and drogue earlier, but he's by his lonesome, back in the Command Module.
040:24:24	SC	Yes. Do you want to stack part of it over there?
040:24:31	SC	No, wait a minute. There's strips of the stuff, you know, I'll just give you a strip of it. Take it over there.
040:25:38	SC	Okay. Here you go. That's ... of them is that enough?
040:27:15	SC	Yes, go ahead, Jack. Yes, in the tunnel. What do you need.
040:27:20	SC	Okay.
040:27:28	SC	Okay.
040:28:15	SC	Checking circuit breakers now, Gordy.
040:28:22	CC	Roger.
040:29:51	SC	... both circuit breaker panels were as advertised, Gordy.
040:29:57	CC	Okay.
040:36:32	Evans	Am I not looking in the right place?
040:36:37	CC	Let me look. I don't know where one is, right offhand. I'll check here.
040:36:51	Cernan	Well, just help me with some terms here. I was just looking again at sight of - underneath the power bungee.
040:37:22	Evans	Okay, Gordy; we're at the top of 1-13 and all switches, valves were in proper configuration.
040:37:31	CC	Okay, you could have asked me and I could have told you that.
040:37:39	Evans	We were just trying to give you a plug - Well, if you don't want them - Well, we'll take it back. (Laughter) I shouldn't have said anything to the world's most experienced DLMP. Right?
040:38:05	CC	Roger.
040:39:34	Schmitt	... hatch out there ...
040:40:27	CC	Ron, at first glance, it doesn't look like you have one onboard, a picture of the latch. We're still looking though, but I don't think we have one.
040:40:38	Evans	Well, it's kind of the conclusion I came to when I didn't find it in the systems data - Hey, I got a little bit to tell you about that. Oh, those little ones underneath the power bungee.
040:40:49	CC	Okay, go ahead.
040:41:13	Evans	...
040:41:22	Evans	Okay, if you look at the docking lights, number 4 up beside of that - Oh, kind of a ... looking thing. There is a snowman. In other words, a great big fat thing with a head on top of it. And if you consider the fat thing with the head on it as a snowman, well then, the snowman's head is pointing out a 9 o'clock, on that one. Whereas one that's fully cocked and latched over there, the snowman's head points up at about 11 o'clock. And - Okay, there is a lever that comes right out of the bottom of the power bungee, it looks like, and then it comes out of the bottom then left out of that lever, is another silver slot or silver bar that goes from the lever to the J-hook with the snowman on it. That particular thing that connects the J-hook to the lever coming out of the bottom of the bungee is visible. In other words, it's not sticking back underneath the J-hook. It's visible.
040:42:49	CC	Ron, we've got just a line drawing here and we've still haven't got with you on what's what according to the drawing. Maybe you can hold off until we get a model of the latch, then we can stay with your description.
040:43:08	Evans	Oh, okay, Gordy.
040:43:09	CC	I'll give you a call.
040:43:13	Evans	Okay.
040:45:03	SC	(laughter)
040:45:38	Evans	... it's up to you. ... I want to float up in the tunnel. Do you want to float up and look?
040:46:05	Evans	You know, the congestion I had all day yesterday is just about gone.
040:47:39	Schmitt	Gordy, you'll be happy to know that putting the LMP's camera together is 500-percent easier in zero gravity.
040:47:48	CC	Roger.
040:47:53	Evans	It becomes a two-hand process.
040:51:30	Evans	Is that temporary stow?
040:53:01	Evans	Hey, Jack, if you get a chance, take a picture back this way.
040:53:41	Schmitt	Okay ...
040:54:23	Schmitt	Okay.
040:55:03	Schmitt	Putting the cue cards up now, and the camera, by the way, Gordy, operated for two frames and the Reseau looked clean lens looks clean and everything's fine with it.
040:55:16	CC	Okay, Jack; sounds good.
040:55:47	PAO	This is Apollo control. Schmitt and Cernan at this time still in the lunar module going through the activation and housekeeping chores that are scheduled in the flight plan. They entered approximately on time as indicated by the flight plan. Meanwhile, here in the control center one of the docking collar capture latches is here in the control center being examined by flight controllers trying to sort out why some of the latches apparently did not fully engage during the docking operation. Spacecraft now 140,451 nautical miles from Earth; velocity now is 3,683 feet per second. Continuing to stand by on air-ground 2 for a conservation from the crew of Challenger.
041:01:22	SC	The regular type, huh?
041:01:37	Schmitt	Okay, I can do that.
041:01:41	Cernan	Okay, Gordo, we're on the top of 1-15, we're ready to go ahead and transfer the power and we'll give you a call.
041:01:49	CC	Okay, Geno.
041:02:03	SC	Okay, the LM POWER circuit breaker is IN. What the - let me know what you want ... Okay, going to OFF, RESET. Okay, back ON. And, I got the old MASTER ALARM again. The pressure's been I don't know what it is.
041:02:34	SC	Okay, Houston; we got a good transfer.
041:02:38	CC	Roger.
041:02:39	SC	Got it again by hitting the panel.
041:03:38	CC	Ron, this is Houston.
041:03:43	Evans	Yeah, go ahead, Gord.
041:03:45	CC	Okay, we've got considerable conversation going on here about that docking latch, and it's not at all settled yet. But the primary thing we want to guard against is the possibility that it is malfunctioning and that we get it latched down on the ring and can't unlatch it, and, therefore, have problem with undocking, or possibly even prevent it. So, we'd like you steer clear of that until we come up with a final solution. No experimentation, please. Over.
041:04:22	Evans	Okay, I understand. I'll leave them alone. And just one little other bit of information to let you know the handle itself is not free at this point to come on back down like it's - you know. Like, if it were fully cocked, the handle itself would be free to come back down. It is not free, I did not try to put a whole lot of pressure on it, but it's not free.
041:04:51	CC	Okay. I understand.
041:05:01	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. GLYCOL PUMP 2 is ON, it's been on about a minute, and we've got good talkbacks from batteries 1 and 4.
041:05:11	CC	Roger, Jack.
041:05:42	SC	... and CDR buses are 262.
041:05:48	CC	Roger.
041:06:00	SC	Okay, Jack, you can go ahead and switch onto high taps on 1 and 4.
041:06:13	SC	That didn't work. Okay, 1 and 4 are on high taps.
041:06:30	CC	Roger.
041:08:22	Schmitt	Houston, glycol pressure is 22.
041:08:31	CC	You faded out, Jack. Say again on glycol pressure.
041:08:37	Schmitt	Roger. It's 22.0.
041:08:42	CC	Okay.
041:08:43	Schmitt	Well, you can cut off the decimal.
041:08:55	Evans	Okay, stand by 1.
041:09:10	Evans	Okay, it's off, Jack.
041:11:00	Evans	No, wait a minute, I got to go get it. Which one you on? A? Okay.
041:11:35	Evans	Okay, Jack, I'm SIMPLEX Alfa. Okay, try it again. I got the - How me.
041:11:54	Evans	Okay, Jack, you're cutting out on everything, and all I'm getting is the end of your transmission there.
041:12:04	Evans	Okay, I got counting - 1, 2, 3, 4. Jack, you read Gene? Okay, you - you were unclear after your first two words in every case, just like you were cutting out on Bob.
041:12:31	Schmitt	We got it all - -
041:12:32	Evans	Got it all that time. You got it all that time there now, do you read me too?
041:12:52	Evans	Well, that's interesting. Let me adjust the squelch on this one here.
041:13:17	SC	Okay. They used to work. I can't hear the squelch on any of them.
041:13:26	Evans	Jack, go VHF A TRANSMITTER and RECEIVER, OFF, and B TRANSMITTER ... Okay and off on B now.
041:14:00	Schmitt	Okay. You're loud and clear, Ron. How me?
041:14:04	Evans	Okay, loud and clear that time.
041:14:06	Schmitt	Okay. And my - my VHF Alfa had to go to 2 on the SQUELCH, and I'm in 3 on Bravo.
041:14:17	Cernan	... okay?
041:14:18	Schmitt	You're loud and clear Gene.
041:14:21	Cernan	Okay ...
041:14:26	Schmitt	Okay. How do you read now?
041:14:28	Cernan	Okay I got it.
041:14:29	Schmitt	Okay, I took it V to 2. So it's the same kind of thing I guess.
041:14:35	SC	...
041:14:50	Schmitt	Okay, Houston, how do you ready Challenger? Counting 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Over.
041:14:56	CC
041:15:09	Schmitt	... give you a call ...
041:15:47	Schmitt	Hello, Houston, America. How do you read?
041:15:51	CC
041:15:57	Schmitt	Okay, stand by, and Challenger is going to give you a call on S-band, and VHF checks are both GO on A and B.
041:16:05	CC	I think I side ... lock on Challenger, we are getting some data. We'll stand by for another check.
041:16:13	Schmitt	We acknowledge that. I heard him the first time. Okay, you ought to be getting in ... low bit rate.
041:16:22	Schmitt	Okay, Houston, this is Challenger. Counting 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. How do you read?
041:16:28	CC	Challenger, Houston. You're loud and clear, with some background noise.
041:16:38	SC	They don't have a good up-link Gene. I had signal strength. And now I don't have any at all.
041:16:46	Schmitt	Okay, Houston, Challenger gave you a call, but he does not have any up link signal strength at all.
041:16:46	CC
041:17:05	Schmitt	Okay, understand hold configuration there. He just got about 2.2 on the signal strength.
041:17:11	CC
041:17:16	Schmitt	And tell them I heard their transmission to you. No, a few minutes ago. I was at zero signal strength and I heard their transmission ... One of them. The first time they acknowledged, that I was going to do it.
041:17:50	Schmitt	Did you shift my hose back?
041:18:05	CC	Hello, Challenger; this is Houston. Do you read me?
041:18:13	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. I read you. You're weak but clear. Signal strength is fluctuating. When you call me, it fluctuated down to about 1.6. Over. And it's 2 now.
041:18:26	CC	Okay, Jack. You're loud and clear. The background noise I've been mentioning, although I guess you haven't heard me mention it until now, is what we expect in DOWN VOICE BACKUP and LOW BIT RATE. How have you read this transmission all the way through? Over.
041:18:45	Schmitt	Did he say "say again?" Gene? Gene, did he say "say again?" I got a little bit - oh he's got three point -
041:18:57	SC	...
041:18:59	Schmitt	What? Okay, Houston. I've got 3.4 on the signal strength, and try me again.
041:19:12	CC	Okay, Challenger. You're coming in loud and clear. How do you read me?
041:19:19	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. I know you tried to transmit. I could just barely tell that. I could see the signal strength vary down to 3. You were modulating, aparently, but you're not getting through to me.
041:19:36	CC	Okay, Challenger. I'm transmitting simul now in both S-band frequencies, and it sounds to us like for some reason when I transmit, the up-link signal starts to break up. It's just the way you see it. Over.
041:19:52	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. You're breaking up there. Still modulating, but I cannot read you. Would you - would you tell America what you said?
041:20:03	Cernan	Yes, Gordy, we read you in America loud and clear on that simul.
041:20:08	CC	Okay, Geno.
041:20:51	Schmitt	Is he talking, Gene?
041:21:13	Schmitt	As soon as he starts trying to talk, the signal strength drops off about 0.4. Now, I have had - I heard him loud and clear one time when he called you guys.
041:21:24	CC	America and Challenger, we're going to hand over to a different site and try that here in about 30 seconds.
041:21:41	Evans	What else do we have to do, get some of these mags stowed?
041:21:54	Evans	We've got to stow the mags. Here, put the PPK where it belongs.
041:24:34	CC	Hello, Challenger; this is Houston through Bermuda. How do you copy?
041:24:48	CC	Challenger, this is Houston. How do you read me?
041:24:54	SC	Do you want to ... up the camera ...
041:25:10	CC	America, Houston ...
041:25:16	SC	Go ahead ...
041:25:22	SC	Go ahead Gord ...
041:25:24	CC	Okay, Jack. I think he answered us, but he was completely lost in the noise. I could just barely make out ... somebody talking. Could he hear us okay?
041:25:41	SC	No. If he did hear you, he didn't answer.
041:25:46	CC	Okay. It was my imagination then.
041:25:55	CC	Challenger, Houston. How do you read?
041:26:05	CC	Hello, Challenger; Houston. How do you read?
041:26:30	SC	...
041:27:50	CC	Hello, Challenger. This is Houston. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, how do you copy. Over.
041:28:05	SC	...
041:29:31	CC	America, Houston.
041:29:36	CC	Can you tell Jack, ask him to verify he's on aft OMNI?
041:29:45	SC	Okay. I'll have him verify he's - That's affirm. He's verified.
041:29:55	CC	Okay.
041:29:55	SC	... earlier when he was ... that he had good signal strength ...
041:30:07	CC	Roger.
041:30:07	CC	But on this last set of checks, we didn't hear anything ...
041:30:13	SC	Apparently not.
041:30:16	CC	Okay.
041:30:21	SC	There was one time earlier when he had zero signal strength where he said he could hear you transmitting to us very weak but clear.
041:30:32	CC	Okay.
041:30:59	CC	Hello, Challenger. Hello, Challenger; this is Houston. How do you read?
041:31:04	Schmitt	Okay. You're loud - well, you're about 3 by, Gordy, but very clear.
041:31:11	CC	Okay, Jack. We can hear about 1 by 1 in the midst of a lot of noise, but we could tell you're sounding much better.
041:33:28	Schmitt	No. I've got 2 now signal strength.
041:34:17	CC	Challenger, this is Houston. Going up to you through Bermuda, and your - you should come down through Goldstone. How do I sound now?
041:34:41	CC	Challenger, Houston. How do you read?
041:34:52	Schmitt	You're 1.8, 1.8. Yes. Never heard him.
041:35:34	CC	Hello, Challenger; Houston. How do you read?
041:36:46	Schmitt	Gordy received me, didn't he? Well, he started to say something; then he dropped off.
041:36:50	Schmitt	Now he's up. Haven't heard him.
041:37:57	CC	America, Houston.
041:38:04	CC	Okay. We're going to go back to Goldstone, both up and down, and we'd like Jack to do step 406 on the checklist; in other words, go to VOICE. S-BAND VOICE to VOICE, the BIOMED to RIGHT. And we're going to give it a try in the normal configuration. Over.
041:38:27	SC	A 174 and 76, gentlemen. BIOMED, RIGHT; and S-BAND VOICE to VOICE.
041:38:35	CC	That's affirmative.
041:38:39	Schmitt	... he's going there now.
041:38:40	CC	Roger.
041:38:59	Schmitt	Houston, do you read Challenger?
041:39:03	CC	Roger, Challenger. Read you weak but clear. How do you read?
041:39:09	Schmitt	Okay, Houston, You just came in loud and clear. How do you read?
041:39:13	CC	Okay. And that time, you're loud and clear, Jack and sounds real good.
041:39:20	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. Let me say once again, way back when we first started and Gene was talking to you, I heard one of your answers, weak but clear, with zero signal strength showing here. Now, that might have been through Ron's VOX, I don't know. Since then, you've been able to modulate the signal strength, with occasional weak words. And - and then, when that signal strength was up around 3.2, where it is now, then you came in loud and clear with a broadcast. I answered you, you said about three words, then dropped off completely. And then we - we changed configuration.
041:40:04	CC	Okay, Jack. That correlates with what we've seen here in the way of signal strengths dropping in and out. Stand by, and I'll see where we want to go from here.
041:41:20	CC	Challenger, Houston. We'd like you to do step 7. We'll check out the telemetry HIGH BIT RATE.
041:41:30	Schmitt	Okay; step 7.
041:41:40	CC	And, Challenger; Houston. Making a voice check. How do you copy?
041:41:47	Schmitt	Roger. You're loud and clear. How me?
041:41:49	CC	You're loud and clear.
041:42:45	CC	Challenger, Houston. We're looking at the HIGH BIT RATE for a minute here while we're waiting. Would you check the CROSS TIE circuit breakers, panel 16? Verify they're open.
041:43:05	Schmitt	That's verified. CROSS TIEs BUS and BAL LOADS open.
041:43:10	CC	Roger.
041:43:51	CC	Challenger, Houston. We'd like you to accomplish step number 8.
041:44:04	Schmitt	Roger. Step 8.
041:44:23	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. How do you read the Challenger? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Over.
041:44:27	CC	Challenger, you're loud and clear. How me?
041:44:31	Schmitt	Loud and clear.
041:44:33	CC	Roger.
041:46:01	CC	Challenger, Houston. Go ahead with step 9. Report the ED BAT VOLTAGES.
041:46:12	Schmitt	Wilco. Stand by.
041:47:03	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. ED BATs A and B are 37.2.
041:47:09	CC	Roger. Okay. And go ahead with step 10, and then we'll go back and try to find out what's wrong with DOWN VOICE BACKUP.
041:47:35	Schmitt	Gordo, say again, please.
041:47:38	CC	Go ahead and check the sequence camera, if you haven't already, Jack, and then we'll have some steps for you to check out what was wrong with D0WNVOICE BACKUP.
041:47:56	Schmitt	All righty. Stand by.
041:48:15	Schmitt	Sequence camera - sequence camera is GO.
041:48:19	CC	Okay.
041:48:23	Schmitt	And I'm ready for your step.
041:48:25	CC	Stand by 1.
041:50:36	CC	Challenger, Houston. We'd like the RANGING switch to OFF/RESET, and the VOICE switch to DOWNVOICE BACKUP, then give us a call. Over.
041:50:49	Schmitt	Okay. OFF/RESET on RANGE, and DOWNVOICE BACKUP on VOICE.
041:50:53	CC	That's affirmative.
041:51:01	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. On DOWNVOICE BACKUP, how do you read? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
041:51:08	CC	Okay, Jack. You're readable. You're - okay, Challenger. We read your transmission, but you're just about - just about lost in the noise. Give us another count, please.
041:51:30	Schmitt	Okay, Houston; this is the Challenger. You were loud and clear, loud and clear. No different from the transmissions in VOICE, and counting 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. How do you read? Over.
041:51:44	CC	Okay, Jack. It got a lot better. You're - you're perfectly readable now. Sounding good.
041:51:53	Schmitt	That sounds good.
041:52:08	CC	Okay, Jack. Would you go to HIGH BIT RATE?
041:52:13	Schmitt	Roger. Challenger's HIGH BIT RATE. How do you read HIGH BIT RATE?
041:52:18	CC	Okay. Still the same. Loud and clear.
041:52:36	CC	Okay. We'd like BIOMED, OFF now, Jack.
041:52:43	Schmitt	Roger. Going BIOMED, OFF. Okay, Houston. How do you read the LM? DOWNVOICE BACKUP; BIOMED, OFF; PCM, HI. Over.
041:52:54	CC	Okay, Jack. You're loud and clear.
041:53:00	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. And that was hot mike, so that's working fine up here. And you're loud and clear, also.
041:53:11	CC	Okay, Jack. Let's try PCM, LO, now.
041:53:18	Schmitt	Okay. Talking to you DOWNVOICE BACKUP; BIOMED, OFF; and PCM, LO. How do you read? Over.
041:53:25	CC	Okay. Same old loud and clear.
041:53:30	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. Certainly is clear up here. You're coming through 5 by at signal strength 3.2, and - all appearances up here, that previous problem was an up-link. But I guess you were not reading me. is that correct?
041:53:53	CC	Well, I was - The answer is yes and no at various times. We think, though, we have a good handle on the problem.
041:54:02	Schmitt	Okay; very good.
041:54:16	Schmitt	Are you ready for us to press on here, Gordy? We're all stowed and - in pretty good shape in the LM.
041:54:25	CC	Okay. We'd like you to check one more switch first before moving on. Check the UPDATA LINK switch to OFF.
041:54:36	Schmitt	Okay, That is verified OFF.
041:54:39	CC	Roger.
041:54:57	CC	Want you to stand by a minute or two Jack, until we verify a funny-looking parameter here on that up-link switch.
041:55:13	Schmitt	Standing by. What's that? No, they want - they got something looking funny on the up-link - they're ... I guess on the up-link switch.
041:55:32	CC	Challenger, Houston - -
041:55:33	Schmitt	They want to look at it.
041:55:35	CC	That was a bad call. We were reading the data wrong. You're clear to press on with the checklist now on page 1-20.
041:55:45	Schmitt	Okay. We'll press on. Geno, here is your jettison bag. You can get back to Ron.
041:56:04	Schmitt	Okay, S-band PR OFF, VHF OFF; I can hear you. PM OFF.
041:58:06	CC	Roger, Geno.
042:02:11	SC	Okay, Houston. We just transferred to CSM power, and the caution warning light did go off.
042:02:20	CC	Roger.
042:07:37	SC	Gordo, we're about wrapped up here in Challenger. It looks like there's some life in the old bird, huh?
042:07:48	CC	Roger.
042:07:56	Cernan	Okay. We'll give you a call when we get the hatch closed. Ron's doing some housekeeping in the command module, and we're going to take it slow getting back in.
042:08:05	CC	Okay, Gene.
042:16:01	Evans	Okay, Houston. The drogues are going in.
042:16:14	CC	Roger, Ron. We've got a couple of questions for you about those - about the latch. Good old latch number 4 gave us problems I guess, huh?
042:16:38	CC	America, Houston.
042:16:43	Schmitt	America, go ahead.
042:16:45	CC	Ron, can you take a look at the latch number 4, and is the hook back away from the ring approximately one inch, as opposed to resting against the ring?
042:17:42	CC	America, Houston, did you copy my question?
042:18:22	SC	We're going back to air ground one.
042:18:22	Evans	Okay, I heard somebody going to air ground one that time, and -
042:18:36	CC	Roger, Ron. Got a couple of questions on those - that latch number 4 if you can answer it for me.
042:18:56	CC	America, Houston.
042:19:38	CC	America, Houston. We're back with you after some site changeover. How do you read?
042:19:46	Evans	Okay; loud and clear. How me, Bob?
042:19:48	CC	Real good, Ron. On that number 4, latch number 4, is the hook back away from the ring about 1 inch as opposed to resting against the ring? Do you have about an inch clearance on that hook right now?
042:20:14	Evans	Well, there's about 1/2 inch.
042:20:17	CC	Okay. Understand about 1/2 inch. In what position was the latch handle when the hook was first moved back, Ron? We it kind of like in a normal stroke-back, or was it just flopping back?
042:20:32	Evans	No, when I first looked at it, the latch handle was - see, the hook itself was over the ring when I first looked at it.
042:20:41	CC	Roger. We understand that - -
042:20:41	Evans	The hook was over the ring, and the - and the latch handle was flush, you know. It looks just like a normal - hooked docking latch, you know.
042:20:54	CC	Roger. Understand.
042:20:55	Cernan	And, Bob, this is Gene. I can confirm that it did not fold back easily, because I - I checked it yesterday. I didn't check - I checked to see that the hooks were over as well as where the handles would fold back, but I obviously didn't check to see whether that one was seated. But the handle was locked.
042:21:17	Evans	Yes, that's right.
042:21:18	CC	Roger. Understand. And the first thing you saw was the depression in the Bungee. is that - is that affirm?
042:21:24	Evans	Yes, that's affirm. And the bungee is depressed about 3/8 - 3/8 to a 1/2 inch you know.
042:21:30	CC	Roger.
042:21:48	Evans	You can push the - you can push the hook about an inch away from the ring, but the normal - just a resting position on the thing is about a finger's width or 1/2 inch from the ring.
042:22:04	CC	Roger. In other words, the loose - The hook is loose so it flops a little bit; you can move it back and forth. is that affirm?
042:22:12	Evans	Yes. I can move it from about 1/2 inch to an inch from the edge of the ring - clearing the edge of the docking ring.
042:22:18	CC	Roger. Ron, when you pulled the hook - when you pulled the handle back, did you reach and pull the hook back with it, or did it come back with the handle like a normal pullback then?
042:22:31	Evans	No, the - the hook did not come back with the handle. The hook did not come back with the handle. Although, when I - when I pulled the handle back to - you know, which is - which is kind of a normally uncocked position - and then it wouldn't go any further, you know. It wouldn't go an farther. And then the latch itself - or the hook - the J-hook; I'll call it the hook. I moved it off the docking ring back to this position that was about an inch or 1/2 inch from the docking ring. And it stays right there now. And I can't push it back up into the docking ring at all. Can't push the hook back up to the docking ring at all.
042:23:25	CC	Okay. We copy that.
042:23:38	CC	Okay, Ron. Our plan here is to leave it like it is. And we're going to think about it tonight, and we'd like you to just keep pressing on. Just leave it alone, okay?
042:23:48	Evans	Okay. Sounds good. It'll clear the docking ring; no problem.
042:24:02	Cernan	Houston, America. While Ron is putting in the probe and getting the hatch back in, I'm going to go ahead and maneuver. How does that sound?
042:24:16	CC	That's real fine, Gene.
042:24:30	PAO	This is Apollo control at 42 hours 27 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. We're estimating the change of shift press conference in 15 minutes, 15 minutes at 6:15 central time in the small briefing room. Spacecraft communicator now is Bob Overmeyer. During this past checkout of the lunar module we've had considerable difficulty in some of the communications configurations in the way the down links and the uplinks were set up. And some bit of difficulty in sorting out just what the nature of the problem with one of the docking latches is. People will be examining this through the night and during the checkout of the LM tomorrow or additional work in the LM perhaps the thing can be sorted out. Apollo 17 presently at 143,562 nautical miles out from Earth traveling at a velocity of 3,590 feet per second. At 42:28 and standing by this is Apollo control.
042:26:14	Cernan	Bob, are you all going to want OMNI or HIGH GAIN on this?
042:26:20	CC	Stand by on that.
042:26:37	CC	We're all locked up on the HIGH GAIN. We'd just like you to leave it on HIGH GAIN. The angles you see in the Flight Plan are in case it breaks lock. That's what you need for - with this attitude.
042:26:52	Cernan	Okay.
042:33:10	Evans	Okay, Houston. The probe is installed. We'll get the hatch in now.
042:33:15	CC	Roger, Ron.
042:33:21	Evans	I'm not going to connect the umbilicals unless you really want to look at probe temperature.
042:33:30	CC	Stand by on that, Ron. We concur on that, Ron.
042:33:43	Evans	Okay; good.
042:39:28	Evans	Okay, Houston. The hatch went in nominally, once the probe installation strut was stowed in the right position.
042:39:42	CC	Roger.
042:41:10	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 42 hours 41 minutes. Apollo 17 now 144,002 nautical miles from Earth. Velocity 3,577 feet per second. The change-of-shift briefing is ready to start in the News Center briefing room. We'll take down this air-ground line and tape any communications during the course of the briefing and replay them at the conclusion of the news conference. This is Mission Control, Houston, at 42 hours 41 minutes.
042:43:47	CC	17, Houston. We are recommending QUADS Bravo and Delta for spin up.
042:43:56	Evans	Okay; Bravo and Delta. Thank you.
042:57:34	Evans	Okay, Houston. At 042:56:52.04, I started the stop watch, and also the watch read 18:30:01.
042:57:53	CC	Okay, Ron. We got that.
043:02:24	Evans	Okay, Houston. We've started on the heat select radial and lineal part - part of it. The little pie-shaped things are changing color as we go out. The lineal part of it - all of the chips seemed to have been concentrated on the front edge of the glass, and they're all pretty much in the linear direction or in XX-direction. At this point in time, I haven't seen any movement yet.
043:02:58	CC	Roger, Ron. Aren't they on ... heads the same way they were on the backup unit the other evening in the White Room - on the lamp?
043:03:10	Evans	Yes, all those chips seem to be - well - in an XX - I got the lineal direction, the lineal part of the experiment in the XX-direction. And all the chips are lined up in that XX-direction on the front or the top of the glass.
043:03:31	CC	Roger. That's just the way you were in the backup unit the other day in the White Room.
043:03:37	Evans	Yes, that's right.
043:11:36	Evans	Okay, Houston. We've started the cooldown in LIGHT 5 position there. The radial cells, they all started to change color except the one from about 10 o'clock to 12 o'clock.
043:11:52	CC	Roger. Except from 10 to 12. We've got it. Did the lineal ... stay right in line there, Ron?
043:12:02	Evans	Yes, the crystals or chips that are inside there didn't move at all. Yes, they're ... - -
043:12:09	CC	Roger.
043:12:15	Evans	On the color patterns behind there - the one on the left, as you look at the unit - the color crystals only changed down to about 0.9 of the first square as you come down from the top. The rest of them are all black on that partic - on the left row.
043:12:39	CC	Roger, Ron.
043:12:41	Evans	So that's the maximum extent of the - that's the max extent of the heating.
043:12:47	Evans	You might check and see if the guys want to heat it a little bit longer the next time, when they do it in the PTC.
043:12:55	CC	Yes. Roger, Ron. We're copying everything you're saying, and we've got all kinds of support here; we - in fact, we've got one backup unit here watching what you're doing, so we'll keep you posted on what we think.
043:13:08	Evans	Oh, okay. is the backup CMP operating it?
043:13:16	CC	Matter of fact, that's affirm.
043:13:21	Evans	That's the way to do things.
043:13:25	CC	And, Ron, we'd like you to stay nominal on the heating time due to the film limitation.
043:13:33	Evans	Okay; will do.
043:15:09	Evans	Okay, Houston; 17 here. is there enough film in there to allow me to keep the camera running while I try to fill up that flow pattern?
043:15:22	CC	Stand by on that, Ron.
043:15:27	CC	It's affirmative, Ron. You can leave it running.
043:15:33	Evans	Okay.
043:15:39	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 43 hours 16 minutes. Apollo 17 is 145,178 nautical miles from Earth traveling at a speed of 3,543 feet per second. The crew is now in the midst of the heat flow and convection demonstration. This is the demonstration that's designed to provide more exact data on the behavior of fluids in a low gravity field. This type of investigation is really not possible on Earth where gravity determines flow of fluids. In space the flow forces surface tension. There are three test cells involved in this demonstration for measuring and observing the fluid flow, behavior and the results are recorded with the 16mm camera aboard. We have about 5 minutes worth of tape that accumulated during the news conference and we'll play that for you now and then pickup live.
043:16:51	Evans	Okay, Houston. The first thing I noticed, as soon as I opened the FLOW four turns, it started running out a little bit, even - even without doing the inject. Okay; that's because the INJECT thing was open just a little bit, but it's all right.
043:17:11	CC	Roger. We copy.
043:17:22	Evans	Okay; I'll try to squirt some fluid in there -
043:17:26	CC	Okay.
043:17:27	Evans	With the fluid inject thing.
043:18:11	Evans	Okay; I'm taking it in quite slow. It's noted there are quite a few small bubbles coming out with it. So far, so good. It hasn't overflowed the - the first capillary ring. And it's taken off, and it's going by capillary action toward the bottom and toward the top.
043:18:40	CC	Roger, Ron.
043:19:27	Evans	Okay; it finally met together at - that part going around the top and around the bottom - met together 180 degrees opposite of the inject port and now is starting to go out across the middle and fill up from the inject port.
043:19:46	CC	Roger.
043:19:47	Evans	We're getting a lot of big bubbles coming out now. That's after about a turn and a half.
043:19:55	CC	Roger. We copy.
043:21:41	Evans	Okay; that's two turns now. The meniscus is still holding on the first inner ring - it looks like all the way around, at least as far as I can see. The bubbles - big bubbles that have been coming out now, and also the fluid have taken over the right half of the bottom of the dish. We're starting to fill in a little bit, maybe a fourth of an inch - fourth of an inch circumference coming around from the left side opposite the injection port.
043:22:22	CC	Roger.
043:22:31	Evans	Okay; I'll keep going here. We're about two and a half turns now. And it looks like all of the bubbles have already come out. We're getting real fluid now coming out. It's a real pretty picture anyhow.
043:22:48	CC	Roger.
043:22:55	Evans	Okay; that's three turns. I don't believe we're going to be able to cover the entire bottom with the four turns.
043:23:27	Evans	Okay. That's four turns, and - it's covered up the right - oh, three-fourths of the floor of the thing and about three-eights of an inch on the left side of the - of the floor - three-eights of an inch annulus all the way around, except for the right - oh, say right two-thirds of the floor.
043:23:55	CC	Roger, Ron. You can use more than four turns if you need it.
043:24:01	Evans	Okay; let's go ahead and try to cover up the whole floor on the thing before we do it. The bubbles are in there, and I'm afraid they're going to stay un - unless they disappear when we heat it.
043:24:11	CC	Roger.
043:24:35	Evans	There now it's - it's coming out with no bubbles now, and it looks like it almost formed a meniscus on top of itself - on top of where the bubbles were.
043:24:50	CC	Roger, Ron. is it continuing to spread out?
043:24:54	Evans	Yes, it's continuing to spread out now, and without pumping anything into it at all - I did that last turn fairly fast - and it seems to be spreading of its own accord now, and it should go on over and cover up the bottom, I think. Once it completely covers up the bottom, I think we should go ahead and start the heat HIGH on this pattern.
043:25:59	Evans	Okay. Now the - Everything's all hooked together now. We completely filled up the bottom of the floor.
043:26:15	Evans	Hey, for some reason, the bubbles seem to be starting to break now.
043:26:21	CC	Roger. We copy that, Ron.
043:26:54	Evans	Okay. I don't know if it's coincidence or what, but all the bubbles are formed together, essentially in the center - along the plus-X-axis direction. And they're about 1 inch wide. And then they start about three-quarters - I mean three-eights of an inch in from the circumference.
043:27:18	CC	Roger.
043:27:58	Evans	Okay; I was going to try to break the bubbles with a pencil, but if you try to push a pencil into the bubble, it just moves aside.
043:28:22	Evans	So that being the case, I'm going to go ahead and start the - start the timer.
043:28:29	CC	We concur on that, Ron.
043:28:33	Schmitt	That's called the old push-a-bubble-with-a-pencil trick.
043:28:38	CC	Roger. Just need a sharper pencil, Jack.
043:28:44	PAO	Air-to-Ground is live now.
043:28:45	Schmitt	Either that or a thinner bubble.
043:29:16	Schmitt	This is the best Friday afternoon matinee I've ever been to.
043:29:24	CC	How about Friday evening, Jack?
043:29:32	Schmitt	Well, I've lost track. I don't think - I don't think there's any - -
043:29:35	Evans	Stand by.
043:29:37	Evans	MARK. That was 1 minute after the start.
043:29:41	CC	Roger.
043:29:44	Evans	I'll give you another mark when I go to HIGH on the - with the SELECT switch.
043:30:38	Evans	MARK it.
043:30:40	CC	Roger.
043:31:35	Evans	Each bubble looks like it's locus of - it looks like it's starting one of the Bernu - Bernudi cells.
043:31:47	CC	Say that again, Ron?
043:31:51	Evans	Okay; each one of those bubbles looks like it's the locus - or the start of one of the Benard cells.
043:31:57	CC	Roger.
043:31:59	Evans	So far, the bubbles aren't breaking.
043:32:02	CC	We copy that.
043:32:08	Schmitt	Is Stu getting - did Stu get bubbles on his pattern, Bob?
043:32:13	CC	We're not running it down here. We're just demonstrating on the demonstrator there, but Stu can tell you.
043:32:19	Schmitt	Oh, I thought you were running - -
043:32:20	ROOSA	Roger, Jack. Yes, I - you're talking of the one we - that we did, right?
043:32:29	Schmitt	That's right. Well, I am now. I thought you were running it down there also.
043:32:35	ROOSA	No. Okay. The one that we did in flight - Yes, I had - I had a lot of bubbles, but I couldn't get mine - Krytox out across the center. So, you all are already well ahead of what I did.
043:32:53	Schmitt	Gee, I'm sorry you had to admit that, Stu.
043:32:56	ROOSA	Oh, you all just do such good work.
043:33:05	Evans	Another thing is, it seems to me like, in one G, the Benard cells started completely back to the edge, you know, right back to the edge of the circle. And in this case, at least, they haven't filled in yet back to the edge of the circle at all. They all started out in the center and are working around the bubbles, and then it's now - just now starting to form a few of them where there aren't any bubbles.
043:33:31	CC	Roger, Ron.
043:33:36	ROOSA	How large are the cells, Ron?
043:33:44	Evans	Well, they're varying considerably in size. I can see one that's about a half an inch across, and then the other ones - they've got a great big bubble in it, and yet the cell itself is down to maybe an eighth of an inch. The bigger ones seem to be on the outside; and, of course, there are very few bubbles on the outside also.
043:34:09	CC	Okay.
043:34:15	Evans	And the bigger ones, generally right now, are averaging about - oh, a fourth to three-eights of an inch in their cross - cross section ...
043:34:54	PAO	This is Apollo Control.
043:34:57	Evans	The cells tend to be somewhat polygonal. Let's see, we've been going 6 minutes - 4 minutes into the eating part of it and the cells are polygonal but they don't seem to be quite as straight-lined as they were on the ground.
043:35:18	ROOSA	Roger. We copy.
043:35:28	PAO	Stu Roosa, Apollo 17 back-up Command Module pilot is talking to the crew now from the CAPCOM console. Stew performed a demonstration similar to this on his Apollo 14 flight. That demonstration was not as sophisticated as the 17 test and the 17 demonstration is expected to provide more exact data on the fluid behaviour.
043:36:18	Evans	It almost looks like it's reached a steady state now. It's 9 minus 2-7 minutes.
043:36:28	ROOSA	Roger.
043:36:28	Evans	Hey, I think the one thing I neglected to mention is that we essentially have a convex surface from the - the material; in other words, con - convex with the high part in the middle; and, of course, that's where the bubbles are, too, but I think you'd generally have that type of a surface anyhow. And, it hasn't broken the meniscus of the lower, or the thinnest ring.
043:37:34	Schmitt	We should have had some popcorn on our stowage list.
043:37:38	ROOSA	Roger.
043:39:46	Evans	Okay; now the Benard cells are starting to form in that outer annulus that went all the way around.
043:39:54	ROOSA	Roger.
043:45:51	Evans	Okay; we went back to light 4 now. And we never did get any real beliginal [sic] cells formed around the outer annulus. And even the cells that were formed on the thing, it seemed like the particle flow within the cells was very slow when you compare that with the way it was in one G.
043:46:19	ROOSA	Roger, Ron.
043:47:59	Evans	Okay; I'm trying to - suck the stuff back in the - the entry tube there, and it looks like part of it's going in.
043:48:21	ROOSA	Roger, Ron. We copy that.
043:49:02	Evans	And the camera is down to about 50 percent here, so I'm going to go ahead and turn it off now.
043:49:08	ROOSA	Roger, Ron.
043:49:36	ROOSA	Ron, if I didn't tell you, we concur with turning the DAC off there.
043:49:43	Evans	Okay; yes, I got you. I'll turn it off.
043:50:02	Evans	You know, I just happened to think, after I've already sucked part of those bubbles back in there, we've got enough fluid in there to pump it out the next time without sucking that back in there, don't we?
043:50:14	ROOSA	I'm sorry, Ron. Say that again.
043:50:19	Evans	Don't we have enough of the Krytox fluid without sucking that back in there? Maybe I can just wipe the Krytox off with some Kleenex, and maybe there won't be any bubbles the next time.
043:50:32	ROOSA	Okay; stand by.
043:50:55	ROOSA	Ron, I guess we understand you've pulled some back in, but you haven't pulled any of the bubbles. Now, if you pull any more in, you're going to start the bubbles back in. is that correct?
043:51:06	Evans	Yes; that's correct.
043:51:08	ROOSA	Okay; why don't you stand by here on that then?
043:51:14	Evans	Let me see - I'll see if I can push the bubbles out of the way here with something.
043:51:23	ROOSA	Okay. The consensus is that we would like to not pull the bubbles back in. I think you've got a good idea.
043:51:34	Evans	Okay.
043:51:39	ROOSA	It's the old keep-the-bubbles-out-of-the-Krytox trick.
043:51:44	Evans	(Laughter) Okay; I'll see if I can do it.
043:52:05	Schmitt	I see you're finally getting caught up in the humor of the thing there, Stu.
043:52:11	ROOSA	Oh, I've always been in good humor. It sure sounded like that baffle did the trick, Ron.
043:52:32	Evans	Yes, I think it did, too. It looks like it worked real well.
043:52:44	PAO	This is Apollo control at 43 hours 52 minutes. Crytox which is a heavy oil is one of the fluids being used in the demonstration. Apollo 17 is now 146,455 nautical miles from earth, velocity 3,505 feet per second. And this shift of orange flight controllers being directed by Charles Lewis one of the several gentlemen recently promoted to flight director. The regular orange flight director Pete Frank is an observer for this shift.
043:56:16	ROOSA	And, 17, just so you say we didn't give you our cue, we're standing by for the 1-17 procedures there in your Experiments Checklist - the film cycling.
043:56:44	Evans	Okay; we'll have to get that shortly.
043:56:47	ROOSA	Okay.
043:57:47	Schmitt	Okay, Stu, we got you on that. The Saturday afternoon or Friday evening matinee was absorbing us so, we almost missed it.
043:57:58	ROOSA	Okay.
044:03:28	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. DATA SYSTEMS coming ON.
044:03:31	CC	Roger.
044:03:38	Schmitt	AUX TV's to SCIENCE, and SM/AC POWER is coming ON.
044:03:41	CC	Roger.
044:03:48	Schmitt	Okay; MAPPING CAMERA is STANDBY -
044:03:51	Schmitt	MARK it.
044:03:53	CC	Roger. Mark it.
044:03:56	Schmitt	PAN CAMERA MODE, STANDBY -
044:03:58	Schmitt	MARK it.
044:03:59	CC	Roger.
044:04:03	Schmitt	I guess that's verified.
044:04:19	Schmitt	PAN CAMERA POWER to POWER.
044:04:22	Evans	Barber pole and a gray.
044:04:24	CC	Roger.
044:04:33	Evans	SELF TEST is going to HEATERS.
044:05:05	Schmitt	Okay; we're standing by for your cue on MAPPING CAMERA, ON, and SELF TEST.
044:05:11	CC	Roger. Stand by on that.
044:05:50	CC	17, you're GO for cycling the pan camera and the mapping camera.
044:05:58	Schmitt	Okay.
044:06:11	Evans	Okay; MAPPING CAMERA has gone ON; PAN CAMERA to SELF TEST. Barber pole and release.
044:06:44	CC	Looks like 10 seconds on the PAN CAMERA there.
044:07:26	Evans	Okay; PAN CAMERA POWER is coming OFF.
044:07:29	CC	Roger, Ron.
044:08:20	Evans	Okay; MAPPING CAMERA going OFF.
044:08:23	CC	Roger, Ron.
044:09:02	CC	That's 30 seconds off on the mapping camera, Ron.
044:09:09	Evans	Okay; SM/AC is OFF.
044:09:17	Schmitt	S-BAND AUX TV's OFF, and BIT RATE, LOW, now?
044:09:24	CC	That's affirmative.
044:09:40	Schmitt	Say, Bob, say again those jetts you're commended for PTC.
044:09:45	CC	We recommended Bravo and and Delta for spinup - B, D.
044:09:51	Schmitt	Ckay; do the rates look okay to you?
044:10:00	CC	That's affirmative.
044:10:59	CC	Jack, Houston.
044:11:05	Schmitt	Go ahead.
044:11:06	CC	Jack, when you get done with the PTC area here, we'd like you to get out the Flight Plan Supplement. We'd like to get a food report from you all on your food intake for today.
044:11:20	Schmitt	I thought we gave you that in the morning. Happy to do it, but - -
044:11:24	CC	That's affirm, Jack - -
044:11:24	Schmitt	You want a special report? is that what you want?
044:11:25	CC	We'd just like to have it - prefer tonight.
044:11:33	Evans	It sounds like you don't think we're eating enough.
044:11:40	CC	Ron, would you check your NOUN 78?
044:11:57	Evans	Ah-ha! Thank you.
044:12:00	CC	Roger.
044:13:27	CC	Jack or Ron, when you come around, we'll ask you to stow the high gain on our call, and we'll be wanting OMNI Bravo.
044:13:37	Schmitt	Roger.
044:13:46	Schmitt	And are you ready for the trotting gourmet's report?
044:13:51	CC	Roger. Everybody's here with all ears.
044:13:58	Schmitt	Okay. The CDR today had scrambled eggs and three bacon squares and a can of peaches and pineapple drink for breakfast. And then later on in the day, he had peanut butter, jelly, and bread with a chocolate bar and some dried apricots. And the LMP had scrambled eggs and four bacon squares, an orange drink, and cocoa for breakfast, and potato soup, two peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and a cherry bar, and an orange drink. And that hero of the matinee, the matinee idol of Spaceship America, had scrambled eggs, bacon squares, peaches, cinnamon toast, orange juice, and cocoa for breakfast. That's how he keeps his form. And, for lunch, he had a peanut butter sandwich and citrus beverage. And that's it, since there's nobody else up here.
044:15:51	CC	Roger. We copy that. We'd like you to stow the high gain at this time and OMNI Bravo.
044:16:37	CC	Jack, we appreciate all your information, and we'd like to just pass on some recommendations here from the ground that we'd like you to keep on with your regular menu as much as possible. And, if you do cut anything off, we'd like you to concentrate on eating the meats, the juices, and the fruitcake, which are the most effective for maintaining your electrolyte balance.
044:17:07	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. We understand what you're saying. We're shooting at eating - eating it all. It's just a lot of food, that's all.
044:17:18	CC	Roger. We understand, Gene. Also, on that group of foods, peanut butter's great for the bal -e lectrolyte balance, also; so you're doing okay.
044:17:30	Cernan	I knew it was good for something. It couldn't be that good without being good for something.
044:17:35	Schmitt	I think we're all trying to make a concentrated effort also to keep quite a bit of water down.
044:17:42	CC	Roger. I understand. Real fine.
044:18:32	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 44 hours 18 minutes. The Flight Surgeon, John Zieglschmid, is pleased with the food report for today. Apollo 17 is 147,306 nautical miles from Earth, traveling at a speed of 3,481 feet per second.
044:26:07	Evans	Houston, 17.
044:26:10	CC	Go, 17; Houston.
044:26:14	Schmitt	Okay. Got a little information on what we were talking about yesterday with respect to southern Pacific weather, if you've got nothing else going on.
044:26:26	CC	Go; speak to me.
044:26:32	Schmitt	Okay, looks like a little - cyclonic circulation we had over New Zealand is still there. It's - looks like the front it was associated with is broken up a little bit; however, that pattern is - seems to be hugging the New Zealand area, and - but not - has not intensified. If - if not - it may have even weakened a little bit since yesterday. It's hard to be sure exactly. The front does not look as strong, and it still seems to be hanging - just stabilized, and with all of Australia clear now and the western edge of that front being just offshore north of Brisbane. The - there is -east of New Guinea - in the vicinity of the Solomon islands, it looks like a fairly moderate-sized cyclone developing at the western edge of the - of a front that was somewhat farther north and west than the one over New Zealand. North of that - Wake/Kwajalein region that was of interest yesterday to the ARIA people - still seems to be in general overcast condition, but the clouds do not look very heavy or impacted at all. New Guinea is just on the limb, so -
044:28:17	Schmitt	Yes, I think I lost them.
044:32:00	CC	Okay, I think we've got you now, 17.
044:32:08	Evans	You're loud and clear, Stu.
044:32:10	CC	Okay.
044:32:51	Schmitt	Stu, I think we lost you about the time I lost view of the Earth and mentioned the Wake/Kwajalein area; right?
044:33:00	CC	That's affirmative. We didn't get much of the Kwajalein report.
044:33:08	Schmitt	There was nothing new to add over yesterday. There just seems general cloudiness in the area, but they do not look too intense or well organized. Just probably a general overcast.
044:33:19	CC	Okay.
044:33:36	Schmitt	I'll try to get some exercise, and then I'll be back at you with some more information. Maybe we can see the Philippines by then.
044:33:44	CC	Okay.
044:33:53	Schmitt	And, Stu, I've got my biomed hooked up. Are you guys bringing it in during this exercise thing? This is Jack.
044:34:03	CC	Yes, Jack. We'll check on that.
044:34:11	CC	Okay; you're coming in loud and clear, Jack.
044:35:37	PAO	This is Apollo control at 44 hours 35 minutes. Spacecraft distance 147,866.
044:35:47	Schmitt	Okay.
044:35:49	Cernan	Stu, are you reading?
044:35:51	CC	Roger. We're reading you loud and clear.
044:35:55	Cernan	Okay, I think that big storm that Jack was referring to - that has moved off to the - well to the east of Australia. Very definite counterclockwise rotation and then it stretches to the south or what might even be the southeast. And then just rolls right - we ... a big frontal pattern and then it rolls right into another - another clockwise - clockwise rotating low down there near Antarctica. It gives me the impression of a - of a parrot's comb when he's got his feathers ruffled. And it, in turn, has another low trailing it, arcing and then flowing into another - another low that is very near the continent down there of Antarctica. They form a chain, as I just described froming - coming from - well, possibly southeast of Antarctica - it's hard to really tell what east is down there - on up to due west of Australia by several hundred miles.
044:37:13	CC	Roger.
044:37:21	Cernan	South of Australia, you get a hint of a very large cloud mass, from there all the way down to Antarctica, that has the tendency to - -
044:37:46	PAO	This is Apollo control that was Gene Cernan picking up Jack Schmitt's weather observations as Jack is now in an exercise period. Spacecraft is in the passive thermal control mode and is rotating. We've broken lock on the OMNI antenna. We'll pick up another antenna very shortly. Spacecraft distance 147,953 nautical miles velocity 3,462 feet per second.
044:39:43	CC	17, Houston.
044:40:11	CC	17, Houston.
044:40:15	Cernan	Go ahead.
044:40:17	CC	Just wanted to get comm there again. We had some switchover there. You might be interested; we've got an ATS map in here from this morning. Just - you're just about on - We can see the flow patterns in the Antarctic just about at - 120 degrees west, which is a little closer to South America than what you're calling, I guess. But we do - we do see that activity down there.
044:40:46	Cernan	Okay, Bob. And there is a very large cloudy air mass between Australia and Antarctica. It has a tendency to want to start a rotation, and you can see a hint of that; it's not too strong right now. We're seeing about three-quarters of the Earth, I guess. Judging from our clocks and what we can see, it looks like the Sun is setting out over the west coast; and it leaves us with about three-quarters of the Earth available to us.
044:41:20	CC	Roger. It'll be about 06:15 Los Angeles time right now, so it's probably sunset out there.
044:42:38	CC	Ron, just a reminder from the Flight Plan change last night. You'll have a P52 coming up here at 45 hours in your Flight Plan.
044:42:51	Evans	Roger. Mighty fine; thank you.
044:42:54	CC	Roger, Ron.
044:43:01	PAO	This is Apollo control at 44 hours 43 minutes. That was a reminder that we are approaching the time where we are going to make the first step in a two step adjustment caused by the late launch. This will be to bring the Greenwich mean time, the Ground Elapsed Time and the flight plan together. What this first step will account for an hour of 2 hours and 40 minutes adjustment that will be made eventually. The clocks will not be recycled at this time at 45 hours. The clock recycling will be accomplished later in the mission at 65 hours elapsed time. This 1 hour adjustment consists of moving the activities that were scheduled in the flight plan to take place between 46 hours and 30 minutes and 47 hours up to 45 hours in the flight plan. Therefore, during the hour from 45 hours to 46 hours we will have accomplished all the flight plan activities that were originally scheduled to be accomplished from 46 to 47 hours. This will put us 1 hour ahead on the flight plan. We would pick up the activities originally scheduled at 47 hours at 46 hours under this plan. And this would proceed in an orderly fashion one hour ahead up to the 65 hour mark at which time we will synchronize the Ground Elapsed Time clock to 67 hours and 40 minutes and at that time go to the 67:40 time in the flight plan and we will be back on schedule.
044:46:27	CC	Jack, just for information, you've got your heart rate to 103.
044:48:19	CC	Jack, you've got your heart rate to about 103; and we lost data right now.
044:48:40	CC	Jack, just for information, the last heart rate we had was 103; and it's - we lost data right now, so 103 is max we saw right now.
044:48:55	Schmitt	Okay, I was just doing some isometrics. I just tried running in place again then.
044:49:00	CC	Roger. Do you want us to call you your heart rate if - if we get data in here now?
044:49:06	Schmitt	Sure.
044:49:07	CC	Okay.
044:50:18	CC	Okay, you're up to 115, Jack.
044:58:20	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 44 hours 58 minutes. Moving the GET clock ahead at 65 hours will affect the time that has previously been given for the lunar sphere of influence crossing. Newsmen who are interested in this time should add 2 hours and 40 minutes to the time previously given, which would make the time for lunar sphere crossing now 73 hours 23 minutes 24 seconds Ground Elapsed Time. The distances and the velocities that were previously predicted will remain the same. Those are 190,725 nautical miles from Earth; 33,639 nautical miles from the Moon; and an Earth reference to velocity of 2,340 feet per second. Apollo 17 is now 148,668 nautical miles from Earth - -
044:59:52	CC
044:59:56	Schmitt	No, I'm resting right now. Didn't seem like my arms have the stamina they did yesterday to hold the artificial g. What - -
045:00:02	CC	... understand.
045:00:02	Schmitt	- - did I get to?
045:00:05	CC	We copied about a maximum of about 118 - -
045:00:07	Schmitt	What heart rate did - -
045:00:07	CC	- - on the heart rate.
045:00:11	CC	About 118 max, Jack.
045:00:15	Schmitt	Roger. Understand.
045:00:17	CC	Don't let me - let me harrass you. I just wan kidding you on that. Whatever you think is fair.
045:00:27	Schmitt	You're not harrassing me. When my arm's rested, I'll try again.
045:00:39	PAO	Spacecraft velocity now 3,441 feet per second.
045:00:50	CC	Couple of interesting data points for you, Jack. We saw the - while you were doing that, we saw the PP CO2 go up; and we saw the tanks destratify again the same way.
045:01:05	Schmitt	Very good. Next mission they'll have to Flight Plan it.
045:01:08	CC	That's affirmative.
045:01:12	Schmitt	You saw the P CO2 go up?
045:01:17	CC	That's affirmative. Let me get the numbers here, if you want. It took a jump from 1.3 to 2.4 on that.
045:01:27	Schmitt	Okay. That was with two of us going, and part of the time, three of us going.
045:01:33	CC	Roger. Understand.
045:01:33	Schmitt	Now we've still got one going.
045:01:36	CC	Well, it's not unexpected. I just thought you'd be interested.
045:01:49	Schmitt	Sounds sort of normal.
045:03:01	Schmitt	Hey, Bob, with this change in the hour, what time does penumbra start?
045:03:08	CC	Say again the question, Jack. What time does what start?
045:03:13	Schmitt	With the change in hour, what time does the penumbra - what time do we enter the lunar penumbra?
045:03:27	CC	Right now, we don't - Tommy doesn't think we're going to go into the penumbra, and we're verifying that.
045:03:37	Schmitt	Okay.
045:03:37	CC	Say Ron, could we ask a question about the heat-flow experiment setup?
045:03:44	Evans	Sure. Sure, go ahead.
045:03:47	CC	You mentioned that the lineal chips were all on the - in the XX plane, and we're just wondering - do you mean along the XX axis of the spacecraft?
045:04:03	Evans	Yes; along the XX axis of the spacecraft.
045:04:12	CC	Is the long XX axis of the lineal cell along the XX axis, Ron?
045:04:21	Evans	Yes, that's affirmative. It's right-side up, if you're looking at the connect panel, you know?
045:04:30	CC	Yes. That's - we'd - they'd like it so that that - the axis of that lineal cell was - would be parallel to the bottom of the panel 100, as an example. It's prob - right now, it's perpendicular to the bottom of panel 100, isn't it?
045:05:00	Evans	Well, wait a minute.
045:05:15	Evans	Yes, the lineal thing is, right now, perpendicular to the bottom of panel 100.
045:05:42	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 45 hours 5 minutes. Ron Evans is making preparations to again perform the heatflow and and convection demonstration.
045:07:33	Evans	Hey, Houston; America.
045:07:36	CC	Go ahead, Ron.
045:07:41	Evans	Okay, I think I see what you're saying. I'm sorry; I read the thing with lineal cell in a plus-X direction. But what they mean is, lineal cell in the - in - (laughter) -
045:07:55	CC	Lineal word, I guess, is the - -
045:07:55	Evans	... lineal cell up.
045:07:57	CC	Roger.
045:08:01	Evans	Okay, I'll turn around the other for this PTC part of it then.
045:08:05	CC	Wait a minute on that, Ron. We're having a debate whether we want to, maybe, continue the next part in the same attitude or just rotate it .
045:08:15	Evans	Okay. Seems to me like you'd like to - maybe leave it in the same attitude.
045:08:44	CC	Ron, the only rational reason to change it right now is we're hearing words that if you had rotated to the other way, that you'd get better pictures out of the DAC due to the lighting reflection on it. The PI would like to change it back to the other way.
045:09:06	Evans	Okay.
045:12:31	CC	17, just for information, we will not be going into the penumbra.
045:12:40	Schmitt	Okay. Sorry to hear that.
045:15:49	CC	Ron, we see your 52; and you can go ahead and torque.
045:16:06	CC	Ron, Houston. We're watching your 52, and you can go ahead and torque.
045:16:16	Evans	Okay, Houston; 17. Thought you said go ahead and torque. is that correct?
045:16:21	CC	That's affirmative, Ron.
045:16:25	Evans	Okay. We'll torque at 1630.
045:16:31	CC	Roger.
045:17:01	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 45 hours 17 minutes. Flight Dynamics Officer, Bill Boone, has just informed the Flight Director, Chuck Lewis, that 9 hours of tracking since the midcourse correction No. 2 burn, confirms the burn was indeed a good one. On the present trajectory of the spacecraft the height, the closest approach to the Moon, is 52 miles.
045:23:54	CC	Ron, a couple reminders - LOI - -
045:25:03	CC	17, Houston.
045:25:58	CC	17, Houston.
045:26:08	Evans	Roger. Go ahead.
045:26:09	CC	Roger, Ron. Just a reminder on the LOI [sic] canister change - Have you gotten into that?
045:26:21	Evans	No, not yet. We're - probably get started on this -
045:26:25	CC	Okay. On the - -
045:26:26	Evans	On the heat flow first.
045:26:27	CC	Roger. Understand. We'd like to know when you start on that heat flow, Ron, because we need to get the DSE to high bit rate.
045:26:42	Evans	Okay. I'm having a little trouble getting them mounted - in a stable position this way,
045:26:48	CC	Understand.
045:29:50	Evans	Okay, Houston; this is 17. I'm about ready to start it here in about 45 seconds here; let me know when you get the tape recorder going.
045:29:59	CC	Roger, Ron.
045:30:09	CC	Okay, we got the tape recorder in HIGH BIT RATE.
045:30:17	Evans	Okay.
045:30:18	CC	Hey, stand by 1, Ron. We got a little change here we'd like to make on the plan on page 2-6.
045:30:31	Evans	Okay. Stand by for zero. 3, 2, 1 -
045:30:36	Evans	MARK it. It's reset. Start the stop watch.
045:30:39	CC	Roger. And, Ron, on the checklist on page 2-6 after the l6-minute "End of test and proceed to next test" we'd like to turn the DAC OFF at that position.
045:30:57	Evans	Okay. Will do.
045:30:58	CC	And, then, you turn it back on at the re - where it says "Reset stop watch and start." The time zero there - point. Prior to that, turn it on. I'll remind you of it.
045:31:10	Evans	Okay. You don't want to watch me fill that pan again, huh?
045:31:21	CC	Say again, Ron.
045:31:26	Evans	You don't want to watch me fill the pan again.
045:31:28	CC	Yes. Roger. Yes, it'll be up before then. We'll watch you fill the pan. We just - while you're taking time wiping it and all that, that's when we - we don't want to use up the film there.
045:31:50	Evans	Okay. I'm with you. Actually, I've already cleaned out the - the little area there.
045:32:05	CC	Roger. I've got 1 minute on my timer right now - about 01:27, actually.
045:32:11	Evans	Oh, thank you.
045:32:24	Evans	Well, we'll start at 2 minutes.
045:33:37	CC
045:38:41	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 45 hours 38 minutes. Distance now 149,941 nautical miles from the Earth; velocity 3,405 feet per second.
045:47:50	Evans	Okay, Houston. The DAC is OFF now.
045:47:53	CC	Roger. DAC OFF.
045:48:12	CC	Say, Ron.
045:48:20	Evans	Go ahead, Houston.
045:48:22	CC	Yes, Ron. If it's not too much bother, it's one of those nice things to have. The PI would like you to take a picture with the - with the 35-millimeter indoor of the orientation of the heat flow as it's mounted. See if you can get that, if it's not too much problem.
045:48:42	Evans	Okay. No problem. Good idea.
045:48:48	CC	And that should be magazine SS, which is the same one you'll use for - with the ALFMED tomorrow.
045:49:00	Evans	Affirmative; okay.
045:49:23	Evans	Okay. I opened the flow about four turns. A little bit is running out - one big bubble in it. And I still have a little bit left over, even though I wiped it out pretty good awhile ago. The meniscus is up to the bottom ring, and I think we put in eight things in there where it's going to try to get the meniscus up to the top baffle. is that correct?
045:49:56	CC	That's correct, Ron.
045:51:16	Schmitt	There must have been a few more bubbles down in there again. That was two turns now, and I've got it about half full all the way across.
045:51:29	CC	Roger.
045:51:31	Evans	But, maybe there's just about eight or 10 bubbles in it.
045:52:30	Evans	... That's three turns. The fluid is essentially .. and we're still going on the first - fourth turn now, and it's still develops a meniscus around the lower baffle - the smaller baffle.
045:54:56	Evans	Okay. Looks like about six of the bubbles have developed into three, for some reason.
045:55:07	CC	Roger.
045:55:57	Evans	Oh-oh. It was doing real well there. Then on seventh turn, a bunch of bubbles came in again.
045:56:03	CC	Roger.
045:57:24	CC	Ron, I might have given you a bad call before. We don't want the DAC on until just before that 2-minute mark here, where just prior to going EXPERIMENT/HEAT SELECT - FLOW PATTERN - LOW. At that point, is where we want the DAC on.
045:57:44	Evans	Okay. You want the DAC on when it starts heating up.
045:57:47	CC	That's affirm.
045:57:51	Evans	Okay. You, know - I may have lost track of the turns here, but I think we've got 7-1/2 or 6-1/2 turns in here. And it still hasn't overflown that first lower baffle. I've got a tremendous concave - convex surface on the fluid, but it still hasn't broken the meniscus of the first baf - baffle.
045:58:20	CC	Roger. We copy that.
045:58:55	Evans	Okay. I'm going to go ahead and take it another turn, because it was my understanding we wanted to try to get in the second baffle, anyhow. So, I'm going to take another turn of Krytox and put some more in there.
045:59:08	CC	That's correct, Ron.
045:59:37	CC	Ron, if that - if that doesn't do it, they're saying you might want to take a pencil or something and stir it up a bit and try and break it up from lower baffle into the upper baffle.
045:59:50	Evans	(Chuckle) Okay. I'm afraid, I may have it all over the place if I do that, but I'll try it.
045:59:55	CC	Roger. Very slowly.
045:59:59	Evans	(Laughter) Right.
046:00:55	CC	Ron, just a question while you're watching it here. Do you have any bubbles in the lineal cell?
046:02:56	Evans	Yes. This one is going to be interesting. There are about, oh, a dozen, nine to a dozen - small bubbles right next to the inject board and then about the same number right in the center of the convex portion of it.
046:03:14	CC	Roger, Ron. Did you - we didn't copy your answer to our question about any bubbles in the lineal.
046:03:26	Evans	No, I didn't get to your question on that. In the lineal unit there are no bubbles whatsoever.
046:03:32	CC	Roger. Thank you.
046:03:33	Evans	And there might have been very slight movement. Matter of fact, I can see just a very slight movement, even now. The particles, in there, they're still lined up in the YY direction essentially though, although it looks like some of them may have deviated from the front of the lineal unit back toward the center, or toward the back of the lineal unit, as you call it.
046:04:10	Evans	Well, I missed the 2-minute start time there, but I can keep track of it here.
046:04:14	Evans	So we'll start the DAC, and then I'll turn this to LOW at 02:45.
046:04:31	CC	Okay. We got a hack on it, Ron. If you started it, we started our clock.
046:04:38	Evans	Okay. You know, just for future reference here, if we like to do things in zero G and without jarring or jiggle, we want to make sure that the switch actuates with a minimum of pressure.
046:05:07	CC	Roger, A good point.
046:05:11	Evans	(Laughter)
046:06:16	Evans	Okay. That's just now starting to develop. Look like circular cells, great big ones. And then some of the bigger ones are subdividing now.
046:06:32	CC	Okay. We got that.
046:06:32	Evans	... are even - some of them are even getting bigger. One of them is - oh, about three-quarters of an inch in diameter, and it hasn't divided yet, at all.
046:06:53	CC	Those are real good comments, Ron. I was in just talking with the experimenters, and if you've got nothing else to do, giving us some sizes of those cells would certainly be very beneficial.
046:07:13	Evans	Okay.
046:07:22	Evans	Okay. Frame 27 was taken at an elapsed time of about 4 minutes.
046:07:37	CC	Okay. We got that.
046:07:42	Schmitt	Stu, this is Jack. I was taking the pictures. I took four pictures about 20 seconds apart - of the sequence just after he started it. And that ended with - or started with frame 26.
046:08:05	CC	Okay. Frame 26 for 4 seconds - I mean for 4 frames.
046:08:14	Evans	Okay. That one cell I spoke of that was about three-quarters of an inch in diameter now is about an inch long and maybe three-quarters of an inch wide. Each - All of the cells seem to be bigger, in general. They're bigger this time. There is two small ones at about an eighth of an inch and - and along one side. The other one is a half-inch, a half-inch - oh, a quarter of an inch, a halfinch, and then a circular when you get around the outs - out - annulus of the cup. Then you start getting circular sides instead of straight sides. All of the flow comes from the little center spot and flows outward from the center toward the outside of the cells.
046:09:07	CC	Okay. We - we copy that - -
046:09:07	Evans	... all of the bubbles have disappeared, except two.
046:09:19	CC	Ron, is the smallest cell you see about an eighth of an inch across?
046:09:26	Evans	The smalles cell I see is a four-sided one; it looks like a diamond. And it's an eighth of an inch on one side, an eighth of an inch on the other side, and maybe 3/16 on the other two sides.
046:09:39	CC	Okay. That sounds - that's a good description, Ron. I know on mine some of the smaller ones didn't show up in the - in the film, and we were not - not sure what size they are. So you might, before you quit, bracket the - the smallest or the biggest cells by your estimate of the size.
046:10:17	PAO	This is Apollo control at 46 hours 10 minutes. Apollo 17 is 150,976 nautical miles from Earth traveling at a speed of 3,375 feet per second.
046:11:20	Schmitt	... any rate, frame number 31, frame number 31 ...
046:11:36	Evans	And the information first half of the experiment. The orientation was 90 degrees from this one. (Laughter) in that the lineal cell was on the right, and the lineal cell was aligned with the XX axis.
046:12:00	CC	Okay, Ron. We got - We had a drop in our signal strength there, and we did get your last comment about the orientation. We missed some comment about the frame numbers; I think came from Jack.
046:12:14	Evans	Okay. Something's a little different on this one here. Right at the top of the flow circle, it looks just like a finger. It's a curved surface that goes out and almost touches the - the circumference of the dish. And it looks just like if you're holding your finger up and looking at it. It's that type of a shape to it. It comes back down, and it's about a half an inch wide. The flow again emanates from a source that is almost on the fingertip, you might say.
046:12:58	CC	Okay. We copy.
046:13:10	Evans	Okay. Somehow, that fingertip finally touched the complete circumference, and the tip of the finger disappeared.
046:13:21	CC	Okay.
046:13:24	Evans	Okay. My - my small one-eighth inch - or one-eighth of an inch sided diamond joined with another one, now, and one side of the diamond is gone. I still have three sides of the diamond and the fourth side of the diamond, or the upper right-hand corner of the diamond, you might say, has disappeared and goes on with another little square - or rectangle. One - one end of the rectangle is about 3/l6 of an inch long; the other two sides are about three-eights of ar. inch long.
046:14:07	CC	Ron, what's the location of that - of that diamond and rectangle in the - in the circular dish? And is it near the edge, or is it towards the center?
046:14:18	Evans	There are almost - No, it's almost in the center. Towards the center. Almost in the center. On the left edge, as you look at the piece of equipment , as you're looking at it, there are absolutely no patterns at all. There is a flow. You can see a stream of flow. Whoops. I can get up then and start looking at it. I blew on it when I was talking. You can see a stream of flow from the circumference in toward the outer group of cells. The outer group of cells is at least half an inch from the circumference though, at that point.
046:15:04	CC	Okay, Ron. We copy all that.
046:15:18	Evans	Yes. I think there is a general migration of - of the cells. Kind of toward the bottom of the circle, if you want to look at it that way. They seem to be stretching kind of in that direction, too.
046:15:40	CC	Okay. You're saying that's toward minus X?
046:15:47	Evans	... No, toward the plus Y, as you're looking at it.
046:15:52	CC	Okay. They're migrating toward plus Y.
046:15:53	Evans	I'll - I'll try to make all directions, with respect to - with respect to the right-side-up of the equipment, you know.
046:16:01	CC	Okay. We've got you.
046:16:06	Evans	And the first finger I talked about was at 12 o'clock. It has joined the edge now and almost disappeared. The second finger was - still essentially the way it was - is getting slightly closer to the edge. There's maybe - oh, less than 1/32 of an inch between the tip of the finger and the edge. And it goes out at - at 2 o'clock. Okay, from 3 o'clock on around to about 7 o'clock, the cells - it's in a shadow, and I can't see for sure if they're touching the edge or not, but it looks like they're probably essentially touching - the ... the edge.
046:16:51	CC	Okay.
046:16:56	Evans	And then from 7 o'clock on around to 12 o'clock again, none of the cells are touching the edge at all. And they're - oh, an average of three-eighths of an inch from the outside circumference.
046:17:15	CC	Okay. We're getting all that, Ron.
046:18:03	CC	And, Ron, we'd like to verify that the fluid is up to the second baffle.
046:18:11	Evans	That's verified. It's up to the second baffle.
046:18:15	CC	Okay - -
046:18:15	Evans	All I had to do was start it in one position, and as soon as I started it - started it in one position, it whipped all the way around it. From the point I started it, it went all the way around in both directions.
046:18:28	CC	Okay. That sounds beautiful. That ought to be a good data point for something.
046:18:35	Evans	Yes. Right.
046:18:37	Evans	I think that in the low flow here evidently things are even a little bit slower than they were in the high rate - in the high - in the high heat rate. But my little diamond now, is almost joined with the rectangle. And I think given half a chance, it's tending to go into another fivesided figure.
046:19:09	CC	Okay. We copy.
046:20:44	Evans	And we start to cool down ...
046:21:12	Evans	Okay. As we're cooling down, the flow patterns tend to join together, so far. The ones on the outer periphery dissolve into straight lines. Straight lines are emanating in a radial direction from the center of the circle.
046:24:10	Evans	And, Houston, if you're listening; or DSE if you're listening. Had a little bit of film -oop, there's the end of film right now. May as well stop it. Hey, I went to HIGH for a little ways.
046:24:24	CC	Okay, Ron. You came back in; I didn't get all of that. Understand you ran out of film. And say the other.
046:24:35	Evans	Well, I still had a little bit of film when the cooldown - the 2-minute cooldown period was left, so I went back to HIGH on the FLOW PATTERN just to see what would happen. And it looked like they were starting out with - again larger-sized cells developing into smaller ones. And, initially, all of the cells were about a half an inch in diameter, and they were closer to the periphery of the dish than they were in the LOW FLOW position.
046:25:15	CC	Okay. We copy that, Ron. After - after you went to HIGH - after the 19 minutes - how long was it before you started seeing a change?
046:25:37	Evans	It was within a minute there. See, it cooled down fairly rapidly at the end of the 2 minutes. All of the cells had essentially dissolved. You had some radial lines on the outer perim - The cells that were on the outer side degraded into a strictly radial lines, back to the second row of cells. The row of cells that were on the inside kind of joined together and all ended up into one or two large cells about an inch - or about 3-3/4 of an inch across.
046:26:18	CC	Okay. Sounds like real good data - -
046:26:20	Evans	Still got the HIGH going.
046:27:42	Evans	I still have it in HIGH, and the pattern that's developing is almost identical to the - what was happening in the LOW, except it seems to be happening at a faster rate.
046:28:00	CC	Okay. We copy that - -
046:28:01	Evans	... triangle or a little diamond developed down there and then - and it disappeared. Only this time, it kind of joined with a different little cell, but it was the same cell next to it. I still have the big one. It's about an inch long, at 11 o'clock, as I had before. I still have a finger that's developing about 12 o'clock, and another one about 2 o'clock. And they seem to be migrating again toward the bottom of the dish.
046:29:57	CC	Okay, Ron. It sounds like you've really wired that experiment in great shape, and all the - and everybody's real happy with the - with the data. I guess now you might as well tear it down and press ahead.
046:31:32	CC	Okay, Ron. We're back with you now, and everybody's real happy about the data and experiment. And it looks like you did a super job, and you might as well tear it down and press ahead.
046:31:48	Evans	Okay. I still got it in HIGH, and I'm kind of sucking the fluid back down the - the intake. And as I get the fluid thinned out, low and behold there's a whole bunch of bubbles underneath there. And each bubble is a source for one of those little cells. It's the internal source.
046:32:24	CC	Okay, Ron. We got that. You may have made a breakthrough for science.
046:32:32	Evans	(Laughter) Okay.
046:34:07	CC	17, Houston.
046:34:11	Evans	17, go ahead.
046:34:13	CC	Ron, just a reminder that we're scratching that page 3-45 that - from 46 to 47 - that's scratched out. And from then on all the times, you just subtract an hour from it, if you haven't done that already.
046:34:28	Evans	Let's see. Yes, we've already done that, Bob. Thank you.
046:34:32	CC	Roger. Just a reminder on that. And EECOM is over here trying to figure out if you changed the canister or not. Just a reminder on that one.
046:34:42	Evans	Okay. We'll get that as soon as I get this out of the way. Okay?
046:34:45	CC	Sure. While you're back there - Panel 100 and that - you might park the optics. We see they're not in ZERO.
046:35:00	Evans	Okay.
046:35:02	CC	And along that same line, Ron, we did notice several times while people were watching through the optics that they went to ZERO. And it's no problem if the rates are low, but just a reminder that we don't want to burnp them into the stops with any kind of a rate.
046:35:25	Evans	Yes. I concur with that, Bob. I guess I didn't realize we were doing that.
046:35:31	CC	We just picked up some data points down here that people - You were all looking around, I guess, and you might - it's easy to miss that TRUNNION going to ZERO, I guess.
046:35:48	Schmitt	Houston, 17.
046:35:50	CC	Go ahead, Jack, or Gene.
046:35:56	Schmitt	I'm ready to update your weather in the Western Pacific, if you're interested.
046:36:02	CC	Roger. Go ahead.
046:36:07	Schmitt	Still can't quite figure out what that circulation around New Zealand means. It looks like it's merging with some more weather to the southeast. I suspect it's stormy there, but I still -It's not a terribly well-developed storm, although it seems to be broadening in its extent. Australia is completely free of any significant weather and almost completely free - free of clouds. The - There appears to be a front - although right now it does not look too intense - approaching from the southwest. And it looks like it's about 5 degrees of longitude south of the southwestern tip of Australia. The typhoon Cirrus - or Therese, I guess it is - appears to be just about the same position it was yesterday. And that is north of Borneo and between Vietnam and the Philippines.
046:37:26	CC	Roger. We see that on the prog here, Jack.
046:37:33	Schmitt	Okay - -
046:40:02	CC	Jack, we've been out of comm here. We've missed any of your last report here.
046:41:36	CC	Ron, did you ever get your P23 data from today.
046:41:42	Evans	That's negative; never did.
046:41:44	CC	Okay. Just got some updating information for you, if you want to listen to it. I don't think you need to copy it down.
046:41:53	Evans	Very good. Go ahead.
046:41:54	CC	Okay, Ron, the effective horizon was 25, plus or minus 6 nautical miles, which is real fine. The substellar pointing error was 1 arc-minute, plus or minus 1 arc-minute, which is less than the 1-SIGMA error. The marking data was extremely consistent, and all techniques and procedures were excellent. And the horizon updates from the current onboard value of 28 - is not required, so you're extremely good P23. Outstanding.
046:42:31	Evans	Hey, that's good to hear. Great. Thank you.
046:42:36	CC	And I do have one input from your other half. There's a concern that if you spill grape juice on your flight suit, it's hard to get out. So be sure - and when you're eating - drinking grape juice - you want to make sure you learn to drink it right.
046:42:54	Evans	(Chuckle) Okay. We - we'll try that, for sure.
046:46:58	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 46 hours 46 minutes. The display which shows distance and velocity is referenced to the Moon at this time so these numbers I'm about to give you will be Moon referenced and not Earth referenced. Apollo 17 is 80,322 nautical miles from the Moon. Velocity 3,349 feet per second. The crew is in a meal period at this time and we don't expect much conversation for some time. Earlier today, while the Lunar Module was being checked out and during a test of simultaneous dual communications capability from Challenger and America, a portion of the conversation was lost due to a communication line configuration in the Public Affairs distribution system. We have now obtained tape of this lost conversation from the Air/Ground recorders in the Control Center and will play that for you now.
046:50:40	Schmitt	Houston, 17.
046:50:42	CC	Go ahead. 17, Houston. Go ahead.
046:50:47	Schmitt	I need to make a correction. Roger. I need to make a correction. It looks as if that storm area that was in New Zealand yesterday has moved up across the two islands and is now sitting northwest. It's getting a little hard to identify the smaller islands in the pacific, but - pretty sure I've got it in the right place now looking at the map. And it is northwest of New Zealand. And it looks like New Zealand is probably having reasonably good weather today, although I suspect it rained last night.
046:51:27	CC	Roger, Jack. That's interesting because on my prog it doesn't show a thing down that area. This just may not be up to date here yet.
046:51:36	Schmitt	Well, there may be nothing down there except some cloud patterns and - but that's all I can see, of course. The front that's south of Australia now - I presume front - just looking at a fairly well-developed, although narrow, cloud line, is about 5 - about 10 degrees south of Perth right now, southwest of Perth and runs on a northwest-southeast line - over to a point about 10 or 15 degrees southwest of Tasmania. And then it intersects a curved front that runs from there up to - to Tasmania, and then back around down south of New Zealand about 10 degrees.
046:52:42	CC	Roger, Jack.
046:56:24	Cernan	Say, Bob, this is Gene. I got some new sensors on. You might want to take a look at them.
046:56:29	CC	Roger. Good show, Gene. We were just wondering about that, and I'll bug the guys on my left here and make sure they're looking at them.
046:56:51	CC	We're not getting any data yet, Gene.
046:56:55	Schmitt	Bob, we're starting to get ... from just off Luzon on the northeast trend ... seen so far a shadow line of fairly thick high clouds overlying some thick lower clouds behind the front.
046:57:29	CC	Roger. You might have - be of interest onboard there, the FIDOs - -
046:58:52	CC	Jack, we've been having comm dropouts here on this OMNI as you swing around on us.
046:59:03	Schmitt	Okay. What - where did I leave you, Bob?
046:59:08	CC	Well, I'm not sure because we picked up a number of different bits, and then we dropped it all.
046:59:17	Schmitt	Did you get the overcast over Korea and Manchuria bit?
046:59:22	CC	Negative. I didn't get that.
046:59:36	Schmitt	Okay. That generally - South China looks clear. I haven't had a real good look at it yet, it's out on the limb. It's clearly, however, overcast over Korea and Manchuria. It does not appear to be frontal weather there, though. The dominant front in the northwestern Pacific stretches on a northwest line from just off Luzon on up as far as I can see to the terminator. And it seems to be an extremely strong front with what I would guess is heavy air-mass weather all along it. And up to the east-northeast of Japan, there's an excellent example of a shadow line from some fairly thick high clouds on solid overcast of lower clouds. Don't see any major cyclone development along it, or wave development. It just locks like a very strong air-mass front.
047:00:51	CC	Roger, Jack. We've got it on our prog here. We don't show the one on the northeast part of Japan, but we do show a front prog for tomorrow morning going off of Taiwan and - right from Taiwan eastward - past the Ryukyu islands and just on into the northern Pacific there. Looks like pretty heavy cloud mass over there.
047:01:14	Schmitt	Roger. That's the one I'm - Roger. That's the one I'm looking at. Extremely heavy. And right now it - in fact starts about at Luzon. It looks like Taiwan is almost on the back side of it.
047:01:30	CC	Yes. That's what our prog - it shows it right on Luzon and then Taiwan's clear.
047:01:37	Schmitt	Very good.
047:01:39	CC	We'll keep up with you yet there, Jack. Say, you may be interested. We've got 9 hours of good tracking on the - after the midcourse - and we show a perilune of about 52 miles which confirms a good midcourse.
047:01:59	Cernan	Sounds outstanding - -
047:02:00	Evans	That's great.
047:02:01	Cernan	You can cross off the canister, by the way; it's changed.
047:02:05	CC	Okay. EECOMs happy about that now, finally. And, Gene - the CD - your data looks good.
047:02:17	Schmitt	Okay. I never had a chance to tell you, Bob, but you - as you see - I presume - I - the LMP no longer has sensors on.
047:02:29	CC	Roger. We confirm that.
047:02:34	Schmitt	By the way, those were the - I guess you know - the sensors that we put on at the Cape. And they still seemed to be in good shape when I took them off. I figured I'd let things rest a while, and then I'll put them on again tomorrow.
047:02:49	CC	Roger. Looks like you've got eat period scheduled here for an hour, and then into the presleep checklist.
047:02:59	Schmitt	Whoopee! The old preslip [sic] checklist.
047:12:19	CC	Apollo 17, Houston.
047:12:25	Cernan	Go ahead, T.P.
047:12:26	CC	Yes. I was going to say, is that talkative commander onboard?
047:12:32	Cernan	How are you doing down there?
047:12:34	CC	Well, I feel lots better. Like I told you Geno, I think that you were the jinx on Gemini 9 for all the delays. Over.
047:12:43	Cernan	No way; you got a longer history than I do.
047:12:47	CC	Everything's looking great.
047:12:52	Cernan	Yes, it's looking good onboard. We're - I think we're pretty well squared away. We've got our stowage in shape, and we're in the house-cleaning routine. And that's about 50 percent of the battle.
047:13:06	CC	Right.
047:13:10	Cernan	The weather down there didn't look too good today. How's it been?
047:13:13	CC	Well, as it started out, it was below minimums this morning and finally, this afternoon, it cleared up. But it was strictly zilch this morning and starting last night. There's another front due in here later tonight.
047:13:28	Schmitt	Yes, we've been watching that one.
047:13:32	CC	Well, Jack, you're turning into a very trained weather observer besides being a geologist.
047:13:40	Schmitt	Oh, I'm enjoying it immensely, Tom, as you may have gathered.
047:13:45	CC	Right.
047:13:45	Schmitt	Very interesting place to watch; I'll tell you.
047:13:48	CC	Absolutely superb.
047:13:52	Cernan	How are things on the home front, T.P.?
047:13:55	CC	Geno, things couldn't be better.
047:14:01	Cernan	Well, you might sound all the good words from us.
047:14:03	CC	Oh, will do. I plan to drop by and burn a cup of coffee tomorrow.
047:14:11	Cernan	I'd love to invite you up here for supper.
047:14:16	CC	And I wish I could join you. I could make another couple of remarks, but they'd be X-rated; so I shouldn't.
047:14:25	Schmitt	Okay. I'll accept that.
047:14:30	Cernan	You notice I haven't yet.
047:14:33	CC	(Chuckle) I'm very well pleased, Geno. Your - your language is superb.
047:17:38	CC	17, Houston, just a couple of words. We'd like you to know we're real satisfied with all the LM data that we saw during the LM activation work today, and, looking at it, the data looked real good.
047:17:54	Schmitt	Great, Bob. I was - you had me worried there for a while with that comm. Do you have a good idea what caused that?
047:18:02	CC	Yes, we're sure about 99.9 percent of it was just ground linkup.
047:18:10	Schmitt	Yes, that's certainly the way it acted onboard.
047:18:14	CC	I guess there won't be any need to go back and change the Checklist on that, but there's a lot to be said for maybe going to a real good stable condition and then getting a good firm checkout before you go into that downvoice backup mode and things like that. And I think that's what we'll do in the future.
047:18:31	Schmitt	Understand.
047:18:33	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 47 hours 18 minutes. That completes the tape from this afternoon. At this time Apollo 17 is 79,293 nautical miles from the Moon. With the lunar referenced velocity of 3,343 feet per second. The flight director has just gotten another update on the S-IVB impact prediction, based on tracking to date. The newest prediction is that the impact will occur at an elapsed time of 86 hours 59 minutes 55 seconds, at 3 degrees 58 minutes south latitude, 12 degrees 35 minutes west longitude. While that tape was playing, there were several conversations with the crew. Including one between Brigadier General Tom Stafford and Gene Cernan. Stafford was Cernan's spacecraft commander in both Gemini and Apollo. We'll play those conversations for you now and then come back up live.
047:45:49	Schmitt	Houston; 7 - 17
047:45:54	CC	Go ahead, Jack.
047:45:57	Schmitt	Yes, I'm just a little curious about the difficulty on holding the OMNIs. is that about the same as past missions, or are we losing a little bit more than usual?
047:46:12	CC	We're going to have Ed here give us a description for a minute, so let me stand by.
047:46:19	Schmitt	Okay.
047:46:44	CC	Jack, according to that - to our stalwart INCO over there, due to this new 210 down at Tidbinbilla we're holding actually longer than in the past history.
047:47:00	Schmitt	Okay. I just guess I've never been on this end before.
047:47:04	CC	Roger. Do you - do you hear it onboard when we break lock there?
047:47:13	Schmitt	Yes, matter of fact, with the SQUELCH ENABLED, we lose all the background noise. And we know when we're picking you up because we start to get background noise again.
047:47:27	CC	Roger. In other words, you - you are able to stop talking or something when you - when you know we're breaking lock then.
047:47:36	Schmitt	Well, if we happen to be talking when you break lock - no, unless we're watching the meters we won't. We lose you when you get about 55 - say 60 percent signal strength. And apparently we're not talking to you when we have less than that.
047:47:52	CC	Roger. Yes, INCO gave me a briefing tonight and showed me what chart to watch so I can look at numbers when to talk. I've been talking to myself too much, lately.
047:48:07	Schmitt	Yes, they have a beautiful chart there for that purpose.
047:48:13	CC	I never really wanted to be an INCO, but I guess I was forced to tonight.
047:48:23	Schmitt	There are lots of comments for that one, Bob; but I'd better not say anything.
047:48:26	CC	Roger.
047:48:27	Schmitt	Ed would never speak to me again.
047:48:29	CC	Well, that's all right. We can't X-rate the transcripts, so we'll just have to take - take it easy.
047:48:52	Schmitt	Say, Bob, I've got another question about the Challenger.
047:48:54	CC	Go ahead, sir.
047:49:01	Schmitt	(Music) Yes, sir. The battery voltage on low taps, strangely enough, was just like the simulator; but I had expected that the simulator might have been wrong - that we would have seen higher voltage there. is that - is that about what you guys expected?
047:49:23	CC	Roger. They said they expected that because the extra time on the pad that they're running. That 2-hour-and-40-minute delay is coming into play again.
047:49:35	Schmitt	Oh, yes, yes. That's right. Good. I forgot all about that. Something made that slip my mind.
047:49:43	CC	Well, things have been going so well that I can't blame you forgetting that.
047:49:53	Schmitt	... Stanley Holloway's crazy Flight Plan updates that we've just forgotten that we were ever late.
047:50:00	CC	Roger. Say, by the way, we like the music in the background. Sounds pretty good.
047:50:01	Schmitt	Yes, we sort of - didn't - we didn't get it out at all until today. [Music: Whipped Cream by Al Hirt] I don't know whether we forgot about it or too many other learning things going on. It's - it's quite pleasant.
047:50:23	CC	Roger. I don't think you forgot about it. I think you were just glued to those windows.
047:50:30	Schmitt	Well, I still am, as a matter of fact. The old Earth's coming by. And, say, I mentioned a couple of fronts that joined together about 20 degrees south of - of - the south coast of Australia. And it looks like that's a fairly healthy storm center developing down in there - conceivably may migrate up across Tasmania and maybe up - up the Sydney-Brisbane coastal area in the next few days.
047:51:07	CC	Roger. Where is the exact center of that, Jack? it took me a second to get my prog out here.
047:51:15	Schmitt	Well, just a second. Let me give you better from the map.
047:51:18	CC	Roger.
047:52:05	CC	While you're looking at your map, I just might mention to Gene, I just talked to your - your better half over there, and everybody's fine and happy.
047:52:18	Cernan	Great. Always like to hear news like that, Bob.
047:52:21	CC	Roger.
047:52:31	Schmitt	Bob, did you get that - 15 to 20 degrees south southwest of Adelaide?
047:52:43	CC	Roger.
047:53:20	CC	17, Houston. Are you into your pre -
047:53:42	CC	17, Houston. Are you into your presleep checklist ...?
047:53:54	CC	17, Houston. Are you into your presleep checklist now?
047:54:02	Cernan	We're just about ready to get started, Bob. We're running a little bit behind, but - we'll catch up here.
047:55:08	CC	Okay. No sweat.
047:55:16	Schmitt	(Music) Trying to get some more of this good food down.
047:55:19	CC	Roger. Keep saying those words. The people on my left appreciate that.
047:55:29	Cernan	Yes, but it does take awhile.
047:55:32	CC	I'm sure of that.
047:55:38	Schmitt	You know what we really need is Rita to fix it for us.
047:55:43	CC	That's affirmed. I'll go along on that.
047:56:18	Cernan	Okay, Bob, I'm going to cycle H2 FANS 1 and 2.
047:56:24	CC	Okay, we're watching.
047:57:48	Cernan	FANS are OFF.
047:57:51	CC	Roger.
047:59:15	Schmitt	Bob, we're still on November November frame 140, and I'm going to take two more pictures before I go to sleep.
047:59:23	CC	Roger, Jack. We copy that. November November frame 140. And you ought to be on 142 when you go to sleep, I guess, huh?
047:59:35	Schmitt	That's affirm.
048:09:37	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 48 hours 9 minutes. Apollo 17 now 77,623 nautical miles away from the Moon and the lunar referenced velocity 3,333 feet per second. Here in the Control Room flight director Gene Kranz and his white team are preparing to relieve the orange team which has been directed tonight by flight director Chuck Lewis. Major activities during this shift have been the heat flow and convection demonstration which has been performed twice during this shift. Once, while the spacecraft was nulled in all three axes and again after the passive thermal control spinup mode had been established. That demonstration is to provide data on behavior of fluids in a low gravity field and the information learned from the demonstration could be valuable in the future science experiments and perhaps for manufacturing processes in space. The crew is in its presleep checklist at the present time and we have a - again a new update on the S-IVB impact just provided by the flight dynamics officer - updates impact time to 86 hours 59 minutes 38 seconds at 3 degrees 37 minutes south latitude, 12 degrees 7 minutes west longitude. We do not anticipate a change of shift briefing at the end of this shift. Handover is scheduled for midnight and there will be no change of shift briefing. At 48 hours 12 minutes this is Mission Control Houston.
048:14:48	Schmitt	Houston, 17-
048:14:51	CC	Go ahead.
048:14:55	Schmitt	Roger. One final word. I got those pictures; and, I tell you, that typhoon off - north of Borneo - looks like it's right off the coast of - the east coast of Vietnam now, and it's about as tightly organized and solid as anything I can remember seeing in photographs. It looks as if, from yesterday, it's moved quite a bit to the west.
048:15:29	CC	Roger. We concur. The prog for 12:00 - Let's see, that's about 6 hours from now - shows it to be right over the Vietnam area, the Viet - Vietnam peninsula there. So it looks like it's moving the way they're progging it, huh?
048:15:45	Schmitt	Yes; well, it's right there. Yes, it certainly is. It's - it's moved from just a little bit west of Luzon over to the coast there. So it's a pretty healthy storm.
048:16:01	CC	Roger. It looks - on the prog chart here - it looks real tight. It's a very - very centralized thing and real tight circular.
048:16:15	Schmitt	Oh, yes, you better believe it. It in really - it is tight. It - it's really - really no bigger than the - in terms of cloud pattern - no bigger than the - say, South Vietnam itself.
048:16:33	CC	Roger. How're you getting that, Jack? Are you looking with the monocular now?
048:16:41	Schmitt	That's affirm. Monocular still gives real good resolution on the cloud patterns. [Music] Naked eye, you just see the masses; but with the 10-power monocular, it's perfectly adequate for seeing the kind of patterns we're talking about.
048:17:03	CC	Roger. I understand.
048:19:59	CC	Well, guys, I guess I won't get the chance to say goodnight to you because Parker's going to come in to put you to bed.
048:20:09	Schmitt	Heavens.
048:20:13	CC	And we'd - we'd like you to clear - -
048:20:15	Schmitt	You can still say goodnight, Bob.
048:20:16	CC	- - the DSKY, if you will.
048:20:20	Schmitt	Say goodnight, Bob.
048:20:22	CC	Say goodnight, Dick, huh? One last word. You know, we're always hounding you guys - really don't mean to - but we - we'd like to see a clear DSKY so something doesn't burn out. Don't know the exact words on that, but -
048:20:39	Cernan	Okay, we - we'll give you a clear DSKY.
048:20:42	CC	Roger.
048:20:50	Cernan	Goodnight, Robert.
048:20:57	CC	We'll see you tomorrow, troops. And we had a good show today, and We'll have more tomorrow.
048:21:17	Schmitt	Ron says goodnight, Bob.
048:21:22	CC	Roger.
048:28:25	Schmitt	Robert Parker, are you there?
048:28:29	CC	That's affirmative.
048:28:33	Schmitt	Well, you're just in time to put us to sleep. A nd I'll give you one last little old observation here. Extremely bright zero phase point right off the northwestern corner of Australia right at Carnarvon, it's as bright as I've seen. They must have a pretty good surf or something going in there.
048:28:58	CC	Okay; that sounds good.
048:29:29	CC	Okay, 17, we copy all that; and I gather you're going to sleep at this point.
048:29:37	Schmitt	Well, we're going to try, Bob. I don't think any of us are real sleepy right now, but we're going to give her the old space try, here; and I'm sure we'll be asleep before long. Ron is on watch; and, if you don't wake him up with your voice, give him a crew alert. He says he'll wake up with a MASTER ALARM.
048:29:59	CC	That's a healthy sign. All right, guys; if I stick around long enough in the morning, I'll wake you up.
048:33:25	Cernan	Okay, Robert, are you happy with your high - antenna configuration?
048:33:34	CC	That's affirm. INCO is happy.
048:33:40	Cernan	Okay, you have anything else for us? I'll take care of our sleep configuration if you don't.
048:33:47	CC	Okay, stand by. I'll go around the MOCR here with white.
048:33:54	SC	(Laughter)
048:34:00	CC	Okay. A lot of happy people down here with nothing to ask you.
048:34:07	Cernan	Okay. Nice to have everybody happy. And you - that Includes the - the biomed on the commander, huh?
048:34:22	CC	Okay, I guess they're happy.
048:34:40	Cernan	Okay, are you going to sing to Ron in the morning to wake us up?
048:34:44	CC	Depends on how soon you guys decide to wake up in the morning. I'll be around for 8 hours anyway.
048:34:57	Cernan	What's your expected GET of awake?
048:35:19	CC	Stand by, Okay, 17, it should say 56 - -
048:35:20	Cernan	... 56.
048:35:21	CC	Go ahead.
048:35:26	Cernan	Yes, we're just going to say the same thing.
048:35:28	CC	Okay. Should show 56 on your clock.
048:35:45	CC	In fact, Dr. Kranz, here, just decided that you guys get another half hour in the morning if you wanted it. But you better tell us now because we'll wake you up at 56 and ask you if you want the other half hour then, unless you tell us.
048:36:06	Cernan	Yes, why don't you give us another half hour; and if we happen to wake up and want to move around, well, We'll do it.
048:36:12	CC	Okay; We'll wake you up at 56:30.
048:39:12	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 48 hours 39 minutes. We now have turned off the voice subcarrier up to the spacecraft and INCO just a few minutes ago reported that the crew has also turned off the voice subcarrier from the spacecraft, indicating that they have completed their presleep preparations and should begin scheduled 8 hour rest period shortly. Spacecraft Communicator, at the present time, is astronaut Robert Parker. He has replaced Robert Overmyer in that position and in Mission Control we're set to maintain the watch while the crew is sleeping, keeping an eye on spacecraft systems via telemetry. Apollo 17 is now 76,630 nautical miles from the Moon and everything appears to be functioning normally aboard the spacecraft at this time. At 48 hours 40 minutes this is Apollo Control Houston.
048:57:45	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 48 hours 58 minutes. At present time in Mission Control, Flight Director Gene Kranz is going around the room polling each of his Flight Controllers on the mission status and all the reports are coming up very good. The orbital science officer said that the temperatures in the SIMBAY where the various scientific instruments will be used in Lunar orbit to observe the Moon from orbit appear to be about as would be expected at this time. During the previous shift the film in the panoramic and mapping cameras was cycled and this is done once every 24 hours if the cameras are not used, to prevent the pressure points on the film in the transport mechanism from creating striations in the film emulsion, and those cameras are cycled ahead several frames to move that pressure point around on the film emulsion. During Lunar module housekeeping when the crew entered the LM on the previous shift, everything looked to be in order in that vehicle. And the guidance and control officer reports that the midcourse correction maneuver performed earlier in the day - was very close to nominal. Also, the command module is running a bit ahead of the flight plan schedule as far as reaction control system propellent usage and service propulsion system propellent usage and we have a bit more than had been predicted for this point in the flight. And the Electrical Environmental Communications Officer, EECOM, said that in general the command module - the command and service module appear to be in very good shape. Apollo 17, at this time, is 75,975 nautical miles from the Moon and we're showing a velocity with respect to the Moon of 3,325 feet per second. We don't anticipate any further conversation with the crew, having said "goodnight" to them - and we are planning to give them an additional 30 minutes on their rest period if they so desire. The rest period, according to the flight plan, is scheduled to end at a Ground Elapsed Time of 56 hours. However, we do not plan to put in a call to the crew until 56 hours 30 minutes, giving them the option to sleep an additional 30 minutes if they so desire. We showed at 48 hours 38 minutes, or about 23 minutes ago, that they had turned off the voice sub-carriers indicating that they were preparing to bed down and get to sleep. During this sleep shift we'll plan to have the air-to-ground lines down to minimize the amount of noise on these circuits. We'll be recording any conversation with the crew and will be prepared to bring the lines up in very short order should we have any calls from the crew. At 49 hours 2 minutes, this is Apollo Control, Houston.
049:57:00	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 49 hours 57 minutes. It's been nearly an hour and a half since we said goodnight to the crew and there's been no change in the status of the spacecraft or operations here in the Control Center. Everything's progressing along very smoothly at this point. We don't expect to put in a call to the crew until 56 hours 30 minutes Ground Elapsed Time or about 6 1/2 hours from now. Apollo 17 is now 74,098 nautical miles from the Moon and the spacecraft velocity is 3,317 feet per second with respect to the Moon. The flight dynamics officer has the option of setting up the display which gives us the velocity of the spacecraft and its distance relative to either the Moon or the Earth. And his option is to look at the spacecraft position and velocity with respect to the Moon or to Earth. At the present time, we are looking at those parameters with respect to the Moon. The large display plot up on the large 10 by 20 foot describing plotter display at the front of the Control Center shows us that the spacecraft is now approaching 160,000 nautical miles from Earth. At 49 hours 59 minutes this is Apollo Control Houston.
050:58:00	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 50 hours 58 minutes. The crew has been in a rest period now for about 2 1/2 hours. The Flight Surgeon, has bio-medical data on the Commander, Gene Cernan, indicates that at least Cernan is soundly asleep at this time and we presume that all 3 crew members are sleeping. Wake up call is scheduled for 56 hours 30 minutes or about 5 and a half hours from now. Apollo 17, currently 160,762 nautical miles from Earth and we're showing the spacecraft 72,200 miles from the Moon and its continued to be very quiet in Mission Control, almost no conversation on the loops here, and no change in any of the systems aboard the spacecraft - everything going along very smoothly and performing well at this time. The cabin temperature at the point we monitor it, that's where our telemetry which is the outlet of the air flowing into the cabin, shows the temperature at that point to be about 63 degrees. The cabin temperature itself would be somewhat warmer than that, probably up around room temperature - 68, 69, 70 degrees - in that area. At 50 hours 59 minutes, this is Apollo Control, Houston.
051:57:00	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 51 hours 57 minutes. We've had no signs of any activity from the Spacecraft and it appears that the crew is sleeping at this time. Apollo 17 some 70,200 nautical miles from the Moon. And we have a clock counting down to the time at which the crew is scheduled to awake - some 4 hours from now. Actually, that would be the earliest that we would expect to hear from them and prior to beginning the rest period we advised them that we would not plan to put in a call until about 30 minutes later than called for in the flight plan. They were about a half hour late beginning the rest period. Tomorrow's schedule is relatively uncluttered and Flight Director, Gene Kranz, decided to give them the extra 30 minutes of sleep if they desire to take it. On awakening the - one of the main activities in the flight plan for today has the crew re-entering the lunar module, Challenger and partially powering the vehicle up and running some additional checks. And there has been no change in the status of the spacecraft based on the telemetry information we're getting here in Mission Control everything continues to perk along very smoothly. At 51 hours 59 minutes, this is Apollo Control.
052:57:27	PAO	This is Apollo control at 52 hours 57 minutes. We're now mid way through a scheduled 8 hour crew sleep period. And it continues to be very quite here in mission control. No signs of activity aboard the spacecraft, and everything going along very smoothly. The flight dynamics officer has been working on the trajectory, and looking at tracking data as a result of the midcourse correction performed yesterday. And at this point it appears that no further midcourse maneuvers will be required to get Apollo fif - Apollo 17 into lunar orbit at the desired altitude and time. However, the flight dynamics officer is going to reserve final decision on that point probably until tomorrow. Although it does appear certain at this point that there will be no midcourse correction required at the midcourse correction three opportunity. And probably not even at midcourse correction four. Our data displays at this time show Apollo 17 68,237 nautical miles from the Moon. And on a different display we're reading 165,584 nautical miles back to Earth. At 52 hours 59 minutes this is Apollo control Houston.
053:57:17	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 53 hours 57 minutes continuing very quiet in Mission Control. Now about two and one half hours remaining in the crew sleep period. The flight plan calls for the sleep period to end at 56 hours Ground Elapsed Time, however, we don't plan to give them a call until 56:30, giving them the option to sleep for an additional 30 minutes. Apollo 17 now 167,000 nautical miles from Earth and we are showing velocity with respect to the Moon at 3,293 feet per second, some 66,300 nautical miles from the Moon at this time. This is Apollo Control at 53 hours 58 minutes.
054:51:20	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 54 hours 57 minutes, some 1 hour 33 minutes now from the scheduled crew awakening time. What has been a very uneventful sleep shift for the crew and a very quiet period here in Mission Control. After the crew awakes, one of the activities on their schedule for the day will be to update the clocks for the spacecraft, we'll be updating the clocks here in Mission Control at the same time. This clock update is occasioned by the fact that we lifted off 2 hours 40 minutes late from Cape Kennedy, however, in order to place the spacecraft in lunar orbit at the same diurnal time or the same Sun time, and retain the lighting conditions desired for the lunar landing, the translunar injection burn was given a slight bit longer burn - just a little bit more energy put into that burn - trip time to the Moon decreased by 2 hours and 40 minutes. The net effect of this is that we now arrive at the Moon at the same time that we would have arrived had the liftoff been on time. One other effect is that the crew has a net 2 hours and 40 minutes less time to accomplish those things that needed to be accomplished in the translunar coast. This is of small consequence because the translunar coast time is relatively a slack period for them, however, in order to avoid any sudden shift in sleep periods and that sort of thing, the time has been made up in two increments - the first one of 1 hour at 45 hours in the flight plan. The crew activities were jumped ahead by 1 hour and they essentially began doing those things that were called for 1 hour later in the flight plan. They will again jump ahead an hour and 40 minutes and that'll occur at 65 hours. By that time they will have completed all those activities required up through 67 hours 40 minutes in the flight plan. Or, in other words, they'll have completed all of the activities required to get them into lunar orbit 2 hours and 40 minutes early. And in order to make the clocks then agree with where the crew will be in the flight plan, we'll jump the clocks ahead 2 hours and 40 minutes. This clock update which can be likened to going on daylight saving time, only 2 hours and 40 minutes worth of change instead of 1 hour of change as we do on daylight savings time, will occur at 65 hours when the crew will have completed all of those flight plan activities up through 67 hours and 40 minutes. This simply involves setting our clocks at 65 hours in the Control Center and aboard the spacecraft at 65 hours, moving them ahead to 67 hours 40 minutes. Then, barring any further changes in the mission timeline from that point on, the elapsed time clocks which are used as the cue to flight plan activities, should agree with the flight plan and events that - in the flight plan are called out for a certain time will happen at that time on the elapsed time clocks in Mission Control and aboard the spacecraft. This is a convenience factor. The other alternative wodd be to go through the flight plan and change all of the flight plan times to agree with the clocks. We simply find it easier to change the clocks and avoid having to make all those updates to the flight plan. At the present time, Apollo 17 is 64,232 nautical miles from the Moon and we're showing 169,518 nautical miles from Earth. Spacecraft velocity at the present time, again with respect to the Moon, is 3,289 feet per second. And we are now 1 hour 27 minutes away time at which we anticipate the crew will be awakening. At 55 hours 3 minutes this is Apollo Control Houston.
055:57:14	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 55 hours 57 minutes. We're about 30 minutes away from the scheduled crew awakening time. And we've seen no signs of activity aboard the spacecraft at this point, however, we could hear from the crew almost any time between now and the next 30 minutes. And if we haven't heard from them within about 30 minutes we'll be putting in a call - a wake up call to the crew. Here in the control center the next team of flight controllers beginning to come on duty. Flight director, Neil Hutchinson, will be relieving flight director, Gene Kranz. And the spacecraft communicator on the upcoming shift is to be astronaut Gordon Fullerton. He'll be replacing CAPCOM, Bob Parker. Apollo 17, at this time, is 62,415 nautical miles from the moon and traveling at a speed of some 3,280 feet per second and we show a range to Earth now of 170,650 nautical miles. We'll bring up the lines and monitor live at this point for any call from the crew. At 55 hours 59 minutes this is Apollo Control, Houston.
056:29:41	PAO	This is Apollo Control, we're getting ready to wake up the crew. Bringing up to the voice circuits in the network at 56 hours 29 minutes, almost 30 minutes. Timing out to wakeup zero mark.
056:31:17	PAO	We're waiting for the spacecraft to rotate through the next best OMNI antenna, before we make the wakeup call.
056:35:40	CC	(Wakeup Music)
056:36:58	CC	Good morning, Apollo 17. It's Houston. Over.
056:37:33	PAO	Apparently the crew has not turned on the downlink on their transmitter. That was the University of Kansas J-Hawk Fight Song, which is Ron Evans Alma Mater.
056:38:15	CC	Apollo 17, Houston. Good morning.
056:39:16	CC	Apollo 17, this is Houston. Good morning.
056:41:15	CC	Apollo 17, Houston. Good morning.
056:45:38	PAO	This is Apollo Control. We're going to try one more time with the Jayhawk Fight song and see if we can get them to turn on the transmitter. 56:45 Ground Elapsed Time standing by. Here we go.
056:45:54		(Music: Jayhawk Fight Song)
056:46:56	CC	Apollo 17, Houston. Good morning. Are you with us this morning?
056:48:43	PAO	As they say in the entertainment music business, one more time. We're going to send crew alert and when we see the voice up carrier up we're going to roll the tape again, the Jayhawk Fight song. Either crew is very sleepy this morning or else they have their volume turned down where they can't hear the music. At 56:49 standing by, this is Apollo Control.
056:55:02	PAO	We are now sending crew alert. Gene Cernan's pulse rate still at about 49 which indicates the klaxon didn't wake him up. No indication yet that the spacecraft transmitter's has been turned on.
056:57:12	PAO	This is Apollo Control. Apparently the crew either does not have their volume turned up enough to hear the calls from the ground or perhaps the ear plug has slipped out of the ear of the crewman who's to monitor last night which I understand was Evans. Therefore, about every 10 minutes the CAPCOM is going to give a wake up call to the crew again in an attempt to raise them. Spacecraft Communicator Bob Parker is - has unplugged from the CAPCOM Console and is being replaced by Gordo Fullerton. And when we see on telemetry that the voice subcarrier from the spacecraft has been turned on, we'll play the old fight song again: Jayhawk Fight Song, University of Kansas. And, eventually we may get these sleepheads awake. At 56:58 Ground Elapsed Time, Apollo 17 is 60,471 nautical miles out from the Moon, approaching at a velocity of 3,285 and our slant range in nautical miles from the Earth to the spacecraft is 171,985 nautical miles. Standing by at 56:58, this is Apollo Control.
056:57:30	CC	Apollo 17, Houston. Good morning. Are you with us this morning?
057:05:02	CC	Good morning, Apollo 17. It's time to rise and shine. Over.
057:22:23	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 57 hours 22 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. The crew is still asleep. Have been unable to raise them until now. They're considering using an oscillator passed directly into the air-to-ground circuit to put a high-pitched tone, that perhaps even with the earplug out they would be able to hear it from a fairly good distance. Presently, Apollo 17 is 59,682 nautical miles out from the Moon approaching at a velocity of 3,285 feet per second. Mother Earth is behind them some 172,562 nautical miles. Here goes another call.
057:23:14	CC	Apollo 17; oh, Apollo 17; it's morning. Time to get up. Over.
057:23:31	CC	Hello, Apollo 17; do you read? Over.
057:39:14	CC
057:39:35		(Music: Jayhawk Fight Song)
057:40:32	CC	Hello, 17. Hello, 17. How do you read us this morning?
057:40:42	Schmitt	We're asleep.
057:40:47	CC	That's the understatement of the year.
057:40:53	Schmitt	Never let Evans be on watch.
057:41:02	CC	I think we'll go along with that from here on.
057:41:03	SC	... good morning.
057:41:06	Schmitt	(Laughter) That was some party last night, Gordy. Man, that was a humdinger.
057:41:13	CC	Must have been.
057:45:07	CC	17, Houston. Over.
057:45:13	SC	Go ahead ...
057:45:14	CC	Okay, we're starting out late, as you know; but there's nothing ahead that we can see that's time-critical. So you might try to hurry a little, but don't - don't go to any great lengths to try to catch up with the Flight Plan. We can slip the LM telemetry activation without any problem. Over.
057:45:42	Schmitt	Okay, we got you. Our biggest problem this morning is keeping Ron from going back to sleep.
057:45:48	CC	Roger.
057:45:53	Evans	By the way, my sleep report is ... looks like I had about 7-1/2 hours of pretty good sleep.
057:46:02	SC	And if you believe that, you're really a ...
057:52:20	Schmitt	Okay, Houston; 17. I don't know if you're ready for this or not, but we have a few reports for you.
057:52:27	CC	We're ready. Go ahead, Jack.
057:52:34	Schmitt	Okay. On your CDR: PRD, 17028; he claims 7-1/2 hours of good sleep. He had a Seconal before going to bed, and since the last reporting, has had four containers of water.
057:53:01	CC	Roger.
057:53:14	Schmitt	Okay, with respect to food - let's see, we gave you a intermediate report yesterday. Do you want that repeated?
057:53:28	CC	Negative.
057:53:33	Schmitt	Well, I'm not sure I can differentiate what I said yesterday, so I'd just better give it all to you. This is yesterday's complete report.
057:53:40	CC	Okay.
057:53:41	Schmitt	CDR was scrambled eggs, three bacon squares, peaches, pineapple-grapefruit drink, peanut butter, jelly, bread, chocolate bar, orange drink, apricot - that's dried apricot - one frankfurter, a third of a fruitcake, half a beefsteak, butterscotch pudding, orange drink, and tea.
057:54:20	CC	Okay, we got that.
057:54:23	Schmitt	Let me know if I'm too fast for you.
057:54:27	CC	No, we've got it all on tape. Go ahead.
057:54:42	Schmitt	Okay, with respect to food yesterday - LMP: scrambled eggs, four bacon squares, orange-pineapple drink, cocoa, potato soup, two peanut butter, two jelly, two bread, cherry bar, orange-grapefruit drink, beefsteak, orange drink, and tea.
057:55:18	CC	Okay.
057:55:30	Schmitt	Okay, and the PRD is - -
057:55:31	CC	Jack, we're just about to switch antennas now. Why don't you wait until we get through it before continuing.
057:55:40	Schmitt	Roger.
057:57:46	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. You back with us?
057:57:50	CC	Okay, Jack. I think we're back with you again.
057:57:55	Schmitt	Okay; got you. LMP: PRD, 24064; 7-1/2 hours very good sleep, 1 hour intermittent. Had a Seconal. I took two aspirins yesterday. And since the last reporting, I've had four containers of water.
057:58:25	CC	Roger.
057:58:29	Schmitt	Okay. Old CMP - the man of the hour, one might say. Scrambled eggs, bacon squares, peaches, cinnamon toast bread, orange juice, cocoa, peanut butter, jelly, bread, cherry bar, citrus beverage, fruitcake, butterscotch pudding, orange drink, turkey and gravy, two frankfurters, and tea. You might say he was a little logey. Okay. CMP: PRD, 15027; 7 and a - let's - Make that 8 hours of very good sleep. He claims he didn't get to sleep for a while. Seconal, and he's had five containers of water since the last reporting.
058:00:01	CC	Okay.
058:00:20	CC	Jack, if - future reports if it's any easier, we can go to negative reporting. If you're fairly close to the menus, just tell us the differences. Whatever is easiest for you is fine with us.
058:00:41	Schmitt	Okay. Well, now that we're eating well, that may be the best way to do it.
058:00:48	CC	Okay. I have the - your consumables status, if everybody that's interested is listening.
058:00:57	Schmitt	Go ahead, Gordon.
058:00:59	CC	Okay. Your RCS is running right along at 1.3 percent above the Flight Plan line. On your cryos, the O2 tanks 2 and 3 are right on the lines. Tank 1 is still, as before, about 4 percent below -below the line but looking real good. On hydrogen, you're a little above on one tank - on tank 2 - a little bit below on tank 3, but the average is right with the Flight Plan lines. So consumables look good. Over.
058:01:47	Schmitt	Okay. That's good to hear. And, I see that our old SPS oxidizer pressure has dropped some more. I guess the old - the helium is working it's way in there - or out of there.
058:02:03	CC	Okay. That's the way it looks to us. One final thing. Management has informed me that since you've been so late getting to work this morning, we are going to have to dock you all a day's annual leave.
058:02:21	Schmitt	All of us! I can understand - I can understand that for the commander, since he's always the commander, but I do not understand why the LMP loses a day - an hour.
058:02:48	Cernan	Hello, Houston. This is America.
058:02:51	CC	Hello, Geno. Good morning.
058:02:55	Cernan	Hello, Gordo. Request is that I handle the disciplinary problems up here; how's that?
058:03:03	CC	Okay.
058:03:45	CC	Geno, we'll have FAO work on a good time in the Flight Plan later here to work in a captain's mast.
058:03:56	Cernan	Okay; (chuckle) that'll be great. Hey, Gordy, for the record; I swallowed three of those - those gas pills yesterday.
058:04:05	CC	Okay.
058:11:46	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 58 hours 11 minutes Ground Elapsed Time into the Mission of Apollo 17. The crew at this time having a belated breakfast, having overslept about an hour, despite many attempts to raise them by playing the Kansas fight-song and the crew alarm being sent up on the up-link, which causes a warbling sound in the headsets. However, apparently, Ron Evans, who was on watch was unable to hear, since likely the earplug had fallen out of his ear while stirring around in his sleep. Some amount of levity there is - it was suggested that their pay be docked or they should be charged with one hour of annual leave at any rate. The spacecraft is presently 58,073, it's just now changed, 58,067 nautical miles out from the Moon approaching an ever increasing velocity as they draw near the moon now 3,284 feet per second. The Earth continuing to get farther away behind them 173,821 nautical miles. At 58:13 and standing by, this is Apollo Control.
058:18:30	Evans	Houston, 17.
058:18:50	Evans	Houston, 17.
058:19:10	CC	Okay, Ron, we see the 93s; and you're clear to torque them.
058:19:16	Evans	Okay, we'll torque them at 19:20.
058:19:20	Schmitt	And, Houston, I've started the dumping.
058:19:25	CC	Roger.
058:20:10	Schmitt	And, Houston, we're going to dump A on the water dump - WASTE WATER DUMP.
058:20:14	CC	Okay.
058:28:33	Schmitt	Houston, we're starting a - O2 purge.
058:28:38	CC	Okay, Jack.
058:29:00	Cernan	Hey, Gordo, we'll get everything cleaned up in the Flight Plan, including eating, up to 59 hours where we start checking the DELTA-P and pressurizing the CSM for LM entry.
058:29:19	CC	Okay. We see you doing all that now, and we're just checking things off as you call them. Sounds good.
058:29:28	Cernan	Okay. And then when we'll clean all that up - regards to what the time will be, we'll pick up the 59-hour mark then.
058:29:38	CC	Okay.
058:31:33	Schmitt	Okay. Waste water dump is terminated.
058:31:36	CC	Roger.
058:35:27	Schmitt	Fuel cell purge complete.
058:35:30	CC	Roger on the fuel cell purge.
058:39:27	Schmitt	Hello, Houston; 17.
058:39:30	CC	Go ahead.
058:39:34	Schmitt	Roger. While we're getting organized to eat a little bit here, I'll give you your morning weather report, if you want it.
058:39:40	CC	Okay, go ahead.
058:39:45	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. That little storm - fairly big storm - that was off the coast of northwest Africa yesterday, has moved inland and presumably is giving those people up there some weather. Might even be getting some snow up in the Atlas Mountains. It's still fairly well organized and inland a few hundred miles - or the edge of it is inland a few hundred miles. The people at the Cape of Good Hope ought to be seeing some clouds that are forerunners of a large circulation system that's south-southwest of them - that, although large, seems to have most of its heavy clouds to the southeast of the center. And they may not get any major weather out of this one. But they'll probably have cloudiness for a few days. The storm that was over Buenos Aires yesterday has apparently moved out to sea and is now west - or east-southeast of that area. Otherwise the - except for those three storm areas, the South Atlantic looks relatively calm. The zero phase point is now off the - east coast of South America, and it looks fairly dull and gray. And I suspect no extensive choppiness in that area.
058:41:54	CC	Jack, take a breather there. We got an antenna switch coming.
058:45:10	CC	Okay Jack, we're back with you and listening.
058:45:18	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy, I can't see you right now. I think that was about the extent of it. We'll get some food and, while I'm eating, I'll look at it and see if there are any more details.
058:45:29	CC	Okay.
058:45:54	PAO	This is Apollo Control. As Lunar Module Pilot Jack Schmitt began describing the global weather systems, as he saw them, from almost 180,000 miles out from Earth, the weather service meterologist here in the Control Center, Allen (Sandy) Sanderson brought in some TIROS weather maps and laid out on the spacecraft communicators console, so that CAPCOM could follow what Schmitt was describing. The crew still having breakfast at this time. CAPCOM is going to describe the tracking after the midcourse 2 yesterday. Spacecraft now 56,962 miles from the Moon, approaching at a velocity of 3,284 feet per second.
058:51:44	CC	17, Houston. I have the morning news here, whenever you'd like to hear it - if you would.
058:51:52	Cernan	Go ahead, Gordo. We'd like to hear it now.
058:51:57	CC	Okay. First, a look at the weather in the local area. It's going to be mostly cloudy through Sunday, with a chance of showers here today - but much warmer. I'll have to wait until we get through the OMNI switch here, and then I'll be back with you.
058:55:03	CC	Okay, 17, continuing on with the weather. It should be - get up to the upper 60s here in Houston today. It was foggy when I came to work, but I understand the Sun is out now and the fog is burned off. On the international/national scene: There's another reported snag in negotiations between Dr. Henry Kissinger and North Vietnam's Le Duc Tho. The two have discussed the peace terms since Monday; but, so far, little news concerning the talks has been released by either side. They meet again today. A judge in the Pentagon Papers trial of Daniel Ellsburg has declared a mistrial. Judge Matt Burn has asked that a new jury be selected. Both sides in the cases must now go back to the beginning and prepare their arguments again. Former President Harry Truman is still hospitalized with a serious heart condition. Although listed in critical condition, the 88-year-old former Chief Executive has shown some improvement, according to his daughter, Margaret Truman Daniel. President Nixon has completed selection of his new cabinet by announcing that he will keep Richard Kleindienst as Attorney General, There will be a number of major changes, though, in upper levels of the Justice and Interior Departments. Life Magazine will be no more as of the end of December. The pictorial magazine lost over 30 million dollars during the past 4 years. No doubt some of the final pictures to appear in the famous 36-year-old publication will be those of the Apollo 17 mission. An airliner crashed at Midway Airport in Chicago, Friday. Of the 6l persons aboard, only l8 survived the crash. In other national and international highlights: Unemployment figures show a drop to the lowest level in 2 years; 5.6 billion dollars has been released by the Federal Government in the first revenue-sharing payment to the state and local governments; and the NATO foreign ministers have urged the Soviet Union to cut down troop strength and allow freer movement of people over the east-west borders. In local and regional news: New hijack control devices have been installed at Houston Intercontinental Airport. The new metal detectors are being installed in many airports around the United States. New inspection procedures will also begin in January - of all hand luggage carried aboard airliners. And on the sports page: Al Conover is not going to return to Wake Forest as rumored. The Rice coach has met with University President Dr. Norman Hackerman to discuss a firm 5-year contract agreement. Professional football highlights today's sports; the "Over-the-Hill-Gang" from Washington with Billy Kilmer and Larry Brown will take on the Dallas Cowboys at Texas Stadium in Irving. The Cowboys will, no doubt, go with Craig Morton at quarterback. Dallas can ensure itself of a "wild card" slot in the playoffs with the Redskins, if they win. For Dallas, it's a revenge game. The Skins have won nine straight. Johnny Bench, the Cincinnati Reds all-everything catcher, has been hospitalized for tests. X-rays showed a spot on a lung. Doctors feel sure the lesion is benign, though. The University of Houston basketball team takes on Xavier tonight. The Cougars, with four wins and one loss, will face a Xavier team that likes to play slowdown basketball. The Houston Rockets beat the Portland, Oregon, Trailblazers last night in Hofheinz, 114 to 108. The Big Eight Athletic Conference has joined the Big Ten and the Ohio Athletic Conference in breaking relations with the U.S. Olympic Committee. Back in Houston again: Bill Peterson, the Oiler coach, says he's not planning on new assistant coaches. He says, "The Oilers need more togetherness with their coaches, not new ones." And a final item: the Des Moines, Iowa, post office was emptying a mail pouch. One package fell on the floor, broke open, and spilled all over the place. The contents were Postal Service instructions on how to wrap and mail packages to insure safe transit and delivery.
059:00:02	Schmitt	Very good news report, Gordo -
059:00:06	Cernan	Yes. That crash in Chicago, can you tell me a little bit more about it?
059:00:12	CC	I read real briefly in the paper, just before I came in, that it did crash in a populated area. It was a very brief report. I don't think the final details have been published yet. I'll check to see if we've got anymore in.
059:00:33	Cernan	Okay. And I guess you know where - at least my wishes go for that Cowboy game, don't you?
059:00:48	CC	I'm not sure that I do.
059:00:56	Cernan	I'll just let you make an assumption.
059:00:59	CC	Okay. We've got an antenna switch coming here.
059:04:21	CC	17, Houston. I have a little more on the plane crash, if you'd like to hear it.
059:04:28	Cernan	Yes, sir, Gordy. Go ahead.
059:04:30	CC	Okay. It was a United Airlines jet, 6l people aboard. And it crashed into a south-side Chicago neighborhood while trying to land at Midway. Most of the 55 passengers - There were - well, I'm not sure I'm getting all the numbers right here. But it said here that most of the 55 passengers were found dead in the debris of a - and it was a Boeing 737 about a half a mile away from the airport. One of the victims was representative George Collins, a Democrat from Illinois - who was returning from Washington to organize a children's Christmas party. The weather, at the time, was a 500-foot ceiling and 1-mile visibility. And sleet and snow were falling at the time. There were no reports that any occupants of the houses were injured or killed. I turn back to the back of the paper, here. A United spokesman said one of the six crewmembers, a stewardess, was among16 persons admitted to Holy Cross Hospital. She said there were two infants among the passengers. Jet apparently missed runway 13 at Midway on - and cruised over the neighborhood of bungalow homes at heights of 500 to 1000 feet and then with his nose up and tail down tore into the dwellings. Witnesses said the plane scraped the roofs of two bungalows and sheared through six houses, setting them aflame. The fuselage of the airliner split, but the nose remained intact. A tail section was sticking out of one house. The plummetting airliner sheared through utility lines and a 2-square-mile area was blacked out. Telephone service was knocked out. A power company spokesman said 5000 homes were affected.
059:06:43	Cernan	Okeydoke.
059:06:50	CC	And a little news about your trajectory. Since the midcourse 2, you've been looking real good. You've - you're homing in on 53-1/2-mile parallel. We're discussing midcourse 4, which - if we do it all - it's going to be very small. It's looking like about a foot and a half per second right now. And I guess if we do it, it will only be because it will save us DELTA-V at LOI. Over.
059:07:28	Cernan	Okay, I was just looking. Those dumps really knocked us for a loop, didn't they?
059:07:34	CC	Yes, it - it's driving your PTC out.
059:07:40	Cernan	Yes, we're at almost 40 degrees now.
059:10:50	Schmitt	Gordy, has the temperature been pretty cold down there?
059:10:55	CC	Here, in Houston, it warmed up considerably last night - yesterday afternoon and last night. And this morning, it's probably in the 60s somewhere.
059:11:20	Schmitt	Makes it - -
059:12:04	PAO	This is Apollo Control, 59 hours 12 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. Apollo 17 currently is 56,148 nautical miles out from the Moon closing on the Moon at 3,284 feet per second. Distance from Earth is now 175,441 nautical miles. We'll continue to leave the line up as we proceed into today's activities which includes another activation and check out of the lunar module and hopefully today the communications noise will be somewhat less than it was yesterday. At 59:13 standing by, this is Apollo Control.
059:18:32	CC	17, Houston. I have some words about the troubles we had during the LM comm checks yesterday, if you have a free moment to listen.
059:18:47	Cernan	Go ahead, Gordy. We're listening.
059:18:49	CC	Okay. We think we've got a pretty good handle on what the problem was - and that was, that the - the LM communications gear, we think, was jumping on the voice subcarrier, rather than the main carrier. And the symptoms that we had point to that. What would happen is, when I would try to transmit, then it would lose lock as soon as I put modulation on the voice subcarrier. During the checks today, we're going to try to verify that the system is indeed working okay. And we can do it without any changes in the onboard procedures by - purely by procedures that will be handled at the ground site and here at Mission Control. And so that's what we're planning to do. We really don't - The problem that happened has been seen before, evidently; and it's not that unusual. We really don't think there's anything wrong with the onboard equipment. Over.
059:20:07	Schmitt	Sounds good, Gordy. We'll just take her slow and easy when I get over there today and make sure we understand it.
059:20:17	CC	Okay, Jack. And there's no - real no voice check scheduled, and we don't think any are required. We can tell what we need to do without any voice checks from here.
059:20:29	Schmitt	Gordy, you're breaking up. Talk to you as soon as we get another OMNI.
059:20:33	CC	Okay.
059:20:41	Schmitt	While I got you, I took three pictures of the Earth I thought I might have moved one of them. And we're on frame 145.
059:21:07	Schmitt	Did you copy, Gordy?
059:21:10	CC	That's affirmative, Jack. I copy. You may not be reading me through the OMNI switch.
059:21:16	Schmitt	Okay, that was mag November November.
059:21:21	CC	Roger.
059:23:49	Schmitt	Houston, 17. Do you want us to go into a battery B charge?
059:23:55	CC	Let me check, Jack. That's affirmative. Go ahead
059:24:02	Schmitt	Okay.
059:25:23	Schmitt	BATTERY B is being CHARGED. And, Gordy, different than the last time - the charger amps is moving up very slowly. Started out at about 0.2 and now is 1 amp - little more - it's still going up. Before, it jumped right up to about 2 amps. is that expected?
059:25:49	CC	Oh ... we'll check on that. Stand by.
059:25:59	Cernan	Gordy, the LM/CM DELTA-P is 0.6. You still want us to take the command module up?
059:26:19	CC	Geno, that'll be fine. You will not have to jack up the command module pressure.
059:26:28	Cernan	Okay, I think I'll maneuver at attitude then.
059:26:38	CC	Okay; sounds good.
059:28:06	CC	Jack, the way the amps are going to look when you put the charger on is the function of the state of the charge of the battery. And what you described is about what we'd expect, considering where the battery should be.
059:28:24	Schmitt	Okay; that's what I figured. It's up about one and three-quarter amps now.
059:28:28	CC	Roger.
059:28:34	Schmitt	And it appears to be stable.
059:28:37	CC	Okay.
059:28:39	Schmitt	Gordy, I'm in the process of - I'm in the process of putting biomed sensors on.
059:28:44	CC	Roger.
059:30:44	Evans	Hey, Houston; 17. Thanks to a little South Carolina boy we had up here last time, we've got some grits up here. And they're really not too bad. A little butter on them and - A little bit dry. Of course, you could add a little more water to them and they'd be a little better, but not bad at all.
059:31:06	CC	I can't believe I'm hearing that from a real Yankee
059:31:13	Evans	Of course, Kansas is not exactly Yankee.
059:31:16	Cernan	Let me tell you, that does not apply to the little old farm boy from Chicago.
059:31:23	CC	Roger.
059:31:30	Schmitt	As you students of American history may recall, Kansas caused a lot of the problem we had with those two people.
059:31:41	CC	Roger.
059:31:46	Cernan	And grits is causing the rest of it.
059:32:38	CC	17, Houston. We see that you're making a maneuver uncoupled in pitch, and we'd rather you make it coupled to keep FDO happy. Over.
059:32:50	Schmitt	Okay.
059:32:54	Cernan	Yes, that was my fault, Gordo. I screwed up here.
059:42:50	Evans	Houston, EMERGENCY CAB REPRESS is OFF.
059:42:56	CC	Roger.
059:43:04	Evans	Okay, REPRESS PACKAGE valve is OFF.
059:43:08	CC	Say again, Ron.
059:43:09	Cernan	Hello, Gordy. You with us?
059:43:10	CC	Yes. How do you read?
059:43:15	Cernan	We're reading you loud and clear. The EMERGENCY CABIN PRESSURE SELECT is OFF. And we're about ready to open the EQUALIZATION valve.
059:43:25	CC	Okay. And we're ready for the high gain.
059:43:32	Evans	Okay.
059:44:30	PAO	This is Apollo Control 59 hours 44 minutes Ground Elapsed Time into the mission of Apollo 17. The crew, at this time, making preparations for entry into the lunar module.
059:44:44	Schmitt	Gordy, that's the high-gain. How do you like it?
059:44:48	CC	Looking good.
059:45:20	Cernan	Okay, Gordy. I was reading 0.2 on the DELTA-P and the hatch is cracked.
059:45:25	CC	Roger, Gene.
059:48:40	Schmitt	Hey, Houston; 17. How do you read the LMPs biomed?
059:48:46	CC	Let me check.
059:49:08	CC	Jack, the EKG looks great. Your ZPN looks like a sensor may be loose.
059:49:25	CC	And we'll be handing over here in - -
059:49:27	Schmitt	... loose sensor ...
059:49:28	CC	- - about 30 seconds.
059:49:31	Schmitt	Okay. We're in the process of getting the probe and drogue out. I pushed on the sensors real hard again, and see if that helps it.
059:49:40	CC	Okay. We'll take a look.
059:49:53	CC	That helped it. Don't worry about it, until we call you again.
059:50:05	Cernan	... on that one, Gordy. You've always been one of those smooth talkers.
059:54:50	Evans	There's all - yes - they're down there somewhere.
059:54:54	Evans	Okay. The probe is out. And we'll try the drogue now.
059:54:58	CC	Okay, Ron.
059:57:53	Cernan	Okay, the - the drogue is out, and we're going up to take another look at Challenger.
059:58:03	CC	Okay, Gene.
059:59:31	Schmitt	Somebody left their lights on in here.
059:59:37	CC	Roger.
059:59:44	Schmitt	It's just like a refrigerator.
059:59:49	CC	Roger.
060:00:36	Schmitt	Docking index is unchanged.
060:00:40	CC	Okay. It's a plus 1.2. Right?
060:00:45	Schmitt	That's affirm.
060:03:18	CC	Ron, Houston. Over.
060:03:23	Evans	Go ahead.
060:03:25	CC	Okay, Ron. When you get a - a moment, when it's convenient, we'd like you to go up to the latch number 4 there, the one that's been giving us trouble, and we'd like you - well, we think it's just half cocked and we'd like you to stroke it. We think it will probably cock on one - with one more stroke. We'd like you to stroke it at least twice more to verify that it is fully cocked. And as you do stroke the handle, we'd like you to notice approximately what point in the - in the throw that the resistance increases. I think that summarizes what we want you to do, if you keep us advised as you go along.
060:04:21	Evans	Okay.
060:04:23	CC	We - we're going to leave it cocked then from here on until redocking after rendezvous. Well - we don't want to - we don't want you to fire it.
060:04:38	Evans	Sure. Understand.
060:05:08	Schmitt	Houston, we're transferring to LM POWER.
060:05:11	CC	Roger.
060:05:14	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. I'm going to give them LM POWER. I'm going to go RESET and OFF.
060:05:22	Schmitt	And we have LM power.
060:05:25	CC	Roger.
060:05:49	Cernan	Gordo, this is Geno.
060:05:51	CC	Go ahead, Gene.
060:05:55	Cernan	Okay. While my compatriots are carrying out their respective tasks, I'm going to go off the air here for a - a few short minutes. And give you a call when I get back.
060:06:07	CC	Okay.
060:06:10	Schmitt	And I'm in step 3, Gordy, on 2-2.
060:06:15	CC	Roger.
060:07:25	Evans	Okay, Houston. America here. I'm on nor docking latch number 4 now.
060:07:31	CC	Okay, Ron.
060:07:50	Evans	Okay, the handle itself is free swinging at - to a point about 1 inch beyond the backside of the J-hook.
060:08:10	CC	Roger.
060:08:11	Evans	And, I'll go ahead and try to cock it now.
060:08:19	Schmitt	Gordy, ED BATs are 37.2 and 37.2, and the BUS VOLTAGES are 26.2 and I'll bring on the high taps.
060:08:36	CC	Okay, Jack. Sounds good.
060:08:41	Evans	And, Houston, as we all suspected, it has one cock on it, or it had one cock. Now it's fully cocked. And the handle itself is free swinging. The plunger has depressed, oh, almost three-quarters of an inch from the top. And it is no longer parallel with the surface.
060:09:14	CC	Roger, Ron.
060:09:18	Evans	Okay. When you look back in the side of it there, that little J-hook with the snowman in it, the snowman's head points - as you look directly at the side of it, it points - the snowman's head is at 8 o'clock and the connecting link from the one that connects - the one that goes into the plunger to - to the little fat J-bar there, is parallel with that slot, so that the point of the J sticks out. So it is, indeed, fully cocked.
060:10:00	CC	Okay, Ron. Sounds good and that's where we'd like to leave it.
060:10:05	Evans	Okay. Will do.
060:10:21	Schmitt	Okay. Step 5, 2-3.
060:10:24	CC	Roger.
060:11:20	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. Step 5 complete. Glycol pressure is 21. It's down about a psi from yesterday.
060:11:28	CC	Okay, Jack. Copy.
060:11:34	Evans	And, Houston, is magazine II a good one to use for a - some opportunity interior photos?
060:11:44	CC	Let me check, Ron.
060:11:57	CC	That's affirm; II sounds good.
060:12:04	Evans	Hope so. Looks like that's the only one I have.
060:12:12	CC	Do you - do you recall when you did the heat flow on HH, if you used all of HH up on that experiment?
060:12:23	CC	Don't get it out to look, but I just wondered if you remembered.
060:12:24	Evans	... No, it ran out. It didn't - I got the complete cooldown part of the ex - of the experiment on HH and then switched to HIGH. And I got about 2 minutes of HIGH before the film ran out again. Had that at HIGH power on the - on the - -
060:12:50	CC	Okay, Ron. Thank you.
060:12:53	Evans	After the main part of the experiment was complete.
060:12:56	CC	Roger.
060:13:02	CC	And, Jack, we're copying LM data now.
060:13:04	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. Beautiful. I was just going to say step 6 is complete.
060:16:46	Schmitt	Houston, 17.
060:16:48	CC	Go ahead.
060:16:54	Schmitt	Roger. I just was thinking while I was waiting here that the cleanliness of these two spacecraft is certainly a tribute to the - all the people at Grumman and Downey and at the Cape, who worked so hard to put them that way.
060:17:14	CC	Okay. We'll make sure they hear about it.
060:19:32	CC	Challenger, Houston. We're - we've looked at the LM data and it looks perfect, no problems at all. What we're doing right now, though, is - is - the checkout on the carrier and subcarrier lockups on the LM comm. So far, we've had no trouble with it, but we haven't quite completed the routine we wanted to try. Over.
060:20:00	Schmitt	Okay. I understand, Gordy. No - no hurry here.
060:25:34	CC	Okay, Jack. We've completed our investigation of the comm, there. It all looked good. You can press on page 2-4.
060:25:47	Schmitt	Roger.
060:27:14	Schmitt	Say, Gordy, I see I neglected to pull the BAL LOAD circuit breaker when I went to - after going to high taps. You want me to go back and show you that again?
060:27:27	CC	Stand by.
060:27:38	Schmitt	That's the BAL LOADs breaker on 16, so the buses were tied together.
060:27:42	CC	Roger. I understand.
060:27:53	CC	Jack, there's no need to go back. Just keep on going.
060:28:00	Schmitt	Okay. Sorry about that.
060:28:03	CC	No problem.
060:31:40	CC	America, Houston. We're all ready for the E-MOD dump, if it's convenient to you.
060:32:18	Evans	Houston, this is America. I guess that's for me, isn't it?
060:32:24	CC	That's right, for Captain America.
060:32:28	Evans	(Laughter) Okay. We'll get her here.
060:32:39	Evans	Okay, VERB 74 ENTER.
060:32:46	CC	Okay, we're getting it.
060:32:52	Evans	Okay.
060:33:11	Evans	And, Houston, we have 50 percent remaining on magazine India India.
060:33:18	CC	Roger.
060:33:23	Evans	And they're all taken at 6 frames a second.
060:33:29	CC	Okay.
060:33:55	CC	Okay, America, we've got the dump.
060:34:04	Evans	Okay. Understand; you have the dump.
060:35:45	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 60 hours 35 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. LM checkout apparently going along quite well at this time. The bulky docking latch has been recocked and will be left in that position until redocking after lunar orbit insertion after the landing. Apollo 17 is now 53,438 nautical miles out from the moon. Velocity now 3,286 feet per second. Meanwhile, back at the Earth, the spacecraft is now 177,980 nautical miles from the Earth. At 60:36 standing by, this is Apollo Control.
060:37:34	Cernan	Hello, Gordo. This is Geno. I'm - back on the line.
060:37:39	CC	Okay. Welcome back.
060:37:45	Cernan	Yes, I was just testing out survival techniques in space.
060:37:51	CC	Roger. Did you survive?
060:37:58	Cernan	Well, so far.
060:38:01	Cernan	And we've got the IM back on CSM power.
060:38:05	CC	Okay.
060:38:30	Cernan	Gordo, it's called education of necessity.
060:38:35	CC	Roger.
060:38:43	Cernan	Okay. I guess the LM looked pretty good to you, huh?
060:38:48	CC	Yes, sir. It looked perfect. And we also went through the little communications main carrier sub carrier lockup check, and the - and the comm system worked perfectly, so there's no problems at all to report.
060:39:09	Cernan	Okay, fine. We'll start in - with the - Jack donning the PGA, and then I'll follow him.
060:39:18	CC	Okay.
060:40:38	Schmitt	Gordy, how'd that ZPN turn out?
060:40:42	CC	Let me get another check, here.
060:41:21	CC	Okay, Jack. It looks fairly good right now. Don't bother changing anything.
060:41:30	Schmitt	Well, I'm just going to be in a position to work on it in a little while and if the occasion arises, I could.
060:41:40	CC	Okay, we'll keep that in mind, although it looks reasonable at the moment. It has shown some - at some times, it's gone to - from edge to edge on their scale but it's come back in right now. I'll find out later if they want to do anything.
060:42:02	Schmitt	Okay, the - the electrolyte pads may be still expanding a little bit so I'm going off the air briefly to start getting into the suit. And I'll talk to you in a little while.
060:42:15	CC	Okay.
060:53:48	Cernan	Hello, Gordo.
060:53:51	CC	Hello.
060:53:56	Cernan	Okay. We're up to frame count 151 on magazine November November. They've been pictures of the - primarily of the CSM out the LM windows by the CMP.
060:54:13	CC	Okay.
060:54:19	Cernan	He's been up there fooling around for a while. We may have to check it out and see what he did.
060:57:42	CC	America, Houston.
060:57:47	Cernan	Go ahead, Gordo.
060:57:48	CC	That dropout there was because Ascension had a problem. We're now over on Madrid, and you're sounding good.
060:57:59	Cernan	Okay.
061:01:14	Cernan	Okay, Gordo. Jack is in his suit, unzipped at this time. I'm going off the air, and Ron will come on and keep you informed as to how we're going.
061:01:30	CC	Okay. Fine.
061:03:07	Schmitt	Houston. How do you read the LMP?
061:03:10	CC	Loud and clear, Jack.
061:03:14	Schmitt	Okay. I'm in my suit, presently unzipped. Didn't seem to be any problem at all.
061:03:22	CC	Okay.
061:04:07	Schmitt	And, Gordy, I think I found a problem with the biomed sensors. And when I come out of the suit, I can fix it. I put a little of that bacterial cream on the sensor places last night as a preventive mechanism, and I think it's just a little greasy to hold the sensor.
061:04:29	CC	Okay.
061:09:08	Evans	Okay. Gene's got his suit on and he's going across to the LM now.
061:09:12	CC	Roger, Ron.
061:15:26	Evans	Okay. This is CMP. I'll go off the line here, for a little bit, until I can get my suit on again.
061:15:32	CC	Okay, Ron.
061:15:36	Evans	And Jack's still on the line up there in the 124 though.
061:15:39	CC	Okay.
061:17:37	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. We're both zipped now, and it went quite easily.
061:17:43	CC	Okay, Jack. Sounds super.
061:21:03	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 61:21 Ground Elapsed Time. Position and velocity on the spacecraft now 51,982 nautical miles from the moon, velocity 3,288 feet per second, distance from earth 179,437 nautical miles. Crew completing their checkout of the lunar module, getting partially suited in their pressure garment assemblies or space suits, if you will, for the installation of the probe and drogue, and closeout of the tunnel into the lunar module. At 61:22 up and live on the air-ground circuit, this is Apollo Control.
061:29:38	Evans	This is CMP. I finally got my suit on now.
061:29:43	CC	Go ahead.
061:29:55	CC	America, Houston. Did you call?
061:30:02	Evans	No, I was just saying - the CMP. Got my suit on now. And I had a little trouble with the donning liners getting stuck - stuck in the zipper; but I figured out how to get them out of the way now.
061:30:16	CC	Okay.
061:38:40	Evans	Okay, Houston. Gene has his suit pretty well on now.
061:38:47	CC	Okay, Ron.
061:38:53	CC	We reviewed the data on the E-MOD. Everything looks normal. One thing you might do is - no big thing, but you might zero NOUN 26. It's still loaded, left over from the EMP you used in the P23 yesterday.
061:39:13	Evans	Okay. Thank you much.
061:39:48	Schmitt	Gordy, this is the LMP. How do you read?
061:39:51	CC	Loud and clear, Jack.
061:39:55	Schmitt	Say, when I was switching batteries, I noticed switching from low to high taps that there were some reverse-current indications. Sure that's nothing to be concerned about; you probably expected those, right?
061:40:13	CC	That's affirmative, Jack. That's normal.
061:40:19	Schmitt	Right.
061:49:38	PAO	This is Apollo Control. From all indications on telemetry here in Mission Control, the crew at this time have - has closed the Lunar Module hatch and it should be reinstalling the probe and drogue assemblies. And finally the Command Module hatch, thereby closing out the tunnel. Apollo 17 now 177, whoops would you believe our space digital have gone back to Earth reference momentarily. At any rate the spacecraft is 177,966 nautical miles from Earth, traveling at a velocity of 2,652 feet per second in - with reference to the Earth. And as soon as the space digital display goes back to the Moon reference, we'll read those numbers off. We're waiting for the call from the crew that they have completed stowing or installing the probe and drogue assembly in closing out the tunnel. At 61:51 standing by this is Apollo Control.
061:55:30	CC	America, Houston. We'd like to terminate the charge on battery B.
061:55:40	Evans	Okay; stand by 1. Okay, we'll get that in a minute, Gordon.
061:55:46	CC	Okay.
061:58:49	Evans	Okay, Gordo, the charge should be terminated on BAT B.
061:58:54	CC	Okay.
061:58:56	Evans	And 7 Alfa's still - 7 Alfa's still 0.6.
061:59:01	CC	Roger.
062:04:02	Cernan	Okay, Gordy, I - I'm looking around, but I can't figure out what that MASTER ALARM is. I didn't see any O2 HIGH PLOW and I didn't see any lights, and we did get it down in the LEB.
062:04:13	CC	Okay, Gene.
062:04:18	Cernan	And there it is again.
062:04:22	CC	Roger.
062:04:30	Cernan	And again.
062:04:34	CC	Roger.
062:04:35	Cernan	Okay, I saw SPS PRESSURE blink on that one.
062:04:42	CC	Roger.
062:04:45	Cernan	Yes, Gordy, she's triggering continually on SPS PRESSURE.
062:04:59	Cernan	Yes. I can't reset it, and a minute later she's coming up with a blink on SPS PRESSURE.
062:05:12	CC	Okay, Gene. We think it's the - well - well, we - we're sure that it's the oxidizer pressure is right on the trip limit. We're almost certain it's due to helium absorption.
062:05:27	Cernan	Yes, we're reading 155 right now.
062:05:31	CC	Roger.
062:08:26	Cernan	Okay, Gordy. We got the SPS PRESSURE light on steady now.
062:08:30	CC	Roger.
062:15:25	CC	America, Houston. If you give us ACCEPT, we'll give you a new state vector. Nothing much wrong with the one you've got, but we're just going to tweak it up.
062:15:37	Cernan	Okay, Gordy, you've got it.
062:15:39	CC	And one other question. Do you have the LM closed up now? We're seeing some heater currents that are a little hight indicating maybe the light's still on. And we're just trying to understand where the LM is at the present time.
062:15:57	Evans	Okay, I just closed the hatch, just about the time you started talking there.
062:16:02	CC	Okay, we'll take a look at the currents now.
062:18:03	CC	America, it's your computer, and we did the VERB 66.
062:18:11	Cernan	Okay.
062:29:02	Cernan	Say, Gordo, what's the trend in thinking on that SPS light - to leave it lit or to burnp the pressure up?
062:29:12	CC	Well, I - Ed Mitchell must be at work, because we were just talking about that subject. I'll call you when they come up with a final decision.
062:29:26	Cernan	Okay. And Ron has put the - has closed LM hatch. He's put the drogue in. He's put the probe in, and he's putting the CSM hatch in as a one-man exercise - suited. So he's doing the whole thing, and he's still in his suit. Our suits are stowed.
062:29:47	CC	Okay, Gene. We got one question here, that - just - just waiting for a convenient time to ask, and that was - wondered if, with reference to the wakeup problems we had this morning, if you'd clarify just exactly why Ron didn't hear our crew-alert MASTER ALARM. You know exactly why?
062:30:20	Evans	Well, it's not the Seconal. As much as I hate to admit it, the POWER AUDIO/TONE was OFF (chuckle) in my headset.
062:30:42	CC	Okay. We kind of suspected that - that one.
062:30:44	Evans	Okay; that lets you rest a little bit easier. And just to prevent something like that from happening again - or if it should happen again - what we'll do, we'll hook up the tone booster, which we didn't have hooked up last night.
062:31:02	CC	Okay. We concur. Sounds good.
062:31:22	Evans	Yes. I woke up and I saw that light there and I thought, "Gee-whiz, I just got it in time." Until I tried to push - push out that caution and warning MASTER ALARM. And burned my end of my finger.
062:31:33	CC	(Laughter)
062:31:50	Evans	I was also in a sleep restraint and upside down with a zipper in the back. And I had a little problem getting my hands up to start with, also.
062:32:01	CC	Roger.
062:32:40	Evans	Hey, Houston, CABIN REPRESS is back to BOTH now - I mean EMERGENCY CABIN REPRESS.
062:32:48	CC	Roger, Ron.
062:36:20	Schmitt	Gordo, if you don't have any objections, we'd like to ge ahead and secure the high gain, and go on to PTC while Ron's doffing his PGA.
062:36:33	CC	Let me check and see if we have any.
062:37:20	CC	Sounds good to us. Go ahead and, per Flight Plan, spin it up.
062:37:29	Schmitt	Okay.
062:37:34	CC	Okay, I didn't want to mislead you. I mean, you can get ready to spin it up. We'll give you the GO to spin up.
062:37:42	Schmitt	Okay.
062:39:05	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. You want to leave the high gain until you call?
062:39:15	CC	Stand by.
062:39:24	CC	Okay. Jack, this is a good attitude to go to OMNI Bravo, and you can go ahead and secure the high gain.
062:39:33	Schmitt	Okay.
062:44:43	CC	America, Houston. The rates look good; you're GO for spinup.
062:44:50	Cernan	Okay; great, Gordo; we're GO for spinup. We've - we've got a show in here that very few men have ever seen, and that's a CMP trying to get out of his suit by himself.
062:45:05	CC	Wish I was there to watch.
062:45:10	Schmitt	It really is a story to behold.
062:45:15	Cernan	Needless to say, we're both very impressed.
062:45:19	CC	I can tell.
062:45:53	CC	America, Houston. Use B/D roll for spinup.
062:45:59	Cernan	Okay.
062:46:31	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. This is the LMP on biomed. How do you read?
062:46:39	CC	Okay, Jack. Let's take a point check here.
062:47:09	CC	America, D-2 ROLL is not on. You need the Delta ROLL jet.
062:47:17	Cernan	Yes, I'm still working on it, Gordo. I was just deciding whether to spin minus or plus; but I guess we ought to spin minus, as per the Flight Plan.
062:47:25	CC	Okay,
062:48:13	Cernan	We're on our way.
062:48:17	CC	Okay. Okay, - the LMP's EKG and ZPN look good. And on the SPS light, we recommend not doing anything with the system. We want you to go to ACKNOWLEDGE so the - get the light out of your eyes, and then just fly there in ACKNOWLEDGE on the CAUTION and WARNING.
062:48:53	Cernan	Okay, Gordy. We're in ACKNOWLEDGE, and - I presume, probably after LOI, we'll be able to go back to NORMAL, right?
062:49:08	CC	That's affirmative.
062:49:13	Cernan	Is that an abnormal amount of helium ingestion [sic], or do you think that's about right?
062:49:19	CC	It's - it's absorption, and that's normal.
062:52:04	Cernan	Hello, Houston. You read?
062:52:06	CC	Loud and clear.
062:52:11	Cernan	Okay, now that we got another look at you, Gordy, it looks like Houston might be right on the fringes of either being clear or clearer. The entire Gulf is pretty nice. Florida looks pretty clear, and Mexico looks pretty clear. There's a big air mass of clouds that looks like it picks up somewhere around the coast at Houston, heads on up north, and then covers most of the Midwest and the East, from about the middle of Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia on north. It's clear enough now to even see the coral reefs down off of Florida. And it looks like west Texas is probably also pretty clear, at least in a run from east to west. We can see Baja, and on up the coast of California up north.
062:53:09	CC	Okay, sounds like the whole crew is turning into weathermen.
062:53:25	Cernan	It's one of the better views we've had of the States, I think, even though we're quite a ways out.
062:53:46	CC	Roger. Looks like your subso - subspacecraft point is just about Peru right now.
062:53:57	Cernan	Yes, we're - looks like we're looking straight down on the center of South America, pretty close to what you're saying.
062:54:47	Cernan	Gordy, you want to bring us up to date briefly on how you plan on handling this time update again?
062:54:57	CC	Okay. I'll do that. Let me - but let me practice before I start here. Just a minute.
062:55:04	Cernan	Okay. I'm primarily interested in those parts of the Flight Plan which we're going to eliminate.
062:55:14	CC	Okay. Just one second.
062:57:33	CC	Geno, I'll read you the PAO release; they summed up pretty well, and I'll just use their words here. The time has been made up in two increments. The first one of 1 hour and 45 minutes in the Flight Plan. The crew activities were jumped ahead by 1 hour, and they essentially began doing those things that were called for 1 hour later in the Flight Plan. They will again jump ahead an hour and 40 minutes, and that will occur at 65 hours. By that time they will have completed all those activities required up through 67 hours and 40 minutes in the Flight Plan. Or, in other words, they will have completed all the activities required to get them into lunar orbit 2 hours and 40 minutes early, and in order to make the clocks then agree with where the crew will be in the Flight Plan, we'll jump the clocks ahead 2 hours and 40 minutes. This clock update, which can be likened to going on daylight saving time, only 2 hours and 40 minutes worth of change instead of 1 hour of change as we do on daylight saving time, will occur at 65 hours when the crew will have completed all of those Flight Plan activities up through 67 hours and 40 minutes. (Chuckle) This simply involves setting our clock to 65 hours in the Control Center and aboard the spacecraft to 65 hours, moving them ahead to 67 hours and 40 minutes. Then, barring any further changes in the mission time line, from that point on, the elapsed time clocks, which are used as a cue to Flight Plan activities, should agree with the Flight Plan and events that, in the Flight Plan are called out for a certain time will happen at that time on the elapsed time clocks (laughter) in Mission Control and aboard the spacecraft. (Laughter) This is a convenience factor.
062:59:15	Cernan	You're lucky; we're going to lose an OMNI.
062:59:19	CC	Okay. I'll hold off there for the rest.
062:59:25	Cernan	Gordy, never mind. I think I got the gist of it.
063:04:13	Cernan	Did you give up, Gordy?
063:04:19	CC	Okay. What we're really going to do is - (chuckle) really is simple. At 65 hours we're going to do the update of 2 hours and 40 minutes. And the procedures are shown in the Flight Plan at 67:35. There just happens - happens to be really no - no activities we have to reschedule in the intervening time. So, after the update is complete, we'll be right on the Flight Plan, both timewise and activitywise. Over.
063:05:05	Cernan	Okay. We're looking at it. Going to have to squeeze my shave in somewhere else, I guess.
063:07:38	CC	Hey, Gene; Houston.
063:07:44	Cernan	Go ahead.
063:07:45	CC	Hey, you got to break - you can cast the tying vote. Which is the best description: the water bag or the clock one?
063:08:10	Cernan	Oh yes. Now I remember. You got a little - give a little credit on this last one, I guess, to - to Public Affairs, because I don't think Gordo could have thought that one up all by himself.
063:08:36	CC	Very diplomatic.
063:08:38	Cernan	... Considering I - I was trying to do - to do Charlie's technique step by step, I guess I got to give him little bit more credit from the gymnastic point of view.
063:09:00	Schmitt	That sounded like one of Gordy's aircraft schedules.
063:09:06	CC	Amen.
063:09:18	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 63 hours 9 minutes.
063:09:26	Cernan	... they were moving another Saturn V out on the pad.
063:09:37	CC	Jack, we lost all of that due to the antenna switch. Say again.
063:09:58	CC	Jack, we missed your last transmission - -
063:10:00	Cernan	Gordy, you listening?
063:10:01	CC	- - due to the antenna switch.
063:10:06	Cernan	You say you got it, or you're getting it?
063:10:09	CC	No, we missed it.
063:10:15	Cernan	Okay. I said you can look right down at the Cape area - that's the Cape that we know - in Florida, and it's little disheartening because the last time I was up here looking back from this angle, they were moving another Saturn V for another Moon trip out on the pad already. But I guess they're working pretty feverishly out there on B.
063:11:19	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 63 hours 11 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. Charlie Duke was on the spacecraft's communicators console for a while there, discussing the clock update description that had been read up earlier by Gordo Fullerton asking for a judgement on the part of the crew as to whether that description was better than - -
063:11:52	Schmitt	Gordy, this is Jack. I think Gene was right. You got some - probably scattered cloud weather, but not very far away from you there's a pretty heavy mass of clouds. It may be the forerunner of that dry cold front you were talking about yesterday, which I can see stretching over into Sonora. But where it hits the stateside, it's got quite a mass of clouds associated with it. It looks like they're moving in your direction.
063:12:24	CC	Okay, Jack, thanks for the warning.
063:12:30	Schmitt	Clear behind it, in Arizona and New Mexico and maybe southern Colorado, it looks like there may be another front stretching, or maybe it hits northern Arizona and Utah and up through northern Colorado, and on in to Canada, trending northeast.
063:12:57	Schmitt	You're calling it right on, Jack. I'm looking at the surface chart, and that's about what we see.
063:13:20	Schmitt	Looks like a low might be developing on that one - a wave up in northern Colorado and - although the clouds are a little hard to read.
063:13:31	CC	Roger.
063:13:41	PAO	And that was lunar module pilot, Jack Schmitt.
063:13:45	Schmitt	Our sub - or our zero phase point - About 20 degrees west of Bolivia, our sub - our zero - zero phase point, and it is quite a bit brighter than yesterday and looks as if, and more general, as if maybe the seas have picked up in that region a little bit.
063:14:18	CC	Roger.
063:14:26	PAO	Some more real-time weather reporting.
063:14:29	Schmitt	One of the more unusual features is developed - as I see - developed in the southeast Pacific just north of the Ross Sea and that is a very striking mushroom pattern on a very large scale. It has north/south clouds streaming streamers from the Ross Sea. And when it gets up about the latitude of Tierra del Fuego, but quite a bit west of that land, it branches out to the east and west in a large mushroom pattern. And, it looks like the top of that mushroom may be a curved cold front that's pushing its way up into the southeast Pacific. It currently - the eastern edge of that front is probably 10 degrees longitude from Tierra del Fuego, and it looks like that land in southern Chile is picking up high clouds, probably associated with that front's movement.
063:15:49	CC	Roger.
063:15:56	Schmitt	I'll get some shots of that next time around. That's a spectacular pattern. You almost get the feeling that the cold airmass moving out of Antarctica streams for a while north/south. And then it picks - The cloud patterns change and as it starts to migrate, the winds start to change from east to west, Maybe that's where it encounters the Jetstream.
063:16:25	CC	Roger.
063:18:04	PAO	This is Apollo Control. Going through an antenna switch at the present time.
063:19:29	CC	America, Houston. I have a couple of miscellaneous items here.
063:19:46	Evans	Okay; go ahead.
063:19:47	CC	Okay. We'd like you to disable B2 and D2 just for a drill here.
063:19:58	Cernan	Oh, thank you, Gordo.
063:20:01	CC	Also, the SHe tank looks exactly nominal, as far as the rise rate goes, to us.
063:20:16	Cernan	Can't argue with that.
063:20:19	CC	And to summarize your film budget situation, have three magazines: KK, LL, and MM are budgeted for the scheduled photos such that they have only five, 19, and one, respectively, frames left over after you've done all the scheduled pictures. And November November, we think, has just - has just nine frames remaining now. The two nonscheduled magazines are OO and PP; 160 frames each. Those are the ones provided for optional use. We have 44 additional frames scheduled out of November November, scheduled during lunar orbit. There is only nine left in it now, so we'd like to save at least 60 frames out of either Oscar Oscar or Papa Papa, the two optional magazines, to cover the scheduled frames. Guess what we're saying is there's no problem. We've still got plenty of film, but you will have to use some of your optional mags for scheduled pictures. Sixty frames is what we want to save.
063:21:58	Evans	Okay; mighty fine, Gordo. Plan on Oscar Oscar for that magazine.
063:22:05	CC	Okay.
063:23:04	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 63:23 GET. The space digitals display here in the Control Center still showing Earth to Spacecraft distance and velocity. Distance 180,309 nautical miles, velocity relative to Earth 2,593 feet per second. A few moments ago the lunar module pilot, Jack Schmitt, who is a professional geologist, put on his hat as an amateur meteorologist and described some of the global weather systems visible from their vantage point out beyond 180,000 miles from Earth. Still up live and standing by at 63:24 GET this is Apollo Control.
063:34:01	Schmitt	Gordy; this is Jack.
063:34:04	CC	Go ahead, Jack.
063:34:08	Schmitt	I - Cal Tech will never forgive me; I'm a little hesitant on my elementry optics. But I just put Ron's polarizing filter in front of the monocular, looking at the Earth and rotate 90 degrees, and from max to min in terms of brightness, there's a remarkable change. And I suspect that means that the Earth is polarizing light enough to see it. The main thing that happens is that the oceans get considerably darker when I rotate the filter towards the dark position anyway. The continents don't seem to show any obvious change, but the oceans and the zero phase point darken - oh, I would guess by a factor of two in brightness. Maybe that's an extreme, but I think it's that.
063:35:10	CC	Roger. I was just trying to think of a reason. is it uniform change over all ocean areas, or is it more of a change in some areas than others?
063:35:24	Schmitt	Well, I'd say that the subsolar point shows the greatest change, but you can still - the zero phase point shows the greatest change. But all the oceans get darker.
063:35:39	CC	Very interesting. We are just about to switch OMNIs.
063:42:00	Schmitt	Houston, 17.
063:42:02	CC	Go ahead.
063:42:06	Schmitt	Gordy, I figure you're getting an optics briefing ready for me, right?
063:42:11	CC	I haven't had anybody volunteer one. Strictly some layman theories going around, but nothing official.
063:42:25	Schmitt	Okay.
063:45:48	CC	America, Houston. Just got started on the Cowboy-Redskin game, about 5 minutes into it. The Cowboys are ahead 7 to nothing. They scored the first time they got the ball.
063:46:16	Schmitt	Gordy, you started talking before we had an OMNI. Try it again.
063:46:21	CC	Okay. The Cowboy-Redskin game just got started. It's now 7 to nothing, Cowboys. They scored the first time they got their hands on the ball.
063:46:38	Schmitt	Okay. I think we got most of that. It happened again, though.
063:46:45	Cernan	Did you say it was 7 to nothing, Cowboys?
063:46:48	CC	That's what I said. They scored the first time they got the ball. It's - the game's just about 5 minutes old.
063:46:57	Cernan	Outstanding. I thought this was Saturday. isn't - isn't today Saturday?
063:47:03	CC	It is, but the college is all through, so the pros are playing on Saturday now.
063:47:11	Cernan	Beautiful. Seven to nothing, huh? Go get 'em, Cowboys.
063:47:20	Schmitt	But, he would say the same thing for Washington, I'm sure.
063:47:26	Cernan	Nosiree. Go get 'em, Cowboys.
063:48:39	Evans	Houston, 17-
063:48:41	CC	Go ahead, Ron.
063:48:46	Evans	Okay, Gordo, my apologies on the CMP's in-suit drinking bag. There was, in fact, water in it. However, somehow, when we put the suit on, the water bag had gotten turned sideways, I guess, is the way to explain it. It had gotten turned sideways such that the suction tube was crimped sideways. And, as a result, there was no way that you could get any water to go through the tube.
063:49:25	CC	Okay. You're talking about the problem we had there just before launch, right?
063:49:32	Evans	That's affirmative - prelaunch.
063:49:36	CC	Okay, and for your information, the PTC looks good. It ought to hold.
063:49:46	Evans	Okay. Mighty fine. I lost my scissors. If there's anything you can do to help me find them, it'd be appreciated.
063:49:59	CC	Okay.
063:50:03	Evans	Okay (1aughing).
063:52:20	CC	Got a game plan update for you here. It's now 14-nothing, Dallas; still in the first quarter.
063:52:30	Cernan	You're sure a bearer of good news, Gordy. That's great.
063:52:41	Schmitt	Gordy, I just - this is Jack. I just tried the red filter on the front of the monocular and about the only major thing I noticed was that the cloud patterns over the landmasses seemed to be enhanced. The contrast between cloud and land, particularly green land is enhanced. Otherwise, all it does is make the red - the Earth look a little red.
063:53:17	CC	Roger, Jack.
063:56:04	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 63 hours 56 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. Space digital display still showing the Earth reference numbers 181,123 nautical miles out from Earth. Velocity 2,573 feet per second relative to the Earth. There will be a change of shift press conference in the News Center Briefing Room at approximately 4:15 with Flight Director Neil Hutchinson and at 63:56, standing by, this is Apollo Control.
064:04:13	Cernan	Hey, Gordo; this is Gene.
064:04:32	Cernan	Hey, Houston; this is 17.
064:04:37	CC	Roger, Geno. I think we've got you now. Go ahead.
064:05:01	CC	Okay, Geno. I think we got you - -
064:05:02	Cernan	... 17.
064:05:03	CC	- - Now. Go ahead.
064:05:06	Cernan	Okay. I just happened to be throwing a few switches, and I see our helium tank temperature on quad A is about 95 or so. And the others are quite low. is that because of our attitude there during - the LM checkout?
064:05:28	CC	That's affirm. That's the reason.
064:05:33	Cernan	Okay. I also see the tank that - package temperature a little higher on that quad too. But, being close to a hundred it seems a little unusual. You're - you're happy, right?
064:05:46	CC	That's affirm. No problem. We've been watching it, and it seems to be coming down now.
064:05:55	Cernan	Okay. Fine. Thank you.
064:09:07	Schmitt	Houston, you want the H2 HEATERS to AUTO and the FAN 3 OFF now?
064:09:29	CC	Stand by, Jack.
064:09:46	CC	That's affirmative, Jack. Go ahead.
064:09:54	Schmitt	Okay. That's done.
064:10:04	CC	Now 21 to nothing, Cowboys. Second quarter.
064:10:13	Cernan	Super Bowl, here they come. Watch out now.
064:10:23	CC	Should remind you that the Commander in Chief is a Redskin fan.
064:10:33	Cernan	I read about that. That's why the Cowboys need as much help as they can get.
064:10:52	Schmitt	Gordy, in the continuing saga of looking at the Earth through rose-colored glasses, I tried a blue-colored glass, and it - as you might expect, completely masks out the continent. The land areas are just not visible through the blue. Otherwise, the ocean and clouds - or the contrasting ocean and clouds remain about the same.
064:11:21	CC	Roger, Jack.
064:11:35	Schmitt	And, Gordy, I tried putting all the filters we had together to check the Sun for sunspots, but just not quite enough light attenuation to do that.
064:11:49	CC	Okay. For a while I thought you were a human weather satellite. Now I think you're a human Earth resources satellite.
064:12:01	Schmitt	Well, about all I can say is I'm a satellite I guess.
064:12:26	Schmitt	Gordy, it looks as if the distribution of water and ice in the ri - Ross Sea has changed in the last day or two. I didn't - don't remember looking at it yesterday specifically, but it seems to be different today than it was the first day.
064:12:44	CC	Roger.
064:19:49	Schmitt	Houston, 17.
064:19:52	CC	Go ahead, Jack.
064:19:57	Schmitt	Yes, about this icepack in the Ross Sea. The - as I remember a couple days ago, there were two clear areas, triangular in shape and quite elongate, that were projecting out into the sea from the innermost part of the bay, or of the - from the continent. Today those are not apparent, at least the first look I made. And it looks like there is an elongate, more irregular clear area that is roughly parallel to the Antarctic coastline within the sea itself. We'll check that a little more closely and see if that's right.
064:20:56	CC	Okay. Seems like kind of a quick change for something like ice, doesn't it?
064:21:06	Schmitt	Yes, and that's what bothers me. That's why I wonder if I'm not being fooled by cloud patterns or something.
064:21:13	CC	I'm looking at a satellite picture here, which I guess is around 12 hours old though. But over to the east of Australia, maybe about a continent width east of Australia, there is really striking long frontal system - striking because it's so long and so straight, sort of west-northwest, trending west-northwest and east-southeast trending. Can you see that?
064:23:33	Cernan	Gordo, are you there?
064:23:36	CC	Yes, sir, right here.
064:23:41	Cernan	Okay. Now Jack and I may be talking about two different frontal systems or patterns, but the one I think you might be referring to is the one I referred to yesterday as a ruffled parrot's beak. Actually two of them tied together, one starting up probably southeast of Australia and - and then heading down with a long arcing frontal system to another clockwise rotational parrot's - parrot's cone, I should say, down around - near the tip of South America, between it and Antarctica. There is one strong tributary front heading up to the north-northwest from the western side of this big, arcing, frontal mass. And I think that's probably what you're referring to. I'm not sure. I can't quite see Australia coming up over the - over the horizon yet.
064:24:53	CC	Okay. I - my picture cuts off right about the - oh, two-thirds of the way south in Australia, that latitude. So most likely we're talking about the same thing, but I can't verify the southern part of it.
064:25:15	Cernan	There is some tremendous - western side of that curve front is a tremendous clockwise rotational airmass. It must cover hundreds of square miles. The one down near - near the continent of Antarctica, down there, near the tip of South America, seemed to be squashed slightly as if there is possibly some - some squashing or effect coming off - off the South Pole area near Antarctica. I think, if I turn around and look at it the way Jack was looking at it, it's a cap of a mushroom. Only instead of simply curving in underneath the cap, it has clockwise rotations on both sides as it curves under.
064:26:18	CC	Roger.
064:26:46	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 64:26 Ground Elapsed Time. The space digitals, meanwhile, has come back to Moon reference numbers. Our distance now from the Moon is 45,955 nautical miles. Velocity 3,300 feet per second. And the Earth is 183,365 nautical miles behind Apollo 17. Shift change press conference at 4:15 with Flight Director Neil Hutchinson. Chuck Lewis taking over now, with his team of flight controllers at 64:27 and continuing to stay up live on the Air-to-Ground this Apollo Control.
064:28:22	Schmitt	Gordy, I just took 2 pictures of the Earth at the present time, and those are, right now the camera is on frame 153.
064:28:38	CC	Okay; 153.
064:29:28	Schmitt	Gordy, where did you say your ATS satellite picture left off to the west?
064:29:34	CC	Okay. To the west, it goes clear on over to Africa. But to the south, it cuts off about 30 south, or not quite all of Australia.
064:29:54	Schmitt	Okay. Yes, that mushroom pattern we've been talking about, on either edge - either end of the cap - and the mushroom points north - is a major cyclone circulation system. And also taking - moving, in one case - or trending, in one case, to the northwest and the other to the northeast, there are linear cloud patterns. Gives it a very symmetrical and a striking appearance. I hope it shows on those pictures.
064:30:43	CC	Okay. It doesn't show on the one I got. Maybe a later version will have that one. Because it cuts - it's cut off on this one.
064:32:59	Cernan	(Chuckle) Hey, Gordo. This is Geno.
064:33:03	CC	Go ahead.
064:33:06	Cernan	To put this update in simple terms - at 65, I guess on our clocks, you'll update us to about 67:40, right?
064:33:13	CC	That's affirmative.
064:33:17	Cernan	Does that mean we have to eat 2 hours and 40 minutes earlier?
064:33:25	CC	Oh, you got me there. I - You haven't been eating - you haven't eaten since breakfast. is that right?
064:33:32	Cernan	Oh, yes, sir. We just finished. We'll take another go at it, but I feel I've spending my life here eating.
064:33:47	CC	Yes. Well, we'll leave it up to you on this special case here.
064:33:53	Cernan	Okay, I think we'll take - a - a jab at supper here later in the day as per the Flight Plan.
064:34:00	CC	All right.
064:34:09	Cernan	Gordy - the whole suiting operation - I was really very pleased with. Jack and I both got in our suits very easily. And one by one we went into the LM. And that's where we zipped each other up. And we really had little or no trouble. We took our time. We got all configured in terms of changing our pockets around and whatever else we needed to do. And, actually, I think it's much easier to get suited than it is to get unsuited, personally.
064:34:49	CC	Okay. Sounds good.
064:34:55	Cernan	Ron stayed suited and did the entire tunnel work. And then went - did it by himself - and then totally doffed his suit and stowed it by himself, also, to sort of extend that little exercise.
064:35:13	CC	Roger.
064:43:22	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 64 hours 43 minutes. Change of shift News Conference is ready to begin in the News Center briefing room. We'll take this line down now and tape for the duration of the News Conference.
064:46:31	CC	America, Houston. Halftime score is 28 to 3, Cowboys.
064:46:39	Cernan	Keep talking, Gordo.
064:46:42	CC	Okay, I'll keep talking (laughter). The - I've learned that when you get to the ALFMED and pull it there, you'll see some tape around the emulsion shields. Those are three rectangular areas in front of your eyes and to either side that contain the photographic emulsion. This tape is around the edges of each of those three areas to help seal out light leaks. You haven't seen it before. Leave the tape on there. Don't pull it off. Over.
064:47:16	Cernan	Okay.
064:48:12	Schmitt	Gordy, just took a series of pictures of the Earth with the 35-millimeter using the polarizing filter in the two positions. And the frame count is now 39. I took six pictures. And with the filter, on the first of each pair, in the DOWN position. The second's in the UP position. And I changed the f-stop from - the first set at f/4, the second set at f/2, and the third set at f/8.
064:49:01	CC	Okay; we got all that, Jack.
064:49:06	Schmitt	And, Gordy, you might ask one of the experts around there in - is the lightmeter in the 35-millimeter integrating over the interior spot, or over the hairline spot? The larger one.
064:49:24	CC	Okay, I'll ask.
064:49:30	Schmitt	It acts as if it's the interior one, but ...
064:49:35	CC	Okay.
064:49:52	CC	Jack. The answer to your question is the center spot is weighted for 60 percent of the reading and the rest of it for 40 percent. Over.
064:50:04	Schmitt	Okay. That - that makes sense. That would explain why the needle moved as I moved it across the series of spots.
064:50:11	CC	Roger. Note: At 2 days 17 hours, the GET in the MCC was updated. To correlate times from this point on, add 2 hours 40 minutes to those shown in this transcript to make them correspond to MCC GET.
067:40:42	Cernan	Gordo, we're - we're ready any time you are for that update. And after we get the TFM and everything squared away, we'll go into ALFMED.
067:40:53	CC	Roger. Stand by on that, Geno; and we'll be with you in a minute.
067:40:59	Cernan	Hello, Robert. How are you today?
067:41:00	CC	Real fine, Gene. You're sounding great.
067:43:06	Cernan	Doing great out here.
067:43:43	CC	Geno, we're ready for the clock update. We'd like P00 and ACCEPT. And we're got two loads to put in, so it will take a couple of minutes here.
067:43:55	Evans	Okay, you got it?
067:43:56	CC	Thank you, Ron.
067:45:26	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 67 hours 45 minutes. We have advanced the Ground Elapsed Time clock in the Control Center and on the Flight Plan are operating at the point indicated for that time. In the News Center, the monitors, the actual GET time will be shown on the Time Base 5 clock. The GET clock will now show the Flight Plan GET time. And in the Flight Plan, the Central Standard Times and GET times listed will now agree and be correct. We accumulated a few minutes of tape during the News Conference and we'll play that for you now.
067:46:08	CC	17, Houston. I've got an update on your flyby maneuver pad due to this clock update. Would you like to copy it?
067:46:20	Cernan	Stand by just 1 second (music).
067:46:28	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. Go ahead with the flyby pad.
067:46:34	CC	Okay, stand by 1 on that - on our end. We're done with the - we're done with the upload. The computer is yours, and we need a read-out on the TFM.
067:46:46	Schmitt	Okay, that's in work.
067:46:55	CC	Okay, we've got the read-out.
067:50:05	CC	17, Houston. The data looks good, and you're GO to copy it, and recommend you copy it into the Plight Plan Supplement. And that's on page 1-43 of the supplement.
067:50:21	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. We have it.
067:51:49	CC	And, 17, we got that flyby pad now. If you're still ready, we're ready.
067:52:03	Schmitt	Okay. is this a full pad or just a change to the other one?
067:52:06	CC	It's just a change, Jack. It's a change to NOUN 83, the GETI, and a change to the bottom line, the GET of .05G. Just two changes.
067:52:29	Schmitt	Okay, go ahead.
067:52:32	CC	Jack, if you'll just add 2 hours and 40 minutes to each one of them, that's it. The GETI is 081:54:43.49. The GET of .05G, 156:04:03 - Jack, I guess I read 8l. I was looking at the old pad. It's 83 - 083 - on the GETI.
067:53:10	Schmitt	You're too fast for me. I was just going to chew you out.
067:53:15	CC	Sorry about that, Jack. I got it around the room.
067:53:16	Schmitt	083 - (laughter) 083:54:43.49; 156:04:03.
067:53:29	CC	Roger.
067:54:08	Cernan	Okay, Bob. We got all of our clocks set onboard.
067:54:14	CC	Roger. Understand.
067:54:18	Cernan	What was the exact amount of that update time?
067:54:24	CC	Two hours, 40 minutes; 2 plus 40.
067:54:35	Cernan	Okay, 2 plus 40, exactly. Thank you.
067:55:08	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. We're going to work up an appetite with the ALFMED today.
067:55:13	CC	Roger.
067:55:33	Cernan	Hey, Bob. May be a little premature - but I don't think so - but I think there was some good thinking into that update, looking at the Flight Plan up until now and where we go from here. I don't think we - we overlooked a thing.
067:55:48	CC	Roger. Like I said the other night, we gave Tommy a gold star on that one.
067:55:54	Cernan	Except I think he and Rita got in - in cahoots.
067:56:00	CC	A little soon for supper, huh?
067:56:05	Cernan	Yes. We just finished lunch, and it's about time to eat again.
067:56:09	CC	That's known as the simulator step-ahead.
067:56:21	Schmitt	Can you give us our distance from the Moon - from the Earth?
067:56:28	CC	Roger. Stand by on that.
067:56:40	Schmitt	Are we about 5,000 miles closer now?
067:56:45	CC	Don't you wish.
067:56:50	Schmitt	Well, isn't that what - isn't that the way these step-aheads work?
067:56:54	CC	Normally, yes. But this one didn't work that way. Jack, you're at 183,000 miles. It's really amazing how time flies when you're interested in your work, isn't it?
067:58:36	CC	Jack, Houston. Did you read your - my last call with the distance?
068:01:37	PAO	This is Apollo control at 68 hours 1 minute. Apollo 17 is 183,211 nautical miles from Earth. Velocity is 2,521 feet per second. The spacecraft communicator now is Bob Overmyer. Stu Roosa the backup Command Module Pilot for Apollo 17 is also at the CAPCOM console with Overmyer.
068:04:27	Cernan	Houston, 17.
068:04:30	CC	Go ahead, 17.
068:04:33	Schmitt	Okay, Bob, we're getting ready for the ALFMED. I just took a red-filter and a blue-filter pictures, - On frame 41 now, with a 35-millimeter - pictures of the Earth. And I took them one stop smaller - that is, more open - than the lightmeter said, hoping to compensate for the small Earth. The Earth just barely fills the most inner - the innermost circle of the spotmeter. Also, there's a very strong band of clouds, shaped sort of like a narrow fir tree, with a base about 20 degrees of longitude west of Baja California, that extends up, I believe, into the vicinity of Hawaii. And the top terminates in a very strong northern cyclone pattern.
068:05:36	CC	Roger, Jack. Was your magazine Sierra Sierra?
068:05:45	Schmitt	That's affirm. Sierra Sierra.
068:05:48	CC	Roger, Jack. And you say that cloud is right -that cloud area is right near Baja California? I've got a picture of it here in front of me, from one of the satellites.
068:05:58	Schmitt	No, it's about 20 degrees west - longitude degrees west of that.
068:06:05	CC	Yes. Okay, we've got it on the spot here.
068:06:07	Schmitt	And maybe even more than that. Okay, maybe even more than that. It's - it might be as much as 40 degrees west, and - Actually, Hawaii may be on the west side of that. It's a little hard to tell. It's close enough to the LM that it's hard to say.
068:06:40	CC	Roger, Jack. I think I've got it on our map here. It shows a pretty heavy dense cloud area right down in that area you're talking about.
068:07:11	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 68 hours 7 minutes. ALFMED is Apollo Light Flash Moving -
068:07:20	Cernan	Okay, Bob. For the ALFMED, CDR will be in the left seat. CMP will be in the center seat with the ALFMED. For our reporting, when we get the VOX, we'll just call out our first names to shorten it and the comments following. And Jack will be recording.
068:07:43	CC	Roger. We'll be listening.
068:07:51	PAO	That's the Apollo Light Flash Moving Emulsion Detector, associated with the visual light flash phenomenon that most crews have reported on past missions, seeing points of light in their eyes, when their eyes were closed. There are a couple of theories proposed on the origin of the flashes. One is that they are caused by cosmic rays. The other is that they are high energy atomic particles which enter the eyeball or ionize upon collision with retina or cerebral cortex. The ALFMED is an emulsion plate device that Ron Evans will wear. It will cover the front and sides of his head and will provide information on time, strength and path of particles penetrating the emulsion plates. The other two crewmen will wear eye shields. This test will last for approximately an hour. And the data on the - recorded by the ALFMED device will be correlated with the crewmen's verbal reports on flash observations.
068:11:00	Evans	Okay, wait a minute. Houston, how do you read on VOX with the lightweight headset?
068:11:07	CC	Read you loud and clear, Ron.
068:11:10	Evans	Okay.
068:11:24	Evans	Yes. Wait a minute. Let me get this little old box set to go here, first.
068:11:30	CC	Okay.
068:11:40	Evans	Yes.
068:12:11	Evans	Okay, UTILITY POWER is OFF.
068:12:21	SC	Yes. POWER switch is OFF. Okay, it's connected, now.
068:12:34	Evans	Okay, UTILITY POWER is ON. Okay, let me get strapped in here, somehow, or I'll float all over.
068:14:18	Evans	(Music) Okay, let's see.
068:14:32	Evans	Uh huh, I think I can.
068:14:49	Evans	Okay, my blindfold's going on, now.
068:15:09	Evans	Okay. Sounds like they clipped. Okay, somebody will have to help me put this thing on now; yes, just kind of - like so, yes. It goes around the old ...
068:16:18	SC	... yes, but you ought to ... kind of maintain your head in the same position, if you can.
068:17:19	Evans	... to operate now?
068:17:43	SC	No, Just turn it down a little bit.
068:18:18	Evans	Go to operate while you're taking the pictures there (chuckle).
068:18:45	Cernan	Hello, Houston. CDR put his blindfold on at 68:18.
068:18:51	CC	Okay, we copy that.
068:18:57	Cernan	And how do you read me in VOX, Bob? This is Gene.
068:19:00	CC	Read you loud and clear, Gene.
068:19:04	Cernan	Okay, I'm conducting the experiment. And the - frame Sierra Sierra is now at 45. I got two shots. One - two from the side and two from the bottom.
068:19:21	CC	Roger. We copy.
068:19:26	Evans	Hey, looks like a countdown for ready to go, Jack?
068:19:35	Cernan	Hey, Bob, does it make any difference if your eyes are opened or closed?
068:19:40	CC	(Chuckle) it may be a personal thing, Gene. I - This is Stu. I had to have my eyes closed but give it either way.
068:19:58	Cernan	Okay; thank you.
068:20:07	Evans	Okay, we'll count down to start. 3, 2, 1 -
068:20:13	Evans	MARK it. It's buzzing.
068:20:37	Cernan	Yes.
068:25:17	Cernan	Change it. The other side is not very good.
068:25:25	Evans	... two.
068:26:08	Cernan	MARK. Gene. I've got a series of random lines, which do not appear to be the width of my field of view, that are moving like a flashing horizon with thunderstorms on the horizon. They're dimly flashing, and they're moving across the eye from left to right and from top to bottom, individually. Both eyes. It's stopped now.
068:27:02	Cernan	MARK, this is Gene again. Going from the upper left to the bottom right. Lines of the same sort of thing. Dimly lit flashing horizon-type flashes. But they're linear. They're linear, and they tend to come from the - either the upper left or the upper right and work their way downward. Now they've stopped. Both eyes.
068:28:48	Cernan	MARK. Gene again. Both eyes. This time the same flashes on the horizon, but they don't seem to be moving out of both eyes. Tend to be up at the tops of both eyes. Just rapid, sequential, lightning-like flashes. And they've stopped.
068:29:57	Cernan	MARK. Gene again. Similar type of flashes. They don't seem to be moving, but they're coming from the right of the right eye and from the upper left of the right eye. And I can actually see an outline of a - of a curved horizon, and the flashes are coming out from behind it. They've stopped.
068:30:37	PAO	This is Apollo control at 68 hours 30 minutes. Distance from Earth 183,910 nautical miles.
068:30:45	Cernan	MARK. Gene again. I see - peripherally out of my right eye - I cannot see these flashes - but I can see peripherally the right-hand and upper-right-hand side of my right eye being lit up.
068:31:13	PAO	Distance 183,920 nautical miles velocity 2,504 feet per second.
068:31:46	Cernan	Pardon? This last one? They were peripherally I couldn't see them all I know is that there was some light out peripherally out - yes - but a flashing glow. Oh man, there is a good one the left eye right in the middle it's almost a purple flash. It's still going right in the middle of my eye and it's coming out from behind a horizon that is almost. It starts out as a semicircle and then folds in to a point like on a pencil, and then it disappears. That's the horizon and the light is flashing from behind it. It's gone.
068:33:31	CC	Hey, Gene, Houston.
068:33:35	Cernan	Go ahead.
068:33:36	CC	Okay. According to all our experts here, the phenomena you're describing is pretty much the phosphene effect - sort of like when you rub your eyes or squint your eyes too hard - because the effect is lasting too long. The streaks or the flashing that we're looking for are very fast, and they do not remain as a scene to your eye. And I guess the only thing we could say would be to maybe either relax your squint a little bit or to - if the blindfold's on exceptionally tight. I know this sounds kind of screwy, but those are the words that we would like to - like to say to you. But the actual phenomena we're looking for will be a very short-lived phenomenon. It will either be a flash or a very fast streak. Something along this - we're not trying to load the data, but we feel you're describing a different phenomena.
068:35:20	Cernan	Stu, we lost all that last conversation. You better repeat it.
068:35:26	CC	Okay, Gene. Sorry about that, and here I thought I had waxed so eloquently. But the - the effect you're describing is an effect that can come from rubbing your eyes or perhaps squinting too hard. But the effect we're looking for - and I guess we're really not trying to load the data - but the effect that we're looking for is a very short-lived phenomena and would not - -
068:35:50	Evans	MARK. Ron. I got one. In the right eye, Coming from - back - going towards ... Very narrow streak.
068:36:10	CC	And, Gene, our only words of wisdom are try to relax the - the eyes a little bit or if you have the blindfold on exceptionally tight, you might work on that. But the - just - I guess sort of relax and see if we can see the other - the other phenomena.
068:36:28	Cernan	Okay.
068:39:26	Evans	MARK, Ron. One about 12:00 in the right eye; looked like it was just a spot.
068:42:43	Evans	How about 15 seconds ago. It's so dim now I hardly noticed what it was. but, kinda started in the left eye and just a flash in the left eye and then a flash in the right eye, very dim. Going left, left to right.
068:44:38	Evans	MARK. Can't tell if it's right or left eye. Looks like it's almost between the two eyes. There's a -
068:44:47	Evans	MARK. One in the left eye. Just about right in the center. Spot; no streak or anything, just a spot. First spot seemed to be right between the two eyes, upper half of the field of view.
068:48:42	Cernan	MARK; Gene. Streak from the upper right, of the right eye, down to about the middle.
068:50:23	Evans	MARK; Ron. About 8 o'clock ... diameter out, just a bright flash; it's the brightest flash I've seen yet. Left eye.
068:50:43	Cernan	Just about a second or two after Ron said "Mark," I saw a vertical bright line in the left side of the left eye; just flashed.
068:51:36	Evans	It was the greatest intensity - the intensity on that last one I had - but - the brightness was there, but it was kind of dull glow to it. It wasn't a - a spot that you could really focus on.
068:53:21	Evans	MARK; Ron. Left eye, about 09:30, half way - -
068:53:28	Cernan	MARK - -
068:53:29	Evans	- - to the left.
068:53:30	Cernan	- - Gene. Left eye, very bright spot; left eye, left side about halfway in towards the middle. That was the brightest one I've seen, and it was just a spot.
068:53:58	Evans	Ron. The intensity of the last one I had was - oh, a fourth of the bright one I had before that.
068:54:17	Evans	Spot. Yes, on the left eye.
068:55:08	Evans	MARK about 5 seconds ago, about 6 o'clock in the right eye.
068:55:14	Evans	MARK. Right between the two eyes, seemed like. Both spots.
068:55:26	Cernan	MARK; Gene. A sharp line from the center of the left eye to the upper left-hand - upper left-hand side.
068:56:41	Cernan	MARK; Gene. It's a very short - very short line, upper left hand of left eye going towards the right.
068:57:10	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 68 hours 57 minutes. Apollo 17's distance from Earth is 184,548 nautical miles, traveling at a speed of 2,488 feet per second.
068:57:32	Cernan	MARK; Gene. Upper right eye, tangential to my eye, just a very short line. Moving - -
068:57:44	Evans	MARK; Ron. Oh, a fourth of a diameter out in the right eye. Bright spot. Seemed like it was coming in. I could see the spot and then the streak. It went from that point kind of in - or up, I guess.
068:59:53	Cernan	MARK; Gene. A dull flash on the bottom inside corner of the right eye. Correction - -
069:00:02	Evans	MARK; Ron. Go ahead, Gene.
069:00:03	Cernan	Okay. Correction, Gene. That was on the left eye, that last one.
069:00:12	Evans	The last one for Ron was at 10 o'clock. Three-fourths of the diameter out. Just a - ... was only about an eighth of an inch in diameter. Right eye.
069:03:05	Cernan	MARK; Gene.
069:03:06	Cernan	MARK again. A flash - first flash was in the left eye on the left side. It went vertal - vertically up and away. And following that was a flash in the identically same spot. It was a line flash, up and away. On the left side of each eye, and it went up in both cases, but they were split by about 2 seconds.
069:08:41	Evans	MARK; Ron. A fourth of the diameter out at 3 o'clock in the right eye. I mean a half a diameter - half a radius; put it that way.
069:08:52	Cernan	MARK; Gene. A flash across the bottom of the right eye coming inward from left to right.
069:09:12	Evans	On the last one, it looked like it was a - -
069:09:15	Cernan	MARK; Gene. Just a spot flash in the bottom of the left eye.
069:09:27	Evans	This is Ron. On my last one, it was just a spot flash. No direction to it at all.
069:09:57	Evans	Ron; MARK, MARK; Ron. When I first said the word - it kind of looks like a - almost a sine wave transition from the corner upper at 10 o'clock in the right eye to about 2 o'clock in the left eye. Right between the two of them. The sin wave was - maybe two wiggles in it, and it was about a fourth of an inch long. Going from right to left, yes. And going into the left at about 2 o'clock.
069:10:56	Cernan	Turn that music higher.
069:10:59	Evans	Yes.
069:11:20	Evans	MARK; Ron. Seems like I looked up, and as I looked up, there was one in the left eye about 12 o'clock just a flash. On the outer periphery.
069:15:34	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 69 hours 15 minutes. Apollo 17's distance from Earth 184,987 nautical miles. Velocity 2,477 feet per second.
069:18:02	Evans	MARK; Ron. ... down about 06:30; just a flash. Right eye.
069:18:42	Evans	MARK; Ron. Left eye, about 03:30, three-quarters of the radius out. A very dim flash. About 03:30.
069:19:44	Evans	MARK; Ron. Left eye. Starting at 5 o'clock on the circumference going to 3 o'clock at about three-quarter diameter - three-quarter radius, I mean. Just a straight line.
069:20:14	Evans	Did I say left eye? I guess I did. Okay, let's ...
069:21:11	Cernan	Okay, the motor quit. Okay.
069:21:20	Cernan	Is that it?
069:21:28	Evans	Yes, I can get that, Gene.
069:21:46	Evans	Okay, you want to take a picture of it first? Okay, POWER ... Okay, stand by. 3,2,1 -
069:22:00	Evans	MARK it. POWER switch is OFF.
069:22:28	Cernan	Say, Bob or Stu.
069:22:31	CC	Roger. Go ahead.
069:22:35	Cernan	Okay, add - to add to today. Not last night, but - I guess the first night I was in bed - I definitely saw some of these - because I had a hard time going to bed, to start with - I saw some of the same peripheral horizon-type things you said were not the type of data you were looking for; but I also saw a - some sets of the streaks. And probably the one most imposing thing I remember is - and the last one I remember before falling asleep - was the fact that there was a very bright spot that flashed right between my eyes like a very bright headlight - like a train coming at you, only with a flash. It's difficult probably to estimate the frequency of any of those because I was in a - sort of a sleep-hazy mode.
069:23:39	CC	Roger.
069:23:43	Cernan	But then, as today, I saw some that flashed and lit up the horizon and some that lit up peripherally; and I guess, as you say, that's a different kind of data, but I did see them there and they impressed me.
069:24:00	CC	Okay. We got all that, Gene.
069:24:07	Cernan	Okay.
069:24:08	Evans	And it might be interesting to know I've never seen it before today.
069:24:31	CC	Hey, Gene, we appreciate all the data. We were just trying to make the data fit the curve; you know the old trick.
069:24:40	Cernan	Okay, I just wanted you to - just told them like we saw them. That's all.
069:24:47	CC	Roger.
069:24:52	Cernan	I will say one thing, though; no question in my mind but that they're there. Last trip I took, I guess I just wasn't looking for them or paying any attention to them. Maybe they were there and I ignored them because of other things. But they're there.
069:25:11	Schmitt	Okay, all you flash bugs down there - or flashbulbs I guess is the word - frame 50. I just took four pictures to show - two on the side and two on the bottom - to show the position of the ALFMED, and one of them of each set was focused on the ALFMED. The others were focused on the other - the other set was focused on the struts.
069:25:39	CC	Roger, Jack.
069:25:48	Schmitt	And when you don't have anything else to do, why don't you have somebody predict where the S-IVB is. I think I've got her spotted - behind us and above us with respect to the Earth and our travel from it.
069:26:02	CC	FIDO just went out and shot himself, but we'll get working on it.
069:26:08	Schmitt	Oh, don't worry about it. Shoot. I thought you guys might have an idea off-the-cuff there.
069:26:13	CC	No, what's humorous on this, Jack, is they have really been working on that S-IVB impact point, and they've really been - it's been a - a real difficult problem for them so far.
069:26:24	Schmitt	I'll tell you, I bet you Ron could give you a star sighting on it (laughter). I looked at it through the monocular and sure looks like the S-IVB.
069:26:37	CC	Jack, we're not doubting you at all. We could probably start cranking it right now.
069:26:47	CC	Jack, are you sto - you all stowing the ALFMED now or are you done?
069:26:53	Evans	What's that, Bob?
069:26:54	CC	Are you all done with the ALFMED now, Ron?
069:26:59	Evans	Yes, I've got to get it to - get the plate moved back down there yet.
069:27:03	CC	Okay, Ron - -
069:27:04	Evans	... get the blindfold off first so I can see what I'm doing.
069:27:08	CC	Roger. I just want you to know. We've got a real long update coming up to you here on the LOI abort charts and that - and it's going to be, probably, a difficult readup. And you're the most familiar with the charts; you probably would want to take them. But whenever you want to take them, they are on - charts on page 3-8l, 3-82, and then the cue card for LOI limits. Whenever you want to take them. It will be a lengthy one.
069:27:36	Evans	Stand by, Bob. Let us get squared away from the ALFMED; then we can get going on that.
069:27:41	CC	No, I don't want to hurry you, Ron. I just want you to know what - when - just get yourself comfortable and be ready to take them whenever you want them. It's going to be a lengthy time, though.
069:27:52	Evans	Okay.
069:27:54	Cernan	Hey, Bob, I'm looking at what - what Jack was talking about; and it's definitely not a particle that's nearby because there is another one I can look at and get a three-dimensional comparison with. It is a - it is a bright object, and it's obviously rotating because it's flashing. It's way out in the distance, as I say, because there are particles that are close by and it's obviously not one of those. It's apparently rotating in a very rhythmic fashion because the flashes come around almost - almost on time. And it's as we look back at the Earth, it's up at about 11:00 about - oh, maybe 10 or 12 Earth diameters. I don't know whether that does you any good, but there is something out there.
069:28:51	CC	Roger. We don't doubt it, Gene. And we might work out a set of gimbal angles or something here; maybe we can get a look at it through the optics.
069:29:03	Cernan	Okay. And I - I - I just want to emphasize that it's definitely not - not one of these particles that tends to look like a star out there. It's something physical in the distance.
069:29:48	Cernan	(Laughter) Oh, yes.
069:30:08	SC	... thing off.
069:30:14	Evans	Yes, guess I am.
069:30:29	CC	Hey, Gene. If you can call up a NOUN 20 so we know the spacecraft attitude, and if you can reference the object you're looking at out of your window, with - with respect to body axis and let us look at your - your - give us a mark, somehow, and give us your NOUN 20s, we can try and get a tie-in and start locating - locating this object down for you.
069:30:58	Cernan	Okay, I'm looking it out - looking at it out the center window - the hatch window - and I'll give you a hack when it crosses the XX axis at the center window; and I guess it's up maybe 45 degrees
069:31:18	CC	Okay, give us a hack and we're copying your NOUN 20s right now.
069:31:26	Cernan	Okay, Jack says pitched up about 30 degrees but - -
069:31:30	Schmitt	No. 45 because -
069:31:31	Cernan	Yes, he agrees. It's 45 degrees pitched up, and I'll give you a hack when it crosses the XX axis.
069:31:52	Cernan	Okay -
069:31:53	Cernan	MARK it. It just crossed through the - -
069:31:56	CC	MARK. We got it.
069:31:57	Cernan	- - let's call it the XZ plane of the spacecraft. One unique thing about it, Bob, is that it's got two flashes. As it comes around in - in rhythmic fashion, you get a very bright flash; and then you get a dull flash. And then it'll come around with a bright flash, and then a dull flash.
069:32:19	Schmitt	That's the side and - of the S-IVB - and then the engine bell, Gene.
069:32:34	Schmitt	The commander doesn't think that I can see the engine bell on that thing.
069:32:39	CC	Roger, Jack. is that with the monocular you're looking at it?
069:32:46	Cernan	He couldn't see the engine bell if he had 10 monoculars.
069:32:54	Evans	Okay. I've got the cable restowed now.
069:33:00	CC	Say again, Ron.
069:33:11	Evans	And, Gene, where's your blindfold? ...
069:35:25	Schmitt	Bob, couple of revolutions ago when I was looking at it, I had a much brighter view and I believe I was looking at it broadside. It looks to me like it may be flashing more or less end-on now. It's much, not - not as bright, although it's getting brighter. But it's not as bright now as it was awhile ago.
069:35:50	CC	Roger, Jack.
069:36:16	Schmitt	... we've been noticing that, I think, for about 24 hours or so. I just - hadn't put it together as maybe being the S-IVB. I thought it was just some other particle out there.
069:36:28	CC	Roger, Jack.
069:36:31	Cernan	Hey, Robert, what's the final Cowboy score?
069:36:35	CC	Okay; I was just going to update that. The Cowboys won it 34 to 24. And by winning it, they wrap up the wild-card slot in the NFC; and so both Washington and Dallas will be in the playoffs.
069:36:54	Cernan	Sounds good.
069:37:17	Schmitt	Bob, that line of clouds I called a fir tree pattern that swings up towards Hawaii - Hawaii, if you will - has - also has a mushroom pattern on the top. It has the appearance as if two major air masses - one going from west to east and the other form east to west - have converged along that line, and the joint movement of air at the interface being south to north. And up in the area of Hawaii, I think, it tends to mushroom so that the pattern then goes back to flow from west to east on the east side and from east to west on the west side.
069:38:18	CC	Roger.
069:38:27	Schmitt	In a little while, we'll probably get a pretty good look at a - what looks like a very concentrated intense storm that, I think, is just - east - -
069:39:09	Evans	... And then we'll put them, once we get updated a little bit. Yes, I'll get out of VOX in a minute.
069:40:28	Schmitt	I was looking for the Flight Plan and stuff. And the little books.
069:40:50	Schmitt	Say, Bob.
069:40:52	CC	Go ahead.
069:41:11	Schmitt	Houston, 17. How do you read?
069:41:14	CC	Go ahead, Jack. Read you loud and clear.
069:41:19	Cernan	Okay, Bob, you want to update the LOI card and Flight Plan 3-82 and 3-81; is that right?
069:41:31	CC	That's affirmative.
069:41:36	Cernan	Which one do you want to start on?
069:41:39	CC	I would say 3-81 is the most difficult one to start on.
069:41:50	Cernan	Okay, in that case, why don't you start on the board - on the cue card?
069:41:57	CC	Okay. We can start on the cue card. Your - your druthers.
069:42:03	Cernan	Yes, go ahead. I'm ready.
069:42:05	CC	Okay, on the LOI limits. The VGO column - let's go right down the VGO column; I think that would be the easiest way to do it. Where it says, "VGO 2980," change that to "2986."
069:42:31	Cernan	Why don't you just keep going?
069:42:33	CC	Okay. The next one going straight down the line, "2721, 2521, and 2316." That's, all the changes on the VGO line.
069:42:57	Cernan	Okay; and all those changes were in Mode I?
069:43:02	CC	That's affirmative.
069:43:06	Cernan	Okay, I got 2986, 2721, 2521, 2316.
069:43:13	CC	Roger. Now under the burn time column, the first one opposite the 2986, the burn time remains the same. Do not change that one. The next one changes -
069:43:35	Cernan	Go ahead.
069:43:36	CC	Zero plus 40.
069:43:39	Cernan	Which one is that, Bob? I missed you.
069:43:41	CC	Okay. Where it says, "0 plus 28," change that to "0 plus 40."
069:43:56	Cernan	Okay, press on through them all now.
069:43:59	CC	Change the "0 plus 53" one to "l plus 10." Change the "l plus 31" to the number "l plus 40". Over.
069:44:18	Cernan	Okay. I got - in order - burn time 0, and then 0 plus 40, 1 plus 10, and 1 plus 40.
069:44:26	CC	Roger. V-measured column: the first one, the zero does not change. The next one - in this order: "265, 465, and 670." Over.
069:44:55	Cernan	Okay. I got 0, 265, 465, and 670.
069:44:59	CC	That's affirmative, Gene. That's the changes to the LOI limits cue card.
069:45:14	Cernan	Okay, Bob, I think we got all that. I guess DELTA-V measured down there in the bottom - 2980, should be 2986, huh?
069:45:31	CC	Roger. We felt that wasn't - that - that is - correct. To be technically correct, it should be 2986 at that last one.
069:45:46	Cernan	Okay, I guess we're coming in just a sukosh hotter, huh?
069:45:52	CC	That's affirmative.
069:46:05	CC	You'll see from the curves that we're going to have to update, that you're a lot closer to the free-return trajectory.
069:46:17	Cernan	Okay, why don't you go ahead on 3-81?
069:46:22	CC	Okay, this is the tough one. The first thing we're going to do is plot a couple or three points here in the Mode I - 2-hour - the Mode I 2-hour line changes, also. So you might want to draw a line at a LOI DELTA-V DVM of 265, 265 and draw that straight up the curve. That'll be the no - the new--
069:46:55	Cernan	Okay, the LOI DELTA-V magnitude of - DVM of 265 huh?
069:47:02	CC	Roger. That will be the crossover point from the Mode I 2-hour to the Mode I 30-minute.
069:48:54	Cernan	Bob, are you there?
069:48:55	CC	That's affirmative. Go ahead.
069:49:04	Cernan	Okay, Bob, I've got a - 265 vertical line drawn and I expect I can extend the Mode I 2-hour abort to that limit.
069:49:10	CC	That is affirmative, Gene.
069:49:14	CC	Now you're going to have a new curve, so don't bother to draw in the old curve. We're going to give you three points to plot and draw a straight line in between them that will create a new curve.
069:49:26	Cernan	Go ahead.
069:49:27	CC	Okay. The first one is at - the point is defined with a DELTA-VM of zero and an abort DELTA-V of 1525, 1525.
069:49:50	Cernan	Okay.
069:49:52	CC	Okay, the second point is defined by a DELTA-VM of 150; an abort DELTA-V of 1810. Over.
069:50:17	Cernan	Bob, that last was 1810?
069:50:20	CC	That's affirmative.
069:50:37	Cernan	Okay. I got it.
069:50:38	CC	Okay, and the last point is defined by DELTA-VM of 265; an abort DELTA-V of 2105.
069:50:59	CC	The curve defined by those three points will be your LOI plus 2 hours abort DELTA V.
069:51:08	Cernan	Okay, and that - that last point is just the DPS available curve with 265.
069:51:15	CC	That's affirmative.
069:51:43	Cernan	Okay, it's drawn in and I - -
069:51:46	CC	Okay, now we got a curve 1.
069:51:47	Cernan	- - guess at 2 - Okay, go ahead.
069:51:53	CC	I'm sorry I cut you out. Did you have something else you want on that?
069:51:57	Cernan	No, it's good. Our curve's in.
069:51:59	CC	Okay. Curve 1 is two points defining it. The first one is DELTA-VM of 265, abort DELTA-V of 1855.
069:52:26	Cernan	Okay.
069:52:27	CC	And the second one is a DELTA - DELTA-VM of 400, abort DELTA-V of 2065.
069:52:55	Cernan	Okay.
069:52:56	CC	Okay. Those two points from the curve 1 of the Mode I 30-minute.
069:53:04	Cernan	Okay, I got it.
069:53:06	CC	Okay, now curve 2 has three points defining it. The first point is identical with the end point of curve 1. It's 400 on the DELTA-VM and 2065 on the abort DELTA-V.
069:53:29	Cernan	All right.
069:53:30	CC	Okay, the second point is 530 for the DVM and 2245 for the abort DELTA-V.
069:54:02	Cernan	Okay.
069:54:03	CC	And the last point is DVM of 670 and a DELTA-V - abort DELTA-V of 2475.
069:54:47	Cernan	Okay.
069:54:48	CC	Okay; and if you draw a line up the page at the DVM of 670, that is the end of the Mode I 30-minute and everything to the right of that you are in Mode II.
069:55:54	CC	Gene, Houston.
069:56:03	Cernan	Stand by, Bob.
069:56:04	CC	Roger.
070:00:13	Cernan	Hello, Houston. Are you reading yet?
070:00:15	CC	Roger. Go ahead.
070:00:19	Cernan	Okay, Bob, curve looks good. I just checked the DPS/APS crossover on the DPS available, and it comes out with what you gave me on the card - about 2521.
070:00:28	CC	Roger. And just one minor point. Across the top, on the velocity to be gained, you can bias all those numbers - add a six to every one of them across the top, to be technically correct.
070:00:51	Cernan	Okay.
070:00:58	CC	The next thing we have on that, Gene - -
070:00:59	Cernan	... correct, I could have done that before I - before I plotted the curve; but that's good. We understand, and we got it down.
070:01:08	CC	Okay. The next thing I've got is - that whole update column in the little block there is all updated; and we probably ought to get a readback on all these numbers, Gene. I can give it to you right like a regular pad, just from the - right down from the top to the bottom, and then read it back to me. I think that'll be the best way, don't you?
070:01:26	Cernan	Okay. Ron's going to go ahead and take them; and we'll double check them, and he'll read them back.
070:01:31	CC	Okay.
070:01:32	Evans	Okay, just go ahead and start at the top and go down.
070:01:35	CC	Okay. I'm starting at LOI ignition time. 88:54:26.8. Pitch is minus 43, yaw 112. GET abort ignition, 89:24:26.8; roll 217, pitch 6, yaw 25. Minus 42 on the Pitch, 110 on the yaw. 216, 6, 18. High-gain angles again. Minus 75, Yaw 250; GET abort ignition there 90:54:26.8; 153, 17, 19. Next time there, GET abort ignition for the LM FDAI angles there - 90:54:26.8; Roll, Pitch, and Yaw angles, 202, 29, 330. Over.
070:03:50	Evans	Okay, Bob, here we go on the readback. I'll Just read them right down the line. 88:54:26.8; minus 43, 112, 89:24:26.8; 217, 6, 25; minus 42, 110; 216, 6, 18; minus 75, 250; 90:54:26.8; 153, 17, 19, 90:54:26.8; 202, 29, 330. Over.
070:04:39	CC	Roger, Ron. A real good readback. The - on the next page, on page 3-82, the data there is exactly the same as the LOI limit cue card - the changes. We can read it up to you individually or you can take it from your cue cards; your choice.
070:05:00	Evans	No, we'll change it from the cue card.
070:05:03	CC	Okay.
070:05:26	Schmitt	Bob, since they won't let me write anything, I tried looking for the Moon near the Sun with the filters and could not see it.
070:05:36	CC	Roger.
070:05:43	Schmitt	You sure you're sending us to the right place?
070:05:46	CC	Roger, Jack. Hey, I've got some information on that S-IVB that you're looking at. The azimuth was in - within 1 degree of what you called when we looked - checked out on your angles.
070:07:08	CC	Hey, Jack. Houston.
070:07:48	CC	17, Houston.
070:07:53	Evans	Go ahead, Bob.
070:07:54	CC	This was for Jack and Gene. The trench has computed the S-IVB location in reference to your body axis; and the azimuth was within 1 degree, very close, and the - we calculate it should have been out of that window at 62 degrees from the X-axis, and you reported 45 degrees, which is just a 17-degree error. It's real close there. You know, just eyebailing it like that.
070:08:23	Schmitt	That's great. Then that is the S-IVB, huh?
070:08:26	CC	Okay. Well, we - you might check it this way, Jack. Line up the star Denebola and Rigel - say again, Regulus; I'm sorry, Regulus - Denebola and Regulus. And then, on that line, go perpendicular to that line right above Ri - right above - right above Regulus, and that should be the S-IVB. It forms one point of a right triangle with Denebola and Regulus.
070:08:59	Schmitt	What you're saying is, it's the eye of Leo the Lion.
070:09:03	CC	That's affirm.
070:09:07	Schmitt	Except we can't see Leo the Lion very well.
070:09:11	CC	Okay.
070:10:16	CC	And, 17; Houston.
070:10:21	Schmitt	Go ahead.
070:10:22	CC	We've got a rather lengthy Flight Plan update series here. We can read up to you any time you want. Just a reminder that we are sitting here waiting with it. Your call.
070:10:46	Schmitt	Generally what is it, Bob?
070:10:49	CC	It's changing a number of attitudes all through the Flight Plan, 84:32 - 84:35; changing VERB 49 maneuver, things like that, due to the TLC change here on times and that.
070:11:09	Schmitt	Okay, where are you going to start?
070:11:11	CC	Okay, it's at 84:32. Standby 1.
070:11:24	CC	Jack, FLIGHT Just told me we can wait on this if you want until some other time in the Flight Plan. We want to get into this Experiment Checklist with the pa - pan camera, mapping camera film cycling. Or we can do both of them concurrently.
070:11:57	Cernan	Hey, Bob, let's get the camera cycling out of the way first, and then we'll pick up the Flight Plan updates.
070:12:02	CC	Roger. We concur with that.
070:13:12	Schmitt	Okay, Bob, I'll get to that camera in just a second. The coast of Australia is starting to come into view. Still looks pretty clear. We'll give you more on that later, probably. That cyclone I talked about yesterday in the vicinity, I believe, of the Solomon islands, looks even better organized than yesterday. It's really tightening up. Starting to look very bright and dense right in the core, not too dissimilar from Therese. Although it has a little broader extent in the southeast quadrant.
070:13:56	CC	Roger, Jack. Trying to match that up in my prog here. I can't find it.
070:14:05	Schmitt	Well, you didn't have it there yesterday either. It certainly looks like a tight little storm now though.
070:14:12	CC	Roger. I understand.
070:14:25	CC	Jack, would you mind repeating that location of that.
070:14:27	Schmitt	Can't give you much on the progress - -
070:14:31	Schmitt	Well, I'll try to give it to you a little better later. It's the one I was talking about yesterday as being in the vicinity of the Solomon islands. That's somewhat east-southeast of New Guinea.
070:14:45	CC	Yes. Roger. I've got it.
070:15:09	Schmitt	I think before we go to bed, we'll probably be able to update the progress of the - that front south of Australia, also.
070:15:17	CC	Oh. Roger. I've - I've got a pretty disorganized area to the east of New Guinea. It's probably right over the Solomons. Looks pretty disorganized on our satellite photo - from, let's see, I guess that was this morning sometime.
070:15:39	Schmitt	Well, there is a lot of cloudiness in the equatorial regions, the intertropical convergence zone in there. This is south of that, sort of on a - I'll talk to you later.
070:15:59	CC	Roger.
070:19:01	Schmitt	Houston, how do you read 17?
070:19:03	CC	Loud and clear, Jack.
070:19:09	Schmitt	Okay, S-BAND AUX TV to SCIENCE.
070:19:14	Schmitt	MARK it.
070:19:26	Schmitt	Okay, SM/AC POWER is coming ON.
070:19:32	Schmitt	MARK it.
070:19:44	Schmitt	MAPPING CAMERA to STANDBY.
070:19:47	Schmitt	MARK.
070:20:13	Schmitt	PAN CAMERA POWER is POWER; barber pole - gray.
070:20:24	Schmitt	SELF TEST is to HEATERS.
070:20:32	Schmitt	And, do you want the high gain?
070:20:40	CC	That's affirmative. Minus 50 on PITCH and 270 on YAW.
070:21:27	Schmitt	Okay, there she is, all locked up. PCM RATE'S going HIGH.
070:21:35	CC	Roger.
070:21:39	Schmitt	Okay. When you're ready, I'll do the big deal here
070:21:43	CC	Roger. Stand by for my cue on that, Jack.
070:21:58	CC	Okay, Jack; we're ready.
070:22:02	Schmitt	Okay, MAPPING CAMERA - MAPPING CAMERA is ON.
070:22:07	CC	Roger. We mark it.
070:22:15	Schmitt	Okay; and PAN CAMERA SELF TEST - going SELF TEST. Got a barber pole.
070:23:37	Schmitt	And the PAN CAMERA SELF TEST - or talkback is gray.
070:23:41	CC	Roger. We'd like REACQ on the HIGH GAIN. Check.
070:23:52	Schmitt	You got it.
070:23:53	CC	Thank you.
070:23:56	Schmitt	Sorry, I didn't read the checklist.
070:24:39	Schmitt	MAPPING CAMERA is OFF.
070:24:44	CC	Jack, say your last.
070:24:48	Schmitt	MAPPING CAMERA went OFF at 2 minutes, and the PAN CAMERA POWER is OFF.
070:24:53	CC	Roger. And we'd like to select your checklist angles now on the high gain, please.
070:25:03	Schmitt	Okay.
070:25:24	Schmitt	Do you want those on the dial? You don't want me to try to acquire there, do you?
070:25:30	CC	That's affirmative.
070:25:37	Schmitt	Okay, SM/AC POWER is going to come OFF here, now.
070:25:42	CC	Roger.
070:25:49	Evans	Okay, SM/AC POWER is OFF; and how is my ZPN doing?
070:26:02	CC	Jack, say again your question, please.
070:26:08	Evans	This is Ron. How is my ZPN doing?
070:26:12	CC	Oh. Roger. Let me take a look here.
070:27:02	CC	Hey, Ron, we don't - we don't want to say it's bad, but we're glad you're talking to us because we want to make sure you're with us.
070:27:11	Evans	(Laughter) Okay. Let me ... a little bit then.
070:27:16	CC	Roger. We think we've got a bad skin - skin sensor interface there, Ron.
070:27:34	PAO	This is Apollo control at 70 hours 26 minutes. Apollo 17's distance from Earth 186,663 nautical miles, velocity 2,436 feet per second. This is Apollo control at 70 hours 27 minutes. We have another update on the S-IVB stage. Impact time and coordinates predicting an impact time of 89 hours 39 minutes 38 seconds at 4 degrees 21 minutes south, 12 degrees 12 minutes west.
070:30:35	Schmitt	Bob, how do you read 17?
070:30:38	CC	Read you loud and clear, Jack.
070:30:42	Schmitt	Okay; that storm I'm talking about - a little more precisely is maybe centered at 2 degrees latitude, north of the Solomon islands.
070:31:02	CC	Yes, that kind of matches up, Jack. Does it look like New Guinea and that is pretty well clobbered?
070:31:11	Schmitt	No, not really. New Guinea is at the western edge of a cloud zone that is part of that inter-tropical convergence zone that starts at New Guinea and swings east-northeast in an arc for about half the visible Pacific, and then that arc crosses back down over the equator and heads generally towards Central America, I suspect, although that's beyond the terminator now. The storm I'm talking about is clearly south and separate from that inter-tropical convergence cloud - pattern.
070:32:03	CC	Roger.
070:32:07	Schmitt	It's getting very tightly wound in the - the clockwise sense, and - and is - is just where there was a less well-organized pattern yesterday. Although maybe it's moved northward a little bit.
070:32:40	CC	Roger. We understand, Jack.
070:33:17	Schmitt	Our zero-phase point, Bob, is about 10 degrees - make that 15 degrees longitude east of the Solomons and has a - is a - fairly - low intensity at this time. I'll keep an eye on it as it approaches that storm area and see if it changes.
070:34:15	Schmitt	Okay - I'll be ready for them - Bob, just one last thing on that line of clouds that stretches up toward Hawaii. They're very - they look very thick and dense based on the structure you can see as that - as the terminator approaches them. They cast a pretty strong shadow to the west.
070:34:38	CC	Roger. I see those on our satellite photo. They look pretty - pretty thick in there. I'm strictly an amateur talking to you, Jack, but it looks pretty thick in there.
070:34:50	Schmitt	Yes, right.
070:34:55	Schmitt	How about some flight - when you come around again, can you start the Flight Plan updates?
070:35:02	CC	Any time you want them, I can start them.
070:35:06	Schmitt	Go ahead.
070:35:08	CC	Okay, the first one is at 84:32 in the Flight Plan.
070:35:36	Schmitt	84:22. Go ahead.
070:35:39	CC	84:32. 32. Add the following - -
070:35:43	Schmitt	Okay - -
070:35:44	CC	Roll right 12 degrees in parentheses, To a roll of 150. The purpose of this change is to avoid - -
070:36:02	Schmitt	Say again the - say again the number in parentheses.
070:36:09	CC	R, roll of 150, 150.
070:36:17	Schmitt	Okay, at 84:32, "ROLL right 12 degrees to roll 150."
070:36:24	CC	Roger. And in parentheses here, just a comment, it's to avoid gimbal lock during VERB 49 maneuver directly below it.
070:36:50	Schmitt	Okay; go ahead.
070:36:52	CC	Okay. At 84:35, the VERB 49 maneuver, change the attitude to "ROLL 320, pitch 010, YAW 324." And we want the high gain antenna angles: PITCH, minus 29; YAW 17. Over.
070:37:34	Schmitt	Okay. 320, 010, 324. High gain: PITCH, minus 29; YAW, 17. And that's at - that's for the VERB 49 maneuver at 84:35.
070:37:47	CC	That's affirm. And it goes without saying, scratch out - scratch out "OMNI Alpha" there.
070:37:54	Schmitt	Got you.
070:37:55	CC	Okay, the next one is at 85:42. 85:42.
070:38:03	Schmitt	Go ahead.
070:38:04	CC	This is just a couple of notes here. The P52 stars we got in the CMS are 16 and 17. Gyro torquing will take 10 minutes 47 seconds, 10 minutes 47 seconds.
070:38:35	Schmitt	Okay, the stars will be stars 16 and 17. Torquing will take 10 minutes 40 seconds - 47 seconds.
070:38:43	CC	That's affirmative, Jack. Okay, at 85:44, over there on the right where it says, "LOI REFSMMAT attitude," change that - "ROLL 064, PITCH 135, YAW 005." Over.
070:39:15	Schmitt	Okay, got you. Change is to ROLL 064, PITCH 135, YAW 005.
070:39:23	CC	Okay, Jack, and let's take a break here, and you can go ahead and secure the high gain and give me OMNI Bravo, and call me when you're ready for some more of these.
070:40:05	Schmitt	Okay, go ahead.
070:40:08	CC	Okay, Jack. The next one is an addition at 86 hours, 86 hours. We just want the following words: "Manually pressurize SPS." Over.
070:40:43	Schmitt	Go ahead.
070:40:44	CC	Okay; did you get that last one, 86 hours?
070:40:49	Schmitt	Roger. 86 hours, "Manually pressurize the SPS."
070:40:52	CC	That's affirmative. And just for your information, that's because we need a couple hours of data on it. Like to look at it a couple of hours prior to LOI. Okay, the next one's at 87:20.
070:41:14	Schmitt	Go ahead.
070:41:15	CC	Okay. Where it says, "Manual roll left to 30 degrees," change "30 degrees" to "63 degrees, 63 degrees. Change the roll angle - -
070:41:31	Schmitt	All right.
070:41:33	CC	-- from "050" to "001".
070:41:53	Schmitt	Okay, that's roll left 63 degrees and the roll is 001.
070:41:59	CC	That's affirmative. And the new high gain angles will be PITCH, minus 27; YAW, 339.
070:42:14	Schmitt	Okay, minus 27 and 339.
070:42:17	CC	Okay, just a little bit below that - where - at about 87:27 or 87:30, where it says, "Manually roll right 30 degrees," change the "30" to "63", 63. Change the roll to "064".
070:42:47	Schmitt	Okay, roll right 63 degrees. Roll will be 064.
070:42:52	CC	That's affirmative. And scratch out "OMNI Alpha" and add "High gain antenna: PITCH, minus 29; YAW, 17", YAW 17.
070:43:13	Schmitt	Okay. That's high gain: PITCH, minus 29; YAW, 17.
070:43:21	CC	Roger, Jack. And the next one is over at 89:03. We've got a comm attitude.
070:43:39	Schmitt	Okay, 89:03.
070:43:42	CC	Okay, that attitude there should - it's pretty close. ROLL 165, PITCH 060, YAW 338.
070:45:08	Schmitt	Go ahead, Bob.
070:45:10	CC	Did you get that last - the attitude change there? it's a real trivia change; we probably shouldn't have called it, but it's - -
070:45:16	Schmitt	89:03 ... to me.
070:45:17	CC	- - 165, 060, and 338.
070:45:20	Schmitt	89:03; excuse me.
070:45:23	CC	Roger. Did you get that attitude at 89:03?
070:45:30	Schmitt	Repeat 8 - 89:03.
070:45:34	CC	Roger. ROLL 165, PITCH 060, YAW 338.
070:45:51	Schmitt	Okay. New comm attitude: 165, 060, 338.
070:45:56	CC	Roger. That seems hardly worth it on that, Jack. Sorry on that one. Just one last note, general note on all this we gave you. Everything has been checked in the CMS. You probably figured that anyway.
070:46:11	Evans	Roger. Always know those fellows are working with us.
070:46:14	CC	Roger. And, Ron, we've got good data on you now.
070:46:19	Schmitt	Is that it?
070:46:21	CC	That's affirmative, Jack.
070:46:27	Evans	Okay; thank you, Jack.
070:46:43	Schmitt	Bob, Gene just told me I may have confused you on the clouds that I told you I could see near the terminator with a good shadow - and the shadow's on the eastern side as the - the terminator approaches.
070:47:04	CC	Roger.
070:49:40	Schmitt	Bob, how do you read 17?
070:49:45	CC	Read you loud and clear, Jack.
070:49:49	Schmitt	Okay, I mentioned earlier, I can't remember exactly when, that it looked like the wa - pattern of water in the Ross Sea - clear areas within the Ross Sea icepacks had changed, and I feel more strongly about that now. It looks like it's opened up considerably. The tri - long - elongate triangular areas, two of them that were there a couple of days ago, seem to have merged, and you also have clear water along most of the inner portion of the shoreline of that sea.
070:50:28	CC	Roger. Must be getting towards summertime down there.
070:50:33	Schmitt	Well, I'm very surprised that it's changed shape as much as that, and it could be that that triangular pattern was caused by a cloud bank that split what is now open water and made it look as if it was icepack.
070:50:51	CC	Roger. Understand.
070:51:09	Schmitt	Hey, Bob, can one of the guys there give me a - a hack on when - when the terminator should cross Hawaii?
070:51:21	CC	Roger. We'll work it out.
070:51:28	Schmitt	Do it in either GET or CST, either one.
070:51:33	CC	We'll crank it up to you in GET.
070:53:20	PAO	This is Apollo Control. It's 70 hours 53 minutes. Apollo 17 is now 187,288 nautical miles from Earth. The spacecraft velocity is 2,421 feet per second.
070:53:43	CC	Ron, we missed a NOUN 05 in there. Can you give us a NOUN 05?
070:53:56	CC	Ron, Houston. We missed the NOUN 05 on the data - can you give us what your NOUN 05 was?
070:54:04	Evans	Would you believe five balls?
070:54:07	CC	Oh, I'd believe that.
070:54:11	Evans	Okay.
070:54:12	CC	You can go ahead and torque, Ron.
070:54:16	Evans	Roger. Roger. We'll torque at 30 - 54 30.
070:54:24	CC	54 30, Roger.
070:56:17	CC	Jack, Houston.
070:56:21	Schmitt	Go ahead.
070:56:22	CC	Roger. We've been listening to the playback of the DSE tape from the ALFMED period, and all three of you sound pretty good on that. Gene is still clearer than the rest, but all three of you sound real clear and very readable.
070:56:41	Schmitt	Excellent. That'll make up for my note taking.
070:56:47	CC	Roger. And also, Jack. You had a question earlier about the different response of sea and continental areas when viewed through monocular polarizing filter, and I've got a note here from John Dietrich that kind of explains it.
070:57:08	Schmitt	Okay, let's hear what John has to say.
070:57:10	CC	Okay. This is pretty much referencing the time you were looking at it, and here it is. "Ocean scenes near the bright area off Bolivia, which is the spel - specular point, include a high proportion of polarized light. The spacecraft-Earth-Sun geometry now is approximately equal to the Brewster angle which is nearest 53 degrees, where maximum plane polarization due to reflection occurs. Therefore, a high response of scene brightness to changes of filter position can be expected. Continental scenes are dominated by Lambertian or diffuse reflectors, which are characterized by low proportion of polarization in the reflected beam. For such scenes, changing position of the polarization filter produces changes in scene brightness that are near or below the threshhold of detectability." Over.
070:58:13	Schmitt	Okay. That sounds very good. It's sort of like the contrast between the lunar surface response and - the oceans being more like that, I guess, and the - between the lunar surface and terrestrial land surfaces.
070:58:33	CC	Roger, Jack.
070:58:48	Schmitt	That's very good, very interesting. Thank - thank John for me. I should have thought about that, but I've been away from it too long.
070:58:57	CC	No problem. Okay; terminator over Hawaii at 73:45 GET.
070:59:09	Schmitt	73:45; thank you.
071:02:44	PAO	This is Apollo control at 71 hours 2 minutes. Apollo 17's distance from Earth now 187,507 nautical miles, velocity 2,416 feet per second. On Monday 80 foreign students who are touring space research science centers in the United States will begin a three day visit here at the Manned Spacecraft Center. They will observe the three periods of lunar exploration by astronauts Cernan and Schmitt and will also tour the facilities at MSC. This International youth tour began December 2 in Washington D. C. and is being conducted under the auspices of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration with the cooperation of the State Department. The student group saw the Apollo 17 launch at Cape Kennedy and since that time have toured the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Oakridge National Laboratory facilities in Tennessee. Today they're at the NASA Marshall Spaceflight Center in Huntsville, Alabama tomorrow they will tour the National Oceantic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Bureau of Standards in Bouider, Colorado. The students were selected by their respective governments in response to a NASA invitation, and they range in age from 15 to 17 years and rank high academically and have strong scientific interests. Following their visit to Houston the group will tour the NASA Ames Research Center at Moffitt Field, California and the jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena, California. Schedules for the visit here at MSC and a complete list of the participating students, and countries may be obtained at the MSC news center. At 71 hours 5 minutes this is mission control, Houston.
071:05:46	Schmitt	Houston, 17. How do you read?
071:05:49	CC	Go ahead. Read you loud and clear, Jack.
071:05:53	Schmitt	Roger. Gene and I are going to stir your cryos - Gene and I are going to stir your cryos for you.
071:05:59	CC	Okay, we'll be watching for it.
071:09:21	Evans	Okay, Houston; Apollo 17 here. We have canister number 8 in the Bravo.
071:09:28	CC	Roger; 8 in the Bravo. We got it. You made EECOM happy tonight there, Ron.
071:09:37	Evans	Okay, and I'm still looking for my scissors.
071:09:42	CC	For your what?
071:09:47	Evans	My scissors.
071:09:48	CC	What did you do, misplace them? Or do you want me to look up and see where they're supposed to be?
071:09:55	Evans	(Laughter) No. They were stuck in the hand controller number 1. That little thing you're supposed to put the lap belt and things into. It was stuck in there last night when I went to bed, and I got up this morning, it was gone.
071:10:11	CC	Scissor, scissor, who got the scissor, huh?
071:10:12	Schmitt	... waiting for him to get up.
071:10:16	Evans	Yes.
071:10:21	CC	Well, I've got a - I've got a feeling they're still with you somewhere.
071:10:29	Cernan	All sorts of things happened on his watch.
071:10:34	Evans	Yes; we won't talk too much about that.
071:15:30	Evans	Houston, are you watching Jack's EKG?
071:15:39	CC	Say again, Ron; we missed that.
071:15:44	Evans	Roger. Are you watching Jack's and my EKG?
071:15:49	CC	Roger. Let me punch the Surgeon here.
071:15:50	Evans	We're doing a little - we're doing a little bit of exercising, now.
071:15:56	CC	Oh, we can see that in the cryos. We know you're doing exercises. Let me go over and get the numbers here.
071:16:06	CC	Jack's at 120 on the heart rate.
071:16:13	Evans	Okay.
071:16:13	CC	And, Ron, you're about 90.
071:16:19	Evans	Okay.
071:16:22	CC	And, Jack - guess you can pass the word to Jack we refined that Hawaii terminator number through the Pacific fleet and called it all around. It is actually at 72:55 GET.
071:16:38	Evans	Okay. 72:65 GET.
071:16:42	CC	No, 72:55, 55.
071:16:46	Evans	Roger. 72:55 -
071:17:56	CC	Okay, Jack. We got you at 130 right now.
071:20:50	Schmitt	Houston, this is the LMP. What was the last number you saw on my heart rate?
071:21:00	CC	Okay, you peaked at 135, and we had you at 130 for several minutes.
071:21:10	Schmitt	Okay.
071:22:06	CC	Jack, just for interest, in that time you got banging around so hard there, you caused the heaters in the H2 to shut off. The - the pressure went up until the heater shut off.
071:22:19	Schmitt	Well, that's what you wanted, wasn't it?
071:22:20	CC	That's affirm.
071:22:25	Schmitt	Good thing there's not another mission or we'd have to flight plan this kind of thing for your EECOMs.
071:22:31	CC	That's right. Got to conserve at all cost.
071:22:39	Schmitt	Who's sitting on your right tonight?
071:22:42	CC	Got a big Moon over there.
071:22:46	Schmitt	He's always there, isn't he?
071:22:50	CC	Roger.
071:24:33	Schmitt	Say, Bob, I took another picture of the Earth and forgot to give you the GET on it. That was about 15 minutes before the end of the ALFMED experiment, if you can go back that way.
071:24:49	CC	Okay.
071:24:55	CC	Let me see, Jack. We - the last thing we had was right about the end of it. We had you in Sierra Sierra, frame 50. And you had four pictures then. is that before that or after that? Okay, those four were for the ALFMED, weren't they?
071:25:09	Schmitt	That's affirm. No, this was with the - the Hasselblad, the EL camera.
071:25:20	CC	Oh, okay; got you.
071:25:27	CC	We had FAO working on matching that one up.
071:25:33	Schmitt	Okay.
071:28:27	Schmitt	Houston, 17.
071:28:29	CC	Go ahead, Jack.
071:28:33	Schmitt	Roger. That weak front that I talked about south of Australia yesterday has moved north, but it looks considerably weaker than it did yesterday even. Just a very thin line of clouds - very thin line of clouds that now is touching the - the tip of Australia, south of Perth.
071:31:06	Schmitt	Houston, 17. I think maybe you dropped out before I said that little weak front moving north-northeast, south of Australia. The western end of it is just touching the coast of Australia, south of Perth, but it looks much weaker; and I, right now, would not expect very much weather out of it.
071:31:32	CC	Okay. That - I can't tie up with you on that one, Jack, because my prog doesn't go down that far; it only stays up in the landing area. And my satellite photo doesn't go down that far south either. So, I can't touch up with you on that one.
071:31:49	Schmitt	Okay. Well, it - it looked stronger yesterday, and it might have developed. Now there is a larger disturbance at the southeastern end of that front, still south of Tasmania; although, I suspect, unless it stays on a pretty northerly course, it will not affect the weather on the east coast of Australia very much.
071:32:15	CC	Roger.
071:33:04	CC	Jack, just thought you might be interested. I called same friends of yours in Tucson, and everybody's fine there and wanted to say hello and tell you everybody's fine and getting along real good.
071:33:20	Schmitt	Thank you very much. Good to hear. They've learned to take care of themselves pretty well, haven't they?
071:33:25	CC	They sure have. They - they're - they're having a little trouble with the squawk box, and we'll get working on that and it's - they're having trouble reading a little bit, but they're keeping up with us.
071:33:35	Schmitt	That's nothing new.
071:33:36	CC	Roger.
071:33:37	Schmitt	But try to fix it, please.
071:33:39	CC	Oh, we'll - definitely on that one.
071:33:58	Schmitt	Bob, Ron got you all - the Earth down there zeroed in in the sextant, and it puts my little binocular to shame. I tell you, it's a fine instrument. And I'll just confirm that the - that disturbance over the So - Solomon islands is an awfully tightly wound little storm system. And right now, I finally have seen New Zealand for the first time in a couple of days, for sure. And the South island's got some, probably high cirrus over it. North island looks pretty clear. That's the end that I can get right now.
071:34:36	CC	Roger. We saw you looking at Regulus there; we didn't realize you were looking at the Earth instead.
071:34:44	Schmitt	Ron's been looking for the booster. And he called me down and asked me to look at the Earth. He's been holding out on me.
071:34:50	CC	Roger.
071:34:54	Schmitt	Pass the torch of weather forecasting to Ron.
071:35:21	CC	Hey, Jack. I also have some words for you and Gene. Got some advice from the home front. The thing to do with Ron in the future is to hook up a Baby Ben and a metal dishpan. It works every time, if you want to wake him up.
071:35:42	Evans	No. I think that's not a good way.
071:35:57	CC	Ron, everybody's fine over at El Lago. They are doing great. Listening to every word.
071:36:06	Evans	Very good, Bob. Thank you very much.
071:36:16	Cernan	Hey, Bob. We got two of those flashers out there. They could be SLA panels. I don't know. They're alike in intensity and pretty regular in the - in the intensity, bright and dim flashes they come out with, and they're widely separated. One is about the position we called at the first time; the other one is - oh, as I'm looking at the Earth, far to the left. Closer to the center window now.
071:36:51	CC	Roger.
071:41:06	Schmitt	Houston, 17.
071:41:12	CC	Go ahead.
071:41:17	Schmitt	Yes, Bob, what is your - analysis chart, if you have it - surface terms analysis chart show for Hawaii today?
071:41:41	CC	Stand by on that.
071:41:52	CC	Jack, according to the - -
071:41:53	Schmitt	The reason I ask is that for using your term - Go ahead.
071:41:57	CC	No, go ahead on that, Jack.
071:42:02	Schmitt	I was going to say, using your terminator time as a partial - mark for where Hawaii ought to be, Hawaii ought to be, it looks like that cyclonic circulation at the north end of the cloud bank I described, approaching that area, would be just about on the Hawa - Hawaiian islands. I'm curious if they're getting some weather down there now.
071:42:42	CC	Stand by right now; I've got my weatherman right beside me here.
071:42:50	Schmitt	Also, that major front we talked about last night as being east and south of Japan has progressed even farther and is, oh, maybe 20 degrees longitude - about 20 degrees longitude from the Hawaiian islands. And I'm making some guesses on exactly where Hawaii is.
071:43:25	CC	Roger, Jack. We've got nothing adverse in the Hawaiian area at all. Just a lot of winds, high winds and surface winds and surface roughness, but we don't have any bad cloud area in the Hawaiian area. I'll get the Hickam sequence report here shortly, Jack.
071:43:55	Schmitt	Okay, ... a little bit. The - our zero-phase point is now centered just a little south of the disturbance near the Solomon islands. And I see no distinct change in the intensity of that zero-phase point over what I had talked about a couple hours ago.
071:44:22	CC	Roger, Jack. The Solomon islands disturbance and everything is confirmed on this chart that I've got. It's very definitely confirmed in there.
071:44:32	Schmitt	Okay. Well, it's a lot more obvious today than it was yesterday; but even then it was showing pretty strong circulation. It is starting to wrap up, look very much like Therese did yesterday.
071:44:49	CC	Roger. I'm sure of that. The one right off of Vietnam is also pretty tight, isn't it still?
071:44:57	Schmitt	Well, we can't see that one yet.
071:44:58	CC	Okay.
071:45:08	Schmitt	Australia in general is still very clear except in the northeastern portions where it looks like they have got scattered clouds; but it looks like a pretty night - over Australia.
071:45:24	CC	Roger. Looks that way from the satellite photo from the last couple days. Looks pretty nice down there.
071:45:32	Schmitt	Right.
071:46:36	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 71 hours 46 minutes. Weather reporter, Schmitt, is 188,524 nautical miles from Earth and the spacecraft from which he is observing is traveling at a speed of 2,392 feet per second.
071:47:04	CC	Jack, in looking at the sequence reports for Hickam and Hilo and that area, it looks like they just got their standard 3500 scattered, 4500 broken clouds, maybe a rain shower or two. But just their standard tropical fluffy clouds.
071:52:33	Schmitt	Houston, Apollo 17.
071:52:35	CC	Go ahead, Ron.
071:52:40	Evans	Bob, I don't know whether I told you or not, but we ended up with the LMP and the CDRs suit in the bottom of this suit bag. My suit is in the top, and I sure don't have any idea how in the world the other crews got three suits in there. I guess they never did because these things are plumb full right now, of suits, in the suit bag. And it's a good thing we lengthened them. I don't have room for anything else inside the suit bag. The water bags and - you know - contingency water bags, and my g -suit, and those flight things are - I found a place to stick them all around the wall on the outside of the suit bag.
071:53:30	CC	Roger, Ron. Good work.
071:53:50	Schmitt	Bob, you made some comment earlier about the weather. It may have been Hawaii, but you broke up.
071:53:55	CC	Roger; I just got the sequence report for Hawaii, and Hickam had 3500, scattered; 4500, broken with minor rain showers; and Hilo had about the same. And basically, it's just their tropical puffy weather out there. The typical nothing. No frontal-type weather - no cyclonic-type weather.
071:54:19	Schmitt	Okay. Well, it may be just patterns induced by the - the wind currents, or maybe I don't have the position of Hawaii quite right.
071:54:29	CC	Well, it's - it's possible. You know they do have high winds out there, and I've seen it, just flying in that area in the past, where those broken clouds get pretty close together at times. It almost looks like a solid overcast. And especially when you look at it from an angle, they all blend together.
071:54:59	Schmitt	I hope you're going to save all those charts you're gathering together as we talk about it on this outbound leg. Be interesting to compare them and the pictures we take sometime in January.
071:55:14	CC	Jack, the Weather just was out here, and they told me that's exactly what they're doing. And if your time will permit in January, they'd like to go through and maybe help piece them all together, but they're going through these transcripts and they're gathering all their satellite pictures and plotting what you're seeing versus the satellite pictures etc., etc. And they'd like to go over it with you when you get back.
071:55:40	Schmitt	I'd love to do that. I hope, in general, we're getting the directions right. At least, I know I thought I'd worry about the descriptions, and it's hard to place points on the globe, particularly in the Pacific, if you can't identify land masses near them or have those nice little latitude and longitude lines painted on the Earth.
071:56:04	CC	Well, that's right. We'll - we'll put in a request for some lat - long lines out there.
071:57:12	CC	Jack, we're going to have a slight changeover from Goldstone to Honeysuckle at 72 hours, so we will probably break by.
071:57:25	Schmitt	Okay. Bob, you know you're just the last turn or so, you started to break up occasionally as if you might be getting a bad mike button or something.
071:57:36	CC	Okay, I'll check it out,
072:02:47	CC	17, Houston through Honeysuckle. How do you read?
072:02:55	Cernan	You're loud and clear, Bob.
072:03:00	CC	Roger, sameo sameo.
072:08:12	Schmitt	Houston, 17-
072:08:16	CC	Go ahead.
072:08:20	Schmitt	I was just playing with the polarizing filter again, and it looks as if - when you have the knob on the filter parallel to the - roughly parallel to the polar axis of the Earth, - you get maximum darkening. And, of course, the opposite 90 degrees to that you get maximum lightening of the globe. And, in the - in the case of Australia, it also appears to lighten and darken, but not to the extent of the - of the ocean areas.
072:09:02	CC	Roger.
072:09:06	Schmitt	It could be that in the more desert climate you get finer grain material on the ground and give you the response that John Dietrich had talked about.
072:09:19	CC	Roger.
072:10:59	Schmitt	Houston, 17.
072:11:01	CC	Go ahead, Jack.
072:11:06	Schmitt	I rechecked that little story I was trying to give you about the ice pack there in the Ross Sea.
072:11:12	CC	Roger.
072:11:13	Schmitt	And whether I was right a couple of days ago or not - whether I was right a couple of days ago or not in the patterns, right now there is a lot of open water between the ice pack and the inner or, let's say, southern and south - eastern shore of the sea that I don't recall being there the other day.
072:11:45	CC	Roger.
072:11:49	Schmitt	I don't know whether you have any connections with all the Marines stationed in Antarctica, but maybe somebody knows what the ice pack's been doing the last few days.
072:12:00	CC	I'll - I'll see if we can find out, Jack. I don't think we've got any gates in Antarctica, though.
072:12:08	Schmitt	Well, that way you can't lose any.
072:12:11	CC	Roger. Well, they never stole the continent.
072:12:18	Schmitt	Sounds like pretty good duty, Bob.
072:14:40	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 72 hours 14 minutes. Apollo 17 now 189,167 nautical miles from Earth, traveling at a speed of 2,377 feet per second. And, we're just over an hour away from the time that Apollo 17 will enter the lunar sphere of influence. Flight Dynamics Officer, Bill Boone, has re-computed the time for that event. That will occur at 73 hours 17 minutes 45 seconds.
072:31:11	Schmitt	Houston, 17.
072:31:15	CC	Go ahead, 17-
072:31:21	Schmitt	Yes, I - may have misled you earlier about a storm system south of Tasmania. It's - If there is one, it's just developing, and it's probably 20 degrees of longitude south. As I recall yesterday, there was some indication that a couple fronts were joining forces and moving in that direction. Today, the weaker and more western front appears to have dominated the system, and the only area where there seems to be cyclonic circulation developing is - is that point way south of Tasmania. That conceivably might move up and affect New Zealand in a few, in a couple days, but right now I don't see how it could affect Australia.
072:32:19	CC	Roger, Jack.
072:45:46	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 72 hours 45 minutes. Apollo 17 now 37 minutes away from entering the lunar sphere of influence. Present distance from Earth is 189,878 nautical miles, velocity 2,360 feet per second.
072:55:26	CC	17, Houston.
072:55:31	Schmitt	Go ahead, Bob.
072:55:32	CC	I just wanted to give you fair warning, Jack. In case you all feel a burnp there when you're about ready to go to sleep there. At 73:17:45, you'll cross that magic line into the lunar sphere of influence.
072:55:50	Cernan	What's the number, Bob?
072:55:52	CC	73:17:45.
072:56:03	Cernan	Bob, do you read us?
072:56:05	CC	Roger. We read you loud and clear.
072:56:12	CC	We're reading you, Jack. How me?
072:56:17	Evans	You're reading Gene. How me?
072:56:20	CC	Okay, sorry. I'm reading - reading 17 loud and clear.
072:56:28	Cernan	Okay, this is Geno. What was that number on the lunar sphere of influence?
072:56:32	CC	73 hours 17 minutes 45 seconds: 73:17:45.
072:56:46	Cernan	Okay, Bob. You're a little intermittent. Anyway, what you mean is we start hauling the mail I gue...
072:56:56	CC	Roger.
072:57:00	Cernan	I guess we hit our slowest point. How fast are we going now?
072:57:43	CC	Gene, you're pretty slow today. You're at 2,354 feet per second.
072:57:53	Cernan	Yes. That's - that's quite a drop from the 35K that the S-IVB put us on.
072:58:01	CC	That's for sure.
072:58:08	Cernan	Say, Bob. What do you hear from my home front? Anything?
072:58:18	CC	Talked to Tracy a little while ago, and she's listening to the box quite often and enjoying it, and everybody's fine there.
072:58:30	Cernan	Bob, you're continuing ... We're getting every third word.
072:58:52	CC	Gene, do you read me any better on this one?
072:59:11	CC	17, Houston.
072:59:15	Cernan	Go ahead, Bob.
072:59:17	CC	How do you read me now?
072:59:23	Cernan	I think you're still ... off.
072:59:25	CC	Roger; you're breaking up on us, too. Let's check it through here a minute.
072:59:31	Cernan	Okay.
072:59:43	CC	We were wondering who was going to be wearing the headset tonight, Jack. Who's got the duty?
073:00:10	CC	17, Houston.
073:04:33	Cernan	Hey, Bob. You reading us now?
073:05:09	CC	17, Houston, did you call?
073:05:14	Cernan	I just wondered if you're reading us now, Bob.
073:05:19	CC	Roger. Reading you now loud and clear. I was just off a minute there, talking to Barbara on the phone. Everybody's fine on the home front, Gene.
073:05:29	Cernan	Okay, what did you say Tracy said earlier?
073:05:31	CC	She just said she's tickled pink and listening - listening on the squawk box.
073:05:44	Cernan	I guess that's the way a 9-year-old daughter should be in a case like this, huh?
073:05:47	CC	That's affirmative.
073:05:53	Cernan	In case she's not listening, tell her not to forget to feed the horses.
073:05:56	CC	Roger. Barbara said I should find some nice young female voice around here to tell you she loves you, good night. But I figure we'd better not do that.
073:06:14	Cernan	Okay; enough said. I guess what we don't need right (chuckle) right now is a nice female voice.
073:06:27	CC	I'm sure of that.
073:06:37	Cernan	We're just happy, health - healthy, hungry, and homesick.
073:06:47	CC	You got a lot of work to do, and you better not say you're hungry. The doctor about went through the overhead over here when you said that.
073:06:56	Cernan	That's a cliche.
073:06:59	CC	Roger.
073:07:09	Cernan	Bob, just in general, how is the spacecraft looking to you? Pretty good, I hope.
073:07:22	CC	That's affirmative. We - we haven't found anything I guess we're - stopped getting those spurious MASTER ALARMs here for a while. So that - that was the only witch hunt we were having right there, was trying to find that.
073:07:41	Cernan	Yes, they disappeared. The ones we've had recently seem to be real ones.
073:07:46	CC	Roger.
073:07:54	CC	Hey, guys, we were just still trying to figure out who is going to wear the headset and got - who has the duty tonight?
073:08:03	Cernan	Oh, I'll wear it tonight, Bob.
073:08:07	CC	Is that Gene?
073:08:11	Cernan	Yes.
073:08:12	CC	Okay.
073:08:25	Evans	And, Houston; 17. You ready for some onboard read-outs?
073:08:29	CC	You better believe it.
073:08:35	Evans	Okay. BAT C, 36.8; PYRO BAT A, 37.0; and Bravo is 37.0. RCS Alpha, 93, 91, 91, and 94. Over.
073:08:58	CC	Roger. Got them all, Ron.
073:11:38	Evans	Houston, we're cycling the H2 FANs, now.
073:11:47	CC	Roger, 17. Go ahead.
073:11:53	Evans	Okay. We're cycling the H2 FANs.
073:12:00	CC	Okay; we copy.
073:18:12	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 73 hours 18 minutes. Apollo 17 has just entered the lunar sphere of influence and the distance velocity displays here in the Control Center are now referenced to the Moon, Apollo 17 is 33,803 nautical miles from the Moon, traveling at a speed of 3,355 feet per second.
073:23:30	PAO	This is Apollo control at 73 hours 23 minutes. On it's present trajectory and without doing a lunar orbit insertion burn Apollo 17 would reach it closest approach to the Moon at a Ground Elapsed Time of 88 hours 58 minutes 12 seconds. The distance of that closest approach would be 53.48 nautical miles and spacecraft velocity at that time would be 8,198 feet per second. We expect the crew to settle down into an 8 hour rest period here very shortly. On the flight plan that rest period due to begin at 73 hours some 24 minutes ago. We do expect that the crew will shortly go into that rest period.
073:43:09	Cernan	Hello, Houston.
073:43:14	CC	17, Houston. Go ahead.
073:43:20	Cernan	Okay, Bob, we're going to turn out the lights now and hit the sack.
073:43:28	CC	Okay. Have you gone through the presleep checklist, getting ready on the comm and all that?
073:43:40	Cernan	Yes; that's affirm - the presleep checklist. ... one.
073:44:05	CC	We're not getting any biomed data on - supposed to be on Ron, I guess. We're not showing any biomed data.
073:44:22	Cernan	Houston, do you read 17?
073:44:25	CC	17, Houston. How do you read me?
073:44:30	Cernan	Yes, I'm reading you, Bob. What did you say I might want?
073:44:33	CC	You might check the sensors on Ron, We're not getting any biomed data. is he unplugged?
073:44:41	Cernan	Well, that's because he's - Yes, he's unplugged. Give him a chance to get hooked up and change some leads here.
073:44:47	CC	Okay,
073:44:49	Cernan	Everything else - the presleep check - the presleep checklist is complete. I'm going to leave the comm cap on tonight. Our tone boost doesn't work, so I'll just be on comm all night.
073:45:33	Cernan	Do you have any biomed on Ron?
073:45:40	CC	Stand by on that, Gene.
073:47:07	Cernan	Good night, Robert.
073:47:10	CC	Good night, Gene.
073:47:15	CC	Got a busy day tomorrow, and we'll - we'll be with you then.
073:49:23	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 73 hours 49 minutes. We said goodnight to the crew at 73 hours and 47 minutes and we don't expect any more conversation with them tonight. Flight Surgeon is now receiving good biomedical data from the Command Module Pilot, Ron Evans. We'll leave the line up for a few minutes in case there are any postscripts to the air-ground and if not we'll take the line down and come back up hourly with reports. But for the moment we'll leave the line up live. This is Apollo Control. As the crew turns in the spacecraft is 32,741 nautical miles from the Moon, velocity 3,362 feet per second.
074:04:45	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 74 hours 4 minutes. Apollo 17 now 32,264 nautical miles from the Moon, velocity 3,366. The crew has settled down for the night and we'll take the lines down now and come back up with hourly reports.
074:50:00	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 74 hours 50 minutes. Gene Kranz and the white team of flight controllers are preparing to take over duties in the Mission Control Center, relieving the orange team which has been directed tonight by Chuck Lewis. This has been a relatively quiet shift. A major activity was the medical experiment to gather more information on light flashes that most Apollo crews have seen with their eyes closed. We also updated the Ground Elapsed Time clock during this shift, moving it ahead 2 hours and 40 minutes, this being necessary to bring the Greenwich mean time Ground Elapsed Time in the flight plan into agreement. These areas had not agreed because of the late launch. The crew reported seeing the S-IVB in the distance at one time during the shift. The spacecraft entered the lunar sphere of influence at 73 hours 17 minutes 45 seconds, and we said goodnight to the crew at 73 hours 47 minutes. 6 hours 8 minutes remaining in this rest period now. There will be no change of shift news conference when the shift breaks at midnight - no change of shift news conference. In its present time, Apollo 17 is 30,705 nautical miles from the Moon, velocity 3,378 feet per second. At 74 hours 52 minutes this is Mission Control Houston.
075:37:07	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 75 hours 37 minutes. Flight director Gene Kranz and the oncoming white team of flight controllers have been going over the status of the mission and find everything progressing very smoothly at this point. No anomalies in the performance of the spacecraft. All systems in very good shape and we're either up to or slightly ahead of the flight plan values on consumables at this point. During the shift a number of the flight controllers will begin working on some of the data the crew will use on awakening to place the spacecraft in lunar orbit, that event scheduled to occur at about 88 hours 56 minutes, and the retrofire officer and the flight dynamics officer will be busy during this shift working out some of the preliminary numbers that'll be used in the lunar orbit insertion maneuver. There is still no decision as to whether or not midcourse correction 4 will need to be performed and we suspect that that decision will also be made later on during this shift. At the present time Apollo 17 is 29,152 nautical miles from the Moon, and the spacecraft velocity is now 3,391 feet per second. This is Apollo Control Houston.
076:37:05	PAO	This is Apollo control at 76 hours 37 minutes. Now about 4 - 1/2 hours away from the scheduled crew awakening time, the flight surgeon reports that the crew appears to be resting comfortably at this time. Command Module Pilot Ron Evans is wearing the biomedical harness during this sleep period. And Commander Gene Cernan has the watch wearing the headset that would receive any call from the control center. Apollo 17 is 27,178 nautical miles from the Moon. And we're watching the velocity gradually build up under the growing affect of lunar gravity, up now to 3,411 feet per second. This is Apollo control Houston standing by at 76 hours 38 minutes.
077:37:01	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 77 hours 37 minutes, continuing to maintain the watch while the crew aboard Apollo 17 gets some sleep - Now about 3 1/2 hours left in that sleep period and that could be extended by 30 minutes or so if a decision is made not to make the final midcourse correction before going into lunar orbit. We expect to be getting a reading on the necessity for that midcourse correction which in any event will be a very small maneuver, before this shift ends. The midcourse correction opportunity occurs at 83 hours 55 minutes in the flight plan and the Flight Dynamics officer has gotten what appears to be a good final indication of the impact coordinates for the Saturn third stage. The latest coordinates are 4 degrees 11 minutes south and 12 degrees and 23 minutes west. Apollo 17 at this time - 25,131 nautical miles from the Moon. The spacecraft velocity 3,434 feet per second. This is Apollo Control at 77 hours 38 minutes.
078:37:10	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 78 hours 37 minutes. There's been no change in the spacecraft status during the past hour. Everything continues to function normally and we have about 2 1/2 hours remaining in the crew's sleep period. The flight dynamics officer reports that we've got a midcourse correction if it's performed prior to Lunar Orbit Insertion of about one half foot per second or less and that very small maneauver, if performed, would occur at 83 hours 55 minutes. Apollo 17 is now 23,112 nautical miles from the Moon and the spacecraft velocity up to 3,460 feet per second. We'll see that increase to somewhat in excess of 8,000 feet per second as the spacecraft reaches the Moon and swings around the Moon goes into orbit. The Lunar Orbit Insertion Burn removes on the order of 3,000 feet per second from that velocity. A lunar orbital velocity of about 1 mile per second. The flight surgeon has noted some stirrings of a bit of an elevation in the heart rate of Ron Evans, who is wearing the bio-medical sensors during this sleep period, although for the most part Evans has been sleeping soundly. At 78 hours 39 minutes, this Apollo Control, Houston.
079:37:10	PAO	This is Apollo control at 79 hours 37 minutes. Now about an 1 1/2 away from the scheduled time for crew awakening. And it has again been very uneventful, very quiet sleep shift. With the flight controllers here in mission control monitoring spacecraft systems. Everything continuing to perform almost perfectly as planned; everything nominal. And our flight dynamics display at the present time is showing the spacecraft distance related to Earth, Apollo 17 now 198,800 nautical miles from Earth, traveling at a speed again with respect to Earth of 2,168 feet per second. After awakening the crew's major activities during the day include jettisoning the scientific instrument module door which exposes the scientific instruments in the spacecraft's service module to the lunar environment. Lunar orbit insertion is scheduled to occur at about 88 hours 56 minutes. The Saturn third stage will be impacting the lunar surface. And there's still a possibility of a final midcourse correction prior to lunar orbit insertion. That midcourse correction to occur - if it occurs at 83 hours 55 minutes. And we expect that we will have a decision or recommendation from the flight dynamics officer within the next couple of hours as to whether or not that midcourse correction will be required. If it is done, it will be a very small maneuver performed with the reaction control system thrusters on the CSM. At 79 hours 39 minutes this is Apollo control Houston.
080:41:01	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 80 hours 41 minutes. We have about 18 minutes remaining before the scheduled crew awakening time, however, we're planning to give them at least an additional 15 minutes of sleep and perhaps 30 minutes additional. The Flight Dynamics officer hopes to delay a decision on the need for midcourse correction 4 until additional tracking data is available. That maneuver, if its performed, remains very small - on the order of a half foot per second. And the decision revolves around what height of approach pericynthion we'll have with or without the maneuver. Tracking data right now shows that Apollo 17 will be approaching the Moon with a pericynthion of about 52 nautical miles - the desired pericynthion is 53 1/2. And the FIDO would like to get a bit more tracking data before making that decision. So we'll be putting off the decision as to whether or not to awaken the crew or give them more sleep time until the last possible moment. Apollo 17 at this time is 18,839 nautical miles from the Moon and the velocity up to 3,500 feet per second. We've seen no signs of activity aboard the spacecraft. The Flight Surgeon will begin to note increased heart and respiration rates on Ron Evans, who is wearing the bio-medical sensors during the sleep period and before receiving a call from the crew we'll see the voice sub-carrier come on and we'll be watching for any of those cues. If it appears that the crew is indeed up and about we'll bring the lines up and standby live or as soon as the decision is made to send them a wake-up call we'll come up and standby live. At 80 hours 44 minutes this is Apollo Control.
081:25:05	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 81 hours 25 minutes. We are planning to put a call through to the crew in about 5 minutes to awaken them. And, Apollo 17, at this time, is about 17,350 nautical miles from the Moon. Spacecraft velocity is about 3,567 feet per second. After awakening the crew we will be discussing a minor problem that has been noted during the sleep period. This involves a heater - a heater cycling in one of the three cryogenic hydrogen tanks that supplies hydrogen to the fuel cells. The nature of the problem is a heater that is cycling more often than normal. These heaters are controlled by a pressure-sensitive switch in the tank. As the temperature within the tank drops and the pressure drops, the switch senses this and activates the heater to bring up the temperature and hence the pressure within the tank and ensure a constant flow of hydrogen to the fuel cells. The sensor appears to be responding to a much narrower range of temperature decrease that would normally respond to about a 20 degree excursion in temperature and it is now apparently responding to about a 2 to 3 degree temperature excursion, and therefore cycling more rapidly than would normally be the case. This in itself is no concern, however if the automatic cycling should fail, if the automatic cycling function should fail, it would require going to a backup manual mode whereby the crew would be instructed to turn the heaters on and off at certain intervals to maintain the proper pressure in the tank, which, by the way, is a mode of operation that has been used on previous missions and works very well with a minimum impact to the crew time. And, as mentioned at this point we would see no reason for having to go to a manual mode. That would require some subsequent failure. This situation, however, will be discussed with the crew and they'll be advised as to the procedure that would be taken in the event that subsequent failure should occur necessitating the manual activation of the heater within this one tank. And we are now about 1 minute 50 seconds away from the scheduled awakening time, having given the crew an additional 30 minutes of sleep. The flight dynamics officer expects to give us a GO or NO/GO for the midcourse correction prior to lunar orbit insertion in about a half an hour at some 82 hours Ground Elapsed Time. We'll continue to stand by live for that call to the crew.
081:30:28	CC	Apollo 17, Houston. Did you call?
081:31:00	Cernan	Good morning, Houston, Anybody there?
081:31:03	CC	Okay, good morning. It's LOI day, Apollo 17.
081:31:11	Cernan	Hello, Robert. You gave us an extra half hour.
081:31:14	CC	That's affirmative. We're presently still debating on midcourse 4, Geno, and at the present time, it's small, about a half a foot per second. We're expecting a final decision on whether it's necessary or not in approximately 1 hour at 8 - 82:30. We'll let you know then, but it will be small, and so we decided to give you an extra half hour of sleep.
081:31:41	Cernan	Okay, Bob, without me having to look it up, when will it come if it comes?
081:31:48	CC	Stand by. 83:55, so we'll give you about 1 hour and 25 minutes advance notice.
081:32:00	Cernan	Okay. Well, we'll start stirring around.
081:32:06	CC	Okay, give me a call when you want to talk to people.
081:39:55	Schmitt	Hello, Houston.
081:39:56	CC	Hello there, 17. Good morning.
081:40:02	Schmitt	I'm not sure we're ready to talk yet, Bob, but I just thought you'd like to know we got a pretty spectacular view of - of Africa today. We can see the Sinai, can see the Red Sea, the Sea of Aden, and for the first time I think we can not only see the Mediterranean, but we can see the - most of the Southern European countries, Turkey and Greece and up into italy and some of those places, can't quite see Spain because you're just about on the horizon. And for the most part, it looks like the weather throughout the Mediterranean and Northern Africa looks pretty good.
081:40:46	CC	Okay, we're copying that. And, if you guys are willing to do a little switch flipping this early in morning, we'd like you to turn on the pan camera heaters, which means if somebody's down there in that vicinity, it's SM/AC POWER, ON, and the SELF TEST switch to HEATERS. Over.
081:41:08	Schmitt	You want the SM/AC POWER, ON, and the SELF TEST switch to HEATERS?
081:41:12	CC	That's affirm.
081:41:16	Schmitt	Okay, we'll get that.
081:41:18	CC	Okay.
081:41:29	SC	Okay, we got both of those.
081:41:33	CC	Gee, I didn't wake you up, did I?
081:41:40	Schmitt	Well -
081:48:43	Cernan	Okay, Bob. The LM/CM DELTA-P is 0.6.
081:48:49	CC	Okay. Copy that. Sounds good.
082:00:40	Evans	Hello, Houston; Apollo 17. How do you read?
082:00:43	CC	Loud and clear, 17. We're with you.
082:00:48	Evans	Okay, we didn't get you there for about 5 minutes, Bob, with good up-link signal strength. Were you guys having a problem?
082:00:56	CC	No, not that I know of. We were getting a lot of noise down here, and we seem to think that you guys were prob - assumed you guys were turned away from us or something. But we're with you.
082:01:10	Evans	No, you might think about that one a little bit. We had a very strong up-link - signal strength, as good as right now. And Gene was trying to call you, off and on, for several minutes and we didn't get any response. But sounds real good now.
082:01:25	CC	Okay, sorry about that.
082:01:31	Evans	Hey, Bob. Good morning. It's a good chance to talk to you for once.
082:01:35	CC	Yes, for once, yes. Talk to me now this next hour and I won't talk to you again for another 3 or 4 days, Ronald.
082:01:43	Evans	(Laughter) Okay.
082:01:46	CC	Nice to be able to talk to somebody for a change -
082:01:48	Schmitt	Bob, your friendly medical officer -
082:01:51	CC	Go ahead.
082:01:56	Schmitt	Go ahead, if you've got something to say.
082:02:02	CC	Speak.
082:02:06	Schmitt	Okay. Your friendly medical officer has all the good words starting with the CDR and the food. Are you ready to copy?
082:02:15	CC	Ready to copy.
082:02:24	Schmitt	Okay. It was a big day yesterday, eating-wise. CDR had sausage patties, pears, and cocoa for breakfast. And a quarter - one-fourth cheese spread, one-half bread, and one-half cereal bar, and one orange beverage for lunch. Tomato soup, half a hamburger, half mustard, vanilla pudding, and an orange-pineapple drink for dinner.
082:03:00	CC	Okay, copy that.
082:03:12	Schmitt	... 5 hours of good sleep, and two more containers of water.
082:03:24	CC	Okay, 17, I got the CDRs food and then you broke up, and I got 5 hours of sleep and two containers of water. Was there something between?
082:03:36	Schmitt	That's firm, your - his PRD reading, 17032.
082:03:43	CC	Okay, copy that.
082:03:54	Schmitt	And I think, Bob, we're coming around different OMNI, so I'll wait on the rest of it.
082:03:59	CC	Roger, That's affirm.
082:06:53	Schmitt	Okay, Houston; 17. How do you read now?
082:06:55	CC	Okay, read you again; go ahead.
082:07:02	Schmitt	Okay, for the LMP, the food eaten - Well, let's see, I guess it's a tossup: eaten versus not eaten, so I'll give you what I ate. Sausage patties, grits, pears, pineapple-grapefruit drink, coffee, and let me make a note that the package of peaches in that pack had been - was broken in the package. Also, chicken - I had chicken soup, ham, bread, orange drink, and four bacon squares. For dinner, I sort of ate some leftovers and grape drink, corn chowder, chocolate pudding. And I've had - well, stand by. The PRD reading: 24080; and 7-1/2 hours of very good sleep last night. I took a Seconal in order to get to sleep, and I've had 1 and 1 or - 2-1/2 containers of water since last report.
082:08:35	CC	Okay, copy all that, Jack.
082:08:46	Schmitt	Okay, the CMP, the chowhound of the kennel here, had: sausage, grits, fruit cocktail, orange beverage, and coffee. He had ham, cheese spread, peaches, cereal bar, and orange-pineapple drink. Later on, he had tomato soup, half a hamburger, half mustard, vanilla pudding, sugar cookies, grape drink, and tea. And he has a complaint this morning, much like mine, that his apricot package had broken in the bag; and, although not too significant itself, it makes everything else pretty sticky.
082:09:36	CC	I copy that.
082:09:45	Schmitt	Okay, CMP medical is 15031 PRD; he had 7 hours restless sleep, and he'd like a comment from the doctors on how that looked on his biomed; and he had a Seconal, and he's had four containers of water.
082:10:08	CC	Okay, we copy all that one also. Jack, you guys still going to fit in your space suits?
082:10:20	Schmitt	If you'd stick around - you'd know we tried those on yesterday.
082:10:25	CC	Roger; copy. Tried to talk to you guys yesterday morning, but I didn't quite make it there, there was a problem apparently some place.
082:10:37	Schmitt	That's all right, we're stuffing him with food so he can't sleep.
082:10:42	CC	Okay, and the comment concerning Ron's sleep from the Surgeon, Jack, is that he was restless the first hour and had periods of restlessness during the night, but we logged him for about 7 hours of sleep also. But we did see periods of wakefulness, some of which were maybe up to 10 minutes long.
082:11:07	Evans	That sounds about right; that's good, thank you. If I can't tell how long I'm awake and, you know, how long you were really asleep.
082:11:15	CC	I'll tell you, Ron, if you wake up during the night, you might sit there and stare at the second hand then maybe you could count and tell how long you're awake.
082:11:25	Evans	(Laughter) Okay.
082:11:32	CC	Okay, we owe you guys a consumable update - update. And on RCS consumables, your RCS fuel remaining is still 1.4 percent above the Flight Plan; that's a slight improvement over the 1.3 percent from yesterday.
082:12:18	Schmitt	I guess everything else is about like yesterday. Is that right, Bob?
082:12:22	CC	Roger. The consumables are still about the same. And if you guys will wind your watches, we'll consider the postsleep checklist finished.
082:12:33	Schmitt	Okay, and Geno has got his null bias check for you.
082:12:36	CC	Okay, Roger on that. We're waiting.
082:12:44	Cernan	Okay, Bob, made two checks over a period of 100 seconds. One was minus 99.0 and the other was minus 98.9.
082:12:56	CC	Okay, we copy minus 99-0 and minus 98.9? Geno.
082:13:07	Cernan	And - -
082:13:10	CC	And we'd like OMNI Charlie, please there, 17.
082:15:25	CC	And, Apollo 17; Houston. We'd like to recommend you go SQUELCH, OFF, at this time, if you haven't; and we'll keep calling you the OMNIs to change as you rotate there. Over.
082:15:41	Schmitt	Okay, Bob, we've been flying normally with it enabled; maybe you think that's the problem.
082:15:51	CC	Stand by on that and, while we're thinking about that, can we confirm that the only medication you've had is a Seconal for you and a Seconal for Ron, and nothing for the Commander?
082:16:06	Cernan	This is Geno, that's right; I did not take any Seconal last night. One thing I wanted to talk to you about though, I - I took one antigas pill after breakfast, I took one after supper, and I took one prior to going to sleep, which were probably within an hour apart. If you've got a better solution than those gas pills, I'd sure like to hear it.
082:16:36	CC	Understand that, Gene. We'll get back with you, I guess, on that later.
082:17:19	CC	And, Jack, as far as turning the SQUELCH, OFF, they do believe that we're better with that for margins and general management at this distance with the OMNI. As soon as we plot a PTC and go on the high gain, we'll be much better off.
082:17:38	Schmitt	Okay, Bob.
082:18:46	CC	And, 17; Houston. You can do without your water dump now. We're in good shape. We'll dump at 94 hours.
082:18:58	Cernan	94 hours. Okay.
082:20:12	Cernan	Bob, does that mean we can go ahead with the urine dump on schedule?
082:20:18	CC	Say again there, Geno, on the urine dump.
082:20:44	CC	Say again, Geno, on the urine dump.
082:20:50	Cernan	Roger. Can we press on with it on schedule?
082:20:53	CC	That's affirmative, sir. It's Just that we don't need to do the water dump, that's all.
082:20:57	Cernan	Oh.
082:20:59	Cernan	Okay, fine.
082:24:40	Schmitt	Hello, Hou - Houston; 17. How do you read?
082:24:43	CC	Roger. We have you back again, 17.
082:24:49	Cernan	Okay. We may play the S-band squelch by ear, a little bit. We got an awful lot of noise when you guys drop off the line. So, if that's all right, we'll just use it as required. Also, I'm on frame l63 on the Hasselblad, and I just completed two pictures of the Earth about 5 minutes ago. And there's one that I did not report late yesterday at about 72:30 GET. A set of two pictures of the Earth.
082:25:38	CC	Copy that.
082:25:45	CC	Say again that time. Was that 78:30? You were sleeping then.
082:25:55	Cernan	Negative. That was 72:30.
082:25:58	CC	Okay. Copy that. And part of the reason we had a little problem that - this - this last time, Jack, was we planned to call the OMNIs and we didn't get the word around down here. And we didn't call the OMNI to you in time. We're still planning on doing that, and I think we'll be more coordinated next time.
082:26:25	Schmitt	Okay. We'll bear with you.
082:26:41	CC	And, Jack, I presume that's magazine November November.
082:26:52	Schmitt	That's affirm, Bob.
082:30:23	CC	Omni, Charlie, 17 please.
082:30:40	Evans	You got it.
082:32:35	CC	And, Apollo 17; Houston. For your information, we are scrubbing midcourse 4; and you can stay in PTC until 83:30, which will be about when you start to get ready for LOI anyway. We'll give you a call on that.
082:33:32	PAO	This is Apollo Control. Apollo 17 now 14,948 nautical miles from the Moon. And, CAPCOM, Bob Parker, just advising the crew that we will not require a midcourse correction prior to lunar orbit insertion. The flight dynamics officer had been reviewing tracking data and establishing another vector, as he calls it, on the trajectory based on that last vector and it appeared that a midcourse correction of something less than a half of foot per second would be required, if performed. And flight director, Gene Kranz, made the decision to cancel the midcourse correction prior to lunar orbit insertion.
082:34:30	Schmitt	Hey Bob, we're about three quarters of the way through eating. You got some news for us?
082:34:37	CC	Stand by. I'll see. Did you catch the midcourse-4 scrub?
082:34:44	Schmitt	Yes, sir. Apparently, you're not getting some of our acknowledgements.
082:34:48	CC	Okay, must be. Captain Young here wants to tell you that it's raining outside; and the paperboy apparently hasn't come in yet. OMNI Delta, please.
082:35:13	Cernan	I'm surprised he didn't get his papers delivered before he came in.
082:35:18	CC	Roger. I suppose I should apologize to all the paperboys after saying that, but the news is still being put together for you guys. And - stand by.
082:35:54	CC	And, Geno, some advice to you on the gas pills. I guess - suggestion down here from the Surgeon is that one thing we ought to be sure to do is chew the pills thoroughly. It apparently is - helps in their effectiveness quite a bit; and Dr. Young, beside me, also suggested if you're chewing chewing gum, you might cut down on that a bit because he thinks this might be causing some gas.
082:36:29	Cernan	Thank you.
082:36:41	Cernan	I might add that both of those alternatives have been - worked on.
082:36:47	CC	We thought probably so.
082:37:13	Schmitt	Bob, although we're getting close to concentrating our attention on the Moon, it doesn't decrease the interest in looking back at the patterns of activity we can see on the Earth. That storm I talked about yesterday that was in North Africa, looks like it has left that area and has moved in - maybe, if it's there at all, it's just over the - Iberian Peninsula, and maybe Gibraltar and that area is getting a little activity today.
082:38:02	CC	Okay; copy that, Jack.
082:38:03	Schmitt	It does not look very well organized, but - it's not very well organized right now, but - it's right out on the LM, and it's hard to get a good view of it.
082:38:17	CC	Okay.
082:38:18	Schmitt	The storm I guessed yesterday - I thought might be moving into the Cape of Good Hope looks like it's dissipating and also staying south of that area. The whole of Africa is essentially clear, except in the southern part of the intertropical convergence area where there's scattered patches of - of fairly dense clouds. They're probably getting scattered rain showers of some kind in there this morning. Some of those extend farther south than I've - than we've seen them - down into South Africa. There's a - On one of the earlier revs, although now it's at the terminator, it looked like there was a depression developing about 30 degrees longitude, east of Madagascar in the middle of the Indian Ocean. A little bit northeast of Madagascar, there's also a new area of clouds developed that looks like it's getting organized into a cyclone pattern.
082:39:32	CC	Roger. OMNI Alfa, please.
082:39:41	Schmitt	Okay, you got it.
082:39:42	CC	Thank you.
082:39:51	CC	Okay. And, Jack, while you guys are finishing your lunch - your breakfast there, excuse me - Are you all on your headsets?
082:40:04	Schmitt	Yes, sir. Go ahead.
082:40:06	CC	Okay. Let me brief you on a little funny that we we saw last night. And I'll start the briefing by mentioning that, at the present time, it is not a great concern; but just to keep you up to date with what's going on, let me mention it to you. About 70 hours, which was probably about the time of your last exercise period, we saw three funnies with the hydrogen tanks - as I say, none of which is causing any great concern. The first of these was a shift of the limits of the pressure switch, the one that turns the heaters on and off. Remember, there are two of those switches, one on tank 1 and one on tank 2 and they work in series. And one of those switches - we can't tell which, but we suspect it's probably tank 2 because of the other funnies I'll get to in a minute on tank 2 - one of those switches went from a 13-psi range; in other words, a plus or minus 6.5 psi range. It changed its range down to plus or minus 1.5 psi. So it's now - its total range is only 3 psi. The main result of that is that it means that the pressure switches and the motor switch turning the heater on acts more frequently over shorter periods of time. The second thing which we observed following this - and we're not at all sure if there is any correlation between this and the others - We observed a high-frequency pressure oscillation in tank 2. It was about a 5-psi peak-to-peak oscillation, a frequency of about 2 cycles per second. And this lasted about 3 to 5 minutes. A third funny that we observed - and this was in tank 2 - the third funny that we observed was an erratic - and possibly correlated with the high-frequency oscillation - but an erratic total fuel cell current, and here again we were looking at - oh, peak-to-peak variations of something like 5 amps, or of 5 to 10 amps. And the suspicion is that, coupled with the shift in the limits of the pressure switch, some acoustic vibrations were set up in that tank - we may have seen them causing the oscillation of the motor switch, which was then reflected in the fuel cell currents. The - again, these erratic and possibly correlated fuel cell currents lasted for about 3 to 5 minutes. And since then, all during the night, they've [sic] been no further events of this sort; and the pressure switch with its reduced limits has been acting quite normally, just with the reduced limits overnight. As I say again, we're looking at it, people are studying it in great detail, with no real answer at the moment; but there is no great concern at present, and it appears that the worst that can happen is for the motor switch to fail because of overuse. And if this were to happen, it would force us to go to man - manual management of the heaters on the H2 tank. But that appears at the moment to be the worst, that we can anticipate from this - from this group of funnies. Over.
082:43:40	Cernan	Okay, Bob. I understand that. You know, I wonder if we ought to stop stirring the cryos the way we've been doing it.
082:43:56	CC	That - that has been suggested, but - but, again, it's not very clear that any of these things are terribly correlated.
082:44:06	Cernan	Okay. Also, you know, if you want to reduce the activity on that switch - depending on how much you need to have it done during quiet periods, such as eat periods and things like that - we could go to manual operation.
082:44:21	CC	Negative, Jack, because the switch - OMNI Bravo, please, 17.
082:44:27	CC	... If you pull out your schematics there, you'll find that the - no matter what you do, the - you can turn the thing off, in fact, and the switch will continue to operate the motor switch - the pressure switch will continue to operate the motor switch off the service module buses. There's nothing you can do. The only thing you'll do if you go from AUTO to MANUAL or OFF is you'll keep the current from going to the heaters, but the motor switch will still operate.
082:44:57	Cernan	Okay. Thank you for the education.
082:45:33	CC	And I've been corrected. The frequency of the pressure oscillation was more in the vicinity of a cycle every 4 or 5 seconds.
082:45:56	Cernan	Okay.
082:46:22	CC	And 7 - -
082:46:23	Schmitt	Bob, let me ask a couple of questions to make sure - -
082:46:25	CC	Go ahead.
082:46:29	Schmitt	Make sure I understand this. You're not sure whether the heater cycling and the pressure cycling were correlated. is that correct?
082:46:38	CC	That's affirmative.
082:46:44	Schmitt	In a cycle very 4 or 5 seconds, is it possible for the heaters to affect the tank that fast?
082:46:55	CC	That's not possible, so the only thing that really - we think could - The tank is too much of a heat sink to do it that way. What may have happened was that if you set up an oscillation - a mechanical oscillation in the tank - through - one way or another, that this could then have acted back up on the motor. But the motor switch in driving the heaters could not have reinforced the oscillation because the tank is too much of a heat sink.
082:47:26	Schmitt	Okay. When did you say this happened with respect to our exercise period?
082:47:34	CC	That's not well pinned down, 17. We do know it hasn't occurred since about 71 hours; and it did occur at approximately 70 hours, which was about the time of your exercise period. But we haven't been able to correlate that exactly with the start of or the finish of the exercise period.
082:47:55	Schmitt	Well, you know you should be able to do that because of the biomed on - at least on me, and Ron was on, too. But, as soon as I started exercising, you should have the biomed data on my heart rate. It was an unscheduled exercise period. We just went into it before an eat period there, I think. Let me check back.
082:48:16	CC	Okay. And we can check back and inform you more specific on what the times were there in terms of your exercise period, also. I'd like OMNI Charlie, please, there, 17. And we might mention that oscillations like this have been seen on the ground under somewhat different circumstances, but oscillations like this have been seen on the ground in ground tests previously. And I might say, also, that as far as other things in the spacecraft are concerned, everything looks absolutely normal or nominal, as the case may be, and in great shape and emph - I'd emphasize again that we've seen none of this oscillation again since 71 hours. Over.
082:49:03	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. That was, as you say, pretty close to the exercise. I can't pin it down in the checklist exactly, but it was somewhere after ALFMED was complete and before we changed that canister. I think we changed that canister a little early, about 70:50. So I think the medic should have pretty good data on when we were exercising. And the reason I say that was because the way we were - I was exercising anyway - I'm sort of running in place against the LEB and conceivably could have gotten an oscillation going in the tank.
082:49:51	CC	Roger. Understand that.
082:52:54	CC	OMNI Delta, 17.
082:53:10	CC	And, 17, we did a little - a little investigation of times down here. We found that at 71:12 you were exercising at 130 beats per minute there Jack. And we think the exercise period ended about 10 minutes later at 71:22. The H2 tank funnies started at about 71:37 with the pressure switch shift and 71:42 with the oscillations. Over. So, there it's - oh, at least 15 minutes after the exercise period was over.
082:53:49	Schmitt	Okay. I just wanted to clear my reputation, Bob. Now it's perfectly clean again.
082:54:01	CC	As clean as ever, anyway.
082:54:30	CC	Okay. 17, I guess we decided we'd let - we'll run the OMNIs down here instead of having you guys push them all the time. So if you'll select OMNI Bravo at the present time, then we'll take over and run the OMNIs for you.
082:54:50	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. It's not too big a deal. If anytime you think you want to talk to us continuously, go ahead and call them, if we're not busy.
082:55:00	CC	Okay. Copy that. Let us know when you're ready. I've got a pad here for you guys to copy, but there's no big hurry on it. Finish your eat period and give us a call.
082:55:17	Schmitt	Okay. I'll be with you in about 5 minutes.
082:55:23	CC	Say again there, 17,
082:55:29	Schmitt	Be right with you, Bob.
082:55:30	CC	All right.
082:55:35	Cernan	And, looking at the Flight Plan, we're going to go ahead and change a canister; and we've got the H2 purge LINE HEATERS, ON. We're going to configure for the urine dump. We'll go ahead and do our - stop our PTC at 83:30, and then we'll do our P52.
082:55:57	CC	Roger. Copy that.
082:56:30	CC	And, 17, that P52 at 83:10 was primarily intended for the MCC-4. There's some more following, anyway, before LOI. So we suggest you scrub the P52 at 83:10.
082:56:51	Evans	Okay, fine. I may just do a little OJT without torquing.
082:56:57	CC	That's your business.
082:57:10	PAO	This is Apollo control at 82 hours 57 minutes. We're completing a shift handover at this time in Mission Control. The team of flight controllers headed by flight director, Gerry Griffin, coming on now to replace the Gene Kranz team. The spacecraft communicator on the upcoming shift is Astronaut Gordon Fullerton. We do not plan to have a change of shift press briefing at this shift change.
082:57:40	Cernan	Bob, when we come out of PTC, then you want us to go right to the SIM door jett attitude?
082:57:49	CC	That's affirmative, 17.
082:57:54	Cernan	Okay, and you want us to do that about 80 - 83:30, huh?
082:58:00	CC	Roger. That's affirm.
082:58:05	Cernan	Okay.
082:58:07	Schmitt	Bob, what pad are you going to give me?
082:58:09	CC	Okay, I've got a - coming up, pericynthion - plus-2-hour abort pad here.
083:01:33	CC	17, Houston.
083:01:39	Schmitt	Yes, Bob. Here is 17. Say, for a while here, why don't you guys go ahead and manage the OMNIs. I think we can get things done a little better; and when it becomes inconvenient for us to switch, we'll let you know.
083:01:57	CC	Okay. You want us to call them to you - is that what you're saying by you manag - we manage the OMNIs?
083:02:04	Schmitt	Yes, we lose 5 or 10 minutes going around here without comm, and it usually breaks up seemingly when somebody has something to say, either you or us.
083:02:14	CC	Roger. Okay. That's fine. Stand by.
083:02:23	Schmitt	That's up to you guys, but, it seems to me, it would be more convenient.
083:02:28	CC	Okay; things are good now, Jack. Do you want to copy this pericynthion-plus-2 pad at the present time?
083:02:37	Schmitt	Yes, I'm just about ready, Bob.
083:02:41	CC	Okay, give me a call when you get it.
083:02:50	CC	And, while you're getting ready there, you might think back to yesterday afternoon just after the exercise period; and the question that's raised is whether you were running the DAC or some other miscellaneous equipment at that time which might have caused some high current usage - or erratic current usage.
083:03:27	Schmitt	We'll think about that, Bob; but offhand, none of us can remember doing anything like that.
083:03:32	CC	Okay; copy that.
083:06:15	CC	OMNI Charlie, 17.
083:07:35	CC	And, 17, your faithful night shift CAPCOM is signing off. I'll talk to you on the surface tomorrow. Good luck.
083:07:47	Cernan	Thank you, Robert. Looking forward to seeing you there.
083:07:51	Schmitt	Are you leaving us, Bob?
083:07:55	CC	That's affirm; he's already left.
083:08:00	Schmitt	Boy, he doesn't stick around long, does he? And he wanted to read that pad to me; well, that's too bad. Okay, Gordy, I can take the pad now.
083:08:13	CC	Okay, Jack. It's pericynthion plus 2; SPS/G&N. Weight is 66373; plus 1.18, minus 0.l4; ignition time is 090:49:55.82; plus 1787.5, minus 1891.7, minus 2396.8; attitude is 237, 126, 332; and all the rest of the PAD is NA. GDC align stars are Sirius and Rigel; 122; 354; 000. Ullage is none. Remarks: number 1, burn docked; number 2, assumes LOI REFSMMAT. Over.
083:09:50	Schmitt	Okay. Pericynthion plus 2, SPS/G&N; 66373, 1 - plus 1.18, minus 0.14; 090:49:55.82; plus 1787.5, minus 1891.7, minus 2396.8; 237, 126, 332; rest of pad is NA; Sirius and Rigel; 122; 354; 000. No ullage. Remark 1, burn docked; 2 is LOI REFSMMAT assumed.
083:10:31	CC	That's correct.
083:10:47	CC	Need OMNI Delta now.
083:11:39	Evans	Houston, 17. Canister change complete.
083:11:44	CC	Okay.
083:15:08	CC	America, switch to OMNI Alpha.
083:17:38	CC	America, Houston. I have the morning news if it's a convenient time.
083:17:46	Schmitt	Fire away, Gordo.
083:17:49	CC	Okay, first of all the weather. It's raining fairly - fairly heavily all night; there's a lot of water standing around. Temperatures here are in the high 50's, but it's supposed to get a little cooler tonight with a low in the 40's. I think you know how the Dallas-Redskin game came out - the only thing additional mentioned here is that chances look good now that Washington and Dallas may meet in the rubber games for the National Conference representative in the Super Bowl. In the other pro game yesterday, a field goal by Don Cockroft was the difference in a 26-to-24 win by Cleveland over rival Cincinnati. Other sports highlights: The Pittsburgh Steelers play the Oilers today in the Dome. Other big games will be Atlanta at San Francisco, Green Bay at Minnesota, and Baltimore at Kansas City. Tennessee State beat Drake University in the Pioneer Bowl 29 to 7. And East Texas State beat Carson Newman in the NAIA football playoffs. The Southwest Conference has pulled out of the U.S. Olympic Committee. Some college basketball scores: The Houston Cougars routed Xavier last night out at Hofheinz Pavilion 114 to 73; and Rice downed George Washington 93 to 89. Geno, you'll be glad to hear Purdue ripped TCU 101 to 70, and it was Texas over Oklahoma State 86 to 66. And SMU over Oklahoma City 106 to 83. We couldn't find any score at Cal Tech, Jack, but - Switch to OMNI Bravo, please. But one final score, Ron, Kansas lost to Iowa 69 to 56. The only thing new on the plane crash Friday in Chicago - it's reported here that the plane was apparently waved off because another plane was still on the assigned runway. The Democratic Party's stormy session in Washington saw the old-guard Democrats apparently take back control of the Party from pro-McGovern forces. Mrs. Jean Westwood was replaced as Party Chairman by Texas lawyer/businessman Robert Strauss. Former-president Truman appears to be more than holding his own at a hospital in Kansas City. There's a good chance the 88-year-old former Chief Executive may be taken off the critical list. There's been a 1-day interruption in the secret peace talks between Dr. Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho. The two conferred for over 3 hours yesterday. Both sides have agreed not to talk to newsmen on any substantive matters. In other news highlights, President Nixon has named Daniel Moynihan as U.S. Ambassador to India. And Chilean President Allende has flown to Cuba to visit Fidel Castro. Here's an interesting one: A 45-year-old pilot lost in the Arctic for 31 days has been found alive and well. Three companions were killed. The Soviet Party boss Leonid Breshnev has delayed a scheduled visit to the U.S. It looks as if the visit may come in the fall rather than this coming spring. One last note: The news media says that the flight of Apollo 17 is the smoothest on record so far, and I call that last one pretty accurate reporting. Over.
083:22:11	Schmitt	Thank you, Gordo, appreciate the news. Sounds like things are still happening down there.
083:22:36	CC	Got some more parochial news here - -
083:22:39	Schmitt	Houston, we're starting our -
083:22:40	CC	Go ahead.
083:22:44	Schmitt	No, we just - I just wanted to tell you we're starting our waste dumps.
083:22:48	CC	Okay. A little more parochial news. I have your oxygen consumable status here. Tank 1 is still running 4 percent below the line; the other two are right on the line; really no news there. Same with the hydrogen; all three are essentially right on the preflight lines. Over.
083:23:16	Schmitt	Okay, that's the way like to hear it.
083:23:22	Schmitt	We'll bring all of it home if we can.
083:23:25	CC	Okay.
083:24:08	CC	We'd like OMNI Charlie, please.
083:28:49	CC	Need OMNI Delta now.
083:29:07	Evans	Okay, Gordy. How would you like a hydrogen purge this morning?
083:29:14	CC	Let me make sure.
083:29:46	Evans	Houston, 17.
083:29:49	CC	17, we do want the hydrogen purge; go ahead.
083:29:57	Evans	Okay, hydrogen purge is in process. You'd never believe it, dust collection container assembly serial number 5725 developed a hole in it. Fortunately, with a lot of dexterity, I was able to put a piece of tape over the hole.
083:30:31	CC	Okay. I guess that's why we sent men into space.
083:30:38	Evans	(Laughter) Right.
083:31:09	Schmitt	Gordy, while the purges are going on here, I might mention, a little while ago, I looked at the Earth througih a Polaroid colored glass again and had a full view of Africa. And it appeared as if, in the red and yellow portions of Africa, that the land areas darkened considerably more than those areas that are green or foliated, and that would be the central portion; that is, they darkened with the orien - handle on the lens going in a north-south rather than east-west.
083:32:02	CC	Roger.
083:32:12	Schmitt	The land areas, though, still do not show as marked a contrast as do the oceans.
083:32:19	CC	Roger,
083:33:22	CC	We'd like OMNI Alfa.
083:34:37	Schmitt	Okay, hydrogen purge is complete. HEATER is going OFF.
083:34:40	CC	Roger.
083:35:00	Schmitt	Gordy, it looks like the cloudiness and possibly the showers associated with the intertropical convergence over Africa are moving as far south as Johannesburg right now. It's quite a distinct change from even an - an hour or so ago - a couple of hours ago. They're down into an area where, presumably, they're not normally found if vegetation indications are any criteria. And also, in the Atlantic - South Atlantic near Goa island, there seems to be a possible storm developing as part of what was probably now a fairly weak front. And whether or not that will develop into anything and move in towards Capetown is hard to say at this time.
083:36:08	CC	Roger, Jack.
083:36:30	Schmitt	It looks as if our old friends at Ascension are enjoying a fairly nice day out there.
083:36:39	CC	Roger.
083:37:44	CC	OMNI Bravo, please.
083:40:09	CC	Jack, this is Houston. We recall you mentioning the purge complete and the heaters off. We just wanted to be sure that you did leave the H2 purge line heaters on for 10 minutes after terminating the purge. Over.
083:40:29	Schmitt	Thank you, Gordy. I'll turn them back on.
083:40:32	CC	Okay.
083:40:45	Schmitt	Who's sitting over there reminding me of all these good things this morning?
083:40:52	CC	Well, that was a combination effort by John Aaron and Charlie Dumis.
083:41:00	Schmitt	Wow! You've got a real powerful team there.
083:41:05	CC	You bet.
083:41:11	Schmitt	Hey, you really ought to get them a cup of coffee though sometime this morning.
083:42:15	Schmitt	Gordy, also curious who's wa - who's watching Challenger this morning?
083:42:23	CC	Well, let's see.
083:42:27	Schmitt	Not much to see, I realize, but I'm sure somebody's there.
083:42:36	CC	We need OMNI Charlie, Jack.
083:42:51	CC	Well, we've got the first team on - the gold team - your LOI and landing team, and the LM guys are Merritt and Thorson.
083:43:08	Schmitt	You cut out on the telmu. Who is it?
083:43:13	CC	Merlin. Merlin the Magician.
083:43:27	Schmitt	I'm sorry, Gordy, you clipped off the first again.
083:43:32	CC	Merlin Merritt, the magician.
083:43:37	Schmitt	Oh, yes; of course. As I recall, he's the only one that really understands Thorson.
083:43:58	CC	He says he doesn't think anybody understands Thorson.
083:44:13	Schmitt	Well, we're sure looking forward to having a chance to make those guys work a little bit.
083:44:25	CC	They say - well - Merlin says he is, too. I don't know about Thorson. He's out of the room at the moment.
083:44:36	Schmitt	He's probably spilling coffee in SPAN.
083:44:40	CC	Roger.
083:46:32	CC	We need OMNI Delta now.
083:48:46	Schmitt	Gordy, for some reason, it's a lot easier to tell the difference between the Antarctic Continent and the icepack.
083:49:00	CC	Roger.
083:49:07	Schmitt	Maybe the glancing Sun is picking up the breaks in the icepack and giving it a different appearance.
083:49:18	CC	Roger.
083:49:33	Schmitt	The continent itself - all you can see are very - what appear to be very gentle differences in - or subtle differences in shading, possibly indicating rolling relief due to a photometric dark beam along the - as a function of local phase angle.
083:50:05	CC	Copy.
083:50:21	Schmitt	And except, maybe, for the area just - well, no - even there, I didn't the ... - it looks like the whole visible continent is clear of clouds this morning. Possibly some clouds just east of the Ross Sea, which is just coming into view, I think.
083:50:53	CC	Roger.
083:50:56	Schmitt	I know we don't have many listeners in Antarctica, but it looks like they're having a - exceptionally fine day over the portion of the continent we can see.
083:51:13	CC	Roger.
083:51:20	Schmitt	That weak front I mentioned in the South Atlantic stretches from the apparent storm center around Goa island - I'm not sure about that pronunciation either - up just to the coast of South America from Brazil, where it reaches its maximum eastward extent.
083:51:50	CC	Roger.
083:51:57	Schmitt	Our sub - our zero-phase point of the spacecraft is in the middle of the South Atlantic. And it's moderately bright, although there is no central bright point at all - a fairly large area, but moderately bright. The seas down there might be moderately choppy or rough this morning.
083:52:34	CC	Okay.
083:54:27	Schmitt	Houston, 17.
083:54:30	CC	Go.
083:54:35	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. You might say "uh" before you - you start your sentences because you're clipping your first word. The question I had was the pan camera - we're on 1-6 of the Experiments Checklist and need your word on whether you want the PAN CAMERA, OFF, at this time - SELF TEST, OFF.
083:54:56	CC	Stand by.
083:55:16	CC	We'd like you to leave it in HEATERS.
083:55:21	Schmitt	Okay, we're leaving it in HEATERS.
083:56:39	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. The S-BAND AUX, TV is to SCIENCE - -
083:56:46	CC	Roger.
083:56:47	Schmitt	- - and I'm turning the IR, ON.
083:56:49	CC	Okay.
083:56:58	CC	Jack, we'd like OMNI Alfa.
083:57:04	Schmitt	How do you read on OMNI Alfa?
083:57:07	CC	Okay; you're readable, fair amount of noise.
083:57:30	Schmitt	Hello, Houston. How do you read?
083:57:32	CC	Jack, this is Houston. You're clear with considerable noise. Over.
083:58:36	Schmitt	Houston, how do you read 17?
083:58:39	CC	Apollo 17, Houston. Still reading you with a lot of background noise. Over.
083:59:04	Schmitt	Hello, Houston. How do you read?
083:59:08	CC	17, Houston. Weak but readable.
083:59:14	Schmitt	Okay, we'll have you up on your high gain pretty soon. I'm turning the IR, ON.
083:59:21	CC	Roger; Roger; Roger. IR, ON.
083:59:36	Schmitt	Say again, Gordy.
083:59:38	CC	We copy. IR, ON. Over.
083:59:56	CC	America, we'll take the high gain now. PITCH, minus 15; YAW, 188. Over.
084:01:07	CC	America, Houston. Let's try the high gain now. I see you're moving it. Minus 26 and 199.
084:01:22	Schmitt	Okay, I think we've got a main load block now on the high gain. How do you read?
084:01:27	CC	You're loud and clear, Jack. It looks good here.
084:01:33	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. Let me keep going here. I did not turn the IR on because I thought you said something. IR is going ON now.
084:01:41	CC	Okay. What I said is, "Roger. IR, ON."
084:01:56	Evans	Coming on.
084:02:03	Evans	MAPPING CAMERA going to STANDBY.
084:02:06	CC	Okay; STANDBY on the MAP CAMERA.
084:02:34	Evans	Okay. I'm waiting your cue for PAN CAMERA POWER, to POWER.
084:02:41	CC	Roger. We're still locking up on the data. We'll give you a cue.
084:03:35	CC	Okay, Jack. You have our cue for PAN CAMERA POWER to POWER.
084:03:53	Evans	Okay. PAN CAMERA going to POWER.
084:04:13	Evans	Okay, Gordo. We're in the SIM bay door jett attitude.
084:04:17	CC	Roger.
084:06:12	PAO	This is Apollo Control 84 hours 6 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. Present distance from the Moon -
084:06:19	Evans	PAN CAMERA POWER is going to BOOST.
084:06:22	CC	Roger.
084:06:31	PAO	Velocity 3,763 feet per second. Next major maneuver is Lunar Orbit Insertion, which presently is scheduled for 88 hours 54 minutes 22 seconds Ground Elapsed Time. Total DELTA-V or change in velocity which will be retrograde of 2,988 feet per second. Service propulsion system engine burn time of 6 minutes 38.08 seconds. Mother Earth is 206,059 nautical miles behind Apollo 17, and locked up on the high-gain antenna at this time so we should have fairly good communications all the way through the SIM BAY door jettison and until the spacecraft passes behind the Moon prior to the Lunar Orbit Insertion maneuver, which now is some 4 hours and 37 minutes away, roughly. At 84:07 standing by live on air-to-ground this is Apollo Control.
084:09:14	Evans	Oh, down there. Oh.
084:09:43	Evans	Me to you.
084:10:08	Evans	Okay, Houston. I'm in VOX now. Do you read?
084:10:12	CC	Yes, sir. You're loud and clear.
084:10:18	Evans	Okay. On panel 181, the LOGIC POWER MAIN A, MAIN B circuit breakers are CLOSED.
084:10:26	CC	Roger.
084:10:28	Evans	Okay. LOGIC POWER number 1 is going to JETT, number 2 to JETT. Standing by for your GO, Houston.
084:10:39	CC	Okay. Stand by.
084:10:43	Evans	Okay.
084:10:47	CC	Okay, America, you're - -
084:10:48	Evans	What happens now is - -
084:10:49	CC	- - GO to jett the SIM bay door.
084:10:56	Evans	Okay, Jack, let me know when you've got the camera ready.
084:11:04	Cernan	Okay, Houston. You say we are GO to jett the SIM bay down a little early, huh?
084:11:10	CC	Well, stand by. I think we're backing down here. Stand by 1 second.
084:11:17	Cernan	Okay.
084:11:39	Evans	No. I checked it at one frame.
084:11:44	Cernan	Might check it.
084:11:46	CC	Okay, America. Once again, you're GO to jett the door, and you can do it early, if you wish.
084:11:54	Cernan	Okay, Gordo. We'll do it on - on Ron's mark down there.
084:12:00	CC	Okay.
084:12:01	Schmitt	Hey, Houston. You know this attitude - this attitude has the Sun right into window 5 - it's probably going to be on the lens of the camera. I'll - I'll try to shade it the best I can, but I don't have an awful lot of hope for these pictures.
084:12:25	CC	Roger.
084:12:29	Cernan	I think we're probably stuck with it, Jack, because we need to be in this right attitude, for the clearance and -
084:12:45	Evans	Okay. SIM door jett 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 -
084:12:53	Evans	JETT. Oh, I got a good bang. You see it, Jack?
084:13:00	Schmitt	Houston, there it goes, I got it out the hatch window and it looks like it was a clean jett. It's rolling and pitching and yawing, slightly. There is a lot of garbage that came out with it.
084:13:11	Evans	Can you take a picture, Gene?
084:13:27	Cernan	Let me see it.
084:13:32	Evans	Ah - ah (laughter).
084:13:40	Cernan	You take a picture. Yes, there it goes.
084:13:43	Cernan	Hello, Houston. How do you read?
084:13:44	Evans	It's really - -
084:13:45	CC	Loud and clear. Sounding good.
084:13:49	Cernan	Okay. Did you get the word we got a clean jett?
084:13:52	CC	That's right, Geno. Sounds good.
084:13:55	Cernan	Okay. The door's moving - the door's moving directly away from us, mostly rolling. And it looks like it was a very clean - clean separation.
084:14:14	CC	Okay.
084:14:21	Evans	Yes. Boy, we got a good bang out of it. You could hear that - that pyro going, I think. It's rotating at about 5 - or 1 revolution per 5 seconds.
084:14:33	CC	Roger.
084:14:42	Evans	And it's rotating - what, about the long axis? Yes. Rotating about the long axis.
084:14:57	Cernan	Houston, the garbage that I said went with it was just a small amount of debris, I'm sure around the sealant pyro area. There was one, oh, about a 4-foot-length piece of, oh, 1 or 2 inch tapelike material that also went out with it.
084:15:18	CC	Roger, Gene.
084:15:22	Schmitt	(Laughter) Okay. What do we do with these LOGIC POWER switches? Don't they go back to OFF now?
084:15:30	Evans	DOOR JETT's OFF, down.
084:15:34	Evans	Okay. You go on to the DEPLOY/RETRACT on number 1.
084:15:38	Evans	DEPLOY/RETRACT on number 2.
084:15:45	Cernan	FUEL CELL REACT VALVES are NORMAL. I'm sort of glad we had those in LATCH.
084:15:50	Evans	Yes, me, too, because that's a pretty good bang.
084:16:25	CC	You've loaded the wrong pitch angle there in NOUN 22.
084:16:40	Cernan	Well, I'm - I got 10 degrees loaded; that's what we've got copied down here in the change.
084:16:50	CC	Maybe it's our mistake. Let us check here, Geno.
084:16:55	Cernan	Okay, we got 320, 010, and 324, and before I go into the muver - maneuver, I'll roll right about 12 degrees,
084:17:14	CC	Bad call, Gene. Our error; you're right.
084:17:20	Cernan	Thank you, sir.
084:17:27	Evans	Okay, and the UV SPECTROMETER is going to go ON here.
084:17:33	Evans	MARK it.
084:17:34	CC	Roger. Mark the UV.
084:17:39	Schmitt	Okay, and the IR will be OFF on your cue.
084:17:45	CC	Okay, Jack, that'll be 12 or 15 minutes from now.
084:17:52	Schmitt	Okay, just give us a call.
084:19:43	Schmitt	Okay, the 100-WATT O2 HEATER circuit breaker's coming OPEN.
084:19:47	CC	Okay, Jack.
084:20:16	Schmitt	Okay, 02 HEATERS 1 and 2 going to AUTO, and 3, OFF.
084:20:21	CC	Roger.
084:21:51	Cernan	Okay, Gordo. We'll wait until 50 past the hour and pick up the LM/CM DELTA-P; we're still reading 0.6.
084:22:01	CC	Roger. That sounds good.
084:22:07	Cernan	And we're in the process of maneuvering and I guess I'll start to see if I can't get you some biomeds.
084:22:18	CC	Okay.
084:22:27	Schmitt	I don't know whether you were watching the LMP on the door jett, did you see a jett on my heartbeat?
084:22:36	CC	We'll - we'll check this data here, Jack.
084:22:45	Schmitt	I guess I was remembering erroneously 15's comment that it was very quiet, but I - of course, Ron reminded me they were in the suits.
084:23:05	CC	Okay, Jack. John Young was talking about the same thing here, but we didn't see anything on your EKG.
084:23:17	Schmitt	How stable can you get?
084:23:27	Evans	And Houston, 17 here. Mag Bravo Bravo is indicating 20 - let's see - indicating 76 percent now - 76-percent full.
084:23:42	CC	Okay, Ron.
084:23:49	Cernan	And, Gordo, we are watching the 8-ball.
084:23:57	CC	Roger. We're keeping an eye on it, too.
084:33:06	CC	America, we'd like the HIGH GAIN to AUTO, please.
084:33:15	Schmitt	Okay, you've got it to AUTO. I think we may have a new discovery about microphones up here.
084:33:24	CC	Oh, is that right? What's that?
084:33:30	Schmitt	Well, Gordy, it looks as if you could improve your voice quality by putting fingers over the end of the mike booms. At least that works on the intercom.
084:33:44	CC	How about that.
084:35:17	CC	America, Houston. We're ready for the IR to OFF.
084:35:23	Schmitt	Okay. IR's coming OFF -
084:35:32	Schmitt	MARK it.
084:37:15	Schmitt	Hey, Gordy. Who's operating in the trench in front of you today?
084:37:21	CC	Okay. It's the LOI and descent team, Presley, Green, and Deiterich.
084:37:38	Schmitt	They're a trio of musketeers, if I ever heard of one.
084:37:43	CC	Roger.
084:37:46	Schmitt	All they lack is a French accent.
084:37:59	CC	A New York accent is about the best they can do.
084:38:13	Schmitt	I wasn't going to exercise any value judgments, Gordy.
084:40:59	CC	Jack, this is Houston. I have a preliminary LOI pad anytime it's convenient.
084:41:09	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. I was just checking to see if I could find the Moon, and I still can't see it out there.
084:41:18	Schmitt	I'll be with you in 30 seconds.
084:41:20	CC	Okay.
084:42:47	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. Go ahead.
084:42:51	CC	Okay. This is a preliminary LOI, SPS/G&N. 66361; plus 1.21, minus 0.12; 088:54:22.71; minus 2798.8, plus 1045.7, minus 0037.3. Attitude is all zeros. HA is 0170.1, plus 0052.5; 2988.0, 6:38, 2981.7; sextant star 45, 252.1, 13.5. Boresight star and all the rest is NA. GDC align stars: Sirius and Rigel; 122; 354; 000. Ullage, none. Remarks: LM weight, 36312; and single-bank burn time is 06:51. Go ahead.
084:45:10	Schmitt	Okay. Preliminary LOI, SPS/G&N. 66361; plus 1.21, minus 0.12; 088:54:22.71; minus 2798.8 plus 1045.7, minus 0037.3. All zeros; all zeros; all zeros; 0170.1, plus 0052.5; 2988.0, 6:38, 2981.7; 45, 252.1, 13.5. Set stars are Sirius and Rigel; 122; 354; 000. No ullage. LM weight is 36312, and single-bank burn time is 06:51.
084:46:14	CC	One correction on the ignition time. The seconds are 22.77.
084:46:26	Schmitt	Okay, 22.77.
084:46:29	CC	That's affirmative; otherwise, good readback.
084:47:19	Evans	Okay, Houston. At 84:45, we've got about 2-1/2 to 3 minutes at 1 frame a second on mag Bravo Bravo, through the celestial adapter of the Earth.
084:47:43	CC	Okay, Ron. We caught that. And if you're looking for the Moon, according to our figures here, it should be visible out window number 1 about 30 degrees off the boresight axis. Over.
084:48:02	Schmitt	Okay, got you. I'll try again.
084:49:16	CC	America, Houston. I'm ready with a TEI-4 pad anytime it's convenient.
084:49:24	Evans	Stand by.
084:53:36	Evans	Okay, Gordy, I'm ready for a TEI-4 pad.
084:53:41	CC	Okeydoke. It's TEI-4, SPS/G&N; 40090; plus 0.50, plus 1.17. Ignition time is 097:20:47.45. NOUN 8l, plus 2004.8, minus 2951.1, minus 1547.3; attitude will be 202, 083, 312. Rest of the pad is NA. GDC align stars are Sirius and Rigel; 133; 200; 030. Ullage: four jets, 12 seconds. And remark number 1: burn undocked; number 2: assumes no DOI; number 3: assumes landing site REFSMMAT; number 4: with the LOI REFSMMAT, your attitude will be: roll, 180; pitch, 220; yaw, 38 - correction -yaw is 338. Over.
084:56:13	Evans	Okay, TEI-4, SPS/G&N; 40090; plus 0.50, plus 1.17; 097:20:47.45; plus 2004.8, minus 2951.1. minus 1547.3; 202, 083, 312. Rest of pad NA. Sirius and Rigel; 133; 200; 030. Four jets, 12-second ullage. Remark 1: burn undocked; 2: no DOI assumed; 3: landing site REFSMMAT; 4: LOI REFSMMAT attitude 180, 220, 338. Over.
084:57:20	CC	Okay. That's a good readback.
084:59:29	CC	America, Houston. If you give us ACCEPT, we'll pop up a state vector - a preliminary state vector and a VERB 66, preliminary target load, and an LOI REFSMMAT. Over.
084:59:44	Cernan	Okay, Houston. You have it.
085:01:08	Cernan	Okay, Houston. This is America. How do you read the commander on biomed?
085:01:14	CC	Stand by. I'll take a look here.
085:02:44	CC	America, Houston. Looking at the O2 pressures, we think maybe TANK 3 isOL VALVE got jarred closed. Would you check the barber pole over on panel 278. If it's barber pole, would you reopen the valve?
085:03:01	Schmitt	Gordy, we checked that. I'll check it again. We checked it right after the Jet.
085:03:17	Schmitt	And, Gordy, it's gray. Would you like me to cycle it?
085:03:30	CC	That's affirmative, Jack. Go ahead and cycle it OPEN.
085:03:40	Schmitt	Okay. That's been done.
085:03:43	CC	Roger.
085:04:08	CC	America, Houston. It's your computer. You can go back to BLOCK.
085:04:18	Evans	Okay, we're back to BLOCK. In the DELTA-V test, I got a minus 22.0, and I'm on a bias check right now.
085:04:30	CC	Roger.
085:06:37	CC	America, Houston. The biomed looks good on all three of you.
085:06:46	Cernan	Okay.
085:07:01	Evans	And the null bias check, on a plus 100, it went to 100.4. I'm working on a minus now.
085:07:13	CC	Okay, sounds good.
085:08:19	Evans	Okay. The minus 100, it ended up minus 99.5.
085:08:26	CC	Okay, Ron.
085:10:38	Evans	Gordy, the EMERGENCY CABIN PRESSURE REGs are OFF.
085:10:43	CC	Roger.
085:11:00	Evans	Okay, EQUALIZATION valve in the tunnel has come OPEN.
085:11:07	CC	Roger.
085:13:11	Evans	Okay, Gordy, the LM TUNNEL valve is in LM PRESS, and EQUALIZATION valve is CLOSED.
085:13:21	CC	Roger. And was it a 0.6 DELTA-P when you started this, as before?
085:13:29	Evans	That's affirm. It was 0.6 and now it's down to - we been seeing it as about 0.1.
085:13:37	CC	Roger.
085:13:56	Evans	And, Gordy, I've got the EMERGENCY CABIN PRESSURE REGs back to BOTH.
085:14:01	CC	Roger.
085:17:45	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy, we're changing mags on the - the EL camera, and mag November November is being stowed with 59 frames on it - or 59 frames used - 159.
085:18:07	CC	Okay, Jack; copy.
085:18:27	Evans	Gordy, you can record that as the second commander's P52 that came up all balls.
085:18:37	CC	Okay, we'll get a hard copy.
085:19:05	CC	Okay, we got the 93s; you're clear to torque.
085:37:35	Schmitt	Okay, Gordo, there's the gyro torque angles.
085:37:40	CC	Okay, we're copying them down. Stand by.
085:38:07	CC	Okay, Geno; torque them.
085:45:06	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 85 hours 45 minutes Ground Elapsed Time into the mission of Apollo 17. Presently 7,900 nautical miles out from the Moon and approaching at 4,009 feet per second. We're still about 3 hours and 8 minutes away from Lunar Orbit Insertion manuever, which will place the Apollo 17 spacecraft into a 52 by a 170 nautical mile lunar orbit. Earlier today, Gene Cernan asked Mission Control for suggestions concerning his gas symptoms. A decision has been made for the flight surgeon to consult privately with Cernan to discuss these symptoms. There's no indication that this situation will have any effect on the progress of the mission. A summary of the conversation will be released shortly. Meanwhile, for distance back to Earth, Mother Earth stands some 208,068 nautical miles behind Apollo 17. We have 2 hours and 56 minutes remaining until the first loss of signal as Apollo 17 passes behind the Moon. 3 hours and 7 minutes and 50 seconds until ignition on the Lunar Orbit Insertion maneuver, which presently is scheduled for a Ground Elapsed Time of 88:54:22. Total burn time on the SPS engine of 6 minutes 38 seconds, for a total velocity change in retrograde of 2,988 feet per second. At 85:47 Ground Elapsed Time this is Apollo Control.
085:50:31	PAO	This is Apollo Control 85 hours 50 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. Here in the Control Center, the Flights Dynamics Officer, Jay Green, just passed up to the Flight Director Neil Hutchinson, the latest predicted figures for the S-IVB impact. The present predictions on time are for the S-IVB to impact at Ground Elapsed Time of 89 hours 39 minutes 43.4 seconds. The coordinates of the impact are predicted to be 4.12 degrees south latitude by 12.22 degrees west longitude. 3 hours and 3 minutes to Lunar Orbit Insertion ignition. 2 hours 51 minutes until Apollo 17 passes behind the Moon for the first time. Distance from the Moon, presently 7,653 nautical miles, velocity ever increasing, now 4,032 feet per second. At 85:51 Ground Elapsed Time in the mission of Apollo 17, this is Apollo Control.
086:12:15	CC	America, Houston. America, Houston. We've lost the high gain and data. Go on OMNI Alfa.
086:12:43	CC	Hello America, Houston in the blind. Go OMNI Alfa ...
086:13:18	CC	America, this is Houston. How do you copy?
086:13:26	Schmitt	Clear, and we're OMNI Alfa. If you don't answer this transmission, we'll try the high gain again.
086:13:32	CC	Okay, Jack. We're reading you now. I heard you say OMNI Alfa. Say again the first part.
086:13:40	Schmitt	Roger. We've been reading you. I think you're on VHF, however. Would you like us to reacquire on the high gain?
086:13:48	CC	Stand by. I'll check on that.
086:14:05	CC	Okay, Jack. We'd like you to try the HIGH GAIN at a PITCH of minus 29, YAW 17, MANUAL and WIDE.
086:14:24	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy, we're on the HIGH GAIN.
086:14:29	CC	Okay, Jack.
086:14:34	Schmitt	How do you read?
086:14:37	CC	I'm reading you - I can read you, but there's still a lot of background noise.
086:14:47	Schmitt	Like VHF would sound, but I'm not sure I believe it.
086:14:56	CC	Jack, we just commanded NORMAL voice.
086:15:26	Schmitt	Gordy, did we end up somehow out of NORMAL voice?
086:15:35	CC	Jack, we'd like you to try a NORMAL acquisition. Go AUTO and NARROW on the HIGH GAIN.
086:15:50	Schmitt	Okay, that peaked it up, AUTO and NARROW.
086:15:54	CC	Okay, you're loud and clear now.
086:15:59	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. You said that you had to command NORMAL voice. Did we get a spurious command in there some way?
086:16:21	CC	Okay, we had - we did all that ourselves to establish voice through Ascension; no problem. Over.
086:16:36	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. How did you reach us when you finally started calling?
086:16:44	CC	Stand by.
086:17:10	CC	Jack, we didn't do anything to cause the problem there, we were up-linking through Madrid and downlinking through Ascension. Did you see anything onboard that could have caused the loss of lock?
086:17:25	Schmitt	No, sir. We had good signal strength. It wasn't peaked for the high gain. It was more like an OMNI signal strength, about 70 percent. And we called you several times after the switch in lines, and then finally you came through clear, but with some background noise and sounded like VHF. I presume it wasn't, now. And when you called, I went to OMNI Alfa, with no change in signal strength, still about 70 percent, and you were still coming up the same way and apparently didn't hear us. And then the high gain - with high gain acquisition, it's been pretty clear.
086:18:13	CC	Okay, that's the way - that story's the way it sounded to us. And we're looking around here to see if we can figure out a reason for loss there.
086:18:28	Schmitt	Okay, and I'm ready to pressurize the SPS, if that's what you want.
086:18:34	CC	Okay, let me make sure here.
086:18:48	CC	Okay, Jack. We're ready for it.
086:18:55	Schmitt	Okay, you want me to just use SPS HELIUM VALVE 1?
086:19:07	CC	That's affirmative,
086:19:31	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. We're going to ON with SPS HELIUM VALVE 1. We checked the circuit breakers, they're IN.
086:19:41	CC	Okay.
086:19:42	Schmitt	Okay, pressure's com - pressure's up; FUEL PRESSURE is stable at 175 and OXIDIZER at 175, and the light is out. And we're back to NORMAL on CAUTION AND WARNING. And the VALVE now is back to AUTO.
086:20:03	CC	Roger. And looks - looks good here. We're reading 184 oxidizer and 185 fuel.
086:20:44	Schmitt	Hey, Gordy, this is the LMP. I got a question for you.
086:20:48	CC	Shoot.
086:20:54	Schmitt	I'm just wondering if - I'm showing about 85 amps, and is that a good normal power load with - I presume the O2 HEATERs are ON now.
086:21:08	CC	Just a second, we'll check that.
086:21:15	Schmitt	I'm just trying to reestablish my references here for LOI.
086:21:21	CC	EECOM says the HEATERs are ON and that's the normal load.
086:21:30	Schmitt	Okay. Very good. Thank you, sir.
086:22:51	Evans	Houston, 17.
086:22:54	CC	Go ahead.
086:22:58	Evans	Roger. We got about an hour sitting around here. We can go to wide dead band, if you want, if you'll remind me to go back to narrow again when we need to.
086:23:07	CC	Let me check on that.
086:23:20	Evans	Might save a teacupful of fuel.
086:24:40	CC	Ron, we suggest just staying where you are on the dead band; there's no problem on fuel.
086:24:49	Evans	Okay. Mighty fine, Gordo. Thank you.
086:27:42	CC	America, Hou - Houston. We just finished a site handover. And we're seeing some excessive counts on the UV. We'd like to chase the problem a little, and to do that, we'd like you to turn the UV OFF for 5 seconds and then back ON. Over.
086:27:42	CC	Ascension COMM TEC, Houston COMM TEC, Net 1 voice check. How do you copy?
086:32:40	ASC	Ascension COMM TEC, I read you loud and clear.
086:32:43	CC	Roger, Ascension.
086:33:38	Schmitt	Houston, 17; how do you read after a COMMAND RESET?
086:33:42	CC	17, this is Houston. You're loud and clear. Have you been calling?
086:33:50	Schmitt	Yes, sir, we've been calling. After your handover, we heard your statement that you handed over and then hadn't been able to contact you after that. I just hit a COMMAND RESET.
086:34:32	CC	Okay, Jack, that was a problem here on the ground. Over.
086:34:42	Schmitt	Okay.
086:35:17	Schmitt	Say, Gordy, 17.
086:35:20	CC	Go ahead.
086:35:25	Schmitt	Yes, we've got B DUPLEX - B SIMPLEX ON, apparently left over from the LM checks. I suspect I should turn that OFF. Right?
086:35:41	CC	That's affirmative.
086:36:07	Evans	Houston, 17.
086:36:09	CC	Go ahead.
086:36:15	Evans	Gordo, just an interesting observation on my part. I don't know why, but all the air bubbles in the beverage packs - you know, none of the air bubbles will come together at all. If you get it a small air bubble, it stays in a small air bubble. And they'll never co - come together. However, in my chicken and rice soup package here, I had a whole bunch of small air bubbles and now it's all one great big air bubble in the middle.
086:36:49	CC	Okay.
086:36:50	Evans	Most of the - most of the sP00n bowl packs you know - or wet packs, whereas the juice bags won't do it.
086:37:04	CC	Okay, that's interesting. I sure don't know why either.
086:37:14	Schmitt	We're just trying to keep your day interesting here, Gordy. Now that you won't let us look at the Earth anymore, we'll start looking in the cabin.
086:37:33	CC	Okay, while you're looking in the cabin, I've got a new hydrogen cryo configuration for you to minimize the pressure cycling and cut down the wear and tear on the motor switch. If you're ready to do it, I'll read it.
086:37:52	Schmitt	Go ahead.
086:37:54	CC	Okay, on H2 TANK 1 and TANK 2 HEATERS, both of them, OFF. On the FANs, TANK 1 FANs ON, TANK 2 FANs OFF. I think they're there already. And TANK 3 FANs AUTO. Over.
086:38:18	Schmitt	Hey, there's a new configuration. Okay, H2 HEATERs 1 and 2 are OFF. H2 FANs - 1 is ON, 2 is OFF, and 3 is AUTO.
086:38:29	CC	Okay, sounds good.
086:38:37	Schmitt	That sounds like an EECOM special.
086:38:41	CC	That it is.
086:46:30	Cernan	Hello, Houston, I've got the limb of the Moon.
086:46:34	CC	Very good.
086:46:36	Cernan	I've got the limb of the Moon out the - got it out the center hatch and we're just barely seeing a - barely seeing the horizon of the Moon. But, boy, is it big.
086:46:52	CC	Roger.
086:46:53	Evans	Well, that must be a - what - you know, talk about a sliver of the Moon, that is a sliver of a sliver.
086:47:03	Cernan	Gordo, we're coming in right down on top of it. What's our perigee, did you say? 73 miles?
086:47:11	CC	Roger. That's about right. Don't worry, you'll miss it.
086:47:17	Cernan	I just want to hear you say it because I'm going to hold you to it.
086:47:33	Cernan	As long as you shadow your eyes from the Sun - the Sun is just about laying on the horizon of the Moon, and as a matter of fact, as I watch it, I can watch the horizon - the amount of - of daylight terminator get larger.
086:47:49	CC	Roger.
086:48:55	Cernan	Gordy, unless I get proven wrong here, I think we'll be able to watch it all the way in as long as we can keep shadowed from the Sun.
086:49:07	CC	Okeydoke.
086:49:12	Cernan	I'll tell you, when you get out here, it's a big mamou.
086:52:01	Cernan	Gordy, it's a sight to remember. Not just because of the uniqueness of the view, but because we all got to ask ourselves if we really know where we are and what we're really looking at right this moment, and when you answer that question is yes, it certainly becomes an epic sight in your mind.
086:52:26	CC	Roger, Gene.
086:52:31	Schmitt	My congratulations to the trench for solving another rendezvous - rendezvous problem.
086:52:40	CC	Roger.
086:53:43	Cernan	Gordy, can you tell us how far we are right now from the - from the Moon?
086:53:50	CC	Surely can; stand by.
086:54:10	CC	Right now, you're about 5,000 miles from the surface.
086:54:18	Cernan	Okay. Thank you.
086:55:25	Schmitt	Houston, 17.
086:55:27	CC	Go ahead.
086:55:32	Schmitt	I think I got a visual on the SIM bay door now out window 5. It's just about directly off our present plus-Y axis.
086:55:46	CC	Okay. Must be way out there by now.
086:55:55	Schmitt	Oh, yes. It's a long way out there; just flashing.
086:55:59	CC	Roger.
086:57:31	Schmitt	Gordy, what's the MOCR having for dinner Sun - this Sunday?
086:57:43	CC	Well, let's see. I guess we haven't sent out for hamburgers, yet. There's a few brown bags in sight, but that's about it.
086:57:58	Schmitt	My goodness.
086:58:33	Cernan	Gordy, it doesn't look like I had a chance to go to church today, but under the circumstances I guess it'll be okay. Next time you see the good Father you might have him put a good word in for us.
086:58:46	CC	Okay, I'll do that.
087:07:56	Schmitt	Gordy, is - in our present attitude I'm seeing the lip of the Moon convex down toward our minus X axis. That's out of the hatch window. Can you tell me which is the north and which is the south pole?
087:08:20	CC	Okay. Stand by.
087:08:26	Cernan	Yes, I'd be all squared away if - if the Moon were on Jack's side, because he's got that end on his head, but I'm a little mixed up now.
087:08:34	CC	Roger. I understand your problem.
087:09:24	Cernan	Gordy, I - I'm thinking the - the top of the - the LM towards the Sun is probably the north.
087:09:39	CC	Roger.
087:10:26	Cernan	Hello, Gordy. I - I think I got it. Window - the - the north has got to be on the right as I look at the limb of the Moon opposite the Sun. Because when we go into retrograde attitude, it's got to be over there. I think I can see Korolev without any problem. It's a little bit north of the - of the equator.
087:10:56	CC	Roger.
087:11:03	Cernan	Gordy, are you still with us?
087:11:07	CC	That's affirm. I'm with you, and I'm getting lots of advice here.
087:11:14	Cernan	Okay. Okay. I'll bet you are. But I - I think I got it oriented. You can literally watch yourself fall down in. As we get closer, if we're going to have a view like this, it's going to be pretty dramatic. Because we're calling the way you climb on out of the Moon when you leave it, if you can see. And I remember remarks at that time, "Gee, if we could see it like this when we came back in, we'd have to close our eyes." If we can see this thing coming in like I think we may be able to see it at 50 miles, it isn't going to look like very much.
087:11:58	CC	Roger. We agree.
087:12:00	Cernan	And we're even considering the win - putting - Gordy, we're consider - Gordy, we're considering putting the window covers up.
087:12:15	CC	You're chickens, huh?
087:12:21	Cernan	It's going to be one of those high - high - angle energy conversion roundouts.
087:12:28	CC	Roger. From our information here, if you're looking at the Moon so that the - the dark limb is up, then north should be to the right.
087:12:42	Cernan	Yes. I - I concur, and that's the way it is.
087:12:45	CC	Roger.
087:12:48	Cernan	The horizon is just steadily growing bigger.
087:12:54	CC	Does it look about the same as last time?
087:13:04	Cernan	What do you mean, "last time?" Couple years ago?
087:13:07	CC	Right.
087:13:12	Cernan	Gordy, we never saw it coming in a couple years ago. We saw it, as I recall, a day out, and we saw just a - a shadow of the limb. But we - to my best re - recollection, we never saw it this close. As a matter of fact, we went into darkness prior to going into LOI, and this time, much to my amazement, we don't. But I see now that we won't, and I see why. I'll tell you, everyone who's seen that view leaving knows how fast you climb out. And by golly, the closer we get to it, the faster we're coming in.
087:13:56	CC	Roger.
087:16:11	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 87 hours 16 minutes Ground Elapsed Time in the mission of Apollo 17. Some 1 hour and 38 minutes until ignition on lunar orbit insertion. Presently, the spacecraft is 4,243 nautical miles away from the Moon. The Moon is getting larger, as noted by the crew. They considered closing the window shades in the spacecraft. Velocity now 4,544 feet per second. Some numbers on acquisition of the spacecraft. With the burn - a normal burn, the acquisition on the east limb of the Moon would be at 89 hours 16 minutes 29 seconds. Without a burn, it would be somewhat sooner, 89 hours 7 minutes 46 seconds. A private conversation was conducted with the Apollo 17 crew from Ground Elapsed Time of 85:46:55 to 86:04:46. The subject of the conversation was Gene Cernan's request for suggestions concerning alleviating some gas symptoms he had had during the flight. The following is a summary of the conversation. The call to the crew was made by Donald K. Slayton, Director of Flight Crew Operations. Dr. Royce Hawkins, Chief of Medical Operations at MSC asked Cernan to explain his symptoms, Cernan reported it was no great problem, but that he has had some greater gas discomfort than his fellow crew members. He said he felt quite fine at this time, and there was never any pain or nausea associated with the discomfort. Cernan advised Dr. Hawkins of the anti-gas medication, symethocone, he'd been taking. Dr. Hawkins recommended to Cernan that he continue the medication after meals and before going to sleep. Hawkins also advised Cernan on some changes to his menu over the next 2 days to reduce the discomfort. Cernan reported quote "I'm better, there's nothing detrimental or incapacitating about this; we're all in good shape. We hope things are looking as good down there as they are up here." close quote. Lunar Module pilot Harrison Schmitt reported the crew had encountered some difficulty with the onboard system that separates gas bubbles from the drinking water supply. Schmitt was advised that the gas separator system has given the crews problems on previous Apollo flights. Astronaut John Young, Commander of the Apollo 16 mission and Back-up Commander for Apollo 17, also talked briefly to the Astronauts, and wished them well. Distance now 4,125 nautical miles from the Moon. Velocity 4,570. Still an hour and 35 minutes, MARK, until ignition on lunar orbit insertion burn. At 87:19, this is Apollo Control.
087:19:28	Cernan	Gordo. The - the widest-most part of the convex horizon probably covers a good couple of degrees. I can now see relief on the - on the horizon itself against the dark space.
087:19:47	CC	Roger.
087:19:52	Cernan	And the rim of Korolev is readily visible standing out by itself in the - in the darker or the unlit part of the - of the Moon. I can see the central peaks or mountains very well lit up.
087:20:50	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. This is Jack. is there any reason not to start the checks at about 87:43?
087:21:05	CC	Stand by.
087:21:25	Cernan	Okay, Gordy. What I - what I called a - a central peak or range in there must undoubtedly be that inner ring, but it - the way it was lit up in the sunlight gave you a definite impression that it had an enlongated central range.
087:21:45	CC	Roger. And for Jack, no problem starting early on the checks.
087:21:54	Schmitt	Okay. They're in work.
087:23:36	Cernan	Okay, Hous -
087:23:37	Schmitt	..., Houston. Going to ... put the UV COVER OPEN. How long?
087:23:45	CC	Okay, Jack. And we'd like 5 minutes of operation with it OPEN.
087:23:56	Schmitt	Okay.
087:23:57	Schmitt	MARK it, OPEN.
087:25:40	Schmitt	Okay, Houston; 17. I've started the secondary glycol pump, and I neglected to make a check on the evap OP temperature. Do you have that, and did we get a decrease?
087:25:56	CC	Stand by. Looks okay, Jack.
087:26:12	Schmitt	Thank you.
087:28:13	Schmitt	Okay, Gordo. There's NOUN 05.
087:28:17	CC	Roger.
087:28:32	Schmitt	And you're looking at the torquing angle.
087:28:58	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. I'm going SPS PRESSURE INDICATOR to 2.
087:29:03	CC	Okay, Jack. And you can close the UV cover, and go ahead and roll back to 064 ROLL. And you're clear to torque the P52.
087:29:18	Schmitt	Okay. UV COVER is CLOSED.
087:29:55	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. Going back to SPS PRESSURE INDICATOR 1.
087:30:01	CC	Okay.
087:32:31	CC	America, Houston. We - we still see the UV door open. Have you closed it yet?
087:32:51	Schmitt	Okay. It's now CLOSED, Gordy.
087:32:54	CC	Roger.
087:33:31	CC	America, Houston. I have the LOI and map update pads when you're ready.
087:33:40	Cernan	Stand by 1, Gordo.
087:34:59	Cernan	Okay, Gordy. What do you have, a map update on page 3-83 of the Flight Plan?
087:35:05	CC	That's affirmative.
087:35:13	Cernan	Why don't you go ahead?
087:35:14	CC	Okay. It's for rev 1. AOS without burn is 089:07:46; with the burn is 089:16:29.
087:35:34	Cernan	Okay. Without the burn is 07:46, and with the burn is 16:29.
087:35:39	CC	That's affirmative, and then I have your LOI maneuver pad.
087:35:50	Cernan	Okay. We're ready to go.
087:35:53	CC	Okay. LOI, SPS/G&N; the weight is 66361; plus 1.21, minus 0.12; ignition time is 088:54:21.74; NOUN 81, minus 2798.8, plus 1044.9, minus 0042.5; roll, pitch, and yaw are all zero; NOUN 44, 0170.1, plus 0052.5; 2987.7, burn time is 6:38, 2981.4; sextant star is 45, 252.1, 13.5; rest of the pad is NA. GDC align stars are Sirius and Rigel; 122; 354; 000. Ullage is none. Remarks: LM weight, 36312; single-bank burn time is 6:51. Over. Stand by on the readback. Okay. We'll take ACCEPT, and give you the up-links while you're reading it back.
087:38:18	Cernan	Okay, Gordy. Here's your readback. You've got ACCEPT. It's LOI pad, SPS/G&N; 66361; plus 1.21, minus 0.12; 088:54:21.74; minus 2798.8, plus 1044.9, minus 0042.5; 000, 000, 000; 0170.1, plus 0052.5; 2987.7, 6:38, 2981.4; 45, 252.1, 13.5; rest of pad is NA. Sirius and Rigel; 122; 354; 000. There's no ullage. LM weight, 36312; single-bank burn time, 6 plus 51.
087:39:28	CC	Okay. That's a good readback.
087:41:06	CC	It's your computer, America. You have a state vector, a VERB 66, and a target load. Go back to BLOCK.
087:41:15	Cernan	Okay. It's in BLOCK, Gordy. We're finishing up on the bottom of 3-79.
087:41:21	CC	Okay.
087:41:25	Cernan	And back at this roll attitude, I've got the big old Moon again, and from where I sit, it looks like we're right on target. Fifty miles above target, I'd like to add.
087:41:43	CC	Okay. That sounds good.
087:41:49	Cernan	The limb is, of course, still growing and a little more rapidly. And what I can see of the - of the limb that's not blocked out by the Sun, it's getting obviously much larger in the window.
087:42:09	CC	Roger.
087:42:10	Cernan	Now I guess it depends on the shadowing of the Sun as to whether or not we're going to see too much. I think retrograde, we ought to see quite a bit once we get over the terminator.
087:42:35	Cernan	Gordy, there's enough of the lighted portion of the Moon where you can see the relief - not just a shadowing relief, but the actual relief of several craters as they stretch across the terminator, both to the north and to the south. I can see even more definite relief now on the horizon, just to the north and behind Korolev - on the black horizon against space.
087:43:06	CC	Roger.
087:43:09	Cernan	The - the unlit part of the Moon, as you might expect, is just as dark from here as is deep space itself.
087:43:22	CC	Roger.
087:43:23	Cernan	It's black, I might say at this point.
087:43:57	CC	America, Houston. For your information, your altitude is about 3000 miles now.
087:44:06	Cernan	Okay, 3000 miles.
087:44:19	Cernan	Gordy, the - the limb has much more three-dimensional relief now. Towards us, you can - you can get the feeling that the horizon - the litted portion of the horizon definitely does flow in our direction. And although you can't see the unlit portion of the Moon, you get a feeling that there's a great deal more of it a lot closer than that which you can see.
087:44:50	CC	Roger.
087:45:52	Cernan	Okay, Gordy. The pre-SPS burn aim prep is complete.
087:45:57	CC	Roger.
087:46:19	Cernan	And I'm going to give my buddies a chance to look at it now.
087:46:23	CC	Okay.
087:47:06	Cernan	I never thought I'd see a geologist speechless at his first near - near shot at the Moon, but I haven't heard a word from him yet.
087:47:15	CC	Roger.
087:47:19	Schmitt	This geologist turned engineer for about an hour.
087:47:33	CC	He's probably speechless because there's no clouds to talk about.
087:48:07	Cernan	Gordo, everything's looking good onboard. We're just waiting for about 88:05. We'll be in our maneuver at that time.
087:48:17	CC	Okay. Everything looks good here also.
087:48:31	Cernan	Okay. And is your LOS of about 45 still good?
087:48:37	CC	I'll doublecheck that.
087:50:13	CC	America, the Flight Plan is correct on LOS. To be exact, it will be 88:43:40.
087:50:26	Cernan	43:40. Thank you, Gordo.
087:51:04	Cernan	If - if you guys could get an idea down there of the needle you're threading when you shoot for 50 miles at a quarter of million, you'd be mighty proud of yourselves, I'll tell you, we are.
087:51:19	CC	Roger.
087:51:28	Cernan	I guess I really ought to wait and tell you that at 89:16:29.
087:51:35	CC	Roger.
087:52:38	Cernan	Hey, Gordy. Do you have any idea what our relative speed is to the - to the Moon at this time?
087:52:46	CC	Yes. It's 5000 feet per second. You're presently 2660 miles up.
087:53:00	Cernan	Okay.
087:53:15	Cernan	I assume T. P. is there, and I guess John is, too. I don't know if John saw this coming in on 16, but I know they can recall what we saw leaving on 10. And other than the fact that you can't see as much of the Moon, it's just as impressive.
087:53:37	CC	Roger. I was just talking to John about it a couple of minutes ago. Their view on 16 was - they didn't have any sunlit Moon, but they did have some pretty good earthshine.
087:53:59	Cernan	Well, he - he knows what I'm talking about then.
087:56:59	Cernan	Gordy, it's an unbelievable view through the monocular now. You can really see down in the depths of some of the larger craters and with a great deal of clarity. And you can see the - some of the higher ridges actually rolling right over the horizon as they go away from you.
087:57:21	CC	Roger, Geno.
088:05:31	Cernan	Hey, Houston. As much as I hate to, I think we're going to have to maneuver out of this attitude.
088:05:38	CC	Roger. As you take your last look there, you're presently 20 - just a little over 2000 miles up, and you're coming down about 4500 feet per second.
088:05:58	Cernan	Yes. You'd better believe that.
088:09:32	Cernan	Gordo, there's only one better view than this.
088:09:37	CC	What's that, Gene?
088:09:39	Cernan	Right at the moment anyway. Right at the moment anyway, is to be out there and watching this spacecraft maneuver in attitude and - and watch it burn over the lunar surface. I get the feeling someone is watching.
088:10:00	CC	Roger.
088:11:06	CC	Give us OMNI Charlie, please.
088:13:24	CC	Apollo 17, Houston. We just had a site handover. That's resulted in the LOS time changing 19 seconds. It's now 43:21.
088:13:39	Schmitt	Okay; 43:21, and we are - we're on OMNI Charlie,
088:13:45	CC	Roger.
088:13:51	Schmitt	And just to round out things as we pitch back into LOI attitude, lo and behold from over the top of the LM came the Earth.
088:14:05	CC	Very good.
088:14:09	Schmitt	Got the whole thing in one big package.
088:15:13	Cernan	Pretty interesting, Gordo. We can - we can see we're right over South America and, of course, we can see up the Gulf Coast. And it looks like Houston is covered with clouds, but poetically enough, we can see the Cape, at least we can see Florida.
088:15:31	CC	How about that.
088:17:05	PAO	This is Apollo Control, 88 hours 17 minutes into the mission of Apollo 17. Some 26 minutes now until Apollo 17 passes behind the Moon, coming up on the Lunar Orbit Insertion burn in which the spacecraft will start its initial orbit measuring 52 nautical miles by 170 nautical miles, an elliptical orbit around the Moon. That maneuver will take place at a Ground Elapsed Time of 88 hours 54 minutes into the flight, and will slow the spacecraft down considerably from its present velocity of some 5,700 feet per second. Presently, the Apollo 17 spacecraft is 1,528 nautical miles out from the Moon, approaching at 5730 feet per second. After the spacecraft passes behind the Moon, 25 minutes from now, assuming as successful lunar orbit insertion burn, it should come from behind the east face of the Moon, the limb of the Moon, at approximately 33 minutes later. It'll take a few moments for the ground stations to lock up on the downlink from the spacecraft even though the theoretical contact time is roughly 33 minutes after loss of signal. At 88 hours 18 minutes Ground Elapsed Time, this is Apollo Control.
088:19:03	Evans	Yes, a VERB 41 NOUN 91. And I'm on VOX now. Get the commander's light. (Laughter)
088:19:22	CC	Ron, you're loud and clear on VOX.
088:19:27	Evans	Okay, Gordo. We're in attitude now.
088:19:31	CC	Roger.
088:20:47	Evans	Okay, Houston. The star sextant check is GO. We've got it in the sextant.
088:20:53	CC	Roger.
088:22:06	Evans	Okay. Okay. Let's go ahead and go and do the P40; 22 - about - -
088:22:15	Cernan	How many?
088:22:15	Evans	- - about 20 minutes. Well, it looks like it's going pretty close to where we want to be anyhow.
088:23:07	Evans	Okay - okay.
088:24:16	Evans	... back the other way.
088:24:24	Cernan	Okay, Gordo. We're standing by in P40.
088:24:31	CC	Roger. We're watching you.
088:24:38	Cernan	Okay. Everything is checking out good onboard.
088:24:43	CC	Roger.
088:24:48	Evans	Okay. Let's go over the cue cards. Okay. DELTA-V check's complete. Set the DELTA-V 2981.4. Okay. We have the pre-DELTA-V in standby. And the SIM bay's been checked, Jack?
088:25:26	Schmitt	Yes, it's been checked.
088:25:28	Evans	Okay. We're in RATE 2 on the BMAGs. Okay, no trim. We'll just leave 12 of them ON then. I've checked the DAP. Yes. Yes. Check it again. Yes. B/D - B/D ROLL. Get it? That's good. Plus 1.21 and minus 0.12.
088:26:40	Evans	Okay. The DAP is loaded.
088:26:41	Cernan	Okay, Houston. The DAP looks good.
088:26:44	CC	Roger.
088:26:48	Evans	Okay. We're CMC and AUTO. And we're at the pad attitude now. Okay. Boresight sextant star check is complete. Yes, I did it once. Let's try it again. It kind of drifts quite a bit.
088:27:25	Evans	Okay. The old GDC is aligned.
088:27:31	Evans	Okay. DIRECT ULLAGE breakers are going IN. PITCH 1. YAW 1. MAIN A circuit breakers are IN. The rest of them are all IN.
088:27:49	Evans	DAP control and SPS are all CLOSED.
088:27:54	Evans	Okay. We have three of them in RATE COMMAND. That looks like about DEAD BAND, RATE to LOW.
088:28:20	Evans	SCS TVC is in RATE COMMAND.
088:28:27	Evans	Okay. CG is in LM/CSM.
088:28:31	Evans	GIMBAL DRIVE: PITCH 1, YAW 1, AUTO. PITCH and YAW in AUTO.
088:28:43	Cernan	Okay, Gordo. We're down to 6 minutes in the checklist.
088:28:46	CC	Roger, Gene.
088:29:18	Evans	Okay.
088:30:14	Evans	Okay.
088:30:27	Evans	Okay.
088:30:43	Evans	Okay. We keep tight limits, though, to 1 plus 10, huh? Okay. Here we go; 25 - 25 21. BR. That's not it. Getting tight - tight lim - 340. Yes.
088:31:29	Evans	06:38. Single-bank burn time is 06:51. I'll start on BANK A first. That - that means we may get a chug when we start on BANK B.
088:31:58	Evans	Yes, but if - Okay.
088:32:37	Evans	Oh, my scissors flew up and disappeared somewhere. I'll have a hard time eating if you guys take all the scissors with you.
088:32:57	Evans	But my teeth are pretty good though.
088:33:33	Evans	Okay.
088:33:54	Evans	That's unless you start - start an hour and 20 minutes late, and then it's burn time plus 5.
088:34:13	Evans	Okay.
088:34:22	Evans	Okay.
088:34:44	CC	Apollo 17, Houston. If - if you three are interested in sticking around awhile, you have our GO for LOI.
088:34:54	Cernan	Roger, Houston. Understand. America is GO for LOI. And let it be known that the crew of America is GO for LOI.
088:35:06	CC	Roger that.
088:35:20	Evans	I'm kind of worried about this camera back here. It might come banging down.
088:36:37	Evans	(laughter) Yes. Yes.
088:36:52	Evans	(Humming)
088:37:00	Evans	Okay ...
088:37:53	Evans	Okay. Panel 8 looks good.
088:38:03	Evans	Okay. We're 5/1, 1/2, CMC, GDC. COMMAND, RATE COMMAND, RATE COMMAND.
088:38:11	Evans	LIMIT CYCLE is OFF. DEAD BAND, MIN. RATE to LOW. TRANS CONTROL POWER is OFF.
088:38:15	Evans	A - AC DIRECTS are OFF CMC in AUTO, RATE 2, RATE 2, RATE 2.
088:38:24	Evans	TVC is RATE COMMAND. GIMBAL MOTORS are OFF.
088:38:28	Evans	LM/CSM, ELS is AUTO - I mean the ELS is MANUAL.
088:38:33	Evans	RCS LOGIC is OFF. ROLL is OFF. .05G. AC and GPI.
088:38:41	Evans	GIMBAL DRIVEs in AUTO. Everything looks good.
088:38:58	Evans	(Humming)
088:40:08	Evans	(Humming)
088:41:32	Schmitt	Four minutes - a little better.
088:41:38	Cernan	Hello, Gordy. As we approach LOS, we've still got America out the view of the hatch window. We'll see you at 89:16:29.
088:42:07	CC	Okay, Gene. About 1 minute left until LOS. You have our wishes for a good burn.
088:42:17	Cernan	Thank you, sir. We shall have one.
088:42:32	Schmitt	Okay.
088:42:55	Cernan	And, Gordy, I assure you we will be out at 16:40.
088:43:01	CC	Very good.
088:43:38	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 88 hours 43 minutes into the Mission of Apollo 17. We have had loss of signal as Apollo 17 coasted behind the Moon on the start of the first lunar orbit, 10 minutes and 28 seconds away from Lunar Orbit Insertion maneuver. A retrograde service propulsion system burn of some 2,988 feet per second. Assuming a successful burn, the spacecraft should come out from behind the Moon at 89:16:29 Ground Elapsed Time as Gene Cernan promised it would before they went behind the Moon. At loss of signal, the spacecraft was some 395 miles above the surface of the Moon, traveling at a velocity of 7,241 feet per second. 9 minutes and 30 seconds - MARK, until LOI ignition. At 88:44 and returning just before acquisition of signal, as Apollo 17 comes from behind the Moon, this is Apollo Control.
089:15:30	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 89 hours, 15 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. Some 55 seconds until Apollo 17 comes from behind the Moon, on the start of the first Lunar Orbit. We're awaiting appearance of the spacecraft and word that the burn went successful, which apparently it has because the spacecraft without a burn would have appeared some 8 minutes ago. The ignition time i s 88:54:21 in Ground Elapsed Time. Should be getting lock on fairly soon, zero. That was the theoretical acquisition time. Of course, it does take a few seconds for the ground station to lock onto the signal from the spacecraft. We're awaiting word from the communications officer that we have indeed gotten a signal and telemetry from the spacecraft.
089:17:00	Evans	Didn't ... me yet.
089:17:06	Evans	No, it's not in yet. Well, yes, it is. There's AOS limits right there.
089:17:14	Evans	I think we just passed Hertz and -
089:17:17	CC	Hello there, America. We hear you talking.
089:17:31	Evans	AUTO and NARROW. Yes, AUTO and NARROW.
089:17:48	Evans	Good; I thought it dropped off. Hey, it dropped off.
089:17:55	Evans	Minus 43 and 345.
089:17:58	CC	Hello, America; this is Houston. How do you: read?
089:18:01	Evans	Attitude? Yes, 65, 60, 8. Yes, we're in attitude.
089:18:21	CC	America, Houston. Over.
089:18:42	Evans	Don't tell me the old high-gain crumped.
089:18:49	Evans	Okay. Let's see you're MANUAL -
089:19:08	Evans	Yes, we started to get it - awhile ago.
089:19:11	Evans	Yes, put it in AUTO and NARROW.
089:19:13	Evans	There.
089:19:36	Evans	The time?
089:19:47	Evans	Yes, we're at the edge of Marginis.
089:20:05	PAO	This is Apollo Control. Here in the Control Center we are hearing the crew aboard the spacecraft of Apollo 17 very clearly, however the ground has not be able to fully lock up on the spacecraft with the so-called uplink, on the voice uplink. And apparently it has to do with the 85 foot antenna at Goldstone. We're continuing to stand by until the 2-way communications are complete. An hour and 20 minutes before loss of signal as we go across the face of the Moon, the front face of the Moon on the first Lunar Orbit. At 89:20 and standing by, this is Apollo Control.
089:20:16	Evans	There's Al-Biruni over here.
089:21:02	Cernan	Okay. It came in then. There it goes. Hello!
089:21:13	CC	Hello, America. How do you read Houston? Over.
089:21:18	Cernan	America - Houston, this is America. You can breathe easier. America has arrived on station for the challenge ahead.
089:21:27	CC	Very good. We've been hearing you for a couple of minutes now. We've had a ground site problem, but you're loud and clear now.
089:21:37	Cernan	Okay. That's what we sort of thought, Gordo. The SPS burn could not have been more nominal. I've got some numbers for you, if you're ready to copy.
089:21:46	CC	Go ahead.
089:21:55	Cernan	Okay, TIG was on time. TIG was on time, burn time was 6 plus 33, VG is 29899; roll was 008; pitch, 357; yaw, 006; all at the end of the burn. Residuals minus 0.3, plus 0.1, and 0. DELTA-VC, was minus 6.8; oxidizer, 34.0; fuel, 34.5; unbalance is 110, decrease. The CMC holds us in a 170.3 by 52.5.
089:22:49	CC	That sounds great, Gene.
089:22:54	Cernan	It was an auto ignition. It was an auto shutdown. I think any comments during the burn are on the tape. But, to me, it was probably the smoothest and quietest SPS burn I ever remember.
089:23:08	CC	Roger.
089:23:10	Schmitt	Houston, this is Jack. The PUGS was erratic. It's the only thing I noticed that was offnominal. It - it bounced ground a lot, in bouncing arou - initially for about a minute - around - oh, 1.8 decrease, then it gradually started to diverge from that to a more decrease, down to about 2.5 or make that 3 decrease. And I went to DECREASE on the switch; and about the time of crossover, I had it at - oh, about 1 decrease and it crossed over and stabilized at zero, and I went to NORMAL and it stayed there the rest of the burn - until just near the end, it started to go decrease again.
089:24:02	CC	Okay, we copy that, Jack.
089:24:06	Schmitt	Okay, Gordo, did you by any chance get the S-IVB impact?
089:24:12	CC	We're - Okay, the new impact time for that is 89:39, so we haven't quite got there yet.
089:24:26	Cernan	Okay. Thank you.
089:24:29	Evans	And, Houston - Ron here. Something a little bit of a surprise to me. When I turned on bank A, the chamber pressure came up to 87 percent, and stayed there essentially. Five seconds later, I put on band B, the chamber pressure rose to 90 - about 91 - somewhere in that area. And then, throughout the burn, chamber pressure increased, which you'll see on the strip chart. But I was sure surprised at only 87 percent when we started it. It looked like the velocity gained versus time was correct throughout the burn, though. The maximum the chamber pressure ever got to was about 97 percent, and that was toward the end of the burn.
089:25:21	CC	Roger, Ron.
089:26:10	Cernan	A little disappointed here, Gordo. I brought an airborne and a ground geologist along with me and it took them until AOS to make sure they knew where we were.
089:26:20	Evans	Ha, ha, ha. That's not true.
089:26:23	CC	Roger.
089:26:25	Evans	My big problem was all the holes were hills when I first started. Looked just like you had the picture upside down.
089:26:32	CC	Roger, Ron. I have a couple pan camera photo pads for you.
089:26:50	Schmitt	Go ahead, Gordo.
089:26:52	CC	Okay, the first one goes in the Flight Plan at 90:45, and the start time is 090:50:32. Stop time is 091:10:57. Go ahead.
089:27:16	Schmitt	Okay, I got 090:50:32 and 091:10:57.
089:27:21	CC	Okay, and next one goes on the next page. Start time is 091:18:05. Stop time is 091:27:43.
089:27:45	Schmitt	91:18:05, 91:27:43.
089:27:53	CC	That's right.
089:27:57	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy, I turned the PAN CAMERA, OFF, there about 30 seconds ago and the post-SPS burn checks are complete. LOGIC - no, that's - well, just a minute. The post-SPS burns are complete down to LOGIC POWER, two, to DEPLOY/RETRACT. No, that's your Flight Plan. Okay? MODE is STANDBY.
089:28:32	Schmitt	MARK it. POWER is ON on the PAN CAMERA. Okay, Houston, we're waiting your cue on the power.
089:28:43	CC	Okay on that, and there'll be no update to the TEI-4 pad. Over.
089:28:51	Schmitt	Beautiful.
089:29:02	Schmitt	Here's Smythii, gang. Coming over Mare - No, let's see, Crisium. coming over Crisium. It's - coming underneath us now.
089:29:21	Schmitt	I will have in a jiffy. Okay, I'm going to hang off then a little bit. Get a - Boy, this window.
089:29:44	Cernan	And, Gordo, how did the spacecraft look to you as we came around?
089:29:50	CC	Real good, Geno. Nothing to report.
089:29:57	Cernan	Very fine. Thank you.
089:30:04	Schmitt	(Laughter) One little minor problem, Gordy, is that we're breathing so hard that the windows are fogging up on the inside for a change.
089:30:24	CC	Okay, and we'd like the PAN CAMERA POWER, off, now. The pan camera run; good.
089:30:38	Cernan	Beautiful.
089:30:43	Schmitt	Oh, boy, there is Picard - or Peirce, one of the two.
089:31:00	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy, all those dark and light albedo changes around Picard and Peirce are not obvious at this particular angle yet. There's some hint of them.
089:31:18	CC	Roger.
089:31:21	Schmitt	The - rim - is there one farther south of Peirce?
089:31:29	Schmitt	Which - is it far - is the one farthest - Picard, yes.
089:31:38	Schmitt	Picard, I think, is the one I'm looking at. Yes, it is. Yes, and I can see Peirce now just - behind the rendezvous antenna - or radar. And - Yes, way out there, you ought to start seeing them.
089:32:02	Evans	I guess I ought to get that other stuff on the camera, huh?
089:32:09	Schmitt	Okay. We're just about over the top of Picard, and the rim materials, which go out about a third of a crater in diameter, as near as I can tell, are - are distinctly darker but not by much. They're more gray, really, then the gray-tan, or tannish gray of the rest of the mare.
089:32:33	CC	Roger.
089:32:38	CC	Now we assume you're all set up or about to get that way for the landing site photos.
089:32:46	Schmitt	Yes, sir. There is no obvious ray pattern or secondary pattern outside of that blanket around Picard.
089:33:07	CC	Roger.
089:33:08	Schmitt	I see no loops or obvious alignment that would be related to that crater. There are blocks - look like great big blocky areas on the rim.
089:33:21	CC	Roger.
089:33:28	PAO	This is Apollo Control, some 6 minutes 13 seconds away from S-IVB impact. The traces - seismograph traces - from Apollo 14 and Apollo 16 will be visible in the news room video monitors. There will be a briefing in the small briefing room on the seismology of the impact. Some 5 minutes 43 seconds now away from S-IVB predicted impact.
089:34:08	Schmitt	Do they want the 80-millimeter lens on these terminators now?
089:34:32	Schmitt	There's Taruntius, Ron.
089:34:37	Schmitt	Yes, I guess that's right.
089:34:58	Schmitt	I've got to get another magazine on it.
089:35:11	CC	America, can you verify the position of the P - PU valve at this time for us?
089:35:18	Cernan	Roger. It's in NORMAL.
089:35:21	CC	Okay.
089:35:44	Schmitt	Macrobius, Macrobius, my friend.
089:35:46	Cernan	No, it's Microbus [sic].
089:35:57	Schmitt	Okay, I'm loaded up for your terminator, Ron. What's - is it not out of 105, or what? is it - Okay, 80-millimeter or -
089:36:13	Evans	80.
089:36:14	Schmitt	80 - -
089:36:15	Evans	... Millimeter ... f/ll at 1/500 ...
089:36:18	Schmitt	Okay.
089:36:19	Evans	80-millimeter.
089:36:21	Schmitt	Okay.
089:36:22	Evans	f/11 at 1/500.
089:36:23	Schmitt	Five frames over the terminator, huh?
089:36:25	Evans	12 frames.
089:36:26	Schmitt	12 frames. Very good. How soon do I start?
089:36:29	Evans	Well, about -
089:36:33	Schmitt	Okay.
089:36:36	Schmitt	Okay, in about 5 minutes, all right.
089:36:39	Schmitt	Gordy, you'd be interested - there's a crater that just on - on the west rim of Crisium. Relatively fresh rim - fairly crisp rim - but no strong ray pattern. There's no ray pattern apparent at all. It looks like it's pre - the plains material around it - that - since they come right up over the - right up to the edge of the crater in one spot. That is Posidonius. That's right. That's what I'm looking at.
089:37:20	CC	Roger.
089:37:26	Schmitt	Not Posidonius, Proclus. That's what I'm describing. You know I - You're looking where?
089:37:36	Cernan	... 41.
089:37:38	Schmitt	Infamous Proclus. Okay, give me a mark when I'm - Hey, look at the - -
089:37:50	Cernan	Okay, I'll give you a mark, Jack.
089:37:51	Schmitt	At the Cauchy Rilles here. Man, is that neat. Let me see. Going to have to -
089:38:06	Cernan	One right there with the shadowed peak in there. Right? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. And that's out of this window, huh? I'm not - sure I'm seeing it yet.
089:38:40	Schmitt	Manischewitz! Look at those terminators.
089:38:42	Cernan	Shadows.
089:38:44	PAO	One minute MARK to the S-IVB impact.
089:38:49	Schmitt	There's the mare domes for the central craters. They're certainly obvious. In - northern part of - Let's see -
089:39:05	Cernan	The lineations that trend to the northwest through this entire - entire section - they go through the - mostly through the highlands.
089:39:21	Schmitt	I can get the pictures. is it directly out of window 5? Okay. We've got about another minute and a half. I'm going to proceed here at 41.
089:39:32	Evans	It'll be right underneath the groundtrack. It's right under it.
089:39:35	Schmitt	Well, that's the way we're going. I'm taking them east-west.
089:39:38	Evans	Okay. I ...
089:39:40	Schmitt	O - yes. Okay.
089:39:49	Cernan	Hey, Jack, we're at - coming up on 40.
089:40:03	PAO	We had loss of signal right on time with the instrument unit of the Saturn IVB which - -
089:40:07	CC	... about a minute to PRO on P20.
089:40:09	Cernan	Yes. We're at 40 - Okay, I'm with you, Gordo. Thank you.
089:40:27	PAO	Seismic signals beginning to come in.
089:40:30	Evans	Okay, you got it.
089:40:38	Schmitt	Okay.
089:40:52	Cernan	Don't forget to PRO, Ron; you've got - you got 8 seconds.
089:41:01	Cernan	MARK it - 41. Okay, I guess you can - -
089:41:08	Schmitt	Goes. With the usual FAO flight planning, that was a good time.
089:41:17	CC	Roger.
089:41:18	Schmitt	Hey, you can even see horizon in the - earthshine out there.
089:41:26	Cernan	Boy, you sure can. You can see an earthlit horizon out there into the dark part of the Moon.
089:41:34	Schmitt	Can you see the landing site? I think it's going to be in the darkness.
089:41:37	Cernan	You know, I - it - The shadows are so contrasting here, Ron, that I -
089:41:44	Evans	Give me that thing a minute.
089:41:59	Schmitt	Donius [sic]. There's le Monnier, the landing site. I can't -
089:42:08	Cernan	No, it's just - it's just dark.
089:42:09	Schmitt	Isn't it a little north of track?
089:42:12	Cernan	No, I think it's right below us, Jack. I think it's right smack below us in darkness.
089:42:17	Schmitt	Yes, I yes, it is. I can't - I think I'm looking at Littrow right there, right below us. But I can't quite tell.
089:42:31	Cernan	If I could see Vitruvius, I'd have a better handle on it.
089:42:36	CC	A reminder to go to f/4 and 1/250 on the last six pictures.
089:42:44	Cernan	Roger. That's Posidonius all right, le Monnier; we're here early.
089:43:04	Schmitt	Boy, I tell you, there's no question that right at the terminator you - you pick up relief that you normally would not believe is there in the mare. I remember Bill Anders talking about the appearance of a sea swell within the mare itself and that's certainly clearly shown right at the terminator. Plus you start to see the shadows from all the very small craters that otherwise don't show up as much more that just little depressions, if that.
089:43:35	CC	Okay. We need ACCEPT so we can give you a landing site REFSMMAT.
089:43:44	Evans	Okay, you have it.
089:44:06	Schmitt	Yes. Okay, I think that will do her. Okay, Houston. I cheated. I took three extra pictures, and those were at 2.8 and a 250th at the end.
089:44:22	CC	Okay, Jack.
089:44:25	Schmitt	And, your - actually your times might have been a little off, because I was just about ready to lose the terminator because of the maneuver - are we maneuvering or have we? Yes. But, I think we got a good set going up to the terminator.
089:44:50	CC	Roger.
089:44:51	Schmitt	Plus a couple of shots - a few shots on the CEX mag Quebec Que - No, mag Kilo Kilo as we came around the Moon and that number's now on 20. Kilo Kilo is 20, and Quebec Quebec is 42.
089:45:16	CC	Okay, we need the IR, ON, now.
089:45:21	Schmitt	Okay, back to work.
089:45:28	CC	It's your computer; the up-link's in there, and you can go back to BLOCK.
089:45:30	Schmitt	IR going ON -
089:45:32	Schmitt	MARK it.
089:45:45	Schmitt	Yes, enough - enough tourist activity.
089:46:02	Schmitt	Warm in here, isn't it?
089:46:15	CC	America, a couple of items. Would you verify the S-BAND AUX TV switch is in the SCIENCE position? And one other thing, we think you were in LOW BIT RATE during the burn.
089:46:32	Schmitt	Okay, it's in SCIENCE and we very definitely were in HIGH BIT RATE during the burn by the checklist.
089:46:39	CC	Roger. We may have a problem there because it looks like LOW to us on the data. We'll check further.
089:47:01	Schmitt	Hey, Gordy, there was - Ron questioned - brought up the question or possibility of not having gone to COMMAND RESET; but, just before we left you, you'll probably be able to see that I went COMMAND RESET and turned on the tape, because I remember seeing the tape motion.
089:47:18	CC	Okay, Jack. We're discussing it - what happened there.
089:48:35	CC	America, you can go back to BLOCK.
089:51:52	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. How do you read 17?
089:51:55	CC	You're loud and clear, Jack.
089:51:59	Schmitt	Okay. Before we really got concentrating on the burn, and I had an opportunity to - we all had an opportunity to look at Korolev, at a very low grazing Sun, one of the striking things was the - to me was the extreme absence of relief, the very smooth surface that existed in Korolev, independent, of course, of the craters that are penetrating that surface. And it looked like there was a ring in the floor - outsi - next to the wall, about maybe one-sixth of a crater radius, that was somewhat brighter at the low grazing Sun, suggesting it may have had a different slope. And I believe I'm correct in saying that the inner floor may be slightly raised. We'll try to make other observations this next time around on that one, but there was just a very smooth floor. The light plains material in that crater is very smooth.
089:53:13	CC	Okay; understand. One quick word from FAO's - -
089:53:18	Schmitt	And, of course, that's independent - -
089:53:19	CC	- - film watchers here, has to do with optional photographs. We'd rather you take the optional photographs on either OO or PP and reserve KK for the scheduled photographs. And, as it stands now, we've got to reserve 80 frames on either OO or PP for scheduled photography. Over.
089:53:42	Schmitt	Okay, you have to keep track of that. We need - I was hoping we had an optional capability on our first rev, and we'll work it out.
089:53:53	CC	We do. We just want to put them on OO.
089:53:59	CC	That's right; just stick them on OO.
089:54:48	CC	Jack, the problem on the high and low bit rate there was a synchronization problem between you on the burn checklist and us on the ground on our pre-LOS command. No hardware problems, and I don't think it will be a problem in the future.
089:55:08	Schmitt	Okay. But you did lose the high bit rate. is that correct?
089:55:11	CC	That's affirmative. We just had low bit rate during the burn.
089:55:18	Schmitt	Okay. I may have jumped the gun on you there a little bit. But I thought we were supposed to do that just before we went AOS - LOS. I think I did it about a minute before.
089:55:32	CC	Okay. It was almost identi - simultaneous with our sending the command. You've got about 4 minutes to start looking at Copernicus coming here.
089:55:44	Schmitt	Okay. Thank you. We're just - Sun's Just setting.
089:56:07	Schmitt	Okay, I have a visual on Copernicus.
089:57:05	CC	And by the way, the S-IVB crunched in on time, and it's been ringing the ALSEP seismometers like mad for some time now.
089:57:42	Schmitt	VOX, and that's VOX. How do you read the LMP, Gordy?
089:57:45	CC	Loud and clear, Jack.
089:57:48	Schmitt	Thank you. Okay, good. All right, I've got a visual on Eratosthenes and Copernicus. The - they are obviously different-age craters in this light. You can see the ray patterns in Copernicus moderately well. You can even tell that they do cross Eratosthenes. Stadius shows up as a very clear dark area to the southwest of Eratosthenes. Now, one of the things that we mapped on the southeast and south rim of Copernicus were dark albedo areas within the ejecta. And those are apparent here, very clearly. And also, within - on the upper portion of the rim and on the benches, in that quadrant. The walls - there are the dark spots - lower albedo material that we mapped. They are - form linear patterns along the benches, apparently. Although the bench - the topography is not too clear. But the dark spots are in arcuate linear arrangement parallel to the rim. And they appear to have - be elongate along radius - along the radius of the crater.
089:59:34	CC	Roger, Jack.
089:59:36	Schmitt	This is in the southeast - southeast quadrant I'm referring to. Copernicus H is also very obvious as a dark-rimmed crater, relative to the albedo of the ejecta blanket. And the northwest quadrant, which we mapped as a smooth floor material and somewhat darker albedo, is just as apparent here, although all the contrasts, of course, are less. The main thing that you can pick out in earthshine are albedo distinctions. Now - now we - we - I remember that we also, at one time - and I can't remember whether it made the final map or not - mapped an arcuate fault structure, based on the change in albedo. And this was on the southwest quadrant of Copernicus. And that crossed the southern rim, more or less north-south, went down and curved across the floor and up the southwest rim, and that is a very clear arcuate pattern in this lighting. Darker albedo than the rest of the crater. And along the arc, there appear to be a couple or three even darker spots - much as we thought we saw in some of the early photography.
090:01:23	CC	Roger.
090:01:24	Schmitt	There is a general streaking - radial streaking - within that arcuate dark area that radiates radially from the crater, and if I had to project, the dark area would - north - whose northeast terminus is the arc in the crater, I'd project it off to southeast about crater diameter and a half, maybe. Now there's - I'm getting - essentially directly overhead, and again the dark spots within the crater wall are still apparent, and the streaming or the radial elongation of these spots is clear. Now, on the lower wall - that's below the first bench - I can see four of these dark areas, and on the next wall above that, above the first bench, there are two - two obvious ones and a couple that are somewhat more subtle.
090:02:43	CC	Okay - -
090:02:44	Schmitt	In the middle of the - -
090:02:45	CC	- - Can you see anything of the - that stuff we were wondering about in the central peaks?
090:02:51	Schmitt	No, Gordy, I can't. The - there's very little indication of relief in earthshine and particularly at this high Sun ang - high Earth angle, pardon the expression.
090:03:07	CC	Roger.
090:03:08	Schmitt	The central peaks do stand out, though, as a much lighter albedo area within the crater. It looks to me like the best thing you can do in earthshine is work with albedos. Knowing the general topography from the - from the pre - earlier photography. We're coming up on Kepler now. Copernicus is out of my view in window 5 - Maybe Ron sees it. Do you, Ron?
090:03:44	Evans	No, it's out of ny view now, too.
090:03:49	Schmitt	Okay, we, we - -
090:03:50	Cernan	Can you see Reinhold over there?
090:03:53	Schmitt	Reinhold, I was not conscious - Yes, I can see Reinhold. Reinhold is one of the craters just like Copernicus that may have contributed ejecta into the Apollo 12 soil. Do you see anything - -
090:04:05	Evans	An S - an S-IVB - l6's S-IVB hit out there to the south, I think.
090:04:10	Schmitt	Well, I don't - -
090:04:12	Evans	No, I don't think you1d see it.
090:04:13	Schmitt	I don't see anything that would indicate that. Reinhold is an Eratosthenian Age crater, as you may recall. It's crossed, very obviously even in this light, by the Copernican rays, which is prime - the main way we determine the age, other than it doesn't have any rays itself. Although, on the good photography we now have, we know it has secondary crater patterns around it.
090:04:41	Cernan	You're not looking at the same crater I am then.
090:04:46	Schmitt	Reinhold is right down here, Geno.
090:04:47	Cernan	Where are you looking ...
090:04:48	Schmitt	Well, it's south of Copernicus.
090:04:50	Cernan	Okay, I'm looking up here.
090:04:52	Schmitt	South and a little west.
090:04:54	Cernan	I don't have the same view you have.
090:04:58	Schmitt	Okay, I can see Lansberg now. And I'm afraid I can't shed any light, pardon the expression, on the old question we've had about the age of Lansberg relative to the mare.
090:05:16	CC	Okay.
090:05:25	Schmitt	Kepler ray pattern is very striking in this light, An anastomoting - mosing series of - of bands which only average being radial. In most cases, they're a little off radial, but by joining together, they give you a general radial pattern.
090:05:50	Cernan	I just wanted to see a -
090:05:52	Schmitt	Okay. Out the window 4, I have an excellent view of Kepler. Once again, albedo differences, such as the - are very clear - such as the distinction between the wall - light - or brighter wall materials and the rim which, in itself, is brighter than the surrounding mare. We can look right down some of the rays, and the rays are not completely linear. I'm looking now to the northwest. Gene, you can see Aristarchus way up there in the northwest. See it?
090:06:31	Cernan	Yes. It's coming into ...
090:06:32	Schmitt	You ought to have a good view of Aristarchus. Very bright, up in the northwest part of our field of view.
090:06:37	Cernan	The inside of that crater almost looks as if it's backlit.
090:06:41	Schmitt	That's right. Well, it should be (chuckle). Strangely enough.
090:06:45	Schmitt	And - but I want - these rays when contrast to the - maybe the feeling one would have that they are - once they get started, they form a linear pattern across the surface. They don't seem to have done that. As a matter of fact, they're quite strikingly curved along their pattern. They'll break from the general radius they're out on, curve away and then curve back. Some - all - let's see, there are one - one, two, three, four - four rays that go from out - to the northwest of Kepler, all of which show that nonlinear characteristic.
090:07:33	Cernan	Yes, they're all radial, though-
090:07:34	Schmitt	They are radial, in general. But when you look at them in detail, only portions of them are radial. And a single ray, which you can follow continuously, will bend and then curve back.
090:07:49	Evans	The - it's unique. We've got rays from - I guess those must be Copernicus over here - those long ones out to the right, which you might not be able to see. Kepler and Reiner are all - all intermingling up here.
090:08:05	Schmitt	Yes, this is the area now we're going over where the gamma ray work on 15 indicated a relatively high radioactivity. And - not yet, it's -
090:08:25	Evans	Houston, America here. Do you see the torquing angles?
090:08:31	Schmitt	I was going to look for the Hortensius domes near Copernicus, but got sidetracked with Kepler and missed them.
090:08:38	CC	Okay, ... torquing angles, Ron,
090:08:39	Schmitt	They are not obvious, though, in looking in the general direction -
090:08:44	Evans	Okay, I'll torque it to 845.
090:08:47	CC	Roger.
090:08:56	Schmitt	Okay, we're getting out into Procellarum - Oceanus Procellarum proper now and, before long, should pick up the medial ridge that makes that mare so distinctive from the other mare. Actually, the ridge that stretches something like 2000 kilometers north to south, if you want to tie a vari - a number of things together. And, probably is the lun - the Moon's closest analogy to an oceanic ridge, which has - which have been in the news over the last decade.
090:09:34	CC	Roger.
090:09:50	Schmitt	Once again, the topography of the Procellarum Mare is not clear in this light. It's just not quite enough light to give you strong, distinct shadows, at least not yet at this Earth angle.
090:10:07	CC	Okay. And as you get the camera set up for the orbital science pictures of Galois would want to change and use magazine OO instead of KK. That's listed in the Flight Plan at 90:20.
090:10:24	Schmitt	Okay, we'll - we'll do that.
090:10:32	Schmitt	Okay I'm - out of the window 4, I'm able to see some of the Rima Gamma materials, and it's - awful hard to say more than just the fact there is a very clear light-colored pattern off to the north - of our position at any rate. I think all I can say is that I've seen it. I can't give you much information on it.
090:11:17	CC	Okay.
090:11:20	Schmitt	We can see the area where Marius Hills should be, although it's not an obvious topographic feature in this light. Still see Aristarchus off up there shining like a star, if the Moon could have stars.
090:11:41	Evans	Okay, Houston. I'm going to torque those cos - coarse align errors out at 1, 2.
090:11:49	CC	Roger, Ron.
090:11:55	Schmitt	And - -
090:12:03	Cernan	You squared away?
090:12:08	Evans	It's good to be able to see some stars out of the telescope. It's the first time I've been able to see any.
090:12:14	Schmitt	Gordy, we have a - a very clear zero phase point for the earthlight. It's certainly not a strong contrast for the Sun, but it's out there. And within it, again, the fresh craters tend to brighten - quite a bit more than the surrounding mare. Still looking at Oceanus Procellarum. And now, out window 3, up to the northwest, Grimaldi is starting to show up - a very obvious dark area within the highlands of that part of the Moon - and one of the darkest mare regions that we have seen on the - on the Moon. It's comparable, at least in the photographs, to that of Tsiolkovsky.
090:13:26	CC	Roger.
090:13:27	Schmitt	Normally, of course, we think of the dark mare as being the younger basalt flows that - on the Moon, but in our case, of course, young means something on the order of 3 billion years or older.
090:13:45	CC	Roger.
090:13:45	Schmitt	For our interp - If we can extrapolate from the samples returned by other missions.
090:14:04	Schmitt	Amazing how far over - now the highlands to the west of Procellarum are - still are bright, and the contrast between fresh craters and the normal highland are very - are very obvious still in earthlight, particularly along the zero phase point with respect to the Earth. Rima Gamma now is - is coming a little bit closer to our oval track in the horseshoe in the - larger and more western end of it; the dark horseshoe is quite clear in this light. It's a west - or northwest-pointing horseshoe, as is the complete trend of that strange feature. I think Ron is going to have an excellent chance to study these light-colored swirls within the mare and other parts of the Moon. We had some good views of them and Mare Marginis and to the east of Crisium - Mare Crisium, and he should - if there is anything to be seen, he should be able to see it for - during the next few days.
090:15:36	CC	Okeydoke.
090:15:51	Cernan	Say, Gordo, something I Just noticed here in working with the GDC what have you. I - looked at the PC gauge, and in the PZ - PC position, there is a continuous bias on it now of about, oh, 7 percent, and if I switch to ALPHA, it goes to zero. We never saw that bias before this last burn.
090:16:16	CC	Roger, Gene.
090:16:35	Schmitt	Hey, Gordy, I'm looking right up the western edge of the Procellarum mare where it contacts the - the - the high - western highlands of the Moon, and we're just about to fly a little bit south of Grimaldi. That edge is very irregular. There is no obvious indications that it - there are large basins that have been flooded by mare that have formed that edge, but, again, the topographic distinctions possible in this light are small. Now I'm starting to see that there are shadows in the craters.
090:17:22	CC	Roger.
090:17:23	Schmitt	That's the small craters. There, in the Mare Procellarum closest to Grimaldi, there are two arcuate rilles. Looks like they're probably V-shaped in their cross section. I'm sure we've seen those on the photographs much better than I can see them here. Those - the rille patterns, though, do seem to project over into the highlands.
090:18:03	CC	Okay.
090:18:04	Schmitt	To the north of that - to the north of that bay of mare. Just interrupt.
090:18:11	Schmitt	Hey, I just saw a flash on the lunar surface!
090:18:16	CC	Oh, yes?
090:18:18	Schmitt	It was just out there north of Grimaldi. Just north of Grimaldi. You might see if you got anything on your seismometers, although a small impact probably would give a fair amount of visible light.
090:18:32	CC	Okay. We'll check.
090:18:34	Schmitt	It was a bright little flash right out there near that crater. See the crater right at the edge of Grimaldi. Then there is another one north of it. Fairly sharp one north of it is where there was just a pin prick of light.
090:18:51	CC	How about putting an X on the map where you saw it.
090:18:52	Schmitt	I keep looking occasionally for - yes, we will. I - I was planning on looking for those kind of things. Starting to see the edge of Orientale, Gordy. Way off to the west. Hey, just yell, Gene, anytime you - -
090:19:47	Schmitt	Gordy, to the north of Grimaldi there is a large basin that is about the same size but only incompletely filled with mare in its northeastern quadrant. The rest of it looks like a fairly irregular and hummocky floor material of some kind.
090:20:11	CC	Roger.
090:20:12	Schmitt	But it's almost the same size as Grimaldi. It even looks like it is a little bit deeper, but, of course, Grimaldi has considerable fill. Grimaldi on its eastern edge has some of the graben, or it's rim, if you will, is cut by three or four anastomosing grabens that make it look like some of the bench areas in the larger basins.
090:21:00	Schmitt	Okay, the first ring of Orientale is showing up. The inner - next ring in is extremely obvious; got some very bright east - east-facing slopes.
090:21:17	Cernan	I'll turn off the intercom.
090:21:24	Schmitt	It has some very bright east-facing slopes, and you can see the bands of mare that are filling the - both the first bench area and the inner bench.
090:21:53	Schmitt	Any time you need us, Gordy, just interrupt me.
090:21:57	CC	Okay; we'll do that.
090:22:03	Schmitt	Now, as I look north along the first bench, that's the first bench from the outside, one inside the Cordillerian ring. I better check that; I may have my names mixed up. Got Orientale, there - handy? ... see. Should be on there. Yes, this is what I need. What's the name - they got a name on that ridge, there? That's Rook Mountains. Yes, the Cordillera. Yes, that's right. Looking just west of the Cordillera on the first bench, as I look north, in this light, which is casting some shadows now, Gordy, over in here, it looks extremely smooth. Now this is not mare; it's lighter albedo, lighter reflectivity than the mare, and, although there are patches of mare in the lower areas in it. But looking along that plain, in fact, a lar - a long linear plain, it - it looks quite smooth with only some very broad undulations that appear to be roughly radial to Orientale itself. The more - closer we get to it, the more I see minor relief showing up. I start to see the shadows, I guess. And that relief seems to bring out a hummocky texture in - in addition to the craters you would expect to see there.
090:23:59	CC	Roger.
090:24:00	Schmitt	I won't try to give you a trend on the hummocks because I think the shadows are biasing my view; they do ap pear to be north-south trending, but I think that is because of the shadow patterns. This is a spectacular sight, you guys; you ought to take a look at Orientale. One of the largest fresh basins on the Moon. It still is probably 4 billion years old, or 3.8 at any rate, if our dating criteria are any - any good. It has the outer Cordillerian ring and the inner ring called the Rook Mountains - very, very nicely shown. There are massifs on that inner ring, the Rook Mountain ring; there are massif complexes much like what we'll be studying at Taurus-Littrow. There are low areas, nonmare areas, that are comparable to some - to the Taurus - the valley that we'll be landing in. And, all in all, I think we'll find that our ring in the Taurus-Littrow area around Serenitatis is comparable in many regards to this Rook Mountain ring around Orientale. You want - did you interrupt, Gordy?
090:25:34	CC	No. I didn't say anything.
090:25:38	Schmitt	Okay; I thought I heard your key. Okay; in the inner portion of Orientale, as we approach a terminator, the lighting is still excellent. Matter of fact, it appears brighter than what we were looking at over at Copernicus. Now, part of that may be we're seeing much sharper relief since the slope - Earth-facing slopes are nicely lit, and the backfacing slopes, of course, are in shadow. The first portion of the bench inside the Rook Mountains is partially filled by mare. Now, the higher land in there is very smooth, in a gross sense, is a very smooth hummocky terrain, cut by roughly circumferential grabens. The trend of the hummocks themselves are not radial; they're more - well, they're about a 45-degree angle to the radius. They, in detail, have a much finer hackly texture, much like we've been able to see on photographs before. And, in general, you get the impression that, in several areas here, that that hackly tex-tured surface is draped over material that resembles the massifs of the Rook Mountains themselves. There's one area just to the north now of our track where there's a large, roughly equidimensional mountain mass, with a few projections of massiflike peaks through this hackly textured surface.
090:27:47	CC	Roger.
090:27:47	Schmitt	There are also some radial grabens; I just now picked one up, which we've also seen on the Orientale photographs taken by Lunar Orbiter. It's amazing how fresh appearing this basin looks, considering its great age. But it's - it probably is not - had any more violent a history than Imbrium. Now, we're getting up, just about to go over a delta-rim crater that's out in the basin. I don't remember the name of it offhand. But it's - be familiar to some of the geologists who have mapped this basin. It does not appear to have a strong impact ejecta blanket around it. It's filled with mare, and it's quite sharply in contrast to a crater of comparable size to the northwest. See that one, Ron; I don't know whether you can get it. I get a good view out of 5 now of that one. And, once again, it looks as if this hackly textured material that forms the higher hills in the inner bench - has a draped appearance over the, over preexisting terrain, and, in fact, along the ridges of the hummocks, you - we now can pick up little rilles that roughly parallel the hummocks, although not - not - not consistently. They do cross down into the valleys. But it has appearance that there may have been a tensional relief along the crest of each of the hummocks, or many of the hummocks.
090:29:53	CC	Roger.
090:29:53	Schmitt	Delta-rim crater just as has been, I think, discussed in the literature, has just that, delta rim with no obvious ejecta blanket around it, compared to other larger craters within the basin. We're directly over that crater right now. It's filled with mare, very smooth mare. Matter of fact, within that fill, I can see no - no craters. Getting very close to the Earth terminator, but you see good texture in the ejecta blanket of the large crater in the north part of the inner basin of Orientale. The radial ridge and valley patterns are very clear; the concentric coarse hummocks near the rim are apparent; and you can even see the second - patterns of secondaries, the larger secondaries, extending out away - radially out away from that crater. The south - the mare fill in the south floor of Copernicus, I mean of Orientale, is very smooth but does have the sea-swell texture that we saw over in Tranquillitatis.
090:31:30	Cernan	Better let him say something before AOS.
090:31:40	CC	I ain't got nothing to say.
090:31:40	Cernan	Houston, I guess we're getting close to AOS. We're getting close to AOS. Do you have some words for us?
090:31:51	CC	Okay. We show about 9 minutes to LOS. We'd like to clarify one thing, and that was on this tape recorder commands and high and low bit rate. And we just want to make it clear that preburn the 6 minute callout is HIGH BIT RATE, RECORD, FORWARD, COMMAND RESET. Did you - did you tell us a few minutes ago that you did indeed do all those at about 6 minutes?
090:32:26	Schmitt	Yes, Gordy, I certainly thought I did, but I can't specifically - I know the HIGH BIT RATE was there, because we switched to LOW later. I can't - I'm afraid I can't specifically verify the COMMAND RESET.
090:32:43	Cernan	Gordy, I can specifically say that when those - after the bus stars came on, we called that out. I'm almost sure Jack did get it, because I had him then check the helium valves and the nitrogen - helium and the nitrogen valves,
090:32:58	CC	Okay. We're just trying to make sure if we - or to determine if we do have a switch problem. The INCO did send LOW BIT RATE, COMMAND, just prior to - to LOS there before LOI, which is the way it's called out in the Flight Plan. And then you should have come along later with a COMMAND RESET, setting the switch to HIGH BIT RATE, and the COMMAND RESET switched into HIGH BIT RATE mode, and for some reason it did not go into HIGH BIT RATE.
090:33:41	Schmitt	Well, you want to test it out here, before we go around?
090:33:46	CC	That's a pretty good thought. I think we will. On stand by. We'll give you - we'll figure out how we're going to do it here.
090:34:25	CC	Okay, Jack. We just now commanded LOW BIT RATE, and you're in LOW BIT RATE. We'd like you now to select HIGH and COMMAND RESET.
090:34:41	Schmitt	Okay. Gordy, you also have an oscillation in uplink signal strength and a clicking in the - in the audio. Do you read? We just went steady and at about 60 percent - 70 percent signal strength.
090:34:59	CC	Roger. We hear that.
090:35:03	Schmitt	Okay. I'm going to - you want me to go ahead and command HIGH and COMMAND RESET?
090:35:11	CC	That's affirmative. The HIGH GAIN just went WIDE BEAM, but we're still reading you loud and clear. Go ahead in HIGH BIT RATE and COMMAND RESET.
090:35:20	Schmitt	Okay. HIGH BIT RATE; COMMAND RESET.
090:35:36	CC	Okay; it seems to have worked properly, Jack.
090:35:46	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. I may not have got the COMMAND RESET at 6 minutes. I - I - I just can't tell you right now.
090:35:57	CC	Okay; I want to assure you it was no big problem as far as the burn goes. No great loss there.
090:36:08	Schmitt	I hope not.
090:36:32	CC	America, Houston. About 5 minutes to LOS now. We'd like to have you go ahead and get the jet inhibits and the covers open as shown in the Flight Plan so we can see that before we lose you.
090:37:00	Schmitt	Okay; Gordy. IR COVER is coming OPEN.
090:37:04	Schmitt	MARK it.
090:37:05	CC	Roger.
090:37:09	Schmitt	Okay; UV COVER coming OPEN -
090:37:13	Schmitt	MARK it.
090:37:16	CC	Roger.
090:37:25	Schmitt	And you want me to stay in HIGH BIT RATE?
090:37:28	CC	That's affirmative. You're there. You're going to have to do it in a minute anyway, so since you're there already, stay there.
090:37:38	Schmitt	Okay. We're there; we've got tape motion.
090:37:43	CC	Okay.
090:37:49	Cernan	Gordy, the deadban - or the A/C - B/D, A/C roll has been changed, and you should have the proper jet configuration now.
090:37:58	CC	Okay. We see it; it looks good, Geno.
090:38:03	Cernan	Okay.
090:38:59	Schmitt	Okay; if you're still with us, we're going to OPEN up the MAPPING CAMERA/LASER ALTIMETER COVER.
090:39:04	CC	Okay, Jack.
090:39:28	Schmitt	Okay. We're going to EXTEND the MAPPING CAMERA.
090:39:34	CC	Roger on that.
090:39:35	Schmitt	Okay. Okay.
090:39:38	Schmitt	MARK. Barber pole.
090:39:42	CC	Roger.
090:39:42		BEGIN LUNAR REV 2
090:40:03	PAO	This is Apollo control. We're estimating a change of shift briefing at 3:45 Houston time, 1 minute and 16 seconds away from Loss of Signal on this first lunar revolution. Participants in the flight director change of shift briefing will be Gerry Griffin who has been in charge of the gold flight team, Dr. Royce Hawkins the flight surgeon, and Charlie Dumis the EECOM. At 90 hours 40 minutes Ground Elapsed Time this is Apollo control.
090:41:00	PAO	This is Apollo control at 90 hours 41 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. We've had loss of signal. As the Apollo 17 spacecraft coasted behind the Moon on the first lunar orbit currently in an orbit measuring 52.6 by 168.6 nautical miles. It will be up again in about 47 minutes or approximately. The tables are not up on the display here on the next acquisition of signal as to the next time the spacecraft comes around on the second lunar orbit. Change of shift briefing at 3:45 approximately 10 minutes from now in the small briefing room building 1 news room. Participants Flight Director Gerry Griffin, flight surgeon Dr. Royce Hawkins, and the EECOM Charlie Dumis. At 90 hours 42 minutes Ground Elapsed Time this is Apollo control.
091:23:40	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 91 hours 23 minutes. We're 23 seconds away from acquiring Apollo 17 on it's second revolution of the Moon. During this pass, we will send up a DOI 1 pad. That's instructions to the crew for the Descent Orbit Insertion maneuver. We should be acquiring any time now. We'll stand by for the first call.
091:24:34	Evans	Okay, Houston. We're with you on the OMNI Delta.
091:24:42	CC	Roger, Ron. Read you loud and clear.
091:24:48	Cernan	Okay, Robert. We should have gotten everything right on up through AOS here in the Flight Plan.
091:24:57	CC	Good show.
091:25:01	Cernan	And the pan camera should be running right now.
091:25:28	Evans	Okay, Houston. America here. We stopped the orbital photo path, frame 59. And at about the sub-stellar point, we took 59 to 66, and frame 67 was taken of the, oh, the dark slide on the corner of Lobachevsky.
091:25:57	CC	Roger, America.
091:26:34	Schmitt	Those frames that Ron mentioned - this is Jack - that he mentioned were taken of a area where there's a much lighter gray albedo. Rather than the tannish gray, it's pure gray material that generally is on the rim crest of a number of craters. It may be related to the swirls that we see elsewhere.
091:27:05	CC	Roger, Jack.
091:27:56	Schmitt	Bob, we're abeam of Al-Biruni and coming up on Goddard and Margin is right now.
091:28:08	CC	Roger, America. We're tracking you on the map here, watching it.
091:28:14	Schmitt	Okay.
091:28:24	Schmitt	Al-Biruni has got a - a variation in the - its floor, variations in albedo. It almost looks like a pattern as if water were flowing on a beach. It's that irregular. Not in great areas, but in small areas around on the southern side, and the part that looks like it's a water-washing pattern is of a much lighter albedo, although I cannot see any real source for it. The texture, however, looks about the same.
091:28:56	CC	Roger, Jack.
091:29:26	Evans	And Houston, America. For your info, it took an hour - an hour (laughter) - a minute and 45 seconds for the map - your mapping camera to extend and a minute and 45 for it to retract.
091:29:39	CC	Roger, Ron. Copy. 1:45, extend and retract.
091:29:52	Cernan	Bob, what's our altitude now?
091:29:57	CC	Looks like you're crossing - you're just about 90 miles, but we'll firm that up here, Gene. You're 90.8 - -
091:30:06	Cernan	Okay.
091:30:06	CC	- - America.
091:30:10	Cernan	Okay; thank you.
091:30:18	Schmitt	Bob, this is Jack. And the question of these irregular swirls that we've got in Mare Marginis, and we are looking just north of Nep - Neper now. I tell you, in the mare, there just is no visible relief. Although there seem to be some sinuous systematics anyway to the distribution. Like, there'll be a very dark area associated with the light area. And that dark area is darker than the mare. I think the pictures will show that. Now, in the highlands, however, the - the light albedo areas, which are very comparable, that appear to be swirllike patterns of the same type, seem to be associated with a crest of crater ridges and other high points. We're on over - right over a concentration of these now in the northern part of Marginis, where the rule of a - of the light areas being associated with a - either - either symmetrically around a much darker area than the normal mare, or on one side, and in this case, generally the south side - of a dark area is - that rule is very clear. And that also seemed to hold in the back side that there was a slightly darker region between areas of light-colored swirls.
091:32:42	CC	Roger, Jack. We understand, and we're standing by. We have a DOI pad and some other updates.
091:32:51	Schmitt	Okay. We'll go back to work.
091:33:21	CC	America, Houston. We'd like PAN CAMERA, OFF.
091:33:31	Cernan	You're reading our minds, Bob.
091:33:32	Schmitt	It's OFF.
091:33:34	CC	Roger.
091:33:34	Cernan	It's off.
091:33:35	CC	PAN CAMERA'S OFF, and we'd like ACCEPT. We've got the DOI target load, the CSM state vector, PIPA - and an SPS tailoff constant.
091:33:49	Cernan	Okay; you've got ACCEPT, Bob.
091:33:51	CC	Roger, Gene. And there will be no PIPA bias.
091:33:56	Cernan	Okay.
091:34:47	Schmitt	Bob, I can start with that pad if you want to.
091:34:50	CC	Roger. We're standing by. I'll start with D0I-1. Are you ready to copy?
091:34:59	Schmitt	Go ahead.
091:35:00	CC	Purpose: DOI-1, SPS/G&N; 40035; plus 1.90, minus 0.64; 093:11:36.60. NOUN 8l's minus 01916, all balls for DELTA-Vy. DELTA-Vz, is plus 0047-8; 000, 228, 000; 0058.9, plus 0014.5; 0197.4, 0:22, 0192.1; sextant star is 45, 187.5, 19-1. Let me say trunnion again; it's 19-1. The rest of the pad is not applicable. Set stars will be Sirius and Rigel; 133, 200, 030. Four jet, 15 second on the ullage. Other comments: overburn limits, DELTA-V one seven - 17 feet per second; burn time, 2 seconds. Over.
091:37:11	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. Ready for a readback. DOI-1, SPS/G&N; 40035; plus 1.90, minus 0.64; 093:11:36.60; minus 01916, all zeros, plus 0047-8; all zeros, 228, all zeros; 0058.9, plus 00l4.5; 0197-4, 0:22, 0192.1; 45, 187.5, 19-1. Rest of pad is NA. Sirius and Rigel; 133, 200, 030. Four jets, 15 seconds ullage - Overburn limits: DELTA-V 7 - 17 feet per second; burn time, 2 seconds.
091:38:14	CC	Roger, Jack. Good readback. Okay; I've got a map update for - at 93:38 in the Flight Plan.
091:38:33	Evans	Okay; go ahead. I have it.
091:38:35	CC	Okay, Ron. AOS without burn, 93:31:37; with burn is 34:24. Over.
091:38:52	Evans	Okay. Without, 93:31:37; with burn is 34:24.
091:38:58	CC	Roger, Ron. I've got a - You can go back to BLOCK, Ron. And on that same page with the J-3, I've got the T-horizon and TCA.
091:39:17	Evans	Okay; ready to copy. Go ahead.
091:39:19	CC	Okay. You can go to BLOCK on the computer. T-horizon time 93:48:04; TCA minus 20 is 93:50:44. Over.
091:39:41	Evans	Okay. T-horizon, 93:48:04; TCA minus 20 is 50:44.
091:39:48	CC	Roger. Good readback.
091:39:51	CC	Okay, Ron. Over at 93:52, 93:52, we've got a difference in the NOUN 89 value.
091:40:04	Evans	Okay; go ahead.
091:40:05	CC	Okay. the NOUN 89s have changed to the following: NOUN 89, the first one, plus 20.284, plus 15.151, minus 001.96. Over.
091:40:36	Evans	Okay. It's a plus 20.284, and a plus 15.151, and a minus 001.96.
091:40:45	CC	Roger, Ron. And here's a note for you. The landmark is F Crater, located on landing site - picture 4 of 4 in the Lunar Landmark Maps. Over.
091:41:03	Evans	Okay. Understand.
091:41:08	CC	Okay; and I've got a TEI minus 5 pad. Over.
091:41:26	Schmitt	Okay; go ahead. TEI-5.
091:41:29	CC	Roger , Jack. TEI minus 5: SPS/G&N; 38570; plus 0.49, plus 0.92; 098:39:43.24. NOUN 8ls, plus 2329.8, minus 2403.1, minus 1152.8; 193, 099, 318. The rest of the pad is all not applicable. Set stars, Sirius and Rigel; 133, 200, 030. Ullage four jet, 12 seconds. Comments: burn undocked; assumes a DOI. Over.
091:42:58	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. TEI-5, SPS/G&N; 38570; plus 0.49, plus 0.92; 098:39:43.24; plus 2329.8, minus 2403.1, minus 1152.8; 193, 099, 318. Rest of pad NA. Sirius and Rigel; 133, 200, 030. Ullage: four jets for 12 seconds. Comment 1: burn undocked; comment 2: assume DOI.
091:43:41	CC	Good readback, Jack.
091:43:49	Schmitt	Okay. What else can we do for you?
091:43:52	CC	Stand by 1, here. I've got an addition for Ron on that comment about that F Crater landmark. Let me get it. It's right here, and I'll come right up to Ron on it.
091:44:02	Evans	Okay; I'll stand by.
091:44:19	CC	Ron, this additional comment will have - the crater is 8 nautical miles north of your track. You will lose the landmark at a 36-degree elevation angle. Over.
091:44:41	Evans	Okay. It's 8 miles north, and I'll lose it at 30 degrees. Okay; so that'll be pretty quick.
091:44:47	CC	Thirty-six degrees; pretty quick still.
091:45:06	Evans	Is that the one on Family Mountain?
091:45:11	CC	Stand by on that, Ron. Let me look at the book here. And I'll get Farouk to help me out on that one.
091:46:40	Evans	Okay, Houston. I've got F Crater, now. I'm all squared away. Thank you.
091:46:45	CC	Okay, Ron. It's - it's right in the middle of that landing site 4 of 4 which is right before Ignin in the book on your - on the Landmark Tracking Book. And it's right dead center on that page.
091:47:01	Evans	Okay, I've got it now. I wrote down 404; it's 4 of 4.
091:47:06	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. We've got a good shot of the landing site.
091:47:09	CC	Roger. Understand. And Roger, Ron.
091:47:27	Schmitt	The shadows, Bob, go all the way across the Scarp and very long pyramiding shadows go all the way past Family Mountain. It looks like the Sculptured Hills are lit up on this side, but it almost puts the entire North Massif in shadow, from where I stand.
091:48:05	CC	America, Houston.
091:48:06	Schmitt	Quite an interesting place to land down there.
091:48:12	CC	America, Houston.
091:48:21	Cernan	We can now, I think, see contrast down in the shadow. And the only part of the scarp that is visible - I think Jack picked it out - as being right where Lara is.
091:48:41	CC	Roger. America, Houston.
091:48:47	Schmitt	Roger; go ahead.
091:48:49	CC	Roger. Just some words in your - You'll be going through your systems checklist here and you'll probably see that it says dump the waste water if it's greater than 85 percent and you are at about 89.6 percent. We'd - we'd like you not to dump the waste water until the nominal time in the Flight Plan. Do not dump the waste water during this systems check. Over.
091:49:12	Cernan	Okay, and I understand that was about 94 hours as I recall.
091:49:17	CC	That's affirmative. That's where the nominal time is and that is where we'd like it dumped.
091:49:22	Cernan	Okay.
091:49:36	Cernan	Bob, that's a - a fantastic black-and-white shot of the landing area with the shadow stretching across most of it.
091:49:45	CC	Roger. Understand.
091:50:35	Cernan	Bob, I can now see down in through the shadow. I can see - Bare Mountain, I can see - I can't really make out the - the slide yet. Most of the North Masstif - Massif are still in shadow due to the - due to the Sculptured Hills. And just at the point where we can start really to see through the shadows and see the - some hummocky terrain on the North Massif, it just went out of my next reach. But, I did see some sort of albedo change that went across the canyon about in the vicinity of the - of the scarp.
091:52:20	Schmitt	Bob, with respect to the landing site - this is Jack - when we had near - or were closer to low phase angle, approaching it - when I first had it in view - there was a clear lightening in the area of the light mantle. It was not sharply defined, but around the crater Lara and Nansen and to the west of the scarp - there was very clearly, slightly brighter - reflectivity.
091:53:00	CC	Roger, Jack.
091:54:51	PAO	Apollo 17's orbit is 168.8 by 52.5 nautical miles. Present altitude 154.9 nautical miles moving towards apolune.
091:56:27	Cernan	Houston, America. The MAPPING CAMERA and LASER ALTIMETER COVERS are CLOSED. I'm going to ENABLE A-l, A-2, and C-2.
091:56:35	CC	Roger, Gene.
091:56:48	Evans	Yes, it looks like the old gravity gradient worked there or something. I didn't see it get out of attitude at all. Did you all see any movement at all?
091:57:00	CC	Max error was about 0.2 - 0.3 of a degree, Ron.
091:57:08	Evans	Okay.
091:57:36	Schmitt	I'm sorry, Houston. I should have cued you on changing the SPS pressure indicators. You want to see that again?
091:57:47	CC	Stand by on that.
091:58:32	CC	Jack, it's not required to go back and do them again. We watched it on telemetry.
091:58:39	Schmitt	Okay. I'll try to remember to be a little more informative.
091:58:46	CC	No problem, Jack; no problem.
092:08:52	Evans	Okay, Houston. There are the torquing angles.
092:08:56	CC	Roger. We see them. They look good.
092:09:04	Evans	Just for another little matter of interest - once the Earth is in the field of view, which it's about - looks like it must be about 12 degrees from Regulus - it's so bright, that it blacks out any - blanks out the telescope for any star recognition. However, it worked real good, in the sextant. You can see the star real well. You just have to assume it's Regulus, though.
092:09:29	CC	Roger. Would that star angle difference - -
092:09:31	Evans	Okay, I'll torque at 30.
092:09:35	Evans	I torqued at 30 - 09:30.
092:09:39	CC	Roger. We copy.
092:09:42	Evans	And the first - the first star angle difference was - you know, you can get a little bit lax about it - if you want to spend a little time at it, you can get five balls every time, looks like.
092:09:57	CC	Roger, Ron. With that star angle difference on the second one, I can assume it was Regulus. I think you're safe in your assumption.
092:10:07	Evans	Oh, yes. Right.
092:10:11	Cernan	He had to do it, or else I'd have to go down there and do it.
092:10:14	CC	Roger.
092:11:02	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 92 hours 11 minutes. Apollo 17 now at the highest point of it's orbit, 168.8 nautical miles. 37 minutes remaining before loss of signal on this revolution.
092:14:06	CC	America, Houston. P40 looks good.
092:14:12	Evans	Okay. Mighty fine; we'll go ahead and maneuver to attitude then.
092:14:17	CC	Roger.
092:15:17	Cernan	Houston, I think I put the wrong number in on the PITCH. We'll correct it. It's 228, isn't it?
092:15:26	CC	That's affirmative, Gene.
092:15:31	Cernan	Okay, we'll fix that.
092:16:37	PAO	This is Apollo control. Apollo 17 is maneuvering to the proper attitude for Descent Orbit Insertion maneuver. This will put the crew heads down.
092:18:09	CC	America, Houston. We'd like the HIGH GAIN to AUTO.
092:18:20	Cernan	You've got it.
092:18:22	CC	Roger.
092:21:48	CC	America, Houston. We'd like you to hold off switching to OMNI Charlie until we cue you on that.
092:21:58	Cernan	Wilco.
092:22:43	Schmitt	Bob, this is Jack.
092:22:45	CC	Go ahead, Jack.
092:22:49	Schmitt	Was there any indication on the seismometers of an impact, about the time I thought I saw a light flash on the surface?
092:22:59	CC	Stand by that - we'll check on that, Jack.
092:23:05	Schmitt	Don't worry about it. Some - I thought somebody was looking at it. It could have been one of the other light flashes.
092:23:15	CC	Roger. We copied the time and - -
092:23:17	Schmitt	I have a place marked.
092:23:17	CC	- - passed it to the back room.
092:23:22	Schmitt	Okay, I got it marked on the map, too.
092:31:19	Cernan	Okay, Bob. The star sextant checks out okay.
092:31:23	CC	Roger, Gene. Good show.
092:33:02	PAO	Flight Director, Pete Frank, now checking all flight control positions for a GO NO-GO on the Descent Orbit Insertion burn. He's getting a GO from all positions.
092:34:41	CC	America, Houston. You are GO for DOI and you can leave the high gain selected. We're holding good.
092:34:50	Cernan	Okay, Robert. DOI. ... the high gain.
092:34:58	CC	Ro - Gene, say again. You were way down in the mud on that one. Can you say again, please?
092:35:07	Cernan	Roger; understand. We are GO for DOI, and you have the high gain.
092:35:11	CC	That's affirmative, Gene. Just -
092:35:24	Schmitt	Hey, Bob, I know I've argued against this kind of thing, but you got tenths on that burn time?
092:35:36	CC	It's 0.1 on that.
092:35:43	Schmitt	Okay, 0.1.
092:35:44	CC	Jack, just some words from the back room on you. The - There may have been an impact at the time you called, but the Moon is still ringing from the S-IVB impact. So it's masked any other - would mask any other impact. So they may be able to strip it out at a later time, but right now they don't see anything at your called time.
092:36:05	Schmitt	Just my luck.
092:40:37	Schmitt	Bob, log us for a picture of the Earth at 92:40 on mag Oscar Oscar. And we're on frame 68.
092:40:53	CC	Roger, Jack; we've got that.
092:40:59	Schmitt	You've got a lot of healthy weather out there in the Pacific today. Looks like most of those things we talked about yesterday, up in the Hawaii region and also in the south, have intensified.
092:41:17	CC	Roger.
092:45:37	CC	America, Houston. We're about 3 minutes until LOS and everything is looking great. No changes since our GO for DOI. We'll expect to see you at 93:34:24.
092:45:53	Cernan	We'll see you at 93:34:24, Bob.
092:45:57	CC	Roger, Gene.
092:49:03	PAO	This is Apollo control at 92 hours 49 minutes. And, we've had loss of signal as Apollo 17 goes behind the Moon. During this pass Jack Schmitt saw a flash just north of the crater Grimaldi at an elapsed time of 90 hours 18 minutes and thought it might be a meteor impact. We could not confirm that; however, the Moon was still ringing from the S-IVB impact and would mask out other activity on seismometer recorders in the science support room here. Apollo 17 will perform the Descent Orbit Insertion maneuver behind the Moon just after the start of the third revolution and at a point near perilune the low point in that revolution. Ignition time for that maneuver is 93 hours 11 minutes 36 seconds. Delta-V change of velocity of 197.4 feet per second. Duration of the burn 22 seconds and we anticipate a result orbit of 58.9 by 14.5 nautical miles. If the burn is performed as expected we'll next acquire Apollo 17 at 93 hours 34 minutes 24 seconds. If Apollo 17 is unable to perform the burn acquisition time will be 93 hours 31 minutes 37 seconds. We'll come back up just prior to the no burn acquisition time and stand by through that period of several minutes. At 92 hours 51 minutes this is mission control Houston.
093:30:00	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 93 hours 30 minutes. We're a minute and a half away from acquisition without a burn, 4 minutes 10 seconds away from acquisition given a nominal Descent Orbit Insertion burn. Acquisition between those two times would indicate a partial burn of some kind. We'll leave the line up now.
093:31:55	PAO	We've passed the no-burn AOS time and do not have a signal. That's an encouraging sign that we did perform a maneuver.
093:33:24	PAO	One minute to nominal AOS.
093:34:25	PAO	We have a signal, right on the money.
093:34:50	Cernan	Hello, Houston; America.
093:34:54	CC	America, Houston. Go ahead.
093:35:00	Cernan	Okay. And the burn was good on all counts, 22-second burn. It was on time, Vgx, 1982; roll after the burn, 357, 225, and 003. Residuals were plus 0, plus 0.2, and plus 0.1. DELTA-Vc is 0.1, and that was with DELTA-V total set into the EMS. Should have been - should been zero and the residual on the EMS was plus 0.1. OXIDIZER's 305, and FUEL is 311 and an UNBALANCE of 150 DECREASE. We're in a 59.1 by 14.9.
093:35:55	CC	Okay, America; sounds great.
093:36:01	Cernan	It looks pretty great.
093:36:14	Cernan	We're getting back down among us where us plain folks belong.
093:36:20	CC	Roger.
093:36:45	PAO	Those orbital numbers are an on-board readout, we'll confirm those m a few minutes after some tracking.
093:41:00	Schmitt	Houston, this is the LMP. There seem to be two general kinds of ray patterns: those associated with a lot of secondaries and light colored, and those that have no visible secondaries. And that's independent, yet, from the irregular light-colored areas we've been calling swirls.
093:41:22	CC	Roger, Jack. We're copying.
093:42:14	Schmitt	Houston, there also - a lot more - there is - there is a lot more of that light-colored swirl-like irregular material, or discoloration - if - whatever you want to call it, in the back side highlands, particularly as we approach Marginis, than I had previously gathered from the available photography.
093:42:48	CC	Roger, Jack.
093:42:54	Schmitt	And there still seems to be no relief associated with it. Although, in many cases, it seems to follow ridge lines, or crater rims part way. In other cases, it's quite irregular in its distribution.
093:43:09	CC	Okay.
093:43:32	Evans	And bank A, that time, with the chamber pressure, was up to 95.
093:43:38	CC	Roger, Ron. And we got tracking data on you; has a 13.1 perigee - peri - perilune, rather.
093:43:49	Cernan	Roger.
093:43:49	Evans	Okay, that's great, Bob, and we're still looking at that zero bias on the DC meter of about 5 to 7 psi.
093:44:01	CC	Roger.
093:44:07	Evans	Okay ...
093:45:51	Schmitt	Some of the boys might be interested to know that in a place where the Sun is just grazing the slope - it's a steep slope on the north rim of Crisium, I can see the horizontal lineaments that were such a controvery on 15.
093:46:08	CC	Roger. Understand. The north rim of Crisium?
093:46:09	Cernan	... big one with the central peak.
093:46:13	Schmitt	Roger. There are some very steep slopes that just have grazing Sun on them now, and with the binocs, you can see that horizontal lineation pattern.
093:46:25	CC	Roger.
093:46:36	Evans	There it is. T-horizon will be good. Yes. Okay, I've got the edge of Crisium now. ... Getting hills on the side of Crisium, there. Sure a lot smoother-looking material than I thought it would be.
093:47:03	CC	Ron, you're about 1 minute from T-horizon.
093:47:09	Evans	Okay, Bob. Thank you. Oh. (Laughter) Here.
093:47:26	CC	And, Ron, we - we're copying you on VOX, we believe. is that affirm?
093:47:32	Evans	Yes, that's right.
093:47:33	CC	Roger.
093:47:34	Evans	You're not supposed to copy the other guys, though. Are you copying the other guys?
093:47:37	CC	No, just you, Ron.
093:47:40	Evans	Okay.
093:47:43	Cernan	I may have been talking loud.
093:48:02	CC	Okay, Ron. You should be at T-horizon.
093:48:06	Schmitt	MARK. T-horizon.
093:48:09	Evans	Okay, that's pointing at the horizon all right. I don't see the crater, yet.
093:48:19	Evans	Okay.
093:48:38	Evans	Okay, I can see the rims of Microbus [sic] A and B.
093:48:59	Evans	Okay.
093:49:25	Evans	Okay, I really don't see it yet. I can see Microbus A and B, real well.
093:50:02	Evans	Okay, I'm going to pick out one and start marking on it.
093:50:08	Evans	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. That's the wrong one. Okay, now I see what I'm supposed to mark on; okay.
093:50:22	Evans	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, ... 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, and it's gone.
093:51:09	Evans	Okay?
093:51:22	Evans	No, the ones I just wrote in there. Right?
093:51:44	Evans	Okay? And, lets - now I'm going to take a look and see if it looks like a cinder cone. Hey! There's Maraldi Gamma, the mound sticking up there right beside Maraldi. Hey, you guys are going to have some good hills to run down in there. Can you see it all - at all, coming up?
093:52:28	Evans	... north. That crazy radar is going to be in the way - the LM (laughter). Okay, it's going through the landing site, now. The shadow is just up to - You can really see the scarp on there.
093:52:59	Schmitt	See what they mean by Sculptured Hills, Gene? See the knobby characteristics in that - -
093:53:02	Cernan	Yes. That'll be ...
093:53:03	Schmitt	- - area down there. That's part of the Sculpured Hills.
093:53:04	Cernan	That's a massif there, too.
093:53:12	Schmitt	Now, we're just over the rim of Serenitatis, looking over the Graben Plains - -
093:53:19	Evans	Yes, I can just see. I'm going to switch to 17-1. 3, 4, 5, 6 - just got six of them on 17-1 and then the other three were were on F - F Crater; 17-1 was just barely in the - Sherlock was just barely beyond the shadow.
093:53:46	Schmitt	This is all supposedly covered with the dark mantle, Gene, what you're seeing down there.
093:53:50	Cernan	Yes, the Sun angles are so that you can't tell the difference in albedo.
093:53:53	Schmitt	And look at those mare ridges, though.
093:53:57	Cernan	I tell you, that's looking out into the gray -gray desert down in there.
093:53:59	Schmitt	That's the old Littrow site.
093:54:08	Cernan	I think so. I think we're just about ready to climb.
093:54:11	Schmitt	I think the terminator is giving you the feeling of that, maybe. Ain't nothing out there.
093:54:17	CC	Jack, Houston. Can you see any albedo difference in the landing site area between the dark massif and the light area?
093:54:28	Schmitt	We can't see any difference between - in the low areas, between the dark mantle and other materials right now. We're right at the terminator.
093:54:39	Cernan	Yes, but Jack and I weren't really looking at the landing site. I think Ron was.
093:54:43	CC	Roger.
093:54:53	Evans	Gerry, you could really see a difference between the - the South Massif and the - the mantle material around through there. The mantle is not nearly as dark as it looks on the pictures, though. But the massif, South Massif especially, looked almost a whitish color. I guess it's because the, partly the Sun was shining on it. But then - -
093:55:19	Cernan	Could you see anything that looks like the slide?
093:55:20	Evans	Oh, yes. You can see the slide on the thing and definitely see the scarp going across through there. I was primarily concentrating on looking for the various craters so I didn't spend that much time, you know, concentrating on how the thing looked. But in the marks on the thing, the first about four or five marks were on F Crater and then I saw Sherlock about halfway through it and I got about five marks on the Sherlock for 17-1.
093:56:00	Schmitt	... Gene.
093:56:23	Schmitt	Houston, in crossing Crisium and Marginis, it looked fairly clear that with the small fresh craters, and I don't have a good size estimate right now - I think I'm looking in terms of 100 or 2 meters. You can distinguish where blocks have been thrown up by them, or not - possibly giving depth of the local regolith from the pictures you'll get in there.
093:57:05	CC	Roger, Jack.
093:57:12	Schmitt	And, also, on that lineation question, not only, where the Sun grazes a - a slope do you see the horizontal lineations, but they're at the southern end of the shadowed area on a slope. You get a couple other lineations showing up at least in a couple places I saw. One would be parallel to the slope - that is cross-contour, and the other was at a - an angle to that direction - oh - say of about 30 degrees.
093:58:02	CC	Roger, Jack. We're copying you loud and clear and no problems with comm at all.
093:58:10	Schmitt	Okay. We just had sunset.
093:58:15	Evans	And, Houston; America. On mag Bravo Bravo, 75 to 70 percent were utilized on J-3 and F Crater and 17-1 through the sextant.
093:58:33	CC	Roger. Just want to confirm, Ron. You started on J-3 and then you went to F Crater and -
093:58:43	Evans	Yes. I went to F Crater and then back to Sherlock or 17-1.
093:58:48	CC	Roger.
093:58:51	Evans	Actually, on J-3, I took four marks on a crater that was to the west of J-3 and then I finally saw J-3 and started marking on it.
093:59:01	CC	Roger, Ron.
093:59:06	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. Mag Oscar Oscar is 85.
093:59:13	CC	Roger, Jack. Thank you.
093:59:15	Schmitt	And, then - okay; and there's a number of pictures - Now, just a minute, let me try to give you a general feeling for where they were taken. Stand by 1.
093:59:51	Schmitt	Okay; a number of the last pictures that were taken on that series, or that rev, were taken between - say about 115 east, and - oh, about 100 east and they show several examples of the light-colored or swirl - -
094:00:27	Evans	Coming up now.
094:00:28	Schmitt	- - alterations to the surface. And that's in highland country where that is a distinct gray against the tan-gray or tan highland background - general highland color.
094:00:45	CC	Okay, Jack. I got that.
094:01:03	Evans	And, all my pictures, Jesus (laughter).
094:01:13	CC	Ron, Houston. We'd like you to move up and do the waste water dump starting now and the O2 fuel cell purge.
094:01:24	Schmitt	Okay, we'll get to that and mag Quebec Quebec is on frame 50.
094:01:31	CC	Roger. Copy.
094:01:34	Evans	Okay, you want to dump the waste water on the front side?
094:01:39	CC	That's affirm, Ron. We'd like to get a third dump now, so we have it dumped prior to the camera pass.
094:01:48	Evans	Oh, okay.
094:01:48	CC	We want to get a dump prior to the UV work there, Ron.
094:01:56	Evans	Okay, that's right - I'm sorry, I forgot about that.
094:02:02	Evans	... how ... going to go, with BATTERY VENT to - Okay, BATTERY VENTED, BATTERY VENT is CLOSED and going to DUMP A.
094:03:30	Schmitt	PAN CAMERA POWER going OFF.
094:04:22	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. Beginning the fuel cell purge - O2
094:04:28	CC	Roger, Jack.
094:05:14	Cernan	Bob , any objections to making that VERB 49 maneuver, now?
094:05:32	CC	Stand by on that, Gene.
094:05:36	Cernan	Okay.
094:05:54	CC	America, no objection to going to VERB 49 maneuver any time. Just do not open the UV door until the 94:45 Flight Plan time.
094:06:06	Cernan	Okay. We're with you.
094:08:50	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 94 hours 8 minutes. Apollo 17 now is maneuvering to the attitude from which the ultraviolet spectrometer and the infrared scanning radiometer experiments will be performed. The start of those experiments on this pass will be after LOS, behind the Moon.
094:09:23	Cernan	Hey, Gordo. I think we're still in LM PRESSURE up there in the tunnel. You want us to go back to LM/CM DELTA-P?
094:09:36	CC	Okay, Gordo's off. I'll have to wait a minute here, Gene.
094:09:49	Cernan	For a Sunday night, you're - you're hard to get along with.
094:09:56	CC	Oh, come on.
094:09:58	Schmitt	Wise Marines - wise Marines end up in Antarctica.
094:10:06	CC	Roger. Can't do that. They don't have any gates down there.
094:10:15	Cernan	That sounds like a job you could probably handle.
094:10:19	Schmitt	Listen, after that answer, I'll build one down there for you.
094:10:22	CC	Thank you, sir. Hey, you can go to LM/CM DELTA-P.
094:10:28	Cernan	Okay, thank you. (Laughter)
094:12:28	CC	America, Houston. The fuel cell 3 purge can be terminated.
094:12:34	Schmitt	I beat you.
094:12:48	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 94 hours 15 minutes. Apollo 17 is just south of the Oceans of Storm, Ocean of Storms now. Shortly, we'll be coming up on the crater Grimaldi again. That's where Jack Schmitt saw a flash on the last pass. We're showing an orbit of 58.9 by 14.3 nautical miles at the present altitude of 28.1 nautical miles.
094:17:34	Cernan	Hey, Bob. Who you talking to us with, Honeysuckle or Goldstone? Honeysuckle, I'd guess.
094:17:50	CC	We're talking through Goldst - Goldstone, Gene.
094:17:59	Cernan	Okay, looks like about a tossup from here. I'll tell you, there is really one heck of a big low-pressure area developing somewhere off the coast of California, Washington, or Canada, out in the Pacific Northwest part of the country.
094:18:17	CC	Roger. We copy.
094:18:26	Cernan	We were watching it earlier today, but I tell you, now, it's really dragged in some other clouds with it. It must cover an enormous distance and it's got some real spectacular circulation.
094:18:39	CC	Just for curiosity, are you using a monocular on that?
094:18:49	Cernan	No, I'm using a binocular.
094:18:52	CC	Roger.
094:19:33	Cernan	Bob, it's - it's got a trailing front. I can't really see the States, or even the North American continent, because - -
094:19:40	CC	Stand by, Jack - or Gene. We'd like for you to terminate - -
094:19:43	Cernan	- - pretty well covered - -
094:19:44	CC	- - waste water dump.
094:19:47	Cernan	Okay.
094:19:49	CC	Sorry about that. Go ahead.
094:19:54	Cernan	Okay, I was just going to say, it's got a - looks like a tremendous trailing front. Roughly, north-northwest, south-southeast, and it looks like it may just sweep up the western coast. It's hard to tell how far off the actual center rotation or even a front is. I just remember from earlier this morning, when I could see landmasses, that it appeared to me to be off the Pacific Northwest out in the ocean.
094:20:25	CC	Roger.
094:22:21	CC	Jack, Houston here. We've just been kicking around with Farouk, and if you get - if you want to, during your - any of your free time, if you have any, you might look at Copernicus with your binoculars and see if the dike goes all the way - all the way across. He would recommend using the binoculars. Don't take any of your eat or sleep time at all, but you might get a chance on this one eat pass to, as you go by there.
094:22:54	Schmitt	Okay. I'll give her a try. You might give me a couple minutes' warning the next time around.
094:23:06	CC	Okay, Jack.
094:23:10	Schmitt	I'm not sure the attitude is too good for that. I wish I'd thought of it this round.
094:23:15	CC	Roger. Well, we were pretty busy coming up on it this time. I think the - that's why we mentioned the attitude may be okay during the eat period. We don't want you to break away from your eat period unless you see you can spare the time.
094:24:04	Schmitt	Just looking at the southern edge of Grimaldi, Bob, and we probably have it covered on photos, but there's a nice tangential to slightly circumferential graben along the southern wall and climbs out over the western rim and off the eastern rim, and that graben is premare - premare.
094:24:40	CC	Okay, I copy on that, Jack, and as long as we're talking about Grimaldi, you might just rem - we'd like to have you brief Ron exactly on the location of that flash you saw. We'll probably ask him to take a picture of it, maybe during one of his solo periods.
094:25:11	Cernan	Hey, Bob, before we get awfully involved, just let me tell you what our motive is here in the next couple of hours. That's to eat and get done what's in the Flight Plan, and come our rest period, we're probably going to turn out the lights and make sure everything's done by then so we can start it on time tonight.
094:25:32	CC	Yes, that's a definite - we concur with that definitely, Gene. Don't want you to work into your sleep period.
094:25:44	Cernan	Okay.
094:27:19	CC	Gene, Houston.
094:27:25	Cernan	Go ahead.
094:27:27	CC	Gene, last night you didn't use a tone booster, and the work you gave us was that it had - it wasn't working, and we're just wondering if you want - we're thinking about working up a test board to see if - did you test it out thoroughly to make sure it wasn't working, or was that just your desire not to use it?
094:27:46	Cernan	We tried it, Bob, and it did not work. The only reason I'm reluctant on a test is I just don't want it to take much time.
094:27:57	CC	I don't think it would take much time. The only thing I could say is it would - you know - two obvious things I'm sure you checked them, Gene, would be the utility power and make sure you had the right lamp tests on when you tried it, and that's the only - I'm sure you did it, and that's the only obvious thing - maybe a circuit breaker or something like that.
094:28:19	Cernan	Well, we checked it both on the left side and on the right side with two separate UTILITY POWERS and verified that the MASTER ALARMs came on with the test on both sides, and nothing ever happened.
094:28:33	CC	Roger. I was sure of that, Gene. Just wanted to make it - put everybody at ease that it's just not working. That was essentially the test. Just forget anything we said about tests.
094:28:51	Cernan	Okay.
094:28:55	Schmitt	What test?
094:28:57	CC	Roger. Got you guys trained up there, finally.
094:29:07	Schmitt	Arf, arf.
094:29:13	Evans	Houston, America.
094:29:14	CC	Roger. Go ahead, Ron.
094:29:19	Evans	If I don't find my scissors here one of these days, I think it takes about four bolts on either side of the - you know the optics, where they stow the optics? it looks like there are four little tool E bolts that'll come out. And I think maybe they might be back behind there, I don't know. See, there's a great big slot up at the top of that - oh, it's at least an inch - inch between the top of the optics thing and the top of the spacecraft. I looked back in there with a flashlight and can't see anything, but it's a big hole back there anyhow.
094:30:07	Schmitt	I think the commander might have something to say.
094:30:12	Cernan	Hey, Bob, just ignore everything he said. We'll leave him a pair of our scissors, and he's just worried about being hungry.
094:30:21	CC	Roger. Those are your EVA scissors, too, aren't they?
094:30:24	Cernan	But, he is not - Yes, but we can handle - we can handle it with one down there. He is not taking the spacecraft apart to find his scissors, and I will not let him go hungry.
094:30:35	CC	Roger.
094:30:39	Evans	Okay, either way.
094:35:46	Schmitt	Hey, Bob, before we lose you, how did the Oilers do today? (Laughter)
094:35:57	CC	9 to 3. Steelers over the Oilers.
094:36:02	Schmitt	9 to 3?
094:36:04	CC	That's affirm.
094:36:09	Schmitt	9? 09 to 03?
094:36:12	CC	That's affirmative. Played one of their better games, I guess.
094:36:21	Schmitt	How about the Chicago Bears? You got their score handy?
094:36:25	CC	Hey, Jack, how about if we pick you up during the eat period. While you're eating, we'll brief you of the whole NFL situation for today. Okay?
094:36:36	Schmitt	Well, we are eating. I guess we wait until we come around next time. Okay.
094:36:39	CC	Oh - I - well, the Bears were ... losing but - -
094:36:48	Schmitt	Bob, we'll wait and you can get up the late evening news prepared for us here the next time around.
094:36:55	CC	Okay. Have your gourmet dinner and I'll give you the news.
094:37:00	Schmitt	Okay.
094:38:13	CC	America, Houston. We're going to lose you here in about 2-1/2 minutes. We'll see you at 95:28, according to the Flight Plan, and you're looking good. We don't have anything, any anomalies or anything against you right now. You're looking great.
094:38:33	Cernan	Thank you, Robert. We'll see you coming around the horn.
094:38:36	CC	Roger.
094:38:46	Cernan	Hey, Bob, if you could, it might be appreciated with a word or two from our home fronts.
094:38:54	CC	Yes. You didn't let me do it. I was going to give them all a call while on this LOS here, Gene.
094:39:02	Cernan	It's that thing again. I bet you were concentrating on the dot.
094:40:15	CC	Hey, guys. The Bears 21 to 12 over Philadelphia.
094:40:23	Cernan	Thank you. We're going to watch your signal get cut off here.
094:40:28	CC	Roger. Was touch and go on that because at one time they're losing that game.
094:40:31	Cernan	I won Gene ...
095:21:08	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 94 hours 41 minutes. We've had lost signal on the 3rd revolution. Ron Evans performed some landmark tracking on the front side of the Moon during this pass and we got some earth weather reports from lunar orbit, believed to be a first, in the Apollo series. And spacecraft is in the attitude now to perform the ultra-violet spectrometer and the infrared scanning radiometer experiments. We - we expect to acquire Apollo 17 next at 95 hours 28 minutes. Will come back up then, at 94 hours 42 minutes this is Mission Control, Houston.
095:27:07	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 95 hours 27 minutes. We should be acquiring Apollo 17 on it's fourth revolution of the Moon in about 45 seconds. We'll stand by for the first words.
095:28:25	PAO	We have a signal and are receiving data.
095:28:59	Schmitt	Hello Houston, America.
095:29:03	CC	Hello America. Reading you loud and clear.
095:29:09	Schmitt	Bob, the flight plan is complete to 95:30.
095:29:13	CC	Roger.
095:29:22	Schmitt	And Bob, the IR cover came open about 1 minute late.
095:29:27	CC	Okay, Understand. Might be interested, the lasted tracking data has you at about 14.1 perilune. It's coming up closer to your CMC data. And, America, we'd like to have the H2 tank, H2 tank 1, fans off. We'll be letting that pressure decay on that. We'll be bringing them back on prior to sleep period.
095:30:04	Schmitt	Okay, that's OFF.
095:30:08	CC	I've got a number of pads and flight plan update any time you're ready for them, if you want or you can hold off it awhile.
095:30:28	Schmitt	Why don't you start with flight plan updates Bob?
095:30:29	CC	Okay, At 97:30, 97:30.
095:30:41	Schmitt	Okay.
095:30:42	CC	You should have a pen and ink change there that says UV cover CLOSE. After that add UV OFF.
095:31:03	Schmitt	Okay, got it.
095:31:04	CC	Okay, now, just a note, or you can jump way ahead to 106:51, where it says delete, see where it says UV off, just delete that, or else make a verified, because it will be off during that whole period.
095:31:22	Schmitt	106. Yes, I'll just put a verified by that. 106:51.
095:31:27	CC	Roger. The next thing I've got are the pads. The TEI 12 and TEI 19 pad.
095:31:42	Schmitt	Okay. Go ahead.
095:31:44	CC	The first one is TEI 12, SPS G&N 38570, plus 0.49 plus 0.92, NOUN 33 times 111:54:42.86 plus 2543.8 minus 1765.6 minus 7950. Roll is 186, 109, 328. The rest of the pad is not applicable. BREAK - BREAK Jack, we'd like an ACCEPT on the computer please.
095:32:51	Schmitt	You got it.
095:32:53	CC	Okay. The set stars are as always, Sirius and Rigel, 133, 200, 030. Four Jet, 12 second on the ullage. Three notes: Burn undocked, assumes no CIRC, longitude of the Moon at TIG will be minus 140.19 degrees. Over.
095:33:56	Schmitt	Bob, give me note two again please.
095:34:00	CC	Okay, Jack, the three comments are: assumes burn undocked, assumes no CIRC burn, and the Moon at TIG, the longitude will be minus 140.19 degrees. Over.
095:34:26	Schmitt	Okay, I got everything, but number 2. All right, here's your readback. TEI-12, twelve that is, SPS/G&N 38570 plus 0.49 plus 0.92 111:54:42.86 plus 2543.8 minus 1765.6 minus 0795.0. 186, 109, 328. Rest of the pad is NA. Sirius and Rigel 133, 200, 030. Ullage is 4 Jets for 12 seconds. Remarks: (1) burn undocked, (2) assume no CIRC, (3) longitude, lunar longitude at TIG minus 140.19 degrees, .19 degrees.
095:35:22	CC	Roger. Good readback, Jack, and I've got the TEI-19 pad, if you're ready.
095:35:43	Schmitt	Okay, go ahead.
095:35:44	CC	TEI-19, SPS/G&N 38023 plus 0.49, plus 0.86; the TIG time, 125:46:47.22; plus 2456.3, minus 1925.3, minus 0731.3; 186, 108, 325. Rest of the pad is not applicable. All the notes are the same as on the TEI-12 pad, except the longitude is minus 147.62. Over.
095:37:06	Schmitt	Stand by 1.
095:37:50	Schmitt	Okay. Here's your readback. TEI-19, SPS/G&N; 38023; Plus 0.49, plus 0.86; 125:46:47.22; plus 2456.3, minus 1925.3; minus 0731.3; 186, 108, 325. Rest of pad is NA. And the remarks are the same as for the TEI-12; that includes set stars. And the only change is the 3, which is the lunar longitude at TIG of a minus 147.62. Over.
095:38:40	CC	That's a good readback Jack. I've got a LM DAP read-up here for you. They recommend this be copied on page 1 of the LM Data Card Book, Jack.
095:39:00	Schmitt	Well, strangely enough, the LM Data Card Book's in the LM.
095:39:04	CC	Yes, I figured as much.
095:39:04	Schmitt	We'll put it in our Activation Book. Let me find the right page.
095:39:08	CC	Okay.
095:39:08	Schmitt	Let me find the right page.
095:39:10	CC	Roger.
095:39:15	CC	And, Jack, the computer's yours.
095:39:21	Schmitt	Okay.
095:40:27	Schmitt	Go ahead, Bob.
095:40:29	CC	Okay. LM DAP information: LM weight, 36714; CSM weight, 38078.
095:40:55	Schmitt	Okay, the DAP load is LM weight 36714, CSM weight 38078.
095:41:02	CC	Roger, Jack, and I'd like to correct one call on my, the TEI pads. There is one other difference between the TEI-19 and the TEI-12 under notes. And the TEI-19 assumes the circ burn, over.
095:41:36	Schmitt	Okay, that's corrected to assume circ on the TEI-19.
095:41:41	CC	Roger, Jack. I'm sorry on that. I've got some notes from the flight - -
095:41:45	Schmitt	That's alright, Bob.
095:41:50	CC	Got some notes for Gene from the Flight Surgeon. He promised an update to you on some meal recommendations here on food. You might want to copy this into a supplement.
095:42:09	Schmitt	Okay. Just standby one, please.
095:42:12	CC	Roger.
095:43:25	Schmitt	Bob, let us take a look at the landing area and will be right back with you.
095:43:30	CC	Okay. Just whenever you want it, there's no hurry on this at all. Jack, you just might put a little note there somewhere for yourself that Copernicus is at 96.03 if you want to look at it.
095:43:44	Schmitt	Okay. 96.03.
095:45:45	PAO	Apollo 17 is coming up over the Taurus Littrow landing site now.
095:46:27	Schmitt	Now we're getting some clear - look like pretty clear high-water marks on the - -
095:46:31	Evans	There's high-water marks all over the place there.
095:46:33	Schmitt	- - on the north part of Tranquillitatis in here - mare onto the highlands.
095:46:41	CC	Roger.
095:47:11	Evans	Yes, there's high-water marks all over that - that - I think that's Maraldi there, isn't it? Are you sure we're at 13 miles up?
095:47:28	CC	You're at l4.1, to be exact, Ron.
095:47:34	Evans	(Laughter) Looks pretty low.
095:47:38	Cernan	Gee, I wonder what it feels like to be at 8 to 10.
095:47:45	CC	You're going to find out, I think.
095:48:17	Schmitt	I tell you there's some mare ridge or scarps, very sinuous - just passing one. They not only cross the low planar areas but go right up the side of a crater in one place and a hill in another. And it's not at all like a fault scarp. It looks very much like a constructional ridge. And it has the sinuousity of a, pardon the expression, rattle snake.
095:48:42	CC	Roger. Does it look like that one we saw on the track the other day?
095:48:49	Schmitt	Yes, very much like that one that you almost caught. Look at that. There's a tongute - there's a tongue depressor - several of them - grabens in here. We must be out on the edge of Serenitatis now, right?
095:49:08	CC	Yes, we show you on the edge of Serenitatis, Jack.
095:49:15	Schmitt	Roger. I just - we didn't get a view of the site, though, going over this time. I think it was off to the north of us just a tad. That's the best example of a mare - mare-like ridge that was as clearly constructional as I would want to see it. Out on the mare, it's never quite that obvious. But there, it climbed up over a hill and then back down again.
095:49:43	CC	Roger.
095:49:50	Schmitt	And that was just east of the - an area just east of the edge of Serenitatis and probably a little bit south of the landing site.
095:50:05	Cernan	Say, Bob, rather than copy specific recommended changes or deletions to a diet, can you have a general comment that's any different than what I already understand?
095:50:18	CC	Right. It's no problem.
095:50:19	Cernan	If not, I would rather delay it.
095:50:20	CC	No, it's no problem, Gene. Two quick comments: the next couple of days, delete the peach ambrosia and the mixed fruit bar, and don't delete anything from the LM menu. And make sure you get all the water in for rehydration, and take - bias it if you think you get 30 percent gas, then put in 30 percent more so you get all the water that is required. And take two anti-gas tablets after each meal instead of one. That sums it up.
095:50:53	Cernan	Okay - Okay. Very good. I'll - I'll handle all those words according to their needs.
095:51:00	CC	Roger.
095:51:02	Cernan	Appreciate them, though.
095:51:15	Evans	Houston, America.
095:51:19	CC	Go ahead.
095:51:19	Evans	We're shooting magazine QQ, frame 50 - frame 50, 51, and 52. We're taking - looking south at the terminator.
095:51:36	CC	Ron, we need to get looking at the pan camera here, per the Flight Plan.
095:51:45	Evans	Thank you.
095:52:14	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. POWER on the PAN CAMERA now.
095:52:23	Schmitt	MARK it.
095:52:33	CC	Roger. We got it.
095:52:37	Schmitt	Okay. And has my biomed been looking all right?
095:52:43	CC	That's affirmative.
095:52:52	Schmitt	Okay.
095:53:42	CC	America, you can turn the PAN CAMERA, OFF.
095:53:49	Schmitt	Okay. PAN CAMERA going OFF.
095:53:52	Schmitt	MARK.
095:55:21	Cernan	... the up-link.
096:00:29	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. Let's see. Will Copernicus - will be north of our track. is that correct?
096:00:39	CC	I believe so, from my charts here, but let me doublecheck that. That is affirmative. Tommy just gave me the up on that one.
096:01:22	CC	If you guys got time to listen, I can update you on the homefront while you're wor - looking out the windows.
096:01:34	Cernan	Go ahead, Bob.
096:01:36	CC	Let's see. For the CDR, they're eating beans and combread over at Nassau Bay tonight. Probably a good thing they're eating beans there, Gene, because you're feeding 25 tonight. And the horse is getting fed, also.
096:01:55	Cernan	Beans and combread? it's a good thing I'm eating up here.
096:02:00	CC	You better believe it. And, of course, everybody sends their love. And over in El Lago, they're -
096:02:10	Cernan	Well - -
096:02:11	CC	Go ahead, Gene.
096:02:16	Cernan	I was Just going to ask you to return mine for me, would you?
096:02:20	CC	Oh, you better believe it. They're listening to the squawk box. You don't have to say anything to me. And over in El Lago, Jamie's saying - is saying her prayers ending them with, "God bless America and Challenger from now on." And John is saying, "There's Daddy's rocket - makes it go pitch, light out." And of course, everybody sends their love - -
096:02:42	Evans	They're great.
096:02:46	CC	And they're all listening right now if you'd - -
096:02:48	Evans	Tell John, though, that I shaved the other night.
096:02:51	CC	Roger. He'll be listening, hearing that. They're all over at the - in Nassau Bay at a big meeting of the Flight Plan. The Parkers are briefing the Cernans and the Evans on the Flight Plan tonight. And out in Tucson, for the LMP, it's kind of cloudy and cold out there today. It's colder than normal. Everything's working fine on the speaker out there, Jack, and they're just listening, and Mother - your Mother is really tickled and just pleased as all get out.
096:03:23	Schmitt	That sounds like Mother. And I just got a real good view of Copernicus, but I'm afraid I can't help you out on that structure in the central peak. Just a little too dark.
096:03:36	CC	Okay.
096:03:40	Schmitt	But it's a fantastic sight at this altitude. It is a big crater. It looks like it's about 80 kilometers in diameter.
096:03:54	CC	I'll drink to that.
096:03:59	Schmitt	And put down a verify on those dark deposits in the wall. And also on the southeast wall, there's one right on the rim. I think we mapped that one, too, but I'll have to go back and check.
096:04:20	CC	Okay.
096:04:22	Schmitt	That one looked like it had a crater in it. However, they all tend to be elongate radially, with respect to the crater. But that's about all I can add now.
096:04:46	CC	Okay.
096:04:58	Schmitt	Bob, I'm glad, the squawk box is fixed. And, of course, send my love and best wishes out there to Tucson.
096:05:08	CC	That's a Roger, Jack. You guys might also be interested, here in the Houston area, all of the ground voice or air-to-ground is being carried on FM stations a hundred percent of it. And KUHT, the television station, will cover the - educational TV station - is going to cover 100 percent of the EVAs, all three of them, for all the time.
096:05:41	Cernan	That sounds great. We hope we can provide them with as much education as we can entertainment.
096:05:49	CC	We're counting on it.
096:05:55	Cernan	I guess Parker's all we had left down there to brief them on the landing site, huh?
096:06:07	CC	vl won't even comment on that one.
096:06:12	Cernan	(Chuckle) Okay. I figure he will later.
096:06:27	Cernan	I'd like, also, to send my best up north to the Bellwood - the Bellwood area up there, because I think there's a squawk box up there, too.
096:06:39	CC	Beautiful.
096:06:45	Cernan	And, Bob, it's - all in all, it's been a pretty exciting day. I think a pretty accomplishing day, and certainly a rewarding day on our part. It's also been a long day, but we're hoping that it can only be superseded by tomorrow. And judging from what we've got in store, it might very well be.
096:07:07	CC	I think that sums up the day. It's a day of anticipation for what's going to happen tomorrow. Everything's gone off real well here, and we're just glad you're in the orbit you're in and ready for tomorrow.
096:07:21	Schmitt	My goodness, Bob. This is Jack. It's awful hard to spend much time up here anticipating. The events come so fast and certainly are exciting and rewarding, each one, one at a time. But obviously, tomorrow is going to be the biggy.
096:07:39	CC	Roger.
096:07:50	CC	Ron, we're watching your 52; and just be advised you do not have to do the option 1.
096:07:59	Evans	Okay. Real fine, Bob.
096:09:26	Schmitt	Bob, I'm not sure whether it's entirely proper, being a bachelor, but I'd like to send my regards to everybody - all the families listening to squawk boxes tonight.
096:09:42	CC	Roger.
096:09:55	Schmitt	Bob, we're going right over the Procellarum Ridge now, if I'm not mistaken, out in the middle of Mare Procellarum. And we're low enough now that you can see some of the terrain.
096:10:09	CC	Okay.
096:10:12	Schmitt	That is - that is, some of the hills and rilles and valleys associated with that ridge system.
096:10:24	CC	Roger. BREAK - Ron, we've got the 52, and it looks good. You can torque.
096:10:31	Evans	Okay. I'll torque it 10, 3, 0.
096:11:08	PAO	This is Apollo Control. Gene Cernan's remark about up north in Bellwood is a reference to his mother, Mrs. Andrew Cernan, who is following the course of the mission at her home in Bellwood, Illinois.
096:12:04	Evans	Houston, America. You want an E-memory dump?
096:12:08	CC	Roger. We're standing by. We're ready for it.
096:12:14	Evans	Okay. VERB 74 - sync
096:13:03	Evans	The GDC is aligned, and we verified that the LM valve is in LM/CM DELTA-P.
096:13:13	CC	Roger. We got you.
096:13:26	CC	The E-MOD is finished, Ron.
096:13:32	Evans	Okay. Thank you.
096:14:21	CC	Ron, we're ready to up-link the jet monitor program and one of the burn constants.
096:14:30	Evans	Okay. You have CMC and ACCEPT.
096:14:33	CC	Okay.
096:14:34	Evans	P20 and ACCEPT.
096:16:28	CC	While you're eating or getting ready to eat, I can update some of the news for you tonight, if you're away from the windows. Or are you all still looking out?
096:16:38	Cernan	No. Go ahead, Bob.
096:16:39	CC	Okay. There's not a whole lot of news on the wire tonight, matter of fact. President Nixon received a firsthand report on private Vietnam peace negotiations today from a key member of the U.S. negotiating team, General Alexander Haig, Jr., Henry Kissinger's Chief Lieutenant. Haig flew back from Paris to report to the President, while technical experts from both sides held an unusual Sunday meeting in the French capitol. Presidential Assistant Kissinger will resume his talks with North Vietnam's Le Duc Tho on Monday after a 1-day recess. And former President Harry Truman continued to show some signs of improvement late today after he was earlier removed from the critical list at Research Hospital up - up in Kansas City. His cardiac situation has improved, and this improvement included a slower and stronger pulse and a stable blood pressure. The football scores are as follows in the National Football League today: The Bears defeated the Eagles 21 to 12; the Detroit Lions and the Buffalo Bills played to a 21-21 standoff; Dolphins extended their undefeated streak 23 to 13 over the New York Giants; the Patriots defeated the New Orleans Saints 17 to 10; Green Bay sewed up the Central Division of the NFC by defeating the Vikings 23 to 7; the Cardinals upset the Rams today 24 to l4; Denver defeated San Diego 38-13; Kansas City upset Baltimore 24 to 10; the 49ers defeated the Falcons 20 to nothing, 20 to 0; and Pittsburg defeated Houston 9 to 3, and they - they took the Central Division of the AFC. So the playoff picture is becoming a little clearer. You've got - in the NFC, you've got Washington, Dallas, and Green Bay. And the fourth team will either be San Francisco, Los Angeles, or Atlanta. That will be decided next week. In the AFC, Pittsburg, Miami, and Oakland are in it. And the fourth team will be either the Jets - and another team. They've got the Giants listed here, but it can't be the Giants because that's the wrong division. So we'll - we'll check that one out. Cleveland; okay, Cleveland. The fourth team is either going to be Cleveland or the Jets.
096:19:49	CC	And did you get a spurious MASTER CAUTION and WARNING?
096:19:56	Cernan	No. Ron was retesting our bleeper again.
096:20:01	CC	Okay.
096:20:02	Cernan	And it's one of those that works in lunar orbit, I guess. It doesn't work during coast because it's working now.
096:20:10	CC	Good show.
096:20:16	Cernan	Sounds like there's going to be some good football games coming up.
096:20:19	CC	Yes, indeed. You really can't call - -
096:20:24	Cernan	Who is playing tomorrow night?
096:20:30	CC	Stand by.
096:20:52	CC	That's the Oakland - Oakland and the Jets.
096:20:59	Cernan	Okay.
096:22:16	CC	Ron, the up-link is complete. The EMP is running, and the computer is yours.
096:22:25	Evans	Okay, Bob. We got it back.
096:24:10	CC	Ron, we'd like the H2 TANK FANs on and that will be the sleep configure. H2 TANK 1 fans ON, and leave 3 in AUTO.
096:24:23	Cernan	You want H2 TANK 1 - You want 1 and 2 ON?
096:24:30	CC	Negative. TANK 1 ON.
096:24:36	Cernan	Okay, that leaves us with TANK 1, ON; TANK 2, OFF; and TANK 3 in AUTO. is that what you want?
096:24:45	CC	Roger. If you're calling fans; that's what we want.
096:24:53	Cernan	Yes, H2 FANs, Bob; I'll say it again. H2 FANs: 1 is ON, 2 is OFF, and 3 is AUTO.
096:25:01	CC	That's a good configuration, and that will be the sleep configuration.
096:25:06	Cernan	Okay.
096:25:27	Cernan	Hey, Bob, it looks like we might make - getting to sleep on time tonight, and - well, we will make it. And I think it goes without saying, we definitely want to get up on time tomorrow.
096:25:42	CC	Roger.
096:25:55	Evans	I'm going to have the tone booster plugged in, and also I want to make sure the suit power and audio power and all that stuff is on.
096:26:03	CC	Roger.
096:29:32	CC	Ron, Houston.
096:29:37	Schmitt	Go ahead, Bob.
096:29:39	CC	If Ron's listening, just some words about the mapping camera extend/retract times. We came up with slightly different times than what he'd called and we were wondering if his were just ballpark or whether he had timed it? in either case, the times are a little bit long on extend/retract which is a little cause for worry about that - the mapping camera may fail and later on downstream we may want to change our operating mode on that mapping camera and he might want to time it a little closer. If he - if he can - the chance should come up.
096:30:15	Schmitt	What - what times - -
096:30:15	Evans	Hey, Bob, that's a good point on the thing. Those weren't exact times and, as matter of fact, we looked - kind of looked away and it was about in -y ou know, somewhere around that - that period of time. We looked away and when - when we looked back, it was gray again, so - next - -
096:30:31	CC	Okay - -
096:30:31	Evans	- - next time we extend them, I'll get a good accurate indication.
096:30:36	CC	Okay. Well, no problem.
096:30:38	Evans	... - -
096:30:38	CC	We'll believe the strip chart. We'll take the strip chart data. We've got 01:24, 1 minute 24 seconds for extend and 01:51, 1 minute 51 seconds for retract. And both those sire a little bit on the high side.
096:31:02	Evans	Okay. I would believe the strip chart.
096:31:06	CC	Roger, Ron. You all are about 4 minutes from LOS.
096:31:20	CC	Okay, we might lose you a little bit earlier than that. INCO.
096:31:41	CC	Okay, we may lose you a little early due to the SIM bay attitude and we'll pick you up at 97:22.
096:31:53	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. Once more around at 97:22.
096:31:53		BEGIN LUNAR REV 5
096:34:22	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 96 hours 34 minutes. Apollo 17 has turned the corner a little early, about 50 seconds early. We've lost contact with the antenna because of it's attitude, about 50 seconds early. During this 4th pass on the front side of the Moon there was considerable description of the Lunar surface and photography was accomplished. The mapping camera experts will continue to study the extension and retraction times of the camera. If those times continue to grow, they will probably revise the Flight Plan somewhat to reduce the number of times that camera must be extended and retracted. At the present time though they are just keeping a close eye on those times to see whether they will continue to grow. We'll next acquire Apollo 17 on it's 5th revolution of the Moon at 97 hours 22 minutes.
097:21:25	PAO	This is Apollo control at 97 hours 21 minutes. We're 50 seconds away from the time Apollo 17 should be within communications range on it's fifth revolution of the Moon. We'll stand by for the first contact.
097:22:45	PAO	We have a signal now.
097:23:33	Schmitt	Houston, 17.
097:23:35	CC	17, Houston. Go ahead.
097:23:40	Schmitt	Roger. We're just about ready to finish up here. I have a couple of questions. Do you want us to cycle the cryo fans or just leave them alone now?
097:23:54	CC	We'd like them just left alone, left in you configuration you are now, Jack.
097:24:01	Schmitt	Okay, there will be no cycling then.
097:24:07	CC	Roger. We have one question. Who's got the duty tonight or will he be wearing a headset?
097:24:20	Schmitt	Yes, he - Ron has the duty. He will be wearing the headset, but I will be on the biomed underneath.
097:24:26	CC	Understand that. And one note for Gene. It's an addition to that Flight Surgeon's note. When you rehydrate your food, make sure that you go the - let it rehydrate for the maximum amount of time. I know you miss it on this one, but the next - like tomorrow morning, make sure it rehydrates the maximum amount of time.
097:24:49	Schmitt	Okay, I'll tell him.
097:24:51	CC	Roger.
097:25:00	Schmitt	And we got the star crater stereo trio.
097:25:07	CC	Roger.
097:25:09	Schmitt	And the - we're - mag - Oscar Oscar is on 93 now. The last three pictures were that trio.
097:28:20	PAO	This is Apollo control at 97 hours 28 minutes. We're showing -
097:28:25	Schmitt	Bob, we're ... complete on the presleep checklist. And except for computing communications configuration and Ron will take care of that.
097:28:39	CC	Roger.
097:28:57	Schmitt	And, Bob, while we're gradually getting in configuration here, let me reiterate something that I've been watching this rev as we did a lot of other things. And that was this relationship of the light-colored or light gray swirl patterns on the surface to patterns - associated pattern - parallel patterns that are darker than the average of the surrounding area. And this is true both in Mare Marginis and in most cases on the back side.
097:29:48	CC	Roger, Jack. We'll get that to the PI.
097:29:54	Schmitt	Roughly, although they're very irregular patterns - roughly it's concentric zoning of dark to light within a intermediate albedo surface. Now there are variations on that theme; sometimes you don't get the symmetry quite as good, but it's common enough that I think it's worth noting.
097:30:20	CC	Roger.
097:30:35	Schmitt	Also, there's a sequence of different kinds of crater filling on the far side, and I think that, as the orbital stay progresses, we may be able to pin down the relative age relationships and the characteristics of those crater fill - filling episodes. Whether they are single episodes that happen in a variety of crater or they're a function of the age and characteristics of the craters in which you find them is not clear right now, but the - they seem to form fairly distinct groupings of crater-fill material.
097:31:20	CC	Roger. Jack.
097:32:07	Schmitt	One of those crater-fill materials that you also see in other kinds of depressions other than craters is a very smooth, light, plains-forming material. And it is, although cratered, when you see it at the terminator, it is smoother than the mare; that is, it does not seem to have the swell, the sea swell characteristics or ridges or any other features other than the crater's superimposed on it.
097:32:39	CC	Roger. We copy.
097:33:12	PAO	Apollo 17's orbit now 59.2 by 13.7 nautical miles. The present altitude 17.8 nautical miles.
097:35:20	CC	17, Houston. You can go ahead and close the UV cover. We'd like to hold off 1 minute before you turn the UV off. We want to look at 1 minute of data with the cover closed.
097:35:41	Schmitt	Oh, okay. Roger. A walk-on. I see it now.
097:36:09	Schmitt	Okay, it's CLOSED.
097:36:11	CC	Okay, We'll give you a cue when you go UV, OFF, and INCO would like to know what you've got on your high gain pitch and yaw knobs. Not the dials but the knobs.
097:36:26	Schmitt	All right. The knobs are - about plus 20 and 185.
097:36:44	CC	Okay, PITCH of 20 and 185 on the YAW.
097:36:53	Schmitt	That's affirm.
097:38:22	CC	And, Jack, you can turn the UV off now.
097:38:38	Schmitt	Okay, it's OFF.
097:41:54	Schmitt	Okay, I got the landing site. We're right over the top of it, and the scarp is fantastically detailed at this - Can you see in there, Gene? Right down, right down, straight down there.
097:42:07	Cernan	No, I can't.
097:42:16	Schmitt	Okay, well, the sli - the light mantle is ob - very obviously mantling the area. The scarp was very detailed, and, so far, could not see any structure in the massifs at all, but I haven't had any - didn't have much time to watch it on that pass.
097:42:47	Schmitt	The slide very definitely subdued the general detail in the plains area - or the light mantle, if you will, rather than slide. MOCR Crater was finally out of the dark.
097:43:07	CC	Roger.
097:43:11	CC	Jack, we'd like to know if you think you can adjust the high gain as close to plus 15 and YAW 190 as possible?
097:43:43	Schmitt	Okay, Bob, that's adjusted plus 15 and 190, and I suspect I was a little closer to 15 than 20 when I called you before.
097:43:51	CC	Roger.
097:43:58	Schmitt	I'll tell you, from this altitude and with that low Sun, there's no question of the sharpness of the topographic features in the landing area. The - the scarp, and even some of the apparent back - pardon - backflow features - and Parker will know what I'm talking about - that is apparent flows to the west in the light mantle area were extremely sharp, even those fronts going west were sharp. It looked even more like a mare ridge than it ever did before.
097:44:42	CC	Roger.
097:46:02	Cernan	Okay, Bob, this is Gene. I had a - just a quick view of the site, and if we're anywhere near it, we'll recognize it, I think, without question. And, I think with that, we'll bid farewell and good night.
097:46:18	CC	Okay, gang. And looking for a busy day tomorrow - -
097:46:20	Evans	Never fear. Your old CM - -
097:46:26	CC	Go ahead; I cut you out.
097:46:30	Evans	I say never fear, your CMP is watching.
097:46:34	CC	Roger. And, just a reminder S-BAND - -
097:46:35	Evans	He's got the watch tonight.
097:46:36	CC	- - NORMAL VOICE to OFF tonight, please?
097:46:44	Evans	Okay, okay, as soon as I get bedded down, I'll do that.
097:46:48	Schmitt	Don't worry, he's got a batch of guys up here reminding him of that one.
097:46:53	Evans	And I checked out the little whistle, and it works like a charm.
097:46:59	CC	Roger. I was betting on - -
097:47:02	Evans	Just to make sure, I'm going to check it again.
097:47:03	CC	- - you guys to get that switch last night, and I lost my bet.
097:47:15	Schmitt	And, Robert, good night to all.
097:47:18	CC	Good night up there.
097:47:23	Schmitt	And that is a test. This is a test, test, test.
097:47:28	Cernan	Good night, babe.
097:48:22	PAO	This is Apollo Control. We said goodnight at 97 hours 47 minutes. We'll leave the line up for a few minutes longer, to see whether there's any further conversation.
097:53:55	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 97 hours 53 minutes. Crew has just turned off the voice switch on the spacecraft, indicating they do not intend to talk anymore tonight, and we do not intend to put in anymore calls to them, so we'll take this line down now and come back up with hourly reports, during the sleep period, which has just started.
098:52:00	PAO	This is Apollo control at 98 hours 52 minutes. Flight Director, Pete Frank and members of the Orange Team, are preparing to hand over flight control duties to Flight Director, Gene Kranz and the White Team at this time. There will be no change of shift news conference. Shortly after the Orange Team came on duty, the Descent Orbit Insertion number 1 maneuver was performed. At 93 hours 11 minutes 36 seconds, this was a very good burn. Duration 22 seconds. Velocity change of 198.2 feet per second. Resultant orbit was 59.1 by 14.9 nautical miles. Apollo 17 crew since that time has been performing landmark tracking through the sextant, a great deal of photography, and performing the ultraviolet spectrometer and infrared scanning radiometer experiments, and providing surface descriptions, the geology reports and some Earth weather reports from lunar orbit. The infrared experiment will be continued throughout the rest period that the crew is now in. The ultraviolet experiment has been terminated for tonight. The mapping camera is taking longer to extend and retract than expected. And the last operation took 1 minute 24 seconds to extend and 1 minute 51 seconds to retract. Each of these operations should be accomplished in 1 minute 12 seconds. The camera experts will continue to watch this and if the delayed operation continues, they may reduce the number of times that the camera is extended and retracted. Crew said goodnight at 97 hours 47 minutes. They're anticipating a big day tomorrow, landing, first EVA. 7 hours 49 minutes remaining in that rest period. Apollo 17's present orbit is 59.1 by 13.5 nautical miles. And a short time ago the flight dynamics officer gave the flight director the latest impact coordinates for the S-IVB which impacted the lunar surface today at 89 hours 39 minutes 40 seconds. Coordinates for that impact: 4.21 degrees south latitude, 12.31 degrees west longitude. At 98 hours 55 minutes this is mission control Houston.
099:16:06	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 99 hours 16 minutes. We're about 1 minute from reacquiring Apollo 17 now in its 6th revolution of the Moon. We said goodnight to the crew on the last revolution at 97 hours 47 minutes and the Flight Surgeon reported that it appeared Jack and Ron were both dozing off before we lost radio contact with the spacecraft as it went around behind the Moon on the fifth revolution. Here in Mission Control, Flight Director Gene Kranz has been reviewing the status of the mission with his oncoming team of flight controllers. No problems of note to be reported. The service propulsion system engine, it was reported, looks to be in very good shape as a result of the, or based on the data that we received during the LOI and DOI, the Lunar Orbit Insertion and Descent Orbit Insertion maneuvers performed earlier. The Flight Dynamics Officer, during this shift, is going to be following the spacecraft trajectory very closely looking for any cross range or down range errors which would need to be compensated for prior to the lunar landing. We don't expect any conversations with the crew. We have had confirmation of acquisition of signal now and we'll stand by for a short period of time to get a look at the systems and to assure that we're not going to get a call from the crew.
099:29:12	PAO	This is Apollo Control. No sign of any activity from the crew. The Flight Surgeon reports that Jack Schmitt and Ron Evans, both of whom are wearing their biomedical sensors during the sleep period, appear to be sleeping soundly at this time. Apollo 17 is currently in an orbit 59.1 by 13.5 nautical miles and we have about 52 minutes remaining before the spacecraft again goes behind the Moon and we lose radio contact. We'll come up with a status report shortly prior to loss of signal. At 99 hours 31 minutes this is Apollo Control Houston.
100:22:05	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 100 hours 22 minutes. Apollo 17 has now gone behind the Moon and before we lost radio contact the Surgeon reported the crew appeared to be sleeping soundly. We have about 6 hours 22 minutes remaining in this sleep period before the crew awakens to a very busy day which will include landing on the Moon for the Lunar Module Crew, Jack Schmitt and Gene Cernan, and the first Lunar Surface EVA. Shortly before losing radio contact Gene Kranz checked with each of his flight controllers, got a report that everything was in order, no problems as Apollo 17 went behind the Moon. We'll be reacquiring the spacecraft in its seventh revolution in a little less than 45 minutes. At 100 hours 23 minutes this is Apollo Control, Houston.
101:10:02	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 101 hours 10 minutes and we are standing by now to re-establish radio contact with Apollo 17 at the beginning of its seventh revolution of the Moon. We anticipate the crew will be sleeping soundly as they were when we last had radio contact with the spacecraft some 45 minutes ago. In fact, the 2 crewmen on whom we have biomedical data, Ron Evans and Jack Schmitt, appeared to have gone to sleep almost as soon as they said goodnight. Very shortly thereafter the surgeon noted the slow down in heart rhythms typical of sleep. And that is the condition they were in when we last saw them at the end of the sixth revolution. And we have reacquired radio contact with Apollo 17 and getting good data from the spacecraft at this time. The crew is scheduled to end this 8 hour rest period in a little over 4 and one half hours from now. And it appears that everything is quiet aboard Apollo 17 and no signs of any crew activity. We will take the lines down and continue to monitor and we'll come up with another status report just prior to Loss of Signal as the spacecraft goes behind the Moon on this the seventh revolution. This is Apollo Control at 101 hours 12 minutes.
102:16:02	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 102 hours 16 minutes. The sleep watch going very smoothly and very quietly here in Mission Control. We now have 3-1/2 hours until the scheduled crew awakening time. And we've just loss of signal from Apollo 17, now going behind the Moon on its seventh revolution. We'll be reacquiring in about 40 minutes. At the present time we show Apollo 17 in an orbit roughly 59 by 13 nautical miles. And it appears that the crew is continuing to get good sound sleep with 3-1/2, as we said, remaining in the sleep period. At 102 hours 18 minutes, this is Apollo Control, Houston.
103:04:02	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 103 hours 4 minutes. We're standing by now to re-establish radio contact with Apollo 17 as the spacecraft comes around the eastern limb of the Moon and reappears on the front side in it's eighth revolution of the Moon. The crew now, a little more than 5 hours into their sleep period, about 2 hours 40 minutes remaining before we send them the wakeup call. And all spacecraft systems continue to perform normally. No outstanding problems at this time. We are showing Apollo 17 in an orbit of about 59 by 13 nautical miles, and we should be seeing telemetry data shortly now. Radio from the spacecraft being received at the 210 foot dish antenna at Honeysuckle Creek, Australia, near Canberra. And we're once again receiving data from the spacecraft. We, of course, do not expect any activity from the crew and we'll have the lines down during this front side pass, should there be any unexpected conversations we'll bring up the lines immediately. We'll have about 1 hour and 5 minutes before Apollo 17 disappears around the back side of the Moon on the eighth revolution. This is Apollo Control, Houston.
104:10:00	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 104 hours 10 minutes. Apollo 17 has just gone behind the Moon now. The spacecraft on its eighth revolution of the Moon and we'll be reacquiring in about 45 minutes as Apollo 17 comes back around the eastern limb of the Moon on its nineth revolution. During the nineth revolution we'll be sending the wakeup call to the crew, getting them ready for one of their busiest days on the mission which will include LM seperation from the Command Module and the powered desent to the lunar surface followed by the first period of lunar surface exploration in the valley of the Taurus Mountains. The flight surgeon reports the crew has been getting, apparently, a very good night's sleep. They are now six and one half hours into that scheduled 8 hours sleep period with about an hour and a half of sleep remaining. Apollo 17 in an orbit 59 by 13 nautical miles and if everything goes according to the Flight Plan undocking will occur about 11:20 Central Standard Time on the twelveth revolution with powered descent to the lunar surface coming at about 1:55 PM. At 104 hours 12 minutes this is Apollo Control, Houston.
104:58:01	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 104 hours 58 minutes and we're standing by to reacquire radio contact with Apollo 17, spacecraft now in it's nineth revolution of the Moon, and will shortly be coming around the eastern limb of the Moon and back out on the front side. During this front side pass CAPCOM, Joe Allen, will be putting in a call to the crew getting them up and started on a very active day which will include landing on the lunar surface in a valley of the Taurus Mountains near the Sea of Serenity. Our last look at the spacecraft's lunar orbit showed it to be maintaining an orbit fairly close to 13 nautical miles by 59 nautical miles, actually dropping down somewhat below 13 on the pericynthion to about 12.6. And we should have radio contact with the spacecraft shortly, and we'll begin getting telemetry data on all of the spacecraft systems. We have 46 minutes showing until scheduled crew wakeup time. And we've had the AOS call, Acquisition of Signal, getting good high bit rate data at this time. And the flight dynamics officer's orbit display shows Apollo 17 to be in an orbit of a high point of 59.9 nautical miles. The low point or pericynthion of 12.5. We'll come back up a few minutes before the scheduled crew awakening time, about 45 minutes from now, and follow live from that point on as the crew begins preparations for LM activation, seperation, and the landing on the lunar surface. This is Apollo Control, Houston.
105:40:01	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 105 hours 40 minutes. We're about 5 minutes away now from putting in a call to the crew, getting them up for breakfast, and ready to start a day that will culminate with landing on the lunar surface and the first EVA at the Taurus Mountain site, Taurus Littrow, near the Sea of Serenity. CAPCOM, Joe Allen, will be putting in a call to the crew in about 4-1/2 minutes from now and we'll stand by for that wakeup call to the crew of Apollo 17. Here in the control center the landing shift, landing team of flight controllers, is beginning to come on duty, after a very quiet uneventful night monitoring Apollo 17 in lunar orbit. The spacecraft now on its nineth revolution of the Moon completing the front side pass and we'll be losing contact with the command module as it goes behind the Moon on the nineth revolution in about 22 minutes.
105:45:00	CC	(Music) "Good Morning America, How Are You"
105:47:28	CC	Good morning, America. How are you?
105:47:49	Evans	This is America. That's a good way to wake up.
105:47:54	CC	Good morning, America. How are you? you'll be gone a million miles before the mission is done.
105:48:03	Evans	(Laughter) Okay.
105:48:33	Evans	Houston, America. How you reading? Okay now?
105:48:36	CC	You're loud and clear, Ron. How are we?
105:48:40	Evans	Okay; might fine, Joe.
105:49:09	Schmitt	Let's hear it again, Joe.
105:49:15	CC	Are you serious?
105:49:20	Schmitt	Well, I Just got on a headset. You never had a chance to - -
105:49:25	CC	Stand by. Here it comes.
105:49:25	Schmitt	- - wake me up before. (Laughter)
105:50:04	CC	It's coming at you, America.
105:50:11	Schmitt	Okay.
105:51:04		(Music: City of New Orleans by John Denver)
105:53:44	CC	How about that?
105:53:45	Schmitt	Thank you, Joe. That's great. We're moving on.
105:53:53	CC	Don't you know?
105:53:54	Evans	And a big eight-wheeler.
105:54:07	CC	And, America, you're 10 minutes from LOS, and the spacecraft looks great.
105:54:19	Schmitt	Okay, Joe. That's good to hear. And we're starting to move now, and we'll be ready for you when we come around.
105:54:26	CC	All righty.
105:54:33	Schmitt	How long are you with us this morning?
105:54:37	CC	Oh, not too many more minutes.
105:54:43	Schmitt	Hope we didn't keep you up last night.
105:54:49	CC	The pleasure was ours, Jack. We devoted our 8 hours to selecting your wakeup call this morning and got a little help from the news room P00l on that suggestion.
105:55:10	Schmitt	Well, that was a good suggestion. I had forgotten all about that song. That's a good one.
105:55:34	Schmitt	You ought to find the "Golden Rockets" for us some morning.
105:55:45	CC	You'll wish you hadn't asked.
105:56:55	CC	17, this is Houston. You'll be pleased to hear that the IR in the SIM bay is returning some beautiful data to us here.
105:57:08	Evans	Hey; great, Joe. That's good to hear, by gosh.
105:57:11	Schmitt	What are you learning, Joe?
105:57:15	CC	Hotspots on the Moon, Jack.
105:57:25	Schmitt	Well, we know we had one going around it. We didn't know we had any on it.
105:57:35	Evans	Houston, the LM/CM DELTA-P is 0.4.
105:57:41	CC	Copy that.
105:57:50	Schmitt	Where - where is your big anomalies, Joe? Can you summarize quickly?
105:57:57	CC	Jack, we'll get - get that for you next pass.
105:58:04	Schmitt	Well, don't worry about it. I think we're going to have a lot of things on our mind the next pass. But we're just passing over Orientale again, Joe, and in earthlight it's probably one of the most spectacular sights in nature.
105:58:34	CC	Copy that, Jack. I can imagine.
106:00:39	Schmitt	Joe, can you imagine waking up anywhere else?
106:00:57	CC	17, we'll think about that until you go LOS.
106:01:10	Schmitt	Roger.
106:01:38	CC	17, about 30 seconds to LOS. We'll see you on the other side. It's boing to be a good day.
106:01:46	Schmitt	Righto, Joe.
106:01:47		BEGIN LUNAR REV 10
106:02:40	PAO	This is Apollo Control. We've now had loss of signal as Apollo 17 goes behind the Moon on the ninth revolution. We'll be reacquiring in about 45 minutes - a little bit less, as the spacecraft comes back on the front side on the tenth revolution. And by that time the crew should have completed breakfast. They'll be getting the pressure suits unstowed and begin preparations for entering the lunar module, for the separation, landing on the lunar surface, and the first EVA, all scheduled to occur this day. The IR data which Joe Allen advised the crew we're getting in such good form back here on the ground from the spacecraft's service module, is from the IR scanning radiometer. This is an instrument carried in the CSM SIM bay, Scientific Instrument Module bay. And it's obtaining surface temperatures under the groundtrack of the spacecraft from which scientist will be able to construct a temperature map. From this information they hope to be able to characterize such lunar surface physical parameters as the general conductivity, the bulk density, and the specific heat. Apollo 17 at the present time is in an orbit about 59 nautical miles at it's high point and about 12-1/2 miles above the lunar surface at the low point. At 106 hours 5 minutes this is Apollo Control Houston.
106:50:46	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 106 hours 51 minutes. We're about 2 minutes now from reacquiring Apollo 17 as the spacecraft comes back around on the front side of the Moon on the tenth revolution. And when we again establish radio contact the crew should have pretty well finished breakfast and be getting suited up, ready for Jack Schmitt and Gene Cernan to enter the lunar module and begin preparations for separation, powered descent to the lunar surface. Here in the control center we're in the process of a shift handover. Flight Director, Gerry Griffin, and the team of flight controllers who will be on during today's powered descent are now coming on to replace the Gene Kranz team. Flight Director Neil Hutchinson will be in charge of CSM activities once the two vehicles separate. CAPCOM for the lunar module will be Astronaut Gordon Fullerton and Astronaut Ken Mattingly is moving in taking up position at the console to handle CSM activities. And we're now about 30 seconds away from reacquiring Apollo 17.
106:53:17	PAO	INCO reports acquisition of signal. We'll stand by for a call to the crew.
106:54:36	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. We're with you and we're in the process of getting the tunnel pressurized and moving right towards probe and drogue removal.
106:54:49	CC	Okay, Jack. Good morning.
106:54:54	Schmitt	Good morning, Gordy. Welcome aboard.
106:54:58	CC	Thank you.
106:55:13	Schmitt	I take it you're going to pick up the - the reports - post-sleep reports later. is that correct? From Ron?
106:55:23	CC	Any way it's convenient to you.
106:55:29	Schmitt	Well, we're moving towards getting the suits on. Unless you want me to take 5 minutes here, we'll leave it alone and let Ron give it to you.
106:55:39	CC	That'll be fine.
106:55:43	Schmitt	Everybody ate and drank and slept just about like last night.
106:55:47	CC	Okay.
106:56:16	Cernan	Good morning, Gordy.
106:56:19	CC	Good morning, Commander.
106:56:24	Cernan	Tell Joe I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to say hello to him, but I did hear his presence being evident.
106:56:34	CC	Okay. We'll pass it along.
106:56:55	Evans	Houston, America. The tunnel hatch is out.
106:56:59	CC	Okeydoke, Ron.
106:57:12	Cernan	Gordy, how does America look to you this morning?
106:57:18	CC	Beautiful, as it has all the way to date.
106:57:29	Cernan	Okay.
107:00:40	Evans	Okay, Houston; America. The old probe is underneath the couch.
107:00:48	CC	Okay.
107:03:45	Evans	Houston, America.
107:03:48	CC	Go ahead, America.
107:03:53	Evans	Okay. How are Jack's EKGs and stuff. He's going to tape them now.
107:03:59	CC	Let me get a check.
107:04:00	Evans	(Chuckle) Wait a minute, he's not plugged in. But, you know, he's had them on all night. Were they good?
107:04:10	CC	Stand by.
107:04:16	CC	Yes, when he was plugged in we had good signals.
107:04:23	Evans	Okay; good.
107:08:04	CC	America, Houston. If someone's near the telemetry switch, if you go to ACCEPT, we'll give you a state vector.
107:08:20	Evans	Okay. You have ACCEPT.
107:08:24	CC	Okay. And as we're supposed to update your trajectory, which is looking good - predicted perilune at PDI without DOI-2 would be 11.9, a little lower. So that means that DOI-2 will be a little less, in terms of DELTA-V, than nominal. But, otherwise, looking good.
107:08:52	Evans	Okay. Did you say 11.2 for perigee, now - without DOI-2?
107:08:58	CC	I might have said that. It's 11.9 predicted at PDI time without DOI-2.
107:09:09	Evans	Oh okay, 11.9 predicted without - at PDI time without DOI-2.
107:09:14	CC	That's right.
107:09:17	Evans	Okay, so DOI-2 will be a little less than predicted.
107:09:20	CC	Affirmative.
107:09:26	Evans	I'm repeating it to these guys that are getting suited here, see.
107:09:30	CC	Okay.
107:10:27	CC	Okay. I have your vector now. You can go back to BLOCK.
107:10:33	Evans	Okay. We'll go to BLOCK.
107:13:11	CC	America, Houston. You owe us a reverification of docking tunnel index angle.
107:13:22	Evans	Okay. Let me check it.
107:13:34	Evans	Well, I kept ... thinking it might move back to zero, but it hasn't moved - plus 1.2.
107:13:40	CC	Okay; plus 1.2. For your information, Ron, on consumables this morning, we're running 6 percent above the Flight Plan line on RCS. On the hydrogen, we're about 8 percent above the line on TANK 2; right on the lines on the other two hydrogen tanks. And on the O2, we're running our standard 4 to 5 percent below the line on oxygen TANK 1; TANK 2 is right on; and TANK 3 has now gained to about 3 percent above the line. All looking good.
107:14:26	Evans	Okay, Houston. Hey, that's mighty fine.
107:19:50	Schmitt	Houston, America.
107:19:52	CC	Go ahead.
107:19:56	Evans	Okay, I'll give you the commander's food from yesterday.
107:20:00	CC	All right. Ready to copy.
107:20:08	Evans	Four bacon squares, cornflakes, orange beverage, two sips of coffee, a vitamin. Okay, Meal B: chicken and rice soup, meatballs and sauce, orange PA drink, and caramel stick - one caramel stick. Okay, Meal C: potato soup, beef and gravy, citrus beverage, a chocolate bar, a package of pecans.
107:21:12	CC	Okay. We're with you so far.
107:21:38	Evans	Okay; commander's medical log: PRD 17036, 6-1/2 hours of good sleep, one Seconal last night, three bags of fluid.
107:21:58	CC	Roger.
107:21:58	Evans	Three bags of water, let's - I better put it that way, I guess.
107:22:53	Evans	Okay. Here we go on the LMPs food.
107:22:56	CC	Okay.
107:23:01	Evans	Okay; two bacon squares, scrambled eggs, two apricots, cocoa, and a coffee. Meal B: fruitcake, cit - citrus beverage, hamburger, and a coffee. Meal C: lemonade, beef and gravy, ambrosia, cereal bar, and tea. I guess that's it.
107:24:02	CC	Okay.
107:24:32	Evans	Hey, Houston. Why don't I give you LMPs menu this morning too - day 5?
107:24:38	CC	Okay.
107:24:38	Evans	Then I won't have to get back in their pages. Okay. It's a sausage patty for LMP - sausage patties, cinamon-toasted bread, instant breakfast, coffee with K, and a grape drink, and a vitamin. Okay, for the commander on day 5: spiced oat cereal, sausage patties, instant breakfast, and vitamins.
107:25:23	CC	Roger.
107:25:48	Evans	Okay; for the LMPs medical log: PRD 24108, 7-1/4 hours very good, one Seconal last night, 3-1/2 cans of water.
107:26:10	CC	Roger.
107:26:58	CC	Okay. We're ready to go on Command Module Pilot of the spaceship America and his ... menu.
107:27:10	CC	Go ahead, captain.
107:27:15	Evans	Okay, Bacon squares, scrambled eggs, cornflakes, orange juice, two coffee, three caramel candies - that's three sticks of caramel candy. Meal B: chicken and rice, meatballs, butterscotch pudding, orange PA drink. I missed the vitamins up there in A, too. Okay, Meal C: potato soup, beef and gravy, chicken stew, orange GF drink, tea, chocolate bar, and a package of pecans.
107:29:04	Evans	Okay; CMP medical log: PRD 15034, and about 5-1/2 of good sleep; a little trouble getting to sleep last night, and I woke up early this morning. I took a Seconal; didn't seem to have much good - much effect, and I had four cans of water.
107:29:35	CC	Roger.
107:29:45	Evans	I think I was on the biomed all the time last night, too, so you can check out that sleep.
107:29:53	CC	Okay, Ron, While you've got that book with you, I can give you a one-line change to the E-memory load as a result of our changing the short-burn constant.
107:30:10	Evans	Okay. Stand by 1 here.
107:31:16	Evans	Okay, Houston; America. I've got the right page now.
107:31:19	CC	Okay. It's page 1-43. It's load Delta. Identifier number 5; the old value is 01606. Change that to 01637.
107:31:44	Evans	Okay. It'll be load Delta, and the octal identifier 05, and its new value is 01637.
107:31:55	CC	That's correct.
107:32:34	Evans	Okay. The LMP has got his suit on. They're connecting up the LCG water connection, and he's still unzipped.
107:32:45	CC	Okay, Ron. In the Flight Plan, you're coming up on a VERB 45 and then going to P00 prior to the P52. After going to P00, we'd like you to change to B/D ROLL from A/C. Over.
107:33:03	Evans	Okay. We'll change the B/D ROLL. Looks like we're going to run into a problem on our P52 down here, with these guys getting suited. is it really necessary now?
107:33:19	CC	There's no time criticality on that. When they're out of the way, go ahead with it.
107:33:28	Evans	Okay. Good.
107:42:44	Schmitt	Okay, Houston, how do you read the LMP?
107:42:47	CC	LMP, you're loud and clear.
107:42:52	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy, I'm opening the hatch.
107:42:55	CC	Okay.
107:43:05	Schmitt	And the light's still on.
107:43:09	CC	Roger.
107:43:36	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. Index 1 plus - or plus 1.2.
107:43:42	CC	Roger.
107:45:49	Evans	Okay, Houston, I'm going to skip the P52 for a while and maneuver to the docking attitude - undock attitude, that is.
107:46:00	CC	Roger. - Stand by on that one, Ron.
107:46:12	Evans	Wilco.
107:46:14	CC	We want to be sure we can get some stars - good stars in the undock attitude.
107:47:14	CC	Ron, this is Houston. We didn't see you do a VERB 45. Over.
107:47:22	Evans	You're right. Good one.
107:47:26	CC	And if there's any - if you - if there's no reason why not, we'd just as soon you go ahead and do the P52 now. Finish that off and then start the maneuver. Over.
107:47:41	Evans	Okay. The big reason is that Gene's getting into his suit right now.
107:47:48	CC	Okay.
107:47:48	Evans	As soon as he gets out and gets in his suit, well, I'll do a P52 maneuver.
107:47:52	CC	Okay.
107:48:34	CC	Ron, Houston. Can you give us AUTO on the HIGH GAIN?
107:48:45	Evans	Okay. Just a second, Houston.
107:49:22	Schmitt	We're transferring to LM POWER, Houston.
107:49:24	Evans	Okay; OFF, RESET, back to OFF.
107:49:30	Schmitt	Okay. We have LM POWER.
107:49:32	Evans	Okay. That was 107:49:28.
107:49:39	CC	Roger.
107:50:16	Schmitt	LM WATER is OPEN, and O2 is OPEN.
107:50:20	CC	Roger.
107:50:55	Schmitt	Okay; 3-4, Houston, in the LM. And step 1 is good.
107:51:05	CC	Okay.
107:52:31	Schmitt	Okay. Step 2 is complete.
107:52:34	CC	Okay, Jack.
107:52:38	Schmitt	And I'm going off of CSM comm, and I'll be coming at you before long on S-BAND, if I can.
107:52:50	CC	Okay.
107:56:15	CC	Ron, Houston. We've taken a look at stars available in the undock attitude, and they don't look too good. We suggest you use the present attitude for your 52 and then maneuver. Over.
107:56:30	Evans	Okay. I'm just about to get Gene out of the way here, and then I will.
107:56:33	CC	Okay, and we're less than 3 minutes to LOS now. So when you finish that 52, we'd like you to copy down the NOUN 5 and 93s for us.
107:56:45	Evans	Okay; will do.
107:58:23	CC	America, Houston. About 1 minute to LOS. Nothing further for you. We'll see you on the other side.
107:58:33	Evans	Okay, Gordo. We're hustling like hell. We might make it. (Laughter)
107:58:38	CC	Roger.
107:58:38		BEGIN LUNAR REV 11
107:59:32	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 107:59 Ground Elapsed Time into the mission of Apollo 17. We've had loss of signal at this time as Apollo 17 coasted behind the Moon on the tenth lunar orbit. Approximately 47 minutes until the spacecraft both come around the far side as the crew prepares to transfer into the lunar module; that is, Cernan and Schmitt prepare to transfer into the lunar module. Get it powered up in preparation for today's activities of the Descent Orbit Insertion maneuver number 2 and ultimately the landing at Taurus-Littrow and the first extravehicular activity. As they come around the Moon on the eleventh revolution, they will have checked out the lunar module with a few exceptions such as they will deploy the landing gear after acquistion of signal. Also at that time, both spacecraft, Challenger and America, though still docked, will be on separate air to ground links. The lunar module will be on the normal channel; the command service module link, with Ron Evans, will be piped into Room 161 in the News Center building for those newsmen covering the mission who prefer to listen to the command service module orbital science activities. As Apollo 17 went behind the western limb of the Moon, the orbit measured 12 nautical miles at pericynthion and 60.2 at apocynthion. Some maneuvers coming up - the next major maneuver for the lunar module will be the descent orbit insertion number 2 which at this time is predicted, or is calculated to take place at a Ground Elapsed Time of 112 hours 1 minute 59.1 seconds. Total burn time of 21.8 seconds. For a Delta V or velocity change of 7.6 feet per second, which will change the orbit to an apocynthion of 60.4 nautical miles and a pericynthion, or nearest approach, which is just uprange of the landing site, of 6.7 nautical miles. The big maneuver of the day, of course, is Powered Descent and Landing, which at this time is calculated to take place at a Ground Elapsed Time of 112 hours 49 minutes 27 seconds, lasting 11 minutes and 57 seconds, plus whatever hover time is available as they get down to the landing site. Total Delta V, or velocity change, to get out of orbit and break into the descent path and ultimately the hovering and touchdown at Taurus-Littrow is 6,693 feet per second. Some 43 minutes now away from acquisition as Apollo 17, America and Challenger, come from behind the Moon on orbit number 11. And at 108:04 Ground Elapsed Time, this is Apollo Control.
108:44:56	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 108 hours 44 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. Less than 2 minutes away from acquisition as America and Challenger, the spacecraft of Apollo 17, come around from behind the Moon on lunar orbit number 11. At that time the voice downlinks from both spacecrafts will be separated. For those newsmen in Houston who wish to listen to the voice from Ron Evans in the command service module, this will be available in room 161 in the Newscenter Office Wing. At the time the spacecraft reappears from behind the Moon, the crew should have completed most of the lunar module checkout procedures, and be prepared for deploying the landing gear, and a series of communications checks with the ground. Just before loss of signal on the eleventh revolution, the crew will be given a GO / NO-GO for undocking and separation, which will take place during the time when the spacecraft is behind the Moon near the end of revolution number 11. In other words, when they reappear again, they will be flying separately on the twelfth revolution. We should have acquisition any moment now, we've counted down to zero on the acquisition of signal clocks here in the Control Center. It takes a few seconds for the ground to lock up solidly with the downlink signal with the spacecraft. Network reports acquisition of signal, let's bring up the line and listen for the first call.
108:47:34	Schmitt	There we go. Should have done that in the first place.
108:47:55	Schmitt	Okay, Okay.
108:48:02	CC	Challenger, this is Houston. How do you read?
108:48:12	Cernan	Hello, Gordie, this is Challenger, we read you loud and clear.
108:48:15	CC	Okay. You're readable. Lots of background noise at the moment.
108:48:24	Cernan	Okay. We'll update you in just a minute.
108:48:30	Schmitt	Okay, Gene, that's locked.
108:48:39	Schmitt	Okay. Another one is verify locked. The band was up. So you're locked here; the red thing is in.
108:48:47	Cernan	Okay.
108:48:48	Schmitt	And I'll ... you up.
108:48:52	Cernan	Okay, and I got it over here.
108:48:55	Schmitt	Okay. Okay. Comm checks.
108:49:02	Cernan	Let me give them an E-memory dump. I can press on. Gordy, Jack will update you in just a second. And I've got some words for you, but I'd like to give you an E-memory dump as soon as you get the steerable.
108:49:12	Schmitt	... they got the steerable. Okay.
108:49:16	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. How do you read the LMP? This is your S-BAND T/R in secondary power amp check.
108:49:23	CC	Okay, LMP. You're clear. Lots of background noise though.
108:49:31	Schmitt	Okay. I'm going to bring up the steerable.
108:49:33	CC	Okay; go ahead.
108:50:21	SC	Okay, steerable ...
108:51:13	Cernan	... going to make it?
108:51:17	Schmitt	... switch here, I have to wait for this one.
108:51:35	Cernan	Pitch is good. ...
108:51:52	Schmitt	Okay. YAW minus 0.2.
108:51:57	Cernan	Yaw is good.
108:52:30	Cernan	Do you know where our scissors - -
108:52:31	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. How do you read?
108:52:33	CC	Okay. You're loud and clear, Jack.
108:52:36	Schmitt	Yes, they're in the - -
108:52:38	Cernan	Okay. Okay.
108:52:39	Schmitt	... data file.
108:52:43	Schmitt	Hey, Ron. We need to check out that VHF. You ought to get that done before you close up, Ron. Houston, we'll be right with you. We're going to check out our VHF. Let me finish this part of it, and then - we'll get that.
108:53:05	Schmitt	Okay. You want to read that to me, Gene - the S-BAND?
108:53:10	Cernan	Okay. Where are you now?
108:53:12	Schmitt	I'm right here in the middle of the page.
108:53:15	Cernan	Okay. S-BAND PM.
108:53:17	Schmitt	PM.
108:53:18	Cernan	Secondary - -
108:53:32	Schmitt	Houston, How do you read the LM?
108:53:34	CC	Loud and clear, Jack.
108:53:40	Schmitt	Okay. We're in step 2, and - we're giving you your second S-BAND check. And I'm going TRACK MODE AUTO.
108:53:48	CC	Okay. You sound good.
108:54:05	Schmitt	Okay, Houston, I can hear the antenna rumbling up there, but - I still have not peaked. Still reading 3.7.
108:54:16	CC	Okay. You're loud and clear, Jack. It looks like a good lock to us.
108:54:22	Schmitt	Okay. We'll leave it - Okay. I'll leave it there, and I'm going BIOMED RIGHT.
108:54:31	CC	Roger.
108:54:35	Schmitt	Okay. SQUELCH is OFF. How do you read?
108:54:38	CC	Still loud and clear.
108:54:44	Schmitt	Roger. Okay ...
108:55:10	Schmitt	Hello, Houston. I'm ready to give you an E-memory dump.
108:55:13	CC	Okay. We're ready to take it. Go ahead.
108:55:15	Schmitt	Okay, Ron, how do you - Ron, how do you read on SIMPLEX Bravo?
108:55:23	Schmitt	I do not read you. Coming at you.
108:55:35	Evans	Okay. I don't read you at all, Jack.
108:55:37	Schmitt	Hey, Ron, I do not read you. Check your VHF switch.
108:55:47	Evans	Okay. I'm down to SIMPLEX Bravo.
108:55:54	Schmitt	Yes; go ahead.
108:55:59	Evans	I'm talking on B now. How do you read?
108:56:03	Schmitt	I do not read you. Do you read me?
108:56:05	Evans	No, I don't read you at all either, Jack.
108:56:10	Evans	No, I don't read you.
108:56:26	Evans	Okay. I've got everything on in my AUTO panel. Let me try the other one for backup.
108:56:49	Evans	Yes, I'm on LEFT. On what? Let me go to BACKUP.
108:56:54	Schmitt	Okay. I've got you; I got you.
108:56:56	Evans	I don't have you, yet.
108:56:59	Evans	Okay.
108:57:01	Schmitt	Okay. How do you read on VHF Bravo? You're loud and clear.
108:57:04	Evans	Hey, I finally got you.
108:57:06	Schmitt	That was my fault, Ron.
108:57:07	Evans	Okay. You were kind of clipping there for a little bit. I got the last part of your transmission.
108:57:13	Schmitt	Okay. It was just warming up. You're loud and clear now.
108:57:17	Evans	Okay. I heard it - I just missed - I just missed it. It was just warming up, but I got the loud and clear.
108:57:22	Cernan	Okay, Houston. I've got a couple I want to pass out to you.
108:57:25	CC	Go ahead, Gene.
108:57:31	Cernan	Okay. When I first put in the - -
108:57:34	Schmitt	Okay, Ron, how do you read now?
108:57:35	Cernan	- - LGC breaker -
108:57:36	Evans	Okay. I read you loud and clear; that's VHF B.
108:57:40	Cernan	Stand by, Houston.
108:57:44	Schmitt	Am I clipping now, Ron?
108:57:46	Evans	Yes, I didn't hear you at all that time.
108:57:48	Schmitt	Am I clipping now?
108:57:50	Evans	Yes, you're still clipping. All I got was "now."
108:57:59	Schmitt	Okay. How do you read now?
108:58:01	Evans	Okay. "How do you read now?" I got that.
108:58:03	Schmitt	Okay. I guess we're okay. It was the squelch.
108:58:07	Evans	(Laughter) Then I missed that part of it.
108:58:16	Cernan	Ron, how do you hear, Gene?
108:58:19	Evans	Okay. Loud and clear, Gene.
108:58:20	Cernan	Okay; very good.
108:58:22	Schmitt	How do you read the LMP now, Ron?
108:58:26	Evans	Now, you're still clipping, Jack. Can you move your mikes a little bit closer or something?
108:58:34	Schmitt	Okay. How do you read now?
108:58:36	Evans	No, I didn't read you at all that time.
108:58:40	Schmitt	How do you read now?
108:58:41	Evans	Not clear.
108:58:43	Schmitt	Okay. I've got the SQUELCH to full decrease.
108:58:49	Evans	Well, you're going to have to yell or something. I still - you're still clipping yourself out, Jack.
108:58:53	Schmitt	Okay. Do you read Gene, Ron?
108:58:57	Evans	No, I didn't read you that time.
108:58:58	Cernan	Okay. We're going to press on and get these VHF checks GO. We can cut them.
108:59:03	Evans	Okay. Okay; switching to Alfa.
108:59:12	Evans	Bravo is off; SIMPLEX Alfa is on.
108:59:20	Schmitt	Okay, Ron. How do you read on Alfa?
108:59:24	Evans	Don't read you.
108:59:27	Schmitt	How do you read on Alfa, Ron?
108:59:29	Evans	Don't read you.
108:59:33	Schmitt	How do you read the LMP on Alfa, Ron?
108:59:40	Evans	Okay. I don't read you guys at all, except through the tunnel.
108:59:49	Cernan	How do you read on Alfa, Ron?
108:59:51	Evans	Okay. Got you loud and clear that time. And, Gene, can you verify the capture latches are all engaged?
109:00:00	Cernan	Okay. How do you read me?
109:00:02	Evans	I didn't read you at all, Jack.
109:00:04	Cernan	This is Gene. How do you read me on Alfa?
109:00:06	Evans	Didn't read you.
109:00:07	Cernan	Okay. Let's press on. You're getting us intermittent. We can get it.
109:00:10	Evans	Okay. I got you that time, and check the capture latches.
109:00:17	Cernan	Okay, Houston. I'm pretty sure the VHF - -
109:00:20	Evans	Okay?
109:00:20	Cernan	- - is all right. It seems to have something to do with the SQUELCH setting, and it's probably because we're so close.
109:00:28	CC	Okay. We concur. We'd like you to press on and not worry about the VHF any more for now.
109:00:35	Cernan	Okay, Gordo. We are. Here's a couple of quick ones. When I pushed the LGC DSKY breaker IN, I did not get a restart light. The keyboard came up with 400 in R-2. The LGC light was already on, and it went off as prescribed. When I did a VERB 35, I got all the proper lights except when the LGC and isS lights came on, the entire CAUTION and WARNING dimmed. One more item. In our DAP setting, we are reading in our checklist for R-l plus 645 and for R-2 plus 641. The DSKY DAP came up plus 641 and plus 645. It just reversed those numbers. And I'm going to deploy the landing gear.
109:01:35	CC	Okay.
109:01:51	Cernan	Okay, Houston. MASTER ARM is on, and B light is on.
109:01:54	CC	Roger.
109:01:57	Cernan	Roger. Are you ready for a landing gear?
109:01:57	Evans	Yes, I'm up in the tunnel, but go ahead.
109:02:03	Cernan	Ron, if you read, the landing gear is coming on my MARK.
109:02:07	Evans	Okay. I read you. Go ahead.
109:02:07	Cernan	3, 2, 1 -
109:02:11	Cernan	MARK.
109:02:14	Cernan	Hey, Houston. We got a good one out front.
109:02:17	CC	Sounds good.
109:02:17	Evans	(Laughter)
109:02:21	CC	We show them all deployed.
109:02:23	Cernan	And the flag is gray. Okay. The flag is gray.
109:02:27	CC	Roger.
109:02:27	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. The PRIMARY EVAP FLOW time, 108 - EVAP FLOW time 108:16:55. And I'm ready to copy your abort constants and a DOI-2 pad.
109:02:41	CC	Okay, Jack. Here come the abort constants. 224 is - 6 - -
109:02:48	Schmitt	Stand by, Gordy.
109:02:51	CC	Okay. Stand by.
109:02:58	Cernan	Ron, when you get the tunnel closed out, I'll need you for an IMU coarse align.
109:03:06	Evans	Okay. I'm getting the probe umbilicals installed now.
109:03:15	Cernan	Okay. I'll need your NOUN 20s, when you get a chance.
109:03:18	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. You can go ahead, and you have DATA on the UPDATA LINK.
109:03:27	CC	Okay. We'll have the up-link in a minute. 224 is 60470, 29364, 60386, 00594, 32772, 54404. Go ahead.
109:04:00	Schmitt	Okay. 60470, 29364, 60386, 00594, 32772, 54404.
109:04:18	CC	Okay. That was a good readback. Ready with DOI-2 when you are.
109:04:29	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. Go ahead.
109:04:32	CC	Okay. The - it's DOI-2; TIG time is 112:02:40.92; NOUN 81 is a minus 0007.5, DELTA-Vy plus all balls, and DELTA-Vg is plus all balls.
109:04:54	Evans	Okay, Gene. Can you look at the capture latches? I've got it preloaded here now.
109:05:00	CC	NOUN 42, 00615 - -
109:05:04	Evans	Okay. Preload the - it's pushing on by, so I'll going to - ... preloaded.
109:05:04	CC	- - plus 00067 - -
109:05:12	Evans	Okay.
109:05:12	CC	- - 00075; burn time 0:22, 000, 074 - -
109:05:30	Evans	What do you mean; probe locked?
109:05:30	Evans	Yes, it was locked. Oh, the dorgue. Yes. Yes, it's locked in there.
109:05:30	CC	And 373 is a 0122.7.
109:05:36	CC	The AGS DELTA-Vs are NA.
109:05:43	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. 112:02:40.92; minus three zeros 75, plus all zeros, plus all zeros; 00615, plus three zeros 67, three zeros 75; 0:22; all zeros, 074; 0122.7; rest of pad NA.
109:06:14	CC	That's correct, Jack.
109:06:28	Cernan	Okay. Stand by - I've - let's see. Okay.
109:06:33	Cernan	Okay. I need your numbers then. NOUN 20.
109:06:39	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. I'm going to start the lunar batt check, and it'll be silent.
109:06:47	CC	Okay. We're watching.
109:06:48	Cernan	Ron, I need your - your NOUN 20 numbers.
109:07:07	Cernan	Okay. I got 356.95, 106.34, and 001.49.
109:07:14	Evans	Right?
109:07:17	CC	Challenger, we want to get the attitude tweaked back up closer to the normal before doing the coarse align.
109:07:17	CC	America, Houston.
109:07:34	Cernan	Hey, Ron, they want a more normal attitude for you You're not quite nominal.
109:07:52	Cernan	If you're talking to me, it's about 0 - 104.7 and then 0.
109:08:05	CC	Challenger, the up-link's in there. It's your computer.
109:08:11	Cernan	Okay, Gordy. Thank you. And, Ron, let me know when you're tweaked up, and then go MIN DEADBAND ATT HOLD.
109:08:22	Evans	Okay, Houston; America. 0105 and 0, correct?
109:08:25	CC	Yes, sir.
109:08:43	Evans	That's interesting. I don't know how it got off attitude.
109:08:51	CC	Yes, I was going to ask you the same thing. You might have knocked a - a stick or something while everybody was flailing around down there. Could you - -
109:09:02	Evans	Maybe - maybe I hit the stick or something. Yes.
109:09:05	CC	Yes.
109:09:14	Evans	Okay, Gene. We're MIN DEADBAND ATT hold at 0105 and 0.
109:09:18	Cernan	Okay. Read out NOUN 20.
109:09:23	Evans	Okay; VERB 6, NOUN 20: 000.32, 104.40, 359.55
109:09:44	Cernan	Okay. I got all those.
109:09:46	Evans	Okay.
109:09:50	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. I skipped a step on LUNAR BAT, OFF/RESET; I'll go back.
109:09:58	Evans	Okay, Houston. I forgot to release the docking latches. Okay. I'll go up and release the docking latches 1 and 7.
109:10:05	CC	Okay.
109:10:08	Evans	And if I just put the - No, I won't that.
109:10:13	CC	Jack, we need the - we think you missed a step. We need to -
109:10:14	Evans	I was going to say you could read the probe temp if I put the circuit breakers in.
109:10:19	CC	CDR, LUNAR BAT, OFF/RESET.
109:10:21	Schmitt	Yes. That's right, I'll go - that's affirm; I'll go back. Stand by.
109:10:28	CC	Okay.
109:10:35	Evans	Okay. There's number 1. One releases; two releases, and it's free - -
109:10:40	Schmitt	Okay. I'm back to LUNAR BAT - LMP LUNAR BAT OFF/RESET.
109:10:43	Evans	- Seven.
109:10:51	CC	Roger.
109:10:58	Cernan	Okay, Gordy. For the LM, I've got 300.88, 284, and three balls 45. How does that sound?
109:10:59	Evans	One release, two releases, and it's free.
109:11:10	CC	Stand by. We're checking.
109:11:36	Evans	Okay. DOCKING PROBE circuit breakers; two of them are going CLOSE. MAIN A. MAIN B. PROBE EXTEND/RELEASE is going to RETRACT. Ah ha, I've got two barber poles.
109:11:52	CC	Okay, Geno. Those angles are okay.
109:11:56	CC	That's a good sign.
109:11:57	Cernan	Okay, figured they were. They're going in.
109:12:01	Evans	Okay. The docking probe circuit breakers are going to open. Okay. EXTEND/RELEASEs, and they went gray, of course, when they went open. Okay. EXTEND/RELEASE to OFF. Verify probe extend latch engage indicator not visible. Well, I'll go back - it wasn't awhile ago, but I'll go look again. Only if you hit EXTEND with the circuit breakers in. Mighty fine. It's still back inside there. Extend latch is still engaged.
109:13:34	Cernan	Okay, Ron. On my mark, I'd like an 06 20.
109:13:37	Evans	Okay. Standing by. Go ahead.
109:13:44	Cernan	Okay, 3, 2, 1 -
109:13:46	Cernan	MARK it.
109:13:48	Evans	Okay. 000.44, 104.63, 359.69.
109:14:09	Cernan	Okay. Got those.
109:14:21	CC	Okay, Challenger. We've got those angles here on the ground - -
109:14:24	Schmitt	Okay - -
109:14:24	CC	- - for both spacecraft.
109:14:29	Cernan	Fine, Gordy.
109:14:30	Schmitt	Okay, Houston, ED bat, 37.2, 37.2 at 109:14:00.
109:14:39	CC	Roger.
109:14:47	Schmitt	And all battery indications onboard were normal, once I got started.
109:14:52	CC	Okay. They looked good to us, also.
109:15:00	CC	America, Houston, in order to get on and stay on the time line, I'll remind you about the lithium canister after PDI; we can let that one go. And if you'd like to let the camera business slide until after your suit check and we'll get those things. I'll come back and remind you of those, too.
109:15:04	Cernan	Ron, I want you to stay in that MIN DEADBAND ATT HOLD. I'm going to do a P52.
109:15:21	Evans	Okay. I've got the - the cameras all set. I got them out, anyhow. I don't have the - the right values on the lenses yet; but, anyhow, the camera are out and they're loaded.
109:15:35	CC	Okay.
109:15:36	Evans	I've got mag OO on the Hasselblad.
109:15:36	Schmitt	Houston, this is the LMP a couple minor things on the back-side checkout. The secondary glycol pump, when I started it, the sound and the pressure was ragged, oscillated around - 20 psi, and then stabilized. After about 15 seconds, it sounded smooth. It had a sound as if it was cavitating a little bit; but, after that, it was smooth. Over.
109:16:11	CC	Copy that, Jack.
109:16:13	Evans	Okay, Houston. Why don't I go ahead and get the PGA ver out of the way, and then we can get some of the - data, or would you rather get the data up first?
109:16:16	Schmitt	And on step 3 on page 3-15 - -
109:16:22	Schmitt	- - When I went to SUIT FAN 1, I got a MASTER ALARM - -
109:16:24	CC	No, it's your choice. Why don't we go ahead and get the PGA, and I'll just sit on these pads, and could you tell me if you ever got around to playing with the squelch on the VHF?
109:16:25	Schmitt	- - but all other indications were okay, and the MASTER ALARM reset.
109:16:33	CC	Okay.
109:16:40	Schmitt	Okay. I'm sorry. I misinterpreted the words there; I should have gotten that. Forget that one.
109:16:40	Evans	Man, I did. And, let's see, we're at SQUELCH A now. I've even got it all the way down to 1, and I still don't hear them.
109:16:46	CC	Roger. We concur.
109:16:56	CC	Okay. You did get a satisfactory check on your side, didn't you?
109:17:00	Schmitt	Okay, Geno. You need some help?
109:17:04	Evans	Oh, yes.
109:17:05	CC	Okay.
109:17:07	Evans	I got a satisfactory - Every once in a while I can hear them now; they're cutting in and out somewhere, I don't know where.
109:17:12	CC	All righty.
109:17:39	Evans	Okay. SQUELCH A is set at about 4.
109:17:52	CC	And, America, we'll give you a state vector if you give us ACCEPT.
109:18:01	Evans	Okay. You have it.
109:18:03	CC	Thank you.
109:18:48	Cernan	... what star you got, 30? Or no, what star?
109:18:54	Schmitt	Loaded it? Okay. Okay, and those are the numbers, Hey, that's good. Okay. You ready to mark? What do you want first? ...
109:20:30	CC	Jack, we'd like to take a look at the glycol pump pressure. Can you close the GLYCOL PUMP SECONDARY pressure breaker?
109:20:38	Schmitt	Better finish this.
109:21:09	Schmitt	Gordy, you want the secondary?
109:21:12	CC	That's affirmative; panel 16, GLYCOL PUMP SECONDARY breaker - third row, in the middle.
109:22:20	Schmitt	Okay. We've got a GLYCOL light, and the temperature is 50.
109:22:28	CC	Okay. The pressure looked good there. We'd like that breaker back open. The MASTER ALARM you have is normal.
109:22:46	Schmitt	Roger. Understand it.
109:24:13	Evans	Houston, America. How much time to AOS, yet - LOS?
109:24:16	CC	Oh, about 29 minutes.
109:24:21	Evans	Oh, okay. Got a little time for the PGA ver then, I guess.
109:24:31	CC	And it's your computer, anytime you want to get it, Ron.
109:24:37	Evans	Okay.
109:24:46	Evans	Ah ha, I got the old helmet and gloves on.
109:25:07	Evans	More cables all over the place here than I know what to do with.
109:25:14	CC	Well, this place looks like a pigpen - you've run the same course everyone else has, I guess.
109:25:22	Evans	(Laughter) I got cables and hoses and -
109:26:41	Evans	Son-of-a-muck - I hit the stick again. Now I got to unlock it.
109:26:48	Cernan	Ron, keep in MIN DEADBAND ATT hold. I've got to finish the P52.
109:26:54	Evans	Okay. You want me to maneuver back to attitude, Gene?
109:26:55	Cernan	No, just stay where you are.
109:27:01	Evans	We're out of attitude just a little bit. Well I'm MIN DEADBAND, but I maneuvered out of attitude. You want to go back to regular attitude?
109:27:02	Cernan	Just stay where you are, and put it in MIN DEADBAND.
109:27:10	Cernan	No! N O, no.
109:27:51	Evans	Okay, Houston. ... flow return is ... SUIT FLOW valve. The other two are closed; mine is open, and I got the inner connect in between the other ones.
109:28:04	CC	Sounds good.
109:28:05	Evans	How's the old suit pressure? Okay. Looks like pretty good. Okay. O2 flow is lower limit. Okay. Let's go up to PRESS. Here we go. That's going up to PRESS, and it feels like it's going up.
109:28:45	Evans	And terminal direct O2 on air to ... O2 FLOW HIGH.
109:28:52	Cernan	Hey, Ron. This is Challenger. We're going to be off your loop for awhile, so we can finish the mark.
109:28:58	Evans	Okay. Wait a minute, Jack. I'll just go to RECEIVE on the VHF. I'll just go to RECEIVE on the VHF, Jack.
109:29:28	Evans	Okay. Let's see, and there's a DELTA-P of about - 6-1/2 - Now we're going to cycle suit circuit return air. Okay. It's out; it's back in. Okay. Now we can squirt a little more O2 flow in.
109:30:03	Evans	Whoo hoo! - There we go. Man, oh man!
109:30:19	Evans	DIRECT O2 is off.
109:30:28	Evans	That's coming down. Shoot! I'm reading 4.5 in my suit. is that right?
109:30:37	Evans	5.
109:30:41	CC	Looks like about 4 on our meter, Ron.
109:30:48	Evans	Well, I'll be darned. The old suit gage read 4.5.
109:31:01	Evans	... that close in there. Let's say at maybe nine or something like that. That's closer to four. Can't tell for sure what it feels like. Anyhow, the O2 flow is down. It's not leaking very much. I'm leaking about 0.3. Something like that.
109:31:41	CC	Okay. We're - we're showing 4.2 to 4.3 on our pressure spread, and you're cabin and suit pressure gages probably show something similar. And we show that the flow rate is down. -
109:31:54	Evans	Oh, okay. That's not too bad. That's pretty close.
109:31:57	CC	Yes. And the O2 flow is staying pretty good.
109:31:58	Evans	... let's go to DEPRESS on this thing, huh?
109:32:01	CC	Sounds good.
109:32:03	Evans	Okay; so it looks like it's sta - stable there, isn't it?
109:32:07	CC	Yes, sir.
109:32:13	Evans	Okay. Let's go to DEPRESS.
109:32:29	Evans	And my ears are pretty good. Of you guys are okay I'm going to go to OFF. Save a little time here.
109:33:02	CC	America, I don't know if I copied you correctly. You don't want to go to OFF on that SUIT TEST valve until the pressure are back down to normal. If that was what you asked.
109:33:14	Evans	(Laughter)
109:33:16	Cernan	Hello, Houston.
109:33:17	CC	Are or you already there?
109:33:19	Evans	I changed ny mind.
109:33:19	Cernan	That looked to be a pretty good alignment from where I saw it. There's 07 for you.
109:33:24	CC	Okay. We copy.
109:33:30	Evans	Yes. My ears are popping to beat the band - I changed my mind, I'll let it go down slowly.
109:33:35	CC	Okay.
109:33:38	CC	Okay. And we've got about 20 minutes before LOS, so there's no hurry on those pads. I've got them standing by when you're ready, and didn't know what you - what you had in mind about working on these things. We might get - you might get started on the hatch integrity check, if you get to that point, and I can give you the pads while you're waiting for it to bleed down or whatever it turns out to be convenient.
109:34:03	CC	Okay, Challenger. Torque them.
109:34:12	Evans	Okay. Let's see, I guess it's about time to - Integrity check; okay.
109:34:33	CC	Okay. And I guess the LM is going to be asking you for a NOUN 20 pretty soon like, here.
109:34:34	Cernan	Hello, America; Challenger. We no longer need your MIN DEADBAND.
109:34:44	Evans	Okay, Challenger; America here. I'll go back to CMC.
109:34:48	Cernan	Okay. But I would like a NOUN 20 from you on my mark.
109:34:52	Evans	Stand by. Okay, go.
109:34:58	Cernan	Okay; 3, 2, 1 -
109:35:01	Cernan	MARK.
109:35:03	Evans	Okay; 002.15, 104.36, 359.69.
109:35:21	Evans	Okay.
109:35:36	CC	Okay, Challenger, we've got the NOUN 20s, both spacecraft.
109:35:46	Evans	And Houston, do we want to release those docking latches before they do their hot fire? I don't think so. Do we?
109:35:54	CC	I'll check. Stand by.
109:36:22	CC	Challenger, Houston, we're ready anytime for the RCS pressurization. You might turn the data switch off.
109:36:22	CC	You're right, Ron, we'll - we'll just hold up on that release on the latches until the hot fires are over. So, when you get your copying hand ready, why, we'll give you some pads. We'll clean that one up.
109:36:33	Cernan	We just got that, and we're going.
109:36:34	CC	Okay.
109:36:40	Evans	Okay. Let's see.
109:36:54	Evans	Reading 2 SCS. Integrity check - Okay, it didn't -
109:37:04	Cernan	MASTER ARM is ON; I've got one good light - SYSTEM A.
109:37:08	CC	Okeydoke.
109:37:10	Evans	Okay, Houston. Let's see - where are we going to start on the pads?
109:37:13	CC	Okay. And you might go to BLOCK on the computer, too.
109:37:20	Evans	Okay.
109:37:20	Cernan	Okay. On my mark; 3, 2, 1 -
109:37:24	Cernan	MARK it. We heard it.
109:37:28	CC	Okay. The first thing I'll give you is the SEP pad.
109:37:35	Evans	Okay. Let's go.
109:37:35	CC	And that is on page 113.
109:37:42	Evans	Okay.
109:37:43	CC	Okay. NOUN 33 is 110:27:55.00. Roll is 0, 0, 105 pitch, and yaw is 0.
109:38:06	Evans	Okay. NOUN 33, 110:27:55.00, and roll, pitch, and yaw as depicted: 0, 105, and 0. Right?
109:38:06	CC	Okay, Challenger. We saw it, and it looks good. RCS looks good.
109:38:14	Cernan	Looks good onboard, Gordo.
109:38:18	CC	That's affirm.
109:38:23	Evans	Okay; got it.
109:38:27	CC	Okay. The next thing I have for you is a P24 pad that goes on page 115.
109:38:38	Evans	Okay. SUIT TEST valves in OFF now. On page 115 - Okay; got it.
109:38:47	CC	Okay. It'll be 17-1; 110:58:13; T2 is 111:00:30; 01:00:01 - -
109:39:03	Cernan	Okay, Houston. Verify high bit rate - and, Ron, we need you in WIDE DEADBAND ATTITUDE/HOLD.
109:39:07	Schmitt	Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
109:39:10	Evans	... hold it. Okay, WIDE DEADBAND ATT/HOLD, that's what I'm on. And Amer - Houston; America, I missed T2 on.
109:39:22	CC	Challenger, we verify high bit rate.
109:39:26	CC	Okay. Are you ready to go back to it now?
109:39:31	Evans	Okay; ready for T2.
109:39:33	CC	All right, sir T2: 111:00:30; 01: - -
109:39:41	Cernan	Okay. Here we go, Houston, with the cold fire check.
109:39:41	CC	- - 00; 01:26; Roll 015, 297, 000; North 02. Over.
109:39:43	Evans	Shoot!
109:39:44	CC	Okay. All set.
109:40:05	Evans	Okay. I'll read back what I have. T1 110:58:13. I missed T2. TCA is 01:00; is 01:26; Roll 15, pitch 297, and 0; North 02. I presume 17.1.
109:40:23	CC	Yes, sir. And T2 time is 111:00:30.
109:40:35	Evans	Okay. 111:00:30.
109:40:38	CC	That's correct.
109:40:40	Evans	Challenger said something every time you talked on that one.
109:40:42	Cernan	Okay, Houston. PGNs RATE COMMAND (Cold Fire), AGS pulse (Cold Fire) check.
109:40:47	CC	Okay; press on.
109:40:49	Evans	Hey, Jack, could you go to RECEIVE only on the VHF for a little bit?
109:40:54	Schmitt	Sure, Ron.
109:40:55	Evans	Okay.
109:41:00	Evans	And, Houston; America. You can go ahead on the next pad.
109:41:03	CC	Okay. On page 113, I've got a DAP load for you.
109:41:16	Evans	Okay.
109:41:18	CC	Okay. The weight: 37983; plus 0.40, plus 0.91.
109:41:37	Evans	Okay, CSM weight is 37983; pak to off, plus 0.40; yak to off, plus 0.91.
109:41:49	CC	Okay. That's correct. And the last one comes up on page 121, and it's a LM P76.
109:41:59	Evans	Ah ha; okay.
109:42:02	Schmitt	All right, Houston. Step 4. AGS RATE COMMAND (Cold Fire), 4 JET SECONDARY COIL (Hot Fire) check.
109:42:04	CC	Okay, NOUN 33.
109:42:06	Evans	Okay, 121 - Got it.
109:42:08	CC	Okay. Go. We're looking good so far.
109:42:10	CC	All right, sir. 112:02:51.92; minus -
109:42:10	Schmitt	Hey, Ron. We're going to have some hot fires here. We're going to have some hot fires here in a minute.
109:42:15	Evans	Okay. Wait a min - Hold it. America, ... Challenger. The hot fire - you want FREE, Challenger?
109:42:25	Schmitt	That's affirm. Go CMC MODE FREE.
109:42:30	Evans	Challenger, America. You want FREE for the hot fire?
109:42:35	Cernan	That is affirm. We want you FREE, Ron.
109:42:38	Evans	Okay. Going to FREE now.
109:42:44	Evans	And, Houston; America. You can try that one again.
109:42:47	CC	All righty. NOUN 33 is 112:02:51.92; minus 0007.5 and all zips for Y and Z.
109:42:53	Cernan	Ron, go RECEIVE ONLY.
109:43:08	Evans	(Laughter). Okay, say that NOUN 33 again.
109:43:27	Evans	Houston, America. We're cut out on NOUN 33 again, and I've got minus 0007.5 and X, Y, and Z are 0.
109:43:40	CC	Okay. And the time, 112:02:51.92.
109:43:45	Cernan	Houston, hardover looked good from here.
109:43:49	CC	Okay; looked good down here.
109:43:50	Evans	Okay, NOUN 33 is 112:02:51 - 112:02:51.92.
109:43:53	Schmitt	All right, Houston. PGNS MINIMUM IMPULSE (Hot Fire) check.
109:43:58	CC	Okay.
109:44:03	CC	That's correct.
109:44:22	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. We had a sticky talkback red on SYSTEM A, QUAD 4. And it went to gray with a tap.
109:44:35	CC	Okay, Jack.
109:46:03	Cernan	Okay - Ron, the hot fire checks are complete. You can go into WIDE DEADBAND ATT/HOLD.
109:46:11	Evans	Okay, Challenger; America. ... get that far off that time either.
109:46:16	CC	Challenger, those all look good here.
109:46:18	Cernan	And I think we got them all.
109:46:19	Evans	Okay.
109:46:21	Cernan	Okay, Gordo. Understand.
109:46:49	Cernan	Okay. We're on the top of 3-28, Gordo.
109:46:50	CC	Roger. We're with you.
109:47:09	Evans	Okay, Challenger; America.
109:47:17	Cernan	Go - go ahead, Ron.
109:47:18	Evans	Okay. I'm going to turn off B3 and also my roll jets, and then I'm going to undo the docking latches.
109:47:25	Schmitt	Okay, you want to verify your - your transponder is OFF as well as B3?
109:47:30	Evans	That's - verified TRANSPONDER is OFF.
109:47:32	Cernan	Okay. And you did get the umbilicals. Right?
109:47:36	Evans	Say again about umbilicals.
109:47:37	Cernan	You did get the LM-to-CM umbilicals, right?
109:47:41	Cernan	All I get is umbilicala. I didn't get the question.
109:47:45	Cernan	Did you disconnect the LM-to-CM umbilicals? Verify.
109:47:50	Evans	Verify. I have those down here.
109:47:52	Cernan	Okay. Very good.
109:48:03	Evans	And jet Bravo 3 is OFF.
109:48:14	CC	Okay, Ron, we're about 5 minutes from LOS. And the only thing that you wouldn't be able to do following right down your checklist is to get the VHF data on and check the tape recorder at LOS. The rest of that stuff you can follow right on through, and we'll remind you on the lithium change after descent. So it looks like we're caught up again.
109:48:18	CC	Challenger, Houston. We cannot completely explain the startup indications you had on the PGNS, but they are of no great concern. It looks good so far. The DAP gimbal trims are no problem. Don't bother changing them. And there will be no PIPA bias update yet, anyway. Over.
109:48:39	Cernan	Okay. Understand. Was the checklist written backwards on that?
109:48:46	CC	It was a Cape problem on their tape, and they had it reversed. But it's in the noise level, anyway. No problem.
109:48:55	Cernan	Okay.
109:49:38	CC	Challenger, Houston. You have a GO for undocking and sep.
109:49:44	Cernan	Roger; understand. A GO for undocking and sep.
109:50:20	Evans	Okay, number 5. One , two - and it's fully released, and the hook is off of the docking ring. Okay. Number 6 is - one, two - and it's fully released, and the hook is off of the docking ring. Okay, 7 is released, and the hook is off of the docking ring. O2 flow still okay?
109:50:59	CC	Yes, sir. Looking good.
109:51:04	Evans	Okay, here's number 8. Here's one, two. And the chute's fully released, and the hook is off the docking ring.
109:51:22	Evans	Okay, here's number 9. One, two, and she's fully released; the hook clears the docking ring. Okay, number 10. Here's one, two - fully released, and the hook clears the docking ring. There's one ... 11. Okay, handle's free; J-hook clears the ring. I've only got one more to go. There's the first latch there's two latches ... came over. And the hook stays clear; the handle is free. And, by golly, they're all off. Hey, Challenger; America. You're hanging on those three little bitty things.
109:52:35	Cernan	Okay. Fine, Ron.
109:52:37	Evans	Okay. I put the old - hatch in.
109:52:38	CC	Challenger, Houston. About 1 minute to LOS, and we'll see you when you come around the other side, independently.
109:52:48	Cernan	Okay, Gordo; understand. I'm in step 4, RENDEZVOUS RADAR mode ... to AUTO.
109:52:49	CC	Okay, Ron, we're within a minute of LOS. Your O2 flow still looks good, and the rest of the stuff that you can get on the VHF is going to be just fine. You're right on schedule now.
109:52:53	CC	Roger.
109:53:00	Cernan	And the radar has come out, and I'm in RADAR TEST now.
109:53:05	Evans	Okay. I'll get that VHF stuff and then put the hatch in.
109:53:08	CC	Jack, just a friendly reminder to do the LOS procedures on the steerable.
109:53:18	Schmitt	Okay.
109:53:22	Evans	Okay, we're in RECEIVE ONLY to B DATA. Hey, Challenger; America. I'm going to RECEIVE ONLY the B DATA.
109:53:38	Evans	Hey, Challenger; America.
109:53:38		BEGIN LUNAR REV 12
109:53:48	PAO	This is Apollo Control. We've had Loss of Signal as America and Challenger pass behind the Moon on the - toward the end of the 11th Lunar Orbit. When they reappear again, in approximately 47 minutes, they will be undocked. Stationkeeping, flying along adjacent to each other. At Loss of Signal the orbit measured 61.2 nautical miles pericynthion by 12 miles even nautical - pericynthion. Velocity at that time was 5,313 feet per second. During the next frontside pass, as the Challenger continues in preparations for the Descent Orbit Insertion, we'll have a checkout of the descent propulsion system. The tanks will be pressurized and telemetry readouts here on the ground will be prepared to those onboard, to make sure that system is preforming as advertised. An alignment - a realignment of the inertial measuring unit, part of the lunar module's guidance system will be run during that - also during that frontside pass. And toward the end of the 12th revolution, just prior to Loss of Signal the crew aboard Challanger will be given a GO/NO-GO for the Descent Orbit Insertion Maneuver number 2, which is at this time still scheduled for a Ground Elapsed Time of 112 hours 1 minute 59 seconds. There's a carton of book matches on top of the flight director console here in the Control Center which was bought by a group of flight dynamics officers on all the ships. Bill Boone, Jay Green, Jerry Bostick and others. It's a blue match cover, it says The Trench. Traditionally the trench is the front row here in the Control Center where the flight dynamics people operate. It says on the front, "The Trench, Mission Control Center, Houston." On the reverse of the match book it says, "Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Apollo Soyuz Test Program Shuttle." Mercury, Gemini and Apollo have a check by them indicating they're complete. And at the bottom it says, "roll them out, we're ready." At 109:57, up live at next Acquisition of Signal as America and Challenger come around on the 12th revolution, this is Apollo Control.
110:39:18	PAO	This is Apollo Control. 110 hours, 39 minutes Ground Elapsed Time in the mission of Apollo 17. Less than 2 minutes remaining now until America and Challenger, separated and flying a few feet apart at this time will come around the front side of the Moon on the 12th lunar orbit. Slightly over a minute now until we should start attempting to lock up on the downlink signal from America and Challenger. The two way communications from spacecraft communicator for the command-service module, Ken Mattingly, and Ron Evans aboard America will be on a separate loop as it was the last revolution. These conversations can be heard in room 161 in the Houston News Center. Early in this revolution we'll have the pressurization of the descent propulsion system and checkout of that system. Some 6 - 5 seconds from acquisition we'll stand by until Network advises the Flight Director that they do have firm lock-on. We have AOS in lunar module, let's see what we hear.
110:41:34		BEGIN LUNAR REV 12
110:41:34	Cernan	Hello, Houston. ... Challenger ...? Hello, Houston. ... Challenger ...?
110:41:58	CC	Hello, Challenger; Houston. You're very, very weak. Over.
110:42:04	Cernan	Okay, Houston. Challenger ... checkout is complete ... and we're looking at America, the beautiful.
110:42:17	CC	Okay, Geno, I understand you're undocked. But we're not reading, but about 10 percent of what you're saying. Standby ...
110:42:49	CC	America, Houston; standing by.
110:42:55	Evans	Okay, Houston. This is America. We're floating free out here. The Challenger looks real pretty. The residuals on the P41 were plus 1.9, minus 0.2, and 0. Undock and sep was on time.
110:43:17	CC	Sounds good.
110:43:19	Schmitt	Houston, this is Challenger. Won't hold on the steerable antenna yet. It looks like I'm getting oscillations in my up-link signal strength, and then it gradually drops off to zero.
110:43:35	CC	Okay, Jack. We're reading you better now. Understand.
110:43:44	Cernan	Okay, Gordo. If you're reading, you got the words. We are undocked. Landing radar self test is GO. We're ready to press on to the DPS throttle check, and we've been looking at America, the beautiful. It's rare form.
110:44:00	CC	Okay, Geno. We've got that. It sounds good.
110:44:05	Cernan	Okay, and the residuals on P47 at undocking were 0, minus 0.1, and 0.
110:44:14	CC	Okay. We copy that. We'd like you to try the steerable again.
110:44:35	Schmitt	Okay, Houston; we've got it.
110:44:38	CC	Okay. You sound real good; loud and clear.
110:44:42	Schmitt	Okay, let me give you some NOUN 20 angles, if you want them.
110:44:45	CC	Go ahead. Ready to copy.
110:44:49	Schmitt	The LM: plus 301.09, plus 284.53, plus 359.48; the CSM: plus three zeros .35, plus 104.67, plus 000.52; the time: 110:24:00. Over.
110:45:20	CC	Okay, Jack. We got that.
110:45:25	Cernan	Okay, Gordo; we're ready. DPS throttle check. I'm ready to hit ENGINE STOP.
110:45:30	CC	Stand by. Okay; we're ready.
110:45:39	Cernan	Okay. And the light is on. The REG light is ON.
110:45:51	CC	Roger. We're showing the ENGINE ARM circuit breaker may be out. Would you check that?
110:46:17	Schmitt	Okay. I'm sorry, Gordy. A little - We missed that here. Okay, we'll try it again.
110:46:30	CC	America, Houston. When you have an opportunity, how about cycling the HIGH GAIN to WIDE and back to REACQ?
110:46:44	Evans	Okay, Can do.
110:46:46	CC	Thank you, sir.
110:47:16	CC	Okay, America. How about going back to NARROW on the antenna. And could you verify what you loaded on NOUN 34? it went by so fast on the down-link, we didn't get it a chance to look at it.
110:47:21	Cernan	Gordy, if the throttle test looked okay, I'll go ENGINE ARM OFF.
110:47:26	CC	Okay. It looked real good. Go ahead.
110:47:43	Evans	There, you got it?
110:47:52	CC	Okay. That looks good.
110:47:53	Evans	Does that look okay?
110:47:54	CC	Yes, sir. Sure does.
110:47:58	Evans	Okay. No update then, huh?
110:48:00	CC	That's correct.
110:48:04	Evans	Okay.
110:49:22	Cernan	Okay, Gordy, the MASTER ARM is coming on.
110:49:25	CC	Roger.
110:49:28	Cernan	I got two good lights.
110:49:30	CC	Two lights.
110:49:36	Cernan	Okay; on my mark. DESCENT PROP isOL VALVE. 3, 2, 1 -
110:49:40	Cernan	MARK it. We heard it.
110:49:44	CC	Roger.
110:49:51	CC	Okay; looks good.
110:49:52	Schmitt	Gordy, there was a slight upward - Gordy, there was an upward fluctuation in pressure in the manifold when we fired that. It's back to where it was prefiring.
110:50:05	CC	Okay. That's what it should have done, Jack.
110:50:24	Schmitt	Okay, HELIUM PRESS, DESCENT START. 3, 2, 1 -
110:50:29	Schmitt	MARK it. We got it.
110:50:43	Schmitt	Okay; looks good onboard. About 240 both sides.
110:50:49	CC	Okay; looks good on the ground.
110:50:59	Cernan	Say, Gordy, this thing sounds a little bit like my stomach sounded a couple of days ago.
110:51:06	CC	Roger that.
110:51:24	Schmitt	AGS coming on to STANDBY.
110:51:42	Schmitt	Okay. MASTER ALARM and AGS light.
110:52:06	Schmitt	Okay, 10 ... 110:52:00 for the time on the AGS.
110:52:14	CC	Roger, Jack.
110:52:47	CC	Geno, we show Jack's SUIT isOL valve in SUIT DISCONNECT. Should be in SUIT FLOW. Would you check that for - for us, please?
110:52:58	Cernan	Yes. He's in SUIT FLOW now.
110:53:01	CC	Okay. Thank you.
110:53:04	Cernan	I'll tell you - I'll tell you, this LCG sure makes a world of difference up here.
110:53:10	CC	Roger.
110:53:19	Cernan	Hey, America; Challenger.
110:53:31	Cernan	Hey, Ron; listen. This ridge you're coming on over - just stick your hand out the hatch and grab a rock.
110:53:35	Evans	Looks like it's pretty low down there.
110:53:39	Cernan	Well, when you're up here looking at where you are, it even looks lower.
110:53:43	Evans	(Laughter) I'll bet.
110:56:52	CC	Challenger; Houston. I have a new AGS K factor for you.
110:56:58	Schmitt	Stand by a second.
110:57:42	Schmitt	Go with the K factor.
110:57:44	CC	Okay; it's 109:59:59.94. Over.
110:57:59	Schmitt	109:59:59.94.
110:58:04	CC	That's right.
110:58:06	Cernan	Gordo, this is spectacular. It is absolutely spectacular looking at that command module, America, down there coming across the surface. We're just tracking him at about a 30-degree dive angle.
110:58:20	CC	Sounds great.
110:58:30	Cernan	Okay, babe; have a good time, and go get that landmark. Don't forget - No TEIs. See you in about 3 days.
110:59:27	CC	Geno, Houston, with a couple of items.
110:59:34	Schmitt	Go ahead, Gordo.
110:59:36	CC	Okay. Your perilune seems to be - -
110:59:38	Cernan	Hey, we got the landing site, Gordo.
110:59:42	CC	Okay. I'll hold - -
110:59:42	Cernan	Gordo, we got the landing site. We're coming right over the front of it. Stand by a minute. You can see the Slide. I think you can see the Great Cross.
110:59:54	CC	Roger.
110:59:57	Cernan	We'll get a picture of America coming right across it.
111:00:00	CC	All righty.
111:00:04	Schmitt	Super targeting.
111:00:06	Cernan	Gosh, we've got Family Mountain; we've got - of course - the Massif; we can see the Scarp; we can see the light mantle; I've got the Great Cross, Camelot, Sherlock.
111:00:19	Schmitt	Believe it or not, Houston, they're all there.
111:00:23	CC	How about that.
111:00:24	Schmitt	I see possible structure - possible structure in the upper part of the South Massif, little bit east of Station 2. It's subhorizontal, dipping to the southeast.
111:00:40	Cernan	Houston, I can even see Poppy, right where we're going to set this baby down.
111:00:45	CC	Very good.
111:00:47	Cernan	As a matter of fact, I can see Rudolph. I can even see the triangle: Rudolph, Frosty, and Punk. Man, Gordo, this is absolutely spectacular.
111:01:03	CC	Sure sounds like it.
111:01:09	Cernan	We can watch Ron track - we can watch Ron track right on through the landmarks. I don't know what kind of results he got, but he sure had a nice smooth track from here.
111:01:25	CC	Roger.
111:01:37	Schmitt	Gordo, you can go ahead and update us with those words.
111:01:40	CC	Okay. Your perilune is shifting west. PDI will be a little higher than nominal: 10.7 miles or 65,000 feet; should be no problem. And, from the time you first came around until we had a solid lockup on the steerable on this acquisition was about 3 minutes. We're going to try to speed that up some on the next time around. We'd like you to just keep trying the steerable until we come to you - and say, "stop trying." Over.
111:02:13	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy, understand that; and apparently this time, had I let it - had I waited a little longer, it would have dropped to zero and then come up, because that's what happened when I finally got you. I'll give it more time next time.
111:02:28	CC	Okay.
111:02:38	CC	And, Jack, I've got lots of pads for you whenever you're ready.
111:03:37	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy; go with the pads.
111:03:39	CC	Okay. The first one is a P76 with a CSM circ.
111:03:49	Schmitt	Go.
111:03:51	CC	Okay. NOUN 33 is 111:57:30.09; NOUN 84: plus 0070.5, plus five zeros, and minus 0000.5. Go ahead.
111:04:26	Schmitt	Okay. 111:57:30.09; plus 0070.5, plus all zeros, minus four zeros 5.
111:04:37	CC	Okay. Good readback. Next one I have is the no PDI plus 12 abort, item Echo.
111:04:46	Schmitt	Go ahead.
111:04:47	CC	Okay. Echo is 113:02:00.00; Foxtrot, plus 0103.4, plus five zeros, minus 0050.0; NOUN 42: 0142.0, plus 0005.4, 0114.9; burn time is 0:48; 000, 272; 373 - -
111:05:43	Cernan	Okay. Just a second. Give me a transponder, and we'll start with the radar. Jack's tied up right now.
111:05:50	CC	373 is 0182.0; AGS DELTA-Vs: plus 0103.7, plus five zeros, minus 0049.3; Golf, 113:57:00.00; Hotel, 11 - I'll start over - 115:36:45.00; and the no DOI-2 DELTA-Vx., 0096.6. Two remarks: throttle profile is 10 percent for 26 seconds, 40 percent for the rest of the burn. Over.
111:07:14	Schmitt	Okay, readback. 11 - no PDI plus 12 - 113:02 all zeros; plus 0103.4, plus all zeros, minus 0050.0; 0142.0, plus three zeros 5.4, 0114.9; 0:48; all zeros, 272; 0182.0; plus 0103.7, plus all zeros, minus 0049-3; 113:57 all zeros; 115:36:45.00; 0096.6; remarks: throttle profile 10 percent for 26 seconds; 40 percent for the remainder.
111:08:06	CC	Okay, that's a good readback. Item India: 112:49:52.35 - -
111:08:19	Cernan	Say, Gordo.
111:08:20	CC	Go ahead.
111:08:21	Cernan	Gordo, Gordo. Hey, Gordo; stand by. We want to finish the radar VHF test; and when I go to P52, you can finish the PADs.
111:08:29	CC	Okay.
111:08:45	Cernan	Okay. We're in VHF RANGING, and I've got you on radar, Ron. We'll be quiet for a second and see if you can get a lockon.
111:09:07	Evans	Ah-ha! it works! Point - 0.50 miles.
111:09:09	Cernan	Okay.
111:09:16	Evans	Okay, 0.50 or 0.49 miles.
111:09:34	Cernan	Okay, Gordo. The VHF ranging and radar checks out very well.
111:09:40	CC	Okay, sounds good. Tell me when you're ready for item India again.
111:10:02	Schmitt	We cut you off, Ron.
111:10:05	Evans	Okay, I'm going to turn the RANGING, OFF, then. Comm's a little better that way.
111:10:10	Schmitt	Go ahead, Gordy.
111:10:11	CC	Okay. India is 112:49:52.35; 11:01, plus 0002.2; attitude is 002, 108, 290; plus 56900, Juliett: 115:36:45.00; Kilo: 117:35:45.00. Go ahead.
111:11:13	IMP	Okay. It's a PDI pad; 112:49:52.35; 11:01, plus three zeros 2.2; 002, 108, 290; plus 56900; Juliett, 115:36:45.00; Karen, 117:35:45.00. Go ahead.
111:11:44	CC	Okay, that's a good readback. Lima is 113:14:24.91; Maytro, 119:34:30.00; and November is 114:57:19.09; And your T-2 at PDI - T-2 will be at PDI plus 24:33.
111:12:38	Schmitt	24:33?
111:12:40	CC	That's affirmative.
111:12:48	Schmitt	Okay, Linda is 113:14:24.91; Mary is 119:34:30.00, and Nancy is 114:57:19.09.
111:13:05	CC	That's a good readback.
111:13:15	CC	Okay, one thing left, Jack, is the SHe pressures on the PDI page.
111:13:28	Schmitt	Go ahead.
111:13:30	CC	Okay; at Tig., the pressure will be 1310; plus 1 minute, 1410; 2 minutes, 1400; 3 minutes, 1310; and 4 minutes, 1230. Over.
111:13:59	Schmitt	Okay, I got those. Thank you.
111:14:01	CC	Roger.
111:21:24	Evans-CM	You're loud and clear.
111:24:56	Schmitt	Roger, America. Have a good burn. You look just as pretty in earthlight as you do in sunlight.
111:25:35	CC	We see that. Looks like a good job.
111:25:45	Schmitt	Yes, but it's not an easy one, Gordo.
111:25:58	Evans	- to RECEIVE only. Hey, Challenger; America.
111:26:04	Schmitt	Go ahead.
111:26:05	Evans	Okay, Jack, can you go to RECEIVE only on your VHF there? I've got all these pads to pick up now. I'll call you when - when I'm all through.
111:26:15	Schmitt	Okay, RECEIVE only. We got your GO, Gordo?
111:26:19	CC	That's affirmative, torque them.
111:27:28	CC	Challenger, we need AFT OMNI and select the steerable to SLEW. And LOW bit rate.
111:28:12	CC	Challenger, select FORWARD OMNI, please.
111:29:00	Schmitt	Okay, Gordo, the COAS alignment's good and the DAP is retracking.
111:29:05	CC	Okay, and like the rest of the spacecraft, the platform's beautiful, there's no drift compensation or PIPA bias update. Over.
111:29:17	Schmitt	Beautiful. It's ... kind of like a ...
111:29:31	CC	Want to give you one update, you can write it in the Timeline, page 8; the T-l time is PDI plus 17:00. Over.
111:29:51	Cernan	Okay; T-1 is PDI plus 17:00, we got it.
111:29:55	CC	Roger.
111:30:29	Schmitt	Okay, Houston, you got P00 and DATA.
111:30:33	CC	Okay.
111:31:35	Schmitt	Gordo, can I start maneuvering to the AGS cal while you're getting those updates - up-links ready?
111:31:45	CC	Okay, we'd like the steerable back again. Try PITCH of minus 25, and YAW of minus 72.
111:32:24	Schmitt	Okay; you got the steerable.
111:32:27	CC	Okay, we need HIGH bit rate.
111:32:48	CC	If we start on the up-links now, we'll get that in before we go to the AGS cal attitude. Over.
111:32:57	Schmitt	Okay, Gordo, I've got - I've got the Earth and the direction I have to maneuver is nothing but good for the high gain, so I'll start over slowly.
111:33:06	CC	Okay.
111:35:59	CC	Challenger, Houston. It's your computer. Up-data link off.
111:36:11	Schmitt	Roger.
111:36:31	Schmitt	Still with you.
111:36:35	Evans	Okay, I got something like "yup".
111:36:52	Schmitt	Say again, Ron.
111:36:54	Evans	Okay, I just wanted to make sure - voice check if we still have the VHF comm.
111:36:59	Schmitt	Okay, I'll have to give you another one here in a minute.
111:37:21	Schmitt	Okay, how do you read?
111:37:24	Evans	Okay; loud and clear. How me Jack?
111:37:33	Evans	Challenger, America. Read you loud and clear. How me?
111:37:57	CC	Okay, America, we show you inside of 20 minutes, saying you have a GO for circ.
111:38:06	Evans	Houston, America. Roger. We'll do our best.
111:42:18	CC	Challenger, Houston. You're GO for DOI-2.
111:42:24	Schmitt	Thank you, Gordo, We're GO here for DOI-2.
111:45:48	Schmitt	Okay, Houston, did you get the AGS cal numbers?
111:45:54	CC	Challenger, that's affirmative.
111:45:59	Schmitt	Okay, it all looks pretty good to me. 546 may have been a little more than specs, but it looks pretty good.
111:46:09	CC	Okay, looks good here.
111:46:27	CC	Jack, have you gone through an OMNI? If you have, go LOW BIT RATE.
111:46:45	Schmitt	Okay, We've got you on an OMNI and LOW BIT, RA -
111:46:52	CC	Okay.
111:48:04	PAO	This is Apollo Control, we've had loss of signal as America and Challenger coasting along near-by each other, passed behind the Moon on revolution number 12. Some 47 minutes until they come back around again, on the 13th lunar revolution. Behind the Moon this time, the command/service module, piloted by Ron Evans, will do CSM circularization maneuver which will place the spacecraft back up into an almost circular lunar orbit, measuring 69.7 by 54.5, those are the targeted measurements of that orbit. Ignition time, again which will be behind the Moon and out of contact is Ground Elapsed Time of 111:57:28. The lunar module DOI, or Descent Orbit Insertion burn number 2 also will be behind the Moon before we reacquire the spacecraft. That is scheduled for 112 hours 2 minutes 40 seconds. It's a fairly small burn 7.6 feet per second which will lower the pericynthion of the Challenger down to 6 1/2 miles - nautical miles with apocynthion staying at 61.5 nautical miles. During the next front side pass, comes the moment of truth with powered descent, and touchdown at Taurus-Littrow landing site as Challenger lights off the big descent engine at 112 hours 49 minutes, 52 seconds Ground Elapsed Time. The ignition countdown clock in the control center is counting down to PDI some 59 minutes 17 - 16 seconds until ignition with landing shortly under 12 minutes later, depending on the amount of hover time available. The broadcast line will be brought up again just prior to acquisition of signal as America and Challenger come around on the front side again on revolution 13, and at 111 hours 51 minutes, this is Apollo Control.
112:33:34	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 112 hours 33 minutes Ground Elapsed Time in the mission of Apollo 17. Coming up on acquisition of signal of both spacecraft, America and Challenger, coming from behind the moon on the 13th lunar orbit. Some 1 minute 32 seconds away from acquisition of the command module and slightly under three minutes on the lunar module, Challenger. Challenger, during this revolution will descend to the surface of the moon and land at the Taurus-Littrow landing site. Ignition time currently is Ground Elapsed Time of 112 hours 49 minutes 52 seconds. During the descent to the surface the spacecraft onboard computer will be generating numbers on the display which the Lunar Module Pilot will call out to the commander and which - angles at which the commander should be able to see the landing site through a grid etched on the left hand window of the lunar module. Here, we have AOS. AOS of the command service module and the circulars - the circularization burn was good. This is Apollo Control on the air-ground 2 circuit. Command module pilot, Ron Evans, is giving the CAPCOM all of the residuals. Here comes Challenger. Back to the lunar landing sequence as the lunar module pilot reads out the angles that the commander ought to be able to see the landing site. The commander is able to run through an operation called redesignation by using a pitch hand controller to rotate the spacecraft.
112:36:13	Schmitt	Hello, Houston. How do you read Challenger?
112:36:13	CC	Challenger, you're loud and clear.
112:36:13	Schmitt	Hello, Houston. How do you read Challenger on an OMNI right now?
112:37:03	CC	Okay, Challenger, you're loud and clear on the OMNI. How did it go?
112:37:12	Schmitt	Okay, The burn was GO. We're in a 7-mile perigee on the PGNS, and we had 0, plus 0.1 and plus 0.1 residuals.
112:37:21	CC	Okay, sounds good.
112:37:25	Schmitt	Ok - Okay, Gordy, I'm going to try the high gain I had you locked up once, and then I lost you. Let me try it again.
112:37:32	CC	We concur. Go ahead, Jack.
112:38:01	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy, that's my fault. I didn't know you were up-linking. You've got the OMNI, and I'll leave it.
112:38:07	CC	Okay, we'll stay on the OMNI for the up-link.
112:38:52	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy, ED BATs are 37.2, both batteries. The ascent battery ON time was 112:19:00, about 4 minutes late.
112:39:06	CC	Okay, Jack. Copy.
112:39:11	CC	Jack, we want BATTERY 3 OFF for preconditioning.
112:39:19	Schmitt	Roger.
112:39:30	CC	Challenger, we'd like you to verify that the - -
112:39:31	Schmitt	And we did ..., Gordy.
112:39:33	CC	... is egress.
112:39:41	Schmitt	That's verified.
112:39:44	CC	Roger.
112:39:55	Schmitt	And do you have a 231 update?
112:39:59	CC	Stand by. Negative. No change, Jack.
112:40:14	Schmitt	Roger.
112:40:15	Cernan	Okay, Gordo, how do you read CDR on VOX?
112:40:18	CC	CDR, you're loud and clear on VOX.
112:40:23	Schmitt	Okay. How do you read the LMP on VOX?
112:40:26	CC	Loud and clear, Jack.
112:40:33	Cernan	Okay. Gordo, up until this time, the bird has looked beautiful - perfectly plain. All the check's have come out just as advertised.
112:40:44	CC	Okay, sounds good.
112:40:48	Schmitt	And we're looking at 9 minutes and 5 seconds from PDI.
112:40:55	CC	Challenger, do you see a VERB 33 out of DSKY? If you do, ENTER it.
112:41:03	Schmitt	Okay, it's there, and I will ENTER.
112:41:05	CC	Roger.
112:41:05	Schmitt	Okay, it took; and I'm showing P00.
112:41:10	CC	Okay. your computer; the up-link's in.
112:41:20	Schmitt	Okay, we've got a tone on the up-voice backup.
112:41:26	CC	Roger.
112:41:27	Cernan	VERB 47 coming in at you, Jack. Okay, hit it. Okay, I got it. 240 - wait - 231, 569, 00, that's supposed to be. Okay, 569, 00 ... 240s are the same - 569, 00.
112:42:16	Schmitt	Okay.
112:42:19	Cernan	Okay, 254 is plus 01944.
112:42:25	Schmitt	Okay.
112:42:26	Cernan	Okay, 262 is minus 00143. Okay, 400 plus 3, and I'll watch it.
112:42:41	Schmitt	How's it look?
112:42:44	Schmitt	It's - it's had that all the way along - a little bit of roll bias.
112:42:45	Cernan	Okay. That's good. 400 plus 1.
112:42:53	Schmitt	400 plus 1 is in.
112:42:54	Cernan	Okay, and we do have your needle. We do have your needle.
112:42:58	Schmitt	Okay.
112:42:59	Cernan	Okay, and there's VERB 83 looking at you.
112:43:03	Schmitt	My CROSSPOINTERS are LOW MULT for you.
112:43:06	Cernan	Okay, and there's VERB 83. Give me a 317 and a 440.
112:43:10	CC	Challenger, Houston. We'd like you to try the high gain once more. PITCH is minus - PITCH is zero and YAW plus 59.
112:43:24	Cernan	Are you happy with this, Jack? Let me ... 63.
112:43:28	Schmitt	Yes. Go ahead.
112:43:29	Cernan	Okay.
112:43:29	Schmitt	That's good.
112:43:32	Cernan	Gordy, understand no NOUN 68 prior to P63 or NOUN 69, right?
112:43:38	CC	That's affirmative.
112:43:44	Schmitt	... you need to ask him anything, I'll try the high gain.
112:43:46	Cernan	No. Go ahead; try it.
112:43:47	Schmitt	Try the high gain, Gordy.
112:43:50	CC	Okay.
112:43:52	Schmitt	Okay, it's locked up in AUTO.
112:43:55	CC	Roger.
112:44:01	Schmitt	And, Gordy, be advised that you're clipping on your first word.
112:44:07	CC	Okay, Jack. We'd like you to set 410 in the AGS to all balls. Plus all balls.
112:44:19	Schmitt	That's 410, 410 not 400. Check that again.
112:44:26	CC	That's affirmative; 410.
112:44:33	Schmitt	Thank you, Gordy.
112:44:34	Cernan	You better go back and check 400 now.
112:44:38	Schmitt	It's okay. I fixed it.
112:44:40	Cernan	Okay.
112:44:46	Schmitt	Oh, man, are we down among them, babe! Whooh! ...
112:44:49	CC	Challenger, Houston. I have a PDI Tig update. It's 112:49:51.87. And NOUN 6l cross range should be a plus 2.8. Over.
112:45:10	Schmitt	Okay. Say the seconds again on the PDI.
112:45:13	CC	PDI seconds are 51.87. Over.
112:45:21	Schmitt	Okay. And the cross range?
112:45:24	CC	Cross range is - is a plus 2.8. Over.
112:45:33	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. That clock checks with - with our time out of P63. The LANDING RADAR breaker's IN, I've got altitude, velocity, power. We're coming up on 4 minutes.
112:45:48	Cernan	I'll give you the final trim at 4.
112:45:49	Schmitt	Okay.
112:45:51	CC	Challenger, Houston. You're GO for PDI.
112:45:57	Cernan	Oh, thank you, Gordy. We are GO up here for PDI; doing the final trim at 4.
112:46:16	Cernan	Hello, America. Do you read Challenger?
112:46:26	Evans	Yes, that's a good point, I'll go ahead and get it.
112:46:31	Cernan	Hey, Jack, you can check your watch.
112:46:36	Schmitt	Okay.
112:46:37	Cernan	At 2 minutes, I'll get the MASTER ARM.
112:46:39	Schmitt	All right.
112:46:40	Cernan	30 seconds, I'll get the ENGINE ARM; and we'll watch the PGNS tapemeter pick up average G. If you give me a GO on the ullage, I'll back up the ullage.
112:46:51	Schmitt	Okay.
112:46:52	Cernan	And I'll back up the START.
112:46:55	CC	Challenger, should we lose the steerable, - -
112:46:56	Cernan	You get the steerable.
112:46:57	CC	-- go FORWARD OMNI.
112:47:01	Cernan	Roger. FORWARD OMNI.
112:47:12	Schmitt	... down a little bit.
112:47:15	Cernan	Okay, 02:41.
112:47:43	Cernan	Okay, we picked it all up. Power still good.
112:47:47	Schmitt	Okay. Coming up on 2 minutes; I'm changing over here.
112:47:50	Cernan	Okay.
112:47:55	Schmitt	MASTER ARM, ON - 2 minutes.
112:47:58	Cernan	Okay, Houston. 2 minutes. MASTER ARM is ON. I've got two good lights.
112:48:01	CC	Roger.
112:48:01	Schmitt	MODE SELECT is PGNS.
112:48:04	Cernan	Okay. Once again, in average G, I'll get the ENGINE ARM. You confirm the ullage, I'll get the PRO. I'll back up the ullage and get the START.
112:48:13	Schmitt	Roger.
112:48:15	CC	Challenger, we're going to leave BAT 3, OFF, - -
112:48:18	Schmitt	... AUTO, AUTO.
112:48:19	CC	- - until after ignition. We'll call you.
112:48:24	Schmitt	Roger. Yes, I should have put that on like we talked about.
112:48:45	Cernan	Man, I'll tell you, we are getting close.
112:48:52	Schmitt	Looking out your window is really strange. (Laughter). From over here.
112:48:56	Cernan	One minute, Houston, and we're standing by. We're GO for PDI.
112:49:00	CC	Roger. You're looking good here.
112:49:20	Schmitt	Okay, approaching 30 seconds. Blank, DSKY.
112:49:23	Cernan	DSKY blank?
112:49:27	Schmitt	Average G. Got two lights.
112:49:30	Schmitt	Okay, ENGINE ARM is DESCENT. I think the tapemeter drove. I'm not sure. Confirm the ullage. Standing by for ullage.
112:49:46	Schmitt	Ten seconds.
112:49:49	Schmitt	Fuel ullage. We've got ullage. PROCEED on the 99. It took, 2, 1, 0 -
112:49:57	Schmitt	IGNITION. IGNITION, Houston. Attitude looks good.
112:50:01	Schmitt	ENGINE OVERRIDE is ON, MASTER ARM is OFF. We got a DESCENT QUANTITY light ON at ignition, just prior to ignition.
112:50:07	Cernan	DPC [?] tank's good, RCS is good at 15 seconds.
112:50:12	CC	Roger.
112:50:13	Schmitt	RCS is golden. Should be stable throttle up. Stand by there's throttle up - -
112:50:21	Cernan	Throttle up on time Houston. And the computer likes it.
112:50:26	CC	Roger.
112:50:26	Schmitt	Still got the QUANTITY light ON.
112:50:30	Cernan	Okay, attitude looks good, Jack.
112:50:32	Schmitt	Okay. At 30 seconds. Should have about 108.
112:50:40	Cernan	Oh, boy.
112:50:43	Schmitt	AGS and PGNS are close.
112:50:46	Cernan	Okay, coming up on 1 minute.
112:50:49	Schmitt	One minute, you ought to have 98.
112:50:54	Cernan	Okay, H-dot is high right now.
112:50:56	Schmitt	MARK it, 1 minute.
112:50:58	Cernan	Altitude's high.
112:50:59	CC	Challenger, Houston. I have a NOUN 69 - -
112:51:01	Schmitt	... looks good, Houston.
112:51:02	CC	- - plus 03400, plus 3400 feet. Over.
112:51:12	Schmitt	You're looking at it.
112:51:15	Cernan	Okay; 3400. I confirm.
112:51:24	CC	Challenger, you're GO for ENTER.
112:51:29	Schmitt	Roger. GO for ENTER 01:30. We're GO coming through 57K. Okay, the altitude's high and the H-dot is high. ... - that's right.
112:51:39	Schmitt	Okay. At 1 - 2 minutes, you ought to have 89 on the ball. We're still 30 feet per second high in H-dot. But we're about 8000 feet high - -
112:51:50	CC	Challenger, Houston - -
112:51:51	Schmitt	- - 7000 - -
112:51:51	CC	We'd like you to cycle the PQGS switch OFF and then back ON.
112:51:52	Cernan	Okay, Houston. Coming up on 2 minutes.
112:52:01	Schmitt	Okay. It's OFF. And it's back ON. QUANTITY light is out.
112:52:08	CC	Roger. That should be good now.
112:52:10	Schmitt	And, Houston, we - Okay, we have ENGINE THRUST and COMMANDED THRUST, full-scale high.
112:52:19	CC	Roger.
112:52:20	Schmitt	Man, that looks good.
112:52:21	Cernan	Okay, babe, let's check them at 02:30.
112:52:23	Schmitt	RCS looks good.
112:52:26	Cernan	02:30, I'm about 89 degrees - -
112:52:28	Schmitt	Cabin looks great - -
112:52:29	Cernan	- - coming through 51.5 -
112:52:30	Schmitt	89 is great. We're catching up - on our altitude. We should start dropping H-dot here a little bit. AGS and PNGS are together. AGS has us a little bit out of plane. And we're north - has us north of track.
112:52:53	CC	Challenger, Houston - -
112:52:54	Schmitt	Houston, we're ... up on 3 minutes, we're GO and - -
112:52:55	CC	- - you're GO at 3.
112:52:55	Schmitt	- - we're out of 49K.
112:52:59	Cernan	Roger. Understand we're GO.
112:53:04	Schmitt	Okay. At 3 minutes. 82's your ball number. We're still looking for the right altitude. So H-dot is high.
112:53:14	Cernan	Okay. The day of reckoning comes at 4 minutes, Jack. Got the weight building up, looking good. Attitudes are good.
112:53:31	Schmitt	Okay, at 03:30, you ought to have 79 - -
112:53:35	Cernan	And it's right on.
112:53:36	Schmitt	We're still a little high - about 2500 feet. H-dot is still high. Okay. The tapemeter moves in spurts and jerks, both on altitude and altitude rate.
112:53:57	Cernan	Yes.
112:53:58	CC	Challenger, Houston. You're GO at 4 minutes.
112:54:00	Schmitt	Yes. ED BATs are 37.2.
112:54:02	CC	Roger. ED BATs.
112:54:05	Schmitt	ED BATs are 3 - -
112:54:06	Cernan	Okay.
112:54:08	Schmitt	Okay, Gordo, yaw's coming at 340.
112:54:12	CC	Roger.
112:54:15	Schmitt	And the radar lights are out. Beautiful.
112:54:20	CC	Okay, sounds great. Both systems are GO - -
112:54:22	Schmitt	You're looking at DELTA-H.
112:54:22	CC	- - right on the line.
112:54:27	Schmitt	Okay. You're looking at DELTA-H.
112:54:29	CC	And you're GO for a VERB 57 -
112:54:35	Schmitt	Okay, VERB 57 is in. Hey, Houston, is the AGS out of plane correct?
112:54:43	CC	Stand by.
112:54:48	Cernan	Okay, coming up on 5 minutes, Jack. Let's take a check at it. About 74 degrees.
112:54:53	Schmitt	That's good.
112:54:54	Cernan	70 feet per second; we're coming down 36 - you're still ... - -
112:54:58	CC	Challenger, you're GO at 5 minutes - -
112:54:59	Cernan	- - down at 30 - -
112:54:59	CC	- - the AGS out of plane looks okay to us.
112:55:06	Cernan	Okay. GO at 5. We're out of 36.5 now. We've got the Earth right out the front window.
112:55:16	CC	Challenger, Houston. BATTERY 3, ON, at your convenience.
112:55:23	Schmitt	BATTERY 3 is ON.
112:55:26	PAO	53 miles to landing.
112:55:28	Cernan	05:30, Gordo. We're GO. We're out of 34K.
112:55:30	Schmitt	73, 34. We're right on altitude. The H-dot ought to start dropping off.
112:55:37	Cernan	Except that we want to keep it high. We're allowed two quick looks out the window, one now and one when we pitch over.
112:55:43	Schmitt	I can't see a thing except the Earth.
112:55:45	Cernan	That's what I'm telling you to look at.
112:55:46	Schmitt	(Laughter) Oh, there's the old Earth. Okay, Houston, coming up on 6 minutes. Six minutes, you ought to have 72 on your ball.
112:55:56	CC	Challenger, you're GO at 6.
112:55:57	Cernan	72 and GO.
112:56:00	PAO	40 miles till landing.
112:56:01	Schmitt	31. Altitude's great. H-dot's great. AGS and PNGS are very close, couple feet per second difference.
112:56:07	Cernan	Okay.
112:56:09	PAO	31,000 feet altitude.
112:56:10	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. We went over the hump. DELTA-H just jumped.
112:56:15	CC	Roger.
112:56:19	Schmitt	And looks like it's back down.
112:56:22	CC	Roger. Sounds good.
112:56:26	Schmitt	06:30, Geno. It looks good, babe. 72. Altitude is right on. H-dot is very close.
112:56:34	Cernan	Okay, 30K, YAW to zero.
112:56:36	CC	Throttle down time, 7 plus 26.
112:56:43	Schmitt	7 plus 26.
112:56:46	CC	Okay.
112:56:46	Cernan	Okay, we got everything - We're YAW at zero.
112:56:54	Schmitt	Okay. At 7 minutes, 67's your angle, 26 - 27; that's great ... - -
112:57:00	CC	Challenger, you're GO at 7 -
112:57:01	Schmitt	- - H-dot's slightly high, but okay.
112:57:05	Cernan	Okay, Gordo. We're GO at 7, we're now at 25,000 feet. We're quite a bit out of the command module plane, but I guess we're on target. Okay, watch the throttle, now. Here it comes.
112:57:23	Schmitt	Throttle down -
112:57:23	Cernan	Throttle down -
112:57:24	Schmitt	- at 27; computer likes it. Beautiful.
112:57:27	CC	Roger.
112:57:29	Cernan	Okay, 07:30, 63. Okay, 145 to pitchover, Jack.
112:57:36	Schmitt	Okay, 63's your angle, about 56 now.
112:57:41	Cernan	Okay, that's getting closer.
112:57:48	Schmitt	H-dot and H are great. Standing by for the camera.
112:57:54	Cernan	19K, Houston . We're GO coming up on 8.
112:57:56	Schmitt	Okay. The old camera's on, Gordy. Believe it or not.
112:57:59	CC	How about that. You're GO at 8. Monitor fuel, 2.
112:58:04	PAO	Ten miles to go.
112:58:05	Schmitt	Fuel 2, 27. That's good.
112:58:11	Cernan	Come on, baby.
112:58:15	PAO	18,000 feet.
112:58:15	Schmitt	Okay, at 08:30, Geno.
112:58:17	Cernan	Okay, I got the South Massif.
112:58:20	Schmitt	Okay, update the AGS, Houston?
112:58:24	Cernan	Yes.
112:58:28	CC	That's affirmative; update the AGS.
112:58:36	Cernan	Okay, Gordo, I've got Nansen; I've got Lara; and I've got the Scarp. Oh, man, we're level with the top of the Massifs, now.
112:58:45	CC	Roger.
112:58:48	Cernan	Okay, 151 - 151.0 ENTER. Okay, Jack, - -
112:58:55	CC	Challenger. You're GO at 9.
112:58:55	Cernan	- - pitchover is at 24; 24 is pitchover.
112:59:00	Schmitt	Okay, Gordo, we're out of 11,000 at 9 -
112:59:03	Cernan	Okay, stand by for pitchover. Oh, are we coming in. Oh, baby.
112:59:11	Schmitt	... through 9000.
112:59:13	Cernan	Stand by for pitchover, Jack.
112:59:14	Schmitt	8000.
112:59:15	Cernan	I'll need the PRO.
112:59:16	Schmitt	I'll give it to you.
112:59:20	Cernan	Pitchover.
112:59:21	Schmitt	There it is! PROCEEDed.
112:59:22	Cernan	And there it is, Houston. There's Camelot! Right on target.
112:59:24	Schmitt	Wow! I see it.
112:59:27	Cernan	We got them all.
112:59:28	Schmitt	Forty-two degrees, 37 degrees through 5500, 38 degrees - -
112:59:34	CC	Challenger, you're GO for landing.
112:59:35	Schmitt	- - 5000 feet, 40 - 42 degrees through 4000, 47 now; 47 degrees through 3500; 49 degrees; 3000 feet, 53 degrees.
112:59:54	Cernan	Okay, I've got Barjea; I've got Poppy; I've got the triangle.
112:59:58	Schmitt	At 2500 feet, 52 degrees. The H-dot is good. At 2000, H-dot is good. Fuel is good. 1500 feet, 54 degrees, Gene. Approaching 1000, approaching 1000 feet, 57 degrees. Okay, you're through 1000, and I'm checking - radar altitude and PNGS altitudes agree. You're through 800 feet. H-dot's a little high.
113:00:32	Cernan	Okay, I don't need the numbers any more.
113:00:33	Schmitt	Okay, you're 31 feet per second, going down through 500; 25 feet per second through 400. That's a little high, Geno.
113:00:42	Cernan	Okay.
113:00:44	Schmitt	300 feet, 15 feet per second. A little high. H-dot's a little high.
113:00:52	Cernan	Okay. I've got P66.
113:00:54	Schmitt	Okay; Okay, 9 feet per second, down at 200. Going down at 5. Going down at 5. Going down at 10. Cut the H-dot. The fuel's good. 110 feet. Stand by for some dust. Little forward, Gene. ... forward a little. 90 feet. Little forward velocity. 80 feet. Going down at 3. Getting a little dust. You're at 4 - 60 feet. Going down about 2. Very little dust. Very little dust. 40 feet, going down at 3.
113:01:44	Cernan	Stand by for touchdown.
113:01:45	Schmitt	Stand by. 25 feet, down at 2. Fuel's good. 20 feet. Going down at 2. 10 feet. 10 feet -
113:02:00	Schmitt	CO - CONTACT.
113:02:04	Schmitt	.. op, push. Engine stop; ENGINE ARM; PROCEED; COMMAND override, OFF; MODE CONTROL, ATT HOLD; PGNS, AUTO.
113:02:13	Cernan	Okay, Houston, the Challenger has landed!
113:02:17	CC	Roger, Challenger. That's super.
113:02:19	Schmitt	Okay, Parker valves - Boy, you bet it is, Gordo.
113:02:28	Cernan	Boy, when you said shut down, I shut down and we dropped, didn't we?
113:02:31	Schmitt	Yes, sir. But we is here; man, is we here. How does that look?
113:02:36	Cernan	That looks good.
113:02:36	Schmitt	Pressure - pressures look great. Tank 2 is down just a little from before.
113:02:41	Cernan	The ENGINE OVERRIDE is OFF ... --
113:02:42	Schmitt	Manifold is great. Manifold is right on. Get - go to JETS.
113:02:46	Cernan	Okay. I am JETS.
113:02:48	Schmitt	Okay. That side's complete. Houston, you can tell America that Challenger is at Taurus-Littrow.
113:02:55	CC	We'll do it.
113:03:00	Evans	Great.
113:03:02	Cernan	Ron, I had the meatball all the way.
113:03:04	Evans	Beautiful.
113:03:07	Cernan	Jack, are we going to have some nice boulders in this area.
113:03:09	Schmitt	Okay. The old camera's off.
113:03:12	Cernan	Okay.
113:03:15	Schmitt	LANDING RADAR breaker, OPEN. Checking the water. And, Gordy, ascent tank 1, we started out a little low. It's still - same place. That's water.
113:03:30	CC	Roger, Jack.
113:03:30	Schmitt	Batteries look good.
113:03:38	Cernan	Oh, man. Look at that rock out there.
113:03:42	Schmitt	Absolutely incredible. Absolutely incredible.
113:03:47	Cernan	I think I can see the rim of Camelot.
113:03:50	CC	Roger.
113:03:50	Cernan	Epic moment of ray life.
113:03:51	Schmitt	Where'd you land? You never let me look outside at all. Hey, you can see the boulder tracks.
113:04:01	Cernan	Okay, Gordy. We're standing by for your GO. We look good - we're looking good onboard.
113:04:06	CC	Okay. You're looking great here so far.
113:04:07	Schmitt	There are boulders all over those massifs. God, look at that propellant. We could have gone all around and looked around.
113:04:15	Cernan	We should have hovered around a little bit; gone and looked at the Scarp.
113:04:18	Schmitt	No, thank you.
113:04:19	Cernan	(Laughter)
113:04:19	Schmitt	I like it right where we are.
113:04:21	Cernan	Okay, Gordy. While you're - while you're waiting on that GO, I had to - I - I shot for a spot, around 2 o'clock from Poppy. There's a number of boulders out at 12 o'clock from Poppy, and I really think I'm probably not more than about 100 meters out in front of it - and slightly to the north. Actually, I may be a little bit closer to Trident than I expected Poppy to be. I - I think I've got Trident right out the left window. And our first cut at the mobility around here in the Rover. It ought to be super.
113:04:56	CC	Okay. Sounds good.
113:05:03	Schmitt	And I tell you, the massifs and Bare Mountain are two different products.
113:05:13	Cernan	Do look it, don't they?
113:05:15	Schmitt	Of course, they're different slopes, too.
113:05:16	Cernan	I think you're looking - probably - that may be Rudolph, right there, Jack, out your window. I was looking more at those boulders and trying to stay in the spots in between them them I was - -
113:05:28	Schmitt	Yes, you did great, Gene.
113:05:29	Cernan	- - relationship to that crater. Man, there was practically no dust, just a little bit of a film; you had the ground, all the way to the ground.
113:05:36	Schmitt	Yes. I could call touchdown on the shadow. Look at that. Really here.
113:05:43	Cernan	(Laughter) Okay, Gordy. We're hanging in for your GO.
113:05:49	Schmitt	It better be a GO. I'll check everything again. Let's just doublecheck.
113:05:54	Cernan	Okay.
113:05:56	Schmitt	That hasn't changed.
113:05:57	Cernan	Okay, that's good.
113:05:58	Schmitt	Those - the manifold hasn't changed. The RCS hasn't changed. Ascent water hasn't changed. The batteries haven't changed.
113:06:10	Cernan	Oh, my golly.
113:06:11	Schmitt	Only we have changed.
113:06:13	Cernan	You know the - you can't see into Camelot, Jack; that rim is - is Camelot out in front of us.
113:06:18	Schmitt	Yes.
113:06:18	Cernan	You ... - -
113:06:18	CC	Challenger, you'll be glad to hear you're STAY for T-l.
113:06:24	CC	And, America; we have a STAY for T-l.
113:06:24	Cernan	Gordy, you're a smooth talker, you know it?
113:06:26	Schmitt	Very good.
113:06:28	Cernan	We are STAY for T-l.
113:06:30	Schmitt	Okay. You can forget all I told you about VERB 22 NOUN 46.
113:06:31	Evans	Challenger - understand a STAY for T-l. Good.
113:06:34	Cernan	What was that? (Laughter)
113:06:39	Schmitt	Okay. Let's find out where we are. Engine stop is reset.
113:06:45	Cernan	Okay. The AGS is ready for us if we need it.
113:06:47	Schmitt	Okay. I need a P12 time as soon as I get 60 - -
113:06:49	Cernan	Okay.
113:07:04	Cernan	Okay, Gordy. You're looking at NOUN 43. Copy that down, Jack, right here.
113:07:11	CC	Okay. We've got it.
113:07:13	Schmitt	20 21 and 20 21 and 30 75, and I'm going to P12. Okay. I need a P12 time from you.
113:07:30	Cernan	Okay. For T-2. For T-2, the time is 113 - -
113:07:38	Schmitt	Okay.
113:07:38	Cernan	14 - -
113:07:39	Schmitt	14.
113:07:41	Cernan	24.91.
113:07:44	Schmitt	4.91.
113:07:46	Cernan	Yes, sir.
113:07:48	Schmitt	I can't feel any difference between 1/6g and anything else right now.
113:07:50	Cernan	Well, you still got your restraints on. (Laughter) Okay. 113:14:24.91. You happy with that?
113:07:57	Schmitt	That looks good, sir.
113:07:59	Cernan	Okay.
113:08:02	Schmitt	I got to change these numbers. You didn't get an update on NOUN 76, did you? I don't think so.
113:08:13	Cernan	No. No. No.
113:08:13	Schmitt	Okay.
113:08:19	Cernan	Okay; 5515. Hello, Gordy. How would you like me to handle R-3 of NOUN 76?
113:08:28	CC	Stand by. I'll come back to you.
113:08:33	Cernan	Okay. Oh, that radar performed super.
113:08:43	Schmitt	How was the view on the way down, Gene? (Laughter)
113:08:45	Cernan	You know, after we pitched over, I was just looking for a place to land. I'm not sure, I just didn't want to hit one of those boulders out there which would have been as easy - and look at that. Look at right in front of us. I didn't want to land there either.
113:08:58	Schmitt	I see that one right in front of us.
113:08:59	Cernan	You see that? ... a boulder, a hole.
113:09:00	Schmitt	Where's the hole? I can't see the hole - -
113:09:00	CC	Challenger, Houston. R-3, cross range, is okay as is.
113:09:08	Schmitt	Okay. Okay. We're coming up - -
113:09:12	Cernan	We're in posture for a T-2, Gordy.
113:09:19	CC	Roger.
113:09:22	Cernan	Okay. I can see the Scarp. I can see Hanover. Good thing we didn't plan to go to Hanover. (Laughter) it's steep.
113:09:34	Schmitt	Look at the boulder - halfway up the hill.
113:09:35	Cernan	Yes.
113:09:36	Schmitt	Not halfway, just enough - -
113:09:37	Cernan	Yes, the boulder tracks - they're beautiful.
113:09:39	Schmitt	It's sitting right there in the end of the tracks. There are tracks all over that hillside. There's a boulder came right down to the surface there. See it?
113:09:45	Cernan	Yes.
113:09:45	Schmitt	That one right through that little crater -
113:09:46	Cernan	Yes.
113:09:46	Schmitt	- - sitting right there for us to sample. Look at it.
113:09:50	Cernan	Yes, sir. I'll bet Bare Mountain and the Sculptured Hills are the same.
113:09:56	Schmitt	Yes. They - Well, the slope's different. We'll have to look at it from outside. You may be right. Now I see why they call them sculptured. My god, they're so hummocky that there's shadow all over them.
113:10:07	Cernan	Yes.
113:10:08	Schmitt	God, there are some holes and rocks around here. Who told me this was a flat landing site?
113:10:11	Cernan	It is flat. For crying out loud. What do you want, an airtight guarantee?
113:10:17	Schmitt	Let's see, we got about 2 degrees left and about 5 degrees pitchup.
113:10:22	Cernan	We're about what - about 100 meters from Trident?
113:10:27	Schmitt	Yes - yes, less than that, I think Trident's right here.
113:10:31	Cernan	Our shadow's about 100 feet, Geno, I think.
113:10:34	Schmitt	Yes, we're only about - yes, less than 100 meters then. It doesn't look that long, but it ... - -
113:10:39	Cernan	Yes, there are some holes I'm glad I didn't land in around here, I'll tell you.
113:10:50	Cernan	Now, if you look at the massif, Jack. I don't know if you can see it over here. You see, they're almost like a series of linear boulder tracks, but they come crossways down the slope. So it looks like there may very definitely be some - some jointed - There's outcrop on top the massif, too.
113:11:05	Schmitt	Oh, it sure looks like it, gray outcrop. And there's a bluish gray compared to the - the brown or tan gray of the massif side.
113:11:15	Cernan	And a lot of that boulder is - a lot of that outcrop down on the bottom is boulder.
113:11:19	Schmitt	Yes. Do you know what that reminds me of, way up on top - that outcrop? it reminds me of sunset where you could just get a little piece of outcrop around the corner.
113:11:20	CC	And, America, I have a pan camera photo pad whenever you're ready for it. It'll go on page 129.
113:11:25	Cernan	That's right.
113:11:28	Schmitt	Okay. Let's see what we're doing. We got 3 minutes for T-2. Let's take another check.
113:11:33	Cernan	Okay. I just looked at them.
113:11:34	Schmitt	Okay. Ascent looks good.
113:11:39	Cernan	Gordy, I noticed something ever since we've landed. The oxidizer quantity went from - from 7 or 8, and now it's down to 2, and the fuel has stayed constant.
113:11:52	CC	Roger.
113:11:53	Cernan	And the QUANTITY light came on somewhere, I believe, after we landed.
113:11:58	Schmitt	Yes, it did. I noticed the QUANTITY light also. I was thinking reg light, though, when I saw it. Oh, man.
113:12:13	CC	Challenger, we'll have a story on that for you later. We don't think we were really low level.
113:12:22	Cernan	Okay. It doesn't make any difference now, Gordy, expect to talk about when we get home.
113:12:27	CC	Roger.
113:12:30	Cernan	And we're 2 minutes and counting to T-2.
113:12:34	CC	Roger.
113:12:35	Schmitt	We better hurry if - you're going to give - they're going to give us the GO.
113:13:04	Schmitt	How about some water?
113:13:06	Cernan	Yes, you can zap me.
113:13:10	Schmitt	Oh, I tell you. That's something everyone's got to do once in their life. I want to - We're not going to have much time for T-2 - -
113:13:21	CC	Challenger, Houston. You're STAY for T-2, and GO for the DPS vent.
113:13:29	Schmitt	Okay.
113:13:29	Cernan	Okay. Understand. STAY for T-2, and GO for the DPS vent. Let me get out of - Okay, we can't hack that. I'm going to get out at 12.
113:13:38	Schmitt	Excuse me, Gene.
113:13:49	Cernan	Okay. You can unzap that water, if you'd like. And let's go off VOX. Let's go on PTT.
113:14:27	PAO	This is Apollo Control. We mark the unofficial landing time at 113 hours 1 minute, 52 seconds Ground Elapsed Time. And, from the description, the unofficial landing site is about 100 meters beyond the crater Poppy -
113:14:46	Cernan	Okay. REG 1 is CLOSED, Houston; OXIDIZER FUEL VENTS coming OPEN.
113:14:49	CC	Roger.
113:14:49	Cernan	MASTER ARM, ON. MASTER ARM's coming ON. Okay, Gordo. I got two good lights.
113:14:57	CC	Roger.
113:14:57	Cernan	DESCENT VENT, FIRE. Okay -
113:15:04	Cernan	MARK it. Now we did not hear anything on that one, Gordy.
113:15:09	CC	Roger.
113:15:12	Cernan	... pressure's coming down, though. Pressure's coming down.
113:15:20	Schmitt	Okay. MASTER ARM, OFF. Okay, we'll monitor oxidizer pressure until 20 to 40, and then OX VENT, CLOSED; fuel pressure to less than 8. FUEL VENT.
113:15:31	Cernan	DESCENT QUANTITY light - REG light. Excuse me.
113:15:39	Cernan	Okay. MODE CONTROL, two to ATT HOLD. Well, we just keep going, I guess.
113:15:50	Schmitt	Yes. Hey, we can press on. Okay. Okay. Now wait a minute. Here we go. Let's get that. Go up here first, because I haven't selected it.
113:16:07	Schmitt	Okay. ECA CONTROL is CLOSED. Three is back on.
113:16:15	Schmitt	BATTERY 5 is OFF/RESET, and it's off the line.
113:16:21	Schmitt	BATTERY 6, OFF/RESET, and it's off the line. INVERTER number 2 breaker is IN. INVERTER 2. Let me check the voltage. Voltage is great. Okay. Keep going.
113:16:44	Schmitt	DESCENT ENGINE OVERRIDE'S OPEN. ASCENT ECA CONTROL'S OPEN. CWEA cycling, cycled; both lights are out. Okay. Cabin pressure is good. Okay.
113:17:06	Schmitt	And then, A and B going to CABIN. A is to CABIN. B is to CABIN. PULL-EGRESS. RETURN is EGRESS. REPRESS going to AUTO. Stand by for a noise.
113:17:32	Schmitt	There you go. It's in AUTO. Okay. Now it's your turn. Verify - Wonder where it's going? (Laughter) Out, I guess.
113:17:55	Schmitt	INVERTER 2 is selected. Okay. And DECA POWER, OPEN. And guess what? Take your helmet and gloves off.
113:19:04	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. We're in 1-1. Helmets and gloves are off, DIVERTER VALVES are IV.
113:19:12	CC	Okay. We're right with you.
113:19:20	Schmitt	And you're looking at NOUN 20.
113:20:03	Schmitt	Window shades are going close. I just - I'm using it instead of a light switch because I've got it covered up.
113:20:28	Cernan	Gordy, you got NOUN 20?
113:20:30	CC	That's affirmative. We copy NOUN 20.
113:20:35	Cernan	Okay. Jack's going to pick up the AGS - on the right side of that page, and I'll part the antenna
113:20:42	CC	Roger.
113:23:01	Cernan	P20's in work. Correction, P57's in work.
113:23:14	CC	Challenger, Houston. Your DPS OXIDIZER PRESSURE is 40 or less. You could close it.
113:23:23	Cernan	Thank you, Gordy.
113:23:29	Cernan	Gordy, while the P57 is doing its gravity work, let me say that the LNA and the landing site, from a relief point of view, I - I think, are identical. I couldn't say enough for the LNA. I actually didn't look around nearly as much as I thought I would, or as I wanted to, because I had fixation on - on a reasonable spot to land. They're not all reasonable in that there's some very subtle hummocky-like craters right in and around where we are. And there's not a - a lot of boulders laying on the surface, but there's a lot of what appear to be boulders that are covered up by some of the dark mantle. Numerous enough that you would not like to take a chance at putting a - a pad down on one of them or in one of those hummocky subtle craters. As a result, I really didn't have a chance to look all around at where I wanted to except to put the bird down where I wanted it.
113:24:38	CC	Okay. We've got no complaint with that.
113:24:50	Cernan	I guess the thing that probably - probably surprised me most about the site, as far as landing is concerned, is the fact that there were these - these - I hesitate to say they're outcrops but certainly they're buried massive pieces of rock, whether they're boulders or not we'll have to find out, out here in the plains area, partially covered and filleted by the dark mantle. And I expected to find a number of craters, but I guess I really didn't expect to find - to find the - the rock types around. And we're talking about anywhere from 1 to 2 meters down to - oh, 2 or 3 feet, which when they're sticking out and on the sides of some of these subtle craters look pretty menacingly. But that probably is the one thing that surprised me most.
113:25:44	CC	Roger, Gene.
113:25:48	Cernan	The visibility prior to pitchover was such that I could see Nansen. I could see the Scarp. I could see Lara. I could not see Camelot until after pitchover. However, once I had pitchover, if I could have froze it right there like we do in the simulator occasionally, I could have picked out everything there was to see. Even at 6000 feet, the small triangle with Frosty and Rudolph and Punk were visible to me. I had - I had Poppy from orbit, as a matter of fact, so it was easily - easy to see. Barjea was a very sharp round crater just as depicted on the LNA. The thing I really didn't get a good look at, because I didn't pay too much attention to it, was from Trident on to the south.
113:26:39	CC	Roger.
113:26:40	Schmitt	Gordy, this is the LMP. Let me say - Gordy, this is the LMP. Let me say that the inside of the spacecraft looked just like the simulators.
113:26:51	CC	Very good, Jack.
113:27:06	Cernan	Another interesting thing, Gordy. All the way through PDI prior to pitchover, Jack and I had - had the real America, the other America - right out - smack out the front window all the way down, which was pretty spectacular.
113:27:23	CC	I'll bet it was. And you can consider yourself STAY for T-3.
113:27:30	Cernan	Thank you, sir. You're getting smoother all the time. If you're happy with NOUN 22, I'll PRO.
113:27:40	CC	Stand by 1.
113:27:46	CC	You're clear to PRO.
113:28:42	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. I had the angles matched on the steerable and went to SLEW, and they - it held for a few seconds and then dropped off.
113:28:54	CC	Okay. It looks pretty good. You might try to peak it up just a little more.
113:29:03	Schmitt	No, we're on an OMNI now.
113:29:07	CC	Roger.
113:29:13	Schmitt	I'll try the steerable one more time here.
113:29:23	CC	Okay, you should be - -
113:29:24	Schmitt	Okay. We're on the steerable, and I'm not going to touch it.
113:29:36	Schmitt	It's steerable and SLEW, and I got 3.8.
113:29:42	CC	Okay. That looks good to us, Jack.
113:30:05	CC	Jack, we'd like you to verify the TAPE RECORDER, OFF.
113:30:13	Schmitt	Yes, that's verified, Gordy.
113:30:58	Schmitt	Gordy, how does the fuel vent look to you?
113:31:04	CC	Okay. Looks like 8 to us. You can go ahead and close it.
113:31:07	Schmitt	Anyway, it - Okay. I already did.
113:38:30	Cernan	Gordy, I - I guess I'm puzzled on that one. I had the right star. You see anything we did wrong?
113:38:42	CC	Stand by. We're checking.
113:39:55	CC	Gene, our only guess is that you might have loaded NOUN 88 wrong. We'd like you to start over, and we'll watch you real close again.
113:40:07	Schmitt	Gordy. Listen, I think we know what we did. We loaded SPRL for CRSR, and CRSR for SPRL. How would it be if we went through the P57 again and - Yes - we'll - I guess we got to do it all over. Those old numbers are no good anymore.
113:40:28	CC	Okay.
113:40:33	Schmitt	I - you can - I'm sure that's what we did. We loaded CRSR for SPRL, and SPRL for CRSR.
113:40:40	CC	Okay. And it's our fault, too. We should have watched that.
113:41:53	CC	Jack, this is Houston. We do have the pre-PDI AGS cal numbers. You won't need to read them to us.
113:42:04	Schmitt	Okay.
113:42:08	Cernan	Gordy, you going to want a recycle on this gravity measurement? I doubt if it'll need it.
113:42:16	CC	Stand by. No, no recycle necessary this time through.
113:42:27	Cernan	Okay.
113:42:34	Schmitt	Gordy, ED BATs are 37-2.
113:42:51	Cernan	Gordy, let me comment about the handling of the bird. After you once fly it around in orbit a little bit, you get accustomed to the thrusters, and it - it came back to me quite a bit from 10, anyway. And you get a feel for acceleration and deceleration as well as the attitude hold capability. And it really - the response, even with a heavy descent - descent stage near the surface -is phenomenal. Responded exactly in the direction I wanted, held attitude very good. And, let me tell you, the LLTV plays no small part in this landing as far as I'm concerned.
113:43:35	CC	Roger, Gene.
113:43:47	Schmitt	Okay. NOUN 22 again. I'll go ahead and torque them.
113:43:52	CC	Okay. Go ahead.
113:44:26	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 113 hours 44 minutes Ground Elapsed Time in the mission of Apollo 17. Some refined numbers on the landing site for Challenger: in degrees minutes and seconds, the latitude has been pinned down to 20 degrees 9 minutes 50.5 seconds north, longitude 30 degrees 46 minutes 19.3 seconds east, which is about 639 meters east of the designated landing point - the premission landing point. For those newsmen who have the landing site with the grid coordinates on it, that corresponds to DN.0 by 84.2. At 113:45 Ground Elapsed Time, this is Apollo Control.
113:48:59	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 113 hours, 48 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. We're estimating a change of shift, if you will, Press Conference with the landing team flight director, Gerry Griffin, in the small briefing room at 3:00PM, To repeate estimated Press Conference in about 20 minutes, approximately, 18 minutes to be exact, in the small Briefing Room in Building 1. Some 42 minutes away from acquisition as the Command Module, America, comes around on revolution 14. Meanwhile on the surface, to repeat: the estimated landing site is right down the line on the Ground Track. However some 369 meters east or short of the predesignated, premission landing point.
113:50:20	Cernan	Okay, Gordy. It's a little better.
113:50:26	CC	Roger. Looks good.
113:50:31	Schmitt	Computer is NOUN 93.
113:50:52	CC	Okay. Torque it.
113:51:42	CC	Challenger, Houston. We're standing by for the dumps.
113:51:44	Schmitt	Okay, Gordo. I'm ready to give the E-mem - Coming at you -
113:51:49	Schmitt	MARK it. It's on the way.
113:53:02	Cernan	Gordy, one other thing about the landing. I saw the light, I think. And I heard Jack call it - the CONTACT light. I think I waited about a second and - and hit the stop button. She shut down immediately. And, of course, you could feel the fall. I don't really feel we fell that much, but it was quite a change in acceleration at that point.
113:53:37	CC	Roger, Gene.
113:53:41	Cernan	And I guess I had, from what I would guess, a foot or 2 for - per second forward on that one.
113:53:50	CC	Okay. Sounds good.
113:54:12	Cernan	And let me know when I can have the computer, please.
113:54:17	CC	Okay. It's your computer. And I'm standing by with parking angles when you're ready to load them.
113:54:25	Cernan	Okay. We'll be ready in a second.
113:55:02	Schmitt	Go ahead with the angles.
113:55:05	CC	Okay. These are the IMU parking angles. Plus 295.86. I see you're loading the radar. Do you want to just load these or write them down?
113:55:32	Schmitt	Go ahead. I'm writing.
113:55:33	CC	Okay. Y will be plus all zeros. And plus 084.l4, Over.
113:55:48	Schmitt	Okay. NOUN 20 will be plus 295.86, plus all zeros, plus 084.14.
113:55:55	CC	That's correct.
113:56:19	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. I'm going to power down the AGS, if you're willing.
113:56:31	CC	Not yet, Jack. We'd like you to read out 047 and 053 to us.
113:56:40	Schmitt	Okay. You want the new ones.
113:56:50	Cernan	Okay, Gordy. If you're happy with NOUN 22, I'll ENTER them.
113:56:56	CC	We're happy.
113:57:00	Cernan	Okay. And it just dawned on me. I'm sorry about the zero on the NOUN 69. (Laughter)
113:57:09	CC	That's okay. You're forgiven.
113:57:13	Cernan	I appreciate that.
113:57:27	CC	Okay, Jack. We got 047 and 053.
113:57:36	Schmitt	Okay. Am I GO to PULL the breakers?
113:58:02	Cernan	Okay. Are you happy with NOUN 20?
113:58:19	CC	Okay. We're happy with NOUN 20, and you're clear to power down the AGS.
113:58:19	Schmitt	Okay.
113:59:41	Schmitt	Gordy, the breakers are coming OPEN on 1-4 and 1-5
113:59:46	CC	Roger.
114:01:39	PAO	This is Apollo Control. To repeat, there will be a change in shift press conference with the Flight Director, Gerry Griffin, in the small briefing room in approximately 5 minutes. At 114 hours 1 minute Ground Elapsed Time, this is Apollo Control.
114:02:16	Cernan	Gordo, we're on 1-6.
114:11:10	PAO	This is Apollo control at 114 hours 11 minutes Ground Elapsed Time into the mission of Apollo 17. Commander Gene Cernan's heart rate during the descent and landing ranged from 102 average during the descent portion of the landing to 128 at actual touchdown. There is a change of shift briefing that will start momentarily in the small briefing room in building 1. We'll take down the broadcast line at this time and tape any conversation during that period and play it back at the conclusion of the briefing which starts now. This is Apollo control out.
114:11:19	CC	Okay, Thank you.
114:11:37	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. We're at the bottom of 1-8, and I'm standing by for your lift-off times.
114:11:43	CC	Okay, Jack. Lift-off time for rev 15 is 116:55:51, 16 is 118:54:28; 120:53:04; 122:51:40; 124:50:17; 126:48:53. Over.
114:12:30	Schmitt	Okay. Starting with rev 15, 116:55:51; 118:54:28; 120:53:04; 122:51:40; 124:50:17; 126:48:53.
114:12:50	CC	That's a good readback.
114:15:11	Cernan	Gordo, the PLSS is against the hatch, and we're installing the BRA.
114:15:17	CC	Roger on that.
114:28:22	CC	Challenger, Houston. We've got three questions for you to help pin down your exact position, any time it's convenient. Maybe when you're taking the out-the-window pictures. Over.
114:28:36	Cernan	Okay, Gordo. I think we can give it to you. Why don't you wait? We're just getting the - the mag bag out and jett bags out from behind the engine cover here, to give you an idea where we are.
114:28:48	CC	Okay. No hurry at all.
114:28:54	Cernan	I had it pinned down for you, until I got to about 500 feet, when I changed my mind.
114:29:03	CC	Roger.
114:30:17	Cernan	Gordy, we're not going any further, and we'll answer your questions here when we get some time, my best guess is 150 meters from Poppy at 1 to 2 o'clock.
114:30:34	CC	Okay. We copy that.
114:30:38	Cernan	And I'll bet on that one. But we'll get with you in a minute.
114:30:43	CC	Okay. 150 north-northwest of Poppy.
114:30:49	Cernan	Yes. Mostly west, but slightly north.
114:30:54	CC	Roger.
114:31:00	Cernan	I'll tell you the - we're abeam, I think, just about abeam of Trident 1. I can see it out there, but I can't really define Trident 1 from Trident 2. And the thing that is a little different is that I appear to be closer to it than I normally would have expected to be.
114:31:22	CC	Okay.
114:31:27	Schmitt	That's probably as close as the Navy Captain could ever guess where he is anyway.
114:31:33	CC	Roger. (Laughter)
114:31:35	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. We're just starting our eat-period. Sorry to be a little behind, DRD readings are 17037 and LMP is 24117.
114:31:50	CC	Okay, Jack. We got that.
114:31:55	CC	Would you verify your BIOMED, RIGHT?
114:32:02	Schmitt	Yes, that's verified. How does it look?
114:32:05	CC	Looks good.
114:36:02	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 114 hours 36 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. During the just ended Press Conference with the off-going flight director Gerry Griffin, some four minutes of air-to-ground tape with the crew of Challenger has been accumulated, compressed somewhat from the actual real-time. That four minutes of tape will be played back and we'll rejoin the conversation with the Crew of Challenger at Taurus Littro Landing Site at the conclusion of that tape. Roll the tape.
114:41:11	Cernan	Okay, Gordy. We're starting to cut into a little lunch here and, if you've got any questions, why don't you come up with them now?
114:41:21	CC	Okay. We're wondering if you can give us estimate of the angular position, clock position of Rudolph. And can you line up Rudolph with a horizontal feature out beyond it?
114:41:36	CC	I - I should say horizon feature - out in the distance, not horizontal.
114:41:46	Cernan	Okay. I thought Rudolph was right out there at 3 o'clock. Jack's looking at it and he said, yes, that is Rudolph right at 3 o'clock out his right-hand window.
114:41:59	CC	Okay.
114:42:03	Cernan	I don't know if it'll mean anything to you, but the shadow of the LM, the rendezvous radar antenna is pointing about one-third of the way down from the peak of Family. And that, I know, is pretty gross. And, Gordo, I - I must be right here abeam of Trident 1. The only reason I hesitate is that I'm so close - but it's probably, well I guess it's close to 100 meters - 80 meters anyway - to where the - where the rim of Trident 1 falls off. And I am abeam of the center of Trident 1, and that's the only possible thing it could be. And that would put Poppy just about where I expected it to be.
114:43:01	CC	Okay.
114:43:05	CC	We just want to confirm. You're referring to Trident 1 as the easternmost part of Trident, is that right?
114:43:17	Cernan	No, sir, Gordo. It's always been the westernmost part of Trident. The - the landing site was on a line between Trident 1 and Rudolph and judging from what Jack's got on his right-hand window and what I got on my left-hand window we're right there, except possibly a skosh further south on that line.
114:43:40	CC	Okay, understand.
114:43:45	Schmitt	And the target point that was in the PGNS was right up where we all had expected it to be about halfway between here and what we're calling the rim of Camelot. We can't see into Camelot; we can just see the rim of it. It's several - oh, at least 200 meters - 2 to 300 meters up there, I expect.
114:44:10	CC	Okay, what o'clock position is the west - the nearest part of the rim of Camelot? Or maybe if it's better defined - -
114:44:21	Schmitt	12 o'clock.
114:44:23	CC	- - Define the south rim. Can you see the south rim of it?
114:44:29	Cernan	Yes, Gordy, but it - it blends in so well; all we're seeing is a - an undulating high as the rim. And to the best of my knowledge, we've got the south rim at - or correction, the east rim right at 12 o'clock. Hey, Gordy, right at 12 o'clock also is a boulder that's at least 3 meters and maybe 5, and I wouldn't be a bit surprised if you can find it. It's on a line between us and the intersection of the South Massif and the Family Moun - Mountain horizon. Just slightly left of that line or south of that line. And that boulder ought to show up on your best photography.
114:45:16	CC	Okay, Jack. We'll take a look. One other question - -
114:45:21	Schmitt	And it's at - it's at least - that boulder's at least 200 meters away.
114:45:29	CC	Okay. Can you see the west rim of Trident, and can you give us a clock position on the west rim of West Trident?
114:45:46	Cernan	Okay, Gordy. The west rim of Trident, which, by the way, is full of outcropping-looking boulders, is at 10 o'clock.
114:46:02	CC	Okay, Gene - -
114:46:02	Cernan	Okay, I can look back around the corner now and I can - I can see where the east - where Trident 1 rose up to its rim on the east side, and I would say we're abeam of a point - abeam of a point one-third the way from east to west up the center of Trident; that is, we're - we've covered one-third of Trident 1 and we're abeam of a point of a line that goes through the one-third point from east to west of Trident 1.
114:46:49	CC	Okay, Gene; that's very clear. I think we've got you pretty well nailed down. And you're pretty close to the - the planned landing site.
114:47:02	Cernan	Yes, I think it's very close to our planned landing site and I - I'm (chuckle) - I'm anxious to see where Poppy is, because I think what I said earlier is true.
114:47:13	CC	Okay. That's all the questions now. Enjoy your dinner.
114:50:24	Schmitt	Houston, I have calmed down, but be advised that our dinner is corn chowder.
114:50:35	CC	Roger.
114:50:42	Cernan	He went to captain's mast for eating that the other day.
114:56:09	Schmitt	Gordy, Houston; 17. How do you read - or Challenger or whoever we are.
114:56:15	CC	Whoever you are; you're loud and clear.
114:56:21	Schmitt	I took the binocs and looked at some large boulders at our 12 o'clock position. They're probably on the order of a half meter to 2 meters, buried but without strong filleting. And most of them that I could see had the same mottled light-gray and medium-gray texture, and it looked like there's a lineation in it. And whatever the mottling is, it's on a frame size or fragment size of a - or a few centimeters, and it looks as if it's very uniform in that mottling; that is, there's one -one fragment size.
114:57:11	CC	Okay.
114:57:14	Schmitt	There are, a few near one crater out at 12 o'clock, dark-gray rock that may be glass coated. Matter of fact, one of them looks like it's right at the rim and might have been part of a projectile that made the crater.
114:57:35	CC	Roger.
114:57:48	Schmitt	The large boulder that I mentioned that's several meters in diameter - I'm not even sure it's a boulder - it does have a well-developed fillet. It's highly fractured. It looks like the fractures generally are north-south. At least you can't - we can't see end on into the fractures. And it's too far away to be sure, but it looks like it's mottled also, although there did appear in the bin - in the monocular to be a more heterogeneous mottling. It might be a breccia.
114:58:28	CC	Okay.
114:58:32	Schmitt	That boulder ought to be very close to the ALSEP site.
114:58:38	CC	Roger.
114:58:47	Cernan	Gordo, in reference to these boulders, everywhere I can see out of my left window and out ahead of me in referring to that boulder Jack's talking about which is just a little bit on my side at 12 o'clock, it appears that the dark mantle has filleted and, for the most part, covered - or it has covered part of or is up on top of some of the crevices and the crannies in the boulders themselves, with the exception of - Well, I'll take that back - even the very small ones. I'd say from a population point of view, boulders of the size Jack's talking about that are visible through the surface anywhere from 1 to 2 to 3 meters - a very small percentage, but when you look at them at our level, it looks like they are quite populous. I'd say there are maybe about 25 of them in view between myself and the - where the horizon falls off down away from us towards the South Massif. The area back towards Station 1, at least the other side of Trident, looks like it's more heavily strewn with some of these filleted and partially mantled large fragments.
115:00:18	CC	Roger, Gene.
115:00:23	Schmitt	To say that there is a boulder, as such, actually sitting on the surface, I can't - I really can't find one, unless they're along - around something very small and possibly younger craters. But I think for the most part everything is somewhat mantled.
115:00:41	CC	Okay.
115:00:49	Schmitt	Gordy, I think maybe the predictions of a fairly thin regolith were good. I have a crater at about - oh, 130 feet. It looks like it's not more than a meter deep. It's very fresh, has a bright halo around it, and it's very rocky in its interior and has some rocks that are at least 10 or 20 centimeters in diameter on the rim. It looks like it's penetrated into some rockier - much rockier substrate than what we're seeing on the surface. The surface itself looks like a - oh, probably 15 percent fragments greater than half a centimeter.
115:01:56	CC	Okay, Jack.
115:01:57	Schmitt	I don't see any general si - I don't see any general size, Gordy. I do have a crater out here that's - maybe a meter in diameter that - fairly fresh, although not bright halo - that has not penetrated to blocky material. And it looks like that the saturation crater size is very small in the area we can see; that is, there don't seem to be any old or very subdued craters - Well, let me -let me think about how to put that again. They're - it's obviously saturated with craters a few centimeters in diameter, but when you get bigger than that, there seems to be more of a - a clear distribution rather than a saturation.
115:02:57	CC	Okay.
115:03:03	Schmitt	Gordy, let me give you a quick far horizon. At 12 o'clock, I've got Family Mountain. It's a - it and South Massif are a replica from their plane form where I - up from where I am, except that Family Mountain is much more symmetrical and rounds off to a very more definite peak. The South Massif, in turn, has got a high plateau, a high flat peak on top. My far horizon then, at 12 o'clock, from about - to 11:30 is dominated by Family Mountain. It's - Well, I hate to use the word anorthosite without getting out of the spacecraft, but it sure is white. It sure is white, but its varied shades of white - with - sort of a - a tendency on its southern or southeastern slope to sort of be marble caked with a darker material much the same color as the mantle that we're - we've landed on. The Family Mountain disappears just about at the level of the rim of Camelot on my far horizon and just in front of it - it starts up - that's at about 11 o'clock - it just - just there is where the South Massif starts up very abruptly - I'd say - well, I'll try not to overestimate, but certainly 30 degrees, I'd say - very abruptly to a very impressive altitude. I know I was at 13,000 when I said I was at their level, but - it sure looked it from there. It - it plateaus off from about 10:30 to about 9:30, and then it starts sloping back down towards the east at about the same angle. Very symmetrical. There are several places where you can see what appear to be outcrops. I say several - about a dozen anyway, where you can see relatively large areas of outcrop on the South Massif. That outcrop is a - of a darker gray color than the white-gray of the Massif itself. The one most domin - dominant outcrop is right at the change in slope to the west, where it goes upslope and then plateaus off, and there is a definite outcrop. And you can see several boulders on all levels of the Massif that have come apparently from outcrops and I feel certain we will be able to get to some of those - that have come all the way down. South Massif, too, is a - appears to be in areas marbly caked dirty, such as if it was sprinkled with a dirty or a darker covering, and that covering is more evident as - as it slopes back here towards the - towards the east. As the far horizon now, I can see - I can see - South Massif all the way to 9 o'clock, but then behind it, there's just a little breadloaf-type dome of a much darker, much more hummocky mound back there, relatively big. It's probably, from where I stand, at least 10 percent the - the size of the Massif, the South Massif. Gray in texture. There appear to be some lineations running - well, as I'm looking at them, they're dipping down into the west at about 20 degrees, but that may be a Sun-angle problem. But they're definitely there. And then, contrasting that is - is Bare Mountain which is also much darker gray, much different than the Massif from where I stand, much more hummocky surface. It appears to be to me what I would expect Sculptured Hills to be like. One other thing about the South Massif is that - as I look at - as I look at it - at about 9:30 to 10:30, there is a little knob of the South Massif that sort of - oh flows toward - towards the east or slightly towards the northeast. That's the one that tends to be a little bit more heavily covered with the - darker dusty material - -
115:08:08	CC	Challenger, Houston, over.
115:08:12	Schmitt	There are. Go ahead.
115:08:13	CC	Okay. We're about 12 - 13 minutes behind the timeline for starting cabin preps. And backroom is enjoying your descriptions, but we think we'd rather you press on with the preps and get ready to get out for a really good view. Over.
115:08:34	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. We're - we're doing this and eating too - We're trying to do them both at the same time, and we are pressing. Just want to say one other thing about the Massif. I can see a couple of places where craters have - have penetrated very small craters and penetrated the Massif -craters maybe a meter or 2 in size, some 5 meters, and there's a lot of rock debris around them, which tends to believe that there is very little, if any, soft covering on that Massif.
115:09:06	CC	Roger.
115:09:08	Schmitt	Gordy, just a couple more words about the North Massif. It looks like a good distribution of boulder tracks. Many of the boulders are accessible. They are - the tracks can be traced up, at least to midslope. That's at my 3 o'clock position. And occasionally, at that midslope position, particularly northwest of Henson, you can see abundant boulders suggestive of outcrop. That's something that we had missed seeing on the pre-mission photos. But - And it isn't as abundant as on the South Massif, but there are apparent ledge formers about midslope.
115:10:10	Cernan	Yes, let's make ... I don't know ... a lot of ... No way it could be 1.
115:10:49	Cernan	Give me that ... throw away.
115:11:04	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. There's also a few very bright spark - sparkles from the surface - not abundant, but a few.
115:11:18	Cernan	Well, let me - I - I need these.
115:13:53	CC	Challenger, Houston. I'm going to hand you over to the good Dr. Parker here. Have a good trip outside there.
115:14:01	Cernan	Gordy, thank you. You do outstanding work and we sure do appreciate it, babe.
115:14:08	CC	My pleasure.
115:16:18	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 115 hours 16 minutes. Mission Control at presently is using these coordinates as the landing point. We will continue to try to refine that landing point further. But, as of now, we're saying the landing point is 20 degrees 9 minutes 50 seconds north, 30 degrees 46 minutes 19 seconds east. This would correspond to - on the map, for those of you who have grid maps, DM 8 and 82.7. This -
115:17:12	Cernan	Bob, we'll give you a call in a minute. We just made a couple of suit adjustments.
115:17:18	CC	Okay. Copy that.
115:17:25	PAO	It's estimated that the lunar module, Challenger, is on the planned north south line and approximately 1 to 200 meters east of the planned landing point.
115:18:35	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 115 hours 18 minutes. We want to distinguish between the targeted landing point and the planned landing point. It had been the crew's intention all along to land approximately 200 meters east or short of the targeted landing point, the point at which the computer was targeting the Challenger. So, we believe that Challenger is approximately 300 meters east of the targeted landing point, which would put it about 100 to 200 meters east of the planned landing point.
115:20:38	CC	Apollo 17, Houston.
115:20:45	Cernan	Go ahead, Bob.
115:20:46	CC	Okay, Challenger; we've just lost about 16dB on your high gain signal strength there. We're wondering if you happened to hit the switch there, has it moved, or could you give us a check on it?
115:21:02	Cernan	We're nowhere near it. Stand by 1.
115:21:22	CC	Okay. And, Challenger, that should be a PITCH of 21 and a YAW of minus 45.
115:21:32	Cernan	Plus 21 and minus 45; Roger. Bob, about 2 minutes here.
115:21:38	CC	Okay.
115:26:30	Schmitt	Bob, this is Jack. On that high gain, I'm up close to 39 now, which is better than when we landed. Do you want me to do anything to it?
115:26:43	CC	Stand by on that.
115:26:49	CC	Leave it alone. It seems to have gone away, Jack. It may have been a ground problem.
115:26:57	CC	Did you guys adjust it, Jack?
115:27:04	Schmitt	Yes, Bob. We had to fix the drink bags and a couple other things.
115:27:10	CC	No. Did you guys adjust the high gain antenna?
115:27:16	Schmitt	No. I didn't touch it.
115:27:18	CC	Okay. Copy that.
115:27:20	Cernan	Buddy SLSS's in there?
115:27:23	Schmitt	No. That's over there. Oh, did they? ... In there? I don't - I thought it was over on your side. Okay? Okay, that's over there. Bigger than it used to.
115:27:52	CC	And, Challenger, we have your hot mike.
115:27:59	Schmitt	Well, because I - -
115:29:05	CC	Challenger, Houston. Over.
115:29:10	Cernan	Go ahead, Bob.
115:29:11	CC	Okay. When you guys get to the top of page 2-5, and I assume you're down still in the - ETBs from what your comments were on the hot mike there. When you get to the top of page 2-5, we'd like you to put both DEMAND REGs to EGRESS. Over.
115:29:28	Cernan	Okay, Bob. Will do. We'll give you a call as we go along.
115:29:31	CC	Roger. Thank you.
115:29:36	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 115 hours 30 minutes. Ron Evans in America has about 14 and a half minutes left before loss of signal on the 14th revolution. He's -
115:30:55	Cernan	Hey, Bob, while I'm thinking of it, we're - we're working with one pair of scissors down here. We're going to take them out with us in the ETB. You might make a point of reminding us to bring them back.
115:31:05	CC	Okay. I copy that. Never did find Ron's, huh?
115:31:12	Cernan	No, sir, and I couldn't just leave him up there starving to death.
115:31:19	CC	Roger on that.
115:31:25	Cernan	By the way, how's he doing?
115:31:28	CC	Stand by.
115:31:42	CC	Challenger, Houston. Your buddy is doing great, and the sounder is also doing great, which is a surprise, I guess.
115:31:51	Cernan	I'm glad to hear that.
115:31:57	Schmitt	That was no surprise, Bob. We wouldn't have taken it if it wasn't going to work.
115:32:04	CC	I thought about that after I said it.
115:33:10	Cernan	Bob, I just turned the URINE LINE HEATER, ON.
115:33:14	CC	Copy that.
115:33:27	Cernan	And the physical status of the crew is excellent, by the way.
115:33:32	CC	Beautiful, The Surgeon's happy.
115:34:36	Cernan	Say, Bob, we're at the top of 2-5, and I forgot what it was you wanted me to do up there.
115:34:43	CC	Okay. We'd like you to have DEMAND REGs, both of them, go to EGRESS, please.
115:34:49	Cernan	Yes, sir. Okay, they're EGRESS now.
115:34:53	CC	Okay, thank you.
115:36:34	PAO	Ron Evans has just reported seeing a light flash just to the east of crater Orientale.
115:37:36	Cernan	Okay, Bob, we're in the middle of the first paragraph on - at 115:15 in the time line.
115:37:44	CC	Okay; copy that.
115:41:25	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 115 hours 41 minutes. Neil Hutchinson who has been the Flight Director for the CSM America during this past shift will be in the MSC News Center in approximately 15 minutes for a news conference for those men who would like to discuss the CSM with him.
115:42:30	PAO	This is Apollo Control. This upcoming news conference will not be carried on the Public Affairs release line. We will continue carrying the air-ground from Challenger on the lunar surface. The CSM press conference will not be carried on this PAO release line.
115:44:12	Cernan	CDR's OPS ... 5800.
115:44:18	CC	Okay; we copy 5800.
115:44:46	Schmitt	LMP's OPS is 6000 plus.
115:44:51	CC	Copy that, Jack.
115:44:57	Schmitt	Okay, eng.
115:45:15	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 115 hours 45 minutes. We've just had a loss of signal with America, which has now gone behind the Moon. We'll next acquire the command module at 116 hours 30 minutes. All going well with Evans in America.
115:45:31	Cernan	Okay. Both regulators are reg - regulating slightly under 4.0.
115:45:40	CC	Copy that, Challenger.
115:49:48	Cernan	Okay, Bob. The URINE LINE HEATER is OFF and the URINE LINE BREAKER is OPEN, and we are down to applying antifog.
115:50:03	CC	Okay. Copy that, Challenger.
115:51:18	PAO	This is Apollo control at 115 hours 51 minutes. The crew of Challenger, Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt, are running approximately 20 to 25 minutes behind the timeline at present - 20 to 25 minutes behind the timeline. We'll continue to keep you updated as we go along.
115:56:44	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 115 hours 56 minutes. We have an update on the location of Challenger. Coordinates 20 degrees 9 minutes 41 seconds north, 30 degrees 45 minutes 25.9 seconds east.
115:57:12	Schmitt	Okay, Bob, the BRA is stowed.
115:57:17	CC	Okay. Copy that, Challenger.
115:57:30	PAO	Map grid coordinates DM 682.1. This location is about 80 meters south, 220 meters east of the targeted landing point.
115:58:33	PAO	This location would make it very close to the planned landing point which was approximately 200 meters east of the targeted landing point.
116:00:15	Schmitt	Okay. We're at "Starting PLSS donning on LMP."
116:00:20	CC	Roger. Copy that.
116:00:58	PAO	Donning of the Life Support System, the back pack, was scheduled for 115 hours 40 minutes, so we're about 20 minutes behind at this time.
116:10:17	Schmitt	Okay, the LMP has got the RCU connected to the PLSS.
116:10:24	CC	Copy that, Jack.
116:11:43	Cernan	Okay, Bob, I'm going to get on the PLSS, now.
116:11:48	CC	Okay, Geno. Copy that.
116:12:34	Cernan	Sublimator exhausts.
116:22:18	Cernan	Okay, Bob. I've got my PLSS on. We're picking it up with verifying the powerdown configuration on the upper right-hand corner.
116:22:25	CC	Roger. Copy that.
116:23:01	Cernan	Circuit breakers are configured.
116:23:08	CC	Houston copies.
116:25:24	Cernan	Okay, I'm in VOX. VOX SENSITIVITY is MAX, A is T/R and B is RECEIVE. Okay. You can open your breaker and connect to the PLSS comm. Houston, I guess you heard that.
116:25:40	CC	That's affirm. Loud and clear.
116:25:49	Cernan	... just AUDIO breaker. Your AUDIO breaker, that's all. Want some help with that?
116:26:08	Cernan	Yes. Do it while you're facing that way. Just hang them up. Best time to do it. All you've got is water.
116:26:19	Cernan	Okay, Bob. We're getting Jack up on PLSS comm, and we'll be picking it up - the comm check here on left-hand column of the bottom sheet.
116:26:34	CC	Roger. We're following you.
116:27:00	Cernan	Okay. You're on and locked. Okay, and you got the cover? Okay. Your AUDIO breaker, CLOSED. Okay, on your PLSS PTT go MAIN; that's right.
116:27:14	Cernan	Okay. PLSS MODE A.
116:27:17	Schmitt	A.
116:27:18	Cernan	Okay; tone ON; VENT flag, P.
116:27:20	Schmitt	Got a weak tone and a VENT flag, P.
116:27:24	Cernan	Okay.
116:27:25	Schmitt	Got a good tone right now.
116:27:25	Cernan	PRESS flag, O; and O2 - -
116:27:27	Schmitt	... 0 and - -
116:27:28	Cernan	- - momentarily.
116:27:29	Schmitt	- - O2 still there.
116:27:31	Cernan	Okay, PLSS O2 - -
116:27:32	Schmitt	It's on.
116:27:33	Cernan	What's your PLSS O2 pressure gauge?
116:27:37	Schmitt	The O2 - -
116:27:39	Cernan	Give Houston a call and give it to them.
116:27:41	Schmitt	I'm reading 100 percent, Houston.
116:27:44	CC	Roger, Jack. And we're reading you slightly garbled but loud.
116:27:51	Schmitt	Okay. Well, you're loud and clear, Bob.
116:27:55	Cernan	Okay, Jack. You got that, and I'm reading you. How you reading me?
116:27:59	Schmitt	Loud and clear.
116:28:00	Cernan	Okay. We will not unstow the antenna. You are a skosh garbled, but very readable.
116:28:05	Cernan	Okay. Stay where you are. I'm going to get mine. Okay. AUDIO breaker is -
116:29:27	Schmitt	...
116:29:28	Cernan	...
116:29:30	Cernan	B.
116:29:33	Cernan	...
116:29:38	Cernan	Okay. I got a tone.
116:29:39	Schmitt	VENT flag, P.
116:29:40	Cernan	I got a VENT flag, P.
116:29:42	Schmitt	PRESSURE flag and O2, momentarily.
116:29:44	Cernan	PRESSURE flag, and I still got an O2 flag.
116:29:46	Schmitt	Off with your tone.
116:29:48	Cernan	Okay. The tone is gone. The O2 flag cleared.
116:29:50	Schmitt	Okay. PLSS O2 PRESS quantity.
116:29:54	Cernan	Okay; and I'm reading 10 percent.
116:29:58	Schmitt	Okay.
116:29:59	Cernan	Okay. Note crewman in MODE B, that's me, cannot hear Houston. Houston, broadcasting in the blind 100 percent on the CDR.
116:30:07	CC	Roger, CDR. Houston reads you loud and clear.
116:30:13	Schmitt	I read you loud and clear, Gene. ... me?
116:30:16	Cernan	I'm reading you loud and clear.
116:30:17	Schmitt	Okay.
116:30:17	Cernan	Give me a call again.
116:30:20	Schmitt	Okay. How do you read, Gene? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5-
116:30:23	Cernan	Give me again.
116:30:23	Schmitt	1, 2, 3, 4, 5-
116:30:26	Cernan	I think so. I can't - Okay. I'm reading you. Okay. PLSS. LMP go B.
116:30:32	Schmitt	Going B.
116:30:39	Cernan	Try that. B ... A. Okay. How do you read me, Jack?
116:30:47	Schmitt	You're loud and clear, and I got a tone.
116:30:53	Cernan	Okay. Give me a short count once.
116:30:55	Schmitt	Starting. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5-
116:30:58	Schmitt	You're great.
116:30:59	Cernan	Okay. I had a tone, too. I still got a PRESSURE and a VENT flag.
116:31:04	Schmitt	And, Houston, how do you read the LMP?
116:31:07	CC	Roger, LMP. We read you loud and clear.
116:31:11	Cernan	Okay, Bob. I'm reading you loud and clear, and he's not reading you in this mode. How me?
116:31:16	CC	I read you loud and clear also, Gene.
116:31:20	Cernan	Very, very, good. We're both going AR, now.
116:31:23	Schmitt	Let's go.
116:31:24	Cernan	Okay. Ought to get a tone. I didn't, but my VENT flag did clear.
116:31:30	Schmitt	Here it is.
116:31:31	Cernan	Tone and a VENT flag.
116:31:32	Schmitt	... my tone and - VENT flag.
116:31:35	Cernan	Okay, Jack. The wheel is Houston and the blade is me. Hello, there; Houston. How are you reading CDR?
116:31:43	CC	Read CDR loud and clear. And, for your information, your TM on the PLSSs looks good.
116:31:52	Cernan	Okay. Let's go.
116:31:54	Schmitt	How do you read, Houston? This is the LMP.
116:31:57	CC	Houston reads LMP loud and clear now. You're much clearer than you were before, Jack.
116:32:03	Schmitt	Very good.
116:32:05	Cernan	Okay. Jack, we gave them our quantities already; so, SQUELCH, VHF B LMP, FULL DECREASE.
116:32:12	Schmitt	SQUELCH B is to FULL DECREASE, huh?
116:32:15	Cernan	That's affirm.
116:32:16	Schmitt	Okay. It's FULL DECREASE.
116:32:18	Cernan	Okay. On 60, leave that PUMP breaker CLOSED.
116:32:20	Schmitt	Okay.
116:32:21	Cernan	I'll - Oh, that's cold; but that's good. Okay. On 16, ECS, CABIN REPRESS, CLOSED.
116:32:28	Schmitt	Okay. It's - is that a verify?
116:32:30	Cernan	That's a verify.
116:32:31	Schmitt	Okay. It's CLOSED.
116:32:32	Cernan	SUIT FAN DELTA-P, OPEN.
116:32:34	Schmitt	Okay. DELTA-P is OPEN.
116:32:35	Cernan	And SUIT FAN number 2, OPEN.
116:32:37	Schmitt	2's open.
116:32:38	Cernan	Okay. And I've got SUIT FAN number 2. There's a MASTER ALARM. Okay. And I heard it run down. Okay. I don't see a - No, there's not an ECS caution until that thing runs down - about a minute or so. We'll watch for that. Okay; SUIT GAS DIVERTER, PULL-EGRESS.
116:32:57	Schmitt	Okay. DIVERTER is PULL-EGRESS.
116:33:01	Evans	CABIN GAS RETURN, EGRESS.
116:33:03	Schmitt	TURN [sic] is EGRESS.
116:33:05	Cernan	SUIT CIRCUIT RELIEF, AUTO.
116:33:07	Schmitt	RELIEF is AUTO.
116:33:12	Cernan	Okay. OPS CONNECT. You ready?
116:33:17	Schmitt	Yes.
116:33:18	Cernan	Okay. SUIT isOL, ACTIVATE OVERRIDE.
116:33:21	Schmitt	Okay. OVERRIDE.
116:33:23	Cernan	Okay. Disconnect your LM O2 hoses.
116:33:26	Schmitt	Okay. LM O2 hoses are disconnected.
116:33:29	Cernan	Okay. And they're stowed, right?
116:33:30	Schmitt	Right.
116:33:31	Cernan	Okay. Connect OPS O2 hose to PGA, blue to blue.
116:33:34	Schmitt	Okay. Where is it?
116:33:35	Cernan	Okay. It's sticking - right - Turn around. No, that's not right.
116:33:38	Schmitt	No, that's the water.
116:33:39	Cernan	Could you turn towards me a little bit? Turn to the left. There you are, because I got ... Okay. Here it comes - right here. OPS hose under it now. Right here.
116:33:50	Schmitt	Here it is.
116:33:51	Cernan	Let me get it. I'll get it - I'll get it under your electrical cable.
116:33:57	Schmitt	Guess you're going to want a purge valve in a minute.
116:34:00	Cernan	Okay. That is locked in the lock lock.
116:34:03	Schmitt	Move your arm.
116:34:04	Cernan	This is ... Could you do that?
116:34:06	Schmitt	I will in a second.
116:34:10	Cernan	Move your arm. I can't see.
116:34:19	Cernan	Okay. We're right here. Okay. And I'm going to connect OPS hose to put it blue to blue, retrieve PURGE valve. Let me give you purge valve, and I'll pick that up, Jack. The cockpit's just as small as the mockup. Okay. Here you are. You verify it's in LOW, LOW.
116:34:38	Schmitt	Okay. It's in LOW.
116:34:40	Cernan	Slip to the right just a skosh.
116:34:41	Schmitt	Yes; slipped it to the right just a skosh.
116:34:44	Cernan	Oh, it's - man, that's easy.
116:34:48	Schmitt	(Laughter) Whee.
116:34:50	Cernan	Okay. Pin's installed. And I might be an iceberg when I get out there, but it's going to feel good.
116:35:04	Schmitt	Okay. It's in.
116:35:05	Cernan	Okay. My PURGE valve's LOW, locked, and the pin's in. Want some help with that? I want to take a look at it.
116:35:19	Schmitt	There's the old MASTER ALARM.
116:35:21	Cernan	Okay. That should be the WATER SEP.
116:35:23	Schmitt	Yes.
116:35:23	Cernan	It's on.
116:35:24	Schmitt	Yes. It's barely on.
116:35:28	Cernan	You're going to have to push my lock lock down.
116:35:30	Schmitt	I'll get it.
116:35:31	Cernan	I don't know why, but -
116:35:33	Schmitt	Why don't you check mine, too. That's it. I'm going to have to check you anyway. Let me turn this way.
116:35:40	Cernan	Okay.
116:35:56	Schmitt	That's why; because it wasn't locked.
116:35:59	Cernan	Is that where you want it; facing down or in? You don't want it there, do you?
116:36:02	Schmitt	No, I don't want it there. Must have had it in the wrong - ... Thank you.
116:36:11	Cernan	Is that where you want it?
116:36:12	Schmitt	Yes.
116:36:13	Cernan	Okay. It's there.
116:36:14	Schmitt	Good.
116:36:14	Cernan	The lock lock is down and it's verified LOW and the pin still is in. Okay. Look at mine while you're there.
116:36:26	Schmitt	Okay. It's safe and in. Lock's in and lines low. Pin's in; it's good.
116:36:34	Cernan	Okay. Let me get my - this thing right here. Reach that hose for me under my arm.
116:36:47	Schmitt	Put it under the electrical cable.
116:36:48	Cernan	Okay.
116:36:48	Schmitt	I think that'll be better, isn't it?
116:36:54	Cernan	Okay.
116:36:55	Schmitt	... and lock. Verify lock lock.
116:36:57	Cernan	Locked.
116:36:58	Schmitt	Okay.
116:36:58	Cernan	And the cover is going on.
116:36:59	Schmitt	Okay.
116:37:04	Schmitt	Look pretty good under that
116:37:05	Cernan	...
116:37:06	Schmitt	Yes. That's right.
116:37:06	Cernan	Good.
116:37:09	Cernan	Okay. You're covered. Okay. I think we're getting to our favorite part here. (Laughter) Okay. PURGE valves are installed on both. PGA DIVERTER VALVE; put it vertical.
116:37:21	Schmitt	Okay. It's vertical.
116:37:23	Cernan	Okay; commander repeat - that's done. Drink - Let's take a drink then close the descent water.
116:37:29	Schmitt	Okay.
116:37:29	Cernan	My ... is already prepared. And drink and position mikes.
116:37:42	Schmitt	Oh, those little ... covers are next. Okay.
116:38:12	Cernan	Had enough water today; they could - you could say you discovered me. I'm water on the Moon. Okay. Let's turn the descent water off, and let's stow this.
116:38:20	Schmitt	Okay. WATER is going OFF. DESCENT WATER is OFF.
116:38:24	Cernan	Okay. And it's - Man, is it - Okay.
116:38:33	Cernan	Position your mikes.
116:38:34	Schmitt	Okay; mikes are good.
116:38:36	Cernan	Top of the page. Okay. Before we turn the fans on, let's make sure we've got - all I got hooked here is the water. Those cables are all stowed. They're not in your way, are they?
116:38:46	Schmitt	No, not in my way.
116:38:48	Cernan	Pretty good.
116:38:50	Schmitt	... though.
116:38:51	Cernan	Do you want to put - put this around them?
116:38:54	Schmitt	Yes.
116:38:57	Cernan	That's probably a little bit better. ...
116:39:00	CC	17, Houston. Over.
116:39:05	Cernan	Go ahead, Houston.
116:39:06	CC	Roger. We're still seeing the commander's SUIT DISCONNECT VALVES in CONNECT.
116:39:15	Schmitt	How's that?
116:39:18	CC	Yes, there it goes. We got it. Thank you.
116:39:24	Cernan	Okay, Bob. Okay. We got the PLSS fan on. Don't forget that's battery power. We can don our helmets, check our drink bags, don our LEVAs, protective visors, secure our tool harness. Our O2 umbilicals are already stowed.
116:39:42	Cernan	CDR's under the handhold. Verify the following. Now, where we pick up our -
116:39:54	Schmitt	Let's to put the helmets on, I think.
116:39:56	Cernan	Okay, yes. Then we pick up our gloves.
116:39:59	Schmitt	I reckon.
116:40:00	Cernan	Yes, there it is. Okay. Well, let's do one at a time here.
116:40:07	Schmitt	Okay, that's mine.
116:40:07	Cernan	That's yours.
116:40:09	Cernan	Okay. Do you want to turn your fan on for circulation?
116:40:11	Schmitt	Well, I guess I better. Fan's on.
116:40:13	Cernan	Now pull this out just to get it out of your way?
116:40:15	Schmitt	Okay.
116:40:24	Cernan	Okay. Okay. All your candy bars, and lemonade, and all that jazz are all clear. Water, I should say.
116:40:39	Schmitt	That sounded good.
116:40:43	Cernan	Okay. Try it. Okay. It looks good here, Jack. Okay. And what's your LEVA?
116:40:53	Schmitt	...
116:40:57	Cernan	Okay. Enjoy it in there; you're going to be in there for a few hours.
116:41:03	Schmitt	Can't think of any place I'd rather be right now.
116:41:05	Cernan	Sounds like you're in there, too. Darn, too far back. Okay, that's better. I'm freezing my you know what off.
116:41:18	Schmitt	Me, too. (Laughter)
116:41:20	Cernan	Okay. Does that look lined up to you?
116:41:23	Schmitt	Looks pretty good.
116:41:24	Cernan	Okay. Let me - Wait a minute. Let me get this down around - Okay. That's around behind you; thermally protected back there. That's below the OPS hose.
116:41:46	Schmitt	Right now, I'm hoping to get out of this warm. (Laughter)
116:41:50	Cernan	Okay. You're thermally - Let me double check that. The helmet is locked. Your visor is locked. It's one thing you don't want to lose among some others. Okay. Okay. You want to give me a hand?
116:42:11	Schmitt	Not particularly. (Laughter)
116:42:15	Cernan	Oh, man. Where did that come from?
116:42:20	Schmitt	Watch your nose, drink bag, candy bars, popcorn. Click, click, click.
116:42:34	Cernan	Breathe hard back there.
116:42:35	Schmitt	Want your fan?
116:42:38	Cernan	Yes.
116:42:40	Schmitt	Looks good.
116:42:41	Cernan	Okay. I can hear the fan running. Oh, man, whew!
116:43:24	Cernan	Looks good here.
116:43:25	Schmitt	Yes. That's all right.
116:43:27	Cernan	Steady ...
116:43:27	Schmitt	New; never been used before.
116:43:31	Cernan	Make sure that flap in back goes below that OPS hose.
116:43:40	Schmitt	Want to put your protective visor down?
116:43:49	Cernan	Yes, if you got that thing all - You got it all done?
116:43:52	Schmitt	Yes.
116:43:53	Cernan	You happy with it back there?
116:43:54	Schmitt	Yes, sir. You're nice and protected. Okay. Good Velcro.
116:44:02	Cernan	Okay. You're all covered here.
116:44:04	Schmitt	Okay.
116:44:05	Cernan	Not my other one is it? No.
116:44:06	Schmitt	No.
116:44:08	Cernan	Okay. Ohhh! I think we've got to get two harnesses here. Don LEVAs. Look at that scratch right in the middle of that thing. Okay. Don LEVAs and lower protective visor.
116:44:26	Cernan	Okay. Secure harness and self doff straps.
116:44:44	Schmitt	Okay. Stay where you are.
116:44:55	Schmitt	Can't miss it.
116:45:06	Cernan	Okay. Stow LM O2 - the LM O2. And comm. Okay. They're all stowed; everything except water, right?
116:45:17	Schmitt	Okay. Verify the following: Check your helmet and visor.
116:45:21	Cernan	Okay. You check me. I'll read them. Helmet and visor, aligned and locked.
116:45:26	Schmitt	Okay. That's locked.
116:45:28	Cernan	Okay. O2 cover is all locked. There's a ...
116:45:33	Schmitt	That's locked.
116:45:36	Cernan	Purge valve; everything down there.
116:45:37	Schmitt	That's locked; that's locked.
116:45:41	Cernan	Comm carrier.
116:45:42	Schmitt	Standby. That's locked.
116:45:44	Cernan	Okay. DIVERTER VALVE is vertical.
116:45:46	Schmitt	Comm is that way. DIVERTER VALVE is vertical.
116:45:48	Cernan	Okay. One more time. Your helmet is locked, purge valve, locked. Yes. That's locked; that's locked; that's locked. And, let me see - let me see. Sure and that's locked.
116:46:22	Schmitt	Don't let anything to chance.
116:46:25	Cernan	Today?
116:46:29	Schmitt	And the DIVERTER VALVE is vertical.
116:46:32	Cernan	Okay. Comm, you check, too.
116:46:35	Schmitt	Yes, sir.
116:46:36	Cernan	Okay. Verify your old white dots.
116:46:38	Schmitt	Okay. Old white dots. My old white dots - Can you manage to move a little?
116:46:45	Cernan	Yes, I'll move.
116:46:48	Schmitt	Okay. Got it.
116:46:51	Cernan	I'm going to miss Danny being out there to hand us those light PLSSs.
116:46:54	Schmitt	That's right.
116:47:00	Cernan	You want - Okay. I want the EVA decals, also, Jack.
116:47:06	Schmitt	Yes, white dots plus decals.
116:47:09	Cernan	Roger. Okay, Bob, we're turning the page.
116:47:13	CC	Roger. We're right with you.
116:47:32	Cernan	Okay; don EV gloves.
116:47:34	Schmitt	Okay. is that it?
116:47:36	Cernan	That's it. Don EV gloves. Do a little grease in here.
116:47:43	Cernan	And make sure your wrist locks are locked. Glove straps adjusted and cover the wrist rings. Golly.
116:48:15	Cernan	I sure missed hearing it click, but they are locked. One of them is, anyway. Hey, Jack. I verify - -
116:48:28	Schmitt	(Laughter)
116:48:30	Cernan	What?
116:48:35	Schmitt	Guess what?
116:48:36	Cernan	They don't go on any easier in one-sixth g, do they?
116:48:39	Schmitt	They break just as easily, too.
116:48:42	Cernan	Okay, I've got my one glove locked. One of them - one of the old fist covers.
116:48:52	Schmitt	I never had that happen in training; you did.
116:48:57	Cernan	It's locked - that's about as locked as it can go. Boy, I'd hate like the devil to have that pop open. Okay; that's very good. You want me to help you with one, or can you get it?
116:49:11	Schmitt	Well, I don't know. I've only worked on one so far.
116:49:15	Cernan	I've got a free hand before I grease it up.
116:49:17	Schmitt	I broke that one.
116:49:31	Cernan	I'm telling you, from the looks of that soil out there, that drill may have a job ahead of it.
116:49:35	Schmitt	Yes, I didn't have a chance to mention that. I don't think the regolith is very thick, and I think you've got rocks below it.
116:49:43	Cernan	You got that?
116:49:45	Schmitt	Well, how does it look?
116:49:46	Cernan	Let me take a look. No.
116:49:52	Schmitt	Didn't make it, huh?
116:49:52	Cernan	Yes, well, let me - Hold your hand up here. Hold it up here.
116:49:58	Cernan	Looks good on my side. How is your side?
116:50:00	Schmitt	Good over here.
116:50:01	Cernan	Okay. Let me pull this down for you.
116:50:08	Schmitt	Okay. Thank you.
116:50:13	Cernan	Get the old other hand.
116:50:53	Cernan	Okay. That's locked.
116:51:05	Schmitt	And mine - other glove is locked.
116:51:08	Cernan	Now for the fun in back (laughter).
116:51:16	Cernan	Oh, me; oh, my.
116:51:27	Schmitt	I think I got it. I think I got it.
116:51:38	Schmitt	Pull it and let go. isn't that the word?
116:51:40	Cernan	That's what they tell me. Want me to get it?
116:51:41	Schmitt	I got mine - No, I got it.
116:51:44	Cernan	Verified yours is locked?
116:51:45	Schmitt	Yes, sir.
116:51:46	Cernan	Okay. Both my gloves are verified locked. How does that grab you?
116:51:55	Schmitt	Okay; feels good.
116:51:57	Cernan	Is your air on tight enough? Checklist on tight enough?
116:52:17	Cernan	That's the best I can do; I guess.
116:52:20	Schmitt	Okay. Now what?
116:52:24	Cernan	Wrist rings are covered. Note if PGA biting. ... No, mine's all right. Your's okay?
116:52:27	Schmitt	No; it's fine.
116:52:28	Cernan	Okay. LGC cold's required. We been on cold all this time, right?
116:52:31	Schmitt	Yes.
116:52:32	Cernan	Okay. Guess you can open that breaker, and I'll stop shivering. (Laughter)
116:52:36	Schmitt	Okay.
116:52:37	Cernan	And, we can disconnect the LM water hoses. Let's help each other with those, so we don't screw up the other hoses.
116:52:42	Schmitt	Okay; breaker's open.
116:52:44	Cernan	Okay.
116:52:45	Schmitt	Let me turn around this way.
116:52:46	Cernan	Okay. Go ahead and I'll -
116:52:53	Schmitt	Okay. You want to get mine or you - -
116:52:55	Cernan	No, I'll get yours.
116:52:56	Schmitt	Okay.
116:52:57	Cernan	Okay. First of all I'm going to take that off. Okay. Now let me get your other one. There it is. Okay. We did this before. Stand right there. It's locked, Jack.
116:53:28	Schmitt	Okay. It is locked.
116:53:30	Cernan	Get the cover on. Okay. The cover is on.
116:53:41	Schmitt	Okay. Yours off? Get that in a second.
116:53:45	Cernan	Okay. Yours is just laying there, too.
116:53:50	Schmitt	Okay. Hang on.
116:53:50	Cernan	Okay. I'll push towards you. Make sure that thing falls in the hole, because yours didn't right away.
116:54:06	Cernan	Did it fall in?
116:54:09	Schmitt	Yes - yes, it's in the hole.
116:54:13	Cernan	Okay. Wrist cover on?
116:54:16	Schmitt	Wrist cover's on.
116:54:17	Cernan	And my PGA is going to start biting here if we don't get going.
116:54:23	Schmitt	Yes, Okay - okay - PLSS to the - -
116:54:27	Cernan	I've got to turn my oxygen on a second, Jack.
116:54:30	Schmitt	Yes, so do I.
116:54:34	Schmitt	That's that. There it is.
116:54:39	Cernan	Okay. It's on.
116:54:46	Cernan	A little hard to get it off, isn't it.
116:54:47	Schmitt	Yes.
116:54:48	Cernan	Okay. Mine is back off.
116:54:49	Schmitt	Yes, mine is.
116:54:50	Cernan	Okay. PLSS DIVERTER VALVE, MIN; verify.
116:54:56	Schmitt	Okay. Mine's MIN.
116:54:57	Cernan	Okay. PLSS PUMP, ON; that's to the right. PRESSURE REGs A and B, EGRESS.
116:55:06	Schmitt	I think we're already at EGRESS.
116:55:08	Cernan	Pump's on.
116:55:09	Schmitt	We're in EGRESS.
116:55:11	Cernan	Okay, my PUMP is on. I can feel it running.
116:55:13	Schmitt	Keep talking.
116:55:14	Cernan	Pressure integrity check. Okay. PLSS O2 ON. You ready for this?
116:55:20	Schmitt	I hope so.
116:55:21	Cernan	Okay. PLSS O2 ON.
116:55:23	Schmitt	Mine's on.
116:55:24	Cernan	PRESSURE flag and O2 flag clear, 3.1 to 3.4.
116:55:38	Schmitt	Okay. I'm coming up. I know that.
116:55:45	Cernan	Gee, it's 10 minutes to 6 at home.
116:55:48	Schmitt	Okay. Okay. I'm still coming up.
116:55:51	Cernan	Keep coming up. Just got mine on.
116:55:56	Schmitt	Oh, okay. Well, I'm ahead of you then.
116:55:57	Cernan	Yes. Okay. The PRESS flag will clear 37 - correction - 3.1 to 3.4.
116:56:07	Schmitt	What do you want me to do when I'm pressurized?
116:56:10	Cernan	We'll want to make an integrity check.
116:56:12	Schmitt	Yes, but then what?
116:56:12	Cernan	Can you reach those water hoses right there? By chance before you get too hard?
116:56:23	Schmitt	Throw them out of the way?
116:56:25	Cernan	Okay. When you get - when you get up - Okay. A PRESS flag cleared on the commander. Okay. The O2 flag did not clear. I'm at 3.8 - Okay. O2 flag cleared on the commander.
116:56:50	Schmitt	Still got an O2 on the LMP.
116:56:52	Cernan	Okay, you're not up yet; I suppose.
116:56:54	Schmitt	No.
116:56:58	Cernan	Okay. I'm going to take my PLSS O2 OFF for 1 - counting 1 minute, 57. Let me know when you're up, Jack, and I'll give you a minute hand.
116:57:09	Schmitt	Okay. I'm clear.
116:57:10	Cernan	Okay. You up?
116:57:11	Schmitt	Yes.
116:57:12	Cernan	You can turn your PLSS O2 OFF any time. Let me know when. Can you reach it? If you can't, I'll get it for you.
116:57:29	Schmitt	Why don't you get it.
116:57:30	Cernan	Okay. Okay.
116:57:35	Cernan	MARK it.
116:57:36	Schmitt	Okay.
116:57:36	Cernan	You're on the 30-second mark, and I'm on the minute mark.
116:57:39	Schmitt	Okay, and I'm at 3.8.
116:57:41	Cernan	Okay. I'll give you a hack on it.
116:57:46	PAO	Still about 20 minutes behind time.
116:57:48	Cernan	Okay. I'm coming up on 45 seconds.
116:58:02	Cernan	Okay. I'm 1 minute; going back on. Okay, Houston. Commander went from 3.8 to about 3.67. I'll get yours on when you need it on, Jack.
116:58:18	CC	I copy that, Commander.
116:58:24	Cernan	Okay. And we'll pick Jack up here in about 10 more seconds.
116:58:27	CC	Okay.
116:58:31	Cernan	Okay, Jack. I'm turning on. Did you mark it?
116:58:34	Cernan	Okay, Houston; 3.8 to 3.6.
116:58:45	Schmitt	Hello, Houston; you copy the LMP?
116:58:48	CC	Roger. Copy the LMP. Okay; and Challenger - -
116:58:52	Cernan	Okay. Standing by for your GO for depress.
116:58:54	CC	You'll be glad to know you are GO for depress.
116:58:59	Cernan	Thank you, Robert. I understand we are GO for depress.
116:59:02	CC	That's affirm.
116:59:03	Cernan	Okay, Jack. Can you reach the front valve, or do you want me to?
116:59:07	Schmitt	Well, let me turn around here.
116:59:10	Cernan	Okay, on16 - first around, on 16, CABIN REPRESS, OPEN.
116:59:16	Schmitt	Okay; 16: CABIN REPRESS, OPEN. Circuit breaker is op - coming open.
116:59:22	Cernan	Okay, and CABIN REPRESS valve, CLOSED on the panel.
116:59:26	Schmitt	Okay. The valve is closed.
116:59:28	Cernan	Okay. If you can't reach it, I guess I can.
116:59:31	Schmitt	Okay. I just had a momentary tone.
116:59:35	Cernan	So did I. I got it, too.
116:59:36	Schmitt	Okay.
116:59:37	Cernan	I think it was when you closed the REPRESS valve.
116:59:42	Cernan	Can you reach it? If not I'll reach your overhead one.
116:59:44	Schmitt	I think you better reach your overhead one.
116:59:45	Cernan	Okay. Slip over to your right.
116:59:48	Schmitt	Some more?
116:59:50	Cernan	Let me turn here. Wait a minute, I got turned.
117:00:06	Schmitt	Okay. How far down are we going to take it? 3.5, right?
117:00:10	Cernan	Yes, wait a minute. I'm not there yet.
117:00:12	Schmitt	Well, I just want to make sure that I'm watching.
117:00:15	Cernan	Okay; now.
117:00:19	Cernan	Okay, coming open. You ready? You reading the checklist?
117:00:21	Schmitt	Stand by AUTO. REPRESS is CLOSED.
117:00:25	Cernan	Say when.
117:00:26	Schmitt	...
117:00:28	Cernan	You ready?
117:00:29	Schmitt	Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
117:00:31	Cernan	Okay.
117:00:32	Schmitt	Got the wrong place. OPEN, then AUTO at 3.5. Okay; go ahead.
117:00:37	Cernan	Okay. Here it comes. I can see daylight through it.
117:00:41	Schmitt	Okay, it's coming down. Okay. That's 4 - Stand by.
117:00:47	PAO	Cabin pressure is coming down now.
117:00:53	Schmitt	MARK. 3.5.
117:00:54	Cernan	Okay. It's off.
117:00:56	Schmitt	Okay. And your cuff gauge should not be below 4.6, and mine's at 5 - mine's at 5.0.
117:01:04	Cernan	One? Okay.
117:01:12	Schmitt	Okay, The suit circuit is locked up at 4.5. We're at 3.5 and holding.
117:01:23	Cernan	And I'm decaying.
117:01:26	Schmitt	Okay. I'm below 5.
117:01:27	Cernan	So am I.
117:01:28	Schmitt	Verify that; okay.
117:01:32	Schmitt	Okay. I'll start my watch.
117:01:37	CC	Okay. We verify and we're counting.
117:01:38	Schmitt	Watches started.
117:01:41	Schmitt	Okay. OVERHEAD or FORWARD DUMP VALVE, OPEN.
117:01:44	Cernan	Okay. Here it comes.
117:01:46	Schmitt	And it's going down.
117:01:49	PAO	Unofficial start of EVA 117:01:35.
117:01:52	Cernan	You going to want me to put this in AUTO afterwards or not? So, I can turn around. Jack.
117:01:58	Schmitt	Stand by.
117:02:02	Cernan	... open - -
117:02:02	Schmitt	... - -
117:02:03	Cernan	- - leave it open.
117:02:04	Schmitt	Leave it open.
117:02:04	Cernan	No, we don't, because then we don't want that hatch to get closed.
117:02:11	Schmitt	You got to turn around here. Oh, boy!
117:02:23	PAO	Cabin press below 1 lb per square inch now.
117:02:35	Schmitt	Boy, you sure get heavy at 5, don't you? Okay. Where are we? Right here, huh? What that was -
117:02:58	Cernan	What's cabin, Jack.
117:03:05	Cernan	Do you read, Jack?
117:03:07	CC	Jack, this is Houston.
117:03:08	Cernan	Wait a minute.
117:03:09	CC	CDR, we're not reading the LMP either.
117:03:11	Schmitt	Now, how do you read?
117:03:13	CC	We read you - -
117:03:14	Cernan	Now, how do you read, Jack?
117:03:15	Schmitt	Okay. You're loud and clear. Okay.
117:03:18	Schmitt	We got a switch in the wrong place as usual, Bob. I just hit the MODE SELECT; that's all.
117:03:25	CC	Okay. We copy.
117:03:26	Schmitt	Okay. Partially open the forward hatch, when we can. Okay. Can you zap over to the left as much as you can?
117:03:33	Cernan	To the right, you mean?
117:03:34	Schmitt	Yes.
117:03:34	Cernan	Yes. To the north.
117:03:35	Schmitt	To the north.
117:03:36	Cernan	The north.
117:03:36	Schmitt	The north. (Laughter) Okay, it's about 0.2, Gene.
117:03:44	Cernan	Okay. Let me -
117:03:44	Schmitt	You going to be able to get to it?
117:03:45	Cernan	Yes. You bet you. I've come this far. I'm not going to miss getting that hatch open.
117:03:57	Schmitt	Hey, something just flew out.
117:03:59	Cernan	It's open now.
117:04:01	Schmitt	Gosh, look at those trajectories (laughter).
117:04:04	Cernan	Yes. Put just enough air in here, we're - Okay; it's open, babe. Okay; it is open.
117:04:12	Schmitt	Good. Okay; final prep, PLSS primary H2O. I've got to figure out how to open that now.
117:04:22	Cernan	Okay.
117:04:31	Cernan	When you're at 5 psi, it's - We never did really train for this in the right way.
117:04:40	Schmitt	Yes, we did. Okay. My water is OPEN.
117:04:47	Cernan	And my water is OPEN.
117:05:02	Cernan	Okay. Well, let's see, rest until cooling sufficient; 3.7 to 4.6. I'm to 4.9; coming down.
117:05:11	Schmitt	Yes, I am, too. Coming down.
117:05:12	Cernan	CWEA status.
117:05:14	Cernan	PREAMPs and ECS. Can you see that?
117:05:17	Schmitt	See a PREAMPs, and I see ECS.
117:05:19	Cernan	Okay. Water SEP component light, on.
117:05:23	Schmitt	Water, excuse me, water SEP. Well, the next thing it says that Gene gets out.
117:05:31	Cernan	I don't see that.
117:05:34	Schmitt	That's what it says on my checklist.
117:05:35	Cernan	Okay. Good heavens! That means you got to get out of the way so I can open the hatch.
117:05:46	Schmitt	Well, I'm going to have to turn around a little, I think, so I can help you.
117:05:49	Cernan	Okay. Boy, beware of that corner.
117:05:54	Schmitt	It's high pressure (laughter).
117:05:56	Cernan	Yes. I tell you at 4-1/2, you're really pretty heavy.
117:05:59	Schmitt	What was that that came shooting up here? A piece of bread? (Laughter) Would you believe that?
117:06:05	Cernan	Yes, I'd believe it.
117:06:09	Schmitt	Why is our hatch open? Somebody opened our hatch. Are you getting cooling?
117:06:14	Cernan	I'm beginning to, I think.
117:06:17	Schmitt	I still got a water flag. Not hot. Stand by. Okay. Well.
117:06:40	Schmitt	How does the water pressures look, Houston?
117:06:46	CC	Challenger, they're looking just a little bit low. We're still expecting it to build up. It's going to take a little while.
117:06:55	Cernan	Okay. I'm getting down on my knees out here. How am I looking, Jack?
117:07:00	Schmitt	You're just fine. I'm holding you away from the DEDA, the ... DSKY.
117:07:06	Cernan	Okay. I'm going to put this visor down now, I think. How does that look to you?
117:07:17	Schmitt	What?
117:07:18	Cernan	How are my legs? Am I getting out?
117:07:19	Schmitt	Well, I don't know. I can't see your legs.
117:07:22	Cernan	Oh, okay (laughter).
117:07:24	Schmitt	I think you're getting out though, because there's not as much of you in here as there used to be. Oh, hey; Gene, when I get down there, I got to fix your tool harness. Hold it.
117:07:35	Cernan	Okay. Can you reach it?
117:07:36	Schmitt	It's come off the bottom again.
117:07:39	Cernan	Can you reach it?
117:07:39	Schmitt	Well, I can't do it now, because it's come off from the bottom. I'll have to - -
117:07:43	Cernan	Oh, the bottom of the PLSS, huh?
117:07:44	Schmitt	Yes.
117:07:46	Cernan	Okay. Well, my legs are out. Keep that hatch open.
117:07:50	Schmitt	Can you squat down any further, because you're hooked on - you're making it worse. Okay.
117:08:05	Cernan	How's that?
117:08:06	Schmitt	Okay. Now, I think I - Be careful because you might hook it on something down there.
117:08:10	Cernan	Oh, the tool harness?
117:08:11	Schmitt	Yes. The back. It's loose on your back; on the back of the PLSS.
117:08:16	Cernan	Oh, man, I don't like that. Okay. I'll watch it.
117:08:18	Schmitt	Well, I'll fix it when I get out there.
117:08:20	Cernan	Okay. I'm still reading 4.0. Houston, Commander is on the porch of Challenger.
117:08:30	CC	Roger. We copy you, Commander, and your feed water pressure is looking much better - -
117:08:39	Cernan	Okay. Everything else look good to you?
117:08:42	CC	That's affirmative.
117:08:47	Cernan	Okay, Jack. I'm going to get the MESA.
117:08:50	Schmitt	Okay. And I'll have an ETB ready for you.
117:08:52	Cernan	Oh, man; oh, man; oh, man.
117:09:00	Schmitt	Deploy MESA.
117:09:01	Cernan	Okay. Here it comes.
117:09:08	Cernan	There she goes, Babe.
117:09:10	Schmitt	Yea, hey!
117:09:11	Cernan	There she is. All the way down; it looks like. Okay. I jettisoned - Oh, you want an ETB?
117:09:20	Schmitt	That's up to you.
117:09:21	Cernan	Yes.
117:09:23	Schmitt	You're the commander.
117:09:25	Cernan	I got it. I got it. And, the pressure looks like it's started to stabilize at 3.8. I don't know whether I'm getting cooler or not, but I feel pretty good.
117:09:41	CC	Okay. We copy that.
117:09:43	Schmitt	How about a jett bag, too?
117:09:55	Cernan	Okay. Oh, Jack, I could swing it over the - Won't be any problem. Over the strut. Okay; and the jet bag is springing free - swinging free.
117:10:15	Schmitt	You mean the ETB.
117:10:16	Cernan	ETB. Oh, man. This looks like a Santa Claus bag.
117:10:21	Schmitt	It is.
117:10:23	Cernan	Oh, boy. There it goes. The Rover looks in good shape. ETB is down there. Okay. I've got all my visors down. Jack, I wouldn't lower your gold visor until after you get on the porch, because it's plenty dark out here.
117:10:40	Schmitt	Okay.
117:10:42	Cernan	Okay.
117:10:42	Schmitt	Tape recorder - -
117:10:43	Cernan	I'm on my way.
117:10:44	Schmitt	-- is off.
117:10:47	Cernan	Sensitivity, max and max.
117:10:57	Cernan	Okay, Houston, The Commander is about three-quarters of the way down.
117:11:10	Cernan	I'm on the footpad.
117:11:13	Cernan	And, Houston, as I step off at the surface at Taurus-Littrow, I'd like to dedicate the first step of Apollo 17 to all those who made it possible. Jack, I'm out here. Oh, my golly. Unbelievable. Unbelievable, but is it bright in the Sun. Okay. We landed in a very shallow depression. That's why we've got a slight pitch-up angle. Very shallow, dinner-plate-like dish crater just about the width of the struts. How you doing, Jack?
117:12:13	Schmitt	Fine. Getting the circuit breakers verified.
117:12:22	Cernan	The LM looks beautiful. Oh, do we have boulder tracks coming down. Let me see exactly where we are. I think I may be just in front of Punk.
117:12:46	CC	Okay. We copy that, Gene, and are the boulder tracks - -
117:12:49	Cernan	I'm beginning to - -
117:12:49	CC	- - to both the north and south?
117:12:53	Cernan	Okay. On the North Massif, we've got very obvious boulder tracks. A couple of large boulders come within 20 or 30 feet of the - Looks like where we can get to them, but there's a couple - there's a couple I know we can get to. Well, the Sun angle is such that, what I saw on the South Massif earlier I can't see very well. But, I know there were boulder tracks over there. The - Bare Mountain - Boy, it's hard to look to the east - Bare Mountain and the Sculptured Hills have a very, very similar texture on the surface. The Sculptured Hills is like the wrinkled skin of an old, old, 100-year-old man - is probably the best way I could put it. Very, very hummocky, and - but smoothly pockmarked. I do not see any boulders up by the Sculptured Hills from here. But it's awful hard to look to the east and to the southeast.
117:14:04	CC	Okay. We copy that, Gene. Have you got an LMP with you yet?
117:14:10	Cernan	Well, here come his feet. Jack, let me make sure. We didn't have an awful lot of dust on landing; but I can dig my foot in 8 or 10 inches, and I know we're at least that thick. There's a small little 1-meter crater right in front of us with a whole mess of glass right in the middle. Right smack - That's right in front of the MESA, as a matter of fact. Right where I want to park the Rover. Jack, you're looking good.
117:14:39	CC	Beautiful, guys; beautiful.
117:14:43	Cernan	I'm going to take a quick look back. I think this is Poppy, and I can give you a real better idea where we are.
117:14:50	Schmitt	Hatch is closed, barely.
117:14:52	Cernan	Hey, Jack, don't lock it.
117:14:54	Schmitt	I'm not going to lock it.
117:14:55	Cernan	We've got to go back there. You lose the key, and we're in trouble.
117:15:02	Schmitt	Oh, I'm on the porch. Who said this place was smooth?
117:15:09	Cernan	Oh Boy, there's a lot of local depressions here I didn't figure existed.
117:15:17	Schmitt	Hey, who's been tracking up my lunar surface?
117:15:21	Cernan	Hey, Bob, I'm east of the LM now. I'm east of the LM, and the back strut of the LM is - Well, the LM straddles this crater I talked about, and that's where we get the pitch angle; the back strut is probably right down in the eastern one-third of that crater. Just a little - very subtle crater.
117:15:47	Schmitt	Hey, man; you had some forward velocity.
117:15:51	Cernan	That's what I wanted to have.
117:15:58	Cernan	Boy, I look at some of these rocks that are filleted here, Jack, and there sure are a lot of sparklies in them. Awful lot of sparklies.
117:16:07	Schmitt	You landed in a crater!
117:16:10	Cernan	That's a pretty good shot.
117:16:15	Cernan	Okay. I'm going to get to work in a minute, just as soon as I take a look at Trident.
117:16:18	Schmitt	Why don't you come over here and let me deploy your antenna.
117:16:22	Cernan	Okay. Just walk around for 1 second.
117:16:25	Schmitt	(Laughter) Hey, man, put your visor down.
117:16:30	Cernan	And, I'll be over there, and you can fix my tool harness. I don't like that thing loose.
117:16:36	Schmitt	I don't like it loose, either. What are you doing over there? We're supposed to be working.
117:16:39	Cernan	I was just going to give them a fix. All these little craters, Jack, have got glass in the bottom of them. Here's another one.
117:16:46	Schmitt	There's very clear sweeping of the surface by the descent plume out, oh, about 10 meters - no, 15 meters. Come over here, and I'll fix your antenna.
117:17:11	Cernan	Okay. Hey, Bob, how big is Poppy supposed to be?
117:17:15	CC	Stand by. It looks on the map - -
117:17:20	Cernan	I didn't hear you. You cut out.
117:17:21	CC	Okay. It looks on the map like it's about 75 meters in diameter. Fairly subtle.
117:17:28	Cernan	Okay. Okay, I tell you where I think I landed - oh, about 100 meters from Poppy at 10 o'clock.
117:17:40	Schmitt	You think that's Poppy, huh?
117:17:41	Cernan	I think so - I think - -
117:17:42	Schmitt	That's an awful big hole.
117:17:43	Cernan	Well, I know. I got to look axound a little more. It sure is not Trident.
117:17:48	Schmitt	Bend over and I'll - -
117:17:48	Cernan	It might be part of Trident.
117:17:50	Schmitt	- - get your antenna. Get your antenna. Oh, a little more.
117:17:56	Cernan	God, it's beautiful out here.
117:17:59	Schmitt	Well, hang on.
117:18:00	Cernan	Yes.
117:18:05	Cernan	Okay. The immediate surf - -
117:18:07	Schmitt	Not yet. Yes, go - you talk to them. I don't want you to stand up yet.
117:18:11	Cernan	The surface is moderately cohesive, which holds a pretty good bootprint - very fine grain. Gene's ... looks very much like previous soils. You got her?
117:18:27	Schmitt	Yes. You got a hole behind you now.
117:18:29	Cernan	Well, I'll stand in it, and you can get at it better.
117:18:31	Schmitt	Well, you got me right in the Sun. Can you come around this way? Ho-ho. (Laughter) I'm going to have to get upstream of you.
117:18:43	Cernan	Look, you get up on the hill, and I'll get in the hole.
117:18:45	Schmitt	Yes. There you go. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
117:18:48	Cernan	Don't move too fast. Boy, your feet look like you just walked on the Moon, you know.
117:18:57	Schmitt	Well, I tell you Gene, I think the next generation ought to accept this as a challenge.
117:19:08	Schmitt	Let's see them leave footsteps like these someday. Got another - there, that'll be all right.
117:19:13	Cernan	Okay. What can you do with my tool harness?
117:19:16	Schmitt	I'm going to work on it; that's what I'm going to do. Whoa; hold still.
117:19:23	Cernan	Okay. Boy, I tell you, looking to the east, you might just well forget it.
117:19:34	Schmitt	Well, let's see. How's this thing - I'm going to have to loosen it.
117:19:38	Cernan	Well, if you could just stretch it around.
117:19:40	Schmitt	I can't.
117:19:41	Cernan	You can't huh?
117:19:42	Schmitt	But I will be in a minute.
117:19:43	Cernan	Don't loosen it to the point where you can't get it back on.
117:19:50	Schmitt	Okay. You're almost reconfigured.
117:19:54	Cernan	Okay.
117:20:01	Schmitt	Okay. Somebody tied you on wrong, too. They've got the strap reversed for the Velcro. Okay, Gene. I think that will hold.
117:20:17	Cernan	Okay, and I'm going to - -
117:20:18	Schmitt	If it doesn't I'll fix you again.
117:20:21	Cernan	Man, there's sparklies in the soil, Jack. You can just look at it. See them all over? Very fine grained. It's sparkly, that's all. Bob, I'm going to min cooling - or, intermediate cooling.
117:20:34	CC	Okay. Copy that.
117:20:37	Schmitt	Boy, that sure -
117:20:39	Cernan	See the soil sparkle?
117:20:42	Schmitt	Yes, I think that's a little glass.
117:20:45	Cernan	There's - Let's go back here and get to work, and I'll show you that crater that's got nothing but glass in the bottom.
117:20:49	Schmitt	That's a vesicular rock of some kind there, Geno. It almost looks like a mono crater - pumice, but don't quote me.
117:21:02	Cernan	Bob, I have to reiterate. Even the small - even the very small - the 1 and 2-inch - 3-inch fragments that are laying around here have been dusted and filleted - -
117:21:15	Schmitt	Do-tu-doo.
117:21:15	Cernan	- - with the dark mantle.
117:21:17	Schmitt	And that sweeping by the descent stage goes all the way out there, Houston, to where we were, which was about 50 meters, I guess. Hey, man - whuh, whuh, whuh, whuh - hey these rocks - they almost have a pink - very light pinkish hue to them, and they are not - they're not obviously breccia. Now, that - that's a - like a breccia there. But this stuff is something else again.
117:21:53	Cernan	Yes. I don't think there is any place you could land around here where you wouldn't have one foot, in the crater.
117:21:57	Schmitt	Looks like a vesicular, very light-colored porphyry of some kind; it's about 10 or 15 percent vesicles. I'm right in front of the LM. They - Quite a few of the rocks look of that type. Sort of a pinkish hue to them. The texture is coarse, but I'm not sure how crystalline they are, yet. Okay; back to work.
117:22:27	Cernan	Jack, when you put up the ETB, the - check down there below it.
117:22:32	Schmitt	Oh-ho-ho (laughter).
117:22:35	Cernan	Okay, let's take a look at the Rover.
117:22:37	Schmitt	Let's don't forget those.
117:22:38	Cernan	Yes.
117:22:39	Schmitt	That's my fault; I guess.
117:22:40	Cernan	Yes.
117:22:42	Schmitt	Okay.
117:22:45	Cernan	Oh man, I tell you, we came down at just a little forward velocity. Look at that - right there. About a foot slip on the pad. I tell you, there's craters all over here. Okay, baby. I'd sure like to think that that wheel is where it's supposed to be. It looks good to me.
117:23:07	Cernan	Our next little vehicle to work.
117:23:35	Cernan	Okay. Bob, so far, the Rover looks pretty good.
117:23:39	CC	Roger; sounds good, Geno.
117:23:44	Cernan	Hey, let me ask you. When I was behind the LM, I could look right into an area and see the bell of the ascent stage. I never realized that before, but I guess that's normal, huh?
117:23:55	Schmitt	Yes. We saw it on the pad. Remember.
117:23:58	Cernan	Barely.
117:24:01	Schmitt	Remember when we went out there?
117:24:05	Cernan	The only reason I asked, Bob, I'm sure it's normal, and it doesn't look anything's missing, it's just right - right into the Sun.
117:24:13	CC	Yes. The consensus of opinion down here is that you can, also.
117:24:21	Cernan	Well, that's probably the best place in the world to get a consensus of opinion from. Okay, Jack, it's about work time. I've got this Rover about ready for - your pull up there.
117:24:35	Schmitt	I got a little delayed here.
117:24:37	Cernan	Okay. I'm sure glad those guys made us train so hard.
117:24:50	Schmitt	Okay. The MESA's up. Let me know when you're ready to deploy.
117:24:57	Cernan	Okay. Babe, I am - I am ready for you. Everything I can see looks pretty good. The walking hinges, you will be glad to know, are intact. They did not drop.
117:25:14	CC	Roger. That's a first.
117:25:15	Schmitt	You want me to go up there and do that, huh?
117:25:18	Cernan	Yes, sir. The beginning.
117:25:23	Schmitt	You ready for me to deploy?
117:25:25	Cernan	Okay. Let me just doublecheck. Drape, contingency, unstow aft deployment cable, verify walking hinge, forward and aft chassis parallel. They are.
117:25:34	Schmitt	MESA insulation is not coming off as easy as in training.
117:25:37	Cernan	Okay. Outrigger cables are taut. Looking good to me. Yes, Jack. You can go on up. Go on up.
117:25:48	Schmitt	Okay.
117:25:49	Cernan	I'm ready for you. God, that LM is a pretty sight. Challenger, you're a beauty.
117:25:58	Schmitt	Well, let's see how good I am.
117:25:59	Cernan	Don't drop that. Let me get that thing again.
117:26:07	Cernan	Yes, sir. (Laughter) Yes, sir. You're pretty agile there, twinkle toes.
117:26:16	Schmitt	You bet your - life I am.
117:26:19	Cernan	All I asked you to do was pull that handle up there. Man, anything you grab, Jack - I just grabbed this lanyard that was in the dust - is really black.
117:26:29	Schmitt	You ready?
117:26:30	Cernan	Go. She fell, Houston. She's open.
117:26:33	Schmitt	Okay. You've got parallel chassis; the wheels look good on this side.
117:26:39	Cernan	Okay. They're good on this side. Let's get done. Let's get it out.
117:26:46	Cernan	I'll wait for you to get the deploy cable. I'll tell you, Jack, this place is not locally level.
117:26:49	PAO	Deploying the Rover now.
117:26:54	Schmitt	You - you're right.
117:26:57	Cernan	Okay. There's not - there's not many places you could put the LM down and have it be zero, zero, zero. Okay. I'm ready if you are.
117:27:10	Schmitt	I don't know how much help I'm going to be.
117:27:12	Cernan	Well, I'm starting; you pull. It's coming. It's coming. It's coming, baby. How's your wheels on that side? Can you see them: Mine look good.
117:27:25	Schmitt	Wheels? They looked good a minute ago. I got the Sun, so I can't tell much - -
117:27:29	Cernan	Okay.
117:27:37	Cernan	Eeee. The only way to do it.
117:27:41	Schmitt	I'm putting all my weight (laughter).
117:27:43	Cernan	Okay. Wait a minute. I'm coming down now. She's going to pop here.
117:27:46	Schmitt	Okay.
117:27:47	Cernan	Wait a minute. Stand by.
117:27:48	Schmitt	I may pull a Jim Irwin here.
117:27:50	Cernan	Wait a minute. Watch out. Here she goes.
117:27:53	Schmitt	Got her.
117:27:53	Cernan	Okay. Beautiful, Houston. The aft chassis's out.
117:27:58	CC	Roger. Beautiful.
117:27:59	Cernan	Beautiful. Whoa, whoa, wait, wait, wait, wait.
117:28:04	Schmitt	Tried to get off the hinge there.
117:28:05	Cernan	Yes, yes. She's on, though. She's all in. She's in the walking hinges. I wish you could see it. Jack, those wheels did not lock all the way up though. We ought to pull them up before we - Well, there it goes. By itself.
117:28:21	Schmitt	Okay.
117:28:23	Cernan	Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Okay. Let me pull it until the outriggers cables get slack.
117:28:30	Schmitt	Okay. Walk away from it. Easier.
117:28:39	Cernan	That tape up there - on the reel.
117:28:40	Schmitt	Yeah, it's all -
117:28:42	Cernan	It's coming.
117:28:43	Schmitt	It's free reeling.
117:28:44	Cernan	Yes. Let me - let me - don't pull it until I - Okay. Now I've got it.
117:28:56	Cernan	Man, I'd walk and fall into that crater if I went to the end of this line.
117:29:01	Schmitt	Houston, I do think we've got a different -
117:29:04	Cernan	Well, we're deploying it at an angle. Okay. The outrigger cables are free, Jack.
117:29:07	Schmitt	Okay. Got a different breed of rock up here. The stuff's sticking through this thin regolith - or regolith, period. I don't know whether it's thin or thick yet (singing). Okay. Mine's free.
117:29:25	Cernan	Let me get this - let me get all this cable out of the way. Otherwise, I'll - is that enough of this stuff? I don't like all that over there. ...
117:29:39	Schmitt	A geologist's paradise, if I ever saw one. Boy, you certainly are changing the color of that cable, sir.
117:29:48	Cernan	Yes. Just tried a John Young trick.
117:29:52	Schmitt	Did it work?
117:29:52	Cernan	Yes. (Laughter).
117:29:54	Schmitt	You're getting dirty.
117:29:55	Cernan	But, I'm still getting my balance. I didn't touch the ground. Just got to get some of this cable out of here.
117:30:04	Schmitt	I'm not sure my pockets are going to be accessible.
117:30:15	Cernan	Man, I'll tell you, I don't know how long this line to pull the Rover out is, but -
117:30:25	Cernan	Well, I'll tell you, it sure is easy to get dusty, but that's nothing new to anybody. Okay, Babe, let me get - Whee!
117:30:34	Schmitt	I think it's safe to say this surface was not formed yesterday. There is a regolith; it looks classic. Area distribution of particles up to 3 or 4 centimeters, anyway. Then, you start to get maybe a selective distribution of large fragments. Got that cable?
117:30:54	Cernan	Yes.
117:30:56	Schmitt	Okay. I'm going to walk away with this one.
117:30:57	Cernan	Okay; outrigger cable.
117:30:59	Schmitt	You ready?
117:30:59	Cernan	Okay. When forward wheels on surface; okay. Let me - let me pull.
117:31:09	Cernan	Okay, Houston. She's continuing to come.
117:31:17	Schmitt	Here's a couple of different looking rocks. One's very white; one's quite dark. But we do have a general rock type, I think, in the area - of the big boulders. Jesus, how much cable is there?
117:31:31	Cernan	There's a lot of it Jack. Keep going.
117:31:33	Schmitt	(Laughter)
117:31:33	Cernan	You're going to be a long way away. We're not there yet. Keep going. Okay. We've got the front wheels on the surface, but keep going, I don't think you've got it up there.
117:31:50	Schmitt	I never thought I'd do geology this way.
117:31:54	Cernan	Okay. I think you got it. Let me see.
117:32:01	Schmitt	Is it slack?
117:32:03	Cernan	I'll get up there and take a look. Okay. It's slack.
117:32:12	Schmitt	Longest cable in the world.
117:32:13	Cernan	It's slack.
117:32:16	CC	Wait till you get to the ALSEP package.
117:32:17	Cernan	Okay. By golly, those wheels did lock.
117:32:20	Schmitt	(Laughter) I never knew that cable was that long, Bob. Oh, a glass bottom - a glass bottom crater with a little bench. Looks like one of the Flagstaff explosion craters except for the glass in it. Right out at 12 o'clock. That's the one I was talking about, about having a bright halo. I don't know whether it's easier to walk out there or to do what I did in training - that I wouldn't do on the Moon. Somebody's going to get tangled up with this thing.
117:32:56	Cernan	That's why I'd get it all under the LM somewhere. I'd - what I'd - took me 5 minutes to do and get it all out of the way. Okay, Bob, the front wheels locked in. I had to pull the rear wheels - rear wheels back to get them to lock in.
117:33:12	CC	Okay. Copy that.
117:33:17	Cernan	At least no one let any air out of the tires. Man, I look like I've been on the surface for a week already. Holy smoley. Okay. Pull pins on deploy cable and fittings - move LRV from LM.
117:33:31	Schmitt	Wait a minute. I haven't ... the - -
117:33:32	Cernan	Okay.
117:33:33	Schmitt	- - my other pins. It's going to take awhile. Think we can avoid that cable?
117:33:39	Cernan	Why don't you set it there, pull this pin, and then you can go back and get it; that is, it's better to use the Rover contingency tool, because - -
117:33:45	Schmitt	Yes, but that's off over there on the ground now, somewhere or another.
117:33:46	Cernan	Okay. Pull that pin. Until we get that saddle loose.
117:33:53	Schmitt	Loose.
117:33:54	Cernan	Awe Beautiful. Okay, we're going to have to move that thing - that line, Jack. You ready?
117:33:59	Schmitt	I'll move it.
117:34:00	Cernan	Okay. Let's find a - back over here. See that?
117:34:01	Schmitt	Yes.
117:34:06	Cernan	Oh, man. Face a little more east, so I don't have to run into the ... Okay, how about here?
117:34:20	Schmitt	That's - You're the driver.
117:34:21	Cernan	Okay; right there.
117:34:22	Schmitt	You like it?
117:34:23	Cernan	Like it.
117:34:24	Schmitt	Okay. You got it.
117:34:26	Cernan	Not yet. You got some fenders and stuff for me - -
117:34:28	Schmitt	I was going to get my cable. I thought you said I could work on the cable.
117:34:30	Cernan	Ohh.
117:34:31	Schmitt	You're putting me farther and farther behind.
117:34:35	Cernan	Oop.
117:34:35	Schmitt	Don't forget your post.
117:34:37	Cernan	Okay.
117:34:37	PAO	The crew's right on the EVA timeline.
117:34:41	Schmitt	Okay. Pull pins. I can see a little yellow ... inside.
117:34:48	Cernan	Okay. The post is up.
117:34:53	Schmitt	Hinge pins.
117:34:54	Cernan	Okay. Yours is in, but mine is not.
117:34:57	Schmitt	Well - neither's my outboard one.
117:34:59	Cernan	My outboard is in, but my inboard ... not.
117:35:06	Schmitt	And my outboard isn't.
117:35:08	Cernan	Well.
117:35:10	Schmitt	That's supposed to do it. But it didn't. Let me get the contingency tool and try and push those things closed.
117:35:18	Schmitt	Okay. Be care -
117:35:30	Cernan	There's a piece of glass I picked up. I'm going to set it right on the floor of the Rover. Jack, let me get that tool. We got to get those pins in, I think.
117:35:54	Cernan	Bob, you got any words on the yellow pins on the rear chassis?
117:35:57	CC	Roger. The best way to put those in, if you've tried bouncing the chassis, would be to push them with the contingency tool. ... I think, what you're going to do.
117:36:09	Schmitt	That's affirm. Can you get that, Geno?
117:36:22	Schmitt	Need some help?
117:36:26	Cernan	Nope. Well, I found how to get up.
117:36:45	Schmitt	Did you fall down?
117:36:45	Cernan	Well, this thing was in the mud down here. We'll find out in a minute.
117:36:55	Cernan	Okay, Jack. Got an out one here, huh?
117:36:59	Schmitt	Yes. Let me try to push it in.
117:37:06	Cernan	Okay. Yours is in.
117:37:09	Schmitt	Good.
117:37:14	Cernan	Can I get mine in?
117:37:19	Schmitt	Want me to get it?
117:37:20	Cernan	Well, yes. Can you reach it from there? it's a nice firm ... on it. Almost. A little more. Wait a minute. Let me get it - let me get it right - Okay; push. It's in. It's in.
117:37:36	Schmitt	Very good. Why don't you put that between the seats ?
117:37:38	Cernan	Yes, Okay. Bob, they're in.
117:37:42	CC	Copy that.
117:37:46	Cernan	Okay. Now where was I? I got my fender, got the post, got to get the seat.
117:37:56	Schmitt	Ready?
117:37:56	Cernan	I'm going to take it a little slower here in a minute.
117:37:58	Schmitt	Yes.
117:38:01	Cernan	Just a little bit slower in a minute.
117:38:05	Schmitt	The blush is off the rose. Okay, your front pin is in. And both of mine are in.
117:38:14	Cernan	Okay. ...
117:38:26	Schmitt	Not quite as easy as in the training building.
117:38:29	Cernan	Well, it's a case of knowing how to play in 1/6 g, is what it amounts to. Okay. Okay. I'm ready on the - that locked?
117:38:43	Schmitt	Yes. It's locked.
117:38:44	Cernan	Let me get the seat down. Okay. I got the console.
117:38:49	Schmitt	Okay; and I got the handle.
117:38:51	Cernan	Okay; mine's pulled.
117:38:52	Schmitt	Mine's pulled.
117:38:53	Cernan	Come on down, baby. Here it comes. Stiff, but come on.
117:38:57	Schmitt	There it is.
117:38:58	Cernan	Okay; make sure your T locks.
117:39:00	Schmitt	I'm not - you're not all the way down yet, Gene.
117:39:01	Cernan	Yes. I'm locked. There you go.
117:39:05	Schmitt	Okay. Okay, I'm locked and secured. Okay.
117:39:21	Cernan	Oh, Jack, I put a little piece of glass I picked up right by the Rover, here.
117:39:24	Schmitt	Yes. Okay.
117:39:25	Cernan	Just a little piece. I'm going to leave it right behind your footstool. It just - just sparkled at me. I had to pick it up. Okay?
117:39:31	Schmitt	That's yours. Your sample for the day.
117:39:36	Cernan	I doubt that. Man, I tell you, zero g is a piece of cake if you - or 1/6 g, if you'd play it right.
117:39:46	Schmitt	Okay, Gene, you've got - fenders, your pin was good. I checked that. I could see mine too. Mine are okay, and you'll have to check your outside ones.
117:39:59	Cernan	Okay. My two pins are good here.
117:40:01	Schmitt	Yes. And mine are good.
117:40:02	Cernan	This one isn't quite flush. Almost. It's good.
117:40:06	Schmitt	I'm going to pull your flags. Oops, I bent that one - that one. And your attitude indicator is free.
117:40:12	PAO	BTU expenditure for each crewman averaging 1,300, surgeon reports.
117:40:19	Cernan	Man, look at that stuff go, will you?
117:40:19	CC	And, Jack, this is Houston. We're seeing - Looks like your water temperature's getting pretty high. You might want to go to intermediate cooling or slow down or something. Looks like you're getting a little warm.
117:40:39	Cernan	You hear them, Jack?
117:40:40	Schmitt	Yes. I got it. Thank you, Bob.
117:40:43	Cernan	Okay, Jack, get that cable, because I tripped over it coming back.
117:40:47	Schmitt	Yes. I'll get it.
117:40:48	Cernan	Okay. Let's see. Verify hinge pins and seal. Erect seat, seat - seatbelt. Armrest is lowered, pull T-handle, console's lowered. Tripod apex is gone both sides. Tool behind footrest; that's done. Front hinge pins are in. Erect footrest. Extend front fenders; they're down. Verify batt covers are closed. They are closed. And let's keep them clean. Man, do these gloves fit good.
117:41:21	CC	Okay, and 17 you're right on schedule.
117:41:23	Cernan	Okay. Thank you, Bob. Did you tell Captain America we're on the surface?
117:41:40	CC	Roger. We broke the news to him awhile ago.
117:41:48	Cernan	Okay, next spacecraft to powerup is going to commence right now.
117:41:59	PAO	Rover test drive coming up soon. And then we'll get to television after that.
117:42:04	Schmitt	Okay. That takes care of that little job.
117:42:08	Schmitt	How's my cooling look now, Bob? Oops.
117:42:11	CC	Roger. It's come down quite a bit. You were 86, and now it's down to 75. Looks much better. We didn't want you to sweat.
117:42:20	Schmitt	Well, I'm just a hot geologist; that's all.
117:42:23	CC	Or something.
117:42:43	Cernan	Somebody kicked dirt all over the MESA. Let's see if there is any life - in this here baby.
117:43:06	Cernan	Okay. Getting up and on.
117:43:13	Schmitt	Give me a yell when you start to go, and I'll try to be sure to be there with the camera.
117:43:16	Cernan	Okay.
117:43:25	Cernan	Big bag is deployed.
117:43:29	CC	Copy that.
117:43:44	Schmitt	Well, the seat belt fits perfect.
117:43:49	Cernan	Shoot. I thought I was going to get to drive. Man, I got so much dust over my visor already, I got to wipe it off. Get that lens brush; I want you to dust me off a little later, Jack.
117:44:03	Schmitt	The lens brush?
117:44:05	Cernan	Well, I've got to dust wy visor off with something
117:44:07	CC	Roger. Don't use your glove or dust brush there.
117:44:09	Cernan	Okay; when I was bringing that -
117:44:13	Schmitt	No, we'll use the lens brush, Bob.
117:44:15	CC	Roger.
117:44:16	Cernan	Okay. Let's try to see if I can read in this Sun now. Rotate the hand controller. Let's wipe it out a couple of times to make sure we got all the the steering. She's wiped out. She goes forward and she goes reverse. She's back in forward; she's wiped out, and she's in park. Reverse is down. Okay, here we go. Stand by for life. It ought to be on this one. There's life in this here baby. Beautiful.
117:45:10	Schmitt	I don't know who's responsible for packing this ETB, but I think it was me. You didn't by any chance pick up those scissors, did you?
117:45:20	Cernan	No, sir.
117:45:21	Schmitt	They're going to be hard to find, but I think we can do it.
117:45:25	Cernan	Well, they were right down there, unless you picked them up. That's exactly where the Rover tool was, too, and I picked it up, so it's - they're probably there. I didn't see them though. Okay.
117:45:37	Schmitt	Okay. I got my camera.
117:45:39	Cernan	All the breakers closed except NAV.
117:45:44	Schmitt	The old 4 o'clock pan.
117:45:47	Cernan	Okay, Houston. Amp-hours, I'm reading 115, Amps are 0. Volts are 82 and 82. Batteries are - 95 and 110. FORWARD MOTORS are off scale low, off scale low, and REARS are off scale low, off scale low. Houston, you with us?
117:46:25	CC	Roger. We copy that.
117:46:29	Cernan	Okay.
117:46:35	Cernan	DRIVE ENABLE, FORWARD ... time-1. Take it nice and easy. Here we go at time-2. And that is BOTH; I know that. That's SECONDARY. Okay; STEERING, go FORWARD to A - -
117:47:00	Schmitt	Boy, it's hard to see in that Sun.
117:47:02	Cernan	-- and REAR to D, and REAR to D. DRIVE POWER FORWARD is going to A. I didn't feel any Earth-shaking rumbles like I do in the - in the trainer, but let's see what happens.
117:47:24	Cernan	Okay, Jack. I'm going to find out in a minute.
117:47:31	Schmitt	Okay.
117:47:34	Cernan	Okay. Here we go. Okay. The runt - the fright - the front wheels turn. I can't see the rear ones.
117:47:43	Schmitt	I'll verify them in a minute.
117:47:44	Cernan	Okay. I can't see the rear ones, but I know the front ones turn. And it does move. Hallelujah! Hallelujah, Houston! Challenger's baby is on the roll.
117:48:01	CC	Roger. Copy that. Sounds great.
117:48:06	Cernan	And judging - judging from the way it's handling, I think the rear wheels are steering too.
117:48:18	CC	That's a first.
117:48:20	Cernan	What do you see, Jack?
117:48:24	Schmitt	Well, I - you're wrong angle. Yes, they're turning.
117:48:27	Cernan	How does that grab you?
117:48:28	Schmitt	They're turning.
117:48:28	CC	How about that?
117:48:30	Schmitt	Come towards me, baby. Looks like it's moving.
117:48:38	Cernan	Oh, boy. Keep moving.
117:48:50	Schmitt	Don't run over me.
117:48:51	Cernan	Don't worry. Man, if they don't like this.
117:48:58	Cernan	How's that?
117:48:59	Schmitt	Let me - Let me move back.
117:49:00	Cernan	Okay. How's the time line, Bob?
117:49:09	CC	As far as I can tell, you guys are right on within a minute or 2.
117:49:16	Schmitt	They're just a little high for me, Geno.
117:49:18	Cernan	Okay.
117:49:20	Schmitt	I'm not sure I can get it without getting way away.
117:49:22	Cernan	Okay. Don't worry.
117:49:24	Schmitt	Somebody said it was going to be just behind the south end. (Laughter)
117:49:28	Cernan	Okay. I'm going to take a little spin around here, and I'll meet you at the front end.
117:49:32	Schmitt	Okay.
117:49:35	Cernan	Boy, there's a lot of static, though, everytime I start driving.
117:50:10	Schmitt	I know what that was over there, I think. Let me see. Whee! Okay, Houston. The basic material around the LM is just what I said, a fine-grained, medium-gray regolith-appearing material that is the standard area's population. The craters, though, bigger than about a meter in diameter, seem to - get to - rock fragments, which I haven't yet learned how to pick up.
117:51:05	Cernan	Okay, Jack. I'm going to give them our position here. I think I know exactly where we are now.
117:51:12	Schmitt	Well, once you get them dirty, just like the boys say, it's hard to tell what they are.
117:51:19	Cernan	Okay, Houston. I'm - I'm parked right next to Barjea. And we are, from Barjea, 12 o'clock - Jack, how far - oh, you can't see. You're looking, at the Sun. I guess about 150 meters due west of Barjea. And that's why we looked so close to Trident. I'm coming right up on Poppy. No question about where I am now. I've got Trident, and when I get up there - We are abeam of Trident 1, just where I said we were. I'm right at Poppy. We're about - oh, 100 meters just about due - due west of Poppy, which is almost in line with Barjea, of course, but basically, on that line, I think, between Rudolph and Trident 1. And, as I look at it in the cross section, about 100 meters - about 100 meters north of Trident 1. That's the landing point.
117:52:41	Cernan	Sure get dirty fast. Jack, that is Trident right here that I - that we walked over to. (Laughing) I just got my first initiation to getting very dirty.
117:52:52	Schmitt	You sure did (laughter). Where are you? Are you ready to go?
117:52:56	Cernan	I'm coming right around the front now. Houston, did you get that position?
117:53:00	CC	Roger. We copied that, Geno.
117:53:04	Cernan	And Bob, I'm - I'm - I'm very firm of that now. I'm almost positive, unless I'm awfully mistaken about Trident. And I don't see how I could be from here. At the sacrifice of my cleanliness, Houston, the basic bright-colored rock type in the area looks very much like a cristobalite gabbros of the - I didn't see cristobalite, but it looks like the gabbros in the mare basalt sweep. The coarsegrained clinopyroxene plagioclase rocks.
117:53:48	CC	Okay. We have that.
117:53:51	Cernan	Okay, I'm going to park - How about along side - Am I gonna screw up that little crater with glass in it if I park there?
117:54:00	Schmitt	Well, we will eventually.
117:54:03	Cernan	Well, there's that one anyway. Let me park right here.
117:54:06	Schmitt	I'm sure we'll find some more.
117:54:07	Cernan	Yes - Jack, where you been?
117:54:12	Schmitt	I fell down.
117:54:14	Cernan	Okay, that's about close enough. isn't it.
117:54:16	Schmitt	Yes.
117:54:17	Cernan	Okay, she is locked.
117:54:18	Schmitt	Here, let me get the 15-volt supply.
117:54:21	Cernan	I think this camera is probably a little dirty on the lens. Okay, Houston. We're parked. No, the lens is okay. When you uncover one of those lens brushes, I want to use it on my visor. Oh, boy.
117:54:41	Cernan	It just takes a little getting used to the 1/6 g, Jack.
117:54:44	Schmitt	I want to put this camera over here right now, because it's pretty dirty to put back in that bag. Okay, get to work.
117:54:56	CC	Roger. We copy that guys. You're about 7 minutes behind right now.
117:54:56	Cernan	LRV front configure. Whoops. Hold it. Hold it.
117:55:03	Cernan	What!? Okay, we'll catch up.
117:55:10	Schmitt	I haven't quite learned how to pick up rocks in my hands yet, Bob, or I would of had you a sample. That's why I fell down. My day will come (singing). Oh, oh! it's an old blue traverse gravimeter.
117:55:32	Cernan	Okay. On the plains of Taurus-Littrow. What a valley. I'd like to cut down here, through here, with a P-38 sometime.
117:55:45	Schmitt	That'll be the day.
117:55:47	Cernan	Yes, it will.
117:55:49	Schmitt	Whoa there.
117:55:51	Cernan	You never know.
117:55:53	Schmitt	Friend of mine - -
117:55:54	Cernan	Install LCRU, lock posts; I'll get that. Okay. That's the next big hooker, the LCRU.
117:56:03	Schmitt	Okay, geopallet's off the LM.
117:56:06	CC	Copy that.
117:56:09	Cernan	You know, you just got to take it easy until you learn to work in 1/6 g.
117:56:13	Schmitt	Well, I haven't learned to pick up rocks, which is a very embarrassing thing for a geologist.
117:56:18	Cernan	Yes, I look like an elephant stumbling around here.
117:56:26	Cernan	Careful with the LCRU. One dust cover came off. Careful with this baby. That's the real one.
117:56:44	Schmitt	Boy, you sure move that Rover around when you do that.
117:56:57	Schmitt	Hey, the geopallet is locked on.
117:57:02	CC	Copy that.
117:57:27	Schmitt	I'm getting pretty good at throwing things; already.
117:57:58	Cernan	Man, that thing won't want to go on. That's because it's not in there. Put it in right, and it goes on.
117:58:07	Cernan	Okay, the power cable's on to TCU, Bob.
117:58:10	CC	Got that.
117:58:24	Schmitt	TGE is on. 22 - oh, you just want the last ones. Okay, 07.
117:58:34	CC	Okay. Copy that.
117:58:35	Schmitt	07.
117:58:42	Cernan	God, the dirtiest checklist in the world. (laughter)
117:58:47	Schmitt	Doesn't take long, does it? Doesn't take long.
117:59:04	Cernan	Manischewitz, look at that go! Did you see that?
117:59:07	Schmitt	I wish you'd be more careful.
117:59:09	Cernan	What?
117:59:10	Cernan	No, no, no! Not the television camera! (Laughter)
117:59:20	Schmitt	Okay.
117:59:22	Cernan	It's warm out here, you know?
117:59:25	Schmitt	I'm certainly glad I got cool.
117:59:27	Cernan	Okay, the TCU is locked in.
117:59:33	Schmitt	Houston, I've seen an awful lot of rocks, as I worked here. They look just like those pyroxene gabbros that I mentioned. The pyroxene's iridescent in the bright sun. The grain size is about - oh, between - maybe the mean is 2 millimeters, with max maybe up at 3 or 4. And it looks like predominantly a pyroxene plagioclase rock - clinopyroxene, but I haven't looked at it real closely.
118:00:12	PAO	Cernan mounting the television on the Rover now.
118:00:17	Cernan	Okay, Jack. I set the rake on the - -
118:00:19	Schmitt	Beautiful.
118:00:20	Cernan	- - on the seat. I just haven't learned - I'm getting more finesse now. I think you can overwork yourself, instead of making use of the 1/6 gravity.
118:00:33	Schmitt	Yes.
118:00:33	Cernan	It's going to take a whole EVA to get familiar.
118:00:36	Schmitt	Well, I hope it doesn't.
118:00:39	Cernan	I find I'm using my arms almost as much as I ever did. I remember the last time I was on the Moon - about 2 hours ago.
118:00:52	Schmitt	Okay, guess what? That old hammer goes to the gate top. The blue-handled hammer. What more could you want?
118:01:01	PAO	Schmitt is loading tools onto the Rover.
118:01:11	Cernan	Okay, Bob. I'm getting a low gain out now.
118:01:15	CC	Okay. Copy on that.
118:01:34	Schmitt	... like the Rover, huh, Geno?
118:01:35	Cernan	Beautiful.
118:01:35	Schmitt	I just couldn't feel it murmur when I pressed the breakers in. I could feel life in it, but - -
118:01:41	Cernan	Hey, you let me down, sport. You let me down. There's a pin you didn't pull.
118:01:44	Cernan	Okay, I'll let you get that; keep you honest.
118:01:49	Schmitt	Not only keep me honest. There.
118:02:06	Schmitt	Okay. Where am I? Okay. Gnomon's an island. Actually, up here, it's a geometric reference for photogramat - grat - photogrammetry.
118:02:22	Cernan	Would you believe that the doggone antenna - here - Jack. When I bend this, pull the -
118:02:33	Schmitt	Okay.
118:02:34	Cernan	Pull the antenna.
118:02:35	Schmitt	Rather awkward.
118:02:36	Cernan	Pull the - pull the antenna. I got to open it up to get it out.
118:02:39	Schmitt	Okay. Big connector, you know.
118:02:41	Cernan	Yes, connector was wedged in there.
118:02:44	Schmitt	Well, that's probably the way it was designed.
118:02:47	Cernan	Boy, don't drop any of those connectors on the - -
118:02:50	Schmitt	Look at that go.
118:02:52	Cernan	- - in the dust. We'll never clean them out.
118:02:58	Schmitt	Dum dee dum dum dum. (singing)
118:03:05	Cernan	Good thing we're well coordinated human beings.
118:03:08	Schmitt	Man, I can't believe - yes I can.
118:03:11	Cernan	Okay, let's see. Do it right now.
118:03:13	Schmitt	Yes, I can.
118:03:17	Cernan	See that?
118:03:19	Schmitt	Yes.
118:03:20	Cernan	Which way are you going to put it on?
118:03:22	Schmitt	Well, I thought maybe I would put it on that way, so I will put it on this way, because that's probably right.
118:03:27	Cernan	If you put it on right, you're going to disappoint me.
118:03:37	Schmitt	Oh, I hate to touch - touch the old gnomon. I'll do my best, to please.
118:03:48	Cernan	Very bad general - -
118:03:50	Schmitt	Okay, Bob the low gain is - -
118:03:51	Cernan	- - will never forgive me.
118:03:52	Schmitt	- - low gain is hooked up.
118:03:56	CC	Okay. We copy the low gain hooked up.
118:04:03	PAO	EVA has been underway an hour and 3 minutes, now.
118:04:21	Schmitt	Dum da dum dum (singing) The rake - the rake is on the extension handle.
118:04:36	CC	Roger, 17.
118:04:40	Schmitt	My king - my kingdom for a scoop.
118:04:48	Cernan	The scoop is on the extension handle. Different extension handle's of course.
118:04:54	Schmitt	Go ahead Bob. Were you calling?
118:04:57	CC	Roger. And your exuberance is showing up on the BTUs. You're running a little high on those.
118:05:05	Cernan	Okay.
118:05:07	Schmitt	Exuberance! I've never been calmer in my life ...
118:05:13	Cernan	Okay, let's get - we'll take it easy, Bob. I think it's a great deal a part to just get accustomed to handling yourself in zero gravity, the only vice on the Moon.
118:05:24	CC	Roger. I thought you were at 1/6 g.
118:05:29	Cernan	Yes. You know where we are, whatever.
118:05:35	Schmitt	Okay, old sample bag -
118:05:41	Cernan	Sample containment bag, sample collection bag, or whatever. ... What is this thing called crazy (singing). Come on. Okay, that's there. Some of the simplest things in the world you forget. Okay, let's get this one right this time.
118:06:27	Schmitt	You did a great job of parking, so I was standing in a hole.
118:06:32	Cernan	Don't want to mess up all those good looking craters around here.
118:06:44	Schmitt	Oop! Hang on there accessory staff. Accessory staff, huh? Most staffs are accessory I've learned.
118:06:54	Schmitt	Okay, Bob the high gain is up and connected.
118:06:57	CC	Okay. Copy that. Beautiful.
118:06:59	Schmitt	And raised.
118:07:03	Cernan	Okay.
118:07:03	Schmitt	Cable is to staff. See if I can't get your TV camera.
118:07:08	CC	We're waiting with breathless anticipation.
118:07:11	Schmitt	Ah, let's keep them in - -
118:07:15	Cernan	Well, how is my cooling doing? I'd like to stay on intermediate, Bob. I feel pretty comfortable. I'm not cold but I'm pleasant.
118:07:23	Schmitt	Pleasant, ha! He thinks he's pleasant.
118:07:24	CC	You're fine, no problem; your option, Geno.
118:07:26	Cernan	Okay, I just don't want to run out of consumables about 6 or 7 hours.
118:07:36	Schmitt	You're about as - Oh well. Okay. I don't think it makes any difference. You got to use the heat. Matter of fact, that's one of the little known facts of this business, Gene.
118:07:49	Cernan	Okay, here we go. Coming up. I've got the TV camera in my hand, Bob. Oh man. Hey, Jack, just stop. You owe yourself 30 seconds to look up over the South Massif and look at the Earth.
118:08:06	Schmitt	What? The Earth?
118:08:09	Cernan	Just look up there.
118:08:10	Schmitt	You seen one Earth, you've seen them all.
118:08:12	Cernan	No you haven't, babe. When you begin to believe that. Come on camera, go in there ...
118:08:22	Schmitt	I'll look in a minute, Gene. But I tell you, once I start this little operation, if I don't finish it, it never gets done.
118:08:31	Cernan	Okay, get in there. Okay, that's in there. That's in there.
118:08:39	Cernan	Camera is locked down. Okay, ..., TCU, sunshade the camera and then the cable. Okay, let me get the sunshade.
118:08:54	Schmitt	Woo! That's always more of a job than it ought to be. However, SCB-3 is on the handhold.
118:09:07	Cernan	I think I'm getting smarter about 1/6 g.
118:09:14	Schmitt	That gate works great. Snaps in, snaps closed with the slightest flick of a coordinated wrist. Where is that camera anyway?
118:09:23	Cernan	Oh, it's over here. Oh, boy. I just still barely see the scissors.
118:09:32	Schmitt	I ought to get those.
118:09:35	Cernan	Yes, but when we go hungry.
118:09:36	Schmitt	I'm not sure I can.
118:09:37	Cernan	Okay, don't. Okay, we'll - we'll get them when we get the tongs out, Jack.
118:09:40	Schmitt	Yes.
118:09:40	Cernan	There are some tongs in the Rover, and I'll come over and get them in a minute.
118:09:44	CC	Roger, Challenger. And we refrained from mentioning that to Ron.
118:09:51	Cernan	Tell him - Tell him I hope he's enjoying our scissors. Okay, Bob, the TV is connected to the TCU electrically. The sunshade is on. I've got to deploy the high gain.
118:10:09	Schmitt	Okay, now, well let's see how smart you are. That was a pretty good attitude you parked at.
118:10:18	Cernan	Okay, Jack is the high gain away from my antenna. Can you see?
118:10:24	Schmitt	Let me turn around. Yes. You're clear.
118:10:30	Cernan	Okay, it's locked. Locked. Now let me see if I can find beautiful big dot up there. I know what I'm going to have to do. I'm going to have to get the, oh, I got it right there. Might be able to peak that but I got that.
118:10:57	Schmitt	You hit it, huh?
118:11:01	Cernan	Put my hand over it, so I could see it.
118:11:04	Schmitt	Hey, that's an interesting problem. Your seat won't stay up.
118:11:09	Cernan	How about that piece of Velcro there.
118:11:11	Schmitt	That's just what I'm working on there. Great minds think alike. Okay, that goes in there. The trouble is to reach it, I've got -
118:11:46	Cernan	Okay, I'll bet you it says put MAG Bravo.
118:11:49	Schmitt	Oh, yours is in a circle.
118:11:51	Cernan	Okay, check LCRU. Deploy LCRU with antenna. Okay. Deploy the LCRU with antenna. Blanket's open 100 percent.
118:12:14	Schmitt	Come on, baby, open. Ponna, it goes.
118:12:20	Cernan	Oh, are those mirrors nice. I hope they stay that way for a while.
118:12:24	Schmitt	They won't. John and Charlie know exactly what we're talking about. Mark my words.
118:12:37	Cernan	Okay, I'm going to close the circuit breaker, Bob.
118:12:43	Cernan	Okay, circuit breaker is CLOSED.
118:12:46	CC	Copy that.
118:12:46	Cernan	POWER switch is INTERNAL. POWER switch is INTERNAL. Okay, let me give you some - some numbers. AGC is 3 point - about 3.4; temp is about 1.8; and power is about 2.1. Okay; POWER to EXTERNAL.
118:13:18	CC	We caught those, Geno.
118:13:22	Cernan	Okay, POWER is EXTERNAL. MODE SWITCH is going to two FM/TV. Okay. Man, did you peak out at signal strength of 40.
118:13:34	Schmitt	I can't see right now, but I think I've still got you right in the center.
118:13:40	Cernan	Okay, POWER switch on to TCU. Okay, it's on to TCU. Okay, AGC and POWER. Yes sir, Bob, I'm verifying at 40. That's a good Navy term, 40 on the AGC.
118:13:59	CC	Copy that.
118:14:02	Cernan	And the TV is all yours.
118:14:03	PAO	We've got a picture coming in.
118:14:04	CC	Roger. Have you got a power reading there for us there Geno?
118:14:06	Cernan	I hope. Okay, I'll give you a power reading, EXTERNAL, if you want it. I'll give you - TEMP is still about 17 and POWER is about 18 on EXTERNAL.
118:14:20	CC	Hey, we have a picture, 17. We have a picture.
118:14:23	Cernan	You have? Beautiful, babe. It's all yours. I hope it moves now.
118:14:29	CC	It does.
118:14:30	Cernan	I hope it moves. You'll find out - hey! it moves. It's alive.
118:14:36	CC	And.
118:14:36	Cernan	Okay, Bob, I'm going to get SRC 1.
118:14:39	CC	Okay, could we have a EMU check on you fellows when convenient?
118:14:45	Cernan	Okay. Commander is 3.8 plus. I'm - I must be 80 percent and no flags and no tones.
118:14:56	CC	Copy that.
118:14:58	Schmitt	Okay, LMP is - LMP is about 80, let me see - 75, about 80 percent, and no flags, no tones. I've got 83 percent.
118:15:21	CC	Okay, copy that. And you've sure got a lot of stuff on the Rover already.
118:15:28	Schmitt	Yes, MAG Helen has just gone into the bag - into the seat.
118:15:33	CC	Copy that.
118:15:39	PAO	That was Jack Schmitt on the screen.
118:15:44	Schmitt	MAG Cynthia is in there.
118:15:52	Cernan	Okay, Bob, SRC 1 is open.
118:15:57	Schmitt	Gail is in.
118:16:08	Cernan	Jack, watch these SRCs. I don't like the lock on this cable very well.
118:16:11	Schmitt	They never have.
118:16:24	CC	Okay, and Jack. You did get that mag?.
118:16:25	Schmitt	Okay.
118:16:26	CC	Charlie as well?
118:16:30	Schmitt	That's affirm.
118:16:31	CC	Okay. And we did not copy your cuff gauge reading down here.
118:16:38	Schmitt	Oh, you didn't? Well, maybe that's because I didn't give it to you. 3.9, no wonder that's so much work.
118:16:45	CC	Go ahead. Copy that.
118:16:54	Cernan	Okay, Bob, SRC 1 is - She sure won't stay in the MESA ...
118:17:04	Schmitt	Let me try that. Okay, that will stay there.
118:17:08	Cernan	Okay, Bob. It's closed. It sure doesn't seem like it wants to stay there, though. And the organic sample has been sealed.
118:17:16	CC	Copy that.
118:17:16	Cernan	I guess you believe we're here now, huh?
118:17:18	CC	Now we believe you're here. We see you in person.
118:17:20	Cernan	Okay. Bob, the - Bob, the SRC cover will not stay closed. It just slowly springs up. There's nothing I can seem to do for it. I might be able to set something, a blanket, on top or something.
118:17:35	CC	Okay, stand by on that. We'll get back with you.
118:17:39	Cernan	Okay. I'm putting - yes, it just flops open. I'm taking SCB 1 to the Tool Gate.
118:17:48	CC	Copy that.
118:17:49	Cernan	I'll get me a hammer, and I'll give you a gravimeter reading.
118:17:52	Schmitt	No, you won't. Not until you're done. I'll go get the flag there. Guess what? We're here again.
118:18:04	PAO	Cernan has the red band around his arm.
118:18:08	Schmitt	The Buddy SLSS is on the Rover. Okay, ETB. Okay, CDR's camera film magazine I had to work on a little bit to get it to work but it's working.
118:18:29	CC	Copy that.
118:18:32	Schmitt	If I get that camera, you can punch the gravimeter, I think.
118:18:37	Cernan	Okay. Get the camera, and I'll give them a gravimeter reading. is that all you need? Because I'll go get the flag.
118:18:44	Schmitt	Okay, you'd better let that - yes, but why don't when you go - let me get some tongs, too. We need to salvage those - -
118:18:54	Cernan	Okay.
118:18:55	Schmitt	- - scissors.
118:19:03	Cernan	Okay.
118:19:04	Schmitt	Okay. Let me steady the Rover ...
118:19:07	Cernan	Okay, Bob.
118:19:09	Cernan	MARK: Gravimeter and the light is flashing.
118:19:13	CC	Okay. We copy that.
118:19:24	Schmitt	Oh, bury me not on the lone prairie. Where the coyotes howl, and the wind blows free. (Singing) Okay.
118:19:36	Cernan	Okay, where am I?
118:19:38	Schmitt	You're doing a gravimeter, getting the flag. I've got your camera. I'm going to salvage the scissors.
118:19:42	Cernan	Okay, get the scissors, and I'll be putting the flag in. And don't no near the Rover.
118:19:49	Schmitt	Don't go near the water. That reminds me of a good book. Oh boy. I can't go near the Rover.
118:20:11	Cernan	Let me tell you.
118:20:12	Schmitt	No, I can't go near the Rover.
118:20:14	Cernan	Why don't you set them - -
118:20:15	Schmitt	How about you letting me stick these in your pocket with your - -
118:20:18	Cernan	No. Set them up there. Just set them in there. We'll get them when we come back in.
118:20:22	Schmitt	Okay. I'll tell you what I'm going to do.
118:20:25	Cernan	Just set them inside the - put them in the -
118:20:30	Schmitt	I'm going to hang them here on the hook.
118:20:31	Cernan	Okay, that's good.
118:20:33	Schmitt	Right there.
118:20:35	Cernan	Okay, Jack. How about the flag right over here in this little mound?
118:20:43	Schmitt	Which mound?
118:20:43	Cernan	Well, let me take a look around.
118:20:44	Schmitt	How about right up there on that little high point. Right up in here where I'm going.
118:20:47	Cernan	Yes. Of course, your idea of a high point might be different than mine.
118:20:52	Schmitt	I meant the North Massif. (Laughter)
118:20:55	Cernan	That's probably the best place in the world for the flag, is right up on the top.
118:21:00	Schmitt	Okay, let me come over and help you. How about right - how about right? Well, we'll find out ...
118:21:06	PAO	The flag they're deploying is the flag that has been in the mission control center here during past missions.
118:21:13	Cernan	Yes. Hey, you're in the edge of the crater though, That's no test.
118:21:16	Schmitt	Well, that's all right. Move right over here near your tire tracks.
118:21:19	Cernan	Yes. This is a high point right here.
118:21:21	Schmitt	Yes, that's good. Right there.
118:21:24	Cernan	Well, that wasn't too good.
118:21:26	Schmitt	Okay, let me give it a few whacks. Oh, baloney.
118:21:34	Cernan	Okay. Watch your fingers. Now that wasn't too bad. Want to make sure it stands up. That's getting pretty - I can - I - well - we'll - we can probably - what we could do - I don't know how far we could drill - -
118:21:47	Schmitt	Boing! I think you hit something solid with that one.
118:21:51	Cernan	No, it was still going.
118:21:52	Schmitt	Yes, but did you ever see it vibrate like that?
118:21:53	Cernan	No, I've never put a flag up on the Moon before.
118:21:57	Schmitt	What? Pull that end.
118:22:02	Cernan	(Laughter) You'll have to get it down to my level. Tall guys are all alike.
118:22:08	Schmitt	Wait, I'm not through.
118:22:12	Cernan	Okay. How about getting it stretched out?
118:22:18	Schmitt	I will. I Just can't start forward as fast as I would like to. Hate to touch it, my hands are so dirty.
118:22:36	Cernan	Okay?
118:22:39	Schmitt	Well, it's going to want to curl. Maybe it'll - it sort of looks like it's waving in the breeze.
118:22:46	Cernan	Yes sir. How about right there?
118:22:54	Schmitt	Take a couple this way, and we'll take a couple that way. How's that?
118:22:57	Cernan	Oh, I ought to get - let me get over to the other side - you can get the Rover in the background.
118:22:59	Schmitt	Yeah, and the LM.
118:23:04	Cernan	It does wave when you do that.
118:23:09	CC	We've got a beautiful picture of you guys up - down there.
118:23:15	Cernan	Let me tell you, Bob. This flag is a beautiful picture. You see that?
118:23:20	Schmitt	Okay, you're - it's partially covering the Rover, but I think it's a pretty good shot. How's that? Let me get the focus right.
118:23:36	Schmitt	I don't know where to put it.
118:23:37	Cernan	There you go. Wait a minute.
118:23:40	Schmitt	It's all right I got you reaching for the flag.
118:23:43	Cernan	How's that?
118:23:47	Schmitt	That's very good, Gene. Let me get it in stereo.
118:23:51	Cernan	Houston - -
118:23:53	Schmitt	That's beautiful.
118:23:55	Cernan	This has got to be one of the most proud moments of my life. I guarantee you. Let you get a close in one and we'll trade cameras. Houston, I don't know how many of you are aware of this, but this - this flag has flown in the MOCR since Apollo 11. And we very proudly deploy it on the Moon, to stay for as long as it can, in honor of all those people who have worked so hard to put us here and to put every other crew here and to make the country, United States and mankind, something different than it was.
118:24:52	CC	Roger, 17 - And presuming to speak on behalf of some of those that work on the MOCR, we thank you very much.
118:25:05	Cernan	Back right where you were. Step to the right. Right there.
118:25:19	Schmitt	Yes, that's alright. I'll keep it down.
118:25:35	Schmitt	Stay there. Get closer. I'm going to get on the other side.
118:25:46	Cernan	Well, I want to get something here.
118:25:49	Schmitt	What's that?
118:25:50	Cernan	I want to get the Earth.
118:25:52	Schmitt	Okay. Let me get over here.
118:25:54	Cernan	Get around on that side.
118:25:57	Schmitt	I don't - I don't think it's going - you're a little close, maybe. Get them both in focus.
118:26:10	Cernan	That might do it. Try that one time, then we'll give up and get to work.
118:26:28	Schmitt	Higher up a little - yes.
118:26:34	Schmitt	Let me try it again, okay? I don't know, Geno, okay? Let me get over here closer to you. Okay. That might have got it.
118:26:49	Cernan	Okay, very good.
118:26:51	Schmitt	Okay.
118:26:53	Cernan	Alright, let's do it. You think your gravimeter's ready so I can go back there?
118:27:02	CC	Roger, 17. The gravimeter's ready and a couple of words here. One, I presume you found the scissors, right?
118:27:11	Schmitt	Yes, sir.
118:27:12	CC	Okay. Two -
118:27:12	Cernan	Not Ron's, we found ours.
118:27:15	CC	Roger. And the second thing is we do want the SRC closed. And if you can partially latch it, I'm not sure tha't easily done, that would be one solution. The other would be to put something on top of it to hold it closed.
118:27:31	Cernan	Okay, Bob. I'll find something.
118:27:32	CC	Okay, copy that. One of the brackets off the MESA would be something, or a rock that's nearby; that's another possibility.
118:27:44	Schmitt	Okay. Gene, what are you going to be up to now?
118:27:48	Cernan	I'm going to go get the - -
118:27:49	Schmitt	... pallet?
118:27:50	Cernan	- - pallet.
118:27:51	Schmitt	Okay, why don't - why don't I give the old - the old inspection here - bit. And I really ought to have my camera, shouldn't I?
118:28:02	Cernan	I need a - -
118:28:03	Schmitt	Yes.
118:28:04	CC	Roger. That's affirmative.
118:28:04	Cernan	... on this.
118:28:06	Schmitt	What would you just -
118:28:08	Cernan	Well, I'll find something.
118:28:10	Schmitt	I'll take the old CDR's camera. Not a bad camera to take.
118:28:16	Cernan	Jack, I'm going to take the old gunny sack here, and put it over. That'll hold it down.
118:28:26	CC	I presume you're talking about the big bag, Gene.
118:28:31	Cernan	Yes, the big bag that was on the ladder. That's all it needs. It's just a little bit. There's just enough spring force in it. Okay, Houston. I think you've had all the good words about the LM. We have never flown a better LM. I guess that's safe enough to say. T he quads look great. The old steerables are aimed right at you. Rendezvous radar's in good shape. It's parked - looks like parallel to Z. Just about perfectly. There's no visible - I'm on the 3 o'clock position, plus Y. No visible contamination. There's a little bit of discoloration of the plume shield below the thrusters. The engine bell never touched the ground. It's about - 15 centimeters off the ground.
118:29:29	CC	How's that for coming down gentle?
118:29:30	Cernan	That's what you call okay number three wire, Jack.
118:29:35	Schmitt	Hey, we never heard what our landing parameters were.
118:29:39	CC	We'll worry about that later.
118:29:40	Cernan	... now that we're here.
118:29:41	Schmitt	Oh, but they always - they always give them to us in the simulator. Hey, Bob, judging from what I see on my clock, we're not but about 5 minutes behind.
118:29:59	CC	That agrees more or less with the way we read it.
118:30:04	Schmitt	Gene had a little forward motion as I think you heard his call. And that shows up in the forward footpad at any rate or did. It looks like he may have hit tail first a little bit. That's embedded to the full pad depth. I see no - By George, Gene, you may have had a first. I think you stroked that thing.
118:30:32	Cernan	I stroked what?
118:30:33	Schmitt	The rear - the rear landing gear.
118:30:38	Cernan	Well, we can measure it and find out.
118:30:40	Schmitt	I'll take a picture of it.
118:30:46	Cernan	May have stroked it. The Mylar, the lower orange Mylar, is folded a little bit.
118:30:53	CC	Roger. There's word floating around down here about a typical Navy landing, but I'm not sure whether we believe it or not.
118:31:00	Schmitt	He caught his tail hook. Say, Bob - -
118:31:03	CC	That's the best way.
118:31:12	Schmitt	- - Just behind the LM in that very fresh crater, I picked up an example of the kind of gabbro I was talking about. And I'll stick it in the big bag, except the big bag has disappeared.
118:31:35	Cernan	Okay, I've got to give you a reading, Bob, if you're ready.
118:31:37	CC	Ready.
118:31:39	Schmitt	You put the big bag up - -
118:31:41	Cernan	670 003 101. That's 670 003 101.
118:31:49	CC	Okay. We copy that.
118:31:52	Cernan	Jack, I put that there to hold the SRC down.
118:31:56	Schmitt	That's alright, I just put our sample in it. It's in the bottom of the bag. It's about 8 by 5 centimeters by 3 centimeters. Slightly tabular.
118:32:07	CC	Okay. We copy that. It's in the big bag.
118:32:11	Schmitt	Yes sir.
118:32:18	Cernan	Okay, okay, Bob. A MARK on gravity.
118:32:22	CC	Copy that.
118:32:24	Cernan	And the light is flashing.
118:32:26	CC	Copy that.
118:32:40	Cernan	I've got to tell you, Bob. I haven't done everything there is to do in the Navy, but deploying that flag has got to be the most proud thing I'll ever do in my life. If you could see, and you could see it from where we are, I know you'd feel the same way.
118:32:57	CC	Roger on that, Geno.
118:32:58	Schmitt	Woo! (Laughter)
118:32:59	Cernan	God, he's pretty up there. God, you're pretty up there over the South Massif. Beautiful.
118:33:07	Schmitt	Hope nobody saw that.
118:33:09	Cernan	Beautiful.
118:33:09	Schmitt	Oh, they were watching me. (Laughter) Those finks. Okay, you weren't doing anything with this gravimeter on here, I hope.
118:33:17	Cernan	No, its on the deck.
118:33:18	Schmitt	Okay.
118:33:18	CC	Okay, you might grab me a ... when you set it on there, Jack.
118:33:25	Schmitt	Too late. Bob.
118:33:26	CC	Okay.
118:33:26	Schmitt	I'll get it later.
118:33:27	CC	We'll get it later. No hurry.
118:33:32	Cernan	Okay, now if I can figure how to get this off. You've got to educate us again.
118:33:38	Schmitt	We may not remember those. Whoops.
118:33:43	Cernan	Bob, the sceptre's in hand.
118:33:45	CC	Roger on that.
118:33:58	Schmitt	Okay. I'll give you a temperature. Let's see whether it fits. I'll bet it does.
118:34:14	PAO	They're unloading the surface experiments, now.
118:34:19	Cernan	Come on. Lock, baby. Okay, it's ON -
118:34:24	CC	Copy that.
118:34:25	Cernan	It's LOCKED.
118:34:26	CC	Roger.
118:34:27	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. Here's a temperature for you. Forty degrees.
118:34:35	CC	Say again.
118:34:36	Schmitt	40.
118:34:37	CC	Copy that.
118:34:43	Cernan	Both covers. Okay, number 1 - something over here. Never did figure out what. Okay, Bob, the shade is deployed facing deep space.
118:35:07	CC	Oh, Copy. Roger. Understand the cosmic rays.
118:35:14	Cernan	Okay, Bob. The antenna is deployed. It's not on the post yet, but it's deployed.
118:35:44	Schmitt	Oh, oh, come on. Don't get - don't get all caught on something. That's better, that's better. Okay, Bob. I think - just about got a - the sunside deployed, just as perpendicular to the Sun as I think anybody could do.
118:36:10	CC	Okay. Copy that. Good enough.
118:36:15	Schmitt	Okay, I don't have any pictures yet, so you might put that down as something to get later.
118:36:19	CC	Yes, we'll catch that in the PAN with the next EVA or something like that.
118:36:22	Schmitt	Man if that - Boy, if that antenna doesn't get some noise from outer space, I don't know what will. If they are out there, and they are I'm sure. They'll see that one. That is even weirder looking out here than it is in the high bay. Hey, Bob, before I leave the ALSEP, remind me to check the cosmic ray. I might hit it here in the process of deployment.
118:36:55	CC	Okay, try not to.
118:36:57	Schmitt	I got a little close.
118:36:58	CC	Okay.
118:37:00	Cernan	Oh, I will. Okay, the doors are open, beautifully.
118:37:19	Schmitt	I don't know what talent you have for landing in holes, Cernan, but once again I'll be doing all the ALSEP work in the hole.
118:37:30	Cernan	Okay.
118:37:30	CC	Are you saying we should have kept the pulleys there, Jack?
118:37:37	Schmitt	Okay. Yes, I need the pulleys.
118:37:40	Cernan	You know, Bob, I've got a little bit of a problem here. I've got the SEP connector on. (Laughter) But it - it - it'll - it'll - it'll slide - slide down in, but the locking cover just won't go over.
118:37:58	CC	Roger, Geno. Understand. It slides in far enough, you think it's aligned, huh?
118:38:05	Cernan	Yes, I'm positive it's aligned. It just - it didn't appear to lock over, well not appear, it just won't lock over. I'm shoving it home. Okay, I got it.
118:38:16	CC	Okay. Copy.
118:38:16	Cernan	I got it. Makes everyone happier.
118:38:18	CC	I'm glad we have the right solution to that one, Gene.
118:38:23	Cernan	The right solution is the fact that you've got a man here doing it.
118:38:27	CC	Laughter.
118:38:28	Cernan	Okay. Hey, Bob. The ECA TEMP MONITOR switch is ON.
118:38:34	CC	Copy that.
118:38:38	PAO	Cernan working with the surface electrical properties receiver on the Rover.
118:39:03	Schmitt	There's an easy way and a hard to do everything. Don't know why we don't do it the easy way. Payday. RTG is on the surface.
118:39:28	CC	Copy that.
118:39:28	Schmitt	Central station is ... Gene's little pitch-up makes these things slide out by themselves almost.
118:39:39	CC	Better thank him next time you see him.
118:39:50	Cernan	Okay. Hey, Jack, you notice there's none of those guys up there holding those hoses as we go around the LM.
118:40:02	Schmitt	What do you mean? I saw one just a minute ago.
118:40:05	Cernan	Okay, Bob. You want 4, 5, 6, and 7?
118:40:09	CC	That's affirmative.
118:40:09	Cernan	Okay, 4, 5, 6, and 7. It's coming off.
118:40:15	CC	Roger on that.
118:40:19	Cernan	Okay.
118:40:24	PAO	That was a reference to the help they have during simulations.
118:40:38	Cernan	Just took time out for a snack and a little water.
118:40:42	CC	Okay.
118:40:45	Cernan	Okay the - How's the TV working?
118:40:55	CC	Beautiful - To coin a phrase, it's a panoramic scene of beauty.
118:41:05	Schmitt	Oh, come on now, Bob.
118:41:08	Cernan	Say, Bob, what do you think of the terrain?
118:41:11	CC	Looks flat. Looks very flat and smooth.
118:41:19	Cernan	That's why you're an astronomer.
118:41:21	Schmitt	That's why you're - (laughter). Oh, well.
118:41:24	Cernan	Okay, I'll give you a reading on the TGE if you're ready.
118:41:28	CC	Roger, ready.
118:41:32	Cernan	Oh, don't kick dust on it. Hope I can read it down here. Okay. Oh Bob. Bob, you're going to have to bear with me. When I leaned over to punch it, I hit GRAVITY instead of READ, so I guess I got to wait it out.
118:41:58	CC	Okay. We'll set the timer again.
118:42:02	Cernan	Okay, I'll - I should have been more - more careful. Okay. Orient pallet to the Sun. If you can see it, it's directly at the Sun so that ought to be good.
118:42:14	CC	Okay, copy that.
118:42:22	Cernan	The SRC doesn't have to be all the way closed does it?
118:42:25	CC	No, Not all the way. Just as long as it'y most of the way closed. You can have a crack there in the top.
118:42:33	Cernan	Okay, that's what it is. Man, I'll tell you. This - this thing got low all of a sudden. How are you coming, Jack?
118:42:49	Schmitt	Great.
118:42:51	Cernan	You get it fueled yet?
118:42:52	Schmitt	Oh no. Okay, coming soon though.
118:42:56	Cernan	Let me know if you have any problems with that.
118:42:59	Schmitt	Oh, I will.
118:43:00	Cernan	Okay. Come on bag. You're all I got. Man, I - there we go. (singing) Bob, that gravimeter went right to steady. It blinked once and went right to steady, so I don't expect it'll be too long.
118:43:24	CC	Okay, I'll give you a call in a couple of minutes there. Ought to be done.
118:43:31	Cernan	Okay.
118:43:32	CC	And Jack. I understand you have the RTG fueled?
118:43:38	Schmitt	Negative.
118:43:39	CC	Okay.
118:43:40	Schmitt	I'm supposed to call you when I have it fueled.
118:43:44	CC	Okay.
118:43:45	Cernan	Jack, do you have a - am I missing a map I should have up here?
118:43:50	Schmitt	There should be two maps. They're under the seat. I put them in there so they wouldn't bounce off. I'm sorry. I forgot to tell you.
118:43:56	Cernan	Okay, I got them.
118:44:03	Cernan	Hello, Houston.
118:44:08	CC	Hello, Challenger.
118:44:20	Schmitt	I wish I could go back and make that landing about 6 or 7 times so I could take in all that I missed.
118:44:26	Cernan	So do I. I might as well have stayed at the Cape. Okay. Let's see. Core bore neutron flux, and I'll get the drill and I'll go back and ...
118:44:39	CC	Okay, and Geno, you know you might wander by the gravimeter. I think it might be done by now. You might just check the light and see if it's steady, or on or not.
118:44:50	Cernan	Okay. I'll go by there right now, Bob.
118:45:28	Schmitt	For future reference Bob, the dome removal tool doesn't - it'll turn. Shoot.
118:45:52	Cernan	Okay, Bob, let's see. It's not lit. Can I take a reading?
118:45:56	CC	Roger. If the light's out, give us a reading.
118:46:01	Cernan	Well, let's see if I can push the right button this time. Okay, it's 670 017 201, 670 017 201. And it was about 75 percent in the shade of the Rover.
118:46:19	CC	Okay. I copy that. And now we're ready for bias.
118:46:24	Cernan	Now, you want - okay, a bias coming at you on the ground, correct?
118:46:28	CC	Roger.
118:46:31	Cernan	It's blinking - it's blinking, Bob.
118:46:33	CC	Okay. Copy that.
118:46:34	Cernan	I've got the core bag and the neutron flux, and -
118:46:35	Schmitt	Gene, I need your hammer.
118:46:37	Cernan	Okay, you need my help? Okay, coming over. What's the problem?
118:46:47	Schmitt	Well, the dome removal tool never latched into the dome, but it turned it. I think it's pretty badly chewed up. I'm not sure what happened.
118:46:58	Cernan	Oh, boy.
118:46:59	Schmitt	So, let me have your hammer because I'm going to have to pry off the dome.
118:47:02	Cernan	Can't you - -
118:47:04	Schmitt	No. I - I, you see I - I've stripped it, I think. I didn't think I could do it.
118:47:12	Cernan	No, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Let me -
118:47:14	Schmitt	See, it's stripped. See, but it's open. Wait a minute. See, no wait, see? Just put your blade in there. Don't touch it. Put the blade in there and pry. It'll come, I hope.
118:47:33	Cernan	Be careful. Here, let me get it once from this side. Can I -
118:47:38	Schmitt	Gene, don't get so close. Move your hand - There, you got it. Nice work.
118:47:47	Cernan	Okay, it's off. It's off.
118:47:50	Schmitt	Nice work.
118:47:51	Cernan	Whoo.
118:47:52	CC	Roger. Once again we have the right solution.
118:47:57	Schmitt	I'm not sure, Bob, what happened. You might ask them that if you only partially get the dome removal tool on, if you can strip the whole thing out?
118:48:08	CC	Okay, we'll look at it ...
118:48:08	Schmitt	It won't make much difference any more.
118:48:10	CC	We'll make sure of its change on the next dome removal tool.
118:48:23	Cernan	Bob, I'm just taking a breather.
118:48:25	CC	Okay, we're watching you.
118:48:27	Schmitt	That was a strange one, Gene. Did you see how I mangled that thing?
118:48:31	Cernan	Yes.
118:48:32	Schmitt	Okay, TRG is out.
118:48:34	Cernan	Don't trip.
118:48:36	Schmitt	Wouldn't think of it.
118:48:37	Cernan	Okay, where was I? I've got to go back and get the drill, if I'm not mistaken. Yes sir, and then I'll be caught up with the TGE. Okay, Houston. The RTG is inserted. The element, that is -
118:48:55	CC	Okay, We'll copy that.
118:49:02	Cernan	Bob , I'll - I'll give you my word. Before we leave here, I'll make sure that the SRC is closed.
118:49:08	CC	Okay. Copy that. As long as it's got only an inch or two showing there, should be no problem. That looks fine ...
118:49:17	Cernan	Man, I've got to put something on it to get it down to that far.
118:49:20	CC	Okay.
118:49:22	Cernan	Okay.
118:49:26	Cernan	Oh, that came out like a dream. Man, is this MESA low when you go - Come on, baby.
118:49:32	Schmitt	SEQ bay doors are closed.
118:49:34	CC	Roger. Copy that.
118:49:35	Schmitt	And I'm checking out the cosmic ray. Cosmic ray looks good.
118:49:42	CC	Beautiful.
118:49:46	Schmitt	Oh! I snuck a queek - quick peek at the drill, and it does work. What in the world is that?
118:49:56	Cernan	That's Ron.
118:49:59	Schmitt	Ron?
118:50:00	Cernan	That's Ron. Got his VHF on, that fink. Hey, you might tell Ron we can hear him.
118:50:11	PAO	The command module is over the landing site.
118:50:16	Cernan	Okay. Drill - LMP seat. With seat belt - Bob, you still with us?
118:50:26	Schmitt	Okay, the ALSEP is put together in the barbell mode. And Charlie Duke, I have checked it - and it is locked.
118:50:38	Cernan	Hello, there, Ron. If you read, we're reading you.
118:50:51	Cernan	Well, (singing) "We're off to see the Wizard."
118:50:55	Schmitt	Hey, do you need me, Gene?
118:50:57	Cernan	No. I'm going to go deploy an ALSEP. Have at it.
118:51:02	Cernan	First, I've got to find an ALSEP site.
118:51:05	Schmitt	Don't fall into Camelot.
118:51:10	Cernan	Okay, Bob. I'd like to read a TGE.
118:51:13	CC	Roger. You're ready to read the TGE - we are.
118:51:19	Cernan	Oh, you won't believe it.
118:51:23	Schmitt	You did it again.
118:51:24	Cernan	Ah - there goes a fender. Oh, shoot!
118:51:29	Schmitt	Say, Bob, I'm moving down-Sun.
118:51:33	Cernan	Well, I'll get that in a minute.
118:51:35	Schmitt	I'm moving down-Sun, and where we've walked, we stir up darker material - just slightly, but it's darker. The same old thing, the most mature - that most regoliths have.
118:51:49	CC	Okay, copy that. Have you got a bias reading there, Gene?
118:51:54	Cernan	Yes, I'm giving it to you right now - 337, 454, 001 - that's 337, 454, 001
118:52:05	CC	Okay, we copy that.
118:52:05	Cernan	And I hate to say it, but I'm going to have to take some time to try - I'm going to have to - I'm going to have to try to get that fender back on.
118:52:12	CC	Okay. Was it the rear fender, Geno?
118:52:16	Cernan	Yes. Caught it with my hammer, and it just popped right off.
118:52:23	Cernan	Bob, for future reference - it's a piece of cake putting the TGE on or off.
118:52:27	CC	Okay, copy that.
118:52:35	Cernan	Jack, is the tape under my seat, do you remember?
118:52:37	Schmitt	Yes.
118:52:38	Cernan	I may need it. Okay. Let's set my hydroxide canister to middle - I'm in MAX - MAX cooling. Man, you're romping around like a - how are you doing?
118:52:53	Schmitt	Oh, fine. It's just - it's work going out here.
118:52:56	Cernan	Yea, I'll bet it is. Just take it easy.
118:52:58	Schmitt	I am.
118:52:59	Cernan	I'm going to be a little bit behind you if I have to work on that fender, anyway.
118:53:02	CC	Yes, you can walk a bit more slowly than you're walking, Jack.
118:53:04	Schmitt	Okay, more and more - What's that?
118:53:09	CC	I said that you can walk more slowly than you started out, anyway.
118:53:17	Schmitt	Bob, texturially, same of these rocks that I believe - gabbros - have a texture not unlike a - a welded tuff. But I don't think - I know they're not. But they've got some mottled characteristics to them that I haven't yet figured out.
118:53:47	PAO	Schmitt carrying the ALSEP about 100 meters east of LM.
118:54:12	Evans	Yes, if it wasn't for that fender, I'd be ready to go. Makes me sort of mad.
118:54:19	PAO	Gene Cernan will drive out to the ALSEP site in the Rover.
118:54:35	CC	I say there, Jack, that looks like a big rock there beyond you.
118:54:42	Schmitt	That's the one we were talking about. Earlier.
118:54:45	CC	We believe you now.
118:54:54	Cernan	Well, I've done this in training. I can't say I'm very adept at putting fenders back on. But I sure don't want to start without it.
118:55:27	Cernan	Well, shoot!
118:55:43	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. I think I'm going to move a little bit to the northwest of my present position in order to get a little farther away from that big rock.
118:55:55	Schmitt	Okay, Jack.
118:55:56	Schmitt	And to get out of the shallow depression - -
118:56:00	CC	Roger.
118:56:00	Schmitt	- - get out of the shallow depression that's here.
118:56:03	CC	Roger. It's not so shallow. You disappeared out of sight from the last ...
118:56:10	Schmitt	Well it's shallow relative to other depressions I've been in. You know, this ALSEP is almost as heavy as what we had at the Cape. Uh oh, I lost one of my blocks. Oh well, I'll - I'll get it on a rock, or I'll retrace your steps.
118:56:42	Cernan	Don't worry about that. I'll be able to - there are enough rocks around. I can use it.
118:56:47	CC	Copy that, Jack. And Gene, if you're having trouble with that fender and you think it might be easier with two guys, you could wait until you get out to the ALSEP site.
118:56:57	Cernan	No sir, I got it on, but a little piece of the rail is cracked off. And I'm just going to put a couple of pieces of good old-fashioned American gray tape on it - see whether we can't make sure it stays. Because I don't want to lose it. Except good old-fashioned gray tape doesn't want to stick very well.
118:57:29	Schmitt	I've not seen any sign of layering in any of the craters. In their walls.
118:57:39	CC	Okay. Copy that.
118:57:40	Schmitt	The rocks still seem to be the pinkish-gray - the pinkish-gray gabbro out here.
118:57:56	PAO	Gene Cernan taping the fender on.
118:58:04	Cernan	Good old-fashioned American gray tape doesn't stick to lunar-dust-cover fenders. One more try. I think it'll stay, for an indefinite period of time, right now. Not bad for EV gloves.
118:58:37	Schmitt	Do you see me, Bob?
118:58:39	CC	We're watching Gene, right now. You disappeared out of sight a long while ago, Gene. Hey, you just came into sight again, Jack.
118:58:55	Cernan	Hey, leave me enough room to deploy the heat flow.
118:58:57	Schmitt	I'm going to, I'm looking for a place. Away from craters and rocks.
118:59:05	Schmitt	That's why I didn't land up there.
118:59:13	Schmitt	Okay, I think I've got a place. And I think it will also give you a spot for the neutron flux that's sheltered from the RTG.
118:59:22	CC	Okay. You say you have a place like that, Jack?
118:59:28	Schmitt	Well, - pretty much, I think, Bob.
118:59:32	CC	Okay.
118:59:33	Schmitt	Let me work on it here a little more.
118:59:36	CC	Okay, and right now you're about 10 minutes behind the timeline, Jack.
118:59:48	Schmitt	Okay.
118:59:48	Cernan	Bob, I'm only going to spend another minute or two on the fender.
118:59:53	Schmitt	We'll catch up.
119:00:00	Cernan	I never thought I'd be out here doing this.
119:00:04	Schmitt	Boy, I'll tell you, Geno - Okay, I'm going to go back this way. Central Station can be near a crater. It will be pretty good, that'll put the LEAM right out over there, which is probably all right. The graviometer out over there, which is probably all right. Going to put your drill holes a little too close to that rock, though. Bob, ask Mark if he's worried about rocks as much as craters.
119:00:39	CC	Okay, stand by.
119:00:39	Schmitt	I've got a rock about 2 meters in diameter, partially buried - that one of the probes may be near.
119:00:50	CC	Stand by, and define near.
119:00:55	Schmitt	Well, it could be 10 feet.
119:00:58	CC	Okay.
119:01:06	Schmitt	Well, I can move a little more south, I guess.
119:01:09	CC	Okay. And Jack, it seems like about - if you're about 3 meters from the rock, that's no problem.
119:01:17	Schmitt	Okay. Okay, this is it.
119:01:24	CC	Okay. Copy that.
119:01:25	Schmitt	I tell you the block - the - let's see, the Sun's south, this way. South of east. Okay. Well, shoot!
119:01:59	Cernan	What's wrong?
119:02:01	Schmitt	Well, it's just about impossible. Bob, it looks like the probes are going to be in a shallow depression. I'll try to improve that a little. It's not a real crater - it's just a shallow depression.
119:02:17	CC	Stand by. Stand by on that, Jack, a minute. That may be okay. Okay, shallow depression's all right, Jack, don't worry about it.
119:02:23	Schmitt	It's not more than a meter deep.
119:02:25	CC	That's okay, Jack.
119:02:26	Schmitt	Okay.
119:02:27	CC	Stay there.
119:02:31	Schmitt	All righty. It looks pretty good to me.
119:02:34	CC	Okay. Good enough.
119:02:36	Schmitt	It's just - Bob, it's really, in detail - The meter and half-meter scale relief is a little more than we can stand here for a good site. But I think - I think this will be all right.
119:02:54	CC	Okay, copy that. We're ready to press on with ALSEP INTERCONNECT. And Geno, how are you doing on that fender?
119:03:02	Cernan	Bob, I am done. If that fender stays on, I'm going to take a picture of it because I'd like some sort of mending award. It's not too neat, but tape and lunar dust just don't hang in there together.
119:03:18	CC	Okay. Copy that.
119:03:25	Cernan	Well, let's hope. Keep your fingers crossed, and I'll be more careful around the fenders.
119:03:30	CC	Okay. Copy that.
119:03:35	Cernan	Whoops. Bob, I'm going to do one other thing real quick here. I've got to dust my visor off.
119:03:46	Schmitt	Gene, do you want me to do that?
119:03:47	Cernan	No, I can do it. I'll just do it right here. Only have to do it in a couple of places right in front of me. That didn't do much good, did it. Someone should have told me that. That just really screwed it up. Okay. Bob, you might ought to be thinking of a good way to clean that visor when I get in the cabin.
119:04:15	CC	Okay, we'll put someone on that.
119:04:20	Cernan	Okay, LRV equipment check. Blankets are open 100 percent; TV/sunshade is on; SEP receiver/antenna - nav cable; we've got 4, 5, 6, and 7 on the charges; TGE - I've got three measurements complete, I've got the drill, the bag, and the neutron flux. The TV camera - I'm taking it away from you.
119:04:39	CC	Okay. Roger.
119:04:43	Cernan	Sorry about that, Ed. Okay. MODE switch is going to 1.
119:04:49	PAO	We'll loose the picture while Gene Cernan drives the Rover out to the ALSEP site. Get a picture back very shortly after he's parked the Rover.
119:04:49	CC	Roger.
119:04:50	Cernan	Okay. MODE switch is 1. I'm ready to drive to the ALSEP site. Still want to park 60 northeast - east and north.
119:05:00	CC	Okay, Geno. And before you leave the LM there, how about giving me another BAT TEMP reading. Those were a little high and we'd like to try and verify some of that stuff.
119:05:13	Cernan	Boy, oh boy. Yes, I get you Bob. Boy, oh boy. You just got to be careful where you kick dust.
119:05:27	Schmitt	That's right.
119:05:28	Cernan	Boy! Don't do that again.
119:05:49	Cernan	Yes, Bob, I thought they were a little high, too.
119:05:52	CC	Roger.
119:05:58	Cernan	Okay. BAT TEMPs are 100 and 120 - right now.
119:06:08	CC	Okay. How about tapping the meter a little bit for us?
119:06:15	Cernan	Yes, I think the meter's been tapped since we've been working on the Rover. Yes - 100 and 120.
119:06:25	CC	Okay.
119:06:33	Cernan	Okay. Get this baby started.
119:06:48	PAO	We're 2 hours and 5 minutes into this EVA.
119:06:48	Cernan	Okay. I'm going to be heading west. The low gain - is 270.
119:07:03	Cernan	Okay, Jack, I'm on the way.
119:07:04	CC	Okay, and Geno, we'd like to vary the parking a little bit because of this. We'd like to try and get those batteries cooled down. We'd like to have you park about 60 feet north of the Central Station.
119:07:16	Cernan	Park about 50 feet from Central Station ...
119:07:17	CC	And facing east and down-Sun. And then we'll open the battery covers - -
119:07:32	Cernan	Okay, Bob, I can't read you, but facing east and down-Sun are not the same.
119:07:37	CC	Well, approximately there.
119:07:43	Cernan	Jack, you need your block? I got it right here.
119:07:45	CC	Facing - -
119:07:47	Schmitt	You're on the Rover, aren't you?
119:07:49	CC	Facing - -
119:07:50	Cernan	I got it, wait a minute.
119:07:53	CC	Hey, Geno, we mean up-Sun. Sorry about that.
119:08:12	Cernan	I got your block coming, Jack.
119:08:14	Schmitt	Okay.
119:08:33	Cernan	Boy, it doesn't take much to get those battery covers dirty.
119:08:39	CC	Okay, Gene, did you copy me that we meant facing up-Sun?
119:08:49	Cernan	Yes, Bob.
119:08:55	Schmitt	What did you do, get ...
119:09:07	Schmitt	Bob, the shorting plug meter is 90 percent scale to the right.
119:09:16	CC	Okay, copy that.
119:09:21	Cernan	Okay, Bob, give me that parking heading again, would you?
119:09:24	CC	Okay, we'd like you to park facing the Sun. How's that for being definite.
119:09:31	Cernan	Okay.
119:09:33	CC	About 60 feet north of the Central Station.
119:09:37	Cernan	Sixty feet north of Central Station - I can't park a little northeast? Now, okay, and you want the battery covers open?
119:09:44	CC	That's affirmative, Gene. And that means you will have to dust them before you open them.
119:09:51	Cernan	Yes, I guess so. Man, am I glad I didn't land up here, Jack.
119:09:56	Schmitt	So am I.
119:10:03	Cernan	Okay, ALSEP is connected, RTG is connected. is that where you're going to have the Central Station, huh?
119:10:10	Schmitt	Well, Geno, that's the best I can do without spending a lot more time.
119:10:14	Cernan	Yes.
119:10:15	Schmitt	And let me - let me talk to you about it. Say, I asked them about this depression.
119:10:24	Cernan	Yes.
119:10:24	Schmitt	You probe's all right out in here. And if you get in the bottom of it for the - either this one, or go out there - especially in the straight line between you and me now, another depression would be good for the neutron flux. You need to be over that way - you're just a - -
119:10:44	Cernan	Yes, they went - they want me to park about here where - -
119:10:47	Schmitt	You need to be over here.
119:10:48	Cernan	Where's Central Station, right there, huh?
119:10:51	Schmitt	You need to - -
119:10:52	Cernan	Yes, I've got to park in the Sun for the batteries
119:10:54	Schmitt	Oh, okay.
119:10:55	CC	Okay, 17, for your planning -
119:10:56	Schmitt	Okay, about 60 feet northeast. How does it look behind you.
119:11:00	CC	Okay, 17, for your planning, we're - we're now about 20 minutes behind the time line -
119:11:03	Schmitt	That's good.
119:11:06	Cernan	You're cutting out, Bob. You'll have to wait.
119:11:12	Cernan	What are you, Bob?
119:11:13	CC	Roger, we're about 20 minutes behind the time line, two-zero minutes.
119:11:20	Cernan	Okay. Yes, I guess it could be worse considering a couple of things. Okay, about time I got those batteries. Okay, Jack, let me give you this first, so I can get to work.
119:11:39	Schmitt	Oh, the block.
119:11:40	Cernan	Yes.
119:11:41	Schmitt	I'm sorry, I forgot you had it. Thank you.
119:12:04	Cernan	Okay, where are we?
119:12:07	Cernan	MARK. Sixty north heading, okay, 15 VOLT is OFF. Let me double check that while I was thinking of something. Wouldn't want this Rover to go rolling over the terrain without me. Okay, it is OFF. MODE switch, position 3. Dust TV/TCU, and the whole works, huh? There is TV REMOTE.
119:12:54	Cernan	Okay, Bob. You're aligned on the high gain-
119:12:57	CC	Okay, we copy that.
119:13:02	Cernan	And you're in position 3.
119:13:04	CC	Copy that.
119:13:05	Cernan	Okay, let me get these covers dusted.
119:13:22	Cernan	Well, that's a consolation. It's not as hard to get at the covers as one might think.
119:13:35	PAO	We've got a black and white picture now.
119:14:07	Schmitt	I'm working on the LEAM connection now, Bob.
119:14:10	CC	Okay. I copy that, Jack. Understand you - -
119:14:15	Schmitt	Say, it's hard to hit that garbage pile.
119:14:20	CC	Roger. Understand you almost have the heat flow connector connected by now?
119:14:25	Schmitt	Yes, sir.
119:14:37	Cernan	I'm a little late, Jack, until I get these battery covers opened.
119:14:40	Schmitt	Okay. I got the heat flow for you.
119:14:41	Cernan	Okay.
119:14:48	Schmitt	Well, the old LEAM connector doesn't connect, just like usual, or lock.
119:14:55	Cernan	Okay. I'm not going to touch the batteries. The covers are clean, and the batteries themselves are clean. The LR - LCRU has been dusted and - -
119:15:08	Schmitt	Okay.
119:15:08	Cernan	- - so has the TV.
119:15:10	Schmitt	It's locked. - -
119:15:11	CC	Okay. Copy that.
119:15:12	Schmitt	- - LEAM's locked on.
119:15:19	Cernan	Okay. I'm going to use this.
119:15:46	Cernan	Okay, Bob. The battery covers are in the shade.
119:15:50	CC	Okay. Copy that, Geno.
119:16:06	Cernan	Well, well, well, well, okay; I hope that helps. Whoo! I'm going to go to MAX for a minute here. Do you buy that?
119:16:20	CC	Okay, Geno. We copy.
119:16:21	Cernan	It seems hot in the valley of Taurus.
119:16:23	CC	Okay.
119:16:28	Cernan	Okay. Oh, man, - Whoo! Yes, I'm going back to INTERMEDIATE.
119:16:35	CC	Okay. Copy that.
119:16:37	Cernan	Okay, Bob. I'm ready to go to work.
119:16:39	CC	Good.
119:16:42	Cernan	Okay. I'm going to push the gravimeter.
119:16:43	CC	Roger -
119:16:44	CC	MARK.
119:16:51	Cernan	Okay. You have a mark.
119:16:56	CC	Copy that.
119:16:56	Cernan	- - it's blinking, and remember what I said, it's a piece of cake to take on and off.
119:17:00	CC	Okay. Copy that.
119:17:06	Cernan	Okay. This is north over here, huh? Okay, load old heat flow, 10 ... northwest. You connector connected. Carry heat flow 30. on ground, experiment up; okay. I'm going to do that Jack. Keep your eye on cables.
119:17:48	Schmitt	Oh, man, all I could do is go down hill over here.
119:17:55	Cernan	Jack, do you read?
119:17:56	Schmitt	Yes.
119:17:56	Cernan	Okay.
119:17:57	Schmitt	I'm just trying to level - -
119:17:59	Cernan	Are you going to move that very much?
119:18:01	Schmitt	No, I'm just - I'll be working with it to try to level it. It's - that's going to be a major task.
119:18:06	Cernan	Okay, there's 30 feet, I'll just - I'll get this thing squared away when I - Okay, Boyd bolt time.
119:18:18	PAO	Jack Schmitt working with the lunar surface gravimeter.
119:18:24	Schmitt	Ha, whee! That really went. Man, these things are just like they are at the Cape. You can feel every one of them.
119:18:43	Cernan	Hey, Bob, has Ron been able to see the LM?
119:18:47	CC	Stand by. I'll find out.
119:19:04	Schmitt	Oh! oh!
119:19:05	CC	Watch it, Jack.
119:19:08	Cernan	First cable - first cable hooked. Jack, you all right?
119:19:12	Schmitt	Yes. I'll straighten it up in a minute. Okay. The LSG is going out.
119:19:23	CC	Okay. Copy that, Jack.
119:19:24	Schmitt	I hope it does the things that we want it to for us.
119:19:31	PAO	This is the experiment.
119:19:35	Schmitt	Bob, I'm not doing too badly on keeping things clean. The - the base of the central station and - got some stuff on it, but - otherwise it's pretty good.
119:19:49	CC	Okay, Jack. We appreciate your efforts, and we understand you got the LEAM connected eventually.
119:19:56	Schmitt	Yes, and it locked; just took some diddling. Okay. Sun's over there. Oops, I forgot my Boyd bolts. Let's see.
119:20:08	Cernan	Yes, I never drilled a hole where there's not a can.
119:20:18	Schmitt	Boyd bolts are OFF. Bob, does it bother him that the base of the LSG is touch - touching soil? Because this is pretty soft.
119:21:06	Schmitt	Bob, did you give me an answer?
119:21:08	CC	Roger. Ron thinks he has seen it. We haven't had a confirmation on the last orbit when you were talking to him, but he thinks he saw it the previous orbit.
119:21:16	Schmitt	Hey, hey, Bob. Hey, Bob.
119:21:20	CC	Go.
119:21:21	Schmitt	Can the LSG - the base of the LSG, be touching the soil?
119:21:25	CC	Stand by on that. Roger, Jack.
119:21:31	Schmitt	Well, it's very soft and it's going to be very hard to level for it.
119:21:34	CC	Roger, Jack. The base can be touching the ground.
119:21:39	Schmitt	Okay. It's level, aligned, the sunshield is shaded inside. The level bubble is just touching the outer circle; the one circle. And I improved that. It's perfectly centered now and I'm going to uncage. Whoops. I moved - the experiment moved. It's still pretty good level. Okay, it's uncaged; the gimbal is swinging.
119:22:26	CC	Okay. Copy that.
119:22:27	Schmitt	The gimbal is swinging.
119:22:28	CC	Copy that. And Jack, you're still in MAX - -
119:22:30	Schmitt	The bubble is back just touch - Yes, I know - -
119:22:36	CC	Okay.
119:22:36	Schmitt	I've been working, man.
119:22:37	CC	Okay.
119:22:41	Schmitt	Okay. I went to "pseudo intermediate," between minimum and intermediate. The bubble is just touching the - its circle, and the alignment - Sun alignment is good.
119:22:57	CC	Roger. Copy that. Thank you.
119:23:05	Schmitt	Okay, Gene. You've got some good slack here, if you can leave it that way. You shouldn't have the cable draped across anything, that's good.
119:23:13	Cernan	Okay. I want to try and get this thing in there. It won't - there it is.
119:23:51	Schmitt	Can I help you, Gene?
119:23:53	Cernan	No. I got a little dust in this mirror, though. I'm not sure I - Bob, I got a little dust on the white surface, not on the mirror - of the heat flow. You got any recommendations?
119:24:07	CC	Stand by on that, Jack - Gene. Is that the - on the heat reflector?
119:24:15	Cernan	Yes. Yes, it's on the north side.
119:24:16	CC	Okay. As long as it's not on the mirror, it's okay, Gene.
119:24:22	Cernan	Well, let me take another look. I'll double check.
119:24:29	Schmitt	Watch it. You're pulling pretty hard.
119:24:31	Cernan	Yes, I'm watching - -
119:24:32	Schmitt	You're pulling - -
119:24:33	Cernan	I'm watching; I'm not pulling. Okay. The mirror's clean.
119:24:36	CC	Okay; then, it's good enough.
119:24:37	Schmitt	Give me some more slack up here, you're draped.
119:24:39	Cernan	Okay.
119:24:40	Cernan	Okay. Okay. That's where it's going, Jack, right there.
119:24:45	Schmitt	Can you - okay.
119:24:47	Cernan	How's that?
119:24:48	Schmitt	That's good.
119:24:50	Cernan	Got enough?
119:24:52	Schmitt	This way just a little, Geno. That's good. Doesn't take much.
119:24:58	Cernan	Man, we sure didn't need blocks or anything out here. There's enough soil here to level almost anything.
119:25:04	Schmitt	But that's so soft, though, it's hard to get a fast level. Whoops! That's strange. I think I did something wrong.
119:25:32	Cernan	What's that?
119:25:37	Schmitt	Pulled the pin at the wrong time ...
119:25:40	Cernan	Okay. The heat flow is level; the gnomon is good. And, Bob, I verified that that dirt is not on the mirror. It's on - on the white stuff that - that, you know, is horizontal to the surface of the box.
119:25:55	CC	Okay. Copy that, Gene; that's okay.
119:25:57	Cernan	The mirror - mirror's - the mirror's clean.
119:26:01	CC	Roger. Thank you.
119:26:02	Cernan	Okay. Okay, I'll give you a TGE reading.
119:26:09	CC	Roger. We're ready.
119:26:18	Cernan	Okay; 670 002 601 - 670 002 601.
119:26:28	CC	Okay. We copy that.
119:26:32	Cernan	Bob, was that with the camera - with the camera running?
119:26:36	CC	Roger. The camera's been running all this time.
119:26:40	Cernan	That's beautiful. Okay. Your temperatures are down to a hundred - and maybe a sukosh 120 under, so maybe those batteries are cooling off.
119:26:49	CC	Okay; good.
119:26:55	Cernan	It's sure good. I don't want to walk on that third EVA.
119:27:01	CC	Roger.
119:27:03	Cernan	I'm getting to like driving this machine. Okay, pull pin 2. Pin 2 always comes after - goes before pin 1.
119:27:14	Schmitt	I think that's in the NASA documents now.
119:27:18	Cernan	What's that?
119:27:19	Schmitt	Pin 2 comes before pin 1.
119:27:21	Cernan	(Laughter) Okay.
119:27:24	Schmitt	Reel 3 comes before reel 1 and 2, also. I think I overdid that one.
119:27:33	CC	Yes, it went clean out of sight; but by all means, watch reel 2.
119:27:42	Schmitt	(Laughter) Oh, you think you're so clever. Believe it or not, Bob, I'm anchoring the geophone module.
119:27:58	CC	Hey, Jack, it looks to us on the TV as though you're m - anchoring the geophone module with a flag.
119:28:06	Schmitt	Yes, that's what I'm doing. I'm anchoring the geophone module with a flag.
119:28:15	Cernan	Okay; one leg, two legs, three legs. And none of them - none of them -
119:28:28	Schmitt	Hey, Bob, remind me to police the garbage pile.
119:28:31	CC	All right.
119:28:32	Schmitt	The garbage pile is turning out to be - just like every other ALSEP deployment. It's hard to control.
119:28:42	CC	And I understand all your legs came out okay, Geno, or didn't come out.
119:28:45	Cernan	Okay. Yes, sir; they all came out okay.
119:28:52	Schmitt	Okay. LMS ring is pulled.
119:28:58	CC	Copy that.
119:29:05	Schmitt	Amazing. Amazing.
119:29:17	PAO	Jack Schmitt working with the lunar surface profiling experiment.
119:29:27	Cernan	Okay, Bob. I've got my tools of the trade right here. I'm ready to go to work. Now I put a mark in the deck - Here it is; right there.
119:29:51	Schmitt	Hey, Bob, what have I forgotten? The package won't rotate.
119:29:53	CC	Try rotating the UHT.
119:30:01	Schmitt	No, I'm serious. Oh, rotate the UHT, huh?
119:30:08	Cernan	Yes, remember that one?
119:30:09	Schmitt	No - that's right. I'm sorry. I knew it, I knew it would happen.
119:30:18	Cernan	Where's your garbage pile, Jack? Well, I - I can't find yours.
119:30:22	Schmitt	Well, don't worry about my garbage pile. It turns out it looks very much like the ALSEP.
119:30:29	Cernan	Okay. I made a mark over here that says - that says that should be about cable length.
119:30:37	Schmitt	What am I doing over here? You're awfully - you're awfully close.
119:30:41	Cernan	No, my - my - I'm going right in here, Jack. Right here.
119:30:48	Schmitt	Okay.
119:30:49	Cernan	I can move it further - -
119:30:50	Schmitt	No. That's all right.
119:30:51	Cernan	- - further north.
119:30:52	Schmitt	No, this will be all right. I just want to keep away from you there.
119:31:06	Cernan	We shall soon see how tuned we are. I'm anxious to see what's under this mantle.
119:31:15	CC	So are we.
119:31:22	Cernan	Well, Bob, I hope I can drill you a couple of good holes.
119:31:25	CC	How about three?
119:31:27	Cernan	And I know you do, too.
119:31:30	Schmitt	Okay, Bob, the arrow is east/west, pointing west. The bubble is in the center. If I'm lucky, it'll stay there. I'm not - I'm more like east/northeast I'm trying to keep a little further away from Gene.
119:31:59	CC	Okay. Copy that.
119:32:03	Schmitt	Break seal is OPEN.
119:32:11	Cernan	Okay, that was my MARK. Let me see. Double check that cable length. I'd sure hate to drill a hole that was outside of the - length of the cable.
119:32:23	Schmitt	Okay, Bob, the LMS is deployed. I'm policing the site. The screen is over the port.
119:32:35	CC	Copy that.
119:32:35	Schmitt	I'm going to move - one big rock. What am I doing down in here?
119:32:50	Cernan	What were you doing down in there?
119:32:52	Schmitt	(Laughter) Okay. And, Bob - -
119:32:56	Cernan	Here we go.
119:32:57	Schmitt	- - Bob, there's a little bit of dust adhering to the - sides of the LMS. And a few particles less than - half a percent of the surface on the top. But, of course, you're going to clean that one off; so that's all right.
119:33:19	CC	That's affirm on the top.
119:33:21	Schmitt	The - the north side has about a - 10- or 15-percent dust cover.
119:33:31	CC	Copy that.
119:33:32	Schmitt	...
119:33:32	CC	- And, Geno, you're leaning pretty heavy forward on that drill.
119:33:39	Cernan	Okay, Bob. She went in - she's going in like she's in some pretty dead stuff, and then I hit some rock here. I'll watch it - I won't lean forward. I'm not putting too much pressure on it.
119:33:52	CC	Okay.
119:33:52	Cernan	It sounds to me like she's chippering away through rock. May be just a little longer drilling hole than it was at the Cape.
119:34:12	PAO	Cernan drilling two 8 foot holes for the heatflow experiment.
119:35:16	Cernan	Bob, she's going in - but not without a little bit of resistance.
119:35:20	CC	Roger. We're observing that, Geno.
119:35:23	Cernan	Every once in a while - every once in a while, she breaks through a soft spot.
119:35:29	CC	Good.
119:35:48	Schmitt	Bob, I'll tell you, this central station's a bear - bear to get level. Well, I just got dust on it now.
119:36:17	Schmitt	It's just too soft.
119:36:42	Cernan	Boy, that sure was drilling in hard stuff because it took a lot to get it off.
119:37:00	CC	Okay, Jack. And we could certainly stand a little bit of dust, at least on top of that central station sunshield.
119:37:08	Schmitt	Yes, I guess the level's important.
119:37:12	CC	Roger.
119:37:17	Cernan	I can just see what John's thinking right now. That's what makes the difference. That's where you expend your energy.
119:37:36	Schmitt	Bob, I don't know that I'm going to be able to do that without a lot of time. It's hanging against the south edge.
119:37:48	CC	Say again there, Jack.
119:37:53	Schmitt	I don't know whether I'm going to be able to level it - the central station.
119:38:07	Cernan	Anything I can do, Jack?
119:38:14	Schmitt	Okay. I got it off the edge.
119:38:18	CC	Okay; maybe we better just leave it there.
119:38:33	Schmitt	Well, I'm making it worse by getting dust on the top.
119:38:39	CC	No, the dust on the top is not as important as getting it leveled, Jack. But if you get it broken off the edge, that ought to be good enough.
119:39:02	Cernan	Bob, I'm riding at about 382. I've got - oh, I guess, about 80 - Well, no, there's half - I guess, 60 percent; no flags and no tones.
119:39:17	CC	Okay. Copy that, Geno.
119:39:24	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. It's touching the second ring; the gnomon is aligned, and I'm going to leave it alone.
119:39:31	CC	Roger on that.
119:39:36	Schmitt	Yes, I think I lost all the time I might have made up.
119:39:40	Cernan	Hey, Bob, it's obvious that I'm going through some pretty stuff - tough stuff. Consolidated material, like rock fragments, and then it breaks through; and then it jumps for about 3 or 4 inches and then I hit some more fragments.
119:39:54	CC	Roger. We're seeing that Geno. Looks interesting.
119:40:10	Schmitt	Oh, me. I got too low on that one. I thought I had that gaged.
119:40:24	Cernan	If you deploy that geophone, you go out of sight.
119:41:18	Cernan	Bob, there would be absolutely no way of breaking this drill from that - those bores without that tool, I guarantee you that.
119:41:28	CC	Okay. We copy that, Geno.
119:41:41	Cernan	I think I found a way to get this off, though, with a little help. Okay, number 3 coming up.
119:41:48	CC	Roger. The third and last one on this hole.
119:41:53	Cernan	Yes, sir. Oh, boy. Time out.
119:42:07	CC	Okay.
119:42:08	Schmitt	Don't work too hard.
119:42:09	CC	Roger.
119:42:13	Cernan	My fender's still on, which makes me happy. I'll tell you, if you could come and sprinkle the whole area with water and get rid of some of this dust -
119:42:31	CC	Okay, Geno. And can you remember if those heat flow cables are not crossed as they come out of that box?
119:42:39	Cernan	Yes, sir. I very definitely made a point of not crossing them.
119:42:42	CC	Okay; very good.
119:42:44	Cernan	They are not - they are not crossed.
119:42:48	CC	Good.
119:43:08	Schmitt	(Laughter) Where do we find such men?
119:43:12	Cernan	How's it coming, Jack?
119:43:15	Schmitt	Oh, slow. This leveling is really throwing me behind the power curve; but I know they - they're serious about it, so - If I can keep it where it is now, I'm in like Flynn. It's perfectly centered, Even the gnomon is aligned within a shadow width.
119:43:49	Cernan	Man, is that thing biting.
119:43:53	Schmitt	Really working down there, huh?
119:43:54	Cernan	Oh, you betcha, man. I'm in something tough down there now. Whew.
119:43:59	Schmitt	Well, what - what bore are you in?
119:44:02	Cernan	Number 3. If I let go of that drill and it kept running - If that drill kept running and I wasn't anchored to the ground - -
119:44:10	Schmitt	(Laughter)
119:44:11	Cernan	- it would throw me over a massif - in tangential turns.
119:44:29	CC	Okay, Geno - -
119:44:29	Cernan	I think I'm in the mother lode down there.
119:44:31	CC	Gene, if its getting really tough and you're not making much progress, we'll be happy with it where it is.
119:44:38	CC	Well, looks like you really - -
119:44:38	Cernan	No, sir, you're going to be happy with it where it's supposed to be; and that's where it's - -
119:44:43	CC	You were hiding it from us - -
119:44:43	Cernan	Yes, sir.
119:44:44	CC	- we couldn't tell how deep in you were.
119:44:48	Cernan	I wanted to surprise you. They're going in all the way, and they're both going to work. It's a little tough looking into the Sun.
119:45:00	Schmitt	Yes.
119:45:10	Cernan	Oh, Manischewitz! I don't know where I picked that word up, but (chuckle) it's better than some, I guess. Now if I can use my little lean-tool here. Oh, man, that works great. That works great. Put this out of the way. Bob, I'm into the white mark; it depends on what you want to call the surface. You know, it's - I can - I can give you 6 -or give or take 6 or 8 inches.
119:46:12	CC	Yes, something like that will do, Gene, I guess. You can measure it ...
119:46:17	Schmitt	Gene, is the dust coming up changing color on you at all?
119:46:21	Cernan	No, Jack. It isn't changing color. I can't even tell - I can't even tell where it's coming up.
119:46:31	Schmitt	(Laughter)
119:46:33	Cernan	I don't think it is coming up, I think I'm just pushing it aside.
119:46:35	Schmitt	oqy, I'll tell you - -
119:46:36	CC	I saw something come up then just then, Jack.
119:46:38	Schmitt	- - the old ALSEP central station - -
119:46:41	Schmitt	Yes, it deploys itself; it turns out.
119:46:44	CC	Roger on that. That was - -
119:46:46	Schmitt	Bob--
119:46:46	CC	- - pretty amazing.
119:46:53	Schmitt	Okay. When I - I finally leveled it in a bull's eye. I don't know whether you heard me or not, but it was - it was perfect. So it's okay. It's just got a fair - it's got about 20-percent dust cover on the top.
119:47:09	CC	Okay.
119:47:14	Cernan	Sure ... glad you've got that probe covered.
119:47:20	CC	And, Jack, ALSEP says that that's okay, the 20 percent's no problem.
119:47:31	Schmitt	Okay. I put a rock under the northwest corner. Oops - guess what happened. (Laughter) Just like in training, Geno.
119:47:48	Cernan	What happened?
119:47:49	Schmitt	The old geophone cable caught on the corner.
119:47:57	Cernan	Okay. Oops, I'm not ready. That says F4B on that; that's an airplane.
119:48:26	Cernan	Houston, there's no dust on the probe except that which was on my hands.
119:48:32	CC	Okay. Copy that.
119:48:38	Cernan	That must be solar wind.
119:48:47	Schmitt	Sorry not to be more talkative, but - this is taking all the concentration I got. I'll have to push this down, I can see that. Yes, this ... doesn't hold any better here than it - did in training.
119:49:14	Cernan	Oh, don't - don't lose that - Geno, don't lose that - don't lose that. Notice how you talk to yourself out here?
119:49:23	Schmitt	Who, me? (Laughter)
119:49:30	Cernan	Help. I says - you is getting farther and farther behind.
119:49:38	Cernan	Well, I've had my one for today.
119:49:45	Schmitt	Your one what?
119:49:46	Cernan	Well, I just did my "whifferdill."
119:49:49	Schmitt	Oh, did you fall?
119:49:50	Cernan	No. It's funny how for every action there's an equal and opposite reaction, isn't it?
119:49:57	Schmitt	Hey, I've heard that before. Okay, Secure thermal curtains.
119:50:04	Schmitt	Thermal curtains are secured.
119:50:07	CC	Okay. Copy that.
119:50:14	Cernan	How far behind am I, Bob?
119:50:16	CC	Stand by. Roger. We're showing - Gene, just about 20 minutes; and Jack, just about 25 -between 20 and 25 minutes for both of you.
119:50:38	Cernan	Okay.
119:50:44	Schmitt	- How are our consumables?
119:50:47	CC	Stand by.
119:50:58	Cernan	Oh, if this thing isn't going to work better than that -
119:51:32	Cernan	Bob, just like the book says, it's down to Papa 1; and it hooked.
119:51:36	CC	How about that.
119:51:53	Cernan	Oh, boy, the old fingers really suffer on these.
119:52:00	Schmitt	Take it easy.
119:52:02	Cernan	Okay. Now this one down to F1. Would you believe F1?
119:52:13	CC	Yes, I believe you, Gene.
119:52:32	Cernan	Bob, in this soil, best number I can give you is about an inch below the white spots - or Bravo 1.
119:52:41	CC	Okay. Copy Bravo 1.
119:52:47	Cernan	I got a - I got a better way of putting that last thermal shield on now.
119:52:57	PAO	Jack Schmitt working on the ALSEP central station aligning the antenna, it looks like.
119:53:38	Cernan	Okay, Bob, you're looking at it - coming out to the south, but I don't expect it'll stay that way unless I put some dirt over the cable. How does that grab you?
119:53:52	CC	Stand by, Gene.
119:53:57	Cernan	You like that thermal shield the way it is? Okay. That's coming out south. That's in good shape. I'm pleased with that.
119:54:05	CC	Dirts okay, if you want to put it on there, Gene.
119:54:06	Cernan	... happy with it. I'm moving on.
119:54:08	CC	Okay.
119:54:12	Cernan	Now the thermal shield is on there, Bob. I got them all on there.
119:54:15	CC	I was talking about - If you want to put some dirt on there to hold it down, that's okay.
119:54:20	Cernan	Oh, okay. Well, I got it down without the dirt.
119:54:24	CC	Okay. Good enough.
119:54:26	Cernan	I'm just finding all sorts of good ways to make life easier out here.
119:54:36	Schmitt	Stay away from the cables.
119:54:41	Cernan	Bob, and I didn't forget the last measurement either.
119:54:44	CC	Roger that.
119:54:49	Cernan	Hey, can you see this big mound that I just walked - it's just to the north - not a mound - the depression that's just to the north of me?
119:54:58	CC	Roger, 17 -
119:54:59	Cernan	It's probably behind the Rover. Okay. Well, how's - how's that look for the core?
119:55:09	CC	Standby.
119:55:26	CC	Geno, can you give us a distance estimate to that? Does it look like it's 80 feet or so?
119:55:33	Cernan	Yes.
119:55:33	CC	Okay. Then that sounds good.
119:55:36	Schmitt	Oh, shucks. Hey, Bob, is there any way a level bubble can fail (laughter)?
119:55:45	CC	Hey, Jack, remember that's on top of those wobbly legs and - or wobbly springs there. And with the thing not being straight, you shouldn't really expect the level bubble to be level after the thing's been deployed. That happened at the Cape a couple of times, remember?
119:56:00	Schmitt	Yes, but Bob, I've - I've moved this practically all the way down the full throw and it - That bubble won't move, and I can't get it to move by tilting it; and I was level. And the bubble on the top of the central station is still level.
119:56:15	CC	Okay. You're talking about the level on your other one, huh? Stand by on that.
119:56:20	Schmitt	The gnomon, yes - Both of them? I can't get it to move to the other side of the - fluid.
119:56:32	Cernan	Keep working. That - that thing shouldn't fail.
119:56:43	Schmitt	Well, I've gone full throw - That's not level.
119:56:46	Schmitt	That bubble's stuck in there, somehow. In both of them. That's not even pointing close to the Earth. Okay, I'm going to have to tweak it up and let them see the signal strength - and tweak it.
119:57:03	CC	Okay. Why don't you try and manually point it - try and level it and see if we - see what you can do toward getting it towards the Earth.
119:57:17	Schmitt	I will, Bob. That bubble's just not working. I - I can't figure that one out.
119:57:18	CC	Okay. Just go ahead and use the - -
119:57:20	Schmitt	Okay. Maybe I jarred it loose here.
119:57:22	CC	Okay.
119:57:26	Schmitt	Okay, I think I jarred it loose.
119:57:28	CC	That's another first - -
119:57:29	Schmitt	Don't ask me how.
119:57:29	CC	- - Okay, we won't.
119:57:47	Schmitt	Okay. I got the other one loose. That's very strange. A sticky level bubble. (Laughter) Never heard of it.
119:57:58	Cernan	Hey, Bob.
119:58:00	CC	Go ahead, Jack - Gene.
119:58:00	Cernan	If you're looking at me, what I'm talking about is this depression - is this depression in here for the core - oh, maybe 15, 20 meters out in here. Jack, what did you have in mind for the neutron flux?
119:58:13	Schmitt	Either the one you're in - you're down in there, or next one over behind that rock in front of you over there.
119:58:19	Cernan	Hey, I can go way over there. That's not too far probably for - -
119:58:22	Schmitt	Well, either way I think is fine, Gene. But I would suggest behind the rock.
119:58:27	Cernan	For a neutron flux, huh?
119:58:28	Schmitt	Yes, sir; and the core.
119:58:29	Cernan	Well, I wanted - I thought they wanted a core in that depression.
119:58:33	Schmitt	Well, that - there's also one over there.
119:58:38	CC	Okay, and - 17 - -
119:58:38	Schmitt	... a choice.
119:58:40	Cernan	I'll go behind that rock; that looks good from here.
119:58:42	CC	And, 17, we think you guys are in far - by far the best position to judge that - far better than we are. You know what the requirements are on shielding and - -
119:58:50	Cernan	Okay.
119:58:50	CC	- - greater than 50 meters - 25 meters.
119:59:00	Cernan	Okay, Bob. Okay. The long - long bores in.
119:59:14	CC	Okay. Copy that, Gene. Looked like that one went in fairly well.
119:59:20	Cernan	Well, probably about like the other one did. Not - not too bad.
119:59:24	CC	Okay.
119:59:25	Schmitt	Oh, I must be getting old.
119:59:29	Cernan	I expect the next two are going to be a little harder.
119:59:35	Schmitt	Bob, I'm not very happy with this level. But I'll turn it on and - Have me come back a little bit later, when they've warmed up some more, and let's see what it looks like.
119:59:48	CC	Okay. We'll do that. Give me a mark when you turn it on, and we'll see what kind of signals we get.
119:59:56	Schmitt	Okay. The shadow gnomon is - aligned; I'm going to turn the shorting plug on.
120:00:00	CC	Copy that.
120:00:05	Schmitt	It's on.
120:00:06	CC	Roger.
120:00:11	Schmitt	And - the needle is fullscale left.
120:00:19	CC	Copy that.
120:01:24	Cernan	I can't believe that.
120:01:26	Schmitt	What's your problem?
120:01:27	Cernan	Well, that whole bore turns in the - in the ground, it's so loose. I got - and I got that - You know how those threads sometimes stick on you a little bit. I got one stuck halfway down and the whole bore is turning, so now I've got to use a wrench on it.
120:01:45	CC	Okay, Jack. And we have - -
120:01:47	Schmitt	Bob, I've got a - I've got a - rock about 10 feet southeast of my LEAM location. I can move - I can move a little more north and get, oh - get 15 feet from that. That okay?
120:02:11	CC	How big is the rock there, Jack?
120:02:15	Schmitt	Oh, it stands - it's a meter wide and stands about a third of a meter high.
120:02:22	CC	About a third, and about a foot high?
120:02:24	Cernan	Bob, how's that for - -
120:02:29	Schmitt	A third of a meter.
120:02:31	CC	Okay.
120:02:33	Cernan	Bob, how's that for soil mechanics? I pulled the first bore right on out trying to get this thing on right.
120:02:40	CC	Well, put it in - put it in before your hole fills up there, Geno.
120:02:45	Cernan	Yes. Right now I'm interested in getting this second bore on. Now, let's see if I can get it back in. Well, not quite as far, but high enough for me to reach the - it still feels, Bob, like there's a lot of fragmental material down there.
120:03:16	CC	I copy that, Geno. Good luck.
120:03:18	Cernan	That was an interesting little - exercise. Well, I got the bore on right, anyway.
120:03:30	Schmitt	Well, shoot.
120:03:43	CC	Okay, Jack. As long as it's only 1 foot high and 10 feet away, that's satisfactory.
120:03:53	Schmitt	Okay.
120:04:54	Schmitt	Okay, Bob, the LEAM's deployed, aligned; and the level bubble is - just touching the inner ring.
120:05:08	CC	Copy that.
120:05:13	Schmitt	Hey, Bob. Did you get anything from the ALSEP yet?
120:05:14	CC	Watch that cable, Jack. Roger. We started to tell you that when you had the question, and we're getting a good lockup on the data.
120:05:24	Schmitt	Well, keep an eye on it, because I'm not happy with the level.
120:05:27	CC	Okay. We'll get back with you on that.
120:05:29	Schmitt	I'll check. ... checking.
120:05:37	PAO	The LEAM is the Lunar Ejecta and Meteorites Experiment.
120:05:47	Schmitt	I found a way to get over cables.
120:05:50	Cernan	(singing)
120:05:53	Schmitt	(Laughter)
120:06:07	Cernan	Oh, Manischewitz. Whew.
120:06:11	Schmitt	There you go again.
120:06:12	Cernan	I know. Let me get this one off and take a take a bite of candy here.
120:06:22	Schmitt	I'm kind of having trouble with UHTs today. They just don't want to lock in when you get dust in there.
120:06:29	Cernan	Hey, Jack. Be careful with that UHT on the heat flow because it was aligned - real good.
120:06:36	Schmitt	It was what?
120:06:37	Cernan	The heat flow experiment electronics, when you go over there for that UHT, was aligned.
120:06:41	Schmitt	Oh, yes.
120:06:45	Cernan	Bob, I'm going to take a zap of cold water.
120:06:47	CC	Okay. Sounds good to me.
120:06:53	Cernan	Whee. Almost looks like it's getting dark out. is it? Guess not.
120:07:03	Schmitt	(Laughter) Hope not, or we is in trouble.
120:07:12	Cernan	I think I may have gone the wrong way. I did. I went to MIN instead of MAX. Here it comes. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Man. Watch it. Okay, Jack. You're all right. Still deploying.
120:07:28	Schmitt	Huh?
120:07:29	Cernan	Still deploying. Nothing; you're all right. It's coming out a little - hard.
120:07:41	Schmitt	Wouldn't you know it?
120:07:43	Cernan	Okay. I'm back in MIN, Bob.
120:07:48	CC	Okay. Copy that.
120:07:55	Cernan	By any chance have any heat flow data yet?
120:08:01	CC	No, Geno. We don't have the heat flow turned on yet.
120:08:04	Cernan	All right. Oh, that's right. Okay. I think that's right. Okay. I'm about to give you your number. Oh, God darn it. (Laughter) Crank it a couple of times. Clean as a whistle. Clean as a whistle.
120:08:43	Schmitt	Well, just like I thought; antenna doesn't want to go in.
120:08:55	CC	Is that the number 3 section there, Geno?
120:08:58	Schmitt	Yes, it's in.
120:09:01	Cernan	Yes, sir, Bob.
120:09:03	CC	Roger. Beautiful.
120:09:08	Cernan	Well, it's the last one I've got. I guess we'll find out when I put the probe in. I think they're all in there.
120:09:22	Schmitt	Okay. I'm about ready to deploy some geophones.
120:09:25	CC	Okay, Jack. Did you get the antenna into that pallet okay, eventually?
120:09:32	Schmitt	Yes.
120:09:33	CC	Good enough.
120:09:40	Cernan	Bob, I occasionally hit stuff and it - it spits this whole drill back at me. Knocks it back about a half an inch or so, and then it will bite - bite through it.
120:09:54	CC	Okay.
120:10:01	Cernan	My general impression is that there is an awful lot of fragments I'm busting up down there.
120:10:08	CC	Okay.
120:10:33	Cernan	I tell you Bob, That last 6 inches, I really came into something hard; but it's down all the way.
120:10:39	CC	Beautiful, Geno.
120:10:44	Schmitt	Oops, there's a heat flow probe.
120:10:46	Cernan	What happened?
120:10:48	Schmitt	(Laughter) I - I messed up -
120:10:50	Cernan	Man, don't hit that. Give me heart failure after all that drilling.
120:10:53	Schmitt	No, I just walked too close to it. I apologize for that.
120:10:56	Cernan	I don't care how close you walk to it -
120:10:57	Schmitt	Well, Mark does, Mark does.
120:11:02	Cernan	Just don't step on it.
120:11:09	Schmitt	I do that ...
120:11:21	Cernan	(groan) Hey, Bob, just out of curiosity, what kind of heart rates has this drill been producing on me?
120:11:32	CC	Stand by. Okay, you've been running at 120 flush, Gene, with peaks of 140 to 150 from time to time.
120:11:57	Cernan	Okay.
120:12:02	CC	And there goes the last heat flow hole on the Moon.
120:12:05	Cernan	Oh. Yes, sir. I tell you, if you learn how to use your instruments in this 1/6g, you take your time and you get around; it's frank - phenomenal. But if you try and bend over without some help; not so phenomenal.
120:12:51	Cernan	Boy, what a ride that Challenger gave us coming down. What a ride.
120:13:28	Cernan	Oh, you dummy - you dummy. Jack you still with me.
120:13:42	Schmitt	Yes,
120:13:43	Cernan	Okay. Boy, I'm getting dropsies now. Getting dropsies.
120:13:50	Schmitt	Don't push it.
120:13:52	Cernan	Getting dropsies.
120:13:53	Schmitt	Take a rest.
120:14:36	Cernan	Unbelievable - unbelievable.
120:14:58	PAO	Gene Cernan putting the second heat flow probe into place.
120:15:12	CC	Okay, Geno. And the heat flow is on and looking good.
120:15:20	Cernan	That's good news, Bob. Let me give you another one here. While it's dirty; I'll tell you I'm in to the bottom of the white marks, and that's - oh, about Bravo 1 again.
120:15:43	CC	Okay, I copy. Papa 1, Foxtrot 1, and Bravo 1?
120:15:49	Cernan	No, sir, Bob. Now the - the bore stem is in to the top of the white marks; I'm still putting the probe down.
120:15:59	CC	Okay, copy that. - -
120:16:00	Cernan	And the top of the white marks is about bravo 1.
120:16:03	CC	Copy that.
120:16:03	Cernan	About bravo 1. Okay. Here go - here goes the probe. Pick a number you'd like to hear. How about Papa 1?
120:16:25	CC	How about Papa 1 there, Geno.
120:16:30	Cernan	Bingo, babe, you win; and it locked in.
120:16:33	CC	Roger. I think Mark won on that one, too.
120:16:35	Cernan	Papa 1.
120:16:36	CC	Roger. And, Jack, I gather you are probably traipsing across the landscape with a geophone about now, right?
120:16:52	Schmitt	That's firm.
120:16:53	CC	Okay. And let me ask you - -
120:16:55	Cernan	Good gravy! You know how big that rock -
120:16:57	CC	Stand by. Go ahead.
120:17:02	Schmitt	Go ahead, Bob.
120:17:05	CC	Okay. I gather - you said that the heat - the LEAM was leveled and aligned, and I gather that meant it was on the black decal on top. Do you happen to remember what number was on that?
120:17:19	Schmitt	Well, I'll check it. But I think you know where that decal is.
120:17:23	CC	Well, okay. Good enough.
120:17:30	Cernan	Okay, Bob. The little thermal shield went to F1.
120:17:36	CC	Hey, that's another bingo.
120:17:38	Cernan	And it's coming out to the south. I'm coming out to the south.
120:17:43	CC	Roger.
120:18:07	Cernan	And the thermal shield is in place.
120:18:12	CC	Roger. Copy that.
120:18:28	Cernan	Well, it was until I moved it. Do I need my javelin anymore?
120:18:40	Schmitt	You might.
120:18:42	Cernan	Yes, I might.
120:18:42	CC	One never - one never knows, Geno.
120:18:43	Cernan	I think I'll save it until after - I think I'll save it until after I drill the core. Oh, me oh my.
120:18:54	Schmitt	Take it easy, Geno. You sound like you're -
120:18:55	Cernan	No, I'm doing fine.
120:18:57	Schmitt	Okay.
120:18:58	Cernan	That Sun is just bright. I ought to put those visors down, I suppose - those other visors. Okay. Let me take a look at my list and see whether I've got everything. Measured, measured; height, height; you've got all the shields; you're coming out south; verify heat flow is level and aligned - it is aligned and gnomon was good; UHT to the LRV LMP seat; and then what do I do? Let me see. Deep core prep. Jack, I'm going to leave the UHT in the heat flow in case you need it.
120:19:30	Schmitt	Okay.
120:19:32	Cernan	Okay. I'm going to go behind a rock over there -
120:19:35	Schmitt	Now, now.
120:19:38	Cernan	In that depression. Bob, you do want the core in a depression, right?
120:19:46	CC	Roger. That's affirmative, Geno.
120:19:51	Cernan	Okay, nobody touch my heat flow; the prettiest job I've ever done. Okay, I'm going behind a boulder over here. Bob, I've got about 385; and, I guess, about 50 percent. I can't see it too well.
120:20:17	CC	I copy that, Geno.
120:20:17	Cernan	And no flags and no tone; and I'm on - I'm on intermediate coolant and I feel great.
120:20:26	Schmitt	Likewise; and I'm - -
120:20:26	CC	Roger.
120:20:30	Schmitt	- - and LMP is - LMP is 56 percent.
120:20:33	CC	Okay. Copy that.
120:20:33	Schmitt	What are you, Geno?
120:20:35	Cernan	Well, I can't see it. The Sun was - I don't know, Jack. I can't - it was about 5 - yes, about 55 or 54.
120:20:48	Schmitt	Okay.
120:20:49	Cernan	Now, this ought to shield that thing from the doggone -
120:20:56	Schmitt	Pressure's 385 on the LMP.
120:21:08	Schmitt	Bob, one comment on - getting the geophones within a few degrees of vertical - in this undulating terrain (chuckle), I think they're pretty good; but it's not real easy to tell what vertical is.
120:21:23	CC	Roger, Jack.
120:21:29	Cernan	Well, this is right in line with the shallow depression; and it's right in line with the - RTG, with a rock in the middle.
120:21:39	CC	Okay, Geno. As long as you're drilling behind the rocks from the RTG, that's great.
120:21:48	Cernan	That's where you're going to get it. Let me see what I need. Drill, rack, core bag - drill at 1 IPS. Okay. Let's go do it right.
120:22:18	PAO	Gene Cernan preparing to drill another hole - these cores will be brought back to Earth and the neutron flux experiment will be placed in that hole.
120:22:29	Cernan	Okay. Let me see, I'm going to put it right in this depression. Right in it.
120:22:34	Schmitt	There, get the middle of that.
120:22:36	Cernan	It's a shallow one. If I go over there, I'm not shielded, Jack.
120:22:39	Schmitt	No, that's good. Get in the middle. Get it in that place.
120:22:43	Cernan	Right in this little - it's only about a 4-meter depression.
120:22:46	Schmitt	Oh, wait a minute - oh, you're on the other side of the rock. Okay.
120:22:48	Cernan	Yes, yes. Yes, I want to get back here.
120:22:52	Schmitt	That's good. Oh, man, go slow.
120:23:21	PAO	We're at 3 hours 21 minutes into this EVA.
120:23:35	Schmitt	Bob, the - all of these big boulders around here that I've looked at, are the same - same rock type.
120:23:48	Schmitt	Oh - who pulled over the geophone module?
120:23:53	Cernan	Can't imagine.
120:23:57	Schmitt	Okay. That sounds like the title of a book.
120:24:22	Cernan	Uh oh. There it went.
120:24:25	Schmitt	What happened?
120:24:26	Cernan	Oh, I lost my vice. I see it. I see it.
120:24:37	Schmitt	Hope I took number 1 in the right direction. Yes. Okay, number 4 will be a little hard to pick up.
120:24:47	Cernan	Boy, all these little craters are filled with glass. Come on back here. I've got to chase this thing over the lunar surface.
120:24:57	Schmitt	I've seen glass covers. Oh, about out towards there, I guess.
120:25:18	Schmitt	As I was saying, Bob, all these big blocks that I've looked at look like the gabbroic rock that I was talking about - possibly upwards of 50-percent plagioclase rather than 30 like the mare - but an intermediate gabbro of some kind. And one big block there had very sharply defined - parallel parting planes. I think there is a foliation of minerals that parallel that parting, but I'll have to check it out.
120:26:09	CC	Okay. Copy that, Jack.
120:26:14	Schmitt	Those parting planes go over the - go through the whole boulder on the order of at least 3 meters long and outcrop.
120:26:41	PAO	Jack Schmitt deploying the geophones of the lunar surface profiling experiment in a large T shape.
120:27:03	Schmitt	How is it going, Gene?
120:27:05	Cernan	Fine. I'm on my second stem, here - or I'm starting on it. How are you coming?
120:27:13	Schmitt	Okay. I'm just about ready to - pick up - old the biggy, geophone 4.
120:27:24	Cernan	(Laughter) Have a good time.
120:27:27	CC	Okay. And Geno, how are you doing? We've been watching Jack traipse back and forth across the -
120:27:36	Schmitt	I'm getting there, Bob. I'm trying to pit -
120:27:39	Cernan	Talk about seven league boots.
120:27:43	Schmitt	Put stem number 2 on.
120:27:52	CC	And, Jack, how's the visibility back at the center geophone ...
120:27:59	Schmitt	How's the vis?
120:28:01	CC	Yes. Are you - -
120:28:02	Schmitt	Not bad.
120:28:03	CC	Okay. You're not having to worry about the photos yet?
120:28:08	Schmitt	No, I've been checking it. Bob, my biggest problem is that the flags don't anchor.
120:28:19	CC	Okay. Copy that.
120:28:25	Schmitt	In general, the lines are following the contours. Whoops - whoops - whoops.
120:29:24	Cernan	Well, try another one. Doggonit.
120:29:29	CC	What's the problem, Geno? it won't screw on?
120:29:34	Cernan	Oh, yes. It's no problem. You know, it's the same problem you always have. You get these threads - get a little side force on them and - you know, with the helmet and gloves and what have you - it's just - you can't - Sometimes they go on easy; sometimes they don't.
120:29:52	CC	Copy that.
120:30:04	Cernan	Okay. I got this one on now.
120:30:06	CC	Roger.
120:30:28	Schmitt	Boy, do I have a ball of spaghetti here. But the geophones are going in the right direction. I hope you don't have an EMI problem. Can the geophone lines cross, Bob?
120:30:41	CC	Stand by on that. Okay; no problem, Jack.
120:30:58	Schmitt	Okay. Hey, if you see me start to pull over that module there -
120:31:07	Cernan	Hey, don't do that.
120:31:08	Schmitt	No, I mean - oh, I won't hurt it. It's just that it - it stretches the other geophones tight.
120:31:17	CC	Okay. Well, right now we're watching Gene.
120:31:22	Schmitt	Okay. Don't worry about it. I'll watch it. The anchors are completely unsuccessful - on the module, anyway.
120:31:48	CC	That looks pretty good, Geno.
120:31:53	Cernan	Not too bad, Bob. The first core was awful loose. I think I could have pulled it back out with my hands.
120:32:01	CC	That's not the idea.
120:33:02	Cernan	Oh boy, oh boy. Speaking of boy, oh boy - are you a long way off.
120:35:06	Cernan	Okay, going to stop for a second, Bob.
120:35:10	CC	Okay. We've observed your problem there getting the wrench off, Geneo.
120:35:16	Cernan	Well, I had to get down to get that - to get that - third - third stem aligned and get it on there. This is the easy part, but I just got myself behind the power curve for a second.
120:35:29	CC	All right.
120:35:41	Schmitt	How's the time, Bob?
120:35:43	CC	Stand by. Okay. Presuming you're taking photos now on geophone 4. Having to finish geophone 4, Jack, you're about - right now, looks like about 15 minutes behind.
120:36:03	Schmitt	Okay.
120:36:09	CC	And no problem on the time line so far.
120:36:13	Cernan	Darn it. You know, Bob, one of the problems is I'm working in a small crater; and it's just a little difficult to work on these slopes. Okay. It's on. I'm ready to put the drill in.
120:36:31	CC	Okay, Geneo.
120:36:36	Cernan	Okay. Let me get the dust out of the bit by blurping it. Oh, man; okay. How am I doing, Bob, on the time?
120:38:04	Cernan	Jack, do you read me?
120:38:05	Schmitt	Yes.
120:38:06	Cernan	Okay, because I don't see you.
120:38:08	Schmitt	I'm out by the big rock.
120:38:10	Cernan	Oh, okay; I got you.
120:38:44	Cernan	Man, I hope that hole doesn't collapse. I'm going to be awful disappointed. I think I could drive that heat flow flux - or heat flow - or neutron flux in, at least for one probe, without any problem. Okay, Bob, if all goes well in the next few short moments, you'll have the final - unleaded(?) - cores stem - automatic - in this area - on Apollo 17.
120:39:33	CC	On a Monday evening, Roger.
120:39:38	Cernan	Yes, on Monday evening. That is what it is, isn't it? Hey, who's winning the football game?
120:39:46	CC	Stand by; we'll find out.
120:40:16	CC	Okay; and, Jack and Gene, the score is 10 to 10 at the half.
120:40:26	Cernan	Yes, that's Oakland and - and who?
120:40:29	CC	Jets.
120:40:38	Cernan	... Kansas City. What am I thinking of?
120:41:32	PAO	The duration of this EVA will be 6 hours and 45 minutes. The oxygen supply in the backpacks is being used at a slightly higher rate than anticipated. We are 3 hours and 40 minutes into the EVA now.
120:43:14	Cernan	Hey, Bob, would you settle for about 8 inches out of the ground? it's about as low as I can get.
120:43:22	CC	Okay - -
120:43:23	Schmitt	I haven't heard from them recently.
120:43:24	CC	Okay - Okay, Geno. We'll give you A minus for that one.
120:43:25	Cernan	I know.
120:43:26	Schmitt	There he is.
120:43:27	CC	But it's still an A.
120:43:30	Cernan	Well, I'll go lower if I could get an A plus. But I am going to accept an A minus, because I'll never get the wrench on it if I go any lower.
120:43:39	CC	Roger there, Gene.
120:43:39	Cernan	I'm - I'm within an inch of the white stripes. How's that?
120:43:43	CC	That sounds great to me - -
120:43:44	Cernan	An inch of the white stripes, Bob.
120:43:46	CC	Roger. And they're worried up here that you didn't clear the flutes, Geno. You want to tell them that so they'll be happy?
120:43:52	Cernan	Yes, sir. I'll tell them I did clear the flutes.
120:43:55	CC	Okay. And, Jack, where are you lost on the plains.
120:44:01	Cernan	Yes, I did. But if you want me to do it some more, I will.
120:44:03	CC	No, if you cleared, that's sufficient. And, Jack, where are you lost on the plains of Taurus-Littrow, there?
120:44:12	Schmitt	I'm over here.
120:44:16	Cernan	He's 180 from where your camera - from where I am.
120:44:20	CC	Okay.
120:44:21	Schmitt	Right across the Rover.
120:44:22	CC	Okay. Are you getting ready to take geophone photos or ALSEP photos?
120:44:28	Schmitt	I'm getting ready to enable the old geophone.
120:44:32	CC	Okay. I take it that means you've taken the geophone photos.
120:44:37	Schmitt	Oh, yes, sir; and I forgot the gnomon (laughter).
120:44:40	CC	(Laughter) Hey, Jack. How about giving me a couple of quick readings here to satisfy some people. One, was there a decal on the LEAM that you aligned it with? There's some controversy down here that there's no decal there; and the question is, if there isn't, they want a reading out of the degrees, but we keep saying that the LEAM decal - we can't prove it.
120:45:03	Schmitt	I'll go prove it, Bob. I'll go by there. Stand by.
120:45:07	CC	Okay.
120:45:08	Schmitt	What's the other question?
120:45:09	CC	And the second question is, is there a decal and was it aligned on the ... the 20-degree decal on the LSG. Was that also aligned?
120:45:20	Schmitt	Yes, sir.
120:45:21	CC	Okay. Copy that.
120:45:22	Schmitt	The orange one.
120:45:23	CC	Roger. Agree.
120:45:24	Schmitt	As per drawing.
120:45:26	CC	Roger, sir.
120:45:27	Schmitt	As per drawing.
120:45:29	CC	Roger. You don't have to prove it to me.
120:45:34	Schmitt	Yes, I do.
120:45:37	Cernan	Okay. Okay, Bob, I was able - -
120:45:44	CC	Okay; and, Jack, how far - -
120:45:44	Cernan	- - to pull the core out - -
120:45:45	CC	Okay, go ahead.
120:45:46	Cernan	- - with the drill. I was able to pull the core out with the drill, about 3 inches. And it's all jacking material from there out.
120:45:56	CC	Okay, copy that, Geno. And we finally got some word from the Cape to prove to people that there's a decal on the LEAM, so you don't have to go back by that, Jack. Just at the right time.
120:46:06	Schmitt	I already have. It's reading - it's reading 30. And here's the decal.
120:46:14	CC	Okay. Copy that.
120:46:24	Schmitt	Okay. I guess I'd take ALSEPs word on it.
120:46:30	Cernan	Good.
120:46:40	Schmitt	One more, Once more I tempt the fate of the god of the cables.
120:46:45	CC	Okay; and, Jack, we're getting ready here to try and save a little bit of time. And we're saying that why don't we just take two stereo pans for the ALSEP photos. First stereo pan will be in the vicinity of the original stereo pan; and the second one, they suggested, will be to the northwest - of that original one.
120:47:11	Schmitt	Northwest. Okay.
120:47:12	CC	Yes, and I suggest that you go far enough so that you can see the LEAM past the central station.
120:47:18	Schmitt	Yes, sir.
120:47:23	Cernan	Hey, Bob, (laughter) you'll be interested to know I just put a - I just put a plug in the top of that core; and it disappeared from sight down the center - center of the core. I'll put a cap on it, too; but I want to plug it first. I want to - I want to get the rammer to plug it down.
120:47:44	Schmitt	Hey, Bob, where do you want the focus on the pan to be?
120:47:47	CC	Stand by on that.
120:47:49	Schmitt	About 15 feet?
120:47:54	CC	Stand by.
120:48:10	Cernan	Where's my rammer? There it is.
120:48:17	Cernan	Hey, Bob, that's strange. That plug was too small for the core.
120:48:38	CC	Hey, Jack. You got a focus that's somewhat short of 7 - Well, between 74 feet and - just a little short of 74 feet?
120:48:48	Schmitt	I've already taken it at 15, Bob. I think that's pretty good.
120:48:53	CC	Okay; that's - Okay. We couldn't get an estimate.
120:48:59	Schmitt	It's not a calibrated detent, but I don't think you need it here.
120:49:04	CC	Okay.
120:49:42	Schmitt	How far northwest?
120:49:48	CC	Go ahead, 17.
120:49:51	Schmitt	About the same - about the same position as the heat flow down-Sun - or up-Sun?
120:50:00	CC	Stand by.
120:50:07	Schmitt	Okay, Bob, I - I was able to - -
120:50:11	CC	Yes. That sounds pretty good to me, Jack.
120:50:13	Schmitt	- - to get. Bob, I ran that plug three-quarters - two-thirds of the way down the rammer, and it - it hit solid paydirt.
120:50:24	CC	Okay. That sounds good.
120:50:26	Schmitt	And I'll put a cap on it for you, too.
120:50:27	CC	Okay. That'll make people happy. Did you copy me, Jack, that ... 6 o'clock to the - -
120:50:32	Schmitt	I knew it would. And that - -
120:50:34	CC	And -
120:50:41	Schmitt	Roger, Bob.
120:50:46	CC	And, Jack, would you confirm for the ground that you got the LSP enabled?
120:50:49	Schmitt	That's cap Alfa. No, I didn't. You interrupted me. Good boy. I was on my way, and the LEAM interrupted me. I'll get it.
120:50:58	CC	Roger.
120:51:02	Schmitt	Keep after me.
120:51:21	PAO	Gene Cernan will use a jack to get the core stems out of the -
120:51:29	Cernan	Bob, that's cap Alfa - that's on the - that's on the - the core.
120:51:39	CC	Say again there, Geno.
120:51:47	CC	Jack, you're taking your second pan, right?
120:51:49	Cernan	I'm not sure they're hearing us all the time.
120:51:56	Schmitt	Yes, but the camera just stopped.
120:52:11	Cernan	Oh, man!
120:52:13	CC	Okay, what - -
120:52:13	Cernan	Oh!
120:52:14	CC	- - was your question, Geno?
120:52:18	Cernan	I just said that was cap Alfa on the core. And let me tell you it's coming, but this thing is really in something. Oh.
120:52:33	Schmitt	Would you believe I'm out of film, Bob?
120:52:38	CC	Okay. I'm afraid I'll have to.
120:52:43	Schmitt	Why didn't I look at the number?
120:52:45	CC	You want to give me a frame count, Jack?
120:52:46	Schmitt	Mag Alfa is empty.
120:52:48	CC	Okay. Copy that.
120:52:50	Schmitt	It's 158.
120:52:55	CC	Copy, 158.
120:53:12	CC	Okay, Jack, we're recommending magazine Hotel, and we also suggest you take the second pan, when you retake it, at 74 feet.
120:53:24	Schmitt	Okay.
120:53:27	Cernan	Man, it didn't feel like this stuff was that hard.
120:53:38	Schmitt	What's the problem, Geno? You need some help?
120:53:40	Cernan	No, nothing you can do. Just - just jacking away. See if I can get this thing out of the way. See if I can get it out, is what I'm really saying. I may be jacking the treadle down into the surface
120:54:03	Schmitt	Change hands.
120:54:28	CC	Okay, Jack, if you haven't put magazine Hotel on, we want to recall that amd make it magazine Golf - Gail.
120:54:38	Schmitt	Well, Bob, I've already got it on.
120:54:41	CC	Okay. Sorry about that.
120:54:42	Schmitt	Is that okay?
120:54:44	CC	Leave it on.
120:54:46	Schmitt	I know what you want. You want color.
120:54:49	CC	That's affirm.
120:54:50	Schmitt	Well, anyway, it's black and white all...
120:54:53	Cernan	Gail is not - you mean Charlie.
120:55:02	PAO	That jack applies about 5 to 600 pounds of pressure.
120:55:10	Schmitt	Do you want color, or do you want Charlie?
120:55:14	CC	Stand - stand by, Jack, if you're still at the Rover.
120:55:20	Schmitt	Well, I'm still here, but I got Hotel on.
120:55:24	CC	Okay. Leave Hotel on. That's - we - we goofed. We'll just accept it.
120:55:31	Schmitt	Well, okay. We don't have much time; otherwise I'd change it. I should have thought of that myself.
120:55:39	CC	Well, couldn't get ... there - -
120:55:40	Cernan	We got a little time because I've got a lot of jacking to do. Man!
120:55:49	Schmitt	Let me - let me finish the pan and come and help you.
120:55:52	Cernan	Well, there's not - not a lot you can do, Jack.
120:55:55	Schmitt	I'll get the neutron flux ready.
120:55:57	Cernan	Well, thanks a lot.
120:56:01	Cernan	Okay. Come on, baby. I'm going to get this thing out, now that I got it.
120:56:14	CC	Boy, Geno, that's what you call getting down into your work.
120:56:24	Cernan	Bob, I'll save my comments until later. I hope this core is appreciated.
120:56:35	CC	Roger, Gene. And I have word from the back room that it is appreciated.
120:56:41	Cernan	Yes, that makes me feel warm. I'll get it. You're going to have to bear with me. Man, I don't know what it's in.
120:56:58	Schmitt	I was afraid that would happen - with all those rocks.
120:57:04	Cernan	Yes, but it didn't go in that hard.
120:57:08	CC	Hey, Geno, how about slacking off for a minute there. You got pretty - going pretty hard.
120:57:16	Cernan	Okay. One more turn, I'll get up. I've got to hit an easy spot sooner or later.
120:57:27	CC	It seems that way.
120:57:34	Cernan	You're right, Bob. I'm going to take a rest. You bet you. Man, I hate to say it, but I - I had that 25 percent of the way there. I can feel it ticking now. I'm going cold.
120:58:00	CC	Okay.
120:58:19	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. I got your pans and a couple pictures of the heat-flow probes.
120:58:28	CC	Okay - -
120:58:28	Schmitt	Now, let's see - -
120:58:29	CC	- - okay, Gene - Jack. If you've got the two separate pans there, we're suggesting that you - in the - since the CDR is still working on the core recovery, we suggest that you sample the large boulders and loose material on top of some of the smaller large boulders in the vicinity. I would look through some sampling here while Geno's pumping on the old jack. Unless you guys see that - -
120:58:54	Schmitt	You want me to help him?
120:58:55	CC	Well, unless you guys - Okay. If you'd let me finish. Unless you guys think that two guys can do that better than one, I'm not sure.
120:59:04	Schmitt	Gene, you want me to spell you a little?
120:59:06	Cernan	Jack, I don't think there's a lot you can do. Come on over here 1 minute. Let's see if I can - -
120:59:10	Schmitt	Well, I can use up some of my water.
120:59:13	Cernan	Let's see if I can't get a bigger bite - you on one end, and let me stand on the treadle and we might be able to get a bigger bite. See, I can't get a very big bite. That's one of the problems.
120:59:28	CC	And, Jack, could you verify we have the LMP ENABLE on ... - -
120:59:30	Cernan	I just hope that jack doesn't break.
120:59:34	Schmitt	No, I'll get it. I knew there was something I needed to do.
120:59:36	Cernan	Get the jack end over here - other side. Let me - let me put some weight here. See if you can - see - what - what kind of bite you can get.
120:59:51	Schmitt	Oh, man.
120:59:52	Cernan	Yes, that's what I've been doing. See if you can get a bigger -
121:00:05	Schmitt	Oh, no.
121:00:09	Cernan	It's coming, though. See, just - Here, let me get my foot down there and you get - you get - jack. See, that's the key. No, I think I can -
121:00:23	Schmitt	Okay. If I do it that way -
121:00:25	Cernan	Get her way down there.
121:00:26	Schmitt	Okay. Now try it.
121:00:28	Cernan	See, we got a couple of inches there to throw. We're all right. There you go. Do that for a little bit.
121:00:34	Schmitt	Okay. Let me put my foot on it.
121:00:37	Cernan	Okay, ready?
121:00:37	Schmitt	Yes.
121:00:38	Cernan	It's got to loosen up sooner or later.
121:00:41	Schmitt	Okay. That's another good one. When you're tired, I'll do that and you can do this. See, this way, I can - you can get a bigger throw. Okay. Let me know when and I'll do that.
121:00:57	Cernan	Oh, that's all right.
121:01:03	Schmitt	Does it feel like it's loosening up at all?
121:01:05	Cernan	Yes.
121:01:07	Schmitt	(Laughter)
121:01:08	Cernan	Excuse me. Yes, go ahead. (Laughter) Okay, okay, okay (laughter).
121:01:18	Schmitt	Stay there. Stay there. Okay, back. Thank you. Fell on my UHT, among other things. Okay. Let's try that again.
121:01:35	Cernan	You want to get over here and I'll do that for a while.
121:01:36	Schmitt	Oh, that's all right. I'm - I just lost my balance. Let me - can I hold there?
121:01:40	Cernan	Yes. You can hold there, and I'll hold, too.
121:01:47	Schmitt	That seems like a little easier.
121:01:49	Cernan	Yes. That looks to me like it should be getting easy. Just hold on to me and -
121:01:53	Schmitt	What was that?
121:01:53	Cernan	Huh?
121:01:57	Schmitt	I had a tone. It was probably a -
121:01:59	Cernan	You still got it?
121:02:02	Schmitt	Gone, momentary. I probably got a -
121:02:08	Cernan	You get over here. Get over here, Jack.
121:02:10	Schmitt	This is all right.
121:02:11	Cernan	No, let me get over there.
121:02:11	Schmitt	It's coming now.
121:02:19	Cernan	Why don't you come over here?
121:02:22	Schmitt	Come on, one more. I think we're going to get it.
121:02:26	Cernan	Okay. Come on over here and hold your foot against that thing. Just hold that - that little thing down. That's the main thing. Ready?
121:02:38	Schmitt	Yes, we're getting it now.
121:02:47	Cernan	I need your foot on that thing. See if - -
121:02:49	Schmitt	There you go. I don't know what kind of hole we're going to have.
121:02:58	Cernan	Okay. Put it - get your foot down on that thing again.
121:03:04	Schmitt	Wait a minute. Let me - Okay. I jacked the treadle down about 6 inches. Okay. It's loosening up a little bit. I keep saying that, don't I?
121:03:17	Cernan	No. It - it didn't change while I had it there.
121:03:33	Cernan	I can get it. Why don't you go get your - your pan.
121:03:35	Schmitt	You got that?
121:03:35	Cernan	Yes. Why don't you get your pan and your - -
121:03:37	Schmitt	I've got that. I got - -
121:03:38	Cernan	- - LSPE, and I'll - -
121:03:40	Schmitt	I'll get that and a few samples, I guess.
121:03:41	Cernan	Okay. Go ahead and do that. I can get it.
121:03:48	Cernan	Whee. Let me tell you, Red Rover, let me tell you.
121:04:01	Schmitt	I know whose face is smiling back there.
121:04:08	PAO	Ron Evans is coming up over the crater Copernicus in his 17th revolution of the Moon. He's right on the flight plan. Everything going good. Sounder data coming in good.
121:04:10	Schmitt	You don't suppose this is why we didn't have much dust from the LM, do you?
121:04:11	Cernan	I think it is (laughter).
121:04:20	Schmitt	(Laughter) I saw all the way to the ground during landing.
121:04:25	Cernan	Yes.
121:04:26	Schmitt	Okay, Houston.
121:04:29	Schmitt	MARK it, enabled.
121:04:30	CC	Okay, finally. Thank you.
121:04:31	Schmitt	Whoops, I moved your an - your central station. I've got to realign your antenna.
121:04:38	CC	Stand by, Jack. Wait a minute.
121:04:48	Schmitt	Well, the gnomon's still aligned. I thought I moved it.
121:04:53	CC	Okay. Well, let it be.
121:04:53	Schmitt	Yes. We should have raised the flag on this thing. It looks just the same as when I left it, but I thought I moved it.
121:05:02	CC	Okay, Jack.
121:05:09	Schmitt	Is it okay, Bob?
121:05:17	CC	Okay. Leave it alone for right now, Jack, and we'll get a reading on it.
121:05:21	Schmitt	Okay.
121:05:21	CC	For a minute or so. And, Jack, I guess right now, you might get some fairly rapid samples in the area, since you're probably almost ready to leave. And can you tell us what you saw there in the vicinity of the - you were giving us a description of the boulders there and plateness of the - and alignment of the crystals - the plag. You want to amplify that a little bit?
121:05:46	Schmitt	Okay, then. I will as soon as I get back over there with a sample bag. Bag 10 Echo - 10 Echo - is a sample of a very large boulder that's just beyond geophone 3. Just west - just south.
121:06:06	CC	Copy that, 10 Echo, and boulder east of which geophone?
121:06:13	Schmitt	South of geophone 3 - southwest. And I got a few photos to docu - document the boulder. I'm not sure I documented the sample, though.
121:06:26	CC	Okay, copy that.
121:06:26	Schmitt	It - it's a - it's the - the same kind of rock - the same kind of rock I saw near the LM - and the gabbro - I'm beginning to lean towards 50 percent plagioclase, though.
121:06:49	CC	Okay.
121:07:15	Cernan	Bob, I had to remove the treadle from the hole and I'll tell you later why.
121:07:24	CC	Okay, go ahead.
121:07:26	Cernan	Oh, me. No, I'll tell you later why. I'm just figuring, oh me, how am I going to get all this stuff now? I'm going to lose my hole. Okay, it was right there. In our fiasco over here, we knocked everything over.
121:07:43	Schmitt	Did I ruin something?
121:07:44	Cernan	No, I've just got to stoop over to get things and that's a major - major - effort these days.
121:07:51	Schmitt	Can I help you?
121:07:52	Cernan	Nope, I got it here. I've got a delicate core in one hand, and I'm trying to get some core caps in the other. You'd be glad to know it's full, Bob. And while I'm the only one to see the bottom end right now, I'm going to tell you, it - it looks like - it looks like what I'm walking on, but it's obviously now powdery. It's obviously very - very cohesive, because it - it - The bottom of the core is not smooth, it's very jaggedy, and fragmental-like.
121:08:30	CC	Okay, copy that, Geno. Very good.
121:08:35	Cernan	Yes. I'm - I'm being very careful with your core here, but I've got to do a few - little housekeeping chores first.
121:08:41	CC	Okay. Have you got that neutron flux over there in the vicinity, or is it still back at the Rover?
121:08:48	Cernan	No, sir, I already got it.
121:08:49	CC	Okay, good enough.
121:08:51	Cernan	Yes, I've been looking.
121:08:52	CC	And Jack, in your travels there, while you're doing some sampling, if you hap - happen to wander by in the vicinity - approximate vicinity of the double core - the deep core, you might get us a Rover sample of the soil there.
121:09:07	Schmitt	Okay.
121:09:09	Cernan	Bob - Bob, and - the core is filled to within a - an eighth or certainly less than a quarter of an inch from the - from the bit.
121:09:18	CC	Okay. Sounds good to me. Sounds like a good - good candidate for a cap.
121:09:25	Cernan	Yes, sir, and it's got Bravo on and the plug has been discarded.
121:09:29	CC	Copy that.
121:09:35	Cernan	Now, let me see what else I can get here, before I get too upset. I need my - my - the - the - the drill, besides performing admirably, is a tool of necessity to lean over and pick things up with. Except when you let it fall down.
121:09:54	CC	Okay. And our next priority is to put the neutron flux down the hole, we hope.
121:10:06	Cernan	Well, we shall see. Man, I don't even know if I can find the hole. It's in the shadow now. I guess I can see it down there. There it is. Okay. You asked, and with a little bit of luck, you shall receive.
121:10:34	Cernan	Listen, I'm earning my three and a quarter a day today. Oh, boy, I don't want to lose the rammer either. Let me get that before that gets lost in the shuffle. We don't want to lose that for sure.
121:11:09	Cernan	I bet you all think I'm stepping on that hole, don't you?
121:11:14	CC	I don't. John doesn't, either.
121:11:25	Schmitt	Bob, I see no - no clear alignment of plagioclase or pyroxene in this rock. That's the one with the parting in it. It looks as if - integrating what I've seen here and over at the big rock - the geophone rock - I - that the layering or the foliation or the parting, whichever it is, is the result of variations in vesicle concentrations. The sample 10 Echo is a sample of the more coarsely vesicular rock. I could not get one of the finer - more finely or nonvesicular fragments. But I got pictures of it.
121:12:12	CC	Okay, copy that. And do you see any - any - -
121:12:15	Schmitt	I'm having trouble - -
121:12:16	CC	Go ahead.
121:12:20	Schmitt	Go ahead.
121:12:21	CC	Can you see any evidence of soil on top of some of these medium-sized boulders?
121:12:27	Schmitt	There's soil. A little bit of dust in some of the holes. But I - there's not enough to sample at this point. I may find some later.
121:12:40	CC	Okay, copy that. He's picking up ...
121:12:51	Schmitt	Vesicle walls do not seem to be as shiny. Most of them seem to have dust in them.
121:13:02	CC	Copy that.
121:13:02	Schmitt	The vesicles; are not cleanly spherical - they're spherical but they have fairly rough outlines. They look as if there's been some recrystallization.
121:13:16	CC	All right.
121:13:19	Cernan	Bob, I will ver - verify that the lower section is on.
121:13:22	CC	Okay, thank you, Geno.
121:13:37	Schmitt	I picked the wrong rock to sample with a scoop, I'll tell you that.
121:13:56	Cernan	Boy, I'll tell you, housekeeping is the key to the world right now.
121:13:59	CC	Okay, Geno and - let's - -
121:14:01	Cernan	Okay, another key to the world is one of - -
121:14:03	CC	Geno, stand by. Hold it.
121:14:06	Cernan	Yes.
121:14:07	CC	Okay, make sure that the top of it doesn't go down through the hole, too, and disappear, either by putting it through the treadle, or if you're sure this the - or whatever.
121:14:22	Cernan	Boy, Bob, that sure is a good thought. You know, I had to take the treadle off because the jack wouldn't go down and no way I could put that treadle - Well, let me turn it on first. That was a good thought. It may - it may go down that hole. That would be terrible.
121:14:39	CC	How big's the hole look, Geno?
121:14:41	Cernan	See, the jack wouldn't - Well, looks big enough to put this down. Let me - let me use my judgment on it. And a little ingenuity.
121:15:14	Cernan	I verified the top was on, by the way.
121:15:17	CC	Okay, thank you.
121:15:30	Cernan	Shazam!
121:15:31	CC	How about that, loud applause, loud applause.
121:15:39	Cernan	See what happened, here, to that treadle, Bob? I couldn't get the jack to go down and it - it - it made the hole oblong when I - but it's all right now.
121:15:47	CC	Okay; beautiful, beautiful.
121:15:48	Cernan	And it ended up all right.
121:15:50	CC	Okay. And why don't we get you two guys together again, now, and break down the core and press on. And we've got a little revision here to the EVA. I'll get with you in just minute on, as soon as I find out what it is.
121:16:09	Cernan	Bob, I feel pretty good about that - that - that makes me feel pretty good.
121:16:16	Schmitt	Bag 174 - 474, 474, soil from next to this big rock, it's the fillet. I can't get a chunk of the rock.
121:16:26	CC	Copy; 174 fillet beside the big rock. And, Jack, while you coming back here to the Rover, why don't you get one more Rover sample in the vicinity of the deep drill, while you and Gene get ready to take on the core stems. And because of being a little bit behind here, what we're doing is, we're getting prepared to drop Station 1 in favor of doing Steno. Over. And I'll get with you on more details on that in a minute.
121:17:00	Schmitt	Well, how far behind are we?
121:17:02	CC	Stand by. You're about - between 35 and 40 minutes. And part of the problem is that we're a little short on oxygen on Gene's PLSS. It looks like it's a 6 minute and 4 - 6 hours and 45 minute EVA from that point of view, which means that we have to - we'd have to leave Station 1 too early, which is another - which is the reason to curtail Station 1 apart from just behind which is what the hooker was.
121:17:42	Cernan	Okay, Bob, I'm approaching the rear of the Rover. I've got the core, the cap, the wrench, and the rammer.
121:17:49	CC	Okay-
121:17:59	Cernan	I didn't mean to breathe up all that oxygen.
121:18:03	CC	Well, there's something you can't help. Even the Surgeon agrees with me on that one. And for your thinking, Jack and Gene, what we're doing is planning on going to the west side of Steno and that boulder field that's part way out to Station 1.
121:18:25	Schmitt	Okay, you want me to get a - you want to break that and I'll go get this sample, Gene.
121:18:29	Cernan	Yes. I'll - I'll break this Jack; no sweat.
121:18:35	Schmitt	Gene has pretty well chewed up the ground. I helped him. Do you want me to get a little ways away from it?
121:18:42	CC	Stand by. I don't think we're interested in a surface sample in the last top little bit ring, it's just a - in the top - just a surface sample. Stand by 1.
121:18:59	CC	Anything there in the dirt, Jack. It doesn't have to be a skim sample of any sort.
121:19:11	Cernan	Okay, Bob, I'm breaking down the core at the tail end of the Rover, here.
121:19:15	CC	Okay, congratulations.
121:19:21	Cernan	Well, don't do it yet, I haven't gotten it broken down yet. But I got it out of the ground with a little help.
121:19:48	Cernan	Okay, first piece of three sections - Bob, it's full.
121:19:51	CC	Okay, beautiful.
121:19:52	Cernan	And I have to tell you which end I'm taking it from. I don't remember which end I've got here.
121:19:57	CC	That's all right, since we got the cap and Alfa on one end and Bravo on the other end - Bravo.
121:20:07	Cernan	Man! There's a cap that's going to be tough to get on. I put that on with a hammer. Oh, boy.
121:20:15	Schmitt	Okay, Bob, there's a mixture of soil and rock in 475.
121:20:20	CC	Okay, copy 475 -
121:20:22	Schmitt	The soil came from about - the soil came from about 5 centimeters - 0 to 5 centimeters.
121:20:32	CC	Okay, copy that. Beautiful.
121:20:34	Schmitt	And it's about 3 meters - 3 meters - 3 meters from the hole. Well -
121:20:44	Cernan	Hey, Bob, cap Charlie is opposite Alfa, that was the first 3-section.
121:20:52	CC	Okay, copy that.
121:20:59	Schmitt	Bob, it's about 3 meters from the hole. I got stereo before with - at 11 feet and one after at 11 feet.
121:21:08	CC	Okay, copy that. And how about a frame count there, Jack.
121:21:14	Schmitt	Stand by.
121:21:33	Cernan	I tell you.
121:21:41	Cernan	No - no, I can get it. Boy, this system works good.
121:21:55	Schmitt	Okay, let me see. Let me configure the old LRV sampler, here.
121:22:23	CC	Jack, when you - -
121:22:24	Cernan	Oh, boy, oh, boy; oh, boy; oh, boy.
121:22:24	CC	Jack, this is Houston. Over.
121:22:27	Schmitt	Go ahead.
121:22:28	CC	When you took those two pans off the ALSEP, was one at 15 feet and one at 20 feet?
121:22:36	Schmitt	One was at focus for 15 and 74.
121:22:39	CC	Okay.
121:22:40	Schmitt	There's a partial pan - there's a partial pan on mag A, which was taken at 15.
121:22:47	CC	Okay. Understand.
121:22:55	Cernan	Okay, Bob - I can't see what it is - I guess Delta and Echo is the - the 2-section core. Delta being adjacent to the first section of 3.
121:23:12	CC	Roger. Copy that, Gene.
121:23:23	Cernan	Okay, baby, just go on there - nice. The last - the last one is Foxtrot. And it's on tight.
121:23:55	Cernan	Ouch.
121:23:57	Schmitt	Arm's tired?
121:23:58	Cernan	That hurts. Oh, me; oh, my. I'm going to take a big drink of water here. We got three cores; we got the neutron flux down; and we got two heat probes, and an ALSEP. I don't care if we are 30 minutes late. Bob, did I give you the last cap?
121:24:25	CC	That's okay, Gene. We don't really need it - the way they're broken down, there's no problem. The 323 stands out and the Bravo on the bit end - there's no problem there.
121:24:36	Cernan	Hey -
121:24:39	Schmitt	What do you need, babe? Okay, pull that off. Pull this off. Here.
121:24:45	Schmitt	Rotate it 180, there.
121:24:47	Cernan	No, no, no, just the - the total thing. That's good. There you go.
121:24:51	Schmitt	Like that?
121:24:51	Cernan	Yes.
121:24:55	CC	Okay, and, 17 - -
121:24:57	Cernan	Now you'll have to line it up.
121:24:58	CC	Go ahead.
121:24:58	Schmitt	Okay. I'll hold it. You do it.
121:25:02	Cernan	I got it.
121:25:03	Schmitt	Okay.
121:25:05	Cernan	... give you a reading, Bob, before you speak. Wait a minute, let me - let me get it over with. It's 670, 002, 601. That's 670, 002, 601.
121:25:21	CC	Did you punch GRAV a second time? That's identical to the first one.
121:25:29	Cernan	I just did to read it. That's what you want, isn't it?
121:25:32	CC	Yes, is that - but you - did you punch GRAV after the first reading you gave me there at the ALSEP? Or are you just reading me the same measurements you did before?
121:25:42	Cernan	Bob, I called them out every time - Bob, I'm reading it right here. Everywhere I've punched GRAV, you've got it written down somewhere.
121:25:53	CC	Yes, and I didn't copy your punching GRAV, but the one - -
121:25:55	Cernan	Bob, I did not - when I went back - Bob, I did not - when I went to get the treadle and the neutron flux and rammer, I did not punch GRAV.
121:26:04	CC	Okay. So that's the same as the first one. Never mind, thank you. And guys - we're ready for you guys - as you go along here, to do the geo prep and press on. As I say, we'll go to Steno and come back from there and do the SEP. Over. Any questions about that? We'd also like to know if you have the gnomon, back of the Rover?
121:26:27	Cernan	No, we're just - -
121:26:29	Schmitt	Yes, we do.
121:26:30	Cernan	Okay, lay cores in. Okay - -
121:26:32	Schmitt	Can you - can you put that in that sampler tool bag, there?
121:26:36	Cernan	Yes, sir. We're configuring for geology, now, Bob.
121:26:41	CC	Okay, copy that.
121:26:47	Cernan	Bob, right now, 10 Echo is in my suit pocket, I hope.
121:26:53	CC	Okay.
121:26:57	Cernan	Okay, my 20-bag dispenser is SCB 1. Let me get at them.
121:27:01	Schmitt	I've got mine on.
121:27:02	Cernan	Okay. Oh.
121:27:09	Schmitt	This probably goes under the seat, doesn't it?
121:27:18	Cernan	The camera - where the devil mine is - where the devil mine is. Excuse me. Oh, I see the gnomon.
121:27:33	Schmitt	I put it there so I wouldn't forget it.
121:27:35	Cernan	(Laughter) Okay, I tell you, dexterity is the key. We might leave - Look at those cover gloves.
121:27:49	Schmitt	I guess we can take those off. I don't know whether we ought to or not.
121:27:51	Cernan	I'm going to leave mine on for a while. I changed my mind. I want to look at my gloves before I take them off. Okay, where are we? You got your camera, obviously. This is my camera. I got the bag dispenser on it. It's not a bad day's start. Bob, is the ALSEP working good?
121:28:19	CC	The last we heard, it was working great, guys. We'll check again, though.
121:28:26	Cernan	Okay. You got your camera. My camera is in the floor pan. Cap dispenser, SCB to Gate 1. Let me get that. Jack?
121:28:35	Schmitt	Yes?
121:28:35	Cernan	You haven't been on the Rover yet. It's real easy, but it's also very easy to kick dust all over those battery covers, so don't even get on it until I put those bat covers down.
121:28:44	Schmitt	Yes - Hey - I guess - I should - we ought to press on as if we're going to Station 1.
121:28:49	Cernan	Yes, you've got to walk - you got to walk back to the LM anyway - I got to - we got to - -
121:28:53	CC	Roger. Guys, we are going to play it per the checklist. Jack will carry the things back. Gene will get the thing aligned. We'll go out to the SEP site. And then we'll press on from there down to Steno. Over.
121:29:07	Cernan	Okay, very good.
121:29:10	CC	And right now -
121:29:11	Cernan	Okay. Stow LMP - you want to come over here and I'll stow your PLSS?
121:29:13	CC	Go ahead. Never mind.
121:29:15	Schmitt	Yes.
121:29:21	Schmitt	My camera's under my feet.
121:29:25	Cernan	Okay, you can turn around. Oh, man, what have you been in? Hallelujah.
121:29:43	Cernan	I'll keep the hammer, I'll give you this. Can you reach the rammer? it's right in front of you. On the - -
121:29:51	Schmitt	Oh, yes.
121:29:52	Cernan	Let me - I haven't got that cap in, yet - there it is. Okay, the caps are in. If we ever come out here again, I want to get your hammer, here ...
121:29:58	CC	... you might give us a frame count on Hotel.
121:30:05	Cernan	Okay, Bob.
121:30:08	CC	And we're going to hand over stations. You might get a dropout.
121:30:09	Cernan	Yes, it's under the seat right now. I'm - Okay, rammer - I got the hammer. Turn around. I'll give you a SCB 2.
121:30:21	Schmitt	Okay.
121:30:23	Cernan	Okay. Now, guess who's watching to see how these hooks are going to work?
121:30:35	Schmitt	Oh, man. Like a charm, so far.
121:30:37	Cernan	Oh, except your doggone harness of off, too, Jack.
121:30:41	Schmitt	Is it?
121:30:42	Cernan	Yes.
121:30:42	Schmitt	Okay, you've got to undo the strap - -
121:30:44	Cernan	Let me - let me get at it.
121:30:46	Schmitt	You got to loosen that strap and then just put her underneath, and tighten it up again.
121:30:51	Cernan	This one here?
121:30:52	Schmitt	The one on - the one on my right. Yes.
121:30:54	Cernan	Now - let me turn around then. I got to get on your - oh, on your right. Right here.
121:30:56	Schmitt	I think it is - Yes. That's where it is on yours.
121:30:59	Cernan	Yes, I'd like to make sure the other side is all right, though.
121:31:01	Schmitt	Oh, okay.
121:31:03	Cernan	Let me - Yes, it's all right. Turn around. Let me just get it underneath.
121:31:14	Schmitt	I got it so tight now, the Rover - Okay, now.
121:31:17	Cernan	I got it on.
121:31:18	Schmitt	Okay?
121:31:19	Cernan	Okay, now, I'll get this hook. That hook's going to be a piece of cake, Jack.
121:31:33	Cernan	Keep it in, and it's all on and locked.
121:31:35	Schmitt	Okay, you got a SCB 2. You got the rammer. You got a cap dispenser.
121:31:39	Cernan	Okay. You can secure SCB 1. Doesn't this go under your - -
121:31:42	Schmitt	Not yet, I don't think. I think it stays there.
121:31:46	Cernan	This does. No - -
121:31:47	Schmitt	That does. Yes. That goes under the seat.
121:31:50	Cernan	And this goes here.
121:31:51	Schmitt	Yes.
121:31:52	Cernan	Okay.
121:31:54	Schmitt	Bob, the long can's going under my seat.
121:31:57	CC	Okay. Copy that, Jack.
121:31:58	Cernan	They got a handover, I think.
121:32:02	CC	Handover's complete, guys.
121:32:05	Cernan	Okay.
121:32:13	PAO	4 hours 30 minutes into the EVA.
121:32:13	Schmitt	*** which way it unlocks, though.
121:32:14	Cernan	Okay, you can pull it off.
121:32:17	Schmitt	It's unlocked.
121:32:18	Cernan	It's unlocked. There it is. It's usually stiff. Okay. For once, I have my camera off.
121:32:35	Cernan	Did you get the heat-flow pictures, by the way?
121:32:37	Schmitt	I got most of them. Not all of them. They revised the whole camera.
121:32:42	Cernan	Hey, Bob, is it going to hurt to leave the UHT in the heat-flow electronics?
121:32:47	CC	Stand by.
121:32:50	Schmitt	Wait a minute. I ought to get that, I guess.
121:33:01	Schmitt	One - tall.
121:33:05	Cernan	Here, let me lean down.
121:33:08	Schmitt	Two, and the hook's still hooked. Check for sure here. Those hooks weren't designed for new bags.
121:33:28	CC	Okay, Jack - -
121:33:30	Schmitt	Okay. I think that will ride all right.
121:33:31	Cernan	Okay.
121:33:31	CC	They don't want us there. If you - if one of you guys can get to it and pull it out.
121:33:37	Cernan	I'll get it right now.
121:33:38	Schmitt	Okay.
121:33:38	CC	Thank you.
121:33:39	Schmitt	Watch the alignment, as you said.
121:33:41	Cernan	Yes. I sort of thought you might like it out of there. Let's stay away so I don't get a cable and I don't get dust in the mirror. The alignment is still good.
121:33:52	CC	Okay.
121:33:54	Schmitt	Now, if I can get it out. Okay, I'm going back to the LM.
121:34:02	Cernan	Okay, Bob, the alignment's good on the heat flow, and I've got the UHT out. Jack, do you need this?
121:34:08	Schmitt	You better leave - save it. Save it.
121:34:10	Cernan	I'm going to leave it right here by the ALSEP.
121:34:12	Schmitt	Save it. Careful.
121:34:16	Cernan	Jeeminy, I just threw it right here in this little - little ditch.
121:34:19	Schmitt	Yes, right. Okay, the other UHT is by the ALSEP. We probably ought to have it with us, Geno. For the sampler.
121:34:30	CC	Have you got one - -
121:34:31	Cernan	Well, you've got one - -
121:34:31	CC	- - UHT sampler?
121:34:31	Schmitt	Yes. That's all right. Keep it on the ...
121:34:36	CC	Okay, we gather you're on the way back to the LM with the core stems there, Jack.
121:34:43	Schmitt	Yes, sir.
121:34:44	CC	Okay.
121:34:48	Cernan	Okay, Bob, I'm going to take the TV away from you and get these battery covers squared away before I put the tongs and the camera on.
121:34:57	CC	Okay, Geno, and you guys have the gnomon in the little quiver, right?
121:35:04	Cernan	Yes, sir. The temperatures on the batteries are 96 and 110.
121:35:08	CC	Okay, thank you.
121:35:10	Cernan	Can I close the covers?
121:35:11	CC	Roger.
121:35:12	Cernan	Can I close the covers?
121:35:13	CC	Roger; Roger.
121:35:18	Cernan	Hey, you're turning our voice around, Bob.
121:35:22	CC	No, I said - -
121:35:23	Cernan	We're getting a repeat.
121:35:24	CC	I said, "Close the covers, please."
121:35:30	Cernan	That's right. I heard what you said, but you're turning our voice around.
121:35:42	PAO	Jack Schmitt on his way back to the lunar module.
121:35:48	Schmitt	(Singing) I was strolling on the Moon one day -
121:35:54	Schmitt	- in the merry, merry month of December -
121:35:54	Cernan	- in the merry, merry month of December -
121:35:57	Cernan	No, May.
121:35:58	Schmitt	May.
121:35:59	Cernan	May's the month this year.
121:35:59	Schmitt	May - that's right.
121:36:01	Cernan	May is the year, the month.
121:36:03	Schmitt	(Singing) When much to my surprise, a pair of bonny eyes - be-doop-doo-doo - -
121:36:10	CC	Sorry about that, guys, but today may be December.
121:36:12	Cernan	Okay, the battery cover - -
121:36:17	Schmitt	(Humming) Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-dee-da-dee - -
121:36:21	Cernan	Okay, Bob, the battery covers are closed. I'm ready to go MODE switch 1. I guess I'll just wave goodby. You look pretty clean, so I won't touch you.
121:36:35	CC	Okay, thank you.
121:36:40	Cernan	Oh, man. It's even hard to move you counterclockwise. Here we go. Counterclockwise, facing aft. Okay, I'm going to go MODE switch number 1 - -
121:36:55	CC	Roger. We can confirm that.
121:36:55	Cernan	- - and you want me to leave those two blankets open 100 percent, right?
121:36:59	CC	Roger, That's affirm.
121:37:04	Cernan	Okay, now I got - now I got to mount my camera and tether my tongs.
121:37:12	PAO	We'll lose TV while Gene Cernan drives the Rover to the Surface Electrical Properties site, about 100 meters east of the Lunar Module.
121:37:13	Cernan	Boy, Jack, I can bare - I can't see you at all. Looking into the east is terrible. All I can tell you is that there's a LM there.
121:37:24	Cernan	Okay, mount camera, tether tongs. See if my camera's going to work. Bob, I'm on - on Bravo - mag Bravo and frame count 19.
121:37:39	CC	Okay; copy that, Gene.
121:37:43	PAO	Jack Schmitt has carried the core stems back to the lunar module where he will pick up the transmitter for the Surface Electrical Properties experiment and carry it out to the site where it will be deployed.
121:37:57	Cernan	And for EMU status, I can give you about 36 percent, no flags, 3.85, and I'm on - I'm still INTERMEDIATE cooling.
121:38:08	CC	Okay. Copy that.
121:38:10	Cernan	Okay, inventory. Camera, tongs, gnomon. Okay, I'm ready to get on. Ready to get on.
121:38:18	Schmitt	Okay, you want us to take the - Ouch! That rock by your front porch is really a major nuisance.
121:38:32	Cernan	Oh, doggone it.
121:38:35	Schmitt	What's the problem?
121:38:36	Cernan	Oh! Every time I get on, I get dust around. I still haven't learned how to get on yet. You'd think after three times, I'd know better. I know better, but it's - -
121:38:54	Schmitt	Okay, I've got the transmitter. I'm heading west - or east. (Laughter) Heading east. Sorry about that. (Humming)
121:39:11	Cernan	Okay, I'm PRIMARY. Okay, you want a nav initialise here, huh, Houston?
121:39:18	CC	That's affirmative.
121:39:23	Cernan	By the way, Bob, Station 6 is pretty obvious up on the hill. It's fairly high up. I don't know if we'll get to drive up there or not.
121:39:33	CC	Okay. I think you can see the boulder and that's how you can tell, right?
121:39:39	Cernan	Yes. And the crater. A shame not to - Well, maybe that's the wrong one. I'll have to check the map. A shame not to go to Station 1. Sure is a shame. Why don't you consider Station 1 as a possibility? Okay, Bob, let me give you some numbers.
121:40:12	CC	We're ready.
121:40:13	Cernan	Sun shadow is zero. I am rolled right 4 degrees. I am pitch zero. I can't be rolled right 4 degrees. That indicator can't be right. I question that. If the roll indicator's right, I might be rolled left a couple of degrees.
121:40:54	Cernan	Are you happy with that, Bob? I'm - roll indicator is indicating - make it 3 degrees right - 3 degrees right.
121:41:01	CC	Okay, and I copy - Okay, torque to 279 will be the heading - 279.
121:41:18	Cernan	Okay.
121:41:32	Cernan	Okay, the heading when I put the NAV POWER breaker IN, Bob, was 23 - 234.
121:41:40	CC	Okay, I copy that. We'll torque that to 279.
121:41:47	Cernan	Okay. I'm waiting for my minute and a half here.
121:41:50	CC	Roger that.
121:42:07	PAO	Steno is a crater about 1 kilometer south and east of the Lunar Module. Station 1 was -
121:42:20	Schmitt	By the way, Bob, LMP is at 39 percent, 3.88, and no flags, no tones.
121:42:34	CC	Okay. Copy that, Jack.
121:42:38	Schmitt	I'm at the SEP site, and I found a place I think we can lay out a pretty good grid.
121:42:46	CC	Okay, Jack, and when you lay it down there, we want to put it down with the gnomon side, the side you're going to face, you want to put that facing away from the Sun. We found out a thermal constraint this evening, just as the EVA started.
121:43:05	Schmitt	Okay. Away from the Sun. Gnomon - you want the gnomon side or corner?
121:43:14	CC	The gnomon side away from the Sun. That's those - the side with the solar panel has to be away from the Sun. The sides with the solar panel ... to be in the shade.
121:43:22	Schmitt	Okay.
121:43:32	Cernan	Bob, everything's working fine so far. She's zeroed ard I'm torqued. And I'm ready to press on. RESET is back OFF. Okay, Jack, here I come.
121:43:44	Schmitt	Okay. You see me?
121:43:46	Cernan	No, I'm facing the other way.
121:44:02	Cernan	Boy, I tell you - just about all you can see in that direction is the LM. Boy, that's tough driving into the Sun!
121:44:08	Schmitt	Go right to the LM, and then a little bit to your left, to the left of the LM.
121:44:17	Cernan	... Yes, I've got to go to the LM and give them a reading here.
121:44:21	Schmitt	Okay.
121:44:23	CC	That's affirmative, Gene.
121:44:23	Cernan	You get that - that shadow up there and you're all right.
121:44:27	Cernan	Say again, Bob?
121:44:28	CC	That's affirmative. We want the range and bearing at the LM. I'm glad you remembered.
121:44:34	Cernan	Yes, sir, I'll give it to you. I even got - Oh, oh, don't get in there. Whoo! I even got the low gain working for you. I don't know if you're using it.
121:44:52	CC	I think we're using the LM right now.
121:45:01	Cernan	Boy, that LM is pretty. Whoo!
121:45:17	Schmitt	Bob, everything I've seen so far indicates that the so-called subfloor boulders, if we have gotten that deep, are this gabbro. I'm out here at the SEP site, and the large blocks are still the plagioclase pyroxene - -
121:45:43	Cernan	Jack, let me give them a range. I'll be on my way out.
121:45:45	Schmitt	Go ahead.
121:45:46	Cernan	Okay, bearing 292, 0.2, and 0.2. I'm standing right in front of the MESA.
121:45:53	CC	Okay. Beautiful, Geno. Thank you.
121:45:59	Cernan	Okay. I'm coming, Jack.
121:46:07	Schmitt	The zap pits are nice white halos, although, for the most part, the rock's too coarse to show them very well. Some of the larger ones have white halos. We may not be down to the subfloor, but - it's hard to say.
121:46:29	Cernan	Hey, Bob, making 8 to 10 kilometers, and I'm barely moving.
121:46:38	Cernan	Where've you got the SEP, Jack?
121:46:40	Schmitt	Right out over there.
121:46:43	Cernan	Okay, let me give them a bearing, distance, and range, and some numbers here. Meet you over there.
121:46:50	Schmitt	Okay.
121:46:54	Cernan	Oh!
121:47:03	Schmitt	Bob, I did see a dense gray rock that's different than the others on my traverse out here. We'll try to find some of that, too.
121:47:12	Cernan	Okay, Bob, I'm reading 278, 003, and 003 at the SEP site.
121:47:23	CC	Okay. Copy that, Geno. And how about giving me amp-hours and batteries just as long as you're there?
121:47:30	Cernan	Yes, sir, it's coming at you. Amp-hours are 112 and 110; batteries are 9 - 92 and about 1 - about 112.
121:47:46	CC	Okay, copy that, Geno.
121:47:47	Cernan	Motors are all off scale low.
121:47:49	CC	Yes, okay thank you.
121:47:53	Cernan	NAV is going to RESET.
121:47:56	CC	Say again there, Gene. You're going to go to RESET, right?
121:48:03	Cernan	Yes, sir; going to RESET.
121:48:04	CC	Okay. Jack, you can be getting on. You won't need a bomb, and I guess you won't need the LMP camera unless you want it. We'll be deploying the bomb at Steno.
121:48:22	Schmitt	(Laughter) I thought we were playing it by the checklist, Geno. Here's the bomb.
121:48:26	Cernan	Okay, give it to me.
121:48:27	Schmitt	The charge.
121:48:29	Cernan	I've got it.
121:48:29	CC	Yes, it just happens that the station is at the place we're going to deploy the charge.
121:48:36	Schmitt	Okay, well, we got it off.
121:48:38	Cernan	Okay. Do you know which side of Steno he wants us to go, Jack?
121:48:41	Schmitt	Not yet.
121:48:42	CC	Yes. We're going - Okay, let me fill you in on the plan, guys. We're going to go to the west side of Steno, - which is where you would have driven by anyway, and the stop is - will be at the 340/1.2, which is where you've got the little Delta for EP 6, in your checklist. And we will plan on spending about 30 minutes there sampling primarily boulders.
121:49:18	Schmitt	Okay, Geno, west side of Steno there.
121:49:20	Cernan	Okay. I got it here. Okay - -
121:49:27	Schmitt	You got a good feeling on how to head out of here?
121:49:29	Cernan	Yes. I want to get around the back side - now that I'm down there, on the back side of Trident, and make sure that that's what I'm looking at, is Trident over there.
121:49:42	Schmitt	Okay, let me try to get on this thing.
121:49:45	CC	Okay. And, 17, just to fill you in a little bit more here. We're looking at a 6 plus 45 EVA. We've given you 15 minutes to drive to Station 1; 30 minutes at Station 1; and 15 minutes to drive back to the SEP, and then deploying the SEP for 22 minutes. And then a 40 minute closeout at 6 plus 45.
121:50:11	Cernan	I'm sorry, Bob. After 30 minutes at Station 1, what did you say?
121:50:15	CC	Okay. Then we're going to drive back. There's a 15-minute return to the SEP site, and then 22 minutes at the SEP site to deploy the SEP, and then return to the LM in 45 minutes for the closeout.
121:50:30	Cernan	Okay. Understand.
121:50:35	Cernan	Okay, you strapped in?
121:50:36	Schmitt	Yes, sir.
121:50:38	Cernan	Yes, we've got to start getting on this Rover facing 90 degrees to the seats, I think.
121:50:43	Schmitt	I did the same thing.
121:50:44	Cernan	Right through dust?
121:50:44	Schmitt	Yes, we both did. I tried to knock it all off my feet.
121:50:48	Cernan	Yes. That's impossible. Okay, Jack. Let's see if we can't get around - around Trident East over here.
121:50:55	Schmitt	Well, I don't - I wish I didn't have this charge. If they played it by the checklist - I wasn't paying attention. Okay - -
121:51:02	Cernan	We're on the move, Bob.
121:51:05	Schmitt	Okay, this is Trident, isn't it? So we're starting out - ~
121:51:09	Cernan	Well, it's got to be.
121:51:11	Schmitt	Yes. So, you're starting out on the - You really want to hit about 29 - -
121:51:19	Cernan	No, no, no.
121:51:19	Schmitt	No, wait a minute. Where are we?
121:51:20	Cernan	We want to go southeast.
121:51:22	Schmitt	181 - -
121:51:25	CC	17, we'll start out on the same general traverse that you've been on. It's just that we'll stop it sooner.
121:51:36	Schmitt	Yes, we understand.
121:51:37	CC	Okay.
121:51:37	Schmitt	We're just getting our bearings, Bob.
121:51:40	Cernan	This has got to be Trident East, right, right here, Jack. See that? That's got to be Trident East. That's the big one.
121:51:47	Schmitt	On the right or the left?
121:51:48	Cernan	On the right.
121:51:49	Schmitt	Yes.
121:51:50	Cernan	And we - and Poppy - and was just over about where - -
121:51:55	Schmitt	Watch your -
121:51:55	Cernan	Yes. I just want to get our bearings here. You can't look to the east.
121:52:00	Schmitt	Okay. I've got to - That's an awful big depression over there, isn't it? Says go along this way.
121:52:14	Cernan	Boy, it sure is. Whee!
121:52:20	Schmitt	Watch it. Ho - ho - ho hold it, hold it, hold it!
121:52:23	Cernan	Got it, got it, got it ...
121:52:29	Schmitt	Boy, I tell you I've got to get out of east.
121:52:31	Cernan	Stand by.
121:52:33	Schmitt	Gene, I think - I'm going to head about 120 out of here.
121:52:37	Cernan	Well, it's a -
121:52:40	Schmitt	You've got another hole on your right here.
121:52:41	Cernan	I got it.
121:52:43	Schmitt	Whoa, whoa. I'm not sure what's wrong. Why don't you go left there?
121:52:48	Cernan	Okay.
121:52:49	Schmitt	Go left around this thing.
121:52:51	CC	And, 17; Houston. For your advice, we're trying to use the low gain antenna on this traverse also. Might try and be good guys and turn it for us when you have to.
121:53:05	Schmitt	Okay. Bob.
121:53:06	CC	That's general reminder number 1.
121:53:14	Schmitt	Gene, I think we need to head south.
121:53:18	Cernan	Yes. We've got to go out here southeast. What's that big map look like in relation to Bare Mountain to you?
121:53:26	Schmitt	You mean the - I'm not sure I can get to it. Okay. Okay, I won't - -
121:53:36	Cernan	It calls for 116 at 0.62 - -
121:53:39	Schmitt	... near the SEP. I ended up with this charge in my hand. There's a big - What are you headed now, south pretty much?
121:53:51	Cernan	Yes.
121:53:53	Schmitt	I think you're getting - That must be station - that must be Emory over there. See with all the blocks in the wall?
121:54:02	Cernan	Where you looking? Which way?
121:54:05	Schmitt	Southeast. Way over there.
121:54:07	Cernan	Yes.
121:54:08	Schmitt	That may very well go - this is very easily Steno right over here. Let's - let's see, we're between the two big ones - that would be - -
121:54:14	Cernan	That would be Powell.
121:54:15	Schmitt	That would be Powell on the right.
121:54:17	Cernan	You think?
121:54:19	Schmitt	Certainly doesn't look like th LNA yet.
121:54:22	Cernan	No, it sure doesn't.
121:54:24	CC	How about a range and bearing, guys, I think we can help you.
121:54:29	Cernan	Okay, 330, 0.3.
121:54:36	CC	Okay, it sounds like you're probably just driving by the East Trident or Trident 3.
121:54:46	Schmitt	You think all that right there is Trident?
121:54:49	Cernan	By god, if it is, that's incredible. I - I - That's hard to believe.
121:54:53	Schmitt	Well, ... - you're going to go in a hole with your right - No problem.
121:54:57	Cernan	I can't see the lip too well because of the - -
121:55:00	Schmitt	Well, if that's Trident -
121:55:03	CC	Okay. And, Jack, if you - do you have your camera on - -
121:55:05	Schmitt	Boy, I wish ...
121:55:05	CC	- - If so, could you give me a frame count some time?
121:55:11	Schmitt	Bob, I got my hands full with this charge.
121:55:13	CC	Oh, okay, forgot about that one. Sorry about that.
121:55:14	Schmitt	It's - Looks like 45.
121:55:24	CC	Okay, copy that. Thank you.
121:55:34	Schmitt	Boy, if that's Trident, whoo!
121:55:38	Cernan	Hey, you know that is - don't you suppose that's Trident?
121:55:40	Schmitt	Well, it sure looks like it, doesn't it?
121:55:42	Cernan	Yes. We were quite a ways from Trident.
121:55:46	Schmitt	I bet you it is.
121:55:46	Cernan	If that's true, we're at 342.4. That's about right; we're half a mile - that's about right. Boy, what I was looking at Trident isn't nearly that - any where near that big.
121:55:57	Schmitt	Okay, if that's true, then we want to go - -
121:55:59	Cernan	Yes, sir.
121:56:01	Schmitt	- - we want to go l8l.
121:56:03	Cernan	Yes, sir, we're all right now. That's got to be Trident. What we were looking at before - I've got to stop and see what that is. I've got to look at those maps when we get in.
121:56:12	Schmitt	Well, it's a triplet all right, with some septar between. Well, wish I could take pictures. Take a few, but - -
121:56:27	Cernan	Well, let me get a few here.
121:56:28	Schmitt	No. You keep pressing. We can get them coming back.
121:56:36	Schmitt	Take a few, but it's not continuous. My hands are giving out. I wish I hadn't said follow the checklist. Okay, we're at 0.5 and 346. And the surface has not really changed except slightly more hummocky and rolling, because of a larger number of irregular depressions, or craters. The - boom! - the rocks at first glance from the Rover look very much like what we had around the LM. That's the big ones.
121:57:21	CC	And, 17, you might be - -
121:57:21	Schmitt	There are occasional - -
121:57:24	CC	- - Jack, you might be expecting WATER flag and a tone in a couple of minutes, to go to AUX.
121:57:31	Schmitt	Okay.
121:57:35	CC	And CDR will be about 5 minutes after that.
121:57:37	Cernan	I'll get stopped here in a minute, Jack - as scon as I get -
121:57:42	Schmitt	Okay. I think maybe that might be Steno over there -
121:57:45	Cernan	I don't think we're too far off.
121:57:48	Schmitt	Okay, there' s my - I' ve got to go to AUX.
121:57:51	Cernan	Can you reach it?
121:57:51	Schmitt	I hope so.
121:58:09	Schmitt	Okay, Houston, do you see me in AUX?
121:58:12	CC	Stand by. Roger. We see you in AUX.
121:58:21	Cernan	I'm going to hit some of these broadside, Jack, and then we won't get any roll angle.
121:58:30	Schmitt	Okay, how far have you come?
121:58:32	Cernan	I've got to go 0.7 - about another 0.7 mi - kilometers. I may be coming up on the edge of it. I don't know, I may - I'm on the right bearing. Yes. We're all right. Steno has got that dimple on the north. Boy, this is a heck of a way to start out our navigation because it's into the cross-Sun here - not cross-sun - but Sun. Now, that's got to be Powell, wouldn't you say?
121:59:00	Schmitt	Yes. Must be.
121:59:04	Cernan	Must be.
121:59:05	Schmitt	Listen, you - -
121:59:05	Cernan	Then that's Steno with all the blocks in it.
121:59:08	Schmitt	Boy, an I glad we didn't land out here! Whew!
121:59:10	Cernan	See this high point up here coming ahead?
121:59:13	Schmitt	Yes.
121:59:13	Cernan	That should give us our bearings, I hope.
121:59:15	Schmitt	I can't hold that bomb any longer.
121:59:18	Cernan	What are you going to do with it?
121:59:19	Schmitt	I'm going to drop it at my feet.
121:59:22	Cernan	Okay.
121:59:23	Schmitt	Okay, it's there.
121:59:24	Cernan	Keep it between your feet.
121:59:25	Schmitt	It will, My hands aren't going to be any good for sampling.
121:59:32	Cernan	Okay, that's Powell, huh?
121:59:47	Schmitt	Yes.
121:59:53	Schmitt	Okay, if that's Powell. Quite a ways over there, but I think the thing to do is get up on that little ridge there.
122:00:03	Cernan	Yes. I think we may end up looking right into Steno when we get up there. Bob, we're 342.9.
122:00:13	CC	Okay. Copy that.
122:00:18	CC	340 and 1. - -
122:00:19	Cernan	Are you reading the low gain, by the way?
122:00:20	CC	Yes. Roger. Beautiful. 340 and 1.2 is what we expect the station to be.
122:00:37	CC	And it should be up on the top of a little bit of a rise. That you see coming up there. Almost to that rise. You ought to be in the vicinity of some very large boulders.
122:00:47	Cernan	Houston, there's a - there are certainly a lot of big boulders - Whoops! ... Let me take a look into the Sun here. That doesn't look what I thought Steno looked like. There's no dimple there. 1.2 he said. All right. This is it over here, though, I guess.
122:01:08	CC	Yes, Steno ought to be at - right at your 9 o'clock there, Gene.
122:01:17	Cernan	At my 9 o'clock. Yes.
122:01:20	CC	Either that or your 3 o'clock. I forgot which one it is.
122:01:22	Schmitt	How do you know where we are?
122:01:28	Cernan	I think, you're probably right, although it doesn't impresss me as what I saw in the LNA. How much time have we got to drive now, Bob?
122:01:35	CC	Okay, stand by.
122:01:37	Cernan	I think that's probably Emory up there.
122:01:42	Schmitt	That's Steno, I guess.
122:01:44	CC	Yes, yes, Steno - Gene and Jack, we'd like you to - If you're in the vicinity, we think you're just about there. We were planning on you leaving the SEP and getting to this place at about 4 plus 58 and we're showing about 5 plus 00 right now so you're right on time. And if you're at 340 and 1.2 in that vicinity, you must be at the station or very close to it where you can see. Over.
122:02:10	Cernan	Well, it doesn't look real familiar, Bob, as far as Steno's concerned.
122:02:15	Schmitt	Okay, I got - I think they can locate us if we work that block field right there.
122:02:19	Cernan	Let me get my water.
122:02:21	CC	Okay, on the map we're showing, Jack, that you're probably looking at, you're seeing that there's a couple of boulders at - just above - at about the - With north being 12 o'clock, there are a couple of boulders at about the 09:30 position on Steno. And then there's a couple of more at about the 9 o'clock position on Steno. And we're putting the station right in the midst of all those boulders. Over.
122:02:48	Cernan	Well, Bob, I don't know. It's hard - hard to follow that that's where we are. I'm not sure. It doesn't look like what I expected Steno to look like - -
122:02:57	Schmitt	No, me neither.
122:02:58	CC	Okay. What's the range and bearing one more time?
122:03:03	Cernan	Okay, 346, 1.1. I think it would almost be worth - I bet that's Emory up on that hill. It's got to be.
122:03:25	Schmitt	Yes.
122:03:27	Cernan	Okay, well, let's - -
122:03:28	Schmitt	We better park in this boulder field here.
122:03:32	Cernan	... boulder field.
122:03:34	Schmitt	... Wish we could have gotten near one of the big ones, but let's do it. We're going to run out of time.
122:03:38	Cernan	Yes.
122:03:39	CC	That's affirmative, guys - -
122:03:40	Cernan	... big one anyway.
122:03:41	Schmitt	Okay. You want me - -
122:03:41	CC	- - There's no point in deviating around and spending 15 minutes trying to get to a particular spot or down to a bigger boulder. You must be in the near vicinity. If you're really worried about it, I guess you might drive a little bit to the east to the rim of the - -
122:03:53	Schmitt	Okay. We got - -
122:03:54	CC	- - crater, unless you're there. Over. Your judgment.
122:03:57	Schmitt	No, we're okay. We got a good place.
122:04:00	CC	All right.
122:04:02	Cernan	Okay, I'm parked - I'm parked 180.
122:04:08	CC	Roger. Stand by on that a minute.
122:04:14	Cernan	You want us to get off? What do you mean?
122:04:14	CC	Okay. No - -
122:04:15	Cernan	What heading?
122:04:16	CC	- - Okay. I was just wondering about where you were going to park. Go ahead and park 180. There was a question on whether they wanted us to park into the Sun, but don't worry.
122:04:23	Cernan	Okay, I'm heading - -
122:04:25	CC	180 is a good heading.
122:04:27	Cernan	Okay, I'm headed - I'm headed - I'm headed 182, 346, 1.2, 1.1, 110, 108, 100, and 118, and off scale low on all of the bo - motors.
122:04:53	CC	Okay. I copy that.
122:04:55	Schmitt	Bob, can we deploy - Okay. You want this charge deployed here?
122:05:12	CC	That's affirmative, Jack.
122:05:14	Schmitt	I'll deploy it now.
122:05:15	CC	You can deploy it right now. That's good.
122:05:24	PAO	That's a one-pound charge for the lunar seismic profiling experiment.
122:05:25	Schmitt	Okay, the centers [?] are still on, thank goodness.
122:05:28	CC	Beautiful. We'll give you the Taper of the Year award.
122:05:35	Schmitt	Boy, you're going to have to give me the Dunce of the Year Award after this.
122:05:39	Cernan	Pan 1, ... two -
122:05:43	Cernan	MARK, SAFE.
122:05:46	Cernan	Pan 3 -
122:05:47	Cernan	MARK, SAFE.
122:05:51	Schmitt	That will be in the pans, Geno.
122:05:54	Cernan	Okay.
122:05:54	CC	Okay, I copy that.
122:05:56	Schmitt	Bob, you got MODE ... - -
122:05:58	CC	Just to confirm that is EP-6, right?
122:06:11	CC	17, Houston. Do you read?
122:06:15	Schmitt	Okay, Bob; we're about 15 meters from a 20-meter blocky rimmed crater. It's about 3 - 3 to 4 meters deep. All the blocks on the rim look like the pyroxene, plagioclase gabbro - the vesicular rocks seen at the LM. At least all that I've seen so far.
122:06:51	CC	Okay. I copied that, Jack. And is this crater to the east or west?
122:07:01	Schmitt	It's to the northwest of the Rover.
122:07:04	CC	Okay; copy that.
122:07:06	Schmitt	The vesicu - visicle popula - the vesicle population varies from about a 2 milli - a millimeter to 1 centimeter. It forms about 15 percent of the rock - 10 to 15. And I've given you grain size and - for the rocks near the LM and that goes well for this one.
122:07:36	CC	Okay, I copy that, Jack. Very good.
122:07:43	Schmitt	There is - the parting that I mentioned, still of somewhat unknown origin, and we'll try and get a sample along a parting plane. It's clearly evident in one of the bigger blocks.
122:08:03	Cernan	Hey, Bob, just as we stopped the Rover, I went on AUX water. Do you want me to turn my primary water off - I don't have to, do I?
122:08:14	CC	No, no, no need to.
122:08:19	Cernan	That's what I figured. Just wanted to cover all bets. Okay, Jack. I think, I've got my housekeeping done.
122:08:29	Schmitt	Okay. Hey, get your hammer. We're going to need it.
122:08:36	Cernan	I've been carrying it all day, it's about time I used it. Okay.
122:08:40	Schmitt	Bob, you're going to want a core at this site?
122:08:42	CC	Roger. We'd like to get - number 1 priority will be some block samples, including any dirt that was on the blocks, If there is such. And then the second priority is a rake soil sample; the third priority is a double core. Then, also in there, the pans, of course, and other documented samples. But the double core is there although it is third priority.
122:09:06	Cernan	Okay.
122:09:10	Schmitt	Gene, do you think - Got you gnomon, huh?
122:09:11	Cernan	Yes, I've got my gnomon, and I've got to give a TGE. When you said, bring a hammer, I came -
122:09:16	Schmitt	I'm sorry.
122:09:17	Cernan	No, no problem.
122:09:19	Schmitt	Well, I shouldn't have -
122:09:20	Cernan	The two go hand-in-hand. Nothing disrupts your thought patterns more than somebody saying something.
122:09:25	Schmitt	Well, listen, this is my first geology stop. I guess I'm entitled to do that; Bob, you ready for a mark?
122:09:31	CC	Roger.
122:09:35	Schmitt	Okay.
122:09:37	Schmitt	MARK it. The light's flashing.
122:09:39	CC	Copy that.
122:09:44	Cernan	Okay, you got one picked out?
122:09:47	Schmitt	Yes, let's hit this - see if we can work on that one, it's at the edge, but it's got - we can chip at the parting plane. And that's one of the things that's come up that I think is of interest that we've got to figure out why they have that foliation in them.
122:10:01	Cernan	Boy, that rock is one of the more vesicular ones I've seen around.
122:10:03	Schmitt	Well, they're all about that, Gene. They're too - they're either that or mixed with that variety. In the same boulder, you'll see a - see a nonvesicular - a relatively nonvesicular. Okay, that's the - -
122:10:20	Cernan	Watch your shadow.
122:10:21	Schmitt	- - that's the down-Sun. Ooh. Okay, right into the Sun.
122:10:33	Cernan	Okay.
122:10:34	Schmitt	Right at that overlapping fracture, huh?
122:10:38	Cernan	Yes.
122:10:39	Schmitt	Let me get where I can maybe save the rock. If you can hook your -
122:10:43	Cernan	That's what I'm going to do. I'm going to try and get it right - right up on top is where I'd like to -
122:10:47	Schmitt	If you hit it - if you hit it on the right side, it'll go this way, maybe. There you go. Good man.
122:10:53	Cernan	Piece right there.
122:10:55	Schmitt	I can get another one, too. Try another one; don't lose that one.
122:10:59	Cernan	Let me get that one for you.
122:11:01	Schmitt	I can get it.
122:11:02	Cernan	Got it? Whoops. Can you keep it in sight here for a minute? is that it?
122:11:14	Schmitt	Yes. Go ahead. Try hitting - There you go. Can you use the other end against the right side of the Rock?
122:11:32	Cernan	I'm pressing.
122:11:32	Schmitt	Oh.
122:11:35	Cernan	It's coming.
122:11:44	Schmitt	That's all right.
122:11:45	Cernan	I'll get that one, wait a minute.
122:11:48	Schmitt	Be careful down in there.
122:11:50	Cernan	The whole thing is going to fracture off here, in a minute.
122:11:54	Schmitt	That's why -
122:12:02	Cernan	Trying.
122:12:04	Schmitt	It's trying to fall. Don't wear your hand out. That's good, Gene.
122:12:11	Cernan	Wait a minute. Let me give one more whack. The whole thing is - No, that's too tight. Let me get that other piece -
122:12:21	Schmitt	Okay. Bag 476 is the rock sample with a little bit of the soil near it - with a chip - chip off the rock, and it's the - Watch it, Gene.
122:12:41	Cernan	Here's your other chip. If I go down there, that thing is about 15 feet deep.
122:12:50	Schmitt	Right. Got it.
122:12:56	Cernan	Okay.
122:12:56	Schmitt	Now, do you think you can chip off the other side of that plane, up on the edge?
122:13:02	Cernan	Yes. Yes.
122:13:03	Schmitt	Then we'll get the soil, and maybe just a small rock, one nonchipped.
122:13:10	Cernan	Let me tell you - my hands from that drill - -
122:13:12	Schmitt	Yes, I'm sure they are.
122:13:12	Cernan	- - Really know I've been out here today.
122:13:20	Schmitt	476, Bob.
122:13:22	CC	Copy that, Jack.
122:13:23	Schmitt	It's from the southeast - southeast side of the parting plane -
122:13:29	Cernan	There it is - a whole big slab, right there.
122:13:30	Schmitt	Okay, very good.
122:13:31	Cernan	Oh, look at those dark minerals in there. Are those dark black?
122:13:34	Schmitt	Yes, they may be ilmenite or fresh pyroxene. We'll look at it. Gives the impression of pyroxene.
122:13:45	Cernan	Okay, you want my bag? I tell you, if you work on any kind of slope, like this little crater - Okay, I'm going to leave it open for a minute.
122:14:02	Schmitt	Okay.
122:14:04	Cernan	While we get that one.
122:14:05	Schmitt	I'm going to have to - you're going to have to use your tongs on that one, I think.
122:14:08	Cernan	Okay. I got it.
122:14:13	CC	And, 17, a reminder to factor into your thinking, this is only a 30-minute stop, and there's about 20 minutes remaining.
122:14:22	Schmitt	Yes, sir. But we got to sample something.
122:14:25	Cernan	Here's a big one. Get him the bag number, too.
122:14:27	Schmitt	Bag 454. Okay, and the flashes are from inside of vugs and recrystallized vesicles. They looke like pyr - pyroxene flashes; they could be ilmenite.
122:14:46	Cernan	I'll get my after picture.
122:14:48	Schmitt	Okay; let me - and let me get in there and get some soil.
122:14:52	Cernan	Okay, let's get it first.
122:14:53	Schmitt	From the north side. Whoops. Okay, the bag tore around that; it's pretty jagged rock, but I think it'll hold.
122:15:00	CC	Okay. Copy that.
122:15:00	Schmitt	... In yours. Okay? it's in Gene's sample collection bag. And a scoop sample. You got a bag handy, Gene?
122:15:17	Cernan	Okay, bag 455, Bob. It's from the west side of the rock. It's under a slight overhang of the rock - in a shadow, anyway. Okay, that's from about 1 centimeter down - deep, 1 to 2 centimeters. And the next one is down to about 5 - 5 or 6. And it's got some chips in it.
122:15:52	Cernan	That's bag 456, Bob.
122:15:55	CC	Copy that.
122:16:06	Schmitt	Okay. (Laughter)
122:16:08	Cernan	I know. I know.
122:16:13	Schmitt	Oh, shoot. 1.2 kilometers is a long way from the LM. Look at the Challenger down there. Makes you get a feel for how big this valley really is.
122:16:28	Cernan	I'd rather not.
122:16:30	Schmitt	Okay. I'll help you.
122:16:34	Cernan	I got it.
122:16:35	Schmitt	Turn around and let me help you get these in your bag.
122:16:36	Cernan	I learned now. You learn of necessity out here. Okay. See if we can't fill this up for Christmas. Okay, let's - You happy there?
122:16:51	Schmitt	Yes, let's - get your after -
122:16:54	Cernan	Okay.
122:16:54	Schmitt	And if we can, we might get just a block instead of breaking on it, and then we'll go to the rake. Let's go around to the -
122:17:04	Cernan	Bob wanted a core here, too, huh?
122:17:08	Schmitt	Yes, but the rake's next, as you might imagine. Geno, now this - this looks - this stuff here looks a little less vesicular. Why don't we try that one?
122:17:22	Cernan	Hey, here's - ro - look at this rock, where the vesicularity changes from a hummocky vesicularity to a very fine vesicular. Look at this. Let me try and crack - get a - See that? The change?
122:17:34	Schmitt	Yes, that's what I'm after; that's it.
122:17:35	Cernan	Let's see if I can't crack - -
122:17:36	Schmitt	That's it. That's what I saw in that other boulder.
122:17:38	Cernan	Let's see if I can't crack the corner and get that contact.
122:17:41	Schmitt	Yes. And get a piece of both - I think you can get - if you can reach down there.
122:17:46	Cernan	See if I can't get a -
122:17:54	Schmitt	That's a contact in a rock.
122:17:57	Cernan	Yes.
122:17:59	CC	Beautiful. And you guys - do you guys see any 2-meter blouders around there?
122:18:05	Cernan	We just sampled one. ... - -
122:18:09	CC	Well, if that one showed up in the photos, I wonder why those down near the ALSEP didn't show up.
122:18:18	Schmitt	No, we're not where you think we are. We're not sure where we are. Gene, can you get down into that? Need some help?
122:18:28	Cernan	Yes, just - give me the shovel to hold myself with. Give me a shovel.
122:18:37	CC	I don't know.
122:18:42	Schmitt	How about that one?
122:18:43	Cernan	Yes.
122:18:44	Schmitt	Get that little piece.
122:18:45	Cernan	Okay, I see it. It's pretty hard. See if I can't - it's low and hard to hit.
122:18:56	Schmitt	How about - how about coming around from this side?
122:18:59	Cernan	Well, I got the gnomon in the wrong place really.
122:19:01	Schmitt	Let me see your -
122:19:02	Cernan	Can you reach it?
122:19:03	Schmitt	Well, I'm going to lean on the - on the rock maybe. I got that other little piece in sight.
122:19:15	Cernan	Okay, I got that piece in sight, too. Let me -
122:19:18	Schmitt	Get them both with your -
122:19:19	Cernan	Let me get them both right now.
122:19:22	Schmitt	You can stick that in the ground if you -
122:19:25	Cernan	Okay, this is a sample of the - of the more coarsely vesicular rock.
122:19:36	Schmitt	You got it in your hand?
122:19:38	Evans	I got them both. I think, actually, we got a sample of both sides; but I wouldn't bet on it.
122:19:46	Schmitt	Okay, I just got a chunk of that side.
122:19:59	Cernan	Okay, I got both of these.
122:20:01	Schmitt	See that rock right over there on the little mound, just projecting out of the edge of it?
122:20:05	Cernan	Where are you looking?
122:20:06	Schmitt	Right over there.
122:20:06	Cernan	Here?
122:20:07	Schmitt	No.
122:20:08	Cernan	Here?
122:20:08	Schmitt	Where I'm pointing.
122:20:08	Cernan	There?
122:20:09	Schmitt	There you go; you just about touched it. Right there, that piece.
122:20:12	Cernan	Okay, let me get these in a bag here.
122:20:25	Schmitt	Well, I'll get that piece; and that's the samples from either side of the contact anyway. Can you get a bag - -
122:20:34	Cernan	They're pretty small.
122:20:35	Cernan	Give me a hammer, and get a bag and I'll - -
122:20:37	Schmitt	You take the hammer.
122:20:38	Cernan	I got these in my hand I want to put there.
122:20:40	Schmitt	Okay. Bag 477 is the coarsely vesicular rock.
122:20:45	Cernan	Are two of them there? I hope two of them fell in.
122:20:48	Schmitt	No, I only got one.
122:20:51	Cernan	Okay, here's that other one. It had to fall right here.
122:20:58	Schmitt	I don't think it ever - is that - There it is; get your tongs.
122:21:02	Cernan	Right here?
122:21:02	Schmitt	Now you're full of dirt in the scoop; you just covered it up.
122:21:06	Cernan	Got it; I got it.
122:21:08	Schmitt	Here, put it in here with the dirt. That's good.
122:21:12	Cernan	A little dirt never hurt anybody.
122:21:15	Schmitt	Got it.
122:21:17	Cernan	Okay.
122:21:18	Schmitt	477 are two chips of the - They're small, but I think they'll give you the - if there's any compositional difference.
122:21:26	Cernan	But these two are the ones you saw - that right there? That's what you pointed at.
122:21:33	Schmitt	Yes, I think you got it.
122:21:34	Cernan	Okay. I'm going to take a - a closeup stereo on that contact.
122:21:38	Schmitt	Yes, definitely.
122:21:40	CC	Okay; and, Jack and Gene, when you get done with that boulder, we'd like you to move on to the - the rake soil sample, please; and that'll be a kilogram sample, please.
122:21:50	Cernan	Yes, sir; we're going to. We're going to.
122:21:54	Schmitt	In bag 478 is the chip from the finely - more finely vesicular rock. Both of them are coarse. It's a small chip; but it'll tell the story, I think.
122:22:10	Cernan	Dust, dust, dust, dust. Here you are. I'll go ahead and get a closeup stereo - -
122:22:14	Schmitt	Get a closeup, and I'll get the rake. I'll get started on the rake.
122:22:18	Cernan	Okay.
122:22:23	Schmitt	Gene, if you can pick up one more rock in that picture, with your tongs, let's bag it.
122:22:30	Cernan	I'll get it.
122:22:33	Schmitt	As you come back.
122:22:37	CC	And, 17. We'd like to have you guys - -
122:22:39	Cernan	Sure wish I could read this.
122:22:40	CC	- - driving in 10 minutes, please.
122:22:45	Cernan	Nag, nag, nag.
122:22:48	CC	That's right, that's right, that's right.
122:22:49	Cernan	Boy, I can't see my camera setting, it's so full of dust.
122:22:55	Schmitt	Okay. I guess you want to sort of - out in nothing's land here, huh?
122:23:09	Schmitt	I can bag it for you, Geno.
122:23:11	CC	Roger.
122:23:13	Cernan	That's all right. I want to get this closeup here.
122:23:18	Schmitt	Okay, I've moved about - 5 meters - 5 to 8 meters northeast of the Rover. And - as soon as Gene gets here with the gnomon -
122:23:39	Cernan	Coming, coming.
122:23:50	Schmitt	Bob, I've got a - a sample that was laying next to that boulder. I did not get an after picture of it, but it's - as I was taking my closeup pictures, it - is on my side of the boulder just 4 or 5 inches, covered with the dark mantle.
122:24:08	Cernan	I think we - I think we probably disturbed that one. It'll probably show up in the befores.
122:24:14	CC	Okay. Copy that.
122:24:14	Schmitt	Okay, we want a rake.
122:24:21	Schmitt	And that's in bag 479.
122:24:26	CC	Okay.
122:24:28	Schmitt	Gene, let's rake - let's rake right out there.
122:24:32	Cernan	Look, let's go ahead and bag that one; and I'll get the gnomon out there.
122:24:36	Schmitt	Okay.
122:24:37	Cernan	Bob, as you might have seen from the camera, up towards where we think Emory is you get a pretty high concentration of boulders up there.
122:24:46	CC	Okay. And I think that that's where we thought we were a little bit closer to Emory than you are.
122:24:55	Cernan	Well, we thought about going on up there; although - we're in a pretty good area here, too, from the standpoint of boulders.
122:25:03	CC	Yes.
122:25:03	Cernan	Again, I think - Face the Sun.
122:25:04	Schmitt	I think for the most part, large and small, all the fragments seem to be - seem to be filleted or even mantled by the dark material.
122:25:20	Schmitt	Let me get out of your way.
122:25:21	Cernan	Boy, I've got to clean my camera; I can't even see. What area are you going to rake?
122:25:26	Schmitt	To the - your left of the - well, ahead of the - ahead of the gnomon and to your left, there.
122:25:32	Cernan	Okay, I got it.
122:25:34	CC	Okay, Gene, we copy that. That's a good observation. And I also gathered that most of the rocks look pretty much the same.
122:25:43	Schmitt	That's what I said.
122:25:44	Cernan	Yes, except a change in vesicularity - -
122:25:49	CC	Roger.
122:25:50	Cernan	- - in terms of the size of vesicles, where I described one as being a more hummocky vesicular-type rock. The first time I've noticed any of the dark minerals was when we took that one big flat chip off that boulder.
122:26:06	CC	Okay; copy that.
122:26:07	Cernan	I didn't look at it that close to see what it was.
122:26:12	CC	Copy that, guys.
122:26:16	Cernan	I'm going to get a pan, Jack, while you're doing that.
122:26:18	Schmitt	Okay.
122:26:19	CC	Good idea, Gene.
122:26:42	Cernan	Man, are there some good targets for the 500 around here. We've got to get those massifs with the 500.
122:26:57	PAO	The double core will be eliminated at this stop. When it gets started back toward the -
122:27:07	CC	And, 17; again, we'd like - -
122:27:09	Schmitt	Bob, I'm really only penetrating - I'm only penetrating about, at the most, 3 centimeters into this area with the rake. I've picked up a very good sample of bla - of boulders but most of them were - were in that distance of the surface and projecting out of it.
122:27:30	CC	Okay; I copy that.
122:27:33	Schmitt	You ready, Gene?
122:27:34	Cernan	A couple of more. Jack. Okay, coming at you. Bob, the pan is complete. I'll give you a frame count shortly.
122:27:46	CC	Copy that, Geno.
122:27:47	Cernan	There's two bags, I think.
122:27:49	Schmitt	Two bags full. First bag is 457 - -
122:27:55	CC	Copy that.
122:27:56	Schmitt	- - 457.
122:27:57	Cernan	Let me, don't let me - don't let me lose them. That's enough. Give me a couple of small ones.
122:28:06	Schmitt	Okay.
122:28:07	Cernan	Okay, that's good. That's good. Okay.
122:28:18	Schmitt	Here, ... They are.
122:28:23	Cernan	Okay, in bag 458 is the rest of the - the rake sample. They're all fragments.
122:28:33	CC	Copy that. Now we need the kilogram of the soil.
122:28:39	Cernan	... Yes, sir.
122:28:41	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. All the fragments, of course, are - are completely covered with - the mantle; and they are slightly - oh, maybe 20-percent vesicular. I just took a glance at them. But, for the most part, they appear to be rounded and subrounded fragments.
122:29:01	Cernan	Okay. Let's get the kilogram.
122:29:15	Schmitt	Okay.
122:29:20	Schmitt	Oh, well, shoot. Start all over.
122:29:24	Cernan	Try it again. 459 will get the kilogram, Bob.
122:29:29	CC	Copy that.
122:29:37	Schmitt	Get some more.
122:29:39	Cernan	Okay, fill it up.
122:29:52	Schmitt	Can you close it?
122:29:53	Cernan	Yes, yes, I can close it.
122:29:55	Schmitt	That's a good kilogram.
122:30:04	Cernan	Well, I just can't even read my camera anymore. I've got to learn how to control the dust. Okay, that's in.
122:30:10	Schmitt	Okay; you get the answer?
122:30:12	Cernan	I tried to blow the dust off my camera - -
122:30:14	Schmitt	If we could get a - I think it's going to be hard to get a double core here. We could try a single right there. Bob, we got time to get the core?
122:30:23	CC	Negative. The core has been deleted. We'd like for you to get your second pan, Jack, and then we'll press on.
122:30:31	Schmitt	Okay.
122:30:37	Schmitt	I'll get it over here where our two sample sites are in view.
122:30:41	CC	Copy that.
122:30:54	Cernan	Well, now I know why I felt that we were much too close to Trident than what I thought. We weren't really too close to Trident because Trident is way out here. That makes me feel better. A guy would know if he landed 100 meters from a big set of craters like that. You know, on a landing site like this, you ought to know exactly where you are. Anyway, I landed where I wanted to. Okay, Bob, here's a reading for you.
122:31:34	CC	Okay. Ready for it.
122:31:48	Cernan	670, 012, 901; 670, 012, 901.
122:31:56	CC	Okay; copy that, Geno.
122:32:04	Cernan	Okay, and we - no more charges to deploy back - going back, right?
122:32:07	CC	No, we will deploy charge number 7 on the way back.
122:32:14	Cernan	On the way back. Okay.
122:32:15	CC	Roger. It will be deployed at the same location we were originally planning on deploying it, which was in the checklist there.
122:32:25	Cernan	Okay. Very good, sir. We'll get at it.
122:32:38	Schmitt	Okay. I'm taking your camera.
122:32:45	CC	Okay. And, Jack, you got the pan or getting it?
122:32:52	Schmitt	Yes, sir.
122:32:54	Cernan	And, Bob, CDR is on frame count 60.
122:33:01	CC	Okay.
122:33:07	Schmitt	Which one? And the LMP is on 95.
122:33:14	CC	Copy, 95.
122:33:18	Schmitt	Okay, Gene.
122:33:20	Cernan	We need EP-7, Jack.
122:33:21	Schmitt	You got the gnomon?
122:33:23	Cernan	Got the gnomon.
122:33:24	Schmitt	And the rake and the scoop?
122:33:25	Cernan	The rake and the scoop are back on. Okay, get the charge. I'll set the low gain, and we'll be - ready to do it.
122:33:35	Schmitt	Bob, my impression right now is that the dark mantle may just be a - a - well, at least in here, it's indistinguishable from a regolith that might be derived from these other rocks. It seems to be a little dark for that, but that might be the answer.
122:33:56	CC	Okay. We'll - -
122:33:57	Schmitt	EP-7?
122:33:57	CC	We're ... to do on that again tomorrow. And EP-7 is the charge, right?
122:33:58	Cernan	EP-7.
122:34:08	Cernan	Jack, I figured out if you - if you mount the Rover at 90 degrees, when you kick up your feet, you - you'll miss the dust.
122:34:21	Schmitt	Let me hook you in before I do that.
122:34:23	Cernan	Okay.
122:34:28	Schmitt	Just put your seat 90 degrees to it.
122:34:31	Cernan	Yes.
122:34:33	Schmitt	Well, you certainly ride high.
122:34:35	Cernan	Do I?
122:34:36	Schmitt	Yes. I'm surprised the belt fits.
122:34:39	Cernan	Yes, it fits fine. Okay. I'm in.
122:34:44	Schmitt	Okay.
122:34:52	Cernan	Oop -
122:34:53	Schmitt	Not too good, huh?
122:34:56	Cernan	Yes. We're learning. I hope my bag was closed. Yours was. Did you get it?
122:35:02	Schmitt	Yes - yes. I - as a matter of fact, I did. I thought that.
122:35:07	CC	Okay, we mark you underway.
122:35:09	Schmitt	Hey, you ought to put that sampler d - -
122:35:12	Cernan	Not yet.
122:35:13	Schmitt	It's not the sampler - it's these bags with memory.
122:35:18	Cernan	This thing is too high for you. You're hitting it all the time. No, we're not on our way, Bob.
122:35:23	CC	Okay.
122:35:28	Cernan	Okay. And you want the - charge deployed at 320.7, huh?
122:35:39	CC	Roger. It will be 0.6. We'll change that to 0.6 on EP-7 but - and it will really be just wherever you cross 0.6 on the range.
122:35:53	Cernan	Okay.
122:35:54	Schmitt	Well, it fit once.
122:36:02	Cernan	Did you twist it, Jack? 180, that took out some of your - Wait a minute - here.
122:36:08	Schmitt	Which way?
122:36:09	Cernan	Well, I can't see. Your left hand's in the way now. Away from you. Twist it away from you 180 degrees.
122:36:16	Schmitt	Like that?
122:36:18	Cernan	Yes, now the other 90. Okay, now try it.
122:36:25	Schmitt	Well, let me see.
122:36:28	Cernan	You got it?
122:36:29	Schmitt	That should - that should do it. Okay.
122:36:36	Cernan	Okay?
122:36:37	Cernan	Whew. Here's your charge. I think you're learning. That's half of the first EVA. Okay, Bob, we are rolling.
122:36:47	Cernan	MARK it.
122:36:47	CC	Okay, copy that, Jack - Gene.
122:36:54	PAO	EP7 is a half-pound charge.
122:36:55	Schmitt	Okay, what was it - where did they want it deployed?
122:36:58	Cernan	Six-tenths of a kilometer.
122:37:01	Schmitt	Back, huh?
122:37:02	CC	Roger. It'll be at a range of 0.6, guys.
122:37:08	Schmitt	You've got a block right ahead of you.
122:37:11	Cernan	I got it.
122:37:12	CC	Okay. And remember you'll be taking photos coming back here, Jack - -
122:37:15	Schmitt	Okay.
122:37:16	CC	- - if you get a chance.
122:37:20	Schmitt	Yes, sir. Thank you. I got a few going out, Bob, but they weren't too well spaced.
122:37:27	CC	Okay. And I assume you've got the low gain antenna aligned.
122:37:32	Schmitt	Yes, sir; it's aligned. Okay.
122:37:39	Cernan	That's got to be Trident, Jack, because that's too big for anything else.
122:37:52	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. There's - the classic raindrop pattern over this fine debris. I'd say that the surface definitely is sorted, the fine regolithic material forming one fraction and then the blocks another. The blocks are prob - those blocks are greater than a - 2 centimeters in diameter. In general, make up less than 10 percent of the surface. But there are some big ones. And it - fairly uniformly distributed. There are blocks a meter in diameter.
122:38:35	CC	Copy that.
122:38:36	Cernan	Hey, Jack, that big crater out there at 2 o'clock has probably got to be Sherlock. That's got to be Sherlock over there.
122:38:44	Schmitt	Yes, probably. I think the only place I've really identified that we can go to is to Station 6.
122:38:50	Cernan	Yes, but you can't - we've got to get on a high vantage point here one of these days.
122:38:53	Schmitt	Yes.
122:38:56	Schmitt	Well, I think we'll find Camelot without any problem.
122:38:58	Cernan	Yes. Okay, watch. I'm going through it.
122:39:02	Schmitt	Okay. No problem.
122:39:06	Cernan	No, I'd rather straddle or go through those little ones.
122:39:08	Schmitt	Okay, Bob, here's another crater about the same size we sampled - the last station. And it doesn't have as many blocks, but it does have blocks. And from this distance, their vesicular texture and their light color shows up very well. I suspect they're the same general kind. There's a glass-bottom crater.
122:39:28	CC	Okay. You got a range and - -
122:39:29	Cernan	...
122:39:29	CC	- - bearing, there, guys, please.
122:39:31	Cernan	Okay, 341.8.
122:39:36	CC	Copy that.
122:39:36	Cernan	Did you take a picture, Jack?
122:39:36	Schmitt	Yes.
122:39:37	Cernan	Okay.
122:39:47	Schmitt	You're pointed right at Station 6, I think, Gene.
122:39:49	Cernan	I think you may be right. There's that boulder. I just want to get up here where I can ... - -
122:39:52	Schmitt	Not the one on the track but the one over there to the right of that.
122:39:57	Schmitt	Unless the one with the track - I'm - I've got mixed emotions which is 6.
122:40:02	Cernan	That's - that's probably - look over there to the left. You see that.
122:40:07	Schmitt	Yes.
122:40:09	Cernan	That's Trident. Man, I'll tell you.
122:40:11	Schmitt	Look at this thing. That looks like the same kind of rock except it doesn't have any vesicles.
122:40:18	Cernan	There's some white stuff in that rock. Just let me take a quick pic ...
122:40:22	Cernan	See that one right in front of it? Take a picture of it.
122:40:26	Schmitt	Oh, you mean this one, here.
122:40:28	Cernan	Oh, that's a - that's a big zap pit, isn't it? Take a picture of that?
122:40:35	Schmitt	Yes, they're big zap pits. Same rock with big zap pits. I got to change the - well, ... Okay. Although there are - I think those are zap pits. It's a little hard to say.
122:40:46	Cernan	Looks like a big chip out of the rock.
122:40:49	Schmitt	They're white halos; it just has more of them.
122:40:51	Cernan	But it's a big one; it's about an inch and a half or 2 inches across.
122:40:53	Schmitt	Yes.
122:40:59	Cernan	I tell you, I've got to go and get my skies and geometry squared away.
122:41:04	CC	Okay, 17, how about - -
122:41:06	Cernan	Did you see this one?
122:41:06	CC	- - range and bearing?
122:41:07	Schmitt	Yes.
122:41:11	Cernan	Okay. 341.7. Bob, we're moving at about 11 clicks right now.
122:41:18	CC	Copy that. Beautiful. Remember the charge goes off at 0.6.
122:41:22	Schmitt	Doesn't sound like - Okay.
122:41:34	Schmitt	Okay, we want to - -
122:41:36	Cernan	Oh, there's the mantle - there's the white mantle Jack, look over there. Can you look to your left?
122:41:39	Schmitt	Yes, it does. Yes.
122:41:41	Cernan	That's the white mantle.
122:41:42	Schmitt	Swing around that way.
122:41:43	Cernan	Call it a slide or not, but that's the white mantle. Whoo! That's my first real good picture of it. That is something.
122:41:51	Schmitt	Okay, I got some of that. Okay, how are we doing?
122:41:57	Cernan	I don't want to go in that crater, that's what I don't want to do. Okay. We're at 0.6; how about 339 ...
122:42:03	Schmitt	Okay. I got a couple of shots right out in there.
122:42:07	Cernan	Okay. Coming right around to you.
122:42:08	Schmitt	Oh, that's good. Hold that heading. Whoa. That'll be good.
122:42:13	Cernan	Right here?
122:42:14	Schmitt	Yes, whoa.
122:42:15	Cernan	Okay. Let me get my - Okay, I got my locator.
122:42:23	Schmitt	Okay, now this one we want me to get a partial pan until something's identified.
122:42:28	Cernan	Okay. We'll do that. We've got to turn that way anyway.
122:42:32	Schmitt	Okay, pin 1, pull, SAFE. Pin 2, pull, SAFE. Pin 3 -
122:42:42	Schmitt	MARK it, pull, SAFE.
122:42:43	CC	Okay. And I copy that as charge number 7.
122:42:49	Schmitt	That's affirm.
122:42:54	CC	Okay. And we'd like a frame number when you get done there, Jack, after you get it on the ground.
122:43:03	Schmitt	Okay, stand by. Okay. I think we'll miss that.
122:43:10	Cernan	Okay. Bearing is 339.6.
122:43:12	Schmitt	Okay, start a - a pan around it, Gene - -
122:43:16	CC	Copy that, Gene - -
122:43:17	Schmitt	Okay, let me get it out - Okay, I'm going to start slowly ... Okay.
122:43:23	Cernan	Going to miss it?
122:43:24	Schmitt	Yes, by a lot.
122:43:28	Cernan	Okay, taking your pictures?
122:43:29	Schmitt	Yes, sir. Wheels cleared it by - it's got to be a lot. is my low gain dropping out?
122:43:41	Cernan	How much are my wheels missing it by - going around?
122:43:44	Schmitt	Lots. About a meter.
122:43:46	Cernan	Okay. Okay, we're on our way. The low gain is set again.
122:43:52	Cernan	Okay, we're heading on back to SEP.
122:43:54	CC	Okay, and a frame count there, Jack.
122:43:55	Schmitt	Okay, pan - was more - the pan was more or less complete at l46.
122:44:04	CC	Copy, 146 on Hotel.
122:44:14	Schmitt	Bob, you know, the more I look at this - Watch out for those babies there - at this - at this dark dust, if you will, the more it doesn't seem like the kind of thing you'd expect to have been derived from the underlying bedrock. But I think you're going to have to play that game in the lab right now.
122:44:38	CC	Okay, I copy that. Can you - -
122:44:40	Schmitt	We'll see how it works out later.
122:44:41	CC	Roger.
122:44:47	Schmitt	It just seems dark and much too fine grained. You don't have the impression that you're getting the size distribution you'd expect to get by having all these blocks around.
122:45:06	CC	Okay, I copy that.
122:45:06	Schmitt	Definitely, I think, at least in my mind, ... population - size population - -
122:45:14	Cernan	Jack, that almost looks like bedrock over exposed in there. See that?
122:45:18	Schmitt	Yes, why don't you take a pass over that way. Get through there?
122:45:22	Cernan	Yes, I can get through there.
122:45:24	Schmitt	Do you know where you are?
122:45:25	Cernan	Yes.
122:45:26	Schmitt	In Trident?
122:45:27	Cernan	Yes, no - no, we're not in Trident. That's awful - that's pretty steep down in there. I'd walk down there. I'm not sure I want to drive down there yet.
122:45:35	Schmitt	No, I didn't mean down in there. I meant right over there.
122:45:37	Cernan	Well, here's some right here too.
122:45:38	Schmitt	Yes. ...
122:45:39	Cernan	Take a picture of that?
122:45:39	Schmitt	Yes.
122:45:41	CC	And how about a range and bearing when you've stopped taking pictures?
122:45:46	Cernan	Okay - -
122:45:47	CC	We need a - -
122:45:47	Cernan	336.4.
122:45:50	CC	336.4. Roger.
122:45:59	Cernan	Bob, I get a distinct impression that - Jack says it's going to be hard to tell whether this is regolith composed from the rock field we see around, but - I get a distinct impression - you can see that dark mantle on top of almost all the rocks. Except we have fresh glass, possibly, in the bottom of some of these small craters.
122:46:20	CC	Okay.
122:46:21	Cernan	Everywhere else there is actually mantle, I believe, in and around some of the crevices and in the vesicles and what have you.
122:46:30	CC	Okay, I copy - -
122:46:31	Cernan	It's all material though, that could be - it's material that could be knocked in there by the local impact.
122:46:43	CC	Okay; but I gather you find a lot of material on top of the rocks.
122:46:49	Schmitt	I think we lost them.
122:46:51	Cernan	Not a lot, Bob. Not a lot. It's there, though.
122:46:54	CC	Okay; copy that.
122:46:55	Cernan	They're not nearly as covered with dust as they - as they get when - when you drop one. It's just a - it's really a salting or a scattering of debris in the depressions - -
122:47:09	CC	Okay.
122:47:10	Cernan	- - on the rock. The projections of the rock are perfectly clean.
122:47:12	CC	Okay. I copy that.
122:47:14	Schmitt	Yes, but most of all - most of all the craters are - have relatively ..., except where the rocks are showing the boulders on the sides, or - within the craters are evident - are subtly covered over with this mantle. You don't see any good sharp ridges - walls on some of these craters. Even the small ones.
122:47:40	CC	Okay. Roger on that.
122:47:46	Cernan	Man, I tell you, you could lose the rear end of this thing in a hurry, if you'd like.
122:47:49	Schmitt	I think you have lost a fender. I keep getting rained on here.
122:47:53	Cernan	Oh, no.
122:47:54	Schmitt	Look at that rooster tail - look what's ahead of us here.
122:47:59	Cernan	Yes, that's probably it. It probably didn't stay. I can see it in a shadow.
122:48:05	Schmitt	Sure, look at it.
122:48:06	Cernan	Oh boy, that's going to be terrible. That is really going to be bad.
122:48:13	Schmitt	I didn't see it. We probably lost it. I think I know when because I just started to notice it. Bob, I'm going to state what Gene said slightly differently. There just aren't a lot of very sharp, bright craters, but there are some. All the craters seem to be pretty well formed. It isn't an extensive mantle. Matter of fact, for example, hasn't filled the base - Are we due to deploy that thing now?
122:48:43	Cernan	Yes, I - want to - want to - come in at a -
122:48:47	Schmitt	Hasn't filled the bottom of the craters.
122:48:49	Cernan	I'm going to come in at a heading here and see if I can get on it for you.
122:48:53	Schmitt	Okay, drop me off there.
122:48:57	Cernan	Look at that fender. Look at the dust it's produced. Look at the LCRU.
122:49:03	Schmitt	Yes, it's going to make - -
122:49:04	Cernan	I don't know how to keep that thing on.
122:49:10	Schmitt	Make it west.
122:49:12	Cernan	Okay, I'm rolling west right now.
122:49:14	Schmitt	That looks good. That looks good. Hold that heading.
122:49:19	Cernan	Boy, I don't like losing that fender.
122:49:29	Schmitt	We're back at the SEP, Bob. I'm starting to lay out my first track.
122:49:33	CC	Roger. Copy that.
122:49:43	Schmitt	How's our time, Bob?
122:49:47	Cernan	Okay?
122:49:49	CC	Roger. You're about 5 minutes behind on the - the arrival time at the SEP. But we're - we're - No real problems. And I assume that the range and bearing, when you got there, was about zero.
122:50:03	Schmitt	Okay, get - Let me leave my camera.
122:50:07	Cernan	Well, let me read it. 252, 2.5, and 0. I'm resetting.
122:50:11	CC	Okay. Copy that.
122:50:12	Schmitt	And the LMP frame count is 19 - 197, and it was s till turning.
122:50:19	Cernan	Amp-hours are 108, 105, and batteries are 100 and 120.
122:50:27	CC	Okay. Copy 100 and 120.
122:50:29	Schmitt	Okay. Oh, wait a minute. I need my camera, don't I?
122:50:33	Cernan	Yes, sir.
122:50:35	CC	I don't think it's much good to you with a 197 there, Jack.
122:50:38	Schmitt	No, I don't. I don't need my camera.
122:50:43	CC	Roger on that.
122:50:44	Schmitt	We're deploying it. No, you take the pictures. I don't need it. Go ahead, play it out.
122:50:51	Cernan	Okay; you're right. Okay, here we go. I'm headed out.
122:50:55	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. The location is in about the least cratered area I could find, between a large crater or a large depression that's about - oh, ranges from maybe 50 to 150 meters behind the LM. That's maybe - south - or east-southeast; and it's between that depression and another large depression that is really a doublet with a blocky septum between them. That's to the northeast of the LM about 200 meters; that's the start of that second depression. I think we can get a nice layout, although there'll be a general slope, I believe, towards the LM - of about a degree.
122:52:08	CC	Okay, that's no real problem, Jack.
122:52:18	Cernan	Jack, am I about abeam of you? I can't see.
122:52:21	Schmitt	Yes.
122:52:22	Cernan	Okay, I'll turn in around this crater.
122:52:29	Schmitt	Hey, if you come right ... -
122:52:53	Schmitt	That depression to the northeast is at least a couple hundred meters in diameter, and it's joined with one that's probably of comparable size just to the northwest of the first depression.
122:53:13	CC	Okay, I copy that too, Jack.
122:53:17	Cernan	Okay. How's that look, Jack?
122:53:23	Schmitt	Great.
122:53:25	Cernan	Far enough?
122:53:26	Schmitt	Yes. Yes, come back.
122:53:33	Cernan	... we head on up to Station 2 without that fender and are we going to be full of dust.
122:53:42	Schmitt	Okay, there's no special -
122:53:45	Cernan	I can park 180 but -
122:54:03	Cernan	Okay, Bob, I've stopped - back at the SEP.
122:54:06	CC	Copy that, Gene.
122:54:14	Cernan	Dropped the - One came out, Jack.
122:54:16	Schmitt	Oh, yes. This thing is a lot harder to turn than it was in training.
122:54:34	Cernan	Oops. Okay, that's the first two we've got to deploy. Can you bring your tongs?
122:54:39	Schmitt	Yes.
122:54:40	Cernan	Bob, ... do you want me to dust here? I'll dust back at the LM. We're going to deploy the SEP. God bless.
122:54:56	CC	Okay. They all say to dust, Geno.
122:55:02	Cernan	Okay. You're going to have to wait for me, Jack.
122:55:07	Schmitt	Well, I've got antennas all over the place here.
122:55:09	Cernan	Yes, as a matter of fact, you do. Stand by one second. I'll make it a quick one.
122:55:14	Schmitt	That's all right. No, I can handle it, I think, here. But we're going to need your tongs to pick them up and not get them all confused. Okay, where's the - where's the shadow graph? There it is. Sun quadrant - that's the Sun quadrant.
122:55:38	Cernan	For sure we lost that fender.
122:55:53	Schmitt	Okay, I'll deploy number 2 and 4. And, let's see, that's number 1. This one must be number 2. It is.
122:56:34	Cernan	Okay, I'm almost there, Jack. Let me run around and dust. Let me tell you, this dust isn't going to be fun tomorrow.
122:56:52	Schmitt	Okay, I won't bore you with details on why you see the antenna all over the ground (laughter) but it has to do with 1/6 g.
122:57:11	CC	Roger, Jack. Understand you dropped a couple of the antenna reels.
122:57:14	Schmitt	You know, Bob, they're very - more accurately, I dropped three of them. Bob, you know this fine-grained dust that we're in could be ground-up pyroclastic. It might grind more easily than other things, and the blocks are just the - those blocks that have been excavated from below that pyroclastic by the larger craters and some of the smaller ones in the area.
122:57:47	Cernan	MARK, gravimeter reading.
122:57:48	CC	Okay; mark that. Roger, Jack. That would make a nice story, wouldn't it?
122:57:55	Schmitt	... Well, you'd think glassy pyroclastic might turn into regolith a little bit faster than some of these other things. But we'll check that one out.
122:58:12	CC	Okay.
122:58:13	Cernan	You want 2?
122:58:14	Schmitt	Two, and you get 1. Right there.
122:58:16	CC	And, Jack, did you get the reels straightened out again?
122:58:22	Schmitt	Yes, they're okay.
122:58:24	CC	Thank you.
122:58:25	Schmitt	How can you stop a crew like this?
122:58:28	CC	I don't know any way.
122:58:31	Schmitt	In all modesty, I mean. Okay, Geno, I'm on my way. Pull gently on that thing because I - it's awful easy to knock it over. I had that geophone module all over the place.
122:58:47	Cernan	I can't tell whether I'm pulling gently or not.
122:58:50	Schmitt	Any time you feel a tug, stop.
122:58:55	PAO	This antenna's being deployed in tracks that have been made by the rover.
122:59:02	CC	Careful, guys.
122:59:04	Cernan	At least we're pulling at the base. I better watch what I'm backing into. There's a lot of holes around here.
122:59:30	Schmitt	Well, it happened, Bob. I'm glad we Velcroed those - tabs.
122:59:43	Cernan	Okay, I'm at the end, Jack. Are you having -
122:59:46	Schmitt	Well, I - What happened was which we thought might happen. It twisted on my - I'll be there in just a second.
122:59:58	Cernan	Okay, I want f/ll at 250th and 74 feet. Well - ah, ah, ah, ah. Ah, ah, yes; you're pulling it over.
123:00:20	Schmitt	I'm not. You are.
123:00:22	Cernan	No, I'm not. I've got all sorts of slack in here.
123:00:25	Schmitt	Okay, it's okay.
123:00:29	Cernan	All right. Are you out there?
123:00:31	Schmitt	Yes.
123:00:32	Cernan	Okay, let me back up - a skosh and take the slack out. And I would say, offhand -Oh, boy, what have you got a - that's about as close to a 1/6th g orthogonal - at least, not orthogonal yet, but straight lined. That's it Jack, here.
123:01:05	Schmitt	Stay there, and I'll take a picture.
123:01:06	Cernan	I thought you did.
123:01:09	Schmitt	No. Okay, I got it now.
123:01:14	Evans	Hey, if you try and stick that thing in, Jack, you're going to fall over. Just set it down, and we'll stay away from it.
123:01:20	Schmitt	Yes. You talked me into it.
123:01:24	Cernan	That was a good idea, but - that's a good straight line.
123:01:29	Schmitt	(Singing) We were strolling in the park one day - Well, we've had lots of good ideas in our time.
123:01:43	Cernan	Oh, boy; the thing that makes me sick is losing that fender. I can stand a lot of things, but I sure don't like that.
123:01:57	Schmitt	Okay, I get number 4, which - Where is it? is that the one on the ground?
123:02:02	Cernan	It's probably the one on the ground. Got it? is that the right one?
123:02:16	Schmitt	Well, 3 - No, this is yours.
123:02:19	Cernan	No. Take it; doesn't make any difference.
123:02:20	Schmitt	Okay, I'm deploying the - the LMP's deploying reel 3 for your photography purposes.
123:02:29	CC	Roger. Copy that.
123:02:30	Schmitt	Oh, - Hey, push that in.
123:02:34	Cernan	Roger.
123:02:34	Schmitt	Ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha.
123:02:37	Cernan	Serves you right.
123:02:43	Schmitt	This doesn't push.
123:02:51	Cernan	Okay, I'm ready to stroll.
123:03:23	Schmitt	(Humming) I found a brown rock that I'm going to bring back.
123:03:31	Cernan	Please do.
123:03:34	Schmitt	I think it's the back side of a piece of glass, but it's brown.
123:03:39	Cernan	Well, I think I'm more or less on your track. It wiggled a little bit.
123:03:45	Schmitt	Well, we're - Oh, oh, oh, ooh, stop, Geno.
123:03:48	Cernan	Okay, Jack, wait a minute. That looks orthagonal to me. Got your picture?
123:04:04	Schmitt	Will have in a sec. Wait a minute. Every time I do something, I change the setting. Okay, I got it. I straightened the line out a little bit better after I took the picture - a few kinks in it. Now where's my brown rock? I saw it when I was driving with the Rover. I knew I'd be able to come back here because of the tracks. Looks like an old piece of bread.
123:04:40	CC	Is that the one that came out of the hatch?
123:04:43	Cernan	What the heck is that? Huh? Oh, it's a piece of - Well, it's a piece of glass, all right - crumbled - part of it crumbled but - I got to get that in a bag. Oh, man, is that a nice piece of glass. Just laying out there all by itself. Jack, well - you got a bag handy while I take my pan. I can't reach a bag; I got this sample in the wrong hand.
123:05:17	Schmitt	I don't have a bag.
123:05:19	Cernan	You don't have - well, take one off of mine and give it to me. I'll take it back to the Rover. Wa, wa, wa! Watch it; you've got a wire under your foot.
123:05:30	Schmitt	Bag number 460.
123:05:34	CC	Copy that. 460 has brown glass.
123:05:35	Cernan	I'm halfway out on the north course - -
123:05:41	CC	Sorry about that.
123:05:42	Cernan	- - I'm halfway out on the north course of the - of the SEP.
123:05:48	Schmitt	It's brown vesicular glass. Sort of a yellow-brown, as a matter of fact.
123:06:01	Cernan	Okay, it says - take locator photo to LM. I thought I took a pan here. The LM wasn't - Okay.
123:06:18	CC	Yes, the locator is really all you need; but a partial pan to show the area would be appreciated.
123:06:25	Cernan	Yes, I'm here. I'm going to get a partial pan, Bob.
123:06:28	CC	Okay.
123:06:33	Cernan	The only reason I'm doing it is I know it would be appreciated.
123:07:00	Cernan	Okay, take locator to photo LM; I got it. Bob, I'm on - if I can get where I can read it - on about 71 on my frame count; and let me give you - Boy, we got to stay out of this area, Jack. We'll pick up these cables just as sure as the devil. Oh, that fender. Boo - boo.
123:07:31	Schmitt	Hey, Houston, will you look at your solar panels?
123:07:35	CC	Roger. We see some solar panels.
123:07:40	Schmitt	You notice how they flop up?
123:07:44	CC	We noticed that, too.
123:07:45	Schmitt	I think we need some gray tape.
123:07:49	Cernan	Okay, 670, 010, 101; that's 670, 010, 101.
123:08:00	CC	Okay, I got that one, Geno.
123:08:02	Cernan	The wires have memory. Okay, let me - -
123:08:06	Schmitt	I need gray tape.
123:08:07	Cernan	Let me put this in your bag, and I'll get the gray tape.
123:08:09	Schmitt	Okay.
123:08:15	Cernan	We didn't exactly break any records collecting samples, but at least we got an ALSEP deployed. That gray tape, Jack, is not going to stick on anything with dust.
123:08:23	Schmitt	I know; that's what I was thinking.
123:08:29	Cernan	I've just been there with that fender.
123:08:33	Schmitt	Well, let's try it. You have a -
123:08:38	Cernan	I don't need the scissors. I can cut it without it. Come on. Once we - Don't back up in that wire - Just like the cover of a - of the -
123:08:54	Schmitt	Got it?
123:08:58	Cernan	... that?
123:09:00	Schmitt	Yes, I guess. Okay.
123:09:08	Cernan	Get this side?
123:09:09	Schmitt	Yes.
123:09:10	Cernan	Keep from falling over. You want to take those polar - solar panels off?
123:09:14	Schmitt	Let me hold on to you.
123:09:15	Cernan	Okay, lean on me.
123:09:19	Cernan	If not, let's take them off and hold them.
123:09:22	Schmitt	No, I think it's going to be easier this way.
123:09:24	Cernan	Okay, try it. I don't think they're going to be much problem the way they are, anyway.
123:09:31	Schmitt	You holding?
123:09:33	Cernan	Yes, go ahead and lean if you want.
123:09:43	Schmitt	I don't know how long it will stay.
123:09:44	Cernan	No, I don't know. Okay, there's one.
123:09:47	Schmitt	Give me another one.
123:09:49	CC	It's only going to stay for 2 days, guys.
123:09:51	Cernan	... pull the whole thing over.
123:09:52	Schmitt	This will be a - this will be a test. If it holds - holds until we see it again -
123:10:02	Cernan	... Don't knock the whole thing over.
123:10:08	Schmitt	Okay, I'm leaning on you.
123:10:10	Cernan	Okay, lean.
123:10:17	Schmitt	The piece of tape is so dusty - it may not work.
123:10:20	Cernan	Try it somewhere. Okay, are you happy with the alignment?
123:10:28	Schmitt	I was. is the gnomon the zero mark?
123:10:33	Cernan	Gnomon is right up to zero mark.
123:10:35	Schmitt	That's where it's supposed to be.
123:10:37	CC	Beautiful guys.
123:10:38	Cernan	Okay, and the level bubble is just touching the - the inner circle.
123:10:45	CC	Okay, copy that. And we have the transmitter switch in STANDBY, right?
123:10:52	Cernan	Bob, there's just a couple little bows around the transmitter, is that -
123:10:56	Schmitt	It will be, yes.
123:10:59	Cernan	Oh, those are all right - those are okay.
123:11:02	Schmitt	Let's forget those.
123:11:04	Cernan	Jack, looking where the LM is, if I were you, I'd just walk down.
123:11:07	Schmitt	Come here, Gene.
123:11:08	Cernan	What do you need?
123:11:08	Schmitt	I need same support.
123:11:10	Cernan	Yes; boy, that's the key around here.
123:11:12	Schmitt	Everything on this SEP is coming off harder than it did in the - when we deployed it at the Cape. See that? it just lifts it. It may not be harder, but it lifts it.
123:11:27	Cernan	Okay.
123:11:28	Schmitt	Now, I got to reorient it.
123:11:30	Cernan	Now, let me see. You're STANDBY - now let me look at it - The gnomon's right at zero.
123:11:34	Schmitt	Okay, right at zero.
123:11:36	Cernan	It's just the same - it settled back just the same. Zero gnomon and inner circle.
123:11:41	CC	Okay; beautiful.
123:11:42	Schmitt	Let's go.
123:11:44	Evans	You want to walk back or ride?
123:11:46	Schmitt	Let's see -
123:11:48	Cernan	It's up to you but -
123:11:49	Schmitt	Oh, I'll walk back.
123:11:52	Cernan	Man, I hate this dust. I got to make a new fender tonight.
123:11:59	Schmitt	Well, let's see, I guess I'm supposed to -
123:12:01	CC	Hey, Gene, I presume that the fender that came off is the fender that came off before, right?
123:12:08	Cernan	Yes, same one. My tape didn't hold; it was too dusty.
123:12:11	CC	All right.
123:12:14	Cernan	Okay.
123:12:16	Schmitt	Hey, watch out for this antenna line I found out here.
123:12:19	Cernan	Yes. Okay, travel to LM, Okay, Bob, I'm not going to change anything right now except get in and travel. All right?
123:12:32	CC	That's affirm. Time to go home.
123:12:38	Schmitt	How's our time, Bob?
123:12:44	CC	You'll have a nominal closeout, guys, as soon as you get back. We're right about on the time that we've been figuring on for you guys to get back there on. Right now, you are 6 hours and 11 minutes into the EVA.
123:13:06	Schmitt	Boy, here's a big boulder.
123:13:12	Cernan	Yes, I discovered something - I learned a lot today, let me tell you.
123:13:21	Cernan	Okay, you're going to lose TV because the high gain is going to be out of whack here in a minute.
123:13:39	Schmitt	Okay, I got a football-size rock of this vesicular - coarsely vesicular gabbro, Bob. It's off a large 3 - to 4 meter buried boulder to the north - oh, let's say, northeast of the LM about 30 meters.
123:14:10	Schmitt	Do you read, Bob?
123:14:12	CC	Roger, Jack. Read you loud and clear on that one.
123:14:18	Schmitt	Okay. It'll be in the big bag.
123:14:22	CC	Okay, ...
123:14:23	Schmitt	Undocumented, it's about - it's roughly tabular, 15 by 25 centimeters, and about 5 to 7 centimeters thick. One - one face is very flat; looks like it was off of a parting plane, which were in that rock.
123:14:48	CC	Okay, and if it fits in the SRC with all the other samples, you might put it there because the SRC's going to be kind of empty.
123:14:55	Cernan	Got any new parking angles for your batteries or anything?
123:15:00	CC	No, it will be a heading of 013, which is hardly a change at all from the 012 in the checklist.
123:15:10	Cernan	Okay, I'll buy that.
123:15:28	CC	Jack, did you copy my comments about putting that thing in the SRC perhaps?
123:15:36	Schmitt	Well, it was pretty big. It's in the big bag now. We can do that.
123:15:43	CC	Well, I'd get*the other samples - the small ones and particularly soils in the SRC first.
123:15:51	Schmitt	Okay.
123:16:01	Cernan	Are you through?
123:16:02	Schmitt	No, I'm going right - right about here. Now I'm done.
123:16:07	Cernan	Okay.
123:16:08	Schmitt	Right there.
123:16:11	Cernan	Okay, Bob, 086, 0.5, 0.1, 108 - Oh - oh, 102.
123:16:28	Schmitt	Stand by 1.
123:16:29	Cernan	Okay, Amp-hours are at 108, 102; volts are 74 and 75 - Batteries are 108 and 123. Motors are all off scale low, all four of them.
123:16:48	CC	Roger, Gene. Understand 108, 102 on the amp-hours, hub?
123:16:56	Cernan	That's affirm; 108 and 102.
123:16:59	CC	Okay; copy that.
123:17:03	Cernan	I can't read this thing, because it's full of dust, so I've got to get off and dust it.
123:17:07	Schmitt	Okay, the SEP receiver temp is 45, 45 -
123:17:12	CC	Copy 45. Beautiful.
123:17:19	Schmitt	You know, I think they left some Velcro off of this thing, Gene. There's no Velcro holding those flaps down.
123:17:27	Cernan	Isn't there?
123:17:27	Schmitt	No.
123:17:33	Cernan	Okay. I've got to get the brush and dust that thing - a minute or 2.
123:17:42	Schmitt	Okay, let me get the high gain.
123:18:03	Cernan	I feel like taking some core tubes tomorrow.
123:18:08	CC	I have a feeling you've got a couple left over, don't you?
123:18:11	Cernan	Bob, you got -
123:18:13	Schmitt	Yes.
123:18:14	Cernan	Bob, you got the high gain?
123:18:15	CC	Okay, thank you.
123:18:19	Cernan	Is that - is that my bag, Jack, you got?
123:18:21	Schmitt	Yes.
123:18:22	Cernan	That's pretty good.
123:18:23	CC	Okay, let's put all the stuff in that bag, Jack -both the stuff that's in yours and the stuff that's in Gene's.
123:18:33	Schmitt	Okay. ... Samples - two samples from under the LMP's seat.
123:18:51	Cernan	Put these under the seat. Clean you up here while I'm at it. Oh, man, I tell you, it's going to take us half - a dozen Sundays to dust. Look at that fender; that's terrible.
123:19:10	Schmitt	Okay, you want to get my bag off?
123:19:13	Cernan	Yes. If you're ready.
123:19:14	Schmitt	Yes.
123:19:15	Schmitt	I've got to put your - those samples in the SRC, in your bag; and we'll save this one, I guess.
123:19:23	Cernan	Wait a minute. Let me clean you up.
123:19:24	Schmitt	Okay.
123:19:26	Cernan	Did you get me cleaned up?
123:19:27	Schmitt	Yes, you've lost your - -
123:19:29	Cernan	Wait a minute.
123:19:29	Schmitt	- - your strap though, here.
123:19:32	Cernan	Wait a minute, now, ... Okay, you get my hook back up over here.
123:19:37	Schmitt	Okay, - my - turn around. Your hook's up, but I'm not sure I closed your - your other one. Take a look at it. Yes, it's all closed. Okay, you're good. There you go.
123:19:53	Cernan	Okay, you're filling which bag, the -
123:19:56	Schmitt	Putting them in the bag that goes into the SRC -
123:19:58	Cernan	That's SRC - SCB 1.
123:20:01	CC	Roger.
123:20:02	Cernan	Okay; let's see, offload LM - PLSS - core cap dispenser tools. Okay, as soon as you get that, I'll take that SCB 1 from you, and I'll close the SRC 1.
123:20:17	CC	Okay; and I gather you didn't have any Rover samples today, did you, Jack?
123:20:20	Cernan	I've still got my tongs here. I got - -
123:20:23	Schmitt	No, I have one sample bag in my pocket that has a rock in it.
123:20:28	CC	We'll have to take that out when we get in the Rover, I assume.
123:20:32	Schmitt	Okay. Gene, where's that - you want to put that little rock?
123:20:41	Cernan	Yes, is it there?
123:20:43	Schmitt	Well, what did you do with it?
123:20:44	Cernan	It was on the floor on my side.
123:20:45	Schmitt	Your side?
123:20:47	Cernan	There it is; let me get it.
123:20:49	Schmitt	We can put that in one of the core tube slots here.
123:20:58	Cernan	Boy, that one fender just - just is an order of magnitude more of a dust problem. Here can you reach it?
123:21:07	Schmitt	Okay, the rock that Gene picked up - early - right at the start, is in a core tube slot in the SRC 1.
123:21:16	CC	Okay, I copy that.
123:21:21	Schmitt	Okay. Gene, you want this one?
123:21:26	Cernan	Yes, I want the full one.
123:21:28	Schmitt	Yes. Latched.
123:21:33	Cernan	Okay.
123:21:36	Schmitt	Bob, that's almost full of samples, and I think that big rock would be - probably wouldn't fit in there.
123:21:43	CC	Okay, then we'll put that in the big bag.
123:21:48	Schmitt	It's in the big bag.
123:21:50	CC	Good enough. And I gather there's no Rover samples today, right?
123:21:54	Cernan	Okay - No Rover samples; sorry.
123:22:34	Cernan	Okay, the seal is clear, like I promised I'd make it, coming over the top. Bob, the seal is clear.
123:22:53	CC	Beautiful.
123:22:59	Cernan	I don't know if it's beautiful, but it's clear.
123:23:03	CC	It's clearly beautiful.
123:23:06	Cernan	Okay, okay, that big mamou is locked. I got a lot of oxygen. I still got 22 percent.
123:23:23	Schmitt	I expect our feedwater may be getting a little low.
123:23:28	Cernan	I'm going to leave this right here until I take it up to you. Okay, close ... verify good seal, place in plus-Z. Okay, LRV circuit breakers: LRV LCRU power OFF. Dust - well, let me get at that dusting first.
123:23:43	Schmitt	Give me a yell when you need a spell there.
123:23:45	Cernan	What, dusting?
123:23:47	Schmitt	Yes.
123:23:48	Cernan	Well, I need a fender, that's what I need. Figure out something we can make a fender with.
123:23:55	Schmitt	How about one of the others that's not as critical?
123:23:57	Cernan	Yes, but I wouldn't ever take one of those off. You know, getting it - I had one to put on and it didn't stay, which is what I figured.
123:24:04	Schmitt	I thought you said it was broken, though?
123:24:05	Cernan	Well, it was. But these aren't supposed to come off, either, unless you break them. I broke that one. My hammer got caught underneath it. It wasn't the fender's fault.
123:24:18	Schmitt	Okay, the core tube is packed.
123:24:53	Schmitt	Every time I read containment bag, it fools me; I can't figure out what it is.
123:24:59	Cernan	Every time what?
123:25:00	Schmitt	I read containment bags.
123:25:03	Cernan	(Laughter) You've been thinking of the other kind too long. You've been living in the command module too long.
123:25:23	Cernan	That's a pretty good day's workout, you know. You know, I don't think we need an exercise period. We get back in there. I don't think we have to apologize to anybody. I'm sorry we didn't get out to Station 1. One of the main reasons is, I think, we could have got our navigation bearings a little bit better.
123:25:43	Schmitt	Well, I'll tell you. That new ALSEP had more to it than met the eye.
123:25:52	Cernan	This hole out here - you know, this is just such an easy site to find out and to identify yourself on and to land in. But, I tell you, all of a sudden there is so many local holes that I can't think big enough.
123:26:04	Schmitt	Does that sound familiar?
123:26:05	Cernan	Okay, Jack, ... rest of my dusting until - -
123:26:11	Schmitt	Am I in your way?
123:26:11	Cernan	Yes, I'd like to get over there to get the - this last battery cover. I can. That's good enough. I can get over there now. I want to make sure these things stay clean because I don't want to walk.
123:26:36	Schmitt	I agree. Okay, Bob, containment bags and two cameras are stowed in the ETB.
123:26:50	CC	Copy that. And don't forget the scissors, guys.
123:26:55	Schmitt	Don't worry. I've got them right here.
123:26:57	CC	Beautiful - don't want to go hungry.
123:27:00	Schmitt	It's a good call, Bob. That's right.
123:27:03	CC	And, Jack, give me your consideration - or Gene - on that question of bringing back the big bag into the cabin. The people down here are saying they want to bring it in, and then we'd end up bringing it back out in the second EVA. What do you guys think about that?
123:27:19	Schmitt	That's all right; we can do that.
123:27:20	Cernan	Yes, we can do that - I guess just because that rock's in there, huh?
123:27:23	Schmitt	I'd like to do that - look at that rock with a hand lens.
123:27:27	CC	All right; so then we'd be taking it back out in the second EVA, if you guys are agreeable to that.
123:27:34	Schmitt	Yes, we'll do that, Bob.
123:27:36	CC	And, Jack, do you think it'll go in the SCB?
123:27:43	Schmitt	Say again.
123:27:43	CC	Do you think it'll go in the SCB number 2?
123:27:50	Schmitt	What would - the bock - the rock?
123:27:52	CC	Yes, that's right.
123:27:57	Schmitt	Well, it'll go in there. It's not that big.
123:27:59	CC	Okay, why don't you put it in SCB - why don't you put it in SCB 2 and bring that in, instead. Leave SRB out, and then we'll just leave SCB 2 in forever.
123:28:11	Schmitt	Okay.
123:28:14	Cernan	Okay, verify SRC plus-Z pad. What are those things going over? What is that, Jack? Hey, something just hit here! What blew? Hey, what is that?
123:28:28	Schmitt	Oh, your antenna - your - it's that styrofoam off the high-gain antenna package.
123:28:37	Cernan	On the LM?
123:28:39	Schmitt	No, the one you deployed. The Rover high-gain antenna.
123:28:43	Cernan	My gosh, it blew up!
123:28:45	Schmitt	Yes.
123:28:46	Cernan	I thought we'd been hit by a - by a - Look at that stuff just keeps flying over the top of our heads. I thought we were the closest witnesses to a lunar meteor impact. I wonder if ... that's the same glass I picked up?
123:29:05	Schmitt	Oh, I don't know.
123:29:06	CC	John says it blew up on his mission too, guys.
123:29:09	Schmitt	Isn't that what you thought it was? isn't that what you thought it was? Huh? I thought you were kidding.
123:29:15	Cernan	No, I've never seen that before.
123:29:17	Schmitt	Oh, I'm sorry. I thought that was -
123:29:19	Cernan	No - you just - you just - Well, you saw that stuff coming. I didn't see that at all. Holy Smoly!
123:29:27	CC	Roger, 17. And John says that it blew up on his mission, as well.
123:29:35	Cernan	Okay, Bob, I guess I'm going to take the TV away from you.
123:29:43	CC	Okay. And, Gene, one thing we'd like before you guys leave the Rov - One thing we'd like before you guys leave the Rover is a farely good description of what happened to the rear fender when it came off. is the damage primarily to the piece that you've lost, or is - or are the rails on the piece that's remaining fairely bad?
123:30:06	Cernan	Okay.
123:30:11	Schmitt	Mag - -
123:30:13	Cernan	The - -
123:30:14	Schmitt	- - Romeo.
123:30:18	Cernan	Well, a piece of the rail on the - on the aft - aft inboard side here - the rail isn't missing - it's just a piece of the flange - the rail that fits against the fender - but that doesn't hold any part of the fender on. I don't remember what I saw on the fender - The rails look pretty good, Bob. And I had one of them completely on, and I just couldn't get the other one on. If I had known what that dust was, I would have tried an awful lot harder.
123:30:45	CC	Okay, do you have any feeling that - -
123:30:47	Cernan	I heard John telling me, but - -
123:30:50	CC	Do you have any feeling that you could get away with putting a front fender on?
123:30:59	Cernan	Well, I have done it before, but it's not easy.
123:31:05	CC	Okay, as far as you can tell, so that we can look at it over night, the rear fender - the part that's remaining - looks in fairly good shape, right?
123:31:20	Cernan	Let me take a good look at it. Yes, the part you need, I think, to hold that fender on -
123:31:38	Schmitt	Let's see - we better take those dustbrushes up there.
123:31:41	Cernan	Yes, there's enough here to hold the fender on, Bob.
123:31:45	CC	Okay, we'll take a look at it here while you're sleeping.
123:31:52	Cernan	Okay, let me get some breakers here. LRV breakers Alfa, Bravo, Charlie, and Delta.
123:31:58	Schmitt	Hey, Bob, while you were talking, I got all the mags - Romeo, Alfa, Bravo, Charlie.
123:32:07	CC	Hotel.
123:32:12	Schmitt	That's on a magazine. That's on a camera.
123:32:14	CC	Okay. Got you on that one; you're right.
123:32:19	Schmitt	Is it not?
123:32:20	CC	You're right; my fault - you've got the maps, too.
123:32:23	Schmitt	Okay, I need those maps, Gene. Could you hand me the maps?
123:32:28	Cernan	I don't know. Pretty good clip, splitting apart a bit, too, aren't they?
123:32:42	Schmitt	Getting hot.
123:32:43	PAO	That'll end the television until EVA 2 tomorrow.
123:32:47	Cernan	This thing keeps falling out of your clip, in case you're interested, or I keep knocking it out.
123:32:56	Schmitt	Put it - put it down, yes. Okay, I've got the maps, the 500 mag, yes - and the three - two cameras.
123:33:06	CC	Okay, we'll have to get the contamination bags, too, there.
123:33:16	Cernan	Huh?
123:33:18	Schmitt	Say that again, Bob.
123:33:19	CC	Roger. We've got the contamination bags to get, too - out of the MESA.
123:33:26	Schmitt	I've got them.
123:33:27	CC	Okay; copy that.
123:33:28	Schmitt	Mentioned that earlier.
123:33:29	CC	Sorry about that.
123:33:30	Schmitt	They're in there.
123:33:33	CC	Okay; and Geno, when you're brushing LCRU, we'd like the blankets left at 100 percent rather than 65 percent - we'd like them all left open; and it's been a little warm, also.
123:33:48	Cernan	Okay, Bob, I've already dusted everything. And it all looks pretty good. The bay - the breakers are OPEN; the LCRU power is OFF. I'm going to - Where do you want the TV camera? Do you want it tilted down and aft?
123:34:06	CC	Roger. Down and away from the Sun, like we talked about. Think that's what you mean by aft.
123:34:12	Cernan	That's what I thought. Okay. It's down - yes, it's there.
123:34:18	CC	Okay; can you confirm that that's 100 percent on the LCRU blanket rather than 65 percent as per the checklist?
123:34:27	Cernan	Yes, sir; I sure can.
123:34:36	Cernan	Okay, I'm opening all the battery covers. The batteries are not dirty. I've been dusting the covers every stop.
123:34:42	CC	Okay; good.
123:34:45	Schmitt	Are you through with the - are you through with the SRC?
123:34:49	Cernan	Yes, I just left it there.
123:34:50	Schmitt	I've got to get to the table.
123:34:51	Cernan	Okay.
123:34:57	PAO	Ron Evans in America, began an 8 hour rest period about 10 minutes ago.
123:35:02	Cernan	Okay, the batteries look pretty good. Bob, you got - you got - The left-hand forward reflector on the batteries is about 10 percent in the shade. The others are in the Sun. is that what you want?
123:35:17	CC	Stand by. Okay; that sounds right, they say.
123:35:27	Cernan	Okay, the LCRU has been dusted; everything is dusted. Our blankets are open 100 percent. ... I'll recheck. Battery covers, open; LCRU blanket is open 100 percent; samples off. You got them all off, Jack?
123:35:39	Schmitt	Yes.
123:35:40	Cernan	And anything else? Let me look around. I got to get the TGE.
123:35:44	Schmitt	Check it one more time.
123:35:47	Cernan	Samples off; let's look under here. There's nothing under here. This bag is empty. Those are sample bags.
123:35:56	Schmitt	Okay, we do not bring up the LM ECS canister. is that correct?
123:36:02	CC	That's correct, 17.
123:36:07	Schmitt	Okay.
123:36:13	CC	And, Jack, confirm you have the scissors in the ETB. Roger.
123:36:15	Schmitt	Just a second. (Laughter) Yes, sir. Thank you, again.
123:36:24	Cernan	Okay, ... the old blanket.
123:36:30	Schmitt	Okay, that pin's green; that pin's green. Both pins are green.
123:36:38	CC	Copy that.
123:36:41	Cernan	Boy, that's dirty.
123:36:46	Schmitt	Okay. Okay, I'll take some stuff up. SCB 2, we don't have. Oh, wait a minute. What did we decide to do - -
123:37:01	CC	SCB 2 for the big rock there, Jack.
123:37:03	Schmitt	Put that big rock in the - Oh, okay.
123:37:10	Cernan	How's our time, Bob?
123:37:13	CC	No problem on time.
123:37:15	Schmitt	A little in on those ... Can I sneak in and get a bag?
123:37:24	Cernan	Yes.
123:37:29	PAO	We're at 6 hours, 36 minutes in this EVA.
123:37:34	Schmitt	See you later, Rover.
123:37:44	Cernan	Okay, the SEP blankets are open; it is dusted. Okay, and I verify that the DSEA is OFF, and the power's OFF.
123:38:01	CC	Copy that, Gene; thank you.
123:38:06	Cernan	Okay, you want the TGE, right side of the MESA, but in the shade. Okay.
123:38:12	CC	That's affirm.
123:38:20	Cernan	Boy, did it get covered with dust, too.
123:38:42	Cernan	Bob, no trouble with the TGE in the TV, huh?
123:38:48	CC	None so we can tell. We'll get another reading here when we see it on the ground here.
123:39:01	Cernan	Hey, Jack, if I set this here, we'll - Jack?
123:39:09	Schmitt	What?
123:39:10	Cernan	Okay, I just want to set it here so you don't knock it over.
123:39:13	Schmitt	What's that?
123:39:14	Cernan	The TGE, right where you left foot is.
123:39:16	Schmitt	Oh, well.
123:39:17	Cernan	I'm afraid we'll knock it over if I set it anywhere else.
123:39:19	Schmitt	Well, stand by; I've got a lot of stuff here.
123:39:21	Cernan	Okay.
123:39:25	Schmitt	You should have volunteered to take the big bag in.
123:39:28	Cernan	Why? You having trouble getting that thing in?
123:39:30	Schmitt	Well, it's just ... Yes, I'm having trouble.
123:39:41	Cernan	Well, here; let me help you.
123:39:41	Schmitt	Hold this big bag, please.
123:39:44	Cernan	Just don't back up if you can help it.
123:39:47	Schmitt	Hold the bag. This big one, this one. No, the other one, the other one; don't.
123:39:52	Cernan	I can't ...
123:39:54	Schmitt	I got it. That's a big rock.
123:40:00	Cernan	Want to fit there? it's long ways.
123:40:02	Schmitt	Okay, there should be another one in there. is there? Feel it, squeeze it, hit it.
123:40:08	Cernan	... the box, see if there's any in there. ... yes, there is. Okay.
123:40:17	PAO	America has just gone behind the Moon.
123:40:20	Schmitt	Well, let's leave it. ... let's get it out. Here, pick it up. We'll get it out.
123:40:24	Cernan	Hold the top.
123:40:30	Schmitt	Shake it. Well, I thought there was one in there.
123:40:35	Cernan	I don't think there's anything in there.
123:40:36	Schmitt	I thought I put one in there.
123:40:38	Cernan	Okay.
123:40:39	Schmitt	Well, I guess not. If I did, it's gotten out. Okay, got away.
123:40:44	Cernan	Okay, I'm going to leave the TGE right here. I'll put the TGE right side of MESA. Okay, I might give them a gravimeter reading, believe it or not. Boy, I'll tell you, the only thing bad about putting this thing on the ground - it's like everything else - you have to bend over to get at it. And you need support to get back up. Okay.
123:41:10	Cernan	MARK, gravimeter.
123:41:11	CC	Roger. MARK.
123:41:13	Cernan	And she's flashing, Bob.
123:41:15	CC	Thank you.
123:41:23	Schmitt	Okay, I'm supposed to take this and the core stem bag up there.
123:41:26	Cernan	I'll get it for you.
123:41:28	Schmitt	Can you get the core stem bag?
123:41:29	Cernan	Yes, I'll get it for you.
123:42:08	Schmitt	Okay, you got a core stem bag?
123:42:11	Cernan	Yes, let me give it one zap with the brush.
123:42:14	Schmitt	Okay. I didn't mean to drop that, but I did.
123:42:23	Cernan	Yes, we got to - we got to keep from dropping everything. I'll tell you, the big lesson today - -
123:42:29	Schmitt	Dropped.
123:42:30	Cernan	Dropped, I guess.
123:42:31	Schmitt	The big lesson is that it's going to get dropped if your hands get tired.
123:42:33	Cernan	Yes.
123:42:35	Schmitt	... come down. Got it.
123:42:46	Cernan	Okay. ... me see. Okay, the TGE is reading. We got to stow our antennas and ... dusting down here. I'll make a check of what you've got up there. What have you got up there so far?
123:43:06	Schmitt	Just the SRC 2 and the core stems.
123:43:10	Cernan	Okay, SRC 2 and the core stems. Okay - Where's EVA pallet?
123:43:20	Schmitt	It's on the MESA table.
123:43:21	Cernan	Okay, that's good; that's ready. Where's ETB? That's ready to go up.
123:43:25	Schmitt	Yes.
123:43:27	Cernan	Okay, core stem bag, SRC 2; SRC 1 is in the - SCB 1 is in SRC 1. ... it's there. Big bag is not required. Okay, any more room up there? If not, why don't -
123:43:42	Schmitt	No, I think - -
123:43:44	Cernan	Why don't I dust you here.
123:43:45	Schmitt	Okay. This rock you landed on here.
123:43:49	Cernan	Watch your foot; you're caught in that thing.
123:43:50	Schmitt	Yes.
123:43:50	Cernan	Pick up your right foot. Jack, you're just going to have to get up on that ladder somewhere so I don't - don't get the dust all over this thing.
123:43:58	Schmitt	Well, I've got to dust you, too.
123:44:03	Cernan	Well, okay. Go ahead and get me.
123:44:06	Schmitt	Yes, where's your brush?
123:44:07	Cernan	Right on the hook.
123:44:10	Schmitt	Right; see what I can do. Kick most of it off, I hope.
123:44:13	Cernan	You have to go anywhere else, now?
123:44:15	Schmitt	Just right around here; no place but right around here. Man! That's a - that's like a super-endless task.
123:44:35	Cernan	Get the top of that thing if you can.
123:44:40	Schmitt	Oop - oop. It landed on a slope.
123:44:44	Cernan	Yes.
123:44:48	Schmitt	Okay. That's good.
123:44:51	Cernan	... about the arms?
123:44:53	Schmitt	Yes, hold them up and shake them, too, in case there's anything down in them?
123:44:56	Cernan	Let me just - Yes.
123:45:02	Schmitt	Let me get lower so you can get at me. Okay, how's that? At best, it is going to be bad but we want to get as much off as we can.
123:45:22	Cernan	How about this one?
123:45:25	Schmitt	Guess I can come around on the other side, if you want.
123:45:27	Cernan	Yes, I can hold on better that way.
123:45:53	Schmitt	Just take some of it off.
123:45:54	Cernan	Yes.
123:45:55	Schmitt	Hold still.
123:45:57	Cernan	I'll get up on that ladder and you get a whack at my legs, best you can. And I'll kick my boots clean.
123:46:11	Schmitt	That fender is really going to be a nuisance.
123:46:17	Cernan	... gone.
123:46:25	Schmitt	I'm going to have to get you to bend over, too, so I - not now. Know there's a lot on the OPS.
123:46:36	Cernan	I just will stow my antenna, if you're up there. ...
123:46:45	Schmitt	Oh, boy. That's really putting the finishing touches on the old arms, isn't it?
123:46:49	Cernan	Yes.
123:47:03	Schmitt	How'd you get so dirty?
123:47:04	Cernan	Wait until I show you the picture I took of you.
123:47:12	Schmitt	Didn't. Okay, Gene. Most of what's left is up on your - get your antenna. Oh, you're going to go up there, first.
123:47:25	Cernan	You want -
123:47:27	Schmitt	Okay.
123:47:28	Cernan	I don't know how you do that.
123:47:29	Schmitt	Just - just really spring. You got it. Beautiful.
123:47:37	CC	Okay, 17, do we copy - -
123:47:37	Schmitt	Okay.
123:47:38	Cernan	Better get my legs, then I'll ...
123:47:39	CC	- - both antennas up?
123:47:43	Cernan	No. No, sir, Bob. I'm still getting dusted. We're trying to go over this thing pretty thoroughly.
123:47:48	CC	Okay.
123:48:04	Cernan	Pocket is probably full of dirt.
123:48:06	Schmitt	That brush does pretty good, though.
123:48:11	Cernan	Want me to move, or anything now?
123:48:13	Schmitt	No.
123:48:14	Cernan	Okay. I'm just a mess. Course, when I do this, I get dirtier.
123:48:22	Schmitt	Yes.
123:48:24	Cernan	Once I get you this far, I'm just going to shove you on up that ladder and not let you get in the dust. Whoo!
123:48:57	Cernan	Okay?
123:48:58	Schmitt	No. You're not okay. You're awful dusty, but I don't know that I can - -
123:49:05	Cernan	Okay.
123:49:05	Schmitt	- - do too much more.
123:49:06	Cernan	That looks pretty good. I'll walk -
123:49:07	Schmitt	Hit your boots real hard when you come up.
123:49:09	Cernan	Yes.
123:49:11	Cernan	Okay. I've just got to stay on my feet here for a while.
123:49:17	Schmitt	Want me to -
123:49:19	Cernan	Stand in - stand in the pad; yes. Stay there and I'll get your back and your PLSS while I'm at it - to start with. Stoop down, if you can. Stand on the bottom of the pad - there you go.
123:49:35	Schmitt	How's the old ALSEP, Bob?
123:49:39	CC	It's looking great, guys.
123:49:48	Cernan	Don't forget, Jack; you'll have to stow my antenna yet.
123:49:52	Schmitt	Right.
123:49:54	Schmitt	Okay, while I'm up here, let me get the top of your OPS and I'll stow your antenna at the same time.
123:50:00	Cernan	Okay.
123:50:00	Schmitt	I - You're going to have to get further down. I can't reach it.
123:50:04	Cernan	That's good. I feel like I'm praying. I guess I am.
123:50:12	Schmitt	Now, maybe I can get some dust off you, if you stay there. The antenna will be stowed in half of a jiff.
123:50:31	Schmitt	Oh, my fingers. They do not have the dexterity that they once had.
123:50:53	Cernan	Okay.
123:50:59	Schmitt	Make sure you don't have anything hanging on you. Wait a minute.
123:51:07	Schmitt	Okay. You can stand up. I'll work on your arms.
123:51:41	Schmitt	I'll come around that side and get the other one. No, maybe I won't either. Maybe I'll get it - hold onto the ladder some. It'll give me stability, too. Okay, I'll get the backside of your arm from the other side. Let me get to around your waist here now.
123:52:14	Schmitt	Getting there - kilter. Ah.
123:52:28	Schmitt	Here, let me try your left arm.
123:52:47	Schmitt	Okay.
123:52:48	Cernan	Okay?
123:52:55	Cernan	Why don't you go - up the steps.
123:52:57	Cernan	Okay. You're there.
123:53:06	Cernan	Oh, boy. Hallelujah. Yes, do that. That gets a lot off, Jack. Keep doing that. Keep doing that. Boy, that gets it off your shoes.
123:53:22	Schmitt	Okay. Okay. Put this foot out here.
123:53:36	Cernan	We're still at it, Bob.
123:53:41	CC	Yes. It seemed to go a lot faster down there in the clean room at the Cape.
123:53:48	Cernan	Boy, you bet you. And I know why we didn't do it. It was just as tough down there as it is here.
123:53:50	Schmitt	Okay?
123:53:57	Cernan	No, not yet. I want to get - the other leg. And then I want you to lean over and get my antenna.
123:54:13	Schmitt	Roger. Right. I need to brush off the top, too. I'll stow your antenna first.
123:54:21	Cernan	Okay, babe. That's about all I can do for you. Okay, get my antenna. Oh, I think all the dust I took off you went on me.
123:54:35	Cernan	Can you reach it from there?
123:54:42	Schmitt	Well, yes; I think I can. There. Oh, whew.
123:55:03	Schmitt	I have 7 hours from the time I looked at my watch. That's got to be pretty close.
123:55:09	CC	You guys have got 6 hours and 53 minutes and 40 seconds.
123:55:12	Schmitt	Okay, Gene, you're stowed. Let me -
123:55:16	Schmitt	Okay. Let me see your brush.
123:55:17	Cernan	Okay. Here it is.
123:55:29	Schmitt	Okay. That's the best I can do.
123:55:30	Cernan	Okay. Let me get the top of this pocket.
123:55:35	Cernan	Okay. Go on up; stay clean.
123:55:38	Schmitt	Well - you've got - let's see -
123:55:43	Cernan	I'll hand you something.
123:55:44	Schmitt	You've got to bring stuff up I guess, huh?
123:55:45	Cernan	Yes.
123:55:47	Schmitt	Okay, Bob - I need the EVA pallet.
123:55:49	Cernan	Okay, I've give you that and then I'll get to work. I've got some work I've got to do for Bob. Ah. Okay, everything on the EVA pallet?
123:55:57	Schmitt	Yes. Just hand it to me and I'll start unstowing it up there.
123:56:00	Cernan	Okay. Man, I forgot I had my visor up. Zowie! See if I can get back in the shade.
123:56:14	Cernan	Got it?
123:56:15	Schmitt	Yes.
123:56:28	Cernan	Okay, Bob. I'll try giving you one at a time. LMP's got the EVA pallet. Let me give you a MESA reading, then I'll tidy - or - reading, and I'll tidy the blankets.
123:56:41	CC	Okay.
123:56:45	Cernan	Okay. The reading is 000, 133, 201, and I can only assume that one of us hit it. I think I've got time to give you another one.
123:56:59	CC	Okay. Quickly.
123:57:04	Cernan	Well, that's the way it'll be, because it's already punched.
123:57:07	Cernan	MARK it.
123:57:08	CC	Copy that.
123:57:13	Cernan	Okay, I'm tidying up the MESA blanket. That's pretty tidy.
123:57:18	Schmitt	I did that.
123:57:19	Cernan	Okay, MESA blankets are tidied. Okay. Open TGE - I'll do that. Brush to ladder hook. Final transfer, Jack. I'm going to - Okay, I'll tell you what I'm going to do. You've got the - I'm going to - I'm going to inventory here. You got the pallet. ETB is here, and you got the corestem bag. SR - SCB-2 is there; SRC-1 is here; big bag is not required. Bob, I think we got everything. The two things on the surface yet are the ETB and the SRC and me.
123:58:04	CC	Okay, we copy that. But, of course - -
123:58:05	Cernan	Jack, get down a little bit more, and you've got another 2 or 3 inches.
123:58:13	Schmitt	I can't get any lower, Willie, me buttons are in the way.
123:58:15	Cernan	Okay. Keep going. Get your pockets over the sill - There you go. There you are - you're in. Kick off your feet if you can - kick them right there. That's good. That got a lot off. Okay, go on in. You're over to the right - Okay, there you are. You've got all the room you want now.
123:58:37	Schmitt	That's not as easy as in the J-bird.
123:58:39	Cernan	Okay. I think I'll give this rockbox a quick dust in here.
123:58:50	Schmitt	Your hoses - we've got to have a better way to store your hoses.
123:58:53	Cernan	Yes, I don't like them there either. I saw that when we went out.
123:59:03	Schmitt	(Heavy breathing) Whew, boy.
123:59:09	Cernan	You in?
123:59:10	Schmitt	Yes.
123:59:13	Cernan	Sounds like it.
123:59:19	Schmitt	Oh, come on get up there.
123:59:21	Cernan	Okay, Jack, coming up with the rockbox.
123:59:24	Schmitt	I'm not ready.
123:59:26	Cernan	Well, I've got to - I've got to -
123:59:29	Schmitt	You ... put it on the porch?
123:59:31	Cernan	Well, I only got one more thing to do and that's taking out there - just clean up the TGE. Okay. I've got to come up there anyway.
123:59:58	Cernan	God speed the crew of Apollo 17.
124:00:03	Schmitt	Who signed it? I forgot to read it.
124:00:07	Cernan	I'm not going to tell you, but I like the message. Probably shouldn't tell you.
124:00:23	Cernan	Okay, that ought to stay up there.
124:00:30	Cernan	Okay, I can!t hand you anything in anyway. I'm going down and clean up the TGE.
124:00:36	CC	Roger. It should be ready to read by now.
124:00:37	Cernan	Oh! That last step down again. Okay? Bob, before - well, let me get this for you.
124:01:02	Cernan	Okay, Bob, 670, 021, 501 - 670, 021, 501.
124:01:11	CC	Okay. Got that, Gene.
124:01:12	Cernan	And the cover is up. Cover is up, if I can keep it up. If I can keep it up. That'll keep it up. It's been dusted. And I'll get it to STANDBY.
124:01:38	CC	Okay. Copy that. And did you dust the radiator?
124:01:43	Cernan	Yes sir, I dusted that a little earlier. Okay, it is STANDBY, Bob. Radiator is up.
124:01:50	CC	And dusted.
124:01:53	Cernan	Cover is open. Okay. I'm going up to the porch. All I've got down here is ETB, and it's on the LEC.
124:02:03	Schmitt	I'm ready for you.
124:02:04	Cernan	Have you got anything else?
124:02:06	CC	Negative.
124:02:07	Schmitt	I'm ready for you up here.
124:02:11	Cernan	Let's see what kind of dusting job I can do on myself.
124:02:39	Cernan	Okay, Jack, come up.
124:02:40	Schmitt	Okay.
124:02:46	Cernan	Whee! Okay.
124:03:01	Schmitt	A little higher. ...
124:03:06	Cernan	I got it.
124:03:07	Schmitt	Watch the seal.
124:03:09	Cernan	Okay. Okay, here's an SRC.
124:03:17	Schmitt	Okay, put her in here.
124:03:21	Cernan	Oh, me. Well, I'll get it up for you.
124:03:23	Schmitt	No. That's all right.
124:03:26	PAO	Handing the rockbox into the LM.
124:03:27	Cernan	Ah. I think you got the ticket right there. Ah.
124:03:32	Schmitt	I'll watch that.
124:03:34	Cernan	No sense making it hard. See if I can't stand this one up. Okay. Okay. There come the core tubes. Boy let's - protect that core tube. Man, that was - that was the turning point today.
124:04:13	Cernan	Got it?
124:04:13	Schmitt	Got it. Yes, we had a lot of turning points.
124:04:20	Cernan	Do you want the LEC in there? You don't, do you?
124:04:24	CC	Negative, you can leave the LEC outside.
124:04:29	Schmitt	No, just the bag.
124:04:31	Cernan	Where are the scissors, by the way?
124:04:32	Schmitt	They're in the bag.
124:04:33	Cernan	Okay. I hope they don't come out this time.
124:04:34	Schmitt	Well, I stuck them down in there. I hope they don't.
124:04:38	CC	Yes, Jack - -
124:04:38	Schmitt	We'll have to figure out something else if they do.
124:04:39	CC	- - You guys put the tools in the ETB?
124:04:44	Schmitt	I think so, Bob. I'll take a peek down there. If they fell out, they'll be right on top. Okay.
124:04:56	Cernan	Mama me.
124:05:01	CC	Okay, Gene. And you got the SCB number 2 in and the pallet out, right?
124:05:09	Cernan	Right. Here it comes, Jack. Take that. There are no scissors on the ground beneath where the ETB was. So I would say that they're probably in the ETB.
124:05:47	CC	Well, good enough.
124:05:48	Schmitt	Okay. You got everything, now?
124:05:49	Cernan	Yes sir.
124:05:52	Schmitt	Okay, let me get out of the way.
124:06:15	Cernan	Okay. Whoops, that's me dusting. Well, I guess I got about - 25, 20, 15 - I guess 13 percent oxygen, 3.8. Okay, babe.
124:06:40	CC	I copy that. Fifty percent oxygen, Geno - that's
124:06:41	Schmitt	Come on in.
124:06:42	Cernan	... comes through that hole. No; 13 - 13 percent, I think.
124:06:49	CC	One, five [sic].
124:07:02	Schmitt	Okay. Put your but - put your buttons down. You're great. Now your head up. You're right against the top, right against the ... 27. Come towards me. Okay, now up.
124:07:23	Cernan	Okay.
124:07:25	Schmitt	Tight fit.
124:07:26	Cernan	What am I caught on back there?
124:07:28	Schmitt	You're just getting - you're just scraping against your PLSS.
124:07:31	Cernan	Okay. I'll just bend.
124:07:32	Schmitt	Watch your - - your - your pockets. Your leg pockets might be part of the problem.
124:07:36	Cernan	Okay.
124:07:38	Schmitt	Okay, come on in. Just hug as close as you can. Okay, you're there.
124:07:58	Schmitt	Okay?
124:07:59	Cernan	Yes, let me just get on my feet here. Oh - oh - Wait a minute. Got to turn one way or the other. Does this look better?
124:08:12	Schmitt	Yes. I'd turn towards your right.
124:08:15	PAO	We marked Cernan in at 124 hours 8 minutes. Schmitt in at 123 hours 59 minutes.
124:08:15	Cernan	Well, can't do that.
124:08:20	Schmitt	Try the other way. Get your PLSS back in there towards the circuit breakers. Move your right - your left arm.
124:08:26	Cernan	(Laughter) Where? Okay.
124:08:31	Schmitt	There.
124:08:33	Cernan	Okay. Let me make sure there's nothing in that hatch.
124:08:35	Schmitt	Well, there's dust. That's one thing that's in there.
124:08:37	Cernan	Well - Take one quick peek.
124:08:41	Schmitt	I can't - From where I stand, all I can see is dust.
124:08:45	Cernan	Okay, it's clear. Did it. Now what do we do next?
124:08:49	Schmitt	Pockets - your pockets.
124:08:55	Cernan	Okay.
124:08:55	Schmitt	Okay.
124:08:58	Schmitt	Primary water, CLOSED. Forward hatch - Turn our WATER OFF.
124:09:11	Cernan	Do you have to turn the PRIMARIES or just the SECONDARY, Bob?
124:09:13	Schmitt	Primary.
124:09:14	CC	Primary only. That's why you don't turn your PRIMARY WATER, OFF, when you go to AUT.
124:09:25	Cernan	Okay. I've got them both OFF. is that all right?
124:09:27	CC	That's okay, too.
124:09:31	Cernan	Well, wait a minute. Got yours?
124:09:34	Schmitt	No, I can't quite reach it.
124:09:35	Cernan	Well, if you can roll to the left, I'll get it for you.
124:09:37	Schmitt	Yes, I can.
124:09:38	Cernan	Let me get - let me get back here. I've gotten bigger since I've been out there. You've got to go more. You've got to go more.
124:09:55	Schmitt	Yes. There's something keeping me from going more.
124:09:58	Cernan	Okay. Okay, let me see if I can't -
124:10:09	Schmitt	... to be awfully far inboard for what I - fitted it.
124:10:13	Cernan	Okay. Your PRIMARY WATER is OFF.
124:10:17	Schmitt	Okay. LMP's WATER is OFF.
124:10:20	Cernan	Now you're going to have to move way over there, so I can get the hatch.
124:10:22	Schmitt	Yes, I have to go back the way I was.
124:10:25	Cernan	Back up against the circuit breakers.
124:10:27	Schmitt	Yes.
124:10:30	PAO	The EVA clock will continue counting until the LM is repressurized.
124:10:30	Cernan	Can you see what I'm catching on, upward?
124:10:32	Schmitt	Yes. You're just hitting the rail over there.
124:10:35	Cernan	Okay. Now.
124:10:38	PAO	It shows 7 hours and 9 minutes 14 seconds now.
124:10:42	Cernan	... I can't - Close and lock forward hatch, huh?
124:10:47	Schmitt	Yes. Can you do it?
124:10:51	Cernan	Yes. Can't see it. Okay.
124:10:58	Cernan	Forward HATCH is CLOSED -
124:11:01	Schmitt	Locked?
124:11:02	Cernan	And LOCKED. Which one of those dump valves is - That one up on top. I can get that one.
124:11:08	Schmitt	Okay. Take it easy.
124:11:11	Cernan	Oh, whew!
124:11:13	PAO	Hatch closed at 124:11.
124:11:25	Cernan	It's AUTO, and it's locked.
124:11:30	Schmitt	You're sure? is that locked there?
124:11:32	Cernan	Yes, sir.
124:11:33	Schmitt	Okay. And it is AUTO. Okay.
124:11:36	Cernan	Okay.
124:11:37	Schmitt	Okay, I got a tone and a - and I got an H2O flag.
124:11:42	Cernan	Okay.
124:11:43	CC	Roger, Jack; we saw it.
124:11:44	Cernan	Okay, PLSS O2 is not less than 10 percent.
124:11:48	Schmitt	Yes. Okay.
124:11:51	Cernan	Okay, let's go.
124:11:53	Schmitt	If we're not less, go to manual control repress. Okay. I've got to turn -
124:11:58	Cernan	Okay. Let me get out of your way.
124:12:00	Schmitt	Okay.
124:12:01	Cernan	About as far as I can go. Okay. I'll read it to you, when you get there.
124:12:09	Schmitt	I think part of our problem is - is this - slope. There's no purchase - as my Father used to say - no purchase.
124:12:19	Cernan	Okay, are you ready? Are you ready?
124:12:22	Schmitt	Wait a minute.
124:12:26	Cernan	I need you on CABIN REPRESS, AUTO; and then on 16 I need you.
124:12:30	Schmitt	Okay.
124:12:30	Cernan	Okay, CABIN REPRESS, AUTO.
124:12:33	Schmitt	Going AUTO.
124:12:35	Cernan	Okay. ECS CABIN REPRESS, CLOSED.
124:12:37	Schmitt	Okay. Stand by - for repress.
124:12:40	Cernan	I'll try and get cabin ... master.
124:12:43	Schmitt	Okay, there's the MASTER ALARM, Heck, I can't get it.
124:12:50	Cernan	I'll catch it.
124:12:52	Schmitt	Okay.
124:12:53	PAO	Cabin pressure coming up, half a pound.
124:12:56	Cernan	Cabin is coming up. ... closed at 1 psi.
124:12:58	Schmitt	Okay.
124:13:01	Cernan	Okay. Verify cabin pressure increasing. PRESS REG A and B to CABIN.
124:13:06	Schmitt	Now?
124:13:07	Cernan	Now.
124:13:09	PAO	A pound and a half now.
124:13:10	Schmitt	A's CABIN; B's CABIN.
124:13:11	Cernan	Okay, and I want your PLSS O2, OFF - when I give you a call. That's when we get greater than 2.5.
124:13:23	Cernan	Okay, now. We're at 3- Can you get it? If you can't, I'll reach it for you.
124:13:24	PAO	Two and one half pounds.
124:13:29	Schmitt	It's OFF.
124:13:31	Cernan	Okay, CABIN warning light OFF. Verify cabin pressure stable at 4.6 - Okay, it's coming up. It's 3.6. And you use the PURGE valve to depress.
124:13:45	Schmitt	What's our pressure?
124:13:47	Cernan	Cabin pressure is 4. Let me just take a look here at 4.6. Okay. I'm coming down. She's coming down. Cabin's up to - Cabin's up to 5, Jack.
124:13:58	Schmitt	Okay, it's 5. It shut off.
124:14:00	Cernan	Okay. Okay, I'm about depressed.
124:14:03	Schmitt	So am I.
124:14:04	Cernan	Okay. Post-EVA configuration. White dots out and EVA decals. Okay. Checking.
124:14:13	PAO	EVA clocks show the duration of 7 hours 12 minutes 13 seconds.
124:14:14	Schmitt	White dot.
124:14:18	Cernan	Okay. Give me a chance to turn around and look. Okay. White dots are out - out - all the white dots. Okay, they're all out here.
124:14:21	PAO	It counted until the pressure reached 3-1/2 pounds in the LM.
124:14:33	Schmitt	Boy, does this feel good to get soft suits. Oh, my hands. Okay, they're all out here.
124:14:38	Cernan	Okay. Okay, on 16, SUIT FAN number 2, CLOSED.
124:14:44	Schmitt	SUIT FAN 2, CLOSED.
124:14:47	Cernan	And SUIT FAN DELTA-P, CLOSED.
124:14:48	Schmitt	CLOSED.
124:14:49	Cernan	ECS caution and WATER SEP component lights on [sic].
124:14:52	Schmitt	Okay, ECS - I think it's on. It's hard to see it.
124:15:04	Cernan	Okay. Doff your gloves. Stow on comm panel. Hallelujah! Cabin's stable, Houston. How's it look to you?
124:15:17	CC	Looks good to us, 17. And I'd like you to know you had a 7-hour and 12-minute EVA, from 3.5 to 3.5.
124:15:30	Cernan	Well, until I get out of this suit, I'm still EVA.
124:15:39	CC	Roger.
124:15:39	Cernan	Oh, doesn't that feel good. Whoo!
124:15:40	CC	And I think it's a tremendous job for what we might call a "challenging" EVA.
124:15:51	Cernan	Bob, that's no pun. It really was. It really was.
124:15:56	CC	I know it, men. I know it.
124:16:03	Cernan	I tell you, I really wish you guys could have been here with us. You worked as hard at it as we did, if not harder.
124:16:13	Schmitt	Harder, I think. Until today. Oh! You don't have a tub of hot water I can soak my hands in, do you?
124:16:32	Schmitt	Wait until that dust hits the sweat of your hands. Oh! I tell you.
124:16:44	Cernan	Man! Okay. My gloves are off. Doff helmets with visors, lower shades, and stow in BRA. Well, I guess the first thing is to get this thing off. Boy, let me tell you.
124:17:02	CC	Okay. And 17 - or Jack and Gene, I'm going to turn you over to Joe now. I'll be back in a while.
124:17:12	Cernan	Okay, Bob. Thank you for a job well done.
124:17:16	CC	Well, job well done on your side, guys.
124:17:31	Cernan	Oh, I can't do it. ... - How about getting my glove off?
124:17:41	Schmitt	Can you handle it?
124:17:43	Cernan	I'm not sure.
124:17:46	Schmitt	Thank you.
124:18:00	Cernan	Jack, the big one's out of the way. What we really had to get out there on. Boy, look at that visor. No wonder I couldn't see.
124:18:29	Cernan	Jack, do you read?
124:18:30	Schmitt	Yes.
124:18:30	Cernan	Okay, I thought you knocked your thing to AR - -
124:18:31	Schmitt	No.
124:18:32	Cernan	- - or to A or something. There's a lot of noise in the background. That's why I was wondering. Need some help?
124:18:55	Schmitt	Stow the visors, huh? What is it?
124:18:59	Cernan	Yes, stow them in the BRA.
124:19:02	Schmitt	No, but I mean - Keep the protective visor down.
124:19:04	Cernan	Keep the protective visor over it, and stow the whole thing in the BRA.
124:19:24	Cernan	Verify safety on the dump valve. I guess I can do that now -
124:19:28	Schmitt	Again?
124:19:29	Cernan	That one's still safe. And that one's still safe.
124:19:36	Schmitt	That was like gunpowder, just like the boys said.
124:19:39	Cernan	Oh, it does, doesn't it?
124:19:43	Cernan	Okay, DESCENT WATER valve, OPEN. Oh, boy. I ran out of water out there. I mean the drinking kind.
124:20:00	Schmitt	Okay, what's next?
124:20:03	Cernan	Okay, DESCENT WATER valve, OPEN.
124:20:10	Schmitt	Okay. Coming OPEN.
124:20:15	Cernan	Okay, and then you get your purge valve out.
124:20:18	Schmitt	Not too hard ...
124:20:20	Cernan	... (Laughter)
124:20:22	Cernan	(Laughter) ... If they say anything, just say, "I told you so." Okay. Remove your purge valve - -
124:20:31	Schmitt	(Laughter)
124:20:32	Cernan	- - and disconnect your OPS hose.
124:20:34	Schmitt	Yes, sir (laughter). If I can. Okay.
124:20:42	Cernan	I tell you, I haven't seen anything - Drilling those holes was a piece of cake until I couldn't get that core tube out. I thought that whole - -
124:20:49	Schmitt	I'm glad there were - -
124:20:50	Cernan	I thought that - -
124:20:50	Schmitt	I'm glad there were two of us.
124:20:51	Cernan	I thought that whole thing was going to break. It was bending about - at about (laughter)
124:20:56	Schmitt	Well, next time we have to do it -
124:20:58	Cernan	Yes.
124:20:59	Schmitt	Let's see, OPS. That must be this one.
124:21:01	Cernan	Disconnect OPS hose. Connect LM hoses - red to red, blue to blue.
124:21:04	Schmitt	I don't want LM hoses yet. I'll just get on water right away.
124:21:06	Cernan	Let's put -
124:21:08	Schmitt	I'm going to - DIVERTER valve, horizontal.
124:21:13	Cernan	SUIT isOL, both. I'm going SUIT FLOW, get some flow in this cabin. Okay.
124:21:21	Schmitt	Here, you want me to get it?
124:21:24	Cernan	I tell you, my hands, after working - at - picking up little things.
124:21:29	Schmitt	I feel the same way. I think you had the worst of it.
124:21:33	Cernan	Hey, let's keep as much dust out of those connectors as we can (laughter). Wise guy.
124:21:38	Schmitt	Okay. Let's wait on these.
124:21:42	Cernan	Okay, your diverter valve horizontal?
124:21:46	Schmitt	Yes. And if we - -
124:21:48	Cernan	Okay, and if you can get to the SUIT FLOW, you can go SUIT FLOW. In the meantime, get your FAN - your PUMP OFF.
124:21:56	Schmitt	FAN's OFF. PUMP's OFF.
124:21:59	Cernan	Joe, are you still reading us down there?
124:22:01	CC	Loud and clear, Gene. We're following you close and - -
124:22:07	Cernan	Okay. I just wanted to see whether you were there.
124:22:08	CC	Roger. Following you close here.
124:22:13	Schmitt	Keep us honest.
124:22:14	Cernan	Okay, we're just looking at 5 psi and all the hatches are battened down, and the safeties are on. You can keep a look at the rest of it for us.
124:22:22	CC	Copy that. And we're seeing the same thing -
124:22:24	Cernan	Okay, disconnect your PLSS water. Now what I do, Jack, is - I was going to say put your cover on, but we're going to stow those.
124:22:32	Cernan	Okay, guess we've got to go off the air for a little while. We're both going O.
124:22:38	CC	Okay.
124:22:38	Cernan	And we'll get on our LM comm here, shortly.
124:22:42	CC	Roger. Check back in.
124:22:48	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 124 hours, 23 minutes. We've completed a shift handover here in Mission Control. Our flight director Gene Krantz and his team of flight controllers are replacing the Pete Frank team. Our spacecraft communicator on this shift is Astronaut Joe Allen. And aboard Challenger on the Lunar Surface, Jack Schmitt and Gene Cernan, are in the process of getting the Lunar Module reconfigured, ready for their sleep period, which the flight plan calls for them to begin at 128 hours or about 3-1/2 hours from now. After they complete the reconfiguration of the Lunar Module and get the cabin more or less ship shape, they'll have an evening meal, eat period before retiring. And aboard the Command Module, we said good night to Ron Evans on the last revolution, the 18th revolution of the Moon for the CSM, and we're just about to reacquire the Command Module, now on its 19th revolution, presuming that Ron Evans will be asleep. During the EVA, Evans was primarily involved with running the lunar sounder experiment. This was one of the major activities aboard the Command Module. That experiment appeared to be functioning well, obtaining surface and sub-surface data on the lunar stratigraphic sequences and structure. We have a change of shift briefing, which will begin in a little less than 15 minutes in the News Center Briefing Room, Building 1.
124:24:43	Schmitt	... Okay, we got to do some more switching, yet.
124:24:51	Cernan	Okay. Connect the - Okay. Now in - AUDIO circuit breakers CLOSED. Now, both panels, VHA - VHF A, RECEIVE; B, OFF. Okay. MODE ICS/PTT.
124:26:01	Cernan	Hello, Houston. Do you read Challenger on LM comm?
124:26:05	CC	Okay, Challenger. This is Houston. Reading you 5 by.
124:26:11	Cernan	Okay, we're going to go ahead and charge up the - let's see, the LMP's PLSS.
124:26:26	CC	We copy.
124:32:56	Schmitt	Hello, Houston. The recharge on the LMP: 95 percent.
124:33:01	CC	Copy that.
124:33:34	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 124 hours 37 minutes. The participants for the Change of Shift Press Briefing are now on their way to the briefing room in Building 1. That conference should begin shortly. Here in Mission Control, Flight Director Gene status - or Gene Kranz rather has gotten a status from his Flight Controllers on both vehicles, both Challenger and America and both spacecraft appear to be in very good shape at this time. Aboard Challenger on the lunar surface, Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt will now be involved in getting out of their space suits, getting the spacecraft cleaned up and ready for their sleep period and we expect to debrief them on the first EVA in about 15 minutes. Ron Evans now into his scheduled rest period. America in the 19th revolution of the Moon at the present time. And, during our change of shift briefing, we'll be recording any conversation with the crew on the lunar surface for playback immediately following that briefing. At 124 hours 38 minutes, this is Apollo Control, Houston.
124:39:38	Cernan	Hello, Houston. It's CDR with a recharge of 93 percent.
124:39:43	CC	Sounds good, Geno.
124:44:25	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 124 hours 44 minutes. Our post EVA press briefing is ready to begin at this time, so we'll switch to the MSC News Center Briefing Room.
124:48:18	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. OPS pressures: LMP, 6l00, and CDR, 5900.
124:48:29	CC	Thank you, Jack.
124:58:01	Cernan	Joe, we're changing a cartridge out in my PLSS. We've got the battery changed.
124:58:09	CC	Okay, Geno; thank you.
124:58:14	Cernan	You don't have a cold something or other, do you?
124:58:19	CC	I'm sorry you even mentioned it.
124:58:24	Schmitt	We can think about it, can't we?
124:58:28	CC	Mercy, yes.
124:58:33	Schmitt	Hey. Does Captain America know all about this?
124:58:39	CC	Roger, Jack. He does. He's been fully advised, and his response is - he's sound asleep, now.
124:58:49	Schmitt	Yes. I forgot. He was going to bed before we did today.
124:58:55	Schmitt	Did he have a good day up there?
124:58:58	CC	He surely did. Fine day. And I want to make the observation - as a casual bystander. It was a real pleasure to watch your EVA unfold down here.
124:59:13	Cernan	Thank you, Joe. I think you are more than a casual bystander though.
125:07:23	Cernan	Hey, Joe. We've got - 1 and 3 - or correction, l's replacing the 3s and 2's replacing the 4s on the PLSS.
125:07:34	CC	We copy.
125:09:37	Schmitt	Joe, we're in the right-hand column of 3-3 now.
125:09:42	CC	Roger.
125:10:00	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 125 hours 10 minutes. Jack Schmitt and Gene Cernan aboard Challenger on the lunar surface have been involved in getting the portable life support systems recharged for tomorrow's EVA. And we're planning to debrief them on the first EVA shortly. They are then scheduled to continue getting the LM cabin configured for sleep and they have some time set aside to eat and we hope to get them into their sleep period at the time called for in the flight plan, which is a littles less than three hours from now. During the change of shift and we accumulated a small amount of taped conversation with the crew. We'll play that back now and continue to stand by live.
125:13:01	PAO	That completes our tape playback. We'll stand by live now.
125:15:24	Schmitt	Joe, bag - collection bag 2 is 16.
125:15:30	CC	Thank you.
125:15:51	Schmitt	And the SRC is 32 pounds.
125:15:58	CC	Copy; 32 pounds.
125:17:03	Cernan	Okay, Joe. The HEATER is ON for the dump.
125:17:10	CC	Okay.
125:21:51	Cernan	Okay, Joe, the circuit breakers are verified, about 11 and 16 with exception of the line heater.
125:22:08	CC	Okay, copy that. Thank you very much.
125:24:09	Schmitt	Okay, Houston, we're going to turn the BIOMED, OFF
125:24:15	CC	Okay.
125:27:47	PAO	This is Apollo Control, Gene Cernan's report that he was disconnecting his biomedical harness tells us that he and Jack Schmitt are in the process of getting out of their pressure suits, and that puts them about 25 minutes behind the Flight Plan Timeline. However, there is a fair amount of pad built into the Flight Plan during this period of time, up through the eat period and beginning with their sleep period, and we do expect to get them to bed on time. We also, earlier, got a report from them on weights - sample weights in sample collection bag number 2 and also in the sample return container, the rock box that was brought back aboard the lunar module. They reported 16 pounds for the sample collection bag, 32 pounds for the rock box. These are the gross weights, and we'll be coming up with net weights based on the estimated weight of the containers and other equipment. They are usually packing equipment stowed on the rock boxes. As soon as we have a net weight for the samples we'll be passing that along. The next activity scheduled in the Flight Plan is the EVA debriefing and we expect that that will be occuring in the next 30 to 45 minutes.
125:46:44	Schmitt	Houston, Challenger. We'll both be off the air briefly here as we swing into getting our suits and LCGs off. The Commander presently has his suit off, and I'll start on mine.
125:46:44	CC	Roger, Jack.
125:52:01	PAO	This is Apollo Control. It now appears that the crew aboard Challenger on the lunar surface, Jack Schmitt and Gene Cernan will be ready to begin the EVA debriefing in about 20 minutes. We're estimating that they'll reach that point in the Flight Plan at about 126 hours 10 minutes. And, the debriefing will run 15 to 20 minutes. Ron Evans aboard America has been asleep now for about an hour and a half. We'll be waking him up at the Ground Elapsed Time of 131 hours 20 minutes after about 8 hours of rest. America is presently in an orbit of 69.9 by 53.5 nautical miles, on the backside of the Moon in its 19th revolution, just about to cross over to the 20th revolution the beginning the 20th revolution, and we'll be reacquiring contact with that spacecraft in about 30 minutes.
126:09:43	Cernan	Hello, Joe; you there?
126:09:49	CC	Waiting patiently.
126:09:55	Cernan	Okay, if you're keeping score on the bottom of 3-4, we're both out of our suits. And does that feel good.
126:10:03	CC	Roger, Gene. Thank you.
126:10:08	Cernan	Okay, I'm out of icy LCG, if you want to turn the page.
126:10:12	CC	Okay, Geno, and how are your hands doing?
126:10:19	Cernan	Oh, they're a little tired. On both sides, here.
126:10:28	CC	Can't imagine -
126:10:30	Cernan	But I think they'll pull through.
126:10:41	Cernan	Do I read this that the - that the LMP sleeps on bio tonight? is that right?
126:10:53	CC	Stand by. Roger; that's affirm.
126:11:02	Cernan	Okay, so I can take mine off, huh? My sensors?
126:11:11	CC	That's affirm, Gene.
126:11:16	Cernan	Okay.
126:11:24	Cernan	Well, we'll - we'll be up to the EVA debriefing time here very shortly.
126:11:32	CC	Roger.
126:11:53	Cernan	Joe, do you know how much time has elapsed since we initially charged our PLSS's with O2?
126:12:05	CC	Geno, it's time to charge them again, if you want to.
126:12:13	Cernan	Okay, I just might pick that up.
126:12:17	CC	All righty.
126:12:24	Cernan	We'll let you know where we are, though.
126:12:27	CC	Okay.
126:13:48	Cernan	Say, Joe, I guess the home front was probably listening in. Any one talk to them?
126:14:02	CC	Haven't talked to them today, Geno. I haven't at least.
126:14:10	Cernan	Hello, boss, how are you doing down there?
126:14:12	CC	Just fine. Waiting for you guys to go to sleep so we can do the same. Had a great day up there, guys.
126:14:21	Cernan	Oh, you don't have to wait for that. We're - it was super from here - it's quite an experience, Deke, and quite a challenge.
126:14:31	CC	Yes, it looked beautiful from here.
126:14:39	Cernan	I tell you it makes you feel - feel like you had a good day's work behind you, though.
126:14:44	CC	I can believe that.
126:14:51	CC	We're about to give you the rest of the day off, Gene.
126:14:59	Cernan	Thank you, Joe.
126:15:25	CC	Geno - While you troop are -
126:15:28	Cernan	Hey, it's 3 o'clock in the - -
126:15:30	CC	Go ahead.
126:15:32	Cernan	Go ahead, Joe I was just going to say, it's 3 o'clock in the morning back there.
126:15:37	CC	We know it.
126:15:40	CC	It's 3 o'clock in the morning up there, too.
126:15:47	Cernan	Yes (chuckle) and we know that too.
126:15:52	CC	Troops, while you're in a listening mood up there, we're going to be coming at you with a number of items here, not too many, but the first will be some surface block data. Then we're going to read up to you a LEVA cleaning procedure which is fairly simple, a real short geology debrief, a one-line change in the Lunar Surface Checklist. And then, we've been doing some thinking down here about how to fix the fender. And it's going to involve, we think, although we'll work on it while you guys are getting some rest, it's going to involve using utility clamps, from inside your LM there, instead of tape, to fasten some sort of stiff material onto the Rover in place of the missing fender. And we'll go with either with one of your - your cue cards, or possibly with part of insulation that was the flame blanket protecting the Rover during the landing. Or perhaps part of the packing material that was between the Rover wheels, and is probably lying on the ground underneath the LM there.
126:17:16	Cernan	Joe, you couldn't be reading our mind more. We were talking about that, and there is a piece of it right outside my window. I saw it after we got in here. Either that or back of a part of a data book or something - I hate like the devil to tear one of those other fenders off. And the reason tape won't stick is that everything's got a fine coating of dust, and the only way I could finally get it to stick was to put tape on it -rip the tape off - or take the tape off - which took some of the dust off and then tape would tend to hold it. But it just won't hack it up here.
126:17:48	CC	Roger, Gene. That's exactly what we're thinking. And what we're going to do is run through the fix in a pressure suit a few hours from now. And if it looks like we can do it, and it won't cost you any more than say 10 minutes, we're going to have you go through with it. If it takes longer than that, we're going to go back to the drawing board and see what else we can do here.
126:18:18	Cernan	Well, you know John and Charlie can tell you just had bad it is. I wouldn't have believed it - I guess I didn't believe it, or I would have worked a little harder to make sure that fender was going to stay on. But it - Man, just that short trip back from where we lost it, and we were just covered. The whole - I couldn't even read the parts of the panel on the Rover, plus all the battery covers and everything.
126:18:46	CC	Roger, Gene. What we really need, I think, is some white mud flaps up there.
126:19:00	Cernan	That's a little too old fashioned, Joe.
126:19:17	CC	I guess we'd know wouldn't we?
126:19:26	Cernan	I'm afraid so.
126:19:56	Cernan	Okay, Joe.
126:19:57	Cernan	MARK. I'm giving my PLSS a second charge right now.
126:20:06	CC	We're watching.
126:20:09	Cernan	You ... You should be getting LMP biomed.
126:20:31	Cernan	And Joe, give me a hack after about 10 minutes in case I forget on that PLSS recharge.
126:20:37	CC	Roger.
126:20:48	Cernan	Can I do both the - I can do both the water recharge and the O2 recharge at the same time, can't I?
126:20:58	CC	That's affirm.
126:21:03	Cernan	Okay.
126:21:11	CC	Gene, I caution not to tilt the PLSS while you're doing that.
126:21:19	Cernan	Yes, good idea. Mine's in the station.
126:21:25	CC	And, Gene, if - if you want to get the geology debrief out of the way anytime, just give us a whistle on that.
126:22:35	Schmitt	Joe, why don't you give - give me the block data, and then we can go on that geology brief?
126:22:45	CC	Okay, are you ready to copy?
126:22:53	Schmitt	Go ahead.
126:23:04	CC	Okay, Jack surface block data; lift-off times, T21, 128 plus 47 plus 12; T22, 130 plus 45 plus 44; T23, 132 plus 44 plus l8; T24, 134 plus 42 plus 50; T25, 136 plus 41 plus 28. Over.
126:24:00	Schmitt	Okay, Joey, 21, reading in order 128:47:12; 130:45:44; 132:44:18; 134:42:50; 136:41:28. And what's the present rev?
126:24:28	CC	Present rev is 20, and readback is correct.
126:25:30	Schmitt	Okay, Joe, you can go ahead and fire away at the LMP.
126:25:37	CC	Okay, Jack, and for the geology questions. I'm going to turn the console over to the well-known geologist of the Seifort Galaxies.
126:25:49	Schmitt	Can't hack it, huh? You've all forgotten everything I taught you.
126:25:55	CC	I draw my sword.
126:25:57	CC	Okay, guys, you want me to address first those to Gene - those to Jack, and then address them to Gene later on, or you guys both, want to answer them at the same time?
126:26:09	Schmitt	Well, we're both listening. We can answer them.
126:26:12	CC	Okay, the way you asked that, I wasn't sure.
126:26:14	CC	Okay. Question number 1 is - concerns the Rover mobility rates. The Rover mobility rates over the short span you drove, which is hardly representative, are slower than people had anticipated. Do you think this is due to visibility, terrain, or what? Do you think you can still hack a 7.3 or 8 kilometer minimum or average to Station 2 tomorrow?
126:26:42	Cernan	The answer to that is yes, Bob. I think it's partly - partly fam, but it's also the fact that we did a lot of circling. We didn't drive in many straight lines. Trying to find, for the most part, our bearings, and tried to pick some high spots so we could look around. So I think straight-line navigation out in the area we're going is going to be easily 8 kilometers.
126:27:07	CC	Okay, great. Okay. Another question here, Gene, that you should be able to answer with a simple yes or no. Was there any spillage of the material in the drill core while you were breaking it down?
126:27:27	Cernan	Simple no.
126:27:27	CC	Okay. And - -
126:27:28	Cernan	Spillage out of it?
126:27:29	CC	- - Yes, you know, when you broke the sections, did you lose much material out of it?
126:27:35	Cernan	No, sir; I didn't lose any.
126:27:37	CC	Okay, next simple question. When you were drilling the deep core where the neutron probe was, could you see the RTG over the rock?
126:27:50	Cernan	Yes.
126:27:53	CC	Okay. You have any feel for how high the rock is or how low - how deep the thing was with respect to the - with respect to the RTG? Where you down in a level that was below, even without the rocks being there?
126:28:11	Cernan	Yes, I think I - yes. I was in a - in a slump. There was a ridge between us and the RTG, and I had the rock in a line of sight between it and where I put that core. And I'd say the rock was certainly near the ridge and it was - what, Jack? - I don't know was it meter to - meter high for the most part. And it sloped off, and I'd say at least a half a meter high in the line of sight from where the neutron probe is to the - to the RTG. Plus, there's a lot of undulations - I think it'll be below the line of sight, anyway.
126:28:51	CC	Okay. And a somewhat more general question, here. It says - and I'll read it. We're still puzzled as to whether there is a dark mantle. Could you say something more about the dark regolith surface? There's a lot of discussion, today, about whether or not it could have been a regolith derived from the intermediate gabbro which you were sampling as boulders.
126:29:20	Cernan	Bob, I - I think I don't have too much to add to what I said, near the end of the EVA, is that I do not have an intuitive feeling that the regolith has been derived from most of the boulders that we're seeing. But - because those boulders are fairly light-colored, they look like they're probably 50 percent plagioclase. The - it could be that the regolith is derived from some other material that has blanketed the area. I don't think we have that answer, yet.
126:29:55	CC	Okay. I copy that.
126:29:57	Cernan	Bob, the boulders - the boulders we are sampling - I think Jack, and I both feel that it's probably - we feel we sampled the subfloor because we saw on the sides of the craters where some of these boulders were exposed almost as if they were bedrock down there. In driving back from what we called Station 1, we - we could definitely see the light mantle out in the area where the potentials of a slide are.
126:30:26	CC	Okay, very good. Yes, I think that the - At least, it's a going bet around here that we're sampling the subfloor when we're sampling - at least the top of the subfloor when we're sampling the intermediate gabbro there. The rocks and the boulders.
126:30:40	CC	Okay. We also - -
126:30:42	Cernan	Yes, the -
126:30:43	CC	Go ahead.
126:30:45	Cernan	Bob.
126:30:46	CC	Go.
126:30:48	Schmitt	It is sort of strange that we don't see a good population of fine - of finer-grained rocks. These rocks look very much like igneous rocks, but they're considerably coarser than comparable -well, they're about the grain size of some of the coarse-grain Mare basalts that tend to differentiate the crystallobalite and tridymite - but we didn't see any of the finer-grain versions. If it's an intermediate crystalline rock, we have not seen any fine-grain equivalents yet. At least not in abundance.
126:31:32	CC	Okay, I copy that.
126:31:35	CC	We get - we gather that there's no color change in the dark-mantle material at depth. In other words, the footprints, wheel tracks, and the rake sample, et cetera, were sort of uniform in color.
126:31:49	Schmitt	No, there's no major change, but looking out the window and I think I commented on it, the disturbed regolith is darker. Oh, I don't know, maybe by 10 percent albedo, something like that, than the undisturbed surface.
126:32:14	CC	Okay, I remember your commenting that when you were walking to the ALSEP, I think, Jack, in fact.
126:32:19	CC	Okay, during drilling of the heat flow holes, Gene - -
126:32:21	Cernan	That's right.
126:32:21	CC	- - was there change in color of the cuttings as they piled up - as you went down in depth? Do you remember any of that?
126:32:36	Cernan	Yes, Bob, both in the core and the heat flow holes, it really didn't - didn't seem to pile it up like you're accustomed to it at the Cape, and I guess maybe that's because I was kicking so much dust around there. But I looked specifically when I cleared flutes, and what have you, and I didn't see any difference in terms of color, texture, or anything else coming up.
126:33:03	CC	Okay, copy that.
126:33:06	CC	On the - outcrops you think you see in the North and South Massifs, do they appear to be linear horizontal, or subhorizontal? Can you see layers, and do you have any feel for the thickness or the attitude or the continuity of them? Can you discuss these outcrops?
126:33:28	Cernan	Bob, the - going over yesterday, I thought I could see a - a structure dipping off to the southeast, apparent dip anyway, on the eastern side of the South Massif. Or northeastern side. We haven't examined them in detail because we were in a rush to get out. We'll put the binoculars on them and try to examine that question. There's nothing very obvious, any more than you can see on the photos, that the ledges were concentrated in the upper portion (cough) - excuse me - in the upper portion of the Massif's units.
126:34:07	CC	Okay, copy that. Here's a short one that I'll ask Jack since he did it. Again I guess we'll have to prove this - the shade portion of the cosmic ray experiment. The question is, and I repeat - I quote - "Are you sure that the detectors, not the decals, were facing out?
126:34:32	Schmitt	I am, Bob, because I said I was sure, and I called you on it.
126:34:37	CC	Roger. I was sure, too, but I had to ask the question.
126:34:40	Schmitt	I - I under - I know. I understand why it was asked, because I did it wrong at the Cape. But that's why - that's why I mentioned it when I deployed it.
126:34:48	CC	Roger.
126:34:51	CC	And ready to - Okay, and we can go and recharge the other PLSS whenever you're ready there, guys.
126:35:10	Schmitt	Okay.
126:35:14	CC	Okay, the next question which calls for a little bit of discussion is: The layers of lineaments that you remarked on in the Sculptured Hills, can you say anything about them?
126:35:33	Cernan	Yes, Bob, I did. I think I said - and I commented, I'm not sure whether it was the Sun angle or not, but see, I was not looking at the Sculptured Hills. I was looking back at Bare Mountain, I believe. And, to me it looked like there was some organization that was dipping back to the east, somewhere between, oh, 20 and 25 degrees maybe. And it was very obvious to me but I'm a little - a little hesitant because of some of this Sun-angle stuff.
126:36:09	CC	Okay, I copy that. I gather we didn't get any 500-millimeters of these lineations, that right?
126:36:16	Cernan	No, but I think we will. I - they were on the western side of Bare Mountain back there, and I think I commented that I thought that Bare Mountain is probably what the Sculptured Hills look like.
126:36:32	CC	Okay, I copy that. is there a scar above the light mantle material? in other words the slide, is there a scar above that on the South Massif? Can you see anything up there to indicate that it might have come off of there?
126:36:47	Cernan	Nothing obvious yet, Bob.
126:36:52	CC	Okay, copy that. On the way back from Station 1, you described a small crater with light material on the bottom. Can you say anything more about that crater?
126:37:13	Schmitt	Bob, I don't remember saying that, or Gene doesn't either.
126:37:19	CC	Okay. You talked about something that was light I don't remember - I thought it was a boulder, but the question's about a crater.
126:37:28	Schmitt	You're right. You're right, there was a large zap pit in a boulder that was very white. It must have been - the crater for the zap must have been 2 centimeters diameter anyway. And it had about that, or maybe 3-centimeters worth of crushed minerals around it, that gave it a white, very bright white appearance.
126:37:51	CC	Okay. Well that was indeed a small crater, so I guess the question was right.
126:38:01	CC	Let me change the mode here and ask you three or four simple ALSEP questions again, to verify for various people, exactly what happened. Just to make sure that they're clear on it. When - Jack, when, you were laying out the geophone leads, you mentioned and asked me if it was all right if the geophone leads crossed one another, if there was EMI problems. And so that made people wonder whether or not it was possible the geophone positions were reversed; i.e., geophone 1 was laid out in geophone 2's direction, et cetera.
126:38:39	Schmitt	No, that was just a geophone 4 problem. The geophones are in the right directions.
126:38:45	CC	Okay.
126:38:45	Schmitt	Geophone 4 fell out of the module and rolled under one of the other lines, or vice versa, I don't know which, and it was - it's crossing one of the other lines, geophone 1, I think.
126:38:59	CC	Okay, no problem. Was the - When you went to put the LSPE antenna in the heat-flow socket, you didn't have - weren't able to do it at first, was it because of there was a lot of dust in there?
126:39:16	Schmitt	No, I think it was the same old problem of that piece of - of aluminum foil, or whatever it is, going down in the socket and jamming briefly.
126:39:27	CC	Okay, I copy that. Did you clear out that foil when you did it, or did you Just push it on through?
126:39:35	Schmitt	I forced it.
126:39:36	CC	Okay. When you taped the SEP solar cells down, did you - how much of them did you cover with tape?
126:39:47	Schmitt	We taped the back.
126:39:49	CC	Ah, very good thinking. And, Geno, a question for you on the Rover when you parked it. Do you have any feeling for the roll angle it was parked at the LM? The roll angle?
126:40:09	Cernan	Here let me look. Bob, it's pretty flat. If I had to guess, I'd say zero. And you can bias that by a degree or so, but basically zero.
126:40:22	CC	Okay, is the pitch scale still on it, or did it fall off yet?
126:40:28	Cernan	No. I was going to comment on that. It's still there.
126:40:33	CC	Okay, very good. Okay, when you went to Station 1A, we're calling the new Station 1, Station 1A, were the blocks there as well-filleted as those near the LM and the ALSEP? Do they all look the same?
126:40:54	Cernan	Bob, they - All the boulders had filleting to a slight degree, but not an extreme amount. I think it no more than what is being caused by the redistribution of the darker, fine-grained regolith.
126:41:18	CC	Okay, I copy that.
126:41:21	Schmitt	Bob, if had to answer - -
126:41:23	CC	Go ahead.
126:41:24	Schmitt	- - if I had to answer that question, I'd say yes. Yes that the fillet - boulders are filleted over there about like they are over here. That would be my impression.
126:41:35	CC	All right. is there any indication that the fillets are directional, in other words, that the fillets sire heavier on one side than the other?
126:41:47	Cernan	Bob, haven't noticed that.
126:41:51	CC	Okay, I copy that. Do you have the feeling that some boulders are more rounded -
126:41:55	Cernan	Well that's a good - that's a good -
126:41:59	CC	Roger. I agree with that.
126:42:02	Cernan	That's a good re - that's a good reminder, Bob.
126:42:08	CC	Okay, do have any feeling that some boulders are more rounded than others? Apparently this looked this way in some of the TV pictures.
126:42:18	Cernan	Some of the big ones that are just barely exposed above the regolith looked quite well-rounded. Most of those around the craters are sub-angular. I think - I got the impression that it's just purely a function of how long the same material's been exposed; but some of the big boulders, like the one out near the geophones, is quite angular in part and quite rounded on other parts. It's quite variable.
126:42:49	CC	Okay, do you want to say any more about that boulder? Did it seem to have more or less the same morphology, in addition to the variation in vesicle size that the other rocks in the vicinity of the ALSEP, and the other rocks out at Station 1 had?
126:43:08	Schmitt	It's very comparable to the ones that we saw at Station 1, as a matter of fact.
126:43:13	CC	Okay, I copy that.
126:43:14	Cernan	Both types of rocks were there, both variations.
126:43:24	CC	Do you have a feeling for where the big blocks in the LM ALSEP area came from? Do you think they were from Camelot, like I've been saying?
126:43:36	Schmitt	Don't have an idea yet - I'm really not sure.
126:43:42	CC	Okay, and as you drove along on the traverse from the SEP to Station 1, did the size of the small craters with blocky rims vary? in other words, what we are looking for here is the variation in the thickness of the dark mantle?
126:43:58	Schmitt	I can't answer that one yet, Bob.
126:44:00	CC	Okay. Let me sum up by saying, that I guess as I indicated before, our best guess is that the vesicular crystalline rock, probably gabbro, or I think you've been calling it intermediate basalt or gabbro, forms at least the upper part of the subfloor. I don't think we've been close enough to a large crater rim to say that it's a - what the deep sections of the subfloor form, but we think that this intermediate gabbro vesicular rock, at least medium-grained, perhaps coarsegrained rock, forms at least the upper layer of the subfloor. Over.
126:44:48	Schmitt	Yes, Bob, I think that's pretty safe, right now. Once again, I'm surprised that it's as coarse as it is, that being the upper portion of a plains unit.
126:45:00	CC	Roger.
126:45:01	Cernan	Say, Bob, driving back from Station 1, driving back from Station 1, where we did some of our circling and what have you. We didn't have time to get off, but we did see down in - I don't remember whether it was in the slopes of some craters, or down on the slope itself, but I'd say several meters down below the mantle where there was what we almost agreed to, might be bedrock at least, a deeper portion of the subfloor.
126:45:36	CC	Okay, well, I think we'll get to it tomorrow. I think I might just give you a clue to our thinking for tomorrow. But, I don't think we've seen, or done anything today that is going to make us change very much from the nominal station of - nominal EVA-2 plans. The fact we didn't get the station -to the EVA-1 at the large boulders at Emory is probably going to mean that Station 5 might be shifted a little bit to the boulders on Camelot. But certainly Station 5 on the subfloor and also to Station 10 have assumed a higher priority than they originally had. Other than that I, don't think we'll see an awful lot of changes to EVA-2. Over.
126:46:23	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. I think that's safe. I suppose somebody's thinking about the possibility of going down to Emory. Maybe you just said that. Going down to Emory late in EVA-3.
126:46:36	CC	I think at the moment they're thinking primarily they're going to Station 10, and not going to Station 1.
126:47:00	CC	Okay, Jack, I've wrested control -
126:47:02	Schmitt	Some of your experts might - -
126:47:03	CC	Go ahead.
126:47:08	Schmitt	- - some of your experts might think about what they might expect to happen to put the regolith on a bigrain pyroclastic would look like.
126:47:23	CC	Okay.
126:47:24	CC	We'll tell them. I'll see you tomorrow, guys.
126:47:29	Schmitt	Sleep well, Bob.
126:47:30	Cernan	Okay, I've just got one question, Bob, before you run off. Did the TGA perform okay, with the - with the camera on?
126:47:40	CC	As far as I could tell, Geno, it did, matter of fact, I didn't see the Gravimeter people afterwards to talk to them. But as far as I could tell, it did. We had one funny reading back at the LM very early when it was on the ground, which I'm at a loss to understand right off. But, other than that everything seems to have gone very well. The readings were quite uniform, in fact, which is what makes you think they went well.
126:48:05	Cernan	Okay, well, I'd like to leave it - You know it's a little change in my thinking - I'd like to leave it on the Rover if we can, although it's a piece of cake to take off. It's very difficult to lean over that bar without losing your balance and take your - your readings and what have you. So if we can leave it on it would be far better.
126:48:22	CC	Roger. I was noticing that. And I also noticed the only three - three-ball reading we got was whsn it was on the ground.
126:48:32	Cernan	Yes.
126:48:38	CC	Gene and Jack, if you'll get Lunar Surface Checklist 3-5, I've got an easy change to read up to you.
126:48:57	Cernan	Go ahead.
126:49:01	CC	Okay. After the line: "Empty ETB As Follows," change the first line which reads, B&W Mag Golf in Forward RHSSC to read, B&W Mag Hotel in LCG Compartment. And then go into the next column, which begins, "Stow in ETB." Change the second line, which reads: LMP's Camera With B&W Mag Hotel to LMP's Camera With B&W Mag Golf. That's Mag G, ETB. Over.
126:49:59	Cernan	Got you. Hotel, stow it; and go out with Golf.
126:50:06	CC	That's got it. And I've got a LEVA-cleaning procedure which maybe you could pencil in there. It's an easy three-step procedure. And I'll go ahead and read it step-by-step here. Step number 1 is tap LEVA base to remove loose dust. Step number 2 reads: If excess dust still remains, use a towel from the LM tissue dispenser, which has been wetted with water, and gently wipe the visor from the top to the bottom; that is, in one direction. And fold this towel after each wipe to keep the contact surface clean. There's a note. "Take care not to wet the inside that is, the concave surface of the gold visor." And the last step is: Allow it to air-dry. And that's it on the LEVA cleaning.
126:51:22	Cernan	Okay, Joe, we got that. The Commander's PLSS has had its final charge, and we're in the process of working on the LMPs PLSS now. I guess there's no way to verify how much water you've got in there except to go through the procedure.
126:51:45	CC	That's right, Geno. And we think you fellows have earned a good meal now, and maybe you can take the rest of the day off.
126:52:01	Cernan	Okay, Joe. Thank you.
126:52:37	PAO	The CAPCOM during the EVA Geology debriefing was Astronaut Bob Parker, who was CAPCOM during the EVA. Joe Allen is now handling the CAPCOM duties once again.
126:54:12	PAO	Ron Evans, aboard America, now in his 20th revolution of the Moon, just passed over the landing site a few minutes ago, and appears to be sleeping soundly. Ron has been asleep for about 3 hours now. And telemetry data on America shows the vehicle to be functioning normally, as are all of the scientific instruments with a couple of relatively minor exceptions, the mapping camera has not been retracted, it is somewhat slow to retract the last few times that that maneuver was performed and the camera has been left in the extended position, which is the normal operating position for the mapping camera. And we expect, as you heard CAPCOM Joe Allen advise the crew, that Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt will begin eating shortly, and we hope to get them tucked in for bed by about 128:00 hours or about 1 hour from now.
126:57:36	Schmitt	Okay, Joe. Just to bring you up to date on magazines. Mag Bravo has 77 frames.
126:57:48	CC	Okay.
126:57:56	Schmitt	Mag Hotel has 83 frames.
126:58:03	CC	Roger.
126:59:12	CC	Jack, on your mag Hotel, we'd showed you all the way up to 183 at one time, on that. Did you miss the 1, this time?
126:59:32	Schmitt	I may have clipped it out, Joe. 183, yes.
126:59:35	CC	Okay, yes, you did clip it out, clipped it out cleanly. So thanks for verifying that.
127:02:29	Schmitt	Joe, mag Romeo has 21 frames. And I took a few, random, and probably not very good 500-millimeter of the North and South Massifs - North and South Massifs.
127:02:48	CC	Okay, Jack, Thank you.
127:03:02	Schmitt	And, Joe, verify that you want mag Charlie substituted for Mag Bravo on the CDRs camera.
127:03:17	CC	Stand by.
127:04:44	Schmitt	Don't get me wrong. I think it's a good idea, Joe. Don't let everybody work all night on that one.
127:04:54	CC	Jack, I think the answer to that is yes. Per the checklist, by the way. That's the way we show it in our checklist here.
127:05:05	Schmitt	Roger. We just have - probably have a - about 100 frames left on Bravo, so we'll just keep track of that.
127:05:12	CC	Jack, it'll go out later on - Bravo will - it's - apparently, it's kind of your backup magazine there.
127:05:31	Schmitt	Okay.
127:05:37	CC	The reason being, we want to start that EVA-2 with a fresh mag.
127:10:45	Schmitt	Hey, Joe. Bob told us earlier, the sounder looked like it was working.
127:11:13	CC	Gene and Jack, just a general comment on that. SIM bay's cooking along beautifully. We are getting lunar sounder data. It looks quite interesting. We've only got one or two annoying problems with it, nothing major, that is with the SIM bay, not with the sounder. One of them being that we have our usual mapping camera extend problem. And we've just decided to leave it extended and it will serve it right if it gets a little contaminated with an occasional dump. And, I guess there's a minor problem with one of the big antennas. It didn't pass its retract check properly, so I guess it may have to be jettisoned when we do a plane change. Otherwise, things are working beautifully. Over.
127:12:06	Schmitt	That sounds great, I'm glad to hear that.
127:33:10	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 127 hours 33 minutes. The CSM America has just gone behind the Moon now on the 20th revolution. The spacecraft looking very good. When last we had telemetry data on it. And, Ron Evans continuing to sleep soundly. He's been asleep now for about 3-1/2 hours. On the lunar surface, Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt aboard Challenger are eating at this time, and we hope to get them to bed by about 128 hours or about 27 minutes from now.
127:43:00	Schmitt	Houston, Challenger.
127:43:06	CC	Go ahead.
127:43:12	Schmitt	We're sort of around 27:30 in the checklist, more or less, and you want the POWER AMP and TM to high?
127:43:35	CC	Ready when you are. And, troops, are you raiding the pantry up there yet?
127:43:54	Schmitt	Yes sir. We've been hitting it as hard as we can. Okay, POWER AMP is going to PRIMARY and PCM to HIGH. And, while we're waiting for Gene to look at this computer, shall I do the battery management?
127:44:31	CC	Jack, stand by, until we get the high bit rate, on that battery management. And, a reminder, are you recharging that PLSS number 2 there, or have you taken that off the line?
127:44:47	Schmitt	No, we're - we're through with that. We caught it with 10 minutes.
127:44:57	CC	Okay. We've got high bit rate now. Go ahead with battery management.
127:45:09	Schmitt	Okay, we'll play it - Gene'll work the computer, and I'll work the batteries. And the ED volts are 37.2, both batteries.
127:45:21	CC	Thank you.
127:45:57	Schmitt	Okay, you got P00 and DATA, Joe.
127:46:08	CC	Thank you.
127:47:39	Schmitt	Okay, Joe, the battery management complete. How does the rest of the spacecraft look, what you can see of it?
127:47:56	CC	Okay, Jackie. Copy the battery management complete, and the Challenger's looking beautiful from down here.
127:48:10	Schmitt	I guess you don't have telemetry on dust yet, huh?
127:48:19	CC	Negative on the dust. And the computer's yours. Sounds like you've got hay fever sensors, as far as that dust goes.
127:48:33	Schmitt	It's come on pretty fast just since I came back. I think as soon as the cabin filters most of this out that is in the air, I'll be all right. But I didn't know I had lunar dust hay fever.
127:48:52	CC	It's funny they don't check for that. Maybe that's the trouble with the cheap noses, Jack.
127:49:04	Schmitt	Could be. I don't know why we couldn't have gone and smelled some dust in the LRL just to find out.
127:49:11	CC	Goodness knows we've tried.
127:49:34	Schmitt	Okay, I'll wait for your cue on the rest of it.
127:49:47	CC	Okay, Jack. TELEMETRY PCM - LO, and your POWER AMP - OFF, please.
127:49:58	Schmitt	Roger.
127:50:44	CC	Challenger, this is Houston requesting DOWNVOICE BACKUP, and then configure your ECS for sleep at your convenience.
127:50:56	Schmitt	Okay, we're working in that direction. DOWNVOICE BACKUP, now.
127:51:04	CC	Okay, Jack and Gene. And, unless you've got questions, or we can help you out in some way, we'll say good night to you.
127:51:17	Cernan	Good morning.
127:51:31	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 127 hours 51 minutes. Cernan and Schmitt are now completing the items in their presleep checklist.
127:51:43	Cernan	The reason I say that, Joe, it's going to be another 30 minutes or so anyway before we - probably more like an hour before we actually close our eyes.
127:52:04	CC	Roger, Gene. You think you'll be able to use about 30 more minutes of sleep tomorrow morning? What's your wish on that?
127:52:16	Cernan	Yes, I'd like to try to get the full amount. As I recall, tomorrow's a little bit flexible. If we get up 30 minutes late, it doesn't really hurt us.
127:52:28	CC	Sounds like a good way to proceed. We'll give you the full 8 hours. Good night, Geno. And, you do have a time pad in there, so it shouldn't hurt a thing.
127:52:42	Cernan	Yes, as long - the big object tomorrow is to get out, and get back in, and the same thing with the next day. I don't think we're really that time critical either day that we can't go an hour either way. And I think we'd prefer to have the full 8 tonight.
127:52:59	CC	Roger. We couldn't agree with you more. And if there's anyway we can be helping you now, just speak up.
127:53:11	Cernan	No, you've been doing - doing fine. We just got a little housecleaning we got to do that's going to take us - I expect we'll be an hour late, Joe.
127:57:54	PAO	This is Apollo control at 127 hours 58 minutes. And the crew aboard Challenger on the lunar surface are now getting configured to begin their sleep period. Among the things in the checklist that they have done is to turn off the power amplifier which accounts for the somewhat noisier communications that we're getting. This is a normal presleep configuration and we don't expect to be communicating with the crew a great deal in the next hour and of course, none while they're in their sleep period. As you heard in the last exchange between CAPCOM Joe Allen and Gene Cernan, the crew will probably be getting the sleep period about one hour later than the flight plan calls for. At around 129 hours rather than the nominal flight plan time of 128 hours. We plan to allow them the full 8 hours for their rest period which means that they will be waking up just prior to 137 hours about 136 hours 55 minutes will be the wakeup time. And this would also slip the start of EVA-2 by about one hour giving us a start time for EVA-2 of 140 hours 10 minutes or about 5:03 p.m. central standard time. There is a one and a half hour pad following EVA-2 and EVA-3. This is identified in the flight plan as MCC conference and amounts to one and a half hours that can be used to make up loss time after the second EVA and third EVA. We would expect to make up the lost hour after the first EVA; however, if we are again running somewhat late after the second EVA rather and if we are running somewhat late after the second EVA we still have the hour and a half pad after the third EVA and would of course expect to be back on the nominal flight plan in time for an on time liftoff from the lunar surface. But, again, based on the one hour late beginning of the sleep time and our plans to give the crew a full eight hours of sleep. We would expect the EVA-2 to begin one hour late. At 140 hours 10 minutes or about 5:03 p.m. central standard time. We'll continue to leave the communication circuit, PAO release Line up live until it appears Cernan and Schmitt have begun their sleep period - have actually gone to sleep. We'll be reacquiring the command module in about 21 minutes. That vehicle now on it's 21st revolution around the Moon. And Ron Evans now about four hours into his scheduled eight hour sleep period. At 128 hours 2 minutes, this is Apollo control, Houston.
128:02:01	Schmitt	Hey, Joe.
128:02:05	CC	Go ahead.
128:02:09	Schmitt	Some ambiguity in your statement. You want us to use a tissue or a towel on that visor cleaning?
128:02:23	CC	Jack, they call it - they call it a towel, but it comes from the LM tissue dispenser, so I would interpret that to mean tissue.
128:02:41	Schmitt	Well, you and I are thinking alike. But can you ask back there and find out?
128:02:53	CC	Asking right now.
128:03:50	CC	Jack, our guess was right on the cleaning of the visors there. We're to use a tissue from the LM tissue dispenser. And I've got an unrelated question for you. We're tracing water usage down here. Could you tell us, please, if you filled your drink dispensers - refilled the drink dispensers in the suit already? Over.
128:04:20	Schmitt	That's affirm. We have.
128:04:42	CC	Okay. Thank you.
128:04:53	Schmitt	We have been drinking quite a bit of water, Joe.
128:05:02	CC	Okay. Thank you.
128:07:52	Schmitt	Houston; Challenger. How do you read?
128:07:58	CC	You're loud and clear. Go ahead.
128:08:06	Schmitt	Joe, I just took a - quick look with the hand lens at that large rock I brought in, and I'll - I don't think there's much more than 30 percent plagioclase. I'll go back - could be more of a standard basalt or gabbro. It has a fair proportion of ilmenite in it, I believe. There are some bright platelets - in the vugs or vesicles - of ilmenite. Now it could be that it's a glass - if the soil is very glassy, that it's developed the darker color from the contribution of the - of the basic minerals through the glass, particularly the iron and the titanium.
128:09:01	CC	Roger, Jack. Copy that. Sounds interesting.
128:09:10	Schmitt	All it means is that we don't yet know the origin of the dark mantle.
128:09:20	CC	Roger.
128:09:30	Schmitt	That rock - looks I may have, by accident, sampled the front side of one of the parting planes that I mentioned. Very, very sharply bounded on one side by a planar surface.
128:09:56	CC	Roger, Jack. Say again. You may have sampled by accident the side - the side of what?
128:10:12	Schmitt	No, I didn't. I mentioned when I sampled it, it had one very planar surface, and looking at it more closely, it looks like one of those parting planes that I talked about even earlier in the EVA.
128:10:24	CC	Roger. Copy. Parting planes, thank you.
128:10:31	Schmitt	It's like a parting shot.
128:10:40	CC	Of which you've been known to have an overabundance, by the way.
128:10:50	Schmitt	Oh, I didn't know that.
128:10:56	CC	All us fast finishers do.
128:11:05	Schmitt	That's right. You got to figure out what race you're in though, first, Joe.
128:11:15	CC	I'm sure that Sherlock Holmes would have a suitable quotation to answer that, Jack. I just can't come up with it right now. Something like "therein, Watson, lies the problem" - -
128:11:28	Schmitt	That, in itself, is a singular event.
128:11:52	Schmitt	But the dog did nothing in the nighttime, Joe.
128:12:06	CC	And when you've examined all possibilities and eliminated all but the very improbable ones, then the improbable one must mean the truth.
128:12:23	Schmitt	I told you, he was a good geologist, one of the experts on the soils of London. Not to mention their relationship to all kinds and brands of tobacco.
128:13:07	CC	Jack, maybe we better get off onto another vein. Surgeon's giving me a puzzled look over here. We may be getting in trouble.
128:13:20	Schmitt	You want to talk about veins - now that's something an old ore geologist could talk about all night.
128:13:36	CC	Ore geologists and cardiologists alike.
128:13:51	Schmitt	Thou strikest for the jugular.
128:14:03	CC	Jack, we running a contest down here to come up with a reply to that. We're getting a request, many requests, for a weather report. We've been missing your weather reports and wonder what the weather is on the Moon right now.
128:14:25	Schmitt	Well, the Moon's weather is clear and sunny. It's only scattered clouds, and all of those seem to be attached to the Earth.
128:14:45	CC	Except for a cloud of dust around the right rear wheel of the Rover, we've noticed.
128:14:56	Schmitt	Yes, but dissipates in the morning warmth. Believe it or not, Joe, I'm going to be off the air briefly.
128:15:18	CC	So far, I don't believe that.
128:15:25	Schmitt	Well, if you don't get any heart beat for a little while, don't worry.
128:15:37	CC	Okay.
128:54:10	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 128 hours 54 minutes. Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt aboard Challenger on the lunar surface have turned off the voice subcarrier, we don't expect to hear from them any further. However, we do not believe at this time that they have begun their sleep period. Cernan reported about an hour ago that it didn't look as if would actually begin their sleep period until about 129 hours. So we expect that they are probably very close to beginning and will actually get to sleep within the next 10 or 15 minutes. Ron Evans aboard the Command Module crossed over the landing site some 10 or 15 minutes ago. America is now in it's 21st revolution of the Moon. And Evans has been sleeping soundly for nearly 5 hours. we do plan to let Cernan and Schmitt sleep a full 8 hours which means that they will be getting up about an hour later than the flight plan time which will also slip the start of EVA 2 by about 1 hour. Because of the noise on the air-to-ground line, with the lunar module operating with it's power amplifier OFF, which is the normal configuration for sleep period, we are going to take the relief line down. We'll record any conversations we get with the crew. Also, we would have a pretty good chance of getting the lines up in the event they plan to give us a call because we'll see the voice subcarrier come on first. But in any event either live or play-back we'll come up very shortly after any conversations with Challenger on the lunar surface or America in orbit around the Moon. At 128 hours and 56 minutes this is Apollo Control Houston.
129:30:00	PAO	This is Apollo Control with 129 hours 30 minutes. About 28 minutes we had one brief transmission from Challenger on the lunar surface. Gene Cernan called to say that he and Jack Schmitt were beginning their sleep period and would see us in the morning which will be at a Ground Elapsed Time of 136 hours 55 minutes. We plan to give them the full 8 hour sleep period called for in the flight plan. Also, Ron Evans, continuing to sleep soundly aboard the orbiting command service module America, completing it's 21st revolution of the Moon. And we're about to lose radio contact with the command module as it goes behind the Moon on that revolution. Both vehicles continuing to perform normally and good solid data from both the command and service module and the lunar module. Wakeup time for Evans aboard America is 131 hours 20 minutes. 31 minutes, this is Apollo Control Houston and we'll replay that very brief segment of tape from the lunar module Challenger.
131:10:00	Schmitt	Joe, we're asleep. There's no need to answer. See you in the morning.
131:10:00	PAO	And that was the full extent of the communications from Challenger. we do not expect to hear from them until 136 hours 55 minutes at which time we will be sending a wakeup call to them if they don't call us first. This is Mission Control Houston.
131:15:32	Evans	Roberta?
131:15:32	CC	Hey there, Ron. I heard some signs of life there.
131:15:32	Evans	Let's see. I - got ngr DUPLEX, OFF, there so I won't talk to those guys on the surface.
131:15:32	CC	TOiat's a good idea. We don't want to wake them up.
131:15:32	Evans	(Laughter)
131:15:32	CC	Ron, we're going to be going LOS here in about 3 minutes. Just wanted to get you up. We're letting the LMies sleep over - sleep in an extra hour this morning. Over.
131:15:32	Evans	Oh, okay. I'll get my Flight Plan out here and see what I'm supposed to be doing. Probably just eating though, I think isn't it?
131:15:32	CC	That's right. Get up, turn the VHF A, OFF, change your canister, and have breakfast.
131:25:49	Evans	Okay. Sounds good. That's what we'll do then.
131:25:49		BEGIN LUNAR REV 23
132:23:05	CC	Hello there, America. How's breakfast this morning?
132:23:05	Evans	Scrambled eggs and bacon. Not bad at all.
132:23:05	CC	Sounds better than what I had.
132:23:05	Evans	It's really not bad. Cocoa and orange juice along with it. Even have four toasted bread cubes.
132:23:05	CC	Very good.
132:23:05	Evans	Hey, Gordo. Do you have any sort of - some kind of a ground truth wrap-up of the first EVA as far as the type of material they ran across down there and things like that?
132:23:05	CC	Ron, I kind of personally - on and off. Let me work on a good summary, and I'll come back to you on that.
132:23:05	Evans	Okay. Nothing elaborate but just - you know -
132:23:05	CC	Okay. Talking about the America though, your consumables - You're 3.8 percent high on RCS quantity. On the O2, well - all the points of the three tanks have fallen between the - the two sets of lines on your graph with a total result as on 02 you're about 10 pounds below the average quantity expected. However, your trend is paralleling the lines and that's of absolutely no concern. On hydrogen, by best guess is you're probably a little bit high, total. Your Tank 1 is right on the line; Tank 2 is - oh, about 6 or 7 percent high; and Tank 3 is about 4 percent high, so you're fat on hydrogen. Over.
132:23:05	Evans	That doesn't sound too bad then, does it?
132:23:05	CC	No. It sounds great.
132:25:45	Evans	Sounds good, I think.
132:28:56	Evans	Houston, America. I can give you the old CMP's medical log, if you want to do it.
132:28:56	CC	Okay, Ron. Go ahead.
132:28:56	Evans	Okay. PRD is - You didn't cut out on me (laughter). My orange juice is leaking. Okay. PRD is 15038. Had about 6 hours of good sleep. Took me about an hour to get things squared away last night. Then I woke up early this morning. Didn't take any medication. And I had four cans of fluid.
132:28:56	CC	Okay.
132:28:56	Evans	Okay, on the menu. Did I give you day 5, meal A, yesterday or not?
132:28:56	CC	I guess you did not.
132:28:56	Evans	Okay. Spiced oat cereal, sausage patties, instant breakfast, coffee, and a half an ambrosia. Okay. Four frankfurters, ate the pears, chocolate pudding, grape drink, and, in addition, I had a grape punch, package of brownies, package of graham crackers, and two gingerbreads. Yes, for the bottom one there, I had turkey and gravy, and an orange beverage, and if I find my chocolate bar, I'm going to eat it today* But I didn't eat it yet. Oh, yes, and I had the vitamins yesterday too.
132:28:56	CC	Okay, Ron.
132:32:09	CC	Ron, if you'd like, I could give you a summary of the EVA-1. I'm just sort of editing the report put out by the back room on that.
132:32:09	Evans	Sure. Go ahead, Gordo; Appreciate it.
132:32:09	CC	Okay. I'll read a few selected excerpts here. The surface around the landing site is generally an undulating plain, which was somewhat rougher and had a greater abundance of blocks than was expected by the astronauts. It is saturated with small craters not exceeding a few centimeters in size but not with larger craters. Small craters commonly have glass on their floors. Boulders ranging from about 1/2 meter to 4 meters are common. All of them are partially buried or covered with the dust of the dark mantle. In one locality, a crater of about 1 meter deep pentrated the relatively fine dark surface material and excavated small blocks. Other shallower craters in this area did not fully penetrate the mantle. This fact, together with the abundance of small boulders on and near the surface, indicates that the dark mantle is relatively thin. A minor amount of dust noted upon landing suggested a thin layer of fine grain unconsolidated material. Footprints and LRV tracks left firm impressions in the fine grain material when darker material was kicked up from underneath. At the ALSEP site, the drill encountered harder material several times and definitely seem to reach harder material at about a 7-foot depth. The deep drill core apparently also bottomed in harder material. In the core, the material was noted to be cohesive, and it contained more fragments than did the surficial material. Predominant rock type between the LM and Steno Crater is medium grained, vesicular or nonvesicular basalts or gabbro. They contain about equal amounts of plagioclase and pyroxene along with less abundant opaque material. The guys took a total of - well, they took a lot of pictures. They had 229 color and 197 black-and-white during EVA-1. And they got 17 samples in addition to the deep drill core. Three were large, unbagged rocks, and the total, excluding the core, estimated to weigh about 13 kilograms so far, and they traveled about 3 kilometers in the Rover. As a summary conclusion, the observations made on the first EVA support the premission interpretation that at least the upper part of the subfloor materials consist of basaltic lava flow. The overlying dark mantle may be part of the regolith on subfloor material, but the possibility that it is an independent unit remains open and will be tested by observations on second and third EVAs. Both the dark mantle and upper sub floor units contain remarkably little foreign material between the ALSEP site and Steno with suggests comparatively young ages. Over.
132:32:09	Evans	Hey, that sounds like a good report there. They -sounds like they got a lot of stuff done and also getting a lot of good information out of it already.
132:32:09	CC	Yes. I think that's a safe conclusion. They're going to get a lot more today.
132:35:52	Evans	Oh, you bet.
132:38:01	CC	Ron, for your information, the ALSEP seems to be working pretty well. The central station and all the experiments with the exception of one are working normally. The one that's giving them trouble is the LEAM, and the data on the LEAM doesn't seem to want to sync up properly. They're thinking that one over and maybe have something for them to try to get that to - to work right. Over.
132:38:33	Evans	Oh. Okay. Mighty fine.
132:51:45	CC	America, Houston. I have a couple of Flight Plan updates to give you. We suggest you take them down before you start the P52, at your convenience. Just so we don't interrupt your preparation for tlie zodiacal light.
132:51:45	Evans	Okay. Got mag XX from the camera, finally. Something about the zero g - it kind of pulls that crazy little cassette back out of the way, and you have a heck of a time getting the lid closed on that.
132:51:45	CC	Roger.
132:51:45	Evans	Okay. Ready for updates.
132:51:45	CC	Okay. Your T-start time for zodiacal light, goes in there at 133:25, is 133 - -
132:51:45	Evans	Okay. Have it.
132:51:45	CC	-- 28:03.
132:51:45	Evans	T-start, 133:28:03-
132:51:45	CC	That's correct, and then flip the page over to 134:35.
132:51:45	Evans	Okay.
132:51:45	CC	And write in "Charge Battery A."
132:51:45	Evans	Charge Batt A at 134:35-
132:53:12	CC	Affirmative. At bottom of the same column, at 134:54, delete "MAPPING CAMERA, RETRACT." And also a couple of lines later, delete "MAPPING CAMERA/LASER ALTIMETER COVER, CLOSED."
132:53:12	CC	That's affirmative. Above that whole sequence, we have some verifies for you. You can write this in about 134:50. Actually, you better start -start a little higher to have room. "Verify all VHF OFF for sounder pass." And here are the -the steps. "VHF AM, A and B, OFF. VHF AM, RECEIVE ONLY, OFF. VHF BEACON, OFF. And VHF RANGING, OFF." Four steps there. Over.
132:54:46	Evans	Okay. We'll just verify that all VHF is OFF for sounder operations. VHF, A and B, OFF. RECEIVE, OFF. And RECEIVE ONLY, OFF. BEACON, OFF. And RANGING, OFF.
132:54:46	CC	Okay. That's all you got - -
132:55:00	Evans	RANGING is OFF. BEACON has been OFF. RECEIVE ONLY is ON. Okay.
132:55:00	Evans	Hey, Gordy. How's the fidelity on my transmissions with the way I got the microphone set now?
132:55:00	CC	Okay, Ron. You sound pretty good to me.
132:55:00	Evans	Okay. I don't have this comm carrier on very tight. I just wanted to make sure I was still coming through all right.
132:55:00	CC	Yes, think it's perfectly adequate.
132:55:00	Evans	Okay.
132:58:22	CC	Ron, we'd like HIGH GAIN to AUTO.
132:58:27	Evans	HIGH GAIN to AUTO. You have it.
132:58:27	CC	Thank you.
132:58:27	Evans	(Cough)
132:58:27	CC	Looks like another good one, Ron.
132:58:27	Evans	Okay.
132:58:27	CC	Was it good? Torque them up.
132:59:51	Evans	... at 133:01.
132:59:51	CC	Okay.
133:05:58	CC	America, Houston. Give us ACCEPT, and we give you a vector.
133:06:07	Evans	Okay. You have ACCEPT.
133:08:14	CC	America, Houston. It's your computer now.
133:08:14	Evans	Okay. Back to BLOCK.
133:11:36	Evans	Okay. I'm going to enable jets Charlie 3 and Dog 3 Disable Bravo 3 and Alfa 3.
133:11:36	CC	Okay, Ron.
133:11:36	CC	Ron, just for general information on your platform drift rates. Not too bad. X is minus 0.007 degrees per hour, Y - min - plus 0.002, and Z is really hard to believe. It's a minus 0.0003 degrees per hour.
133:11:36	Evans	(Laughter) Hey, that's beautiful.
133:11:36	CC	That's got to be some kind of record.
133:11:36	Evans	Boy, I gues s.
133:11:36	CC	We may just cancel all further P52s.
133:11:36	Evans	(Laughter) Yes, they're kind of easy here in lunar orbit. All except that one that I didn't get done on time yesterday. By the time I got around to doing it, I was pointing right at the Moon. Roll and pitch. It was daylight, and I couldn't see any stars. Finally got to the right attitude, so that the PICAPAR would work.
133:11:36	CC	Roger.
133:21:30	Evans	Well, Gordo. Looks like I'll lose you right in the middle of this zodiacal light sequencer.
133:21:30	CC	That's right. We aren't going to be able to be much help. I'll give you a little warning before T-start. But you're on your own after that, I guess.
133:21:30	Evans	(Laughter) Okay.
133:27:31	CC	Ron, you have about 30 seconds now until T-start.
133:27:31	Evans	Ah, hah. Okay. 28:03, we'll start the clock.
133:27:31	CC	That's affirm.
133:28:49	CC	Ron, it's about time - coming up on time to start the 90-second exposure.
133:28:49	Evans	Okay.
133:30:19	CC	Coming up on time to close the shutter now.
133:30:19	Evans	Okay.
133:30:19	CC	Okay, America. We're just about LOS. See you on the other side.
133:31:43	Evans	Okay, Gordo. Thank you much.
133:31:43		BEGIN LUNAR REV 24
134:17:57	Evans	And out on the - on the sides of the wall, also, there's another fresh impact just south of ... I guess it's more west really.
134:17:57	CC	Hello, America.
134:17:57	Evans	Okay, Houston. America's here. The - the zodiacal light sequence worked real well. Oddly enough, I ended up right (laughter) on the right setting with the right times and everything. The only thing is on the 8-minute - on the 8-minute picture, for some reason, I didn't notice that the shutter shut as soon as I took it instead of 60 seconds later. So we just missed that picture altogether.
134:17:57	CC	Okay, Ron. Understand.
134:17:57	Evans	But the time we worked out good. It was about 2 seconds after the l4:50 - sequence. Not 2 seconds - about 1 second after the 14:50 sequence. And the Sun came up.
134:17:57	CC	Okay.
134:17:57	Evans	It's going to be hard to - to determine any real relief around the vicinity of Saenger right in there, because it's right at the zero phase point now.
134:17:57	CC	Roger.
134:23:14	CC	Ron, here's some words on what we've been seeing in the sounder and the optical recorder when you get a free moment.
134:23:14	Evans	Okay. I'm just kind of looking out the window now, Gordo. Go ahead.
134:23:14	CC	Okay. According to our rather crude read-out on film remaining, it looks like we're using more film than we should be in the recorder, and -it's - if you add up the amount of film used according to that telemetry compared to some times when the RECORDER has been ON and also in STANDBY, it looks like there's a possibility they jive to show that we might be pulling film through the RECORDER in - while we're in STANDBY. This is unlikely because it takes a couple of failures that we don't think are really likely at all, but we're going to try to run a little test at 134:50, during that sequence of getting set up with the VHF sounder pass.
134:23:14	CC	It will just involve a couple of switch throwings by you to try to conclusively prove that this is or is not the case. Over.
134:23:14	Evans	Oh, okay. Mighty fine. Sure. When you get to it there, just holler out the switches because I'll be over at the panel at that time.
134:23:14	CC	Okay.
134:26:51	Evans	I kind of hope our telemetry is wrong.
134:29:22	Evans	How'd you like to have the PAN CAMERA POWER, ON, here?
134:29:22	CC	Okay. We're ready.
134:29:35	Evans	Okay. MODE is to STANDBY; PAN CAMERA POWER is coming ON.
134:29:35	Evans	You know, Houston, just west of Condorcet and on the edge of - -
134:29:35	CC	Okay. We need the PAN CAMERA, OFF now, and then go - -
134:31:14	Evans	- - the hills down in there. Oh, okay. PAN CAMERA is OFF.
134:31:14	CC	Roger. Go ahead.
134:31:14	Evans	But you get the same vertical - you get the same vertical streaking that we do on the edge of Serenitatis , off in the Massif units.
134:31:14	CC	Roger.
134:31:14	Evans	Coming up at Picard now. Looking at it - a little bit from a distance, there's a darker albedo that goes about a half a crater in diameter from it. And then, on top of that darker albedo - it only goes out maybe a fourth of a crater diameter - there's a lighter type material - that seems to be covering it up. The lighter type material though only goes in a generally westerly - well, from the south around to the west side and then kind of from the northeast around to the northwest side, and it leaves the dark material draping down in the side of Picard on the east side of Picard.
134:31:14	CC	Roger.
134:31:14	Evans	It looks like it's a - fairly easy to - When you
134:31:14		go around the south to the west side, it has a light material on it. You can pretty well carry a light layer in the top portion of the wall all the way around to that - that part where it stops - where the light part stops. And then you come to a dark layer again - and then - as you continue around from the west to go on around to the north side. It's a little bit in shadow on the east side, so I can't tell for sure whether that light layer's in there or not. But starting on the south side, boing around to the west again, you can see a layer of dark - dark material, although it - there doesn't seem to be a change in the slope - in the slope or the inner wall of the crater.
134:31:14	CC	Okay.
134:31:14	Evans	And then just below - just below the dark layer, again a change in slope a little bit. It maintains that a slope throughout the - all the way down to the crater floor, where you get into the slump blocks. And then in the center of the crater, it looks like a maria-type film with -Yes, I'm about to lose sight of it again, but with something comparable to a central peak: in it. And I'll have to get the rest of that a little bit later on.
134:31:14	CC	Roger.
134:31:14	Evans	You know right west of - I think it's Yerkes or Yerkes or whatever it is - between there and Proclus, there's a real small crater I'm looking at with the binocs. And the reason it stands out is because it's a fresh - fresh crater and yet it's a dark - dark halo all the way around it.
134:31:14	CC	Roger.
134:31:14	Evans	And it's also dark down on the inside of it. I still don't have a feeling for the relative size of things. I'll try to get that one in the next - next pass around through here. But that's what I would call a small, maybe even in the - thousand-meter bracket. Probably somewhere in there.
134:31:14	CC	Roger, Ron.
134:31:14	Evans	Am I suppose to charge battery A here somewhere?
134:31:14	CC	That's affirm when you get a chance. And also, you are due tc turn some switches on panel 230.
134:37:29	Evans	Okay. Let's see, BATTERY VENT VALVE is s+.ill on VENT, and we're not tied together. BA1- RELAY BUS BAT A is OUT. Okay; 32 volts. Go to BAT CHARGER BAT A. About 2-1/2 - 2 - 2-1/4 amps.
134:37:29	CC	Okay.
134:37:29	Evans	And 34 volts on the charge.
134:37:29	CC	Okay.
134:37:29	Evans	This work gets interesting. After that, I got to go to 230, huh?
134:37:29	CC	Right.
134:38:19	Evans	Okay; let's - You want to get that lunar sounder stuff, now? Sounder's STANDBY; RECORDER is ON. RADAR is ON. RECORDER is OFF. MODE vent to VHF.
134:38:19	CC	Okay; sounds good.
134:38:50	Evans	And all the VH - all the VH switch - VHF/AM switches are verified, OFF.
134:38:50	CC	Ron, I got one more update for the Flight Plan, unless something interesting at the window. There is no - no hurry on that update.
134:38:50	Evans	Okay; let me take another look at the landing site, and then I'll get it. Okay?
134:38:50	CC	Okay; fine.
134:39:57	Evans	Okay, the Sun's getting a little bit higher now. And as I look at the landing site and the albejo - differences in the color in there - the color in the Maraldi Gamma is the same as in the landing site itself. And, also, it looks like the type of material that we say is essentially covering the whole area - goes on out to and includes the annulus of Serenitatis.
134:39:57	CC	Roger.
134:39:57	Evans	Let's see. Did I mention that - that it looks like - the flow out of Maraldi has gone on around it and down to, and almost encroaches on the Vitruvius A. But, it's breached out of the side of Maraldi. Gone around that depression and up to the side of Vitruvius A.
134:39:57	CC	Roger, Ron.
134:39:57	Evans	You still get that same bluish - bluish-type tint from the area in the landing site. At station number 2, on the landslide - it's going to be a pretty good - pretty good little depression there. The scarp itself - it looks like they had picked the least-slope portion to go up it. And, that's kind of between Lara - I think Lara's the one, right - the crater just to the west of the scarp.
134:39:57	CC	Roger. I haven't been on all your revs. You ever had any - anything you'd call a visual on the IM?
134:42:36	Evans	No, I really haven't looked that much, Gordo. See, my optics are always pointing up in the air; so I can't use the sextant. The binocs - I'm having a heck of a time holding them still enough to - to concentrate on anything very small.
134:42:36	CC	Roger,
134:42:36	Evans	Oh, when we're coming around the dark annulus , follow it around, by Menelaus and Tacquet, and then - it kind of changes - seems to change colors a little bit when we get up to the Sulpicius Gallus.
134:42:36	CC	Roger.
134:42:36	Evans	I guess the only thing you can say is that - the southern part there, in the Tacquet region, has a more of a bluish tint. And, then to me, this has more of a brownish tint to it when you get to the Sulpicius Gallus region.
134:42:36	CC	Roger.
134:42:36	Evans	Hey, wait a minute. I'm just now passing Menelaus now. So, it changes color right at the - Tacquet and then - at about Tacquet and Menelaus. Sulpicius Gallus is just now coming up.
134:42:36	Evans	You know, I think Sun angle has got a heck of a lot to do with that, because this whole thing -in the Sulpicius Gallus region looks kind of brownish to me.
134:47:35	CC	Okay.
134:47:35	Evans	I'll have to check that when the Sun gets a little bit higher when I'm coming across there again.
134:47:35	CC	Roger.
134:47:35	Evans	Okay, Gordo. I guess I'd better get some work done here. (Laughter)
134:47:35	CC	Okay. I would like you to go through all those switches as shown on the Flight Plan. And, when you finish all of those with SM/AC power OFF, I have a couple more for you.
134:47:35	Evans	Okay. I forgot to turn the lights on in hare. I can't see in the dark.
134:47:35	Evans	Okay, MAPPING CAMERA - is that the right time? Let's see - 49? No, wait just a second on the mapping camera, there. It takes good terminator pictures, too, doesn't it?
134:47:35	CC	Ron, go ahead and turn the mapping camera off. Just a minute or 2 ago, it started acting up. We'll turn it off now and troubleshoot it later.
134:50:38	Evans	Okay. The MAPPING CAMERA is OFF right now. Eight, 30 seconds.
134:50:38	Evans	Okay, MAPPING CAMERA is STANDBY. IMAGE MOTION is OFF.
134:50:38	Evans	Okay, there we go - STANDBY. Now, IMAGE MOTION is OFF. We got a barberpole ... - a gray, okay. Now MAPPING CAMERA to OFF. LASER ALTIMETER to OFF. Okay, you want the RECORDER to ON, huh? All right. IR is going OFF. PAN CAMERA, SELF TEST is going OFF.
134:52:14	CC	Wait until sunset on the next one.
134:52:14	Evans	And, the o - oh, okay. I can really tell sunset because the - that EVA pole that sticks out here by window 5. Looks like it's lit up now the way the Sun's shining on it.
134:52:14	CC	Roger.
134:52:14	Evans	Hey, Gordo. How good is that VOX? Could you hear me chewing?
134:52:14	CC	No, I can't hear you chewing. Hear you talking fine.
134:52:14	Evans	Okay. That's good, then.
134:52:14	Evans	That has to be sunset.
134:52:14	CC	About the right time.
134:56:29	Evans	Okay, V is OFF. Now, I'm gonna close the IR COVER, barberpole, gray; UV COVER, barberpole and gray. Okay, turn the old SM/AC POWER, OFF.
134:56:29	CC	Okay, Ron. Now - now we want LUNAR - LUNAR SOUNDER OPERATE switch to OPERATE.
134:56:29	Evans	Okay. Go to OPERATE -
134:57:15	Evans	Now.
134:57:15	CC	What we're doing this for is to get a readout of the film quantity.
134:57:15	Evans	Gh, I see.
134:57:15	CC	Okay, we got her. You go back to LUNAR SOUNDER OPERATE switch to STANDBY, now.
134:57:15	Evans	Okay, LUNAR SOUNDER is in STANDBY.
134:57:15	CC	Okay, that completes that test. I have a couple more additions to the Flight Plan for - for 136: 35, is the first one.
134:57:15	Evans	Okay, I'm there.
134:57:15	CC	Okay, 136:35, add VERB 48 (11102) (01111).
134:57:15	Evans	Okay at 136: 35, VERB 48, (21102) and (01111).
134:57:15	CC	Okay, that first one is three ones - 02.
134:57:15	Evans	Okay, three ones - 02 and a zero, four ones.
134:57:15	CC	Right. What we're doing here is making a 20-degree roll by keeping P20 going, to allow them to cal the VHF - I guess they had some unexpected noise on the VHF sounder and they want to - slip this in as another check on it. So, the next step is 136:44 and at that time put in VERB 22, NOUN 78 (plus 072.24), then VERB 58 ENTER. Then some words, "When maneuver complete, wait 20 seconds." Then, a VERB 22, NOUN 78 (plus 052.25). That's plus 052.25. And follow that with a VERB 58 ENTER. And, then one more line -you still with me?
134:57:15	Evans	Yes, still with you. Got it.
134:57:15	CC	Okay, at 136:47, write in "VERB 48" and we go back to (lllOl) and zero and four ones.
134:57:15	Evans	Okay. At 44, we - VERB 22, NOUN 78 [sic] - that changes to 72.24 degrees. And VERB 58. Okay, then we - we're going to stay at that attitude for 20 seconds. Then change it back to plus-X forward SIM bay attitude again. And as soon as we get back, we'll change our DAP back to two tenths of a degree per second.
134:57:15	CC	That's right and what this will do is stick the VHF antenna right straight down at nadir for a count.
134:57:15	Evans	Okay.
134:57:15	CC	Hey, at your convenience, we need AUTO and HIGH GAIN.
135:02:34	Evans	You have AUTO.
135:02:34	Evans	Pretty convenient when you're laying in the center couch. (Laughter)
135:02:34	Evans	(Humming)
135:02:34	CC	Ron, I got the morning news, if you're interested and I can watch the clock there for that DATA SYSTEM ON time. Or OFF time, rather.
135:02:34	Evans	Okay, sure. Go ahead.
135:02:34	CC	Okay. - -
135:02:34	Evans	... setting up the camera.
135:02:34	CC	Front pages around the country; they're headlining last night's EVA, as you might expect, with photographs taken from TV monitors showing Ceman and Schmitt doing their tasks. And by the way, their TV camera is spectacularly clear and sharp. It's almost like a regular studio TV. In other news, South Vietnam's President Thieu is - -
135:05:47	Evans	Outstanding.
135:05:47	CC	-- is suggesting that all prisoners of war be released before Christmas. He's also asked that all Vietnamese parties be included in peace negotiations. South Vietnam and the Viet Cong are not directly represented in the secret talks now underway in Paris, Meanwhile, Henry Kissinger met for more than 4 hours, yesterday, with Hanoi representative Lee Due Tho. The two negotiators are expected to meet again this afternoon. The former President Harry Truman is still resting quietly although his condition remains serious, according to his doctors. American poet, Mark Van Doren, died at the age of 78. He was a professor of literature at Columbia and a winner of the 19^0 Pulitzer Prize for his poetry. President Nixon announced, yesterday, that he wants to extend wage price control beyond the scheduled April 30 expiration. He also plans to freeze new hiring, promotions, and pay increases for executives of the Federal Government. I guess that doesn't include us. The Republican National Committee has a - -
135:06:59	Evans	(Laughter) I don't think it does either.
135:06:59	CC	- - a new chairman - George Bush of Houston, who is now ambassador to the United Nations. He will continue his UN post through the present session of the General Assembly. Both national political parties are now headed by Texans. I simply mention to you, Robert Strauss of Dallas became chairman of the Democratic National Committee last Saturday. And, when you see Jack again, you can tell him he has been replaced by the Nimbus 5 weather satellite which is operating in orbit after being launched from Vandenburg very early Monday morning.
135:07:41	Evans	(Laughter) Outstanding.
135:07:41	CC	Joe Namath - I think you might have heard the football score last night - the Oakland Raiders got to Namath and the Jets in a - in the fourth-quarter and beat them 24 to l6. Namath passed for more than 400 yards, but only scored one touchdown. And Houston weather, we've had two kinds of weather since you've left: it's been either cold and rainy, or chilly and rainy. And, it's foggy and drizzly here again today and temperatures are expected to rise to the mid 40's and go down to a low of 32 tonight. There you have it.
135:07:41	Evans	Gee, whiz. I thank you.
135:07:41	CC	Any time. You need to get to the DATA SYSTEM switch. And turn on the sounder at - in about a minute.
135:07:41	Evans	Okay.
135:09:48	Evans	Okay. DATA SYSTEM is OFF, 58, 59 - oops.
135:10:03	Evans	MARK it. Okay, went to OPERATE.
135:10:03	CC	Okay.
135:10:03	Evans	All talkbacks are still gray.
135:10:03	CC	Roger.
135:28:16	CC	America, Houston. About 3 minutes to LOS. Spacecraft looks good and the sounder's filling the Moon with RF energy, just the way it's supposed to. Over.
135:28:16	Evans	Hey, outstanding. Trying to consolidate all of my trash. Man, I didn't realize you had so much junk.
135:28:16	CC	Roger.
136:17:22	CC	Hello, America. Houston. Over.
136:17:28	Evans	Hello, Houston. This is America; loud and clear.
136:17:28	CC	You, too.
136:26:50	Evans	Houston, America. Magazine Lima Lima will be starting with frame 54.
136:26:58	CC	Okay. We copy that, Ron. The sounder still looks good, perking right away. And the mapping camera funny I mentioned earlier - we haven't nailed down exactly what it is. Most likely, we think it's just an instrumentation erroneous indication. And so, we're going to continue with the normal schedule of activities on the mapping camera, except, of course, for the deploy and retraction.
136:27:30	Evans	Uh-huh. Okay. Well, hey, that - let's hope that's what it is then.
136:27:35	CC	Roger.
136:29:22	Evans	I'd like to change that instruct to frame 55 instead of 54. I just took a picture of the crater on the - well, I guess southwest of Crisium.
136:29:37	CC	Okay, Ron - -
136:29:37	Evans	- - ... different. It's got a light-color -light-colored dike or something through the central peak in the bottom of the small crater. The crater's about - oh, 30 to 50 kilometers, I guess, in diameter.
136:29:57	CC	Roger.
136:30:03	Evans	The small crater vest of Condorcet.
136:30:10	CC	Okay.
136:33:28	Evans	You know, the Crater Peirce has got that same dark halo around its crater, and it extends out - again, you can see it real well out to about a half a crater diameter. You don't see any of the light-colored ejecta on top of it though, like you do on Picard.
136:33:49	CC	Okay.
136:40:30	Evans	Boy, that Scarp sure looks like a flow boundary to me.
136:40:37	CC	Roger. On the landing site Scarp?
136:40:41	Evans	Yes. I don't know how you get it to go up the North Massif, but it sure looks like it runs that way - just from the shadows and everything.
136:42:45	Evans	Gordo, does this go all the way out to Bessel? Does it cross the annulus ridge there?
136:42:56	CC	It doesn't go all the way to Bessel. It stops short of Bessel. About halfway across Serenity from the Taurus-Littrow to Bessel.
136:43:08	Evans	Oh, okay. Forgot to look where it stopped.
136:44:13	Evans	Okay. I ended up on frame 92.
136:44:17	CC	Okay. We copy that. Frame 92.
136:44:22	CC	Okay. Ron, HIGH GAIN to AUTO when you get a chance.
136:46:22	Evans	Okay. There's our 20 seconds or so.
136:54:04	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 136:54 GET. We have now shifted over to air-ground 1 for the first wake-up call to the crew of Challenger at the landing site, Taurus-Littrow. We have dropped the Command Service Module circuit air-ground 2. Live and listening on the lunar module circuit at 136:54 this is Apollo Control.
136:55:03	CC	(Music: Ride of the Valkyries)
136:56:39	CC	Good morning, Challenger.
136:56:45	Schmitt	Sounded like Parker has the duty. Both monumental and epic.
136:56:51	CC	Jack, that's supposed to take you back to Cal Tech final's week.
136:57:02	Schmitt	(Humming)
136:57:40	Schmitt	How's everything look, Gordy?
136:57:42	CC	Couldn't look better. How's it look to you?
136:57:51	Schmitt	Well, it's nice to have rested some.
136:57:57	CC	Roger. I'm sure of that.
136:58:13	Schmitt	How do our consumables look today?
136:58:18	CC	They look good, as expected. Right on.
136:59:11	PAO	This is Apollo Control. The wakeup music this morning for Challenger was the "Ride of Valkyries" from Richard Wagoner's Opera Die Walkure. Apparently, Jack Schmitt, when he was at Cal Tech had his roommates sitting bolt upright in bed in the morning by playing this on the stereo system, and this was the appropriate choice of music for waking him up this morning. Thirty minutes from -
136:59:52	Schmitt	Be through in a jiffy.
137:00:35	Schmitt	Stow your sleep restraint up there. I mean, your - hammock. Either way. I'll - I'll just stuff my - I'll stuff all mine in this compartment here, if you'll just get yours in there. Otherwise, we can rearrange it. See how it looks first.
137:01:58	Schmitt	Gordy, you guys held comm pretty well last night, I only remember one - one break.
137:02:05	CC	Roger, Jack.
137:02:40	Schmitt	Take you off biomed for a minute.
137:04:24	Schmitt	We have ...
137:04:31	Schmitt	Well, how about it, Gordy? Are we STAY or NO STAY for EVA-2 prep?
137:04:37	CC	You're STAY. Never any doubt.
137:04:43	Schmitt	Thank you, sir.
137:05:42	Schmitt	Have any medication?
137:05:50	Cernan	My report to ...
137:05:59	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. Status report is excellent. No medication for either one of us. CDR slept 6 hours pretty good; I slept 6 hours intermittent, but generally good.
137:06:17	CC	Okay, Jack.
137:06:22	Schmitt	And we've eaten well, I think. The food's a little bit confused since we had our little - minor explosion in the cabin, but - I think you can just say it's good. We've had a lot to drink, a lot of juices. We ate the frankfurters. We're sharing a lot of the stuff because it's not symmetrically packed. If you want more details, it will take time.
137:07:06	Schmitt	Huh? No.
137:07:13	Schmitt	And, Gordy, we did not eat the corn chowder.
137:07:17	CC	Okay. Roger. You did not eat the corn chowder, but most everything else on the menu. is that right?
137:07:26	Schmitt	Yes, we got just about everything else. We got into - maybe mixed up two meals, but essentially - meal B and C for yesterday were eaten, except for the corn chowder.
137:07:45	CC	Okay, Jack. We copy. We're wondering if you could come up with a quantitative estimate on the water you've each drunk - drunk and also your PRD readings.
137:08:23	Schmitt	Stand by, Gordy. That may be difficult. ... Yes, we'll get the PRD a little bit later when we start suiting up.
137:08:37	CC	Yes; okay. That'll be fine. My mistake.
137:08:43	Cernan	Hey, Gordy, on this water. We saturated ourselves before we went out. I finished my drink bag out in the suit on the surface. Jack finished about better than three-quarters of his. We've had water and tea and then the juice, and we have been drinking water constantly - post-EVA. And to give you a quantity is almost impossible.
137:09:11	CC	Okay; that's fine.
137:09:17	Cernan	If the water is down, it's probably because we've been drinking it. And I'm ready for your lift-off pad data.
137:09:25	CC	Okay. For rev 26, lift-off time is 138:40:15; 27 is 140:38:49; 142:37:22; 144:35:55; 146:34:29; 148:33:03. And the last one, rev 32, is 150:31:37 Go ahead.
137:10:29	Cernan	Okay; rev 26. is that the first one, Gordy?
137:10:34	CC	That's affirm.
137:10:41	Cernan	Okay. Rev 26 is 138:40:15; 140:38:49; 142:37:22; 144:35:55; 146:34:29; 148:33:03; 150:31:37. And what's our present rev?
137:11:09	CC	Okay, I'll have to check that myself. We're on rev 25. He's about three-quarters of the way across the front side. Coming up back side will start 26.
137:11:36	Cernan	Okeydoke.
137:11:36	CC	And, for your information, he's running the VHF SOUNDER, and it's working fine.
137:11:48	Cernan	That's good to hear. By the way, good morning, Gordy.
137:11:52	CC	Good morning, commander.
137:11:57	Cernan	How does America itself look?
137:11:59	CC	Just as good as ever. I added on the consumables. No problem on the spacecraft systems. Only minor funnies in the SIM bay, but even it is almost 100 percent.
137:12:20	Cernan	Okay. And I guess from - I didn't hear your comment, but I guess Challenger is the same way.
137:12:26	CC	That's affirm. That's the way it looks here, anyway.
137:13:16	CC	Challenger, Houston. We've been working while you've been sleeping on a fix for the missing fender. John Young has been over working it out in the suit with the mockup Rover, and we have about probably 5 to 10 minutes worth of words on how do you want to go about that. Whenever you have that much time to listen - it'll be mostly listening on your part - let us know.
137:13:42	Cernan	Okay, Gordy. Will do.
137:14:12	Schmitt	No. Well, I did but ...
137:15:33	Schmitt	Gordy, you've implied that we may be a little behind on water, is that correct?
137:15:47	CC	No. That's - that's not the problem, Jack. I think our concern was more that you - that you were taking enough - enough onboard internally.
137:16:10	Schmitt	Our water.
137:16:11	CC	That's right, that you were drinking enough. That's what we were worried about.
137:16:20	Schmitt	Okay; we'll keep pushing it.
137:17:00	Schmitt	...
137:17:34	Cernan	Oh, a ...
137:18:01	Schmitt	And cold scrambled eggs. ...
137:19:13	Cernan	Gordy, we're going to start to eat here. Why don't you talk to us about that fender?
137:19:19	CC	Okay; let me round up - John Young. He stepped out - for a second. We'll have him here in a minute. Might as well let the resident expert on fenders talk.
137:19:57	CC	Okay; I'll now turn the microphone over to Captain Young.
137:20:04	CC	Hey, Geno. This is John. We spent - -
137:20:10	Cernan	Hello, John. How you doing?
137:20:11	CC	Oh, just fine. You guys are doing a superb job; really beautiful. Hey, we spent some time on this - fender problem and worked out a pretty simple-minded procedure, which involves essentially taking four of those chronopaque pages out of your lunar surface maps, ones which are not going to be used for discussing the site, taping them together with gray tape so that you end up with a piece of paper about 15 inches by 10-1/2 inches, and then using the AOT lamp clamps, preposition them full opened, and taking them out, and taking that piece of paper out, laying it on top of the fender guide rails and - and clamping the edges of it with the AOT lamp clamps. It's simple and straightforward, and the beauty of it is you're only spending about 2 minutes in the clamping operation, and it could save you up to about 12 dusting, I think maybe. What do you think?
137:21:41	Cernan	Yes, John. I - I - I think we ought to try something because you told me, but I - I guess you can't appreciate it until you see it happen yourself. That - that dust without that fender is just almost unacceptable. It - this sounds pretty good. How do you want those things taped together?
137:22:04	CC	You just take four pages and allow - Well, I've got the detailed procedures here, if you're ready to copy. Over.
137:22:15	Cernan	Well, no. I'm not ready to copy yet, but what do you do? Tape the four squares into a bigger square about16 by 20.
137:22:21	CC	Yes. Allow about an inch of overlap, and tape both sides of them.
137:22:27	Cernan	Okay.
137:22:30	CC	And then you get the AOT clamps off the utility lights and open the clamp jaws to max. And you stow the clamps, and you roll up the paper - roll up the - roll up your fender shortwise and put a gray tab over that and stow it in the ETB. You got both the clamps and the paper fender in the ETB. And then when you get out to the Rover, you lay the edge of your fender over the inboard guide rail and clamp it, and then you lay the other edge of the sheet over the outboard rail and clamp it. And the only thing you're - really have to worry about is making sure that the inboard clamp is right over the shock strut so that you don't get any interference with the LRV structure when you turn the wheels.
137:23:37	Cernan	Yes, that's the type of thing I was going to ask about, some of those subtle points. There - there really should be quite aways - Well, I'll look at it - but almost vertical over the hub. Right?
137:23:47	CC	Yes, on the inboard one. On the inboard one. On the outboard one, if you put it a little further back aft on the wheel, it - it allows you to - it allows you to give your paper fender a little more rigidity.
137:24:10	Cernan	And you just say lay them over the guide rails, so the clamps - put the clamps - so the clamps are also over the guide rails. They're not trying in linw that - the makeshift fender in the guide rails itself, huh?
137:24:27	CC	No, it - Just clamp the thing right to the rails. Just allow a little overlap, and clamp that rascal right down. And I know you can tighten those clamps down so good it'll never get loose. I know - I know you can do it if I can do it.
137:24:46	Cernan	Okay, John. I think I know what you're talking about, and I'd sure like to give it a stab. The only hooker is I hope that tape holds the fenders together well enough - -
137:24:59	CC	Yes, they - -
137:24:59	Cernan	- - the pieces together well enough.
137:25:02	CC	Roger. One of the things - when you're taping the - the pages together that you want to be careful of is that you - is that you make sure and get the air bubbles out so when you get in a vacuum, it doesn't open up by itself. And maybe you can put an X across there to - to make sure that you - if you get any separation - that's it's still held together pretty good. We think the tape will work - -
137:25:31	Cernan	Okay.
137:25:34	CC	- - think the tape will work because back about in 13, we were using it just sort of incidentally in the thermal vacuum chamber, and it worked okay there for some reason.
137:25:48	Cernan	It would seem to stick on the surface okay if I could find a dust-free spot when I put that other fender on earlier.
137:25:56	CC	Yes, I agreed.
137:25:59	Cernan	As far as - as far as how much of the new fender to overlap on the present fender, just make it about symmetrical with the other side, and that probably ought to give me plenty of overlap, huh?
137:26:11	CC	Well, if you - are you talking about over the dovetail part of it, or are you talking about off the aft end of the - of the vehicle?
137:26:25	Cernan	I'm talking about - about the present fender that's on there, the aft end of that fender. About how much overlap do you want with this makeshift fender? Just give me an idea. I think I could figure out when I get there, but I'd rather have your feelings before I do.
137:26:43	CC	We think if you get it out about 4 inches past that fender - You understand what this looks like when you get it put on the fender. It just looks like sort of a roll, and you end up with a sort of a straight fender right at the back end of the - of the - of the Rover - a sort of a straight - about half a pipe straight out there. And, if you get it out 4 or 5 inches, that will keep the dust from coming back over the vehicle.
137:27:20	Cernan	Yes, that's the answer I wanted. That would be about 4 or 5 inches grace.
137:27:24	CC	Yes, it's just sort of like a - a horizontal fender, like on a - a old automobile.
137:27:36	Schmitt	I thought I understood what he was talking about. ...
137:27:41	CC	Say again, Geno.
137:27:48	Schmitt	Hey, John. This is Jack. Did you say pipe there a minute ago? P-i-p-e?
137:27:56	CC	Yes, but it doesn't roll up into a circle; it's sort of a - a hemisphere. I mean it's half of one.
137:28:07	Schmitt	Oh, okay, I thought I was reading you until you said pipe, and then you lost me. Okay, I think I understand, too.
137:28:13	CC	You know the problem I have with communications.
137:28:21	Schmitt	Hey, thank you, babe. We'll give it a try. I think we can get something to work.
137:28:27	CC	Okay. And we can watch you on the tube - and make recommendations if - I think you've got the idea of it. And, you know Terry Neil thought of these AOT clamps, and that's a great idea because you can - you can clamp those things - on that - that old dog tail, you can put a force on there, that - those pages - that chronopaque pages will never get loose.
137:28:58	Cernan	Yes, on those other clamps we had, I was thinking about - paper clip type clamps would never hack it.
137:29:06	CC	We tried that - they just don't have - they don't have the push.
137:29:13	Cernan	Sounds good, babe; appreciate it.
137:29:20	CC	Okay. We've got a detailed procedure here if you're - if you want to copy it; just in case.
137:29:34	Cernan	Yes. Stand by 1, though.
137:29:36	CC	Okay.
137:29:42	Cernan	Hey, you know, after thinking and looking at the map last night, and recalling what I saw during landing and where I was planning on putting it down and everything, I still think, to the best of my knowledge, that we are about 1 or 2 o'clock, and I'll increase up to about 200 meters or so west and slightly north of Poppy.
137:30:14	CC	Okay, Geno.
137:30:36	Cernan	... ahead of you ...
137:30:45	Cernan	Hey, Gordie, the thing that fooled me yesterday is this depression out at - out at 9 o'clock here, which I - is greatly undersized for Trident, really isn't Trident, and I said yesterday, I didn't think how we could be that close. Well, we really aren't Trident is way out there, and I'll still hold to my 200 meters at 1 to 2 o'clock of Poppy.
137:31:09	CC	Okay. We're thinking you might have, on the way to the geology stops, driven between a couple of the Trident craters then.
137:31:31	Cernan	Yes, we may have coming back - I think I went all the way around to the east of the last one going out, though.
137:31:40	CC	Okay.
137:31:57	Cernan	If you had asked me at 3 or 4 thousand feet where we were going to land, I could have told you exactly. But, once you decide where it's going to be, then you decide where in that where it's going to be if you forget everything else around you.
137:32:10	CC	Roger.
137:32:47	Cernan	Besides, Gordy, when you land on a boat, all you're worried about is that the boat's there. You let the captain worry about where it is.
137:32:56	CC	Roger.
137:34:03	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 137 hours 34 minutes. America with Ron Evans is behind the Moon. We'll acquire in 40 minutes on the 25th revolution.
137:34:50	Cernan	Gordy, while we're eating, have you got a short synopsis of the news?
137:34:55	CC	Yes. Sure do. Stand by 1. We'd like BIOMED, LEFT, please.
137:35:17	Cernan	I don't have any sensors on, Gordy.
137:35:25	CC	Okay.
137:35:30	Cernan	You have to wait until I start putting my suit on.
137:35:46	CC	Okay. As you might have expected, front pages around the country are headlining last night's EVA with photographs taken from TV monitors shoving you and Jack going about your tasks. And, I might add, that the TV camera is really spectacular. It couldn't have been a clearer or more beautiful picture, both for fidelity and color. In other news, South Vietnam's President Thieu has suggested that all prisoners of war be released before Christmas. He has also asked that all Vietnamese parties be included in peace negotiations. South Vietnam and the Viet Cong are now not directly represented in the secret talks now under way in Paris. Meanwhile, Kissinger met for more than 4 hours yesterday with Hanoi representative Le Duc Tho. The two negotiators are expected to meet again this afternoon. The former President, Harry Truman, is still resting quietly, although his condition remains serious according to his doctors. American poet Mark van Doren died at the age of 78 - He was a professor of literature at Columbia and a winner of the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for his poetry. President Nixon announced yesterday that he wants to extend wage price controls beyond the scheduled April 30 expiration date. He also plans to freeze new hiring, promotions, and pay increases for executives of the Federal Government, which doesn't affect us, I guess. The Republican National Committee has a new chairman.
137:37:30	Cernan	How about me?
137:37:31	CC	George Bush of Houston, who is now Ambassador to the United Nations. He will continue his UN post through the present session of the General Assembly. Both national political parties are now headed by Texans. As you recall, Robert Strauss of Dallas became Chairman of the Democratic National Committee last Saturday. And Jack, I'm sorry to say but you've been replaced. The Nimbus 5 weather satellite is now operating after its launch from Vandenberg early Monday morning.
137:38:08	Schmitt	Can it talk?
137:38:13	CC	Joe Namath tried mightily to lead the Jets to the play-offs, but the Oakland Raiders grounded the Jets in the fourth quarter, 24 to 16. I think you have already heard that score. Namath passed some more than 400 yards, but he was only able - New York only scored one touchdown. And the last item concerns the Houston weather, which has been - there's been two kinds of weather since you all left us: That's cold and light rain and cold and heavy rain, and it's still doing it. Fog and drizzly rain are here now, and we're only supposed to get up to the mid-40s and probably down to 32 tonight. Over.
137:39:08	Schmitt	Holy Smoly. That doesn't sound too good on the weather. I'm going to take a look, right here up the overhead window.
137:39:54	Schmitt	Gordy, you're right. There's a band of clouds that comes right up the coast of Mexico. Looks like it comes ... Old Mexico and then gets very dense as it comes up into the Texas area and southeastern part of the United States with a - with a counterclockwise rotation which gets very dense down over the Atlantic, I believe, off the east coast - southern east coastal states and from about, oh, I'm guessing, maybe the center of Texas straight north, straight east. It looks like the whole country's cloudy.
137:40:36	CC	Roger.
137:40:44	Schmitt	Baja looks nice; west coast of Mexico looks nice.
137:40:48	CC	Roger.
137:40:54	Schmitt	At Taurus Littrow, the weather's great.
137:44:03	Schmitt	Hey, Houston; Challenger.
137:44:06	CC	Go ahead.
137:44:12	Schmitt	Roger, Gordy. How's the ALSEP doing and in that light I hope you people will take as close a look as you can at the signal strength and its variation and see if you get some idea whether, when I go after the neutron flux tomorrow, if I ought to work on that antenna alignment again. I'm still a little bit concerned about it.
137:44:38	CC	Okay, Jack. We'll consider that, although they've been getting good performance out of the central station, as I understand, and a couple of problems with the experiments. One was the LEAM data isn't syncing up like it should. I'll have to get a further, more complete story on that. And we're thinking that's - -
137:45:06	Schmitt	I told you.
137:45:06	CC	- mostly a ground software problem. The other one is the LSG isn't leveling up properly, and we'll cover this further in the pre - the planning briefing for the EVA here, but we're probably going to let you off - I mean have Geno let Jack off at the Rover - I mean at the ALSEP. Let him off the Rover at the ALSEP and take another look at the leveling on the LSG. That'll be at the end of the EVA.
137:45:48	Schmitt	Roger. I may just run out there and let Gene pick me up after we - after I turn - well - while he fixes the fender maybe - We'll work that out, Gordy. I'm joking, but maybe I could go kick the LEAM - that might help it.
137:46:06	CC	Let's make sure we've got all our problems solved down here before you do that.
137:46:14	Schmitt	Okay, hey, Family Mountain, the northeast facing slopes, although lower has boulders and outcrops. I mean, belay the outcrop. It has boulders from local block concentrations. Looks very much like the South Massif does.
137:46:38	CC	Roger
137:47:32	Cernan	... the old sinuses ...
137:48:31	Cernan	I've about had it, I think.
137:48:37	Schmitt	... chocolates?
137:48:40	Cernan	Huh? No, I've had two.
137:48:42	Schmitt	Oh. ...
137:49:47	Cernan	Hey, Gordo, we're still eating, but let me give you a few observations. That outcrop I talked about that was way at the top of the South Massif at the break in slope - at the very top of the break in slope - almost looks - it's hard to tell that it's inplace outcrop up there. It's hard to convince myself that it is. Looks like there's some very large and many, many small fragments of large - like 3 and 4-meter rocks up there and a lot of smaller fragments. I've seen that type of of thing in a number of places over the South Massif. However, I - do see - they also, they all seem to be sitting on top of the South Massif surface, but I do see one other area that it looks like there is a - it is protruding from within some sort of mantle on the South Massif. So conceivably some of that could be a place [?]. An additional impression I got is - is that at least with the monocular, that those fragments - those boulders look much more angular than what we've seen here. And, for the most part, they appear to be - if covered at all - very little by any mantle except the one I just mentioned.
137:51:19	CC	Okay. Copy that.
137:51:24	Schmitt	And, Gordy, through the monocular, they - in contrast to the tan gray of the South Massif, those large blocks up there look blue - very distinctly blue-gray. Not unlike Gene mentioned yesterday, anorthosite - anorthosites look in certain terrestrial environments.
137:51:49	CC	Roger, Jack.
137:51:53	Cernan	And, Gordy, now that I get my - my three-dimensional eyeballs working, I can look up on the scarp - out to 9 and 10 o'clock. It's practically the same color as the South Massif. It just looks to be very undulating. I see no outcrops evidenced from here in the scarp. I think I can just about see where Hole-in-the-Wall is, but it's so subtle that I can't really tell you much about it. And the local terrain, which I think is the southern rim of Camelot, just about blanks out where Hole-in-the-Wall should be - just about covers it up. But what I can see in a small little saddle to our local horizon here in front of us - I can see out there just about - oh, I'd say a 100 meters or so to the south of Hole-in-the-Wall and it just looks like a subtle undulating slope. We can't really tell too much the steepness from here.
137:52:56	CC	Okay, Geno, we're - Stand by 1.
137:53:06	CC	Okay. I had something for you, but we just decided to cancel the call. Although, when you do get out the prep and post card, I have one write in for you so just holler when you're - when it's handy.
137:53:24	Cernan	Okay.
137:54:03	Cernan	We're wrapping up our eating and drinking, here now, Gordy. We'll be ready to go in a minute.
137:54:12	CC	Okay.
137:55:06	PAO	This is Apollo Control, at 137 hours 55 minutes. The crew of Challenger is 1 hour behind their timeline. This is a hold over from EVA 1. We will continue to run this hour behind so unless, we get further behind during the EVA preparations, we would anticipate EVA 2 to begin around 140 hours 10 minutes elapsed time, versus the 139 hours 10 minutes in the flight plan. 140:10 would be a few minutes past 5:00PM Central Time. America is still out of range. We expect acquisition in 18 minutes.
137:57:19	Schmitt	Gordy, Challenger. Could you ask somebody there in the FAO console to - where the hiking kit is - is stowed?
137:57:31	CC	Okay. Will do.
138:00:00	CC	Jack, take a look on the right-hand side stowage compartment there, on the forward lower corner under the LEC kit compartment.
138:00:29	Schmitt	Gordy, you broke - broke up with the changeover or something. Say again.
138:00:58	CC	Okay, Jack. You're right. I got caught right in the middle of a site handover. Look on the right-hand side stowage compartment, the forward lower corner, under the LEC kit compartment.
138:01:15	Schmitt	Fantastic. You picked the one place I'd never look.
138:05:58	Schmitt	Houston, Challenger.
138:06:00	CC	Go ahead.
138:06:04	Schmitt	One quick thought about the gravimeter. And. I'm sure it's been mentioned, but I'll say it. During the CF squared we asked about that bundle of wires that has contact with the gimbal - and when I deployed it, that bundle was - it still had contact with the gimbal and everybody at the CF squared said that was okay. But, you might think about it. I don't know what I could do to help if that is the problem. But that might be causing the problem here that it wouldn't cause on Earth.
138:06:39	CC	Okay, Jack. I'll make sure the experts hear that.
138:06:58	Cernan	Gordie, everthing okay at home today?
138:07:04	CC	Yes, everything is fine here.
138:07:11	Cernan	Well, thank you.
138:07:17	CC	I'm not sure I copy your question precisely. Haven't talked to - to your home today, at all.
138:07:30	Cernan	Okay. Don't - don't worry about it. I just thought you might have heard.
138:09:35	Cernan	Well, if you hear, Gordie, just tell them they're missed.
138:09:40	CC	Okay; I'll sure do that.
138:09:50	Schmitt	Gordie, has anybody heard from Tucson recently?
138:09:55	CC	Check on that, Jack. Just a minute.
138:10:37	Schmitt	And, Gordie, if you have any updates to the EVA-2 checklist, give me a yell.
138:10:47	CC	Okay. The update I do have - I think the EVA checklist changes we'll just call you real-time. But, I do have one for the prep card.
138:11:06	Schmitt	Go ahead.
138:11:07	CC	Okay. On the front side there, middle column, lower half at 138:45 OPS CONNECT, half-way down, it says install PURGE valve in PGA, red to red. Mark that LMP serial number 211; CDR, 208. This is to maximize the OPS operation, should you have to use it.
138:11:43	Schmitt	Okay. Give me the numbers again, please.
138:11:45	CC	LMP, 211; CDR, 208.
138:11:56	Schmitt	I take it those are serial numbers.
138:11:58	CC	That's right, the serial numbers on the purge valve.
138:13:05	CC	Okay, Challenger. This is Houston. Would you like to have a little update on the EVA plans?
138:13:14	Schmitt	Do you want me to take notes?
138:13:17	CC	No, I don't think there are essentially any notes required. I'll make a few real-time callups to you; but, I don't think there's anything you really have to write down.
138:13:29	PAO	Bob Parker is CAPCOM now.
138:13:32	Schmitt	Okay, Bob, I - I realize that things were getting a little hectic yesterday. But, if we end up making any changes where I don't need to get a charge in my hands - that's an awfully good thing to call, because not only does it tire your heart - your hands out holding it, but it means you don't get as many pictures or Rover samples or anything else.
138:13:57	CC	Roger. You guys are just ahead of us there. We were trying to get that up to you. Okay. No, I don't think there is anything here that really needs to be written down. I'll go through with you first, and we can talk about details and writing in, if you want to on any of them. But, I don't think there is anything that really needs to be written in. The EVA - it is going to be essentially nominal, with two minor exceptions. One is the - we've allowed about 5 minutes extra at the LM before leaving for the Rover fender fix; and, John, we'll be talking to you about that in a minute. And the second big change, is that we're also extend - allowing 5 more minutes at the end of the EVA so that we can have extra time for dusting. And I suspect that if the Rover fender fix works and we aren't getting as dirty as we did last night, then we may gain back that 5 minutes. We're also allowed - well, what we've done is we've taken the time here out of some of the tasks at Station 3 and Station 4. And along with the fact that we think you're a little bit farther east than planned - and we're allowing 4 minutes additional driving time. But again, that's all real-time, and. if we're doing well on time, we can reinstitute all those tasks, and get rid of the 5 minutes that we are allowing here, there, or elsewhere. So that's just sort of to keep in your thinking.
138:15:24	CC	There is a possibility that we'll have some additional overhead at each stop, depending on what the Rover battery temperatures are when you get out this morning. If the Rover - if they're high again, then we'll have to probably park at least on some of the stops, if not all - with the up-Sun heading and dusting the battery covers and then opening them to let them cool. But, again, that will depend upon what we find on the Rover batteries when we get out this morning.
138:15:52	CC	The variations that we found on the surface of the South Massif indicating a possibility of layering - I guess you saw those mostly with the monocular - and the observation of boulder tracks and the size of the Massif emphasizes the importance of sampling boulders that can be traced to sources at various elevations of the Massif. And I guess we should say that's hopefully. And we'll just have to see what happens when we get down to Station 2 on that. But, if we see boulders with tracks, I'm sure you guys remember, that they obviously will have a higher priority. Since we didn't get to Emory, and since we didn't really get to the rim of Steno itself, the question of sampling of the actual subfloor is still somewhat ambiguous although there is a large consensus opinion that says that we sampled the subfloor when we sampled that intermediate Gabbro that we sampled yesterday at both the ALSEP and Station 1. The - here is a possible alternative conclusion which says that the subfloor has not been sampled, but that these blocks that we sampled and the surface are both parts of a later flow. And, in that line, we're still looking for specific observations which will help us distinguish between whether or not the dark mantle is a - whether the dark mantle is a separate unit from the intermediate gabbro that we're seeing or, whether it's the - Stand by.
138:17:35	CC	Okay. Whether or not the dark mantle is an entirely separate unit from the intermediate gabbro you were sampling yesterday or whether it just represents the top of very well churned up layer of a flow that was later than the subfloor - if you see what I'm saying there. All this says is that we're very interested, of course now - -
138:17:54	Cernan	Roger, Bob.
138:17:56	CC	- All this says that, we're very much more interested in Station 5, as you might expect, than we were before. And I guess, for this reason, we'll be trying to keep the timeline a little tighter than usual to guarantee that we've got some time left over at Station 5. And, we're also interested in moving perhaps - in perhaps moving Station 5 from its present location there in the southwest of Camelot over to the southeast or east or some location where we have a feeling that we've got big boulders up on the rim. This would be so we could sample, hopefully, some of the light material and some of the boulders together and get a better confirmation that the materials from deep in the subfloor unit is this intermediate gabbro, as opposed to just material from the upper part of the subfloor. It's just a matter of proving to ourselves whether or not the boulders we sampled yesterday are from deep within the subfloor, or only at the surface of the subfloor; or, perhaps, as I said, the other alternative being that the intermediate gabbro is part of the dark mantle, and we're seeing a churned-up regolith on top of it - sort of being the gaseous upper part of the flow having been broken down rather rapidly into the dark mantle. Okay, stand by a minute.
138:19:15	CC	Okay. To summarize that again, reading - I guess I got ahead of myself here in the little deal they wrote up. At the present time we have two working hypotheses for the dark mantle, the gabbro - and the gabbro relationships to each other. One: the crystalline rocks that we found in the gabbro are an upper unit of the subfloor with their dark mantle cover unrelated to them in time. Key observations that they suggest here, are stratigraphy at Camelot, Station 5, and other steep craters. Especially, perhaps, the trench and sheltered spots which are unguarded - ungardened, as in plowed - for an older regolith underneath the dark mantle, if such a thing could be found. We don't think we found that yesterday. Or, look at the superposition relations between dark mantles and boulders or, the mantles - instances of the mantle on the boulders or, inversely, of small boulders on the mantle.
138:20:07	CC	The second working hypothesis is that - is that the dark mantle is regolith derived from a vitreous, vesicular, flow tops of the crystalline rock flow beneath. And, it again goes to say that perhaps the re - gabbro that we sampled yesterday was indeed the late flow; and what the regolith was, was derived from the vitreous, vesicular flow tops as it were. Again, many of the same observations are called for. In particular, they'd be interested then in looking at the coarser fines as they define as from a millimeter to 20 millimeters, for some sort of transitional lithologies and textures. In other words, what do the small walnut-size rocks look like, if you can in hand specimens? If I can get more specific in terms of EVA mechanics, let me say that we'll call out in real-time the deletion of the tasks at Stations 3 and 4, if they become necessary. And what we're planning on doing is, deleting the trench in the base of the scarp at Station 3, and also, deleting the radial sample of the - on Shorty at Station 4. That's provisionally what we're planning on. And depending on how the time is going, we'll call that out real-time. We also have - The experiments remain pretty much the same: We'll deploy the charges at the same locations as we're planning in the checklist at the present time. We also don't - for your planning further ahead, we don't anticipate any significant changes in EVA-3. The charge number 5, which we were going to deploy at Emory, will not - but didn't, will not be deployed during EVA-2, but we'll deploy it on EVA-3 out at Station 10. And, what we're going to do there, is when you take the 8-pounder and put it between the seats, we'll then have the 3-pounder left over, and we'd like to put that on one of the footpads in the Sun - that's probably either the minus-Z or minus-Y footpad. And, we'll leave it there in the Sun until the start of EVA-3, in which case we'll put in the Rover underneath the LMP's seat. And, thermally, that looks okay. There is a probability that we're going to play the "return to the ALSEP" game, and we're going to do this for a couple of reasons. One, we're going to go back and look at getting some more ALSEP photos. I guess Gordy says you've got that. And, that will probably be at the end of EVA - in fact, it will certainly be, if it happens, at the end of EVA-3 when you go back to get the neutron flux probe. I might also say with regard to EVA-3 that, obviously, we're more interested in Station 10 than we were before. Another "return to the ALSEP" goodie that we're looking at - if we have the consumables today when you get back from finishing Station 5 - is that the Lunar Surface Gravimeter has been unable to level itself over the night, and they sent, you know, some thousand commands trying to get it straightened out, and they say it looks as though it's not level. And, so, we'd like Jack to go back with his practiced hand-on-bubble levels and recheck that at the end of - after Station 5 today, if there's sufficient consumables. And, we've planned for Gene to just let Jack off and let him walk back to the LM, after he gets off and looks at that. And, that's about everything we have. As I say, in summary, that the big changes are going to be extra time at the beginning, taking care of the fender extension, and the probability of extra time at the end. Although we'll have to see how well the fender works and how things go. The probability of extra time at the end to allow for dusting and the time spent on those particular activities we'll probably end up taken out of the tasks at Station 3 and Station 4. Over. Comments?
138:24:10	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. We copy all that. Obviously, you're going to have to catch us in real-time on some of the details there - on the charges and the task deletion. One question, did you say we were going to delete the trench at Station 3?
138:24:28	CC	Roger. The trench at the base of the Scarp, in other words, some of the stuff that you would be doing while Gene was taking the double core.
138:24:38	Schmitt	What do you gain by that?
138:24:41	CC	Well. No comment on that, Jack.
138:24:50	Schmitt	If you haven't deleted Gene's tasks, then what am I supposed to do?
138:24:55	CC	You're supposed to help Gene, I guess.
138:25:00	Schmitt	Well, but that's not the way we worked it, Bob. Let's play that one in real-time.
138:25:04	CC	Roger. That's why I said there's no point in marking up the checklist on that, Jack. Let me hit you with one more thing concerning the battery temps. An initial reaction down here is that the battery temps were high on deployment because of particularly unfavorable heat soaking on the way out. And the Marshall people are hopeful that they'll be back to normal this morning. However, we're obviously anxious, as I'm sure you are, to get an early reading on the battery temps - that's number 1. And number 2, just for the off chance that the meter's not working, I think we've pretty much discount that, because of the way the meter worked yesterday. But, on the off chance that the meter's not working, you might just lean over and see if the meter is reading zero before you punch in the circuit breakers, because that would give us at least a partial confirmation in that direction, that there's not something wrong with the offset. If they're reading - sitting there reading 30 to 40 degrees, then that probably says something about the offset. And, beyond that - -
138:26:00	Schmitt	Ya, that's ...
138:26:02	CC	Go ahead.
138:26:07	Cernan	I'll look at that, Bob, what the meter has indicated in terms of a temperature change. I'll look and see if there's a bias on them at all.
138:26:13	CC	Roger. We - we again also think that that's probably not too likely.
138:26:26	Schmitt	Bob, I think, based on what I saw yesterday, that the chances are pretty good that all the big blocks out here in the dark mantle area will be pretty much the gabbros. By the way, I looked at that with a hand lens last night, and I don't know that you got the report, and I'm back to saying that it's probably closer to 30 - 40 percent plagioclase. It's very - it's a good gabbro, a final pyroxene gabbro, and it apparently has a fair amount of ilmenite in it. There's some bright shiny flakes within the vugs and some dark minerals in the matrix that are probably ilmenite. And one other additional possibility then, is that the mantling we're seeing here, is the - is just dark fine glass - darker than usual, because of the iron and the titanium in the rock itself. Also, the probability, I think, still has to be considered, that you're dealing with a true mantle that has been gardened enough that at least where we're seeing it now, in the first few tenths of a centimeter that it is unrecognizable as a mantling unit yet. The relationship to the large boulders is, I think, one right now, of just filleting and a small amount of covering because of the local gardening process. We haven't seen any clearly mantling relationships between the dark mantle or the surface materials here and the large boulders.
138:28:18	CC	Okay. Copy that. And, we'll be anxious to see what else you find out today. And one last word for your interest; the Marshall people have decided to allow us to go to 140 degrees on this EVA with the batteries, if necessary.
138:28:36	Cernan	Okay.
138:28:37	CC	Okay, now. John would like to talk to you about the fender fix.
138:28:44	Schmitt	Okay. Hold on for 30 seconds.
138:29:23	Cernan	Hey, while John's talking to me, why don't you check my biopad out. We're going left.
138:29:29	CC	Okay, fine. We'll take a check, Geno. Let me ask you one question here on the - on Jack's water - on his PLSS water cell. We're showing about 3 pounds too much water in the LM system, and we're wondering if you got the AUX tanks filled up in Jack's PLSS. Two questions. Did you - were you sure to have the AUX valve open and did you see good clear water in the sight gage with no bubbles after the fill? Over.
138:30:10	Schmitt	I guess we'd have to say yes to those questions, but if you've got a question on it we can go through it again. I'd rather do that than take a chance.
138:30:19	CC	Let me make sure we want to do that. While we're making sure, I checked with both homefronts and Nassau Bay and Tucson are both in good shape. Geno, Tracy upstaged you for about 30 minutes last night on local TV during her own interview there and drew everybody away from watching EVA during that time. She did very well.
138:30:47	Cernan	Yes, that sort of - that sort of figures. Key, Gordo, why do you say Jack's PLSS? Did you see the water drop in the LM when we charged mine?
138:30:58	CC	It was the profile of the water quantity as you were filling both PLSS's, and it was the fill - during Jack's fill that looked suspicious like just maybe 3 pounds less than there should have been flow when you were filling Jack's.
138:31:19	Cernan	Yes, well, you know there - it's all - it's only ... to know whether or not you've got it filled. I sure don't want to go out there and have him just have some partial water. So let's do the conservative thing.
138:31:31	CC	Okay. I'll - I'll verify that. There was some drinking water going - going out at that time, too, which muddles up the data a little bit, so we're not absolutely certain on that.
138:31:46	Schmitt	Okay. We weren't drinking water while we were filling the PLSS, however.
138:31:52	Cernan	Okay. You come up with what you think best on that, and I going to copy John.
138:31:57	CC	Okay, Geno, I don't think you need to copy this. Sort of just - ad-lib it. With your four chronopaque maps, tape two maps and allow about a 1-inch overlap to a 15-inch by 10-1/2-inch configuration. That's an estimate. And then repeat with two other maps, and then tape both the two maps - now four maps - tape them together, and you'll end up with a sheet that's about 15 inches by 19 inches, a sheet of chronopaque. And then tape both sides of it - the overlapping edges to strengthen it. And you can further strengthen it, if you tape an "X" of tape across both sides of it. And then, on the roll up, on the long axis, and secure it with a strip of tape and put it in the ETB. And on that strip of tape you secure it with - be sure and leave a tab on the end of it so you can get it off with your gloves. And then remove clamps from both the utility light units, and open the clamp jaws to max. And then tighten the mounting bracket that you've got on it so it won't be swinging around; and stow the clamps in the ETB, You got that, Gene?
138:33:38	Cernan	Yes, sir.
138:33:40	CC	Okay. And then - now you've got everything you need. And it's all put together and all ready to - to be fastened to the - to the Rover. And then when you get the ETB in the seat, you unroll the chronopaque sheet and you locate the front edge with the long axis fore and aft, even with - even with the axle. And you lay the edge of the sheet over the inboard guide rail and you clamp it. And you lay the other edge of the sheet over the outboard guide rail and clamp it. And, as I said, the inboard clamp must be directly over the axle to avoid interference while steering. And tighten the clamps securely, both of them. And then while you're driving around out there by yourself, it would be good if Jack could take a look at it and see if you're getting any unusual dynamics. And at Station 2, you should inspect the fender for any unusual wear that might have been caused by this mass out there on the fender, of those clamps bouncing up and down. One thing about it, doing it in a suit, Gene, you have to push in with your leg and hold - and it's sort of a two-handed job. And I'm not sure in 1/6 g if you can position the fender, the pseudofender, on there without Jack, say, holding on to the long end behind the Rover so that won't - won't fall off. It works okay in one g for one man. But I'm not sure it's not a 2-g proposition - a two-man proposition in 1/6. Over.
138:35:29	Cernan	Okay. We'll take a look at it, babe.
138:35:31	CC	Okay, and you really have to bear down to get those - -
138:35:34	Cernan	I just - -
138:35:35	CC	- - things on a dovetail there.
138:35:39	Cernan	I just want to make sure of the geometry now. We want to put the - take two of those pages and put the 10-inch sides together overlapping, right?
138:35:52	CC	Yes, sir.
138:35:56	Cernan	Then take two more and put the 10-inch sides together overlapping, right?
138:35:59	CC	That's true.
138:36:03	Cernan	And then take those two pieces you've got now and put them end to end, so you've got the long - a long fender. Sounds right to me. Sound right to you?
138:36:16	CC	Well, you end up with - you end up with four - you end up with all four pieces in a big rectangle. See what I'm - you see what I'm saying, you've got a 15-inch by 19-inch sheet of paper.
138:36:39	Cernan	Yes, we got it - we got it, John. And I copy the overlap and everything. If you had no overlap, I guess you'd have about 16 by 20.
138:36:47	CC	That's correct. But you need to overlap, and taping both sides of it gives it more strength, which you need in that situation. You just want to make sure it's not more than an inch, or you won't have enough to cover up those dovetails.
138:37:13	Cernan	Okay, babe, we're going to work on it right now.
138:37:25	CC	Jack and Gene, this is Gordo again. On the PLSS charge, we're recommending you hook up Jack's according to the decal. Go right ahead and - stand by 1. Okay. Go by the decal and do the full 5-minute fill on Jack's PLSS. It'll take that long to get the AUX tanks filled up, if it was indeed empty. And maybe that's something you can start and then work on the - the paper taping. Over.
138:38:07	Cernan	Okay.
138:40:30	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. I started - I'm on step 4 on the decal - step 5 on the decal.
138:40:37	CC	Okay, Jack. John Covington advises that the sight gage is not a certain indicator that you're filled, and so we're just going to go by time to be sure, and kind of disregard the sight gage readings as a positive indication anyway.
138:41:00	Schmitt	Okay, understand that from the past, and we went exactly by time before. We'll try it again here.
138:41:06	CC	Okay.
138:45:40	Cernan	Okay, Gordy. is that about 5 minutes?
138:45:46	CC	Stand by. See if anybody timed you here. That's affirm; 5 minutes now.
138:46:40	Schmitt	Okay. Step 7 is complete.
138:46:46	CC	Okay. And we did not see any water flow to speak of, so it probably was full.
138:46:59	Schmitt	Yes, the condensate indications here were that it was full.
138:47:04	CC	Okay that's - better to be sure.
138:47:12	Schmitt	No question.
138:49:38	CC	Geno, this is Houston - we want to be sure to have one look at your BIOMED before you get into the suit in case something is wrong with it. And if you go right by the checklist, we'll miss that look. So when you get to a convenient point, if you can go to LEFT and have us take a look at it, we'd appreciate it.
138:50:01	Cernan	Gordy, apparently you - Okay. Stand by. I called it out. I didn't give it to you. Stand by one.
138:50:27	Cernan	Okay. Now it's yours.
138:50:29	CC	Okay.
138:50:45	CC	Okay. That looks good, Geno. You can press on with the suiting operation, there.
138:50:53	Cernan	Okay.
138:51:06	Cernan	Call me the little old fender maker.
138:51:11	CC	Roger.
138:52:00	Cernan	S-BAND VOICE going to VOICE.
138:52:04	CC	Roger.
138:58:47	CC	Jack, Houston. With respect to the PLSS water fill, last thing we heard you say was doing step 7. We just want to verify that you did go ahead and do step 8, which is connect the waste management system to the PLSS AUX vent for 10 seconds. Over.
138:59:04	Schmitt	Yes, that was all done, Gordy. We just got sidetracked, and I didn't call you.
138:59:08	CC	Okay, Thank you.
138:59:57	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 138 hours 59 minutes. America is in it's 26th revolution over the Ocean of Storms now. All going well with Ron Evans. The lunar sounder experiment being performed and Ron taking a lot of pictures.
139:02:48	PAO	This is Apollo Control. Bob Overmeyer is the America CAPCOM. Stu Roosa is sitting there with him. Bob Parker will be the Challenger CAPCOM for the EVA. Gordon Fullerton has stayed over a little from his shift, getting ready to leave now. John Young is at the CAPCOM console also. Chuck Lewis is the Flight Director for America. Pete Frank the Flight Director for Challenger.
139:20:08	Cernan	Okay, Gordy, Jack's coming up and I'm going off the air.
139:20:16	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. LMP is suited, and - stand by. 24128. PRD is 24128.
139:20:44	Schmitt	Hello, Houston. Did you copy the LMP?
139:20:50	CC	Roger. Copy. 24128.
139:20:58	CC	How come you guys aren't not flight direct like I am?
139:21:22	Cernan	And, Bob, 17040 is Commander.
139:21:26	CC	Say that again please, Geno.
139:21:32	Cernan	The last two digits are 40.
139:21:36	CC	Copy that.
139:21:40	Cernan	17040 --
139:21:40	CC	Thank you. Thank you.
139:21:50	PAO	This is Apollo Control. We estimate that Challenger's crew is about 1 hour and 20 minutes behind the Flight Plan timeline.
139:25:42	PAO	This is Apollo Control. Brigadier General Tom Stafford and Colonel Charlie Duke have joined a half dozen or so other astronauts at the CAPCOM console.
139:29:01	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 139 hours 29 minutes. We've had loss of signal on America. As the spacecraft has gone behind the Moon on it's 26th revolution.
139:30:56	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 139 hours 30 minutes. America's orbit now 69.8 by 53.4 nautical miles. We'll reacquire America in 42 minutes.
139:31:40	Schmitt	Bob, how do you read the BIOMED on the LMP?
139:31:43	CC	Stand by, Jack. It looks beautiful, Jack. I think that means loud and clear.
139:32:01	CC	And, Challenger, have you changed your ECS LiOH can?
139:32:20	Schmitt	Bob, we did not. I guess we missed that in the checklist.
139:32:24	CC	Okay. That's sort of towards the end of 3-9.
139:32:59	Schmitt	Bob, I guess we're not quite there yet.
139:33:05	CC	Okay . Copy that.
139:39:16	Cernan	Okay, Bob. The canister's changed.
139:39:18	CC	Roger. We saw that. Thank you.
139:40:25	Schmitt	Okay. BIOMED's LEFT.
139:40:28	CC	Okay. Copy that.
139:40:30	Cernan	Bob, how do you read me?
139:40:32	CC	Loud and clear, Geno.
139:40:36	Cernan	Okay.
139:40:36	Schmitt	Bat - battery management going.
139:40:39	CC	Roger.
139:40:45	Schmitt	37.2, both batteries.
139:40:48	CC	Okay, Jack. Just like always.
139:40:52	Schmitt	P - PCM is HIGH.
139:41:04	Cernan	Is he ready for the batteries?
139:41:07	CC	Stand by. We're still picking up - trying to acquire the HIGH BIT RATE.
139:41:41	CC	Okay. And, Geno, we have good data from you on the Surgeon. And we have HIGH BIT RATE.
139:41:51	Cernan	Well, that's good to hear. I got good data up here.
139:42:17	CC	Yes, we're GO to do the battery management now, Jack. Pick up the HIGH BIT RATE.
139:42:27	Schmitt	Roger.
139:42:33	CC	And a thought for the day. We're not sure if there is going to be any need for the scissors outside today. And if you guys wanted to keep from picking them up off the ground and worrying about them, you might just leave them inside if you haven't packed them already.
139:42:47	Cernan	Bob, you never know. We're going to take them out with us. So just make a note that we bring them back in, would you?
139:42:52	CC	Okay. I'll make a little note again.
139:42:57	Schmitt	Okay. Battery's complete, and your cue on the LOW BIT RATE.
139:43:04	CC	Okay. You can go LOW BIT RATE again. We've looked to us too.
139:44:50	Schmitt	LMP is 6 - 6l00 on the OPS.
139:44:58	CC	Copy that, Jack.
139:45:03	Cernan	And about 5850 on CDR.
139:45:06	CC	Okay. Copy that, Geno.
139:45:13	CC	And you guys got the word about which purge valves to use?
139:45:22	Schmitt	That's affirm.
139:45:47	Cernan	CDR's OPS is GO.
139:45:50	Schmitt	LMP - LMP is GO.
139:45:52	CC	Okay. Copy that. Good.
139:52:44	Schmitt	Okay. Bob, the forward hatch is unlocked.
139:52:48	CC	Okay. Copy that.
139:57:52	Schmitt	Bob, the LMP has his OPS on. And, would you believe the PLSS?
139:58:00	CC	Say again there, Jack.
139:58:06	Schmitt	The LMP's PLSS is on.
139:58:09	CC	Okay. Good enough. And I bet the CDR is doing his now.
139:58:17	Schmitt	You're right.
140:04:26	PAO	Tbis is Apollo Control at 140 hours 4 minutes.
140:04:29	Cernan	Okay, Bob. We're in the top of the right-hand column.
140:04:32	CC	Okay. Copy that.
140:04:35	PAO	We're now estimating EVA start at 140 hours 40 minutes. 140 hours, 40 minutes. About 5:33PM Central.
140:06:26	Cernan	MAX. Okay. I'm in VOX. Okay. Going to T/R. B is RECEIVE. A, T/R; B, RECEIVE. Bob, how do you read commander on VOX?
140:06:40	CC	Loud and clear, Geno.
140:06:45	Cernan	Okay, Jack, Won't be able to hear you.
140:06:50	Schmitt	And l6, SE AUDIO, OPEN. Okay. Connect your PLSS comm. And when you get done with that, we'll go right into the comm.
140:07:06	Cernan	Yes, zap me.
140:07:42	Cernan	Okay. You audio closed? Okay. Your PLSS PTT to main, right, verify? PLSS mode A?
140:07:51	Schmitt	A.
140:07:52	Cernan	Okay. You'll get a tone, a vent flag, a press flag, and an O2 flag.
140:07:56	Schmitt	Press flag, tone, vent flag.
140:07:58	Cernan	Okay. Give Houston a call, and give them your - your oxygen reading.
140:08:05	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. This is the LMP with 93 percent, 93 perc -
140:08:11	CC	Okay, Jack. We read you loud and garbled just like last night when the antenna was stowed.
140:08:18	Schmitt	Okay. And 93 percent.
140:08:21	CC	Copy the 93 percent.
140:08:24	Cernan	Okay, Houston. You got 93? Okay. He got that, Jack. Okay. We'll leave the antenna in. Okay. On mine, I'm going to OPEN my AUDIO, and connect to the comm, Jack.
140:08:35	Schmitt	Okay.
140:09:28	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. ... on ECS. Cabin pressure may be high. I picked out a little pumping in the ECS system - in the hoses.
140:09:51	CC	Roger. Stand by on that.
140:09:54	CC	Okay, Challenger. We're seeing it at the WATER SEPARATOR.
140:10:01	Cernan	Yes, we can see that.
140:10:02	CC	You can pull the WATER SEPARATOR circuit breaker - -
140:10:04	Cernan	You don't have a bleed on yours. Hit your - hit your disconnect.
140:10:10	Schmitt	Okay.
140:10:13	Cernan	Okay. That's better.
140:10:14	Schmitt	That should do her. I think we've fixed it. I had the hoses in my storage box.
140:10:24	CC	Okay. Copy that.
140:10:27	Schmitt	What was the press ...?
140:10:29	Cernan	Let me give them. Houston, CDR is reading - 90 - 91 percent.
140:10:38	CC	Okay. Copy 91.
140:10:46	Cernan	Did they get that, Jack?
140:10:47	Schmitt	Yes, they got it.
140:10:48	Cernan	Okay. LMP comm check - okay. You did them?
140:10:53	Schmitt	Yes... - -
140:10:53	Cernan	Okay. You go B, and I'll go A.
140:10:55	Schmitt	Okay. Going B, Houston. LMP on B.
140:11:01	Cernan	Okay. And the CDR is B. I - I'm reading loud and clear. Houston, how do you read CDR?
140:11:06	CC	I read you loud and clear.
140:11:10	Cernan	Okay, Let's go to AR, Jack. You'll get a tone.
140:11:12	Schmitt	Okay. You're loud and clear. AR.
140:11:17	Cernan	Okay.
140:11:18	Schmitt	I'm AR. How do you read?
140:11:19	Cernan	And I - you're loud and clear. How me?
140:11:20	Schmitt	And so are you.
140:11:21	Cernan	Got my tones.
140:11:22	Schmitt	Yes, and I got mine, too.
140:11:25	Cernan	You got an O flag and a vent flag, press flag and a - -
140:11:27	Schmitt	That's affirm.
140:11:29	Cernan	Okay. Houston, how do you read CDR?
140:11:31	CC	Loud and clear, CDR.
140:11:36	Schmitt	And how do you read the LMP?
140:11:38	CC	Loud and clear.
140:11:41	CC	Okay. And we have - -
140:11:41	Cernan	Okay, Jack, VHF B - -
140:11:42	CC	- - good PLSS data for both of you.
140:11:44	Cernan	- - full decrease.
140:11:45	Schmitt	SQUELCH?
140:11:46	Cernan	Full decrease.
140:11:48	Schmitt	Yes, that's SQUELCH. VHF B SQUELCH.
140:11:51	Cernan	Okay. On l6, ECS LGC [sic] PUMP, closed. Why don't you close it again.
140:11:55	Schmitt	Okay, it's closed.
140:11:56	Cernan	Okay. On l6, CABIN REPRESS, closed.
140:11:59	Schmitt	Repress - is closed. Hit this, too.
140:12:04	Cernan	Huh? Okay.
140:12:12	Cernan	Okay. CABIN REPRESS, closed. SUIT FAN DELTA-P, OPEN?
140:12:16	Schmitt	Delta-P is OPEN.
140:12:19	Cernan	SUIT FAN 2, OPEN?
140:12:20	Schmitt	2 is OPEN.
140:12:21	Cernan	Verify ECS CAUTION and O2 - and WATER SEP lights come on in about a minute. Okay. We'll watch for it.
140:12:24	Schmitt	Okay.
140:12:26	Cernan	SUIT GAS DIVERTER, PULL, EGRESS. These are verify.
140:12:29	Schmitt	Okay. That's EGRESS.
140:12:30	Cernan	CABIN GAS RETURN, EGRESS?
140:12:32	Schmitt	Okay. EGRESS, yes.
140:12:34	Cernan	SUIT CIRCUIT RELIEF, AUTO.
140:12:36	Schmitt	AUTO.
140:12:36	Cernan	Okay. You're OPS connect. SUIT isOL ACTUATE OVERRIDE, SUIT DISCONNECT. Disconnect your hoses. Secure about PGA. They're stowed.
140:12:43	Schmitt	That's done.
140:12:44	Cernan	Connect your OPS hose PGA blue blue.
140:12:47	Schmitt	OBS [sic] going to PGA, and I'll turn around and let you.
140:12:51	Cernan	Okay. Make sure I get that, because it's under that connector.
140:12:57	Schmitt	Okay. And you ought to get - let's see, where are we here?
140:13:00	Cernan	Right here.
140:13:03	Schmitt	Oh, here it is, now. MASTER ALARM and ECS light; WATER SEP light.
140:13:18	Cernan	Okay. It is locked, ... is on.
140:13:23	Schmitt	Okay.
140:13:24	Cernan	Now, you want 211, right?
140:13:27	Schmitt	Roger. 211.
140:13:28	Cernan	Okay. Bob, LMP is getting purge 211.
140:13:33	Schmitt	And out to the side - there you go.
140:13:35	CC	Okay. We copy that. Thank you.
140:13:43	Cernan	Here, I'll lock it. Okay. And you are LOW and you are in and you are locked.
140:13:49	Cernan	Okay. Purge valve is in. And you're vertical.
140:13:52	Schmitt	Okay. You get to do the same. Okay, get my hose?
140:13:58	Cernan	Water hose.
140:13:59	Schmitt	Come around behind my shoulder.
140:14:02	Cernan	It won't fit in there.
140:14:11	Cernan	Okay, it's in there and it's locked, vented, and the dust cover is on.
140:14:19	Schmitt	Okay.
140:14:21	Cernan	And now, we get to put your PURGE, in 208.
140:14:24	Schmitt	Make sure it's in LOW.
140:14:26	Cernan	It is, and LOW, and the pin is in. Okay. And you'd like it where? Down a little bit?
140:14:34	Schmitt	No. Same place just - no, let me show you.
140:14:43	Cernan	Right there?
140:14:44	Schmitt	Yes.
140:14:46	Cernan	Okay, there. And verify it's still in LOW and locked.
140:14:57	Schmitt	Okay.
140:14:57	Cernan	Okay. That's good.
140:14:58	Schmitt	Let's get another zap of water here.
140:15:23	Cernan	If I have any more water I'll float out there.
140:15:25	Cernan	(Laughter)
140:15:26	Cernan	Good Navy man.
140:15:29	Schmitt	Be a good place to fill with water, you'd make a nice rec site out of this valley. You could put some cabins up on the side of the massif. Nice flat bottom, no trees. Both mags up. The fishing ought to be pretty good if you stocked it.
140:15:50	Cernan	Have a bear island and a family island.
140:15:52	Schmitt	(Laughter)
140:15:55	Schmitt	We're going to fill up the other end though, so it doesn't drain out.
140:16:00	Cernan	Looks funny like that.
140:16:01	Schmitt	Lock it and turn your DESCENT WATER OFF.
140:16:13	Cernan	Snaps, snaps, snaps, snaps; the whole world is held together with snaps!
140:16:19	Schmitt	Okay, I've got my hand lube. You can position your mikes.
140:16:22	Cernan	Water is going off.
140:16:23	Schmitt	Okay.
140:16:26	Schmitt	Fasten your mikes now, before we turn the fans on you'd better -
140:16:30	Schmitt	Well let's just look ahead; we've got helmets ready to go - big bag position you happy with.
140:16:35	Cernan	Yes, more or less a little far out, but I think -
140:16:38	Schmitt	Make sure you've got the plug out.
140:16:41	Cernan	Okay. Plug is out. My end's red now, but that's all you can get it out.
140:16:47	Cernan	Feel a little pressure in there. You might let out.
140:16:52	Schmitt	Okay. And then we'll lower our protective visor and secure tool harness and self doff straps.
140:16:59	Cernan	Okay, and that's ...
140:17:00	Schmitt	That's already stowed. Okay. Let's start with you first. You can turn your - let me get your ... then you can get it over your head and turn your O2 - your fan on rather.
140:17:10	Cernan	Okay.
140:17:18	Schmitt	Okay, you ready?
140:17:24	Cernan	Okay, check all that -
140:17:26	Schmitt	Wait what is this right here? Okay, now let me make sure it's in front of everything.
140:17:36	Cernan	Okay.
140:17:39	Schmitt	The alignment is way over here.
140:17:40	Schmitt	Let me -
140:17:41	Cernan	That's good. Okay. That's aligned right there.
140:17:45	Schmitt	Oh, boy.
140:17:48	Cernan	That will never do. With that down in there. Okay. You're still clear. Starting.
140:18:06	Cernan	Manischewitz.
140:18:15	Schmitt	I think it's caught on the food stick. I think you ought to open it up.
140:18:19	Cernan	I think you're right.
140:18:21	Cernan	Okay. Get it all the way off.
140:18:24	Schmitt	Okay. Now let's try it. Looks like it's going to be much better. Getting it back.
140:18:40	Schmitt	Just want to make sure that thing is on.
140:18:44	Schmitt	No, not happy yet. Not happy yet.
140:19:00	Schmitt	Guess what now. I tell you, I got my fingers on it all the way around.
140:19:12	Cernan	Okay. Okay. It's locked. It's aligned. Better put your fan on here pretty quick.
140:19:20	Cernan	Okay. Fan's on.
140:19:22	Cernan	Okay, let me get you dressed up back here. If that center doesn't work, you're going to keep this thing -
140:19:29	Schmitt	And I'm vertical.
140:19:33	Cernan	You are vertical alright. Okay. You're covered down there. You are locked. Okay - whoo! Okay?
140:19:52	Schmitt	This is my turn.
140:20:01	Cernan	Let's verify all these things.
140:20:04	Schmitt	Okay. Go ahead.
140:20:05	Cernan	Okay. Got your comm. That's you OPS, that's your inlet, that's your oxygen or your exhaust and your purge valve.
140:20:18	Schmitt	Okay.
140:20:19	Cernan	And your water.
140:20:19	Schmitt	Okay, let me take a look at all yours. Okay. That's locked - locked, that's locked, you're vertical. That's locked. That's locked. That's locked. Okay. Get my helmet on. The main thing is to get this stuff back over here.
140:20:49	Cernan	Yes.
140:20:50	Cernan	Way out.
140:21:04	Schmitt	Okay. Can you grab your food stick, cause that - that hung up on mine.
140:21:13	Cernan	Okay.
140:21:28	Cernan	Got it. You're locked.
140:21:31	Schmitt	Feels good in the back?
140:21:32	Cernan	Yes. And it's locked.
140:21:42	Schmitt	It's hard to see with that visor on there.
140:21:48	Cernan	Okay. That's latched down. You're locked again.
140:21:54	Cernan	And, she's in the engaged position here, huh?
140:21:56	Schmitt	That's affirm. I'm engaged.
140:22:05	Schmitt	Okay. Verify, verify, verify. Circuit breaker wiped out plus EVA decals.
140:22:16	Cernan	Whoo! Can you give me a little room to turn?
140:22:19	Schmitt	Yep. Go ahead.
140:22:19	Cernan	Okay. White, white. Leave the pump on for a minute. You want.
140:22:34	Schmitt	Yes.
140:22:39	Cernan	Okay; and EVA decals, all right?
140:22:42	Schmitt	Okay.
140:22:43	Schmitt	You want me over here?
140:22:44	Schmitt	Let me turn the page. Don our EV gloves.
140:22:49	Cernan	Okay. In work.
140:23:03	CC	Geno, we don't see your fan on. If you've got your helmet on, you ought to have your fan on.
140:23:10	Cernan	Thank you, Bob. Good call. The royal MOCR "we". Boy, grease and lunar dust really make a nice mobile graphite material.
140:24:01	Schmitt	Okay. I'm locked on the right, verified. The old gauntlet's coming on. Okay, and I've got my cover on over here. Get yours?
140:24:20	Cernan	Yes, I'm getting one of them anyway.
140:24:22	Schmitt	I can get the other one for you.
140:24:44	Schmitt	Okay. Number 2. Okay, ... many.
140:25:00	Cernan	And it's on, and locked, and locked verified.
140:25:17	Schmitt	I may be learning how on these, finally. Okay. Mine's on and locked. If I can get my black band on here. I think I'm learning how, Geno. Crazy. Like a trained band putter onner. Okay. I feel pretty good. Need some help?
140:25:53	Cernan	No, mine's all on. I can't figure that out. Must be easier in 1/6 g.
140:25:59	Cernan	(Laughter)
140:26:02	Cernan	Get my gauntlet donned. And that's dirt protecting dirt.
140:26:09	Schmitt	Don't throw down a gauntlet, Gene.
140:26:13	Cernan	That's dirt protecting dirt. Okay. It's all on, Jack.
140:26:17	Schmitt	Okay. Where did we leave off?
140:26:19	Cernan	Right up here.
140:26:20	Schmitt	Okay, PGA is not biting, LCG's cold, let's leave it cold.
140:26:24	Cernan	Well, I guess you've got to open it now. We've got to disconnect the water.
140:26:27	Schmitt	You ready?
140:26:29	Cernan	Yes.
140:26:30	Schmitt	Let's do it then. (Laughter)
140:26:35	Schmitt	Okay. It's disconnected.
140:26:36	Cernan	Okay, and did you disconnect your -
140:26:38	Schmitt	Let me come around - okay, let's turn around and let's help each other. Let's get the -
140:26:43	Cernan	It's still 3 degrees. Pitch up 5 degrees.
140:26:47	Schmitt	Pitch up yours - its an awful nuisance, Cernan.
140:26:49	Cernan	Hold that for a minute.
140:26:50	Schmitt	I don't know why you don't learn how to land one of these things.
140:26:54	Cernan	Hold that for a minute - it was a pitching deck. Okay, that is in. Boy, it's in. Locked - took a lot to "in" it, though.
140:27:11	Schmitt	Okay. Dust cover is covering it.
140:27:15	Cernan	Okay. You know those chamber runs we had were probably some of the best training we ever did. I hate to say that, because it was some work. Push that thing on. There you go. Good. Keep trying. It was just a little sluggish. Let me verify it.
140:27:47	Schmitt	Lock?
140:27:51	Cernan	Yes, won't turn.
140:27:52	Cernan	Oh, every time you do that, my stomach gurgles. (Laughter) Okay, let me turn around to stow.
140:28:01	Schmitt	You can stow that? And mine's over here.
140:28:08	Cernan	Okay. Okay. Attach our PLSS water hoses. PLSS diverter valve, MIN. Want to verify that?
140:28:21	PAO	We estimate the crew may be ready for depressurization in approximately 5 minutes.
140:28:28	Schmitt	And, connect PLSS water hose, verify lock, PLSS diverter valve MIN, and PLSS pump. Okay?
140:28:37	Cernan	Wait a minute. I want to make sure this is out of the way when I come in.
140:29:04	Schmitt	Okay. Watch my diverter MIN.
140:29:08	Cernan	Watch your diverter -
140:29:10	Cernan	It's MIN.
140:29:10	Schmitt	It's MIN? Your pump's on and PRESS REGs A and B egress.
140:29:16	Cernan	Okay. Pump's on.
140:29:20	Schmitt	Man, I'm getting a little bite ...
140:29:21	Cernan	Okay. The next thing is to turn your PLSS O2 on, anyway.
140:29:25	Schmitt	Oh, okay.
140:29:26	Cernan	Then we go to egress.
140:29:28	Schmitt	Egress.
140:29:29	Cernan	Egress on the REGs.
140:29:30	Schmitt	The REGs are egress.
140:29:31	Cernan	Okay. You ready on my mark.
140:29:33	Schmitt	Wait a minute.
140:29:34	Cernan	Tell me when you're ready.
140:29:35	Schmitt	Find it.
140:29:43	Cernan	Say when.
140:29:43	Schmitt	Well, where is it? ... Okay, let's go aft.
140:29:51	Cernan	Okay mark it. Get it?
140:29:55	Cernan	If not, I'll get it for you.
140:29:58	Schmitt	No.
140:29:59	Cernan	Here. Let me get it for you.
140:30:00	Cernan	Wait a minute. I didn't get it. No, there it is.
140:30:01	Schmitt	Okay, I've got it.
140:30:03	Cernan	Okay. We going at the same time I've got us marked.
140:30:06	Cernan	Okay. PLSS O2, tone on; O2 flag. PLSS flag clear 3.1 to 4 - 3.4. CUFF gauge 3.7 to 4.0.
140:30:17	Schmitt	Do you need me to watch the panel or you got it?
140:30:19	Cernan	No, no sweat I've got that.
140:30:21	Schmitt	Okay.
140:30:22	Cernan	We'll have to get the PLSS O2 OFF. I'll get mine; I can reach yours real easy. I can get it in a minute. As soon as we get up I'll get it. Yes, I can reach it, I think, now. And we're going up to HIGH PRESSURE here when we start dumping the cabin.
140:30:48	PAO	The EVA clock will start when the cabin pressure reaches three and a half pounds.
140:31:07	Cernan	I've gone through 3.5 now - 3.4 really.
140:31:11	Schmitt	Just off the peg here. My press flag didn't clear.
140:31:18	Cernan	There's mine.
140:31:19	PAO	Crew is checking suit pressurization. They have not yet started depressing the cabin.
140:31:25	Schmitt	Turn mine off. Okay. Mark it. It's off.
140:31:34	Schmitt	Where are you?
140:31:36	Cernan	At 385.
140:31:37	Schmitt	Okay, when you get up, you can turn yours off. Give me a hand, and I'll check the time.
140:31:41	Cernan	Okay. Mine's off.
140:31:42	Schmitt	Okay. Check your pressure.
140:31:44	Cernan	38. I went at 20, you went at 30.
140:32:00	Schmitt	It looks like it's a little tighter.
140:32:03	Cernan	That was the suit loop we were checking yesterday up in orbit, though.
140:32:07	Schmitt	Yes, but you know we got two tenths.
140:32:10	Schmitt	Yesterday, too, I did.
140:32:12	Cernan	Okay, I'm coming down 20 more seconds, you got 30 more seconds.
140:32:17	Cernan	I'm over about a tenth I guess.
140:32:31	Cernan	Okay; 1 minute for me Houston; 8.5 to 7 - about 7.2.
140:32:39	CC	Copy that, Geno.
140:32:40	Cernan	Okay. That it?
140:32:41	Cernan	Okay. Mark yours.
140:32:43	Schmitt	Okay, And the LMP was 8 - .8 to .7.
140:32:51	CC	Okay. Copy that,
140:32:52	Cernan	And I'm back on. Okay, and we'd like your GO, Robert.
140:32:58	CC	... You're, you're GO for DEPRESS.
140:33:03	Cernan	Okay. Jack, 16 CABIN REPRESS, OPEN and CABIN REPRESS valve, CLOSED.
140:33:09	Schmitt	Okay, CABIN REPRESS. Circuit breaker first. Circuit breaker first. CABIN REPRESS, OPEN.
140:33:15	Schmitt	Okay. Might turn around here. Okay, it's open.
140:33:19	Schmitt	Okay. And REPRESS valve closed.
140:33:22	Cernan	Okay. It's going closed. And stay over there as far as you can, cause I got to get the overhead dump valve.
140:33:28	Schmitt	Okay, I'm over as far as I can get. I can turn around and give you more room.
140:33:31	Cernan	Yeah, turn around and you'll have to look at the CABIN.
140:33:34	Schmitt	Watch yourself there. You went awful weak all of a sudden. Are you - Hello. How do you read?
140:33:41	Cernan	Very weak. You better call again.
140:33:42	Schmitt	Very weak?
140:33:43	Cernan	Okay. My volume got tang -
140:33:44	Schmitt	You got to hit your volume.
140:33:46	Cernan	Okay, now.
140:33:48	Schmitt	Let me get over here -
140:33:49	Cernan	Wait a minute.
140:33:51	Cernan	Is that enough?
140:33:51	Schmitt	Yeah, your arm's in the way.
140:33:54	Cernan	Okay. I can get at it now.
140:33:57	Schmitt	Okay. You want to go to - you want to get that - OPEN and AUTO at 3.5. Okay, go ahead.
140:34:06	Cernan	Okay. Coming down. I can see it open. There it is. That's 5, 4 1/2, 4, stand by.
140:34:20	Cernan	Mark it.
140:34:22	Cernan	It's off, say about 3.4. And, I go.
140:34:27	Schmitt	Watch. Look at our watch. Okay?
140:34:31	Cernan	And my cuff gage went up to 5 - 5.0. Good. Suit circuit's at 4.6. That's okay. And I'm decaying.
140:34:53	Cernan	Are you decaying?
140:34:54	Schmitt	I'm decaying.
140:34:55	Cernan	Okay. We can start our watch.
140:34:59	Cernan	Okay. My watch is started at 5:30, more or less.
140:35:07	Schmitt	At 5:30. Yes sir. Okay. ...
140:35:11	Cernan	Okay. OVERHEAD FORWARD DUMP valve, OPEN.
140:35:13	Schmitt	Okay, baby!
140:35:16	Schmitt	It's open all the way.
140:35:17	Cernan	Okay, and pressure's coming down.
140:35:19	Schmitt	Okay. I believe it.
140:35:20	Cernan	I get a tone and an H2O flag, and you should pop your RELIEF, I think.
140:35:25	PAO	Clock started at 140:34:49.
140:35:27	Schmitt	Yes, I'm at my relief pressure now.
140:35:40	Cernan	What's CABIN now?
140:35:41	Schmitt	Cabin is one - a little 1.2. One.
140:36:01	Cernan	I'll see if I can freshly get this hatch open.
140:36:03	Schmitt	That's 0.7 still.
140:36:04	Cernan	Okay.
140:36:11	Schmitt	0.5. 0.3. You got it at what - about 0.2 yesterday?
140:36:32	Cernan	Why don't you move over as far to the right as you can - -
140:36:34	Schmitt	Okay.
140:36:34	Cernan	- - So I can bend down.
140:36:37	Schmitt	Well, I think that's - -
140:36:39	Cernan	Okay.
140:36:40	Schmitt	That's good. I can reach it.
140:36:44	Cernan	No, too much pressure on it yet.
140:36:46	Schmitt	Okay. About 0.3.
140:37:04	Schmitt	Okay. There's my H2O full - flag.
140:37:09	Cernan	Flag.
140:37:09	Schmitt	Well, in that case, let me see if I can't get the - Oh, man. No.
140:37:16	Cernan	No.
140:37:17	Schmitt	It's unlocked, huh?
140:37:18	Cernan	Yes, I unlocked it earlier.
140:37:22	Schmitt	0.2.
140:37:28	Cernan	It's unlocked. It's on again.
140:37:39	PAO	America is over the landing site now.
140:37:44	Cernan	Here it comes.
140:37:46	Schmitt	There goes all the junk out there again. Guess that's ice.
140:37:54	Cernan	Yes.
140:37:54	Schmitt	Okay.
140:37:56	Cernan	Probably cleaned some of the dust out, I hope.
140:37:58	Schmitt	Yes, there goes a lot of junk.
140:38:01	Cernan	Sure wish it would clean the dust out. But it isn't. It's cleaning everything else out.
140:38:03	Schmitt	Okay, Geno. We turn our PLSS water on.
140:38:08	Cernan	Okay.
140:38:10	Schmitt	We can get to it.
140:38:17	Schmitt	Feels like a water valve.
140:38:20	Cernan	Okay. Mine's on.
140:38:23	Schmitt	LMP's water's on.
140:38:26	Cernan	Okay. Whew.
140:38:30	Schmitt	Okay.
140:38:35	Cernan	Open -
140:38:36	Schmitt	We're right there.
140:38:37	Cernan	What? My water flag is clear.
140:38:41	Schmitt	That just means you've got feedwater pressure.
140:38:44	Cernan	Okay. Open hatch. Rest until cooling sufficient; verify PGA 3.7 to 4.6. Now mine's coming through 4.8; let me stand there a second. CB status PREAMPS and ECS.
140:38:56	Schmitt	Roger.
140:38:57	Cernan	Water SEP component light ON?
140:38:58	Schmitt	Roger.
140:38:59	Cernan	Okay.
140:39:01	Schmitt	I mean affirm. Get my terminology straight here.
140:39:06	Cernan	Okay, Jack. I'm going to start doing about a 90 here.
140:39:13	Schmitt	Okay. Let me - I need to turn around as soon as you do so I can help you get under that -
140:39:37	Schmitt	That's better.
140:39:37	Cernan	Okay; I knocked it off. Okay. I'm out of the way now, if you can move your left leg. Okay, I got an O2 FLAG. And it's cleared. The pressure is 4.6. Okay, Houston. If you're happy - CDR is going to get out.
140:40:01	CC	Roger. We're happy, Geno.
140:40:06	Cernan	Okay. ...
140:40:17	Schmitt	Okay. Hatch is full open.
140:40:19	Cernan	Okay.
140:40:21	Schmitt	And you're still - your scraping your - just a little bit. Just get your buttons down there. That's good. Okay. Oh, hey, remind me to fix your -
140:40:35	Cernan	Foot straps.
140:40:37	Schmitt	Your - your donning straps.
140:40:39	Cernan	Okay. That is ice, by the way, Jack.
140:40:50	Cernan	Whew, man, I tell you, with a stiff suit - still at 4.5. But, I am out here on the porch.
140:40:59	Schmitt	Okay.
140:41:00	Cernan	Oh, man. Okay, I'm out here.
140:41:02	Schmitt	... assisted you.
140:41:04	Schmitt	Here comes the jett bag whenever you're ready.
140:41:06	Cernan	Well, let me get - Okay. I'm all set. Man, I wish this suit would come down to 3.8. Here it comes. Okay, any time.
140:41:30	Cernan	Give it a swat; there you go.
140:41:37	Schmitt	Oh, the beauty of - ...
140:41:47	Cernan	Okay; let me look at something here (laughter).
140:41:56	Schmitt	What's that?
140:41:58	Cernan	I was just turning my checklist pages.
140:41:59	Schmitt	Oh. Here you go.
140:42:02	Cernan	Okay. Jett bag. I need - What you got next; ETB?
140:42:05	Schmitt	ETB.
140:42:05	Cernan	Okay.
140:42:07	Schmitt	Can you reach it?
140:42:07	Cernan	Yes. Get it hooked up here.
140:42:14	Schmitt	Okay. Turn the tape recorder off.
140:42:27	Schmitt	Tape recorder's off.
140:42:31	Cernan	Big hook, that's a legacy of Gemini 9.
140:42:34	Schmitt	Mags.
140:42:42	Schmitt	EVA decals. ETB is hanging.
140:43:05	Cernan	That all I need?
140:43:07	Schmitt	I think so. You hit your comm again.
140:43:13	Cernan	No, I didn't; I'm okay.
140:43:15	Schmitt	What happened to the static? Did we lose Houston?
140:43:17	CC	We read you loud and clear.
140:43:19	Schmitt	Hello, Houston. Oh, you must have switched to - Oh, I don't know.
140:43:26	Cernan	Okay. I'm going down the ladder.
140:43:28	Schmitt	All of a sudden, all the noise is gone; that's very good.
140:43:38	Cernan	God speed the crew of Apollo 17. I think I'll read that every time I come down the ladder.
140:43:43	Schmitt	Okay. All the circuit breakers are verified. Noise is back. Okay -
140:43:51	Cernan	Okay. My visor's coming down; utility lights are off. We're not going to use the camera?
140:44:01	Schmitt	Hey, I get to get out.
140:44:04	Cernan	Okay, Houston. On this fine Tuesday evening, as I step out on the plains of Taurus-Littrow, Apollo 17 is ready to go to work.
140:44:17	CC	Roger, Geno. Good deal.
140:44:23	Cernan	And the first thing I'll do is give you a TGE. Let me turn it on. And you want a reading. Okay. It's on. Bob, and the reading is 222, 262, 207; that's 222, 262, 207.
140:44:51	CC	Roger. We copy that, Gene.
140:44:59	Cernan	Looks good from here, Jack. Keep coming. Come on, hatch. Oh, what a nice day. (Laughter) Funny, there's not a cloud in the sky. Except in the Earth. Take it nice and easy today and get accustomed. Whee!
140:45:23	Schmitt	Okay.
140:45:25	Cernan	I'll be right there, Jack, to get the antenna, as soon as I turn the LCRU on.
140:45:30	Schmitt	Okay. I'm on the ladder. Door is closed.
140:45:41	Cernan	Okay, POWER switch is INTERNAL. I'm in MODE 3. LCRU blankets are open 100 percent. AGC is 4.0 plus, and power is about 1/8. Sensors are about 1/6 or 1/4.
140:46:03	CC	Okay. And we have a good picture there, Geno. Thank you.
140:46:11	Cernan	Already, huh?
140:46:12	CC	Already.
140:46:14	Cernan	Well, let me just tweak you up a little bit. Okay, I've got you tweaked, right in the middle.
140:46:19	CC	Thank you. And, Gene, after you set both those - -
140:46:23	Cernan	Okay.
140:46:24	CC	- - battery covers - up front there, why don't you go back and give us that temperature reading and then put the breakers in and then give us another temperature reading on the batteries.
140:46:33	Cernan	Yes sir, I'll do that. Jack, here, let's get the antennas.
140:46:47	Schmitt	You want to get - you want to hang on the Rover?
140:46:49	Cernan	I guess - well, okay.
140:46:50	Schmitt	I think it's easier.
140:46:54	Cernan	Now, I'm below, so get mine, now. I'm in a hole.
140:47:13	Schmitt	Okay; you're up.
140:47:15	Cernan	Okay,
140:47:39	Cernan	... get down there yet. Got to secure the flaps. Okay, you're all right.
140:47:48	Schmitt	Okay, you're up.
140:47:48	Cernan	Okay.
140:47:54	Schmitt	Okay, POWER switch is going to STANDBY. And the temperature is 80. And I'll close the blankets.
140:48:05	CC	Copy 80 on the SEP.
140:48:09	Schmitt	That's affirm. You know what happened? The Velcro came unbonded. That's why those don't hold down. We probably ought to get a piece of tape on those. Because they've got to set and it's going to get dusty. The blankets - there's no Velcro left to hold the SEP blankets down, Bob.
140:48:37	CC	Okay, I copy that, Jack.
140:48:42	Schmitt	Do you have a reading on the gravimeter?
140:48:44	Cernan	Yes, I took a reading, Jack.
140:48:44	Schmitt	Okay.
140:48:44	CC	It's measuring right now, Jack, we'll get it later.
140:48:47	Cernan	All right.
140:48:50	Schmitt	Okay. I hope I didn't hit it with some dust.
140:48:52	Cernan	Hey, it is not regis - measuring, Bob - -
140:48:54	CC	Oh, that's right. Sorry about that.
140:48:56	Cernan	- - All I did was take a reading. I turned it on and took a reading.
140:48:58	CC	Yes, you're right, you're right, and I'm wrong.
140:49:04	Cernan	Okay, Bob.
140:49:06	Schmitt	Hey, Bob.
140:49:06	Cernan	The battery temperatures are 0 and 0.
140:49:10	CC	Copy that. Okay.
140:49:14	Schmitt	Bob, there's your pendulum [?].
140:49:18	CC	Okay.
140:49:19	Schmitt	It's not a very good one. I'll work on that.
140:49:22	PAO	That's Jack Schmitt with the equipment transfer bag.
140:49:29	Schmitt	Are you going to be there for a minute, Gene?
140:49:31	Cernan	Just putting these batteries in. I'm done on this. Oh, you'll be glad to hear this. We got 70 on battery 1 and about 92 on battery 2.
140:49:39	CC	Beautiful. Beautiful. 70 and 92. I copied.
140:49:45	Schmitt	Yes sir.
140:49:47	Cernan	Let me just verify this Jack, and I'll be all done.
140:49:51	Schmitt	Okay. You've got it.
140:49:52	Cernan	I'm all done.
140:49:53	Schmitt	Okay. Okay, here's your old fender.
140:50:04	Cernan	Yes, I'll work on that shortly.
140:50:12	Cernan	Well, I think I'm going to INTERMEDIATE cooling to start with here.
140:50:19	Schmitt	Okay. I think I will, too. Good idea.
140:50:21	Cernan	One zap of cold to see If it's working. It's working, and back to INTERMEDIATE.
140:51:02	Schmitt	Okay. lots of mags.
140:51:20	Schmitt	Okay; mag.
140:51:26	Cernan	I'll have the same problem with this SRC, I'll bet.
140:51:29	Schmitt	Mag Romeo is going to go on the - the old 500 in a minute. Mag India is in there. Mag Kilo, Mag Juliet, Mag Bravo, Mag Delta.
140:52:19	Cernan	Okay, Bob, the SRC organic sample has been sealed. And the SRC lid is staying almost closed, about 2 or 3 inches open; if that's fine, I'd like to leave that.
140:52:34	CC	Okay. Go ahead and leave it, Gene. If it's not we'll get back with you on it.
140:52:37	Cernan	Okay. I'm going to hit your gravimeter here.
140:52:45	Schmitt	Polarizing filter - -
140:52:49	Cernan	Torque it - -
140:52:49	Schmitt	- - ... light clamps.
140:52:50	Cernan	- - and the light is flashing.
140:52:52	CC	Copy that.
140:52:56	Schmitt	Scissors.
140:53:17	CC	Okay, and Jack you can - ready to take care of it - Sarge, remember EP4 goes within the rover seat and EP5 we're going to put on one of the footpads in the sun probably wither the minus Z or the minus Y footpad, whichever is more convenient probably the minus Z is. Just as long as it is sitting in the sun that's the important thing on a footpad.
140:53:41	Schmitt	Okay.
140:54:12	Cernan	Boy, oh boy. Going to be a - Why won't that come out? Yes, Bob, I'm having a little trouble getting the LCRU battery out. I'll have to - I'll have to go back and use two hands.
140:54:46	CC	Okay. That sounds like a familiar problem.
140:54:52	Cernan	Well, you got any familiar answers?
140:54:58	CC	Someone who's been there before says you just got to work it back and forth until it comes loose.
140:55:05	Cernan	Okay. I can get that, Jack. I've got to - -
140:55:19	Schmitt	... hang it up?
140:55:20	Cernan	Yes. I've got to work here anyway.
140:55:25	PAO	The explosive in those charges is hexonitrostilbein or HNS. It's a pliable, semi-solid.
140:56:02	Schmitt	Okay, Bob, it's on the minus-Z and the - One corner is facing directly into the Sun.
140:56:12	CC	Okay; copy that.
140:56:17	Schmitt	That was - that's EP-5.
140:56:19	CC	Roger that. And I copy number 4 was put - was put between the seats.
140:56:27	Schmitt	Yes, it's - a - yes, it's between the seat, or will be very soon.
140:56:31	Cernan	Boy, this is ridiculous. Ridiculous.
140:56:38	Schmitt	Whoops, I need that other track.
140:56:49	Cernan	Well, it's nothing worth getting upset about it, but it sure makes you start out - But, you shouldn't have to this way.
140:56:56	Schmitt	Come on, just don't wear your hands out now.
140:56:58	Cernan	Yes.
140:56:59	CC	Hey, Geno - Geno - -
140:57:00	Schmitt	Need a little help?
140:57:00	Cernan	No, I think I can do it, just got to wiggle - -
140:57:03	CC	- - jiggle it gently and sort of let it come free there. It's a matter of it wedging itself in, of course, on the parallel rails.
140:57:10	Cernan	Yes. I - I see what's happening, Bob. Still ridiculous.
140:57:49	CC	Okay - -
140:57:50	Schmitt	Bob, did you hear my comment about the - about the SEP receiver?
140:57:58	CC	Roger. That the blankets won't stay closed. We're talking about that down here.
140:58:17	Cernan	Boy; a bag of peanuts. Whew. Man in space. Without them we'd be lost.
140:58:31	Schmitt	Without them we wouldn't have the LCRU and the MESA probably.
140:58:36	Cernan	(Laughter) Manischewitz. Okay. Let me see what I can do for you while I'm here. Okay. LCRU battery under seat, dustbrush to LCRU. Okay. I'll go get that; then I'll get to work.
140:59:05	Schmitt	Hey, Bob, what's my shadow length right now?
140:59:08	CC	Stand by. I'll ask. We'll get it for you momentarily.
140:59:29	CC	Okay, Jack. We've got 4.5 meters or 15 feet.
140:59:38	Schmitt	4.5 meters, huh? Hmm. 15 feet? is that how long I am on the ground? No wonder I've misjudged distance. Zap! Hello there, Houston.
140:59:59	CC	Hello there. Okay, Jack. And do we have the new charge transporter on the pallet?
141:00:16	Schmitt	I'll say yes, but you could have looked for yourself.
141:00:19	CC	Well, we just looked away.
141:00:22	Cernan	Yes, it's here. It's here, Bob.
141:00:24	CC	Copy that. I won't ask if we got the LCRU battery. That one, I did see.
141:00:36	Schmitt	Yes, we got it. You don't think I'd leave it here. Okay, 7.
141:00:58	Cernan	Boy, this gate's working like a charm.
141:01:29	Schmitt	Okay. Transfer from 5 to 7. Okay?
141:01:34	CC	Okay and - -
141:01:35	Schmitt	Okay. The pan's complete.
141:01:38	CC	Okay, Jack. Copy that.
141:01:41	Schmitt	And, Bob, those pans around here have more pictures because I'm having to be sure I get the massifs - I'm having to take extra pictures.
141:01:53	CC	Okay. Copy that. And I guess we'd suggest that, if you haven't talked about it already, that you work on the fender before you do the geo prep. You don't have your cameras and bags to worry about at that point.
141:02:06	Cernan	Okay. Would that be a good time for Jack to go to the ALSEP, do you think? Or do you think we both have to do this fender?
141:02:13	CC	No. The ALSEP work - we're not going to do until the end of the EVA.
141:02:14	Cernan	I heard John's words.
141:02:19	Cernan	Okay.
141:02:19	CC	And, Jack, if Gene's working there on unstowing SCB, whatever it is, 5 - yes, 5. Maybe when you put the camera down, you might want to shoot off a few 500-millimeter frames of the North and South Massifs, if they look interesting. I - I can't tell from the TV. That might be an opportune time to grab a couple.
141:02:40	Schmitt	If they look interesting! If they look interesting! Wow what kind of thing is that to say?
141:03:00	CC	Then, when Gene gets done configuring that SCB-5 , we'd like to get on with the fender fix. Then, we'll do the geo prep after that.
141:03:10	Cernan	We'll get on with it, Bob.
141:03:19	PAO	SCB is Sample Collection Bag.
141:03:40	Cernan	My god, we got a lot of loose stuff in SCB-7.
141:03:50	Cernan	Okay, Bob. I got three core tubes - well, wait a minute - only got one core cap dispenser. Let me get the other one. Okay. Well, it's all on wide. Okay; three core tubes, two 20-bag dispensers, one ca - that's one core cap dispenser, and a short can.
141:04:17	CC	Okay. Copy that, Geno.
141:04:22	Cernan	Jack - -
141:04:22	Schmitt	Yes.
141:04:23	Cernan	- - Are you ready to work? See this right here?
141:04:24	Schmitt	Yes.
141:04:25	Cernan	I'm going to put that right - there.
141:04:27	Schmitt	Okay.
141:04:31	Schmitt	Are you ready to work?
141:04:32	Cernan	Just let me turn my page here. ... Stand by. Okay; I already got one on the gate. That didn't count.
141:05:06	Cernan	Okay. Want a couple 20-bag dispensers?
141:05:11	Schmitt	Well, I - Okay, - waiting for you to -
141:05:15	Cernan	Well, let's get this done.
141:05:17	Schmitt	You want to -
141:05:18	Cernan	Here.
141:05:19	Schmitt	Well, what are you doing now?
141:05:20	Cernan	I was just getting this gear out now ... to work on the fender.
141:05:23	Schmitt	Okay.
141:05:23	Cernan	I'm not to geo prep yet.
141:05:25	Schmitt	Okay.
141:05:26	Cernan	Here you are.
141:05:27	Schmitt	Wait a minute.
141:05:29	Cernan	We'll just set these here.
141:05:32	Schmitt	And there's another one.
141:05:41	Cernan	Okay; SCB-7 goes under your seat.
141:05:46	Schmitt	Okay. I'll get that. The camera has the - bags on it. You might - just put it there, and I'll come over and get those maps and everything.
141:06:03	Cernan	Okay. That goes under your seat. Let me get 4 - Okay, we got 4 and 6. I'm going to start on a - We got SCB-4, goes to you, and SCB-6 goes on the gate yet Jack, but let's pick that up with geo prep, and let me get that fender gear. Where's the -
141:06:19	Schmitt	It's in your seat pan.
141:06:20	Cernan	In my seat pan? Okay.
141:06:23	Schmitt	I should have put it over here. That was just where it ended up.
141:06:31	Cernan	You already used the 500?
141:06:33	Schmitt	No, I didn't get a chance to.
141:06:34	Cernan	Okay. You might do it while I try the fender, and then you're here to help me in case I need it.
141:06:39	Schmitt	No, it's all - all your stuff's right there, Gene.
141:06:41	Cernan	Oh, okay. I see it. Well, let's hope it does the job.
141:07:32	Schmitt	Okay, SCB-7's in my seat. And I put the return-to-LM map in there, too; it's just going to be in the way anywhere else.
141:07:43	CC	Okay. Copy that.
141:07:52	Schmitt	Let me check something, though. On the way to the Hole-in-the-Wall, we want to drive ...
141:08:04	CC	... notch.
141:08:08	Cernan	Okay. Hope this thing gets stiff. It's just a flapper. Sure isn't stiff like I want it to be.
141:08:23	Schmitt	You want me to hold it there?
141:08:24	Cernan	Yes, you're going to have to, I reckon. But, that may do the job. Let's see, does it come over the - I want it about right above the axle - let me - move your hand a minute. Let me align it. Okay. Hold it right there. Let me get the -
141:08:39	Schmitt	Okay.
141:08:40	Cernan	Let me move it up just a little bit. Right there. Okay. Hold it right there. Let me see how much room I've got coming out. I want to turn this around. We can tape that other end, Jack. There you go.
141:08:56	Schmitt	It's tending to fold a little bit -
141:08:57	Cernan	I think - Yes, but the dust will be coming up from under us. Let's see.
141:09:03	Schmitt	Temperature; I think is making it fold.
141:09:05	Cernan	How, that'll give us plenty of room down there, that - Yes, I just don't want to interfere with the steering.
141:09:11	Schmitt	You think - you think that'll stop the dust that way?
141:09:14	Cernan	Well, it'll stop some of it if it stays on.
141:09:17	Schmitt	Well, what I mean, it's not projecting outward at all. It's curling back under.
141:09:21	Cernan	Well, when I - when I put a clamp here, and a clamp here, see what will happen?
141:09:25	Schmitt	Oh, okay.
141:09:26	Schmitt	Is that about how - where you want it?
141:09:46	Schmitt	Lean against me, if you need to.
141:09:52	Cernan	Trying to figure out - No, I've got to clamp it right in that rail; it's not much to clamp it on the inside.
141:09:58	Schmitt	No. Keep the knob up. There, you got it.
141:10:02	Cernan	Hold it right there. We got it all folded up on this side?
141:10:04	Schmitt	Why don't you try the outside.
141:10:05	Cernan	Let it go a minute. Okay.
141:10:07	Schmitt	Okay. Why don't you try the outside, first? Fix it -
141:10:10	CC	Inside first; probably be better, guys.
141:10:21	Schmitt	Got enough overlap there.
141:10:22	Cernan	No, I want a little more.
141:10:24	Schmitt	Okay.
141:10:24	Cernan	And, I am going to try this side because I can get my overlap over here.
141:10:34	PAO	As you can see, it's only a paper fender, but the Moon is real.
141:10:36	Cernan	Okay. Wow, hold it right there while I clamp it down.
141:10:56	Cernan	Well, that paper isn't going to come off, and the clamp's not going to come off, I'll say that. I don't know how much we're going to get out of the fender but -
141:11:05	Schmitt	Okay, that's fixed?
141:11:07	Cernan	Yes.
141:11:09	Schmitt	Can you fix that at all?
141:11:13	Cernan	Yes.
141:11:14	Schmitt	That ought to give us a little strengthening, stiffening.
141:11:17	Cernan	Yes.
141:11:19	Schmitt	Pretty tight.
141:11:21	Cernan	Yes. Tighter for the road. I don't want to lose that. Man, that's tight. Now, let's see if I can get this one. Jack, why don't you come on this side and hold the fender down right there. Hold it right about there.
141:11:58	Schmitt	Okay. You want to get it outboard a little more - I mean aft?
141:12:02	Cernan	No, I want to keep it above this - this center - The - the hub here.
141:12:07	Schmitt	Yes, Okay.
141:12:08	Cernan	For steering purposes. See this - -
141:12:10	Schmitt	Is that - is that fixed for the - well -
141:12:12	Cernan	I'll take a look at it. I'm going to tighten it down so it stays, then I'm going to take a look at it. I might turn this thing down too.
141:12:18	Schmitt	Yes. I was just going to suggest that.
141:12:27	Cernan	Let me take a look before I get it too tight. Well, I'll tell you, that's going to help some.
141:12:32	Schmitt	Yes. It may do the trick.
141:12:35	Cernan	I can't see what's under this rail too well, but I know that clamp is on. It's on tight.
141:12:40	Schmitt	Gene, it looks -
141:12:42	Cernan	Let me move this -
141:12:43	Schmitt	Move your left hand a little. Okay. Tighten that now.
141:12:47	Cernan	Get this out of the way.
141:12:51	Schmitt	Looks as if -
141:12:55	Cernan	Let me loosen it, and get it a little straighter.
141:12:55	Schmitt	Yes, I think you need to straighten it.
141:12:59	Cernan	Well, I had it tight.
141:13:01	Schmitt	Well, but you know you've got another piece in there so -
141:13:04	Cernan	Yes, that's why it's crooked, it's over those pieces.
141:13:05	Schmitt	Yes. Well, you might want to move it - if you could move it this way about a - an inch, you'd be past the ridge you got.
141:13:12	Cernan	Well, I'm just taking John's word on the steering. I - I - -
141:13:15	Schmitt	Okay.
141:13:15	Cernan	- - keeping above the hub here.
141:13:16	Schmitt	Okay, tighten her down then.
141:13:22	PAO	The crew's using maps to make that fender. The clamps are from the optical alignment telescope lamp.
141:13:33	Schmitt	I think that'll stay.
141:13:33	Cernan	I think it'll stay.
141:13:39	Schmitt	Why don't I turn this one - -
141:13:39	Cernan	Okay. You won't get that any tighter.
141:13:41	Schmitt	No, I mean, why don't I turn that down because it'll keep - that much less to run into. There you go.
141:13:50	Cernan	No, not too close to that wheel.
141:13:54	Schmitt	Okay? I think that's good.
141:13:58	Cernan	Too bad we don't have one more clamp - well, one more clamp would probably interfere with the steering.
141:14:04	Schmitt	I think that'll stop the rooster tail, because that' s - -
141:14:06	Cernan	I think that'll stop a lot of it, Houston.
141:14:08	Schmitt	- - that's swinging forward. Okay. Let's go.
141:14:09	CC	Okay. It's - -
141:14:10	Cernan	The maps are configured.
141:14:11	CC	- - That sounds like a good attempt, men. We'll hope it works.
141:14:15	Cernan	Does that look - does that look good to John, from what he did?
141:14:20	CC	It looks exactly what his did, he says.
141:14:22	Schmitt	That tape will keep it -
141:14:26	Cernan	Yes, but he didn't run in the dust, so I guess we'll have to give it a trial run.
141:14:29	CC	Roger on that.
141:14:30	Cernan	That ought to help some - -
141:14:31	CC	We're anxiously waiting.
141:14:33	Cernan	Okay, Jack. Let's - I'm going to HIGH for a little bit. Okay. I need S - S - oh, shoot. Now I want 4.
141:14:43	Schmitt	I took 8 off.
141:14:44	Cernan	No, sir. I want 4 and 6. Why don't you just substitute - -
141:14:48	Schmitt	Hey, I just took 8 off. Can we use 8 instead of 6?
141:14:53	Cernan	Yes, we can.
141:14:54	CC	Yes, I don't see there's any reason why you shouldn't be able to use that, Jack. Go ahead. We'll just mark it down.
141:14:59	Cernan	Okay. Turn around, Jack. Hey, Bob, we'll use 8 instead of 4.
141:15:05	CC	Okay. Understand 8 will be on the - -
141:15:06	Cernan	8 instead of 4.
141:15:07	CC	- - 8 will be on the LMP.
141:15:10	Cernan	That's affirm; 8 will be on the LMP.
141:15:20	CC	Geno, you went to MIN instead of MAX.
141:15:25	Cernan	I think you're right. I just realized that.
141:15:34	Schmitt	Got it?
141:15:36	Cernan	Yes, let me go to MAX here for a minute.
141:15:40	Cernan	We need 6 off of there, Jack.
141:15:43	Schmitt	Oh, your 5 stays back here, huh?
141:15:45	Cernan	We need - we need - we need 6 to the gate.
141:15:50	Schmitt	It's probably behind 4, isn't it.
141:15:53	Cernan	Well - -
141:15:53	CC	Well, put 4 on the gate - -
141:15:54	Cernan	Yes.
141:15:54	Schmitt	Probably.
141:15:55	CC	- - then put 5 on the commander.
141:15:59	Cernan	Yes. Okay, 4 is going on the gate and 5 on the commander.
141:16:03	Schmitt	Okay, Bob, a little paperwork for you, but that's all right. Okay.
141:16:11	Cernan	Now, I got to do some more stowing on you when you get that on.
141:16:20	Schmitt	Okay.
141:16:24	Cernan	They're in the -
141:16:31	Schmitt	Where do you want me?
141:16:33	Cernan	Your left side.
141:16:36	Schmitt	I mean where do you - which way are you going to turn?
141:16:45	Cernan	Oh, man, does that - that Velcro get tough.
141:17:02	Schmitt	Here you've got a core cap dispenser.
141:17:05	Cernan	Stand by; let me fix these for you while I'm here. Okay. Here's your doffing harness on this side. Don't move yet, I've got to - I've got something I've got to do to you.
141:17:17	Schmitt	Okay.
141:17:20	Cernan	Okay, okay. Turn around, I'll get your harness on the other side.
141:17:29	Schmitt	Let me get yours too.
141:17:30	Cernan	Okay. Okay, there you go. Okay, you've got a cap dispenser, you've got a rammer, and you've got - well, I guess SCB-8, if I'm not mistaken.
141:17:42	Schmitt	Yes, that's all right, they got it. Okay. That's 1.
141:17:49	Cernan	Okay. You can give me SCB-5 then, and -
141:17:54	Schmitt	Yes. Can you move - move a little bit? There you go. Okay. There you are.
141:18:24	Cernan	You got it?
141:18:25	Schmitt	No - no, I'm sorry. In fact, I've got to tighten up your -
141:18:33	Cernan	We've got to take a picture of that fender if it works.
141:18:36	Schmitt	Wait a minute - No, if you weren't so tall - and you - you are always saying - you just invariably stand so I have to get in a hole. Okay. Now let me tighten up your whole shooting match here. It's loose again. Hang on. Okay. Between Velcro and snaps, the world could never fall apart.
141:19:10	Cernan	Okay, all set?
141:19:11	Schmitt	You're set.
141:19:12	Cernan	Okay. I'm going to get a hammer, and then I'll get the TGE.
141:19:16	Schmitt	I'm going to get my camera, and I'll go to the SEP site.
141:19:19	CC	Okay. Why don't you start to the SEP site - -
141:19:20	Cernan	Hey, Jack, when you start running I'll - -
141:19:21	CC	- - and, also, I presume that the dustbrush is on the Rover now.
141:19:28	Cernan	It is.
141:19:29	CC	Okay. Copy that.
141:19:30	Cernan	It is. Jack, when I drive out there why don't you watch the rear wheel.
141:19:35	Schmitt	I will. Give me a yell when you start to drive.
141:19:37	Cernan	Okay. Both the steering and the rooster tail - Oh, I hope it's not all zeros. Okay, Bob. 670, 017, 701; 670, 017, 701.
141:19:58	CC	Okay. Copy that.
141:20:05	Cernan	Okay; and the SCB is good. It's closed. It's in the shade. The rest ... I guess.
141:20:16	CC	Okay. And, Jack, when you get out to the SEP site, you might give us a reading on what the solar panels look like - how they survived the night with the tape on them.
141:20:29	Schmitt	I wouldn't think of not doing that. I'm curious myself.
141:20:43	Cernan	Okay. The TGE is on the LRV.
141:20:48	CC	Okay. Copy that.
141:20:48	Cernan	Okay. I'm making an inventory. I've got the LCRU battery. Okay. We got 1, 3 and 2 and 8; LCRU blankets are open 100 percent. Battery covers are CLOSED. Dustbrush is on the LCRU. TGE is on the Rover. Jack, can you verify we got the right mags and a polar filter? Polarization.
141:21:11	Schmitt	Yes sir. I verified that.
141:21:12	Cernan	Okay. Very good.
141:21:13	Schmitt	You better put that 500 back under the seat.
141:21:15	Cernan	Yes. That's where it's going.
141:21:18	Schmitt	Well, Bob, it looks like - it survived. There is a - as I stand behind the panels - the left-hand panel may be tilted at about - well, less than 5 degrees, probably about 2 or 3, but that's all. Looks pretty good right now.
141:21:38	CC	Okay; beautiful. Thank you. Good fix.
141:21:43	Schmitt	Okay.
141:21:44	Cernan	Okay, Bob, I'm going to take the TV from you.
141:21:46	CC	Okay. Copy that, Geno.
141:21:47	Schmitt	And the transmitter's going on.
141:21:50	CC	Copy that, Jack.
141:21:51	Schmitt	(Laughter) If I can do it without destroying it.
141:21:55	Cernan	Yes. That's hard to do out there, Jack. Okay. TV camera going POSITION 1.
141:22:03	Schmitt	Transmitter's on and -
141:22:08	PAO	We'll loose the TV while Gene Cernan drives the rover to the surface electrical property site.
141:22:08	Schmitt	... fix the level there. Okay. The level is on the inner ring again. And - well, the gnomon has moved a little bit, but not much. But you would expect that, I guess.
141:22:23	CC	Yes. Seeing the other end of the gnomon up there in the sky it's moved a little bit.
141:22:30	Schmitt	Yes. That's what I said.
141:22:33	Cernan	Okay. Camera, tongs, and I'll drive. West leg, heading 270.
141:22:44	PAO	That site is 100 meters east of the lunar module - Jack Schmitt has just walked out there and turned on the SEP transmitter.
141:22:48	Schmitt	Camera is on. Bob, I'm on. I guess 26.
141:23:04	CC	Okay. Copy - -
141:23:05	Schmitt	This here's frame 27, mag Charlie.
141:23:07	CC	Copy that. Charlie 26 - 27.
141:23:13	Schmitt	I had to relearn how to document samples, Bob. I just have. The first part of my roll will have a lot of random exposures and focuses.
141:23:26	Schmitt	Okay. We're back in business. And I'm - while I'm waiting for Gene, getting a rock - it looks a little finer grained than the others we've seen in the LRV sampler, along with some soil. And that's done. Man, that's a neat sampler. Only way to fly. Okay, and that's in bag 22E. It has the stereo documentation and a locator to the LM, and it's about 2 meters from the S - from the SEP.
141:24:07	CC	Okay, Jack.
141:24:08	Schmitt	22 Echo.
141:24:10	CC	Roger. Copy that. Did you ever find any sign of that brown fine-grained rock you saw on the way out to the SEP yesterday?
141:24:17	Cernan	Bob, let me give you some readings, so I can get going.
141:24:19	CC	Okay. Go ahead, Geno.
141:24:20	Cernan	Okay. Amp hours, 108, 100; volts are 68, 68; batteries are 80 and 102; and motors are all off scale low. I'm on the way. On the way, Jack.
141:24:47	Schmitt	I'm waiting.
141:24:48	Cernan	Oh, there you are over there, huh?
141:25:03	CC	And, Jack, how's the rooster tail look on that fender?
141:25:09	Schmitt	Looks like it's going backwards. I don't see any coming up over the top. Looks like a good fix.
141:25:16	CC	Beautiful.
141:25:24	Cernan	Okay, Jack, I got to come around - I'm going to come on this side and head west.
141:25:30	Schmitt	Okay. Watch for - You got the antennas?
141:25:32	Cernan	I've got one over here.
141:25:35	Schmitt	Okay. I'll - give you a line on the other one.
141:25:48	PAO	That rooster tail is a cloud of dust that the Rover's rear wheel throws up.
141:25:55	Cernan	Okay. I'm getting close.
141:25:59	Schmitt	Okay. Turn.
141:26:02	Cernan	Where is it?
141:26:03	Schmitt	Right here. I'm on it.
141:26:13	Cernan	Okay. Okay. And I see the other one - let me parallel that line.
141:26:23	CC	Low gain, Gene, please; after you get stopped.
141:26:33	Cernan	I guess that's about 2 or 3 meters, huh, Jack? You can better see where it - is at.
141:26:37	Schmitt	Yes, that's good, Geno.
141:26:40	Cernan	Okay. Heading 270.
141:26:43	Schmitt	You want to - -
141:26:43	Cernan	Am I 10 meters from the transmitter?
141:26:46	Schmitt	Probably not, huh? You're pretty - no, you need to go about 5 meters.
141:26:53	Cernan	How far am I? See if it's okay.
141:26:54	Schmitt	You're about 3 meters - 4 meters.
141:26:57	Cernan	Hey, Bob, I'm 3 meters to the west of the transmitter and about 2-1/2 meters south of the line going west - -
141:27:05	CC	There's no problem there, Gene.
141:27:06	Cernan	- - is that okay?
141:27:06	CC	Don't move. It's just they had to be less than those numbers.
141:27:11	Cernan	Okay. That's where I am.
141:27:14	Schmitt	I'm getting your photos.
141:27:16	Cernan	Okay; and let me give them a voltage reading, and I'm still reading 68 and 68.
141:27:21	CC	Okay; copy that. We don't need those, we just got them. And - -
141:27:27	Cernan	I know, I just wanted to keep you honest.
141:27:27	CC	- - give me the nav numbers. And give us some nav numbers.
141:27:33	Cernan	Okay. 265, 0.2, and 0.1.
141:27:40	CC	The - that heading - we want heading, pitch, roll, and sun dial there, Gene.
141:27:48	Cernan	Okay. I'm sorry. Bob. Okay; you want a nav update here?
141:27:55	CC	Nav initialized, Geno.
141:27:56	Cernan	Yes, sir; you do.
141:27:57	CC	Roger.
141:28:00	Cernan	Yes, sir; I'm sorry.
141:28:01	CC	Go to the next page.
141:28:02	Schmitt	Let me - let me change my position here, just a sukosh. Let me change my position a sukosh.
141:28:07	Cernan	I knew you'd - Bob, what was that last LRV sample number I gave you?
141:28:25	CC	22 Echo, 22 Echo.
141:28:31	Schmitt	23 Echo, if that followed in sequence, is another rock about - near the SEP documented in the same way.
141:28:39	CC	Okay; copy that.
141:28:41	Cernan	Okay, Bob. 265 - 265, 0.3, 0.1; roll is 1 right, pitch is 0, and the sun shaft device is 0. I'm heading 281 degrees.
141:28:55	CC	Okay; copy that. Stand by.
141:29:02	Schmitt	Okay. The recorder is ON - -
141:29:05	CC	Copy that.
141:29:05	Schmitt	- - and the RECEIVE POWER switch is on.
141:29:09	CC	Copy that.
141:29:12	Schmitt	And, I guess you're going to hand me EP-4. Get rid of this.
141:29:21	CC	Okay. 282 is the preferred but that's too small to bother torquing, Gene; you're good as is. We're ready for you guys to go.
141:29:30	Cernan	Okay. That looks good because I have to come left just a sukosh there to proceed parallel down the west line.
141:29:36	CC	Okay. We're ready for you guys to go. We presume you have the SEP photos, Jack.
141:29:45	Schmitt	Yes, I do.
141:29:46	CC	Okay. And get your frame - we don't need - you can give us a frame count if you want. Remember to pick up EP-4 when you get in the Rover.
141:29:57	Schmitt	Okay. We got it, and the frame count is 17.
141:30:01	CC	Copy 17 for the LMP, and we need a nav reset to verify there, Gene.
141:30:08	Cernan	I did nav reset; I'm reading all balls.
141:30:11	CC	Okay. And did you happen to check the - -
141:30:12	Cernan	And it is back off.
141:30:12	CC	- - SEP temperature when you turned it on, Gene? Jack? The receiver?
141:30:20	Schmitt	No. I didn't; I didn't. Doubt if it changed much since I called you.
141:30:25	CC	Okay. We'll catch it at Station 2.
141:30:30	CC	Okay. Low gain - -
141:30:30	Cernan	Okay, Jack, we got transmitter and receiver both on, huh?
141:30:30	CC	- - antenna is 240 and we're ready for you guys to leave.
141:30:34	CC	Give us a mark on the leave.
141:30:38	Cernan	Okay. Here you go, Jack; we need - The SEP antenna receiver - receiver, transmitter, both on, huh?
141:30:46	Schmitt	Yes, sir.
141:30:47	Cernan	Okay -
141:30:47	CC	Okay. And, Gene, remember we want a mark when you pass the end of the antenna.
141:30:55	Cernan	Okay.
141:30:57	Schmitt	Can drive fairly slowly, huh?
141:30:59	Cernan	Yes, until I get past the end. I got to get my heading changed about 10 degrees to parallel. We're still in the same relative position, Bob.
141:31:06	CC	Okay. Very good.
141:31:07	Cernan	Okay.
141:31:09	Cernan	Okay. We are moving right now.
141:31:12	CC	Okay. We're marking that.
141:31:14	Cernan	Slowly. Okay, Stand by, Bob.
141:31:36	PAO	The crew has started for Station 2 the most distant of the stations. More than 7 kilometers away.
141:31:48	Cernan	MARK it,
141:31:49	CC	Okay. Copy that.
141:31:54	Cernan	Okay, We want to go past ... at heading 260, Jack.
141:31:56	Schmitt	Well. we want to get at 080 and 0.4 and get rid of this charge.
141:32:02	Cernan	Okay. ... - -
141:32:03	CC	Okay. And - -
141:32:05	Schmitt	Yes. I want to ... - -
141:32:06	CC	- - 17 a couple of words there as you drive along. Let me give them to you early here. One, we didn't bother to change all the numbers on the checklist, but, by and large, because we think we're 200 meters east of where we were, you should probably increase all those numbers except for the explosive package numbers by about two-tenths to get the distance at which you will come across these areas. Again it's about 0.4, 0.5, and we expect to deploy EP-4. The more important number though is that it's 0.2 west of the ALSEP. As you pass the ALSEP, you might know what the range and distance are reading at that point.
141:32:42	Schmitt	Okay. Range - range is the one that changes - on No, wait a minute, that -
141:32:47	Cernan	I got it.
141:32:48	Schmitt	I'll get it. Which is it? Range changes every half - on the half kilometer.
141:32:52	Cernan	Yes.
141:32:55	Schmitt	Distance.
141:32:56	CC	Roger, Jack. The range is - -
141:32:58	Cernan	... go around ... ~ -
141:32:58	CC	- - what changes in the middle at 0.50 meters and 150 meters.
141:33:04	Schmitt	Okay. We - The fender fix is working so far.
141:33:07	CC	Beautiful.
141:33:08	Cernan	Let me get around your flag. There's your flag way out there, isn't it?
141:33:12	Schmitt	Yes.
141:33:13	Cernan	Let me get around that. Man - That's really giving the ALSEP some room.
141:33:17	Schmitt	Yes. Okay, Bob. We're still seeing - the light-colored gabbroic rocks. I think the reason I said 50 percent was because in this light they look light-colored, and that's probably largely because of the zap pit halos.
141:33:32	CC	Okay. I copy that, Jack.
141:33:33	Schmitt	But, in the hand-lens, it looked like the standard - standard gabbro.
141:33:37	CC	Okay.
141:33:37	Cernan	And, Bob, I'm - I'm full out at about 11 - -
141:33:40	Schmitt	Okay, you can - you can turn right, now.
141:33:41	Cernan	I'm full out at about 11 clicks right now.
141:33:44	CC	Beautiful.
141:33:46	Cernan	Oops. ... (Laughter)
141:33:48	CC	You can give me a call as you pass by the ALSEP as you get ready to deploy the charge, please.
141:33:55	Cernan	Okay. We're almost due south of the ALSEP now.
141:34:00	CC	Okay - -
141:34:00	Cernan	... that. I've got to work my way through here.
141:34:00	CC	- - copy that. Go about 0.2 kilometers further than that.
141:34:13	Schmitt	It's a little rocky out here.
141:34:14	Cernan	Yes, it sure is.
141:34:16	Schmitt	Every - in the area we are now - you get a distance that was -
141:34:22	Cernan	Okay. We just clicked to 4. I want to move over this way just a sukosh.
141:34:25	Schmitt	Yes.
141:34:27	Cernan	Okay, I can - I'm just south of my geophone 2 flag now.
141:34:33	CC	Okay. If you just clicked to 4, let's go to 6 then, just past the click on 6.
141:34:43	Schmitt	Okay. And you want about 080?
141:34:47	Cernan	Plenty good enough. I got to start heading right out here, right toward my - upper graphic - -
141:34:52	Schmitt	Okay. Hole-in-the-Wall should be just to the left of the notch.
141:34:55	Cernan	Yes. That's exactly where I'm heading.
141:34:58	Schmitt	And I think we're coming up closer to the rim of camelot. It's starting to look like a crater now.
141:35:04	CC	Okay; very good.
141:35:05	Schmitt	Looking down-Sun, I see no major albedo changes except for the very fresh craters which are brighter. By a few - by a - maybe 20 percent. The surface - -
141:35:19	Cernan	How are we doing.
141:35:21	Schmitt	5 -
141:35:23	Cernan	Okay, Bob. Here's your charge. Pick a spot, Jack.
141:35:26	Schmitt	Okay; can you swing right out over there - -
141:35:28	Cernan	Yes.
141:35:28	Schmitt	- - about 10 meters ahead?
141:35:30	Schmitt	Okay. Give me a shallow turn.
141:35:35	Cernan	How's that?
141:35:36	Schmitt	Okay. And I'll set it right there on that - in that - Can you move forward, and I'll get it in that little depression.
141:35:41	Cernan	Okay.
141:35:42	Schmitt	You see on the other side of the rock.
141:35:43	Cernan	Yes.
141:35:49	PAO	This charge is one-eighth of a pound.
141:35:51	Cernan	Okay, Bob; 083, 0.6, and 0.5.
141:35:57	CC	Okay. Copy that.
141:36:01	Schmitt	Okay. Pin 1, pulled and safe; Pin 2 is pulled and safe; Pin 3, pulled and safe. Ever stop and ask yourself what I'm doing.
141:36:17	CC	I copy that, Jack - -
141:36:19	Cernan	Yes (laughter).
141:36:20	CC	- - if you can give us a frame count, we'd appreciate it. And I might remind you two to both check that - -
141:36:24	Cernan	Don't fall over.
141:36:25	CC	- - you're at MIN cooling since you've got a long drive ahead of you there.
141:36:32	Schmitt	Hey, I lost my sample thing.
141:36:34	Cernan	Threw it in the floor?
141:36:36	Schmitt	I hope so.
141:36:44	PAO	That charge due to detonate 90 hours 45 minutes after it was deployed.
141:36:48	Cernan	That look good?
141:36:49	Schmitt	Yes, it's going to stay.
141:36:50	Cernan	Okay. Have you got anything to ... If not, I'll do a partial for you.
141:36:55	Schmitt	Yes. We got to do a partial. I'd like to know where that sampler is. Well, we can do without it, I guess.
141:37:05	Cernan	Yes. Sure be nice to - What did it do; come off the end?
141:37:07	Schmitt	Yes, I think I can check it though.
141:37:08	Cernan	Get your pan?
141:37:09	Schmitt	Yes. If you go around to - to seeing that big block there by the ALSEP, then you can forget it.
141:37:17	Cernan	Okay. Okay. I'll just come on around, and I'll pick up my tracks. Do you want to get that sampler? Can you see it?
141:37:24	Schmitt	I think I'd better look.
141:37:28	Cernan	All right. Take a look. Bob, one stop here for about 2 seconds.
141:37:33	CC	Okay. Copy that.
141:37:41	Schmitt	Okay. It's down there.
141:37:42	Cernan	Why don't you put it on real quick and -
141:37:44	Schmitt	I don't know why - it was hard to put on. Surprised it came off. Here let me - let me hold the end.
141:37:53	Cernan	You got to - got them retracted?
141:37:56	Schmitt	Retracted.
141:37:59	Cernan	They'll retract. And let me know when.
141:38:03	Schmitt	Okay. Okay. It's - it's loose.
141:38:06	Cernan	Retracted. You want it - how you want it?
141:38:08	Schmitt	Retract it again.
141:38:09	Cernan	Okay. Retracted.
141:38:14	Schmitt	No - Let go, let go - no, it's just hooking.
141:38:17	Cernan	Okay. Try it - push it in once more.
141:38:19	Schmitt	Okay. The best I can do. I'll just lock - I'll twist it down on there and maybe it'll hold.
141:38:26	Cernan	Okay. Twist it tight. I got the rod.
141:38:38	Schmitt	Okay. I'll just have to be careful. Okay. I've got it.
141:38:42	Cernan	Okay. Oh - oh.
141:38:44	Schmitt	I've got it.
141:38:45	Cernan	Okay.
141:38:49	Schmitt	You don't have to put it in - push down.
141:38:52	Cernan	Okay.
141:38:59	Schmitt	Okay. Okay. Let's go. Every time you pick your seatbelt up - there it is, it's untwisted now.
141:39:10	Cernan	Okay?
141:39:11	Schmitt	Okay.
141:39:11	Cernan	All set?
141:39:13	Schmitt	Just about.
141:39:17	CC	Okay, Jack, a reminder. We're still seeing you in intermediate. You probably will want to go to min before you get back on.
141:39:26	Cernan	He's back on now.
141:39:28	Schmitt	And we're rolling.
141:39:29	CC	Okay, copy. You're moving.
141:39:29	Schmitt	Okay. Let's go to Hole-in-the-Wall.
141:39:32	Cernan	Yes, sir.
141:39:34	CC	Okay. One other thing I might mention to you guys as you're driving here, Jack, before you start talking again, is that - as you go by Camelot, you might keep an eye out for blocks along the rim there, because remember - we may be wanting to come back and move Station 5 to an area where there's blocks, unless there are blocks at the present nominal Station 5. So you might keep an eye for that and plan for the way back. A second thing a reminder, if you do stop for Rover samples or one thing or another along the way, give us a call and keep us informed, because we're timing you on the way out and the assumption is, of course, that driving time out equals drive-back time. And we're under a 63-minute limit to get you from the LM out to the Station 2 because of OPS drive back. So, keep us informed so we can keep a good tab on you.
141:40:21	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. Okay. We'll keep you informed.
141:40:22	Cernan	Bob, I got the thing tube-locked, and I'm averaging probably 10 to 11 clicks. It's not exactly straight-line navigation, but I think I can hold most of it.
141:40:37	CC	Roger. Beautiful.
141:40:39	Schmitt	Watch the crater - there you go.
141:40:42	CC	And, Jack, a reminder - -
141:40:44	Schmitt	I tell you, when Gene decides to turn - whoo!
141:40:47	CC	And, Jack, a reminder on photos yesterday. You apparently took quite a few on the way back from Station 1 to the SEP, and we're right nominal on budget now. But, considering the fact that we didn't do much sampling if you continue to use them at the rate you did yesterday coming back from Station 1, at least as we understand it, you'll be pushing us pretty hard in the budget. Should be every 50 meters or every 100 meters.
141:41:14	Schmitt	Bob, okay. And you want to hear something?
141:41:16	CC	Roger. I'll listen now.
141:41:22	Schmitt	Okay. The surface is not changing in terms of the detail. The surface texture of the finegrained regolith still is - has a raindrop pattern. We're more - the blocks still look very much like what we sampled yesterday around the LM. They're light colored, apparently gabbros, with zap pits - zap halos. Occasional craters show lighter colored ejectas both all the way down to - say half a meter in size. Other craters that are just as blocky as those with bright halos have no brightness associated with them. Most of the brightest craters have a little central pit in the bottom which is glass lined. The pit is maybe - a fifth of the diameter of the crater itself. It's a fairly standard thing for most of these fresher craters, is that little central pit.
141:42:26	Cernan	Okay, we're just south of the rim of Camelot. There is a light mantle on the other side. Look at that crater. Whoo!
141:42:33	Schmitt	We've got the ... - oh, and there's Camelot.
141:42:35	Cernan	Oh, Whoo! Manischewitz. Take a couple of pictures looking at that.
141:42:39	Schmitt	Okay. Can you swing a little?
141:42:40	Cernan	Yes.
141:42:41	Schmitt	Okay, I got them.
141:42:42	Cernan	That is a 600-meter crater.
141:42:46	Schmitt	Okay. I - I - -
141:42:47	Cernan	And it is very likely we won't have any problem finding blocks on the rim of Camelot.
141:42:47	CC	Hey, how about a bearing and range there to help us pick out the LM ... Roger. How about bearing and range to help us pick out the LM location.
141:42:54	Cernan	Okay. 08, 31.2, and 1.0.
141:42:58	CC	Okay. Thank you. Thank you.
141:42:59	Schmitt	Bob, listen -
141:43:05	Schmitt	Okay. There's a little -
141:43:08	Cernan	Man, are there blocks there.
141:43:09	Schmitt	Now that - that little crater in the ejecta did not - of Camelot, at least the rim of Camelot, did not bring up blocks on the rim. It may have been an old depression. Bob, there is extremely blocky area. This would - I think Station 5 was over there where that block area is. The light-colored areas on the photos are essentially - blocky. They're probably 30 percent blocks. All of them are in the - many of them are in the 2 to 3 to 4-meter size range. All of them look light colored, look like the gabbro we sampled from a distance. They have light-halo zap pits on them. I see only occasional grayer varieties, which I believe are the nonvesicular ones like we also sampled.
141:44:04	CC	Okay. Copy that, Jack. Very good.
141:44:05	Schmitt	But the light-colored gabbros are dominant.
141:44:08	CC	Thank you.
141:44:12	Schmitt	Okay. Station 5 would have been - rather than in a light-colored area would have been in a very blocky area. Station 5 is probably still very good for blocks.
141:44:24	CC	Okay. Thank you.
141:44:26	Schmitt	There is probably as big blocks there as anywhere on the rim that we've seen.
141:44:32	CC	Copy that.
141:44:33	Schmitt	Okay. We ought to be going be - really between Horatio and Camelot now.
141:44:37	Cernan	No. I'm going to give them a call when we're due south of Camelot and see if they can't get a position on us.
141:44:44	Cernan	Hold it, Jack.
141:44:45	Schmitt	Oh, watch it.
141:44:46	Cernan	Hold it; hold it.
141:44:47	Schmitt	You can go around that one.
141:44:48	Cernan	You bet you (laughter). Whoo! That slowed the speed up a little bit.
141:44:56	Cernan	You can unwrinkle your toes now. Okay.
141:44:59	Schmitt	Oh. I wasn't worried, Gene. Watch that block there; it's probably more than 14 inches. And got a fairly close look at the rock, and it is the vesicular - looks very much like the vesicular clinopyroxene gabbro.
141:45:16	CC	Thank you.
141:45:17	Schmitt	Now, the surface of Camelot is mantled - or the rim - is mantled with the same dark-gray material, and it has the same surface texture - a very fine raindrop pattern. The saturation crater size does not look bigger than a half a meter, if that.
141:45:34	Cernan	Okay, Bob, I'm going to give you 08l, 1.6, and 1.4. We're south of the center of Camelot.
141:45:41	CC	Okay. Thank you, Gene.
141:45:43	Schmitt	One crater - Okay. We ought to see Horatio here pretty quick. I think it's right up in front of us.
141:45:50	Cernan	Yes, I think you're right.
141:45:56	Cernan	We can definitely see the light mantle as it comes out over the valley here, and we're looking at Hole-in-the-Wall, although it's still too subtle. We're looking right at Lara, as a matter of fact.
141:46:07	Schmitt	Yes. There's Lara, very clear; and Hole-in-the-Wall, you can see it.
141:46:10	Cernan	Yes, yes.
141:46:13	Schmitt	Yes.
141:46:13	Cernan	There's Horatio way over there where those blocks are. See it?
141:46:17	Schmitt	Yes, that's Horatio. We're right on course, sir. There's a little depression we didn't talk about, though, between Horatio and Camelot. But it's a depression and not a blocky crater at all. As a matter of fact, the total block population has changed out on the - once we get away from the rim of Camelot the block frequency is quite a bit smaller. It's down - maybe to only - less than 1 percent of the surface.
141:46:44	Cernan	Much easier driving with the Rover. Boy, am I glad we got that fender on. Very obvious that the Rover navigation - because of the blocks and because of the smaller ... craters, and very subtle type craters are in this area.
141:47:08	Schmitt	There are up to 2-meter, bright-halo, blocky craters - and that's blocky wall craters that may be incident rock rather than - I think it is rather than bedrock - in the rim area of Camelot.
141:47:31	Cernan	Horatio has got to be - there's Horatio, right there.
141:47:33	Schmitt	Yes. That's Horatio.
141:47:34	Cernan	Let me give another mark on the southern rim of Horatio.
141:47:39	Schmitt	Okay. The scarp looks very smooth from here - no obvious outcrops at this time. Don't seem to be penetrating to any bedrock in the area we're traversing now, just to the southeast of Horatio. Horatio has a blocky wall; however, the upper several tens of meters, probably, of rim look as if it's either mantled or composed of - the light-gray regolith material we've been driving on. The blocks do not come to the rim of Horatio.
141:48:25	CC	Okay. Copy that, Jack.
141:48:26	Cernan	- - know if I want to take you down there or not. Yes, Jack, hold on ... take you down there.
141:48:32	Schmitt	Horatio has quite a different appearance than Camelot. It is - and that's the main one - the rims - the blocks do not get to the rim.
141:48:39	Schmitt	What's your roll? (Laughter) I know it's not much, but it seems like a lot.
141:48:46	Cernan	... go around that crater.
141:48:48	Schmitt	Yes. The - it looks like - if Horatio is any gage, the rim thickness of maybe, and this is a wild guess, Bob, but maybe an average of 20 or 30 meters stratigraphic thickness lies above the exposures of the subfloor; exposures being blocks in the wall. And some of those blocks, again, are several meters, if not 5 to 10 meters in diameter. And they're concentrated on the west rim that I can see. There are very few blocks on the east - excuse me, the west wall - there are very few blocks on the east, north, and south walls of Horatio.
141:49:43	CC	Copy that, Jack.
141:49:45	Cernan	Okay, Bob. We're on the southern rim; 078, 2.3, and 2.0.
141:49:51	Schmitt	Yes. We're maybe 100 meters south of the rim. Actually, we're on the rim crest. We're 100 meters south of the break in slope into the crater.
141:50:02	Cernan	There's a lot of - it's an undulating, hummocky traverse terrain in there, Jack.
141:50:07	Schmitt	Yes.
141:50:07	Cernan	These little craters make it bumpy; but, other than that, it's really smooth sailing.
141:50:10	Schmitt	That's right. This is what I sort of expected dark mantle to look like, rather than what we landed on. Not more than 1 percent of the surface, and that - and that percentage continues right over the rim crest of Horatio down onto the wall until you hit the big blocks.
141:50:27	Cernan	What's this depression? That's not - No, we're not to Bronte yet.
141:50:30	Schmitt	No, I don't have any - No, we're not at Bronte.
141:50:33	CC	Okay, 17. And how about an amps and a mobility - a speed reading.
141:50:41	Cernan	I've been pushing aywhere from 9 to 11 clicks, and most of the time that's full out, and amperes are bouncing around 100 apiece.
141:50:55	Schmitt	Hey, watch these down-Sun craters. They're hard to see.
141:50:58	Cernan	I know they are. We're climbing, Jack. Because I've been full bore most of the time, and all I can get out of it is 10 clicks; and when I decelerate, she decelerates in a hurry. What's our next stop here, a sample at 3.9?
141:51:12	Schmitt	A - 080/3.9.
141:51:18	Cernan	Well, I'm sitting on 080 right now and 2.6. I think we've got to add a little bit to that ...
141:51:25	CC	Okay. Stand by. We'll get a new correction for you guys on that shortly.
141:51:33	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. The surface is not changing. We see no craters that seem to penetrate into bedrock out in here - that is with blocky rims, and that's quite a contrast to the area we sampled at Station 1A yesterday. I see - I cannot see in my field of view any blocky-rim craters. There are slight craters with - with fragmental walls and rims, but it looks like incident rock rather than the subfloor materials.
141:52:08	Cernan	Jack, can you see over there to the left? I'll turn a little bit - on the - on the dark area of the South Massif where you get those - those impressed lineations. See them going from left upward to the right?
141:52:17	Schmitt	Yes. I see what you mean; right.
141:52:19	Cernan	That's what I saw out my window.
141:52:20	Schmitt	Yes - lower left they - they go obliquely up the slope.
141:52:25	Cernan	They're more like wrinkles, they're - linear wrinkles.
141:52:28	Schmitt	Yes, Crenulations, you might say, in the slope that look something like those I saw from orbit - looking in the shadowed area - at the edge of the shadows. Bob, we've seen craters as much as - 20 meters, maybe 30 meters in diameter without blocky rims.
141:52:48	CC	Copy that. ... Thank you.
141:52:49	Schmitt	The rim block population is not much dif - The rim block population is not much different than the average for the terrain in here.
141:53:06	Cernan	Boy, I'll tell you. If we can't recognize a change in that albedo when we get onto that white mantle, I'm going to be surprised.
141:53:11	Schmitt	Mark my words. Okay. The light mantle is just what Gene has said, it's a - that's it, right now - there are some very bright craters in it - they stand out, bright-haloed craters scattered over it, that - seem to be quite a bit brighter than anything we have out here on the dark mantle. See those blocks over there? That's the first different colored blocks I've seen; they're sort of gray looking.
141:53:41	Cernan	Where are you looking?
141:53:42	Schmitt	Over to the right a little bit.
141:53:43	Cernan	Darker gray, a little bit.
141:53:44	Schmitt	Watch yourself here. Okay. There's a crater with a big mass of block in the bottom. It looks like there - it might be a secondary fragment from somewhere.
141:53:53	Cernan	Do you want to get a photo as we go by?
141:53:54	Schmitt	Yes, let's - can you swing a little bit to the right?
141:53:56	Cernan	Yes.
141:54:00	Schmitt	That might be worth a - How's our time for traverse, Bob? Do we have time for an LRV sample?
141:54:06	CC	You're doing great, so far. We're looking for that first LRV sample at about 4.2 - that's in the light mantle, if you can do it quickly. But it's - we weren't planning on it.
141:54:17	Cernan	Want one here?
141:54:18	Schmitt	Yes , let's get -
141:54:18	CC	Target of opportunity there, Jack.
141:54:20	Schmitt	Can you get -
141:54:22	Cernan	Go ahead.
141:54:23	Schmitt	Okay. Swing a little bit to the right now.
141:54:25	Cernan	Okay.
141:54:26	Schmitt	Right up across that little ray.
141:54:28	Cernan	Okay.
141:54:29	Schmitt	And I'll try to get a chunk of whatever - okay, I want - keep going - keep going -
141:54:34	Cernan	Look at that big ... - -
141:54:34	Schmitt	Whoa, whoa, whoa.
141:54:35	Cernan	Okay.
141:54:36	Schmitt	Let me get the switch off.
141:54:38	Cernan	082, 3.0, and 2.6. And, Bob, I've been making - 10 to 12 clicks coming across the surface; and, as I say, for the most part, that's full bore except where I have to do some rapid changes.
141:54:55	CC	Okay. And, by and large, the back room is interested in you guys pressing on to Station 2.
141:55:04	Cernan	Okay, we are. Just watch the batt - or the -LCRU.
141:55:08	PAO	That's 10 to 12 kilometers per hour.
141:55:12	Schmitt	Okay, Gene. That's a pretty big rock in there.
141:55:15	Cernan	Okay.
141:55:15	Schmitt	And, Bob, I think there's -
141:55:16	Cernan	Hold it. Hold it down farther - down. It's got quite a bit of dirt in it.
141:55:23	Schmitt	I think this is a sam - this is a block from a linear-strewn field of very irregular and jagged rocks that are - that are southwest of the - of a crater that's 10 to 15 meters in diameter. If - if - if - it looks like the material that may have formed the crater, and you can look at some of the pictures and make up your own decision.
141:55:49	CC	Okay. Copy that.
141:55:50	Schmitt	Can you get it in there? Okay. You got it.
141:55:54	Cernan	No, no. No, I didn't.
141:55:54	Schmitt	No?
141:55:55	Cernan	Okay.
141:55:56	Schmitt	The bag's not open.
141:55:57	Cernan	Well, okay. Yes, that's bad.
141:56:03	Schmitt	Can you push it in? Pull down.
141:56:05	Cernan	Okay. It's down. 26 Echo, Bob. We're on our way.
141:56:08	CC	Okay. Copy that - -
141:56:09	Cernan	Go ahead.
141:56:09	CC	- - And, you got a frame count, Jack?
141:56:13	Schmitt	Oh, yes. Let me -
141:56:16	Cernan	And I did get my locator here.
141:56:17	Schmitt	Okay. I got mine.
141:56:18	CC	Thank you, Jack, Gene.
141:56:20	Schmitt	And the frame - the frame count is 95.
141:56:27	CC	Copy that.
141:56:28	Schmitt	Holy cow! I'd better slow down my picture-takeing.
141:56:33	CC	Roger, Jack.
141:56:36	Schmitt	Okay. We're in a little area where the fragment population may be up to 3 percent. It's getting a little more like what we saw around the LM. In fact, I would say it was comparable now.
141:56:49	Cernan	I'm going down this slope and up the other side, Jack.
141:56:51	Schmitt	But nothing like Station 1.
141:56:53	CC	Okay. Copy that. And the next planned Rover sample will be at a distance of 4.2; so, 080 and 4.2. And it will be in the light mantle if - -
141:57:04	Schmitt	Okay. We got it, Bob.
141:57:04	CC	- - that's the big reason for those numbers.
141:57:10	Schmitt	Okay. It's in the first fall of light mantle, as I recall. is that right?
141:57:14	CC	Roger; the thumbs.
141:57:18	Cernan	Okay, Bob. Your heading at 260 looks like it's right on, by the way, from what I see on the skyline.
141:57:24	CC	Okay. And how's the low-gain antenna holding up?
141:57:25	Schmitt	Look at that ...
141:57:29	Cernan	Well, I'm moving it, so I guess you're getting it.
141:57:32	CC	Yes, we're getting it - just checking.
141:57:37	Schmitt	Bob, I'm still - the blocks I see still seem to be the gabbro, the - except for that one sample we took, which I hope was what I thought it was -
141:57:49	Cernan	Gee, it's blocky here.
141:57:50	Schmitt	Let's see - -
141:57:50	Cernan	Oh, that's a big crater. We got to get around here.
141:57:52	Schmitt	Okay. That must be Bronte.
141:57:55	Cernan	My god, is that big.
141:57:56	Schmitt	That's bigger than I expected.
141:57:58	Cernan	Whoo! I got to go around this thing.
141:57:59	Schmitt	Yes, yes. There are some very - -
141:58:03	Cernan	I got to go back here.
141:58:04	Schmitt	(Noise) ... blocks, greater than the normal gabbro we've seen, that are very - have very large, egg-sized vesicles in them.
141:58:23	Schmitt	Watch it - you got one on your right there - Here you go.
141:58:24	Cernan	Yes. I got them.
141:58:26	Schmitt	Okay. I - don't mind me, Gene.
141:58:28	Cernan	No. No problem. That's all right, because some of those down-Suns are hard to see. I want to get off this slope.
141:58:34	Schmitt	I wonder if I took a picture of that block field. (Laughing) I hope I did. Getting to be so automatic that I'm not sure what I'm taking any more.
141:58:43	Cernan	Okay. I'm going to go through this niche between - on a high point in the saddle here.
141:58:51	Schmitt	Okay. How does it figure, Bob? I think we're just north of Bronte. Does that figure?
141:58:57	CC	Roger. That seems to be about where you should be on the map here. We gather you're circumnavigating a little bit. Comm's dropping out from time to time.
141:59:04	Schmitt	Yes.
141:59:06	Cernan	0.8, 3.5, and 2.9; and we're on the north side of Bronte.
141:59:12	Schmitt	And it looks like Bronte has penetrated the dark mantle in here. It got to subfloor, but there's not an awful lot of blocks around the rim - There are just some small ones - compared to what we saw around - Watch it.
141:59:27	Cernan	Yes. Yes.
141:59:28	Schmitt	What we saw around Horatio or in the walls of Horatio and around Camelot. Nothing, also, like what we saw yesterday at Station 1. Bob, that characteristic little dimple in the bottom of the craters is still with us, and it's invariably glass-lined in the fresh ones.
141:59:53	CC	Okay. Very good.
141:59:55	Schmitt	Now, that's not a complete lining. It just - there seems to be glass agglutinates, if you will - that's holding the fragments in the bottom of the crater together. There's one on the side of an older crater. We're back into about a 1-percent coverage. I suspect that the reason we - our block population went up there was because of Bronte.
142:00:21	Cernan	An awful lot of these ... glass-lined little craters around.
142:00:23	Schmitt	Yes, and you notice, Gene, what I was saying about the little dimple in the bottom?
142:00:28	Cernan	Yes.
142:00:28	Schmitt	Watch the fresh ones, and they all have that little dimple as if that - You see, there's one right there.
142:00:33	Cernan	Yes, right there.
142:00:33	Schmitt	Man, you can predict it.
142:00:38	Cernan	Jack, you know, I think the white mantle is starting right over there. See on your right?
142:00:42	Schmitt	Yes, that's the first -
142:00:43	Cernan	The place you can really see it is where it1s reflected off the slopes of the - or the - -
142:00:47	Schmitt	Yes.
142:00:47	Cernan	- - Of the cliffs out there, but I think - I hate to say it, but Charlie may be right.
142:00:53	Schmitt	Well, but you know, one thing that may distinguish it is the - the bright-halo craters are brighter.
142:01:00	Cernan	But I can see it from here - -
142:01:01	Schmitt	Yes.
142:01:01	Cernan	- - On the floor of the valley here.
142:01:03	Schmitt	Yes.
142:01:05	Cernan	On the scarp it really shows up.
142:01:08	Schmitt	Okay. Block population is unchanged; still appears to be the - when I can see large enough blocks - appears to be the gabbro, although there's not as - not as much to look at now in terms of blocks. The surface characteristics have not changed. There are no craters that we see that are bringing up clear, blocky rims. There's a - most of the fresh craters have incident rock around them. The craters are the same size. They are older and more subdued. That incident rock is apparently broken down. I suspect a small zapping breaks that down fairly quickly.
142:01:53	CC	Okay, 17. Copy that. You still making about 9 to 11 kilometers'?
142:02:01	Cernan	No, sir. I've been making from 10 to 12, Bob, mostly 12.
142:02:04	CC	Okay. Can you give me a reading on the amps this time, Geno.
142:02:04	Cernan	Okay. You're getting - Stand by. I've got a little navigating to do.
142:02:12	CC	Okay; standing by.
142:02:14	Cernan	Okay. I'm read - I'm reading - I'm reading 100 - bouncing - around 100 on both of them.
142:02:19	CC	Okay. How about amps and not amp-hours?
142:02:19	Cernan	... up-and-down, hummocky terrain, I think with - Oh, I'm sorry.
142:02:27	Schmitt	Watch your - you got a hole in front of you.
142:02:29	Cernan	Yes.
142:02:30	Schmitt	Oh. There you go. Spun out a little bit.
142:02:37	Cernan	Here, let me get up here.
142:02:47	Schmitt	Good vehicle you got here.
142:02:49	Cernan	Yes. It takes a little getting used to, though.
142:02:51	Schmitt	Yes.
142:02:51	Cernan	I'm not sure I want to go through many of those.
142:02:53	Schmitt	No.
142:02:56	Cernan	Okay, Bob. I'll give you an amp reading as soon as I can. Just stand by for it.
142:03:00	CC	All right. There's no hurry. No hurry.
142:03:01	Schmitt	Would you believe my camera handle's coming off?
142:03:08	Cernan	The terrain gets a lot more locally hummocky with some - with some well-rounded rims but very - very large-aspect-ratio craters, which you got to get around in here - in the 4 or 5-meter size.
142:03:30	Cernan	Charlie, that - Charlie - I was thinking of white mantle. That's the white mantle we're coming up on right up here.
142:03:35	Schmitt	Yes.
142:03:36	Cernan	See that on your right?
142:03:37	Schmitt	Yes.
142:03:38	Cernan	That's it, there's not going to be that much difference .
142:03:41	Schmitt	Oh.
142:03:46	Cernan	Not going to be that much difference, but - look where you're going.
142:03:51	Schmitt	I got to watch I don't lose my camera. It's - come loose.
142:03:58	Cernan	See, now you can look where we're going to come up on the white mantle. It's dusted with that light - light - look at it.
142:04:04	Schmitt	Yes.
142:04:05	Cernan	We're only 100 meters from the light mantle.
142:04:07	Schmitt	Well -
142:04:08	CC	Okay. How about giving us the range and bearing when you get to it.
142:04:09	Cernan	Look at - look at this crater in here. We're coming right up on it now.
142:04:11	Schmitt	Yes. There certainly is a change in the general albedo, particularly in the craters. The craters are much brighter in their walls than we've seen before.
142:04:23	Cernan	Yes. That's a -
142:04:25	Schmitt	Although there still is a brown - a light gray dusting over the top of it in here, but it's clearly different - no question about that.
142:04:33	Cernan	You can't see the contact as you cross it but we're just - we know we're coming into something lighter - You can - obviously see it.
142:04:39	Schmitt	Yes. We ought to sample the rim of one of these craters when we get our LRV sample, because that's what's distinctly lighter.
142:04:45	CC	How about a range and bearing, guys?
142:04:46	Cernan	We're at 3.8 here, and we can sample that rim - -
142:04:50	CC	Copy the 3.8.
142:04:51	Cernan	083, 4.4, 3.8, and I've been ... - -
142:04:53	Schmitt	How about right over there, Geno? Can you get on the rim of that crater?
142:04:55	Cernan	Right here?
142:04:56	Schmitt	No, right to the right there. Right here - that light stuff. See the big crater here - -
142:05:02	Cernan	Yes.
142:05:02	Schmitt	- - and the light material right on the rim?
142:05:02	Cernan	Yes. I can get there. But I'm going to have to not give you much of a turn because it's - -
142:05:06	Schmitt	That's all right. I got the pictures. Now, if you can swing to the left a little bit and then back - whoa. Now, back right. Okay. Hope my camera stays on there.
142:05:16	Cernan	You like that?
142:05:17	Schmitt	Whoa. Yes. Whoa, whoa.
142:05:19	Cernan	Okay, Bob. We're 083, 4.4, and 3.8; and I've been running about 20 to 25 amps, I think, on both.
142:05:28	CC	Okay. Copy that.
142:05:35	Cernan	We are in the light mantle. It's not a contrasting light like you might expect, or like we're looking at on the scarp as the Sun shines on it, but I don't think there's any question.
142:05:46	CC	Okay. Beautiful.
142:05:46	Schmitt	Yes. The craters are definite - that penetrate into it are definitely different. However, the surface texture is unchanged. There may be fewer blocks.
142:06:04	Cernan	Okay; bag 27 Echo, 27 Echo.
142:06:07	CC	Copy that. And frame time, Jack.
142:06:09	Cernan	Hold your bag? We don't want to lose it.
142:06:12	Schmitt	Stand by.
142:06:13	Cernan	Hold it up.
142:06:18	Schmitt	Okay. It's in there.
142:06:20	Cernan	Is it in? Okay. Oops, that bag won't stay open.
142:06:23	Schmitt	Yes. It will after we get a couple of samples in there. Okay; my locator.
142:06:28	Cernan	And my locator.
142:06:29	Schmitt	I hope I don't lose my camera.
142:06:31	Cernan	I can't reach it, or I'd help you.
142:06:33	Schmitt	Okay; 110.
142:06:36	CC	Copy that, Jack.
142:06:41	Schmitt	I guess I never - - I guess I didn't do what I wanted to do and that's get that thing really cinched down.
142:06:51	PAO	We're an hour and 32 minutes into this EVA.
142:06:51	Cernan	Boy, Bob, one of the remarkable things is the Sun-angle difference on that light mantle when you're looking at the slopes of the Scarp versus what we're on. I hate to use a familiar term, but my impression right here is there is more of a raindrop influence than back at the LM, or in the darker mantle.
142:07:16	CC	Okay. Copy that.
142:07:17	Schmitt	Yes. Might - might be.
142:07:20	Cernan	I think so.
142:07:21	Schmitt	I think the big thing is, though, that each one of these little craters is much light - much more lightly colored. But we're still not - there's no crater in view that does - that has a blocky rim. There's fragmental rims based on, almost certainly, incident rock, but no blocky rims.
142:07:41	Cernan	You know, one of the reasons those craters look lighter is because of their Sun angle. Walls of some of these little craters - it's the same material we're driving on, I'll bet. Yes, there is incident rock right there, Jack, you're right.
142:07:52	Schmitt	Yes.
142:07:56	Cernan	Oh, boy.
142:07:57	Schmitt	The fragment population is certainly less than 1 percent in here.
142:08:02	Cernan	Yes.
142:08:02	Schmitt	Right now. When I say fragments, I'm talking about rocks that are - are greater than a centimeter in grain size.
142:08:10	Cernan	You know, it may be me, Bob; but it - it also seems to be a little bit more difficult to drive down-Sun in this area.
142:08:17	Schmitt	Yes, I think it is brighter, Geno. I was thinking that a minute ago, but it's hard to make a - I think your normal albedo is - is greater. Here's some rocks now starting ... - -
142:08:30	Cernan	And the little craters still have the central pits.
142:08:32	CC	Okay. We're losing your comm a little bit, guys.
142:08:53	Cernan	... Well, a couple of them looked to me like they had some very light ... crystals in them. See that?
142:08:56	Schmitt	I'm afraid those are zap pits.
142:08:57	Cernan	They could be.
142:08:59	Schmitt	I got - I think I've been fooled by that, too, and that's why I estimated the ... time.
142:09:05	Cernan	Whoo! I just want to keep you out of those slopes, and I'll tell you, I get you in some to - -
142:09:11	Schmitt	That's all right.
142:09:11	Cernan	- - keeping you out of them.
142:09:16	Schmitt	Okay. We're getting a little more blocks in here. Of course, we're approaching the dark mantle again. Now, you can see the difference. You got to look hard for it. But, you see those craters out in there are not white anymore.
142:09:30	Cernan	I got to get around that slope.
142:09:32	Schmitt	Yes. Okay, You still got Hole-in-the-Wall picked out over there, don't you?
142:09:40	Cernan	Yes, I got it. I'm just - - And, I'm trying to keep comm with them as I'm turning here.
142:09:44	Schmitt	Yes.
142:09:45	Cernan	And, I've been keeping the thing on. I don't know if they're reading us, but I've been moving it.
142:09:49	CC	Reading you loud and clear, guys.
142:09:52	Schmitt	Okay. Looking up on the South Massif, we've got real good views of the block-strewn fields. There's one that - there seems to be two dominant colorations of the rocks. The light-colored ones, very - very light tan and to white, and then there are the blue-gray rocks. There's one major outcrop of blue-gray about a sixth of the way down the slope, the center of the field of view we have; and it looks very much like similar blue-gray rocks, right at the crest, the highest point from our vantage point.
142:10:35	Cernan	Bob, you want another sample of the dark mantle here? Could you use that?
142:10:35	CC	Okay, Gene. A range and bearing please.
142:10:38	CC	Yes, we want - As soon as you get into the dark mantle - We're estimating it's something like 4.34, 4.5, somewhere in that vicinity.
142:10:48	Schmitt	We're there.
142:10:49	CC	Okay. We're ready for another one, then.
142:10:50	Schmitt	We're there. Now, let's - If you can - Okay, right over there, and maybe I can get a rock with it; See that batch of rocks there?
142:10:58	Cernan	Right here?
142:10:58	Schmitt	Whoa. Yes. Swing it. Whoa, now swing back over. Little more, little more. Whoa. Little more.
142:11:05	Cernan	Can you - can you reach it?
142:11:06	Schmitt	Now, if you go forward.
142:11:08	Cernan	Can you reach it?
142:11:09	Schmitt	Hold it. Right there.
142:11:10	Cernan	Okay, Bob; 082, 5.0, and 4.3.
142:11:17	CC	Copy that.
142:11:22	Cernan	And CDR is 3.85 and about 70 percent and no flags.
142:11:31	CC	Okay. Thank you, Geno.
142:11:47	Schmitt	I got it.
142:11:49	Cernan	You got it? Okay?
142:11:50	Schmitt	I got the rock. I got the rock, and there's some dirt in there. Maybe I'd better get a little bit more dirt.
142:11:56	Cernan	Yes.
142:11:57	Schmitt	You don't have any trouble getting dirt. Can you see in there? is there - -
142:12:02	Cernan	Yes.
142:12:04	Schmitt	- - Much soil?
142:12:05	Cernan	Oh, a little bit - -
142:12:06	Schmitt	Okay. I'll get - I'll get this soil.
142:12:08	Cernan	Couple teasP00nsfull. Twenty-eight Echo, Bob.
142:12:11	CC	Say again there, 17.
142:12:15	Cernan	Twenty-eight Echo,
142:12:17	CC	Copy that.
142:12:25	Cernan	And that's primarily a rock fragment. Jack's getting a soil fragment - soil sample with it.
142:12:31	CC	Copy.
142:12:32	Cernan	Jack, look at the wrinkles over there on the North Massif.
142:12:36	Schmitt	Yes, there's no question that there is apparent lineations all over these Massifs, in a variety of directions. Hey, look at how that Scarp goes up beside there. There's a distinct change in texture.
142:12:47	Cernan	Okay.
142:12:49	Schmitt	As a matter of fact, lineations are not present on the Scarp, that we can see, where it crosses the North Massif. There is no sign of those lineations on there.
142:13:01	Cernan	Oh, man; yes. I can see what you're talking about now.
142:13:02	Schmitt	Look over by Hanover.
142:13:04	Cernan	It looks like the Scarp overlays the North Massif, doesn't it?
142:13:07	Schmitt	Yes.
142:13:08	Cernan	Okay. This last one was 29 Echo.
142:13:13	CC	Okay. Copy that. And that's the soil.
142:13:15	Cernan	Okay, now I need to get in that bag. That's affirm.
142:13:21	Cernan	Here's another one. You're going to - don't lose those.
142:13:25	Schmitt	I won't. I'll put it down.
142:13:30	Cernan	Okay, Bob, we are rolling.
142:13:31	CC	Copy that.
142:13:33	Schmitt	And pray for me, Bob, that I don't lose my camera. Okay. Hanover is very - quite a ways up the slope. I don't think we'd have gotten to it, as we've planned, that time. But the appearance you have of the Scarp - North Massif contact is one of the Scarp being smoother textured, less cratered, and certainly less lineated. And I wouldn't be a bit surprised if it's, as Gene says, younger.
142:14:16	CC	Okay, Jack. Copy that.
142:14:16	Cernan	But that goes - it's not just the - it's not just this slope, it's the materials on the other side of the Scarp, on the west side.
142:14:32	Schmitt	Okay, I'm going to have to really ease up on pictures. I forgot to give them a frame count.
142:14:36	CC	Yes. We didn't get a frame count. You want to give us a frame count there, Jack?
142:14:42	Schmitt	Well, Bob. The problem is I - if I - every time I take my hand off, my camera loosens up again.
142:14:51	CC	Okay; I copy that. And our estimate is that if you kind of go between 50 and 100 meters between frames, We'll make it.
142:15:04	Cernan	Boy, I tell you. Are those Massifs getting to look big now. Holy Smoly.
142:15:10	Schmitt	That frame at the LRV sample was about 115.
142:15:15	CC	Copy that.
142:15:21	Schmitt	I'll tell you, that Scarp looks nice over there, too, doesn't it?
142:15:24	Cernan	Yes.
142:15:26	Schmitt	Okay, we're back down in our old friend, the dark mantle. And I think the zero phase point is not as bright as it was. Passing a small crater, but the block population is still way down there in about - Whoops, watch that one - 1 percent.
142:15:49	CC	And, 17, for your benefit, we're showing you with very good net mobility rates here; and things looking quite good.
142:15:58	Schmitt	Thank you. Gene's doing a great job.
142:16:03	Cernan	I'll tell you, it takes all your time to drive, though. You look around, and you're in a hole.
142:16:13	Schmitt	Okay here's another small crater - instant (?) rock, with the same little pits and a spattering of glass holding the pit materials together. None of these - none of the glass linings look very coherent, Bob. They mainly just seem to be a sprinkling of glass that's - some - helping or coating the instant rock.
142:16:44	CC	Okay, I copy that, Jack.
142:16:49	PAO	We're in contact with America on the 28th revolution.
142:16:55	Schmitt	We still don't have - The craters at about 10 to 15 meters in diameter seem to have somewhat more blocky material in their rims. But they're not clearcut blocky rim craters. And here's one that's probably 50 meters across that has a - a fair number of blocks in the bottom. Looks like it might have just about gotten down to where the gabbro is - starts to be abundant again.
142:17:26	CC	Okay's I copy on that one, Jack.
142:17:27	Cernan	... start ... 12 o'clock - 12 o'clock; and I'm going to work my way up to Hole-in-the-Wall and from there on up.
142:17:34	Schmitt	I think That's good.
142:17:35	Cernan	Take a long, easy turnout.
142:17:36	Schmitt	Yes.
142:17:39	Cernan	Got Hole-in-the-Wall, Bob. It's a very long, very subtle, very gentle slope. We'll just have to get some more words when we get there.
142:17:48	CC	Okay; we're anxiously awaiting them.
142:17:52	CC	How about a range and bearing while you're at it?
142:17:52	Cernan	Yes. I've been taking 10 or 12 clicks most of the time.
142:17:58	Cernan	Okay, ... .2, 5.6 and 4.9
142:18:03	CC	Copy 4.9 on the range.
142:18:05	Cernan	And about - 20 to 22 amps most of the time.
142:18:12	Schmitt	Okay, we're losing a little bit of LOW GAIN there, Geno.
142:18:15	Cernan	Yes.
142:18:18	Schmitt	I think you need to tilt it up a little. Probably undershooting the Earth. I don't know.
142:18:23	Cernan	Well, our pitch angle changes all the time. That's the problem. Bob, I have been within 10 to 20 degrees of you the whole time.
142:18:32	Schmitt	Okay. Bob, we're not in light mantle, I don't think.
142:18:39	Cernan	Maybe we are. I think we are, yes
142:18:41	Schmitt	I think we are.
142:18:42	Cernan	I think we are. According to my geology map ...
142:18:44	Schmitt	I guess we are. Gosh, I was going to say the craters are white - whiter than they have been. So, we're back in it. And - -
142:18:51	Cernan	I think - -
142:18:51	Schmitt	- - even the phase point's brighter, too.
142:18:54	Cernan	I think that place where we had those small, blocky craters was in the dark mantle. I - They're not evident here in the lighter stuff.
142:18:59	Schmitt	Yes, yes.
142:19:01	Cernan	Boy, is that getting big. Whoo-ee!
142:19:06	Cernan	Hold on. Whoooee!
142:19:08	Schmitt	Oh, boy, that really gives me a strange feeling (laughter).
142:19:12	Cernan	Gives me a strange feeling too. Those are not intentional.
142:19:19	Schmitt	I understand.
142:19:21	Cernan	I'm not sure I've got enough guts to make them intentional. Man everything's getting to look big the closer you get. Hole-in-the-Wall looks more promising, though, Bob.
142:19:37	Schmitt	Yes, I don't think that's going to be any problem.
142:19:38	Cernan	Until we get up and look back. Oh, man, what a trip this is going to be. Golly.
142:19:47	Schmitt	That vent cooling is just about right, isn't it.
142:19:49	Cernan	No, it's just about warm for me.
142:19:51	Schmitt	Yes.
142:19:54	Cernan	Bob, is my PLSS cooling working all right?
142:19:58	CC	Roger. It looks like it's working to us.
142:20:03	Cernan	Okay.
142:20:05	Schmitt	Bob, I'm not - The rock fragments look - still look like gabbro. The craters tend to have white walls and white rims, which they don't have in the dark - mantled area. The block population is way down, 1 percent or less. However, the bigger craters do have more blocks; but nowhere does that population seem get above about 5 percent. And that's on the walls and the rims of the craters, say bigger than 15 meters. There's one probably 20 meters in diameter that has some blocks on it.
142:20:46	Cernan	Have you seen Nemo? I think Nemo is right over there, if I'm not mistaken. It's - I don't know.
142:20:54	Schmitt	Nemo will be hard to see. But, yes, it's probably that one right in there. Or back here. There's one back here.
142:21:01	Cernan	Well, it's pretty - -
142:21:02	Schmitt	Yes, well. Yes, that's closer to Scarp. You're probably - it's probably right off your wing there.
142:21:08	Cernan	Okay, I'm going straight ahead and then I'm going to make a left turn.
142:21:11	Schmitt	Okay. We're looking at Lara - Now, Lara - I can see blocks in the northwest rim of Lara. At least, it's rugged terrain; and it looks like blocky terrain. One spot - is all I see. It looks like it may be a couple hundred meters in average diameter. On - it starts about - maybe three-quarters of the way up the wall and goes right up to the rim.
142:21:43	Cernan	Hey, Bob, Hole-in-the-Wall seems to be a - -
142:21:46	Schmitt	Hey, look at that. Look at that crater!!
142:21:48	Cernan	Right there? Yes.
142:21:50	Schmitt	That pit - that central pit goes down about half the depth of the crater, and the crater is a fresh 3-meter crater. That's - it almost was a cylindrical pit. Hey, Bob, Hole-in-the-Wall is a - is just a step - headed down to the south or southeast on the Scarp. It's a - Scarp is just about what I think we all expected it to be. It's very rolling and relatively smooth. I don't really see any outcrops exposed anywhere out here to the - to the south.
142:22:26	Schmitt	No. You see, now there's Station 3 area right up there.
142:22:30	Cernan	Yes.
142:22:34	Schmitt	Looks like maybe that - set of - see that bright bigger crater over there to the right of Lara? That's probably a good place for Station 3.
142:22:43	Cernan	Yes, way over there. Yes. Okay, we're going to find out something very shortly.
142:22:49	Schmitt	It doesn't look very rocky, Gene.
142:22:51	Cernan	No.
142:22:52	CC	How about a bearing and range guys?
142:22:57	Cernan	Bob, I'll give it to you just as soon as I make my turn. It's not too far - 100 meters -
142:23:01	Schmitt	Are - are you - are you going to turn over that or go on closer - -
142:23:03	Cernan	No, I'm going right up straight ahead and then go on to the inside of that place.
142:23:06	Schmitt	Yes. That's more than 100 meters.
142:23:09	Cernan	Yes. I'll - 08l and 5.6.
142:23:12	CC	Copy that.
142:23:16	Schmitt	There's the - Now the craters are getting very, very light colored - in their rims and walls.
142:23:24	Cernan	You notice when we're in the light mantle looking at the scarp, at this angle, it loses some of its high albedo?
142:23:29	Schmitt	Yes. Yes. I think we're getting - -
142:23:33	Cernan	We've got a long depression to go around.
142:23:34	Schmitt	Your eyes get used to it.
142:23:37	Cernan	Okay, Jack, we got to watch it because I got to go around a long depressions. That's a crater over there.
142:23:42	Schmitt	On the right, yes.
142:23:43	Cernan	I don't know how - can get over there to -
142:23:44	Schmitt	Well, I think - -
142:23:45	Cernan	I may have to go up over there. I can't go down that hole. That one's not going to make it.
142:23:50	Schmitt	What's your pitch?
142:23:51	Cernan	Let's go back here. We can't get there. I'm going to go over here.
142:23:55	Schmitt	What was your pitch then, Geno?
142:23:58	Cernan	Oh, ... primarily. I can't go there.
142:24:01	Schmitt	Yes, I think you're right.
142:24:04	Cernan	We'll go up this gentle slope. See what's on top.
142:24:10	Cernan	Okay. Let me get my ...
142:24:15	PAO	In lunar orbit Ron Evans is right on the flight plan.
142:24:18	Schmitt	We made a turn to the south a little bit at 081 and 5.7. Are you going to try to drive up there?
142:24:27	Cernan	I don't think we're going to have any choice.
142:24:30	Schmitt	Okay. Looks to me like right on the - just to the left of that - -
142:24:32	Cernan	Yes.
142:24:32	Schmitt	- - white crater is a - or even right like you're headed now and then bear off to the right.
142:24:37	Cernan	Yes.
142:24:43	Cernan	Find out how this climbs in a minute.
142:24:46	Schmitt	Oh, I think you're all right. That - -
142:24:48	Cernan	And, Bob, I'm starting up the scarp at 08l, 6.6, and 5.7.
142:24:53	CC	Okay. Copy that, Geno.
142:24:54	Schmitt	This is the first tongue of the scarp.
142:24:58	Cernan	I don't even think the Rover knows it's going uphill. I've got about 3 - 7 or 8 amps. See what's on top here.
142:25:08	Schmitt	You're making about 8 - 8 clicks.
142:25:10	Cernan	And I'm full bore.
142:25:14	Schmitt	(Laughter)
142:25:16	Cernan	Well, I'll tell you, this Rover doesn't know it's going up the hill.
142:25:21	Schmitt	Looks to me like you may be able to head just like you're going.
142:25:23	Cernan	Yes. Hey, Bob, we'll make it.
142:25:25	Schmitt	And get down - -
142:25:26	Cernan	Yes. We will make it. ... Get my antenna adjusted.
142:25:41	Schmitt	Okay. Whatever makes up the light mantle is - in - at least, the instant rock that it forms is much lighter than anything we see. Those fragments probably - are 30 percent lighter than any fragments we see on the dark mantle. And that's around the fresh craters. But it is not blocky. Bob, are you still reading?
142:26:20	CC	Roger. Read you loud and clear.
142:26:23	Schmitt	Okay, I just wanted to make sure my antenna's working.
142:26:26	CC	Roger.
142:26:27	Cernan	We're doing a little zig-zag navigation. I'm - literally came up a slope at about a heading of 240. We couldn't get through the actual turn to the south because there is a big crater right at the foot of it. So we're just making our way through some relatively local undulating slopes that get pretty steep, but it seems to be no problem.
142:26:49	Schmitt	Yes, I think we're in good shape. Bob, I can't - there are not any blocks big enough to really make a statement about what the rock is. But it - it really doesn't look like gabbro anymore.
142:27:05	CC	Okay. Copy that.
142:27:06	Schmitt	It doesn't have that - -
142:27:06	CC	And a reminder that eventually you're going to have to turn to the south a little bit to pick up -the final thing at the - Station 2.
142:27:16	Schmitt	We're not on top of that scarp, yet. We're still in the Hole-in-the-Wall rim.
142:27:20	CC	Okay. Copy that.
142:27:26	Schmitt	Bob, as far as lineations in the soil or on the surface that are observable at this range, I don't - I don't see any. I think there may be a finer raindrop pattern on the light mantle than maybe there was out on the dark. But that's an awfully hard judgment to make.
142:27:50	CC	Okay. Copy that.
142:27:55	Schmitt	How you doing, Geno?
142:27:57	Cernan	Doing fine, Bob. We've slowed down between about 5 to 8 - maybe 5 to 10 clicks most of the time. I'm going to head right up there, I think. Get around this crater.
142:28:07	Schmitt	Pretty healthy roll you're going to have here.
142:28:09	Cernan	Yes, I'm going to head more straight up the hill. Once I get up on top, I'll be alright. I'm going to head down in this hole and then up that way.
142:28:16	Schmitt	Yes, I think -
142:28:16	Cernan	I don't mind pitch, but I sure don't like roll.
142:28:19	Schmitt	I don't either.
142:28:27	Cernan	Now I'm going to head straight up - I'm going to head straight up that slope right there. Okay?
142:28:48	PAO	Ron Evans performing infrared, ultraviolet, laser altimeter experiments.
142:28:52	Schmitt	Bob, I still - it looks like maybe the large fragments in here are still crystalline. They have white zap pits on them. But they do not yet really resemble the gabbro.
142:29:09	CC	Okay, Jack. Copy that. Give us a hack when you get up on top of the scarp there.
142:29:15	Schmitt	Okay.
142:29:16	Evans	Let me tell you, Bob, I've got to go cross-slope some of the time because the Rover is really working to go uphill now.
142:29:24	CC	All right.
142:29:25	Cernan	But we're almost there.
142:29:28	Schmitt	As I look up the scarp to the west, there are some big blocks scattered around on the horizon; but, again, I would guess that we're not dealing with more than - 2 or 3 percent total coverage of blocks in here, at that.
142:29:47	Cernan	Well, I think, for the most part - for the most part, we're on top ... - -
142:29:51	Schmitt	Yes, we're - we're on top.
142:29:55	Cernan	Bob, we're at 7.8 - correction 078, 7.2, and 6.2.
142:30:01	CC	Copy that.
142:30:03	Cernan	Jack, where was Nansen with respect to those tracks up there?
142:30:07	Schmitt	Well, they never really had any good tracks pinned down, I don't think, on that - You'll be able to see Nansen, I think soon as you get over this hill.
142:30:15	Cernan	Boy, I tell you, when we look back, that's going to be quite a sight if we can see into that Sun. We have been coming uphill. Well, I'd say this is the - this is the last straw to the top. And is she working! Come on, baby.
142:30:36	Schmitt	Okay. I think you bear -
142:30:39	Cernan	I'm going to try to get over along the base of the massif now.
142:30:41	Schmitt	Yes. Head towards that track area there, anyway. There are a lot of boulder tracks coming down from the blue-gray rocks, Bob. We'll see whether or not we're going to get to those tracks at Nansen, or we might want to move over to the track and see if we can find the boulder that made them.
142:31:02	CC	Okay; if they're in the vicinity, it might be a nice idea - -
142:31:04	Schmitt	But there's no question where those tracks come from.
142:31:07	CC	And we gather you're slowing down to about 5 clicks now, coming up this last rise.
142:31:14	Cernan	Yes, I'm back up to about 7 to 10 now, Bob. That'a the slowdown - is because that's about all it will take.
142:31:22	Schmitt	Bob, I have the impression that there is a dipping zone of blue-gray outcrops, or block concentrations up there on the Massif, that trends from the high point just beneath the Earth - cross-slope - and probably is - at least the apparent depth is - oh, I don't know, 10 or 15 degrees to the east. It looks like those outcrops may match up along that trend.
142:32:00	CC	Okay.
142:32:00	Cernan	Jack, I'm going to head right along this ridge because I think that's the depression we were talking about.
142:32:04	Schmitt	Yes, That's Nansen down there.
142:32:06	Cernan	Right - Where are you looking?
142:32:07	Schmitt	I think, right below -
142:32:09	Cernan	I think you're right. I think that's it. Let me get over here, and then I'll head a little bit to the south.
142:32:16	Schmitt	Yes, we're a little more west, I think, than we intended to be.
142:32:19	Cernan	Yes, I think you're right.
142:32:20	Schmitt	Bob, 7 - Wait a minute - 7.8 and 6.5.
142:32:39	Schmitt	Bob, I've had an impression, and I can't prove it yet, that we're dealing with more heterogeneous rock. Possibly there are breccias in here. But it's - it's - awfully hard to tell right now. They're very light-colored rocks - I think even lighter colored than the gabbros.
142:33:08	CC	Okay. We'll soon find out.
142:33:15	Schmitt	I'm afraid those - I think we can follow those tracks - the pictures, maybe, or -
142:33:23	Cernan	Yes, I think we can see some of those coming down.
142:33:25	Schmitt	I think the ones from the big outcrop of blue-gray rock, though, are the ones going into Nansen.
142:33:30	Cernan	Bob, my best guess - let's see - 077) 7.7, 6.6 - is that we're coming up on the northern side of Nansen.
142:33:41	CC	Okay. We copy that, Geneo.
142:33:45	Cernan	And, let me tell you, this is quite a Rover ride.
142:33:49	CC	It sure sounds like it.
142:33:55	Cernan	That is quite a machine, I tell you. I think it would do a lot more than we'd let it.
142:34:06	Schmitt	(Laughter) That's right. I think that big crater up there on the side is the one that you can see in the photographs, just above Station 2.
142:34:19	Cernan	Yes. I think if I come up here, do a hard left turn; you unbuckle your belt, you'll roll right down into the bottom of Nansen.
142:34:25	Schmitt	I'm afraid you're right. ...
142:34:26	CC	Okay. And remember we're going to about 068 and about 7.4 will be Station 2. At least that's our estimate.
142:34:34	Schmitt	Bob - -
142:34:35	Cernan	Okay, there's Nansen over there, huh?
142:34:38	Schmitt	Well, I think so.
142:34:39	Cernan	Yes.
142:34:39	Schmitt	I think you're right. It's got to be it. Got to be it. Yes, Bob, I think we're into a breccia population now. I think the blocks in the light mantle are largely breccias. They're mottled in their characteristics. The white zaps do not seem to be nearly as apparent. They tend to be chalky when they get hit. At least, in the large craters, the walls are chalk - chalky looking. Oh, yes. We've got boulders in Station 2.
142:35:21	Cernan	Yes, they're there.
142:35:22	Schmitt	Yes, sir. Boy, I tell you, if I hand on to this camera until you stop and can tighten it up, it'll be a miracle.
142:35:33	Cernan	Bob, how long have we been driving?
142:35:35	CC	Stand by. We estimate you've got about a kilometer and a half to go - a little over a kilometer, anyway. Stand by, we'll check on the time. You're doing great.
142:35:42	Cernan	How long in - -
142:35:45	PAO	We're 2 hours into the EVA.
142:35:49	Schmitt	Man, this has been a trip.
142:35:51	Cernan	Man, I tell you. You know, we're really up on top of this thing. Whoo!
142:35:54	CC	You guys have been driving 64 minutes, and that counts the time to stop and deploy the charge and pick up the Rover samples.
142:36:04	Schmitt	Hey, Bob. We're very clearly going downhill now, into the trough area that - that surrounds the Massif where - or between the mantle and the massif. But the trough is much greater in extent than just Nansen scale. It's probably a kilometer wide. I never realized that it was so - so much of a depression in here.
142:36:32	CC	Okay. How about a range and bearing readout.
142:36:33	Schmitt	I'm not sure we're going to be able to see the LM.
142:36:37	Cernan	074, 8.2, 6.9.
142:36:41	CC	Copy that.
142:36:41	Cernan	We won't be able to see the LM from down here. We'll be too low to see it. Fact is, I don't think I can see that far.
142:36:57	Schmitt	The surface patterns are still the same, Bob. The main difference being that we're getting probably a gradual increase in block population, and the blocks seem to be of a different character. They - they may be breccias.
142:37:17	CC	Okay. Copy that.
142:37:18	Schmitt	And around the crater here that's maybe 75 meters in diameter, the - there's probably 5 percent blocks - fragments, I should say - greater than a centimeter.
142:37:33	Cernan	Boy, look at all the dust around that fender. I hate to think of what it would have been like with that fender gone.
142:37:37	Schmitt	Yes. There's a good-sized block, sort of blue-gray.
142:37:44	Cernan	Looking up there, Jack, I ought to get some 500s looking right up that hill, but - -
142:37:47	Schmitt	Well, you may want to do that way out a way, a ways.
142:37:51	Cernan	It's - some of that stuff is mantled - or buried in the massif material. Some of it just seems to be laying on it, of course.
142:38:01	Schmitt	Yes. Well, I think it has to do with how long it's been there. You'll tend to get the downslope movements forming uphill fillets, and that's what a lot of it looks like.
142:38:12	Cernan	Most of it is uphill fillets. Most of it is pretty sharp. But my guess, from back at the LM, that those blocks on the massif were much more angular, I think is a good guess because that's what they look like to me here.
142:38:31	Schmitt	And looking up into our blue-gray outcrop urea, I still have even more the impression that there's; a - a planier (?) orientation that dips off to the southeast - maybe just fracturing, but I - pretty clear up there, I think. It may - it may be shadows.
142:38:53	Cernan	The LM is now 50 percent away from the massif - let's see, 50 percent of the massif height away from the massif. How's that? I think we will keep that on top.
142:39:03	Schmitt	That is a high mountain.
142:39:05	Cernan	Gemine Christmas!
142:39:07	Schmitt	Listen, if the Earth goes behind it, we're changing Station 2. (Laughter) it'll be nip and tuck, pardon the expression. Okay. As we get closer, actually, we're out of the very - the block area. And that blocky region of 5 percent may have been just associated with that crater. I still see no lineations although - -
142:39:34	Cernan	Look at these wrinkles, though, Jack - -
142:39:36	Schmitt	Yes. I mean on - I was talking about the mantle.
142:39:38	Cernan	Oh.
142:39:38	Schmitt	But you're right about on the massif.
142:39:41	Cernan	The same wrinkled lineations we saw trending - sloping uphill to the west on the eastern half of the massif are still very evident at this Sun angle.
142:39:55	CC	Okay, 17; And we're estimating that you should be there within about 5 minutes to meet the walkback constraints.
142:40:03	Cernan	Well, we're - Bob, we're almost ready to park.
142:40:06	CC	Okay. Beautiful.
142:40:15	Schmitt	Well, I wouldn't have gone so far as to say that.
142:40:17	Cernan	Well -
142:40:19	Schmitt	We're getting close.
142:40:22	Cernan	I'll give them their 5 minutes. We'll make it by then.
142:40:26	Schmitt	Bob, the boulder tracks are really just chains of small craters, for the most part.
142:40:47	CC	Okay; copy that. That's interesting.
142:40:49	Cernan	I don't think we can tilt that television - I don't think they can tilt the television camera high enough to see the top of the massif. Jack, we're on the edge here, but I don't know - is that that - Well, let me go up here.
142:41:09	Schmitt	No, you're doing great.
142:41:11	Cernan	Brazil 71, 8.9, and 7.4.
142:41:16	Schmitt	See, there's Nansen off to my right now.
142:41:17	Cernan	Yes, I just want to make sure that I'm not driving down a hole here, which I am, but - I don't want to drive down Nansen.
142:41:27	Schmitt	No, I - you won't. The saddle - the end of Nansen is over there near those blocks. Right over there.
142:41:42	Schmitt	Look at those blocks. Unfortunately, the boulder tracks - good boulder tracks are over into Nansen.
142:41:53	Cernan	Going out of here very slowly.
142:41:57	Schmitt	I think station - just about anywhere near the big blocks - -
142:42:02	Cernan	Yes.
142:42:03	Schmitt	- - would be a good Station 2.
142:42:04	Cernan	That's where I'm going to put it. We could try to -
142:42:14	Schmitt	Let's see.
142:42:17	Cernan	Yes, that's where we're going to make Station 2; right up there.
142:42:20	Schmitt	What? Straight ahead?
142:42:21	Cernan	Yes.
142:42:22	Schmitt	Yes. Okay.
142:42:24	Cernan	Boy, you're looking right into Nansen.
142:42:27	Schmitt	Yes. We're right where we wanted to be for Station 2. And it looks like a great place. Big blocks. It looks like quite a bit of variety from here. Different colors, anyway. Grays and lighter colored tans.
142:42:45	Cernan	Hey, Jack, I'm going to do a 180 and park the Rover at 045.
142:42:54	Schmitt	Those are two good - there's a blue-gray rock and a lighter colored tan rock.
142:42:58	Cernan	See where they can look in here.
142:43:00	PAO	We'll have television shortly after they've parked. Station 2 is right at the face of the South Massif.
142:43:02	Schmitt	How about - Are you going to park it?
142:43:04	Cernan	Right on the other side of this little crater. ... heading ...
142:43:06	CC	... heading.
142:43:07	Cernan	... 45
142:43:21	Cernan	Hey, Bob. You want to hazard a guess? It is 0. ... 9.1, 7.6. Are you reading, by the way?
142:43:35	CC	Roger. Reading you loud and clear.
142:43:40	Cernan	Okay. Let me get undone here. Amp hours are 98, 98. Batteries are 90 and 112, and the motor forward left is OFFSCALE LOW, and right is 340. Forward rear is OFFSCALE LOW, and right is 240. I expect we've got a bad meter.
142:44:08	CC	Okay. Copy that on the 340. And you want to give me the bearing one more time there, Gene. All I got was the distance at 9.1 and the heading - and the range.
142:44:21	Cernan	Yes, sir. 0.1, 9-l, 7.6. We are right at Station 2.
142:44:29	Schmitt	Look at Nansen.
142:44:32	CC	Okay. We copy that. When you're at the station, here's a couple of things - -
142:44:34	Cernan	Five minutes - -
142:44:35	CC	- - we'd like for you guys to look at in the overhead. In addition to them. We'd like the TV lens to be dusted, in addition to the regular dusting. That'll take the lens brush, remember.
142:44:44	Schmitt	Can you try to tighten that?
142:44:46	CC	You might check the low gain antella - antenna elevation to make sure it's at 45 degrees. We'd like - we think you commented on that. And I think you're right now looking at tightening Jack's camera handle.
142:45:00	Schmitt	I'll work on that, Gene. You go ahead with the other - -
142:45:02	Cernan	Okay. Yes, we are at 45 degrees, Bob. Let me check it. I'll lose the comm on you a second. I've got to turn it towards me.
142:45:17	Cernan	... at 045.
142:45:24	CC	And, 17. Jack, we'd like you to check the SEP for us. I suspect we'll have to turn it off and open the mirrors and dust them.
142:45:38	Schmitt	Boy, when you get this picture -
142:45:50	PAO	TV coming in now.
142:45:51	Cernan	You got HIGH GAIN.
142:45:53	CC	Roger. Thank you. We have TV.
142:46:05	CC	Geno, we do not get a good bearing from you guys.
142:46:06	Cernan	Oh, Manischewitz!
142:46:09	CC	We might also check the LMP's camera.
142:46:10	Cernan	Okay. I'll give it to you again.
142:46:15	Schmitt	That's fixed. Oh, you mean for pictures?
142:46:19	CC	Roger. ... - -
142:46:19	Schmitt	Okay, LMP -
142:46:28	Cernan	Okay, 071 - 071 is the bearing.
142:46:33	CC	Okay. Copy that.
142:46:35	Schmitt	142 on LM - 142 on the LMP's camera. The temperature is 105.
142:46:48	CC	Roger. Let's turn off the power and the recorder, open the blankets, and dust it.
142:46:57	Schmitt	Power's off, blankets are open; and, Gene, you'll have to dust it.
142:47:06	Cernan	I'll get it. I've got a lot of dusting to do here, Jack.
142:47:11	Schmitt	Okay. Let's see what we've got to do.
142:47:14	CC	And, Jack, I presume when I told you, you turned off the receiver, didn't you? Not just the DSEA?
142:47:21	Schmitt	That's affirm. I turned off both switches.
142:47:24	CC	That's what I thought. Thank you.
142:47:26	Schmitt	Oh, my scoop. My scoop just came off. That's interesting. I'd better check the rake. Vibrated loose, I guess.
142:47:54	Cernan	I'll get the battery covers.
142:47:55	CC	Okay; and Jack, we'd like to get an EMU check on you.
142:48:01	Schmitt	Stand by.
142:48:15	CC	And, Jack, we'd like to go to India on the magazine for you.
142:48:29	PAO	Gene Cernan in the foreground.
142:48:36	Schmitt	Okay, magazine India. My goodness, we'll never get started.
142:48:42	Cernan	Man, we are down in a dep- Look at where we came down, Jack.
142:48:45	PAO	Jack Schmitt in the picture, now.
142:48:47	Cernan	And that was just one of the hills. Got to go back up and then down some. Hey, thank you for that fix on the fender, by the way, because I'd hate to see what it would look like without it.
142:49:09	CC	Okay. And John suggests that we might just check it momentarily while you're here to make sure it's still holding on good and tight. Both the clamps and the tape.
142:49:17	Cernan	Yes, that's on my - that's on my list. If it stayed on through that ride it may never come off. Okay. Have you got a lens brush in there, Jack?
142:49:41	Schmitt	Yes.
142:49:42	Cernan	Well, hold it a minute. I've got to get this SEP. Do you want me to brush the SEP, is that what you said?
142:49:45	Schmitt	Yes.
142:49:48	Cernan	Do you want the covers open?
142:49:51	Schmitt	They should be open and dusted.
142:49:57	Cernan	Okay. The SEP is open. It's about 100 degrees.
142:50:00	Schmitt	105 ...
142:50:01	Cernan	105? Okay. And it's dusted.
142:50:11	Schmitt	Here's your lens brush; if you need it.
142:50:12	Cernan	Okay, thank you. That camera look all right to you? Let me get yours; lean over here, and I'll get yours. Okay. I'll get mine, too.
142:50:38	CC	And, Jack, we're suggesting that you're getting a little warm - maybe intermediate might help.
142:50:44	Schmitt	Bob, I feel the same way, but I want to get this camera fixed.
142:50:48	CC	Okay.
142:50:50	Schmitt	I mean the film changed.
142:50:51	CC	Okay.
142:50:57	Cernan	Can I change your oil?
142:51:01	CC	Oh, thank you, Geno. It looks much better.
142:51:13	Cernan	How about Any other service I can be?
142:51:18	Schmitt	Okay. Okay, Houston, the number of blocks plotted on the map are not nearly enough. In the greater than 1-meter range, there are many hundred blocks on the flank of - on the massif flank of Nansen, and up around Station 2, where we are. There are only one or two blocks on the light mantle side of Nansen. It looks as if the material in the bottom of Nansen is overriding the light mantle materials of the north wall. That's just an impression. There's slightly lighter albedo than the north wall of Nansen.
142:52:12	CC	Okay. Copy that, Jack. Looks fantastic up there.
142:52:16	Schmitt	And I suggest that we - I suggest that we do our raking - That's right. I just told you everything you can see - fairly close to the Rover to get some of the general population of talus material coming off the massif.
142:52:44	Cernan	Bob, on my mark - I've got everything - hammer, gnomon, film. Okay.
142:52:54	Cernan	MARK, If you have a gravimeter measurement going.
142:52:56	CC	Roger. Copy the mark.
142:53:01	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. The blue-gray rocks are breccias. They're multilithic, gray matrix - matrix breccias, I guess. There are fragments in them, but it doesn't look like more than about 10 or 15 percent fragments. Some of the light - the light-colored fragments seem to have fine-grained - very finegrained dark halos around them. The zap pits do not have white halos, so I suspect they are not crystalline. They might be glass - they might be the vitric or glassy breccias. At least, the one big rock we have here.
142:53:52	CC	Copy that.
142:53:53	Schmitt	There's a rough, very rough, foliation in them - that - that and I'm not sure - it's shown by the elongate knobs on the surface - it looks like a fracture foliation of some kind.
142:54:11	Cernan	Jack, that rock has almost got to have come down, don't you think?
142:54:12	Schmitt	Oh, no question about it. I'll bet you - I'll bet you it's the same as the blue-gray rocks we see up higher. Here's some more blue-gray ones over here.
142:54:20	Cernan	Let's - let's start taking - Oh, yes. Look at the size of some of these light fragments in here.
142:54:25	Schmitt	Yes, but it still - I don't - it looks like they're dominantly matrix breccias. There - there are light-colored fragments, and they may be crystalline.
142:54:38	Cernan	Okay -
142:54:38	Schmitt	Yes, they are. They're very light colored; they look like the shattered anorthosites. They have white halos - I xhink that's what those fragments are.
142:54:52	Cernan	Jack, let's get a piece of this one right here.
142:54:54	Schmitt	Okay.
142:54:55	Cernan	Biggest one here.
142:54:56	Schmitt	Get her up. This is the blue-gray variety, Houston.
142:55:04	CC	Okay. Copy on that.
142:55:11	Cernan	I'm going to take that little knob off up there.
142:55:13	Schmitt	Okay; well, you can sample - you can work that block over.
142:55:16	Cernan	Yes.
142:55:17	Schmitt	We can get several examples. We ought to sample across that layering, actually - that foliation.
142:55:24	Cernan	One comment. When you look down into the bottom of Nansen, it looks like - like, I guess - which sounds obvious - that some of the debris that has rolled off of the South Massif covers up the original material there that covers the north wall of Nansen. There is a distinct difference. You've got that very wrinkled texture in the north slopes of Nansen, and you've got the South Massif - debris in the south slopes of Nansen. And the debris, of course, overlays the - the north slope. And all the rock fragments, all the boulders that have come down are all on the west side of the - of the - correction, on the south side of the slope of Nansen.
142:56:12	CC	Okay; got that.
142:56:13	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. I take back what I said about no halos. There are light - not very sharply light - but light halos around zap pits in the matrix. The matrix glass is dark, and it seems to have a greenish cast; but it's very dark.
142:56:32	Cernan	Oh, look at that blue.
142:56:34	Schmitt	Oh.
142:56:35	Cernan	Look at the white fragments in there.
142:56:42	Schmitt	Let me come and help you there.
142:56:43	Cernan	Man, there's some boulder rolling rocks here, Jack.
142:56:46	Schmitt	(Laughter) Okay, don't wreck the fillets. There's an overhang we've got to get into.
142:56:56	Schmitt	Okay. 514 is the - Okay, I'll take it back. On the fresh surface, these look like fragment breccias although the fragment size is fairly small. There are dark gray framgents and the light fragments we talked about. The gray ones are very fine grained and dense, although I see flashes that indicate they may be crystalline. The light-colored fragments are as I described them earlier, I think.
142:57:27	CC	Copy that.
142:57:30	Schmitt	514. ... - -
142:57:34	CC	Okay; Jack. If you could tear yourself away in the middle of that sometime to give us an EMU read-out, we'd appreciate it. We haven't gotten that from you yet on the EVA.
142:57:42	Schmitt	Okay. I'm - Stand by. Gene's got a rock to go. That's from up higher?
142:57:51	Cernan	That's a little higher. See that shelf up there?
142:57:52	Schmitt	Okay. The first rock was from about a - 514 was from a meter above the base of the rocks; 515 is from about a meter and a half.
142:58:03	Cernan	Here, can I get this in your -
142:58:08	Schmitt	Can you get some on either side of those two now?
142:58:11	Cernan	Yes.
142:58:17	Schmitt	Okay. You're open. I'll leave you open for a minute.
142:58:20	Cernan	Well, okay. Just so they don't fall out. Am I in?
142:58:23	Schmitt	No. Let me get this other one.
142:58:24	Cernan	Okay.
142:58:30	Schmitt	Okay, go ahead.
142:58:34	Cernan	Let me try from back here.
142:58:37	Schmitt	Of course, that's a north/south overhang.
142:58:39	Cernan	Yes. That one?
142:58:42	Schmitt	Yes, you're facing right into the east.
142:58:43	Cernan	Yes, yes. I don't know if I can get a piece back here or not.
142:58:46	Schmitt	How about right where you ... yes.
142:58:48	Cernan	Right here? I can get that.
142:58:50	Schmitt	Yes, that's good.
142:58:52	Cernan	Oh, beautiful. Hit the gnomon.
142:58:53	Cernan	Well, I'll re - -
142:58:55	Schmitt	It didn't move. It just tilted it.
142:58:56	Cernan	This it?
142:58:57	Schmitt	Yes, that's it right there.
142:59:05	Schmitt	Let me set my working tool down here.
142:59:10	Cernan	Got a bag?
142:59:11	Schmitt	Coming right up. Boy, that dust. Once you get it on there, you might as well forget it.
142:59:19	Schmitt	494. 494 is from a half a meter above the base of the rock.
142:59:25	CC	Understand, 0.5 meters up.
142:59:25	Schmitt	And these are samples from across the layering - or the - These are samples from - across the - foliation. I missed that, Bob.
142:59:38	CC	Okay. Copy that now.
142:59:40	Schmitt	What do you think? Can you get that - can you get that one up there?
142:59:45	Cernan	Yes. I might either get that or this other piece up here. Without busting my butt.
142:59:50	Schmitt	Well, don't take any chances.
142:59:50	Cernan	Yes, I'm not going to. How about this one? Here's a whole big piece.
142:59:58	Schmitt	Okay. That's a good - good representative fragment. Did you get it?
143:00:03	Cernan	I can't reach you without my camera hitting.
143:00:05	Schmitt	That's a football-size fragment. Okay, this next sample - Can you get a bag out, and we'll try to put it around it. Around the end. Bob, it's highly variable. This is a light matrix breccia; whereas the other three fragments were dark-matrix or dark-fragment breccias. The big rock is a light-matrix breccia with dark fragments, and it's the one that has the halos around the - around the light fragments. And that's in 495 barely. It's not even in it. It's just - 495 is wrapped around it.
143:00:53	Cernan	It's not going to stay.
143:00:54	Schmitt	It's not going to stay, is it?
143:00:56	Cernan	No. Well -
143:00:58	Schmitt	It's a football-size fragmental rock. Let me - Why don't you just stuff it. See if you can stuff it in there with that - with the bag down - -
143:01:09	Cernan	Yes, it'll - We'll be able to identify it when we get - 495 when we get back. Okay, it'll stay.
143:01:14	Schmitt	Is the bag on it now?
143:01:14	CC	Okay; we copy that, Gene. And do you guys see any tracks coming down to these boulders? Do have any feeling that these - you can place these that way?
143:01:15	Cernan	Well, yes, - it's ...
143:01:16	Schmitt	Great.
143:01:26	Schmitt	Bob, unfortunately, no. The main tracks are out into Nansen, and we - I don't think we can get over there.
143:01:32	CC	Okay; that's those biggies that we see on the left, huh?
143:01:34	Schmitt	But the visual resi - Yes. Coming up, I was looking; and there are no obvious tracks coming down here.
143:01:44	Cernan	Watch your shadow, Jack.
143:01:44	Schmitt	Yes, I'll get it. Wait a minute; that gnomon is probably not - Well, that's right; you got stereo earlier.
143:01:49	Cernan	Yes, I reset it.
143:01:50	Schmitt	The gnomon was moved a little between the samples.
143:01:53	CC	Okay. We copy that.
143:01:54	Schmitt	Do you need to take a vertical pan?
143:01:56	Cernan	Yes, I've gotten it all. I'm getting it all.
143:01:58	Schmitt	You getting the flight line? I'll get a flight line this way. Postsample, flight line.
143:02:15	Cernan	Okay, Bob. I'm on frame count 42.
143:02:18	CC	Copy, 42.
143:02:22	Cernan	Did you get a locator from here, Jack?
143:02:23	Schmitt	Yes.
143:02:24	Cernan	Okay.
143:02:32	Schmitt	Okay. I got flight line on the north/south trend; Gene got east/west.
143:02:38	Cernan	You going to get that sample under there?
143:02:40	Schmitt	Yes, we got to get the soil.
143:02:42	Cernan	There may be an overhang. And look at that frag - that rack - rock is fragmented; let's see, but it's east - it's southeast/northwest. There's a split.
143:02:54	Schmitt	Yes, that one right over there is okay. You want to get - hey, did you want to get this?
143:02:58	Cernan	Yes, I'll get that.
143:02:58	Schmitt	This fillet?
143:02:59	Cernan	You got it?
143:03:02	CC	And, 17 - -
143:03:03	Schmitt	This is a fillet from underneath the rock.
143:03:05	CC	Roger. And an update on the rake samples when you get around to it. We'd like to get one up on the massif slope as much as you can, if you can get over to it. And then the second one down near the Rover.
143:03:18	Cernan	Okay.
143:03:20	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. This fillet is up underneath an overhang. I got it from about -
143:03:30	Cernan	I got to get uphill from you.
143:03:34	Schmitt	It's about - -
143:03:37	Cernan	That's good.
143:03:39	Schmitt	- - oh, a third of a meter under an overhand. And it's the upper 3 centimeters of soil.
143:03:49	Cernan	And it's bag 496.
143:03:51	Schmitt	Now let me get one out away from the overhand a little bit.
143:03:56	Cernan	- Okay.
143:03:57	CC	Okay. You think that's permanent shadow?
143:03:59	Schmitt	And a one away from - - No.
143:04:02	Cernan	No. It's facing east.
143:04:04	CC	Okay.
143:04:06	Schmitt	Okay. And a sample down to a depth of about 5 centimeters, about two-thirds of a meter from the - boulder - the south side - is in 497.
143:04:25	CC	Copy that.
143:04:28	Schmitt	Now let me - let me get a skim sample, Geno.
143:04:30	Cernan	Okay. I've got to take a set of pictures after that, by the way. Show where they are.
143:04:41	Schmitt	I can piece them into my flight line stereo.
143:04:44	Cernan	Okay. They were in both of the before pictures on those rocks.
143:04:49	Schmitt	Okay; about a centimeter deep - skim.
143:04:56	Cernan	Careful. You're in a hole. Can you - you better come out.
143:05:00	Schmitt	Yes.
143:05:07	Cernan	Boy, that's hard on the hand even in 1/6 g.
143:05:10	Schmitt	Okay.
143:05:12	Cernan	And that was - -
143:05:15	Schmitt	Okay.
143:05:17	Cernan	And I didn't park that Rover in a very good spot for them to watch what's going on, I guess; but that was the heading.
143:05:22	Schmitt	Oh, shoot. They're missing all of it.
143:05:24	Cernan	We didn't work in the right spot; that's all.
143:05:27	CC	Every now and then we get a peek at you guys. But only every now and then.
143:05:30	Cernan	Okay, I - Sorry, Bob.
143:05:40	Schmitt	Oh, wait a minute.
143:05:43	Cernan	You know, that's the way it happens.
143:05:45	CC	Give sample bag number, please.
143:05:46	Cernan	Okay. It's back on.
143:05:49	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. I missed that. I didn't give it to you; but I think - well the next bag I take out, you can check the num - Well, wait a minute, I'll do it for you.
143:06:02	CC	No. That's okay. I suspect it's 498.
143:06:03	Schmitt	I'm almost positive it was 498.
143:06:05	CC	Okay. We'll put that down.
143:06:07	Schmitt	Yes, I did, too.
143:06:16	Schmitt	Okay, Bob, the - looking at the blocks directly down-Sun, there are - the light gray, or the gray-matrix breccias seem to be fragments, or ... anyway, within the white-matrix breccias.
143:06:41	CC	Okay. I copy that.
143:06:45	Schmitt	And I got a couple pictures down-Sun to show that texture.
143:06:49	CC	Okay. And one thing we'd like to do would be to sample a variety of blocks, in terms of looking at differences in the blocks - from block to block.
143:06:59	Schmitt	Roger. We're going to do that. We're going after a gray - I mean a lighter-colored block, now. Are you going up there?
143:07:05	Cernan	Yes.
143:07:06	CC	Okay, and if you're going up the massif, why don't we try and get the rake sample up there now, when you finish these rocks.
143:07:13	Cernan	Hey, Jack - Jack, don't come up here unless you bring the rake. It's a long trip. No sense coming up here twice. I can go get this sample. I'd get the rake, If I were you. Don't walk back up twice.
143:07:26	Schmitt	Well, I don't - I'm not sure they're going Lo gain anything by coming up to the top.
143:07:31	Cernan	Okay.
143:07:33	Schmitt	You're not going to gain a thing, Bob.
143:07:36	CC	Stand by.
143:07:36	Schmitt	You're still on the talus. You guys - Oh, well. The rims of the small craters in the talus are - are softer than the - normal terrain. My foot goes in maybe 10 centimeters where normally it only goes in a centimeter.
143:07:59	CC	Okay. As long as it's above the break of the slope, Jack, we don't have to get very far up the slope.
143:08:05	Schmitt	That's right.
143:08:06	CC	And, Jack, if you're back at the Rover, how about giving us a grav reading when you - before you leave.
143:08:14	Schmitt	Because I'm late sampling, that's why. But I'll do it, anyway.
143:08:18	CC	Roger.
143:08:23	Schmitt	Okay, 670 155 201; 670 155 201.
143:08:32	CC	Okay. Copy that, Jack. Press on.
143:08:37	Cernan	Okay, Bob, I'm at another boulder up the slope here. It's - looks quite similar to the one we just sampled, except there is a lot of flake fractures on it. Non-uniform, nondirectional, but quite - quite different, at least from that other rock, in terms of the fracture patterns. The texture looks to be quite similar. Boy, I'm glad I don't have to walk to the top of this thing.
143:09:09	Schmitt	Hey, look, Gene, on these rake samples, there is just no point in carrying a rake all the way up here - -
143:09:15	CC	Negative, Jack, as long as you're above the break - -
143:09:16	Schmitt	- - because all we needed was a break in the slope.
143:09:18	CC	As long as you're above the break in the slope; that's right.
143:09:21	Schmitt	Well, that's all right. It's being done; but let's watch those kind of calls please.
143:09:28	Cernan	They can't appreciate the - toughness of going up this slope, though. We can; we've got to tell them that.
143:09:33	Schmitt	Well, we did.
143:09:34	CC	Yes, that's what we were saying. Don't go above - just at the base of the break in the slope, Jack. Don't climb all the way up there with it.
143:09:40	Schmitt	Oh, relax.
143:09:42	Cernan	Okay, we're all set, Bob. No problem ...
143:09:54	Schmitt	We want to get away from that big rock because it's probably shedding. Hey, that's a different rock, Gene.
143:10:00	Cernan	Yes. Well, it looks like the same texture, but it's got that flaky fracture pattern all over it. I'm going to get a stereo while I'm at it.
143:10:12	Schmitt	Yes.
143:10:16	Cernan	This ought to cover any samples I take off of that thing.
143:10:25	Schmitt	I'm going to get myself a zap of cold water.
143:10:36	Cernan	Man, we've got to be a million miles away from the LM.
143:10:41	Schmitt	Okay, this is a crystalline rock, Houston. It's got nice white halos around the zap pits. The zap is - the zaps are not - dense black glass, but a dark greenish - very dark greenish-gray.
143:10:59	Cernan	Are those halos or fragments?
143:11:01	Schmitt	No, they're halos. Well, they are fragments, I think, also. But, right now, it's fairly crystalline, but it is heterogeneous. Matter of fact (laughter) there's a big fragment of a porphyry caught up in this thing, I think.
143:11:17	Cernan	Did you get a locator, by any chance?
143:11:18	Schmitt	I haven't done a thing.
143:11:19	Cernan	Okay. Well, I want to start taking some - -
143:11:22	Schmitt	Yes, we got to get some of that.
143:11:23	Cernan	That's what I want. That's where I'm going right now.
143:11:26	Schmitt	And there's a chunk there we can get. That's a big fragment within this crystalline rock - -
143:11:30	Cernan	Take a picture of that - -
143:11:31	Schmitt	- - inclusion.
143:11:33	Cernan	Take a picture of that and then - and then - your locator, I'll get it.
143:11:38	Schmitt	Go ahead. I've got it.
143:11:58	Schmitt	Get it?
143:11:59	Cernan	Yes, I've got it.
143:12:01	Schmitt	Beautiful. Looks like a porphyry.
143:12:03	Cernan	Boy, it does look like a crystalline rock.
143:12:04	Schmitt	Looks like an anorthosite porphyry is what it looks like.
143:12:07	Cernan	The ... has got the very large crystals in there. They're very - they're very reflective, elongated crystals.
143:12:17	Schmitt	It's a relatively angular inclusion about - it's about a half a meter in size, and it's a square cross section. Well, it's irregular; but generally square cross section. It's in bag 516, and it looks like a - well it's a high feldspar rock. It may be an anorthositic gabbro, but it is - it does look like a porphyry.
143:12:57	Cernan	There's a big chunk where I've got - I can't get it out, though; it's burled in a rock - a very - oh, half an inch elongated - I can't see whether they are colorless or not, but they are certainly reflective crystals. See that up here? See right there?
143:13:18	Schmitt	Yes.
143:13:19	Cernan	And then in the big rock, you've got massive things like this big - this big fragment here, that's 5 inches across.
143:13:24	Schmitt	Well, it - that may be a spall point, Gene, that's a lighter color, in general, because of a zap or something.
143:13:32	Cernan	Let's get the - let me get some more samples of it.
143:13:33	Schmitt	Yes, we need to get some of the host rock here.
143:13:35	Cernan	Okay. We'll get a piece here.
143:13:37	Schmitt	Okay now, you're still sampling the one we just got. So we'll get another one.
143:13:45	Schmitt	Okay. The same kind - or the contact of that rock looks very much - looks like it might be finer grained - but it's about the same - in 517. That's the contact in the - the inclusion side of the contact. Keep going after the other one, Gene, I'll get this in you - your bag.
143:14:11	Cernan	Bob, you could probably see this rock if you look over this way. We're high enough.
143:14:15	CC	Yes, we saw it, Geno. Quite a sight - quite a goodie.
143:14:19	Cernan	Okay. Let me see if I can't get this one here. There it is.
143:14:26	Schmitt	Okay. The host rock for the inclusion, which appears to be also crystalline, but may be a recrystallized rock of some kind - -
143:14:34	Cernan	Can't see it too well.
143:14:35	Schmitt	- - metamorphic - also looks like a high plagioclase - high feldspar, anyway. That's in bag 518 - and that was a loose frag - fairly loose but in place fragment along the fracture zone.
143:14:59	CC	Okay. - -
143:14:59	Cernan	Will you hold this a minute? I'm going to try to get the rest of it up there.
143:15:02	CC	Okay, 17. And for your thinking in the next few minutes, you might also factor in the guestion the backroom raises about taking 10 minutes out Station 4 and adding it into this station, given the wealth of interest that seems to be occurring here. You might think about that. You never - haven't been to Station 4, so it's a little hard to judge. But if you think 10 minutes can be very profitably spent, you might as well do that.
143:15:26	Schmitt	Okay, Bob, we'll think about it. This is a medium-green anorthositic gabbro, and it looks like it has some pastel-green allovane (?) crystals in it. Did you get it?
143:15:39	CC	We copy that.
143:15:40	Cernan	I can't get any more of it, Jack, up there. I can't reach any more.
143:15:41	Schmitt	Okay, and that small chip of that is in 519. It's the same host rock, much like the previous sample.
143:15:52	Cernan	There's a good sample for you.
143:15:53	Schmitt	Okay. And another - chunk of the host -
143:15:59	Cernan	Oops, be careful.
143:16:00	Schmitt	Yes.
143:16:01	Cernan	It's still there.
143:16:01	Schmitt	Yes, I've got it. I need to get this - rid of this - -
143:16:07	Cernan	Okay?
143:16:08	Schmitt	It's in there. I haven't closed your bag yet. And we've got to get a - get one soil sample up the hill here. Oh, we didn't get the rake -
143:16:21	Cernan	We ought to get a soil sample, though, up here, so - -
143:16:23	Schmitt	We'll get the rake sample right over here on this slope.
143:16:24	Cernan	Where did that thing go, Jack?
143:16:27	Schmitt	Right here.
143:16:28	CC	Okay. Was that last sample in 518, as well?
143:16:29	Cernan	There it is. That's it right there.
143:16:34	Schmitt	No. We haven't put it in yet.
143:16:36	CC	Okay.
143:16:38	Cernan	Bob, that will go in 499?
143:16:39	CC	Copy that.
143:16:43	Cernan	You get it?
143:16:49	Schmitt	Okay. Bob, this is a fairly uniform-looking rock. It does have some - widely spaced fractures across it. It's - clearly crystalline and has crystalline Inclusions in it.
143:17:08	Cernan	Hey, Jack - -
143:17:09	CC	Copy that.
143:17:09	Cernan	Might get the soil from around that thing.
143:17:12	Schmitt	Both rocks look like they might be in the anorthositic class - -
143:17:16	Cernan	Your bag is still open part way, too.
143:17:18	Schmitt	- - of rocks. It's just that it - one is - has the appearance of being a por - finer grain matrix. Looks like a porphyry in - in the boulder.
143:17:29	CC	Okay. And a reminder, as you photograph it, to remember that the photograph in the southwest quadrant there will be the best ones, around the corner on two sides there will be the best ones to show the structure through the whole rock.
143:17:42	Schmitt	Yes, sir. On the southwest?
143:17:45	Cernan	South and west.
143:17:46	CC	Roger.
143:17:46	Schmitt	South and west. Yes.
143:17:47	CC	Roger.
143:17:48	Schmitt	No, the west's in shade. No, no. You mean the -
143:17:53	CC	Southwest -
143:17:53	Schmitt	South and east.
143:17:54	CC	Roger. The southwest face - or it faces not quite south.
143:18:02	Cernan	Okay. I've got a stereo - I'll just continue my stereo around here. Hey, Jack, you can get way under there, and I know you could get soil. I don't know how long it's been shadowed, but it's been shadowed as long as this rock's been here.
143:18:13	Schmitt	Okay. I'll do that.
143:18:14	Cernan	Way out under there.
143:18:17	Schmitt	I've got to stereo this one.
143:18:19	Cernan	I've already got it.
143:18:20	Schmitt	Well, I'm getting it from this way, and they like that. Did we kick any dirt in under there?
143:18:25	Cernan	No. I don't - no, I don't think so. Go way down in there. Let me get a couple of after pictures. Yes, we want to get two sides of these rocks, and you can see their - their structure.
143:18:52	Schmitt	I've got that, Gene.
143:18:54	Cernan	Okay.
143:18:54	Schmitt	I took those. I took that stereo.
143:19:01	CC	Okay, and if I could remind you guys to get a pan from up there before you leave the high uphill area there. There's no point in climbing up there twice. ...
143:19:11	Cernan	Yes, sir, Bob. How much time we got here now?
143:19:14	CC	Stand by.
143:19:21	Schmitt	Okay. You got your bag?
143:19:23	CC	Okay. We got 12 or 13 minutes left at this station; unless you take that extra 10 minutes that we were offering you.
143:19:31	Cernan	Let's take it, Bob.
143:19:33	Schmitt	We got to get the rake.
143:19:34	Cernan	Let's take it; we'll need it.
143:19:35	Schmitt	Okay. Let me try again.
143:19:40	PAO	That's the Earth in the picture.
143:19:41	Cernan	Okay.
143:19:41	Schmitt	I don't know whether I can or not.
143:19:42	Cernan	Do you know how far under you're getting, by any chance?
143:19:43	Schmitt	Yes. I got in a - I got under an east-west overhang about - 20 centimeters - way back - By the way, ... it goes even farther, but that's about as far as I can reach back for the sample.
143:19:57	Cernan	That's enough, Jack let me -
143:20:00	CC	Okay. I copy that.
143:20:01	Schmitt	That's in bag 500.
143:20:03	CC	And, 17, if you want to just take a minute, you might look up in the sky and notice that our camera is taking a beautiful picture of Mother Earth.
143:20:14	Cernan	Isn't that pretty over - Can you see the Massif, too?
143:20:18	CC	Now we're coming down to look at the massif. isn't that a beautiful picture of the Pacific there? Ed finally found it. Now we see the massif.
143:20:30	Schmitt	Okay.
143:20:32	Cernan	And, Bob, I took an after picture of - of where Jack just got that soil sample under the rock from; and I'm on 60.
143:20:41	CC	Copy that.
143:20:42	Schmitt	Are you through with the gnomon?
143:20:43	Cernan	Yes.
143:20:43	Schmitt	I'll set it up for the rake.
143:20:44	Cernan	Okay, I'll go up there and get a pan, Jack.
143:20:46	Schmitt	Okay. You get that pan - -
143:20:47	CC	I - didn't get that soil bag number, Gene - or Jack.
143:20:50	Cernan	We've been here - -
143:20:52	Schmitt	500 .
143:20:55	CC	Copy that.
143:20:57	PAO	We're 2 hours and 46 minutes into this EVA.
143:21:09	Schmitt	We're on a pretty good slope, Geno.
143:21:10	Cernan	You bet you. And do I know it. Hey - Bob, how long have we been at this station?
143:21:19	CC	Stand by. You've been here about 40 minutes right now. Can you believe it?
143:21:27	Cernan	Is that right? Is that - all ready? Jack - -
143:21:30	CC	And we're going to give you that extra 10 minutes there.
143:21:33	Cernan	I can't believe we've been here.
143:21:37	CC	That leaves you about 20 minutes; then you'll have to be moving.
143:21:39	Cernan	Boy, this pan may be looking - Okay. This pan may be looking right smack in the sides of the Massifs. Only way you can get it is to lean back - and I can't lean downhill.
143:21:56	PAO	Jack Schmitt taking a rake sample.
143:22:01	CC	Hey. Watch out for that crater behind you there, Geno.
143:22:07	Cernan	I'm standing in the crater so I can get level.
143:22:09	CC	Yes, we see that.
143:22:10	Cernan	Well, I have some good pictures of Nansen, anyway, and -
143:22:30	Cernan	You know, I look out there, I'm not sure I really believe it all.
143:22:36	Schmitt	Bob, my down-Sun pictures on the rake were taken at f/8. I'm sorry.
143:22:41	CC	Okay, copy that ... We'll take it into account.
143:22:46	Cernan	This isn't an easy -
143:22:52	Schmitt	Okay, I got to get out of my shadow or I can't see what I'm doing.
143:23:23	Cernan	I'll be right down there to bag that rake for you.
143:23:26	Schmitt	I got to get it first.
143:23:29	Cernan	(Laughter) Man, I tell you; can you come downhilJ in a hurry. Going uphill is a nice job. Bob, I'd say we can meet our walkback constraints, if anyone's interested.
143:23:44	CC	Okay. I expect it's all downhill from here.
143:23:49	Cernan	Well, no, sir. Not exactly.
143:23:52	CC	Can you guys see the LM or are you down too far to see the LM?
143:23:54	Cernan	... our walkback constraints. Oh, no. The LM is over about three rises in the Scarp before we can even see it.
143:24:02	CC	Okay, I thought that might have happened.
143:24:03	Cernan	You're looking - I'm not even at a lev - I'm not even at a level of the last - the last hill we came over.
143:24:12	CC	Okay.
143:24:13	Cernan	I don't know if you've looked up that way.
143:24:16	CC	Roger. We had a feeling for that. I was just checking.
143:24:24	Cernan	We can meet them, but I wouldn't stretch them.
143:24:27	CC	Okay.
143:24:38	Schmitt	Not many small walnut-sized fragments in here, Bob. Gotten about seven or eight.
143:24:44	CC	Okay. I copy that.
143:24:56	Schmitt	Gene, you got a bag?
143:24:57	Cernan	Yes, sir. Right here. How you doing?
143:25:01	Schmitt	My hands are getting tired.
143:25:02	Cernan	Yes. Bag 501.
143:25:11	Cernan	No, there aren't a lot; but that'll fill up a bag.
143:25:15	Schmitt	This kilogram of sample site 2?
143:25:17	Cernan	I'll have to look; I think so. I think they all are, aren't they? Practically.
143:25:22	CC	And this is the one that we would like to get the kilogram of soil from, Jack.
143:25:27	Schmitt	Okay. I'll use my scoop for that.
143:25:30	Cernan	Bag 501.
143:25:32	CC	Copy that, Gene.
143:25:39	Schmitt	Okay, what do we have left here?
143:25:42	Cernan	We want to get a - I got the high pan.
143:25:50	Cernan	... let me look. They want it - -
143:25:53	Schmitt	I don't know how we used up all the time, but we did.
143:25:56	Cernan	Okay, my pan, by the way, I got extensive vertical coverage down into Nansen, Bob.
143:26:03	CC	Okay. Copy that, Gene. Thank you.
143:26:05	Schmitt	... getting to my ...
143:26:07	Cernan	I don't know where the hour went that it took to drive here.
143:26:13	Schmitt	Maybe time's different in space. Adventures in space and time.
143:26:19	Cernan	We changed 2 hours and 40 minutes. I don't know whether that makes us older or not, but - -
143:26:26	Schmitt	Ooops -
143:26:29	Cernan	Awrrrrrr -
143:26:31	Schmitt	Try again. I got half of it. I got three-quarters of it.
143:26:35	Cernan	502, Bob, will be the kilogram.
143:26:37	CC	Copy that.
143:26:38	Schmitt	And that's sample down to about 5 - about 4 centimeters - Don't get too close to the camera. Okay.
143:26:47	Cernan	Oh, that's a big bag full. Want to put it in mine?
143:26:51	Schmitt	It's all right. I can't feel it. You might as well -
143:26:56	Cernan	How's your cooling, okay?
143:26:58	Schmitt	Cooling's fine. My hands are tired.
143:27:00	Cernan	Well, that's natural.
143:27:02	Schmitt	Okay, ...
143:27:03	CC	Okay. And guys - do you see any more different blocks up there that are worth sampling before you go on down on to the flats and sample the light mantle?
143:27:14	Schmitt	We haven't had a chance to look around any more than you've heard.
143:27:17	CC	Okay.
143:27:18	Cernan	You want a rake and a light mantle here?
143:27:19	CC	We want a rake and a light mantle. You might as well get that down by the Rover - later on and -
143:27:23	Schmitt	Get an after - get an after, Gene. Gene, get an after.
143:27:27	Cernan	Yes. Got it, got it, got it, got it.
143:27:31	CC	Then you might look around - -
143:27:32	Schmitt	I'm sorry, Bob. Go ahead.
143:27:33	CC	- - ... documented samples there - up on the slope of the massif, before you move down the flatter light mantle areas by the Rover. Just do the other sampling.
143:27:42	Schmitt	We - we will.
143:27:46	Cernan	Okay, Bob. Jack got the befores on the rake and I got the after.
143:27:49	CC	Okay; we have that.
143:27:58	Cernan	Okay, Bob, here are two rocks side by side, a meter or two in diameter. And one is the anorthositic gabbro, if I can use the term; and the other is the - is that two-cycle breccia.
143:28:16	Cernan	Oh, that's the way to come downhill.
143:28:19	Schmitt	Just don't stub your toe.
143:28:21	Cernan	Man, that's the way to come downhill.
143:28:23	Schmitt	Hey, Gene.
143:28:24	Cernan	Yes.
143:28:25	Schmitt	Set up right there. Let's get that - let's get that big clast.
143:28:28	Cernan	There's a fram - a fracture right in there I want to get near. Oh, the clast. Yes.
143:28:31	Schmitt	Yes, sir.
143:28:32	Cernan	Good eye, good eye.
143:28:34	Schmitt	Big white clast - in the two-cy - in the gray-mat rix breccia.
143:28:39	Cernan	Good eye. Man, that's a prize. Let me get this over here so I can ...
143:28:43	Schmitt	I think you can even get it.
143:28:45	Cernan	I can get both sides. I want to get this big - Yes, I think I can get that. I'm going to try. Oh. I can't believe the trouble I have with f-stops.
143:29:03	Schmitt	Okay.
143:29:06	Cernan	Now, I want to try and take this piece off first.
143:29:13	Schmitt	Pretty hard, isn't it? That boulder's going to roll.
143:29:17	Cernan	Man, that is hard. There's the same clast over there.
143:29:26	Schmitt	Well, we get - -
143:29:28	Cernan	That clast is soft.
143:29:29	Schmitt	Can you use your - your blade end?
143:29:32	Cernan	Yes. Yes, let me get that little piece, anyway, to start with. Got it. There's two more pieces.
143:29:42	Schmitt	Okay. Before we cover them up, let's get them.
143:29:46	Cernan	I got to get a sample of that mother rock.
143:29:49	Schmitt	Okay, there you go.
143:29:51	Cernan	The other one's right there.
143:29:55	Schmitt	Okay.
143:29:56	Cernan	Now, I'm going to see if I can't get a sample -
143:29:57	Schmitt	Want to try to hit that one more time. I think we've got another one coming there. There's another little one.
143:30:12	Schmitt	That looks almost like a rhyolite from here. I don't believe it, though.
143:30:18	Cernan	No, that's not - -
143:30:19	Schmitt	I think that's it. Got a bag? Okay, this is a fine-grained - but crystalline white clast - in the gray breccia; and it's mixed with soil. We had to pick up a little soil. 503.
143:30:39	Cernan	I guess they're all there, aren't they?
143:30:40	Schmitt	I think they are. There are three clasts, anyway - or three fragments that we got off. Chips.
143:30:47	Cernan	Let me get a piece of the rock it's in. And I'm going to take a closeup stereo of that.
143:30:52	Schmitt	Okay, don't get it - Okay.
143:31:07	Cernan	See it?
143:31:08	Schmitt	Yes. See it? You hit me with it.
143:31:13	Cernan	Well - -
143:31:14	Schmitt	I tried to catch it.
143:31:16	Cernan	Bob, you still there?
143:31:17	CC	Roger. Still there. Listening with great delight.
143:31:22	Cernan	I believe ... the piece that came off there, though, Jack.
143:31:25	Schmitt	I got another piece of it up here.
143:31:28	Cernan	And I'd roll that downhill - -
143:31:30	Schmitt	Okay, the - the host rock for that - that inclusion of white material will be in bag - What is it?
143:31:42	Cernan	504.
143:31:42	Schmitt	504. Two chips with soil. Okay.
143:31:47	PAO	Heart rate is running in the 90s.
143:31:51	Cernan	Getting heavy?
143:31:52	Schmitt	What? The bag?
143:31:53	Cernan	Yes.
143:31:53	Schmitt	No. Just the scoop.
143:31:55	Cernan	Just make sure they're closed so they don't - -
143:31:58	Schmitt	I wore my hand out holding that camera together coming out here.
143:32:01	Cernan	We're getting some samples this time. I want to get a far - an after, and I want to get a closeup stereo of that. And I'm going to get some pictures around this block, too.
143:32:10	Schmitt	Okay.
143:32:12	Cernan	There's an after and now I'm going to get - sort of a closeup stereo around it. That ought to do it.
143:32:21	Schmitt	Hey, Bob, while he's doing that, there's a real good example of pit-bottom crater up here even on this talus slope. I'll try to take a stereo of it.
143:32:37	CC	Okay, Jack, that sounds great. I guess there's always a problem of getting the in-place, glass, if you think that's appropriate at this point. Word along those lines, though, is we'd like your Rover moving in 11 minutes; so it's probably not appropriate at this time on that.
143:32:52	Schmitt	Okay, there isn't any glass in this - this crater - you can see it with your TV.
143:32:55	CC	Okay; copy that.
143:32:57	Schmitt	It's just bigger - it's bigger than the average crater. And it still has that pit, the pit being about a third of the diameter of the - the inner diameter of the crater - third of the - make it a fourth of the rim diameter, that's easier.
143:33:16	CC	Copy that.
143:33:18	Cernan	Jack, can I look - can I look at that closely?
143:33:21	Schmitt	Look at what?
143:33:21	Cernan	Hold the rake a second. We got to be moving in how many minutes, Bob?
143:33:31	CC	We'd like to have you moving in 10 minutes, which means - allow about, you know, the - the usual 3 or 4 or 5 minutes for closeout - before that time.
143:33:41	Cernan	Okay, we'll get hustling.
143:33:44	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. That white-colored inclusion we sampled looks like a strange -
143:33:51	Cernan	Look out, Jack.
143:33:57	CC	It's the old boulder-rolling trick.
143:33:59	Cernan	How about getting a soil sample under there?
143:34:02	CC	Don't hit the Rover.
143:34:06	Cernan	Get that - get that sample under there, Jack. Under that rock.
143:34:10	Schmitt	Okay. Got a bag?
143:34:12	Cernan	Got a bag.
143:34:15	Schmitt	The soil from right underneath the rock - down to about 4 centimeters - in 505. And I'll try to skim it here a little, too. Get the upper - centimeter.
143:34:44	Cernan	Bob, this big white clast - I'm not sure there aren't - some smaller ones in some of those other big boulders. That's just an intuitive guess.
143:34:51	Schmitt	Oh, there are.
143:34:51	Cernan	But we never saw any as obviously big, as gross as this one. Such as this particular boulder I photographed, I had three of them other than the one we sampled. And that's 505 - and 506, in that order.
143:35:09	CC	Okay; we copy that.
143:35:11	Cernan	On the -
143:35:13	CC	And by now, probably the best thing for you guys - -
143:35:15	Schmitt	Bob, that rock - -
143:35:16	CC	- - to do is to go back to the Rover and pick up the rake samples. Go ahead, Jack.
143:35:24	Schmitt	That - -
143:35:26	Cernan	I'll get it.
143:35:27	Schmitt	Okay. That rock - that clast - white clast - I looked at it, and it has a light, pastel-green - fairly rounded crystals in a fine-grained white to light pinkish-tan matrix. And you can figure that one out. Looks like olivine and something.
143:35:53	CC	Roger on that. Sounds like a rainbow.
143:35:55	Schmitt	It might be a - No, it's not those - the colors aren't that distinct, Bob. I was just giving you shades.
143:36:04	CC	Okay; Roger.
143:36:09	Cernan	Hey, Bob, have you panned - down into Nansen and seen this rock that's - oh, 30 or 40 meters from us? To give you an idea of the kind of upslope filleting you have on some of those boulders.
143:36:21	CC	Okay, We'll - -
143:36:22	Cernan	It's down to your right.
143:36:23	CC	Okay. We'll send Ed over there to look at it.
143:36:27	Schmitt	Yes, I'll help him.
143:36:29	Cernan	I don't think you got enough time.
143:36:32	CC	Okay, we'd like you guys to get going on the rake sample. We'd like a handle on the rake there.
143:36:38	Schmitt	Okay, We're going to - I'm going to have to move out here a ways, Geno.
143:36:44	Cernan	Okay.
143:36:49	Schmitt	Coming right there.
143:36:49	Cernan	Right there is what I'm looking at.
143:36:51	CC	Okay. We're going to check it out; thank you.
143:37:00	Cernan	And there's no sense trying to get 500s up. Well - Let's see what happens.
143:37:06	CC	Okay. Also, we're running out of - there's no time to get 500s either, unfortunately. We're planning on Station 4, which will be a better perspective distance anyway.
143:37:16	Schmitt	Yes, I was going to say there's no sense in trying to get them up the massif; I don't think you'll see anything up there.
143:37:20	CC	Okay.
143:37:25	Schmitt	Gene. You getting your pan?
143:37:27	Cernan	Yes. I said where do you want it?
143:37:28	Schmitt	Well, right over there where there's some fragments. And you get the -
143:37:31	Cernan	I'll get the before and the locator.
143:37:33	Schmitt	Okay, and then I'll get the down.
143:38:07	Schmitt	Okay. (Laughter) ... to take pictures.
143:38:18	Cernan	Yes. Let me tell you, you just got to think an order of magnitude bigger than what you're normally are accustomed to thinking.
143:38:25	Schmitt	Okay, pan's complete.
143:38:26	Cernan	Okay, let's get the rake sample so we can move on. Bob, I couldn't get those 500s anyway. It would require me to pitch up too far, and there's no way I could do it.
143:38:42	CC	Okay. No, we're definitely not in favor of that, Gene, at this area.
143:38:48	Cernan	I know, I'm just mulling it over, but there really isn't any way I could get them.
143:38:52	CC	Okay.
143:38:55	Schmitt	Boy, I tell you -
143:38:56	Cernan	How are your hands? Let me rake that a little bit.
143:38:57	Schmitt	Well, it's all right; there just aren't any rocks. Should have brought the scoop and used the old shovel trick.
143:39:05	Cernan	There's a couple, keep going. There sure aren't, are there?
143:39:17	CC	Okay, do you have any feeling - do you have that hard layer underneath there like you did yesterday, when you raked at Station 1, Jack?
143:39:24	Cernan	There's one under the gnomon you can get.
143:39:28	Schmitt	Several I thought were rocks turned out to be clods.
143:39:30	Cernan	Yes, that's what most of them are is clods. How do you get clods if it's never been wet? You're not getting any. You've had three in there ever since the last four scoops.
143:39:41	Schmitt	Yes. There just aren't many.
143:39:43	Cernan	507.
143:39:45	CC	Okay, copy 507, very few.
143:39:47	Cernan	Three rocks. Yes, you got about four rocks - about 2 inches and smaller.
143:39:54	Schmitt	And let me get the down-Sun which - -
143:39:58	CC	Okay, let's just get the soil and press on. We'd like to move in 3 minutes, 3 minutes.
143:40:06	Cernan	Okay, you got it?
143:40:07	Schmitt	Yes.
143:40:08	Cernan	Okay. Let me put this in your bag and we'll ... forget the soil.
143:40:11	Schmitt	Forget the soil?
143:40:12	Cernan	He wants us moving in 3 minutes. So let's go.
143:40:16	Schmitt	Well -
143:40:17	CC	No, get the soil, guys. Get the soil. Don't, forget the soil; get the soil.
143:40:21	Schmitt	Yes, we want it.
143:40:24	Cernan	I'm sorry, I thought you said to skip it.
143:40:27	Cernan	Got your bag?
143:40:28	Schmitt	Yes. Maybe a little messy.
143:40:32	Cernan	That's all right.
143:40:44	Schmitt	One-scoop-Schmitt, they call me.
143:40:46	Cernan	That's good. That's bag 508.
143:40:48	CC	Copy that.
143:40:53	Cernan	You'll have to start putting some of these samples in my bag. You're getting a full bag for Christmas here.
143:41:00	Schmitt	Is it so full we ought to change it?
143:41:01	Cernan	Yes. Let's do that after we get to the next station, though.
143:41:06	Schmitt	Well - okay.
143:41:08	Cernan	We ought to start moving out of here.
143:41:09	Schmitt	Yes, let's go.
143:41:10	Cernan	Let me get one after of the area that we messed up.
143:41:26	CC	Beautiful station, guys; just simply beautiful. Almost deserves a Falcon code.
143:41:34	Schmitt	Man, I'll tell you. (Laughter) Falcon 109. I couldn't help that, Bob; it's just too beautiful.
143:41:48	Cernan	Hey, Jack, will you look where we kicked up this stuff. There's some light - the light - well, I can't see it now, I'm looking in - -
143:41:53	Schmitt	I can see. There's a light-colored fragment I think we break into.
143:41:56	Cernan	Yes, we kick it up.
143:41:57	Schmitt	They are light-colored clods.
143:41:59	Cernan	And when I was walking uphill, I really wasn't sinking in probably more than an inch or two.
143:42:04	Schmitt	Why don't you - can you - want to take this bag off of me?
143:42:06	Cernan	Yes, sir.
143:42:07	Schmitt	I'll get one out. We can use this one.
143:42:10	Cernan	Yes. Because we want to get rolling.
143:42:15	CC	Okay, 17, there's a couple of things here, while your getting undone there. There's our housekeeping to close out. Change those bags. We'd also like to get the SEP turned on, and you might read us the temperature when you turn it on. And other than that, stowing the TV and low gain antenna and you're on your way. We've taken care of the gravimeter already.
143:42:40	Cernan	What do you think? Did our reading change much, Bob?
143:42:44	CC	Which one?
143:42:45	Schmitt	Make sure that's locked on there.
143:42:47	Cernan	Yes, it is locked; make sure the cap's locked. Okay, bag 8 is on the gate, and Jack's getting bag 4.
143:42:54	CC	Okay; copy that. Copy that.
143:43:02	Cernan	Boy, I know my camera's going to be - -
143:43:04	CC	You copy on the SEP receiver turn on and temperature?
143:43:09	Schmitt	Right. You want that closed?
143:43:14	Cernan	Yes.
143:43:14	Schmitt	Mag.
143:43:15	Cernan	We got that, Bob.
143:43:17	Schmitt	It's closed.
143:43:17	Cernan	Okay.
143:43:19	Schmitt	Okay.
143:43:19	CC	Okay. 17, take all that back, we've just had a change of heart back here. And we're not going to turn the SEP on, just cover it up. And you might give us a temperature reading as you go by; that'll help us think what to do with it.
143:43:32	Cernan	It's about 98.
143:43:34	CC	Copy 98, then leave them both off.
143:43:41	Cernan	Okay.
143:43:43	CC	17, John and Charlie are kind of advising you to put that SC - that full SCB underneath the seat to keep - make sure the top doesn't bounce open and lose some of those rocks.
143:43:56	Cernan	Well, you can't take better advice than from those who have been here.
143:43:59	CC	Roger on that.
143:44:01	Cernan	Their advice has been pretty good so far.
143:44:06	CC	I won't pass that on to them, I think they -
143:44:19	Cernan	These locks are clamming up, Jack. I can't unlock that one now.
143:44:28	Schmitt	Can you lock that one?
143:44:34	Cernan	They all get sticky.
143:44:38	Schmitt	That one just didn't want to work any more.
143:44:42	Cernan	Let me see. It isn't moving either way. This one - this one was sticky, too. Let me see.
143:44:53	Schmitt	OUT's open, right?
143:44:54	Cernan	Huh?
143:44:55	Schmitt	OUT is open - -
143:44:56	Cernan	OUT is OPEN, yes. Let me try once more if I have to - Here I got it.
143:45:03	Schmitt	Okay, those are really getting dusty. I'll hit those with a dust brush next time around.
143:45:13	Cernan	Charge that time up to John and Charlie!
143:45:25	Schmitt	Okay. What haven't we done?
143:45:29	Cernan	Okay. I got to get the camera. Okay, Bob, I'm taking your camera.
143:45:36	CC	Okay, looks like it's in the right place, as long as it's turned around. Good coordination.
143:45:42	Cernan	Yes, sir. Okay. We read the TGE, I'm going MODE 1.
143:45:50	CC	Roger on that. Okay; we lost the picture.
143:45:52	CC	And give me a call when you guys get rolling.
143:45:58	Schmitt	Okay.
143:45:59	CC	And we'd like frames when it's convenient on you guys.
143:46:05	PAO	We'll be without a picture until the crew gets to Station 3, which is at the base of the scarp about half way from Station 2 to Station 4 which is near the crater Shorty.
143:46:05	Schmitt	Okay, Bob.
143:46:16	Schmitt	Okay. LMP is at hG.
143:46:20	CC	Copy that.
143:46:22	Cernan	And CDR, is at, if I stop long enough, 113.
143:46:30	CC	Copy. 113.
143:46:35	Schmitt	Oh, look at that. Boy, I tell you. Okay, Geno, why don't I follow our tracks back; well, until we get over the big hump and then we can start picking our way to 3.
143:46:58	Cernan	I've got 3 pretty well spotted.
143:47:03	Schmitt	Okay. Okay, low gain is set, and heading about 035 - oh, let me set this thing out of the way again. This has been giving me more trouble.
143:47:20	Cernan	What's that? The hammer?
143:47:22	Schmitt	Yes, the handle.
143:47:23	Cernan	Oh, getting caught in there?
143:47:26	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. We're ready, we're rolling. You need any readings?
143:47:33	CC	No, no readings called out. And when you get going, I'll give you a little advice on what we're going to do on the way to Station 3.
143:47:42	Schmitt	Well, let me tell you a few things first, Bob.
143:47:45	CC	Okay, start telling me.
143:47:46	Schmitt	I think those two - -
143:47:49	Cernan	We're rolling!
143:47:51	Schmitt	All right. Those two major kinds of blocks that we sampled there - it was about the two varieties we saw in the area, it's a long extrapolation I realize, but they do resemble in color, and I believe in texture, the blue-gray rocks and the light tan rocks up on the Massif. So I feel confident that - fairly confident that we sampled at least the two major units visible from a ditance in the South Massif.
143:48:27	CC	Excellent, excellent.
143:48:30	Schmitt	I think that there is some - a lot of postmission work to be done on correlating the angularity and possibly even the albedoes of the rocks we sampled with those on the Massif. We should have good - good pictures of them - of both from a distance and up close.
143:48:52	CC	Okay. I'm reminding you - -
143:48:54	Schmitt	So we may be able ... - -
143:48:54	CC	- - That extrapolation is the nature of our art.
143:48:59	Schmitt	Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. And, Bob, I'm not going to - How sun I on the film?
143:49:09	Cernan	Oh, my golly! Look at that valley!
143:49:11	CC	Stand by. I'll get that for you, Jack - -
143:49:13	Cernan	I think there's a - -
143:49:13	CC	I'm picking you up fairly well, now. And before you guys get too far, a couple of comments we want to do on the way. If - there is a Rover sample stop in your checklist, it used to be at the 073 and 6.3; it's the first thing there, halfway out to Hole-in-the-Wall. And we're now going to have that Rover sample stop at 078 and 7.0. That should be along your tracks going home. So, about 078 and 7.0, we'll have the Rover sample stop. And the gravimeter people have won today, and we're going to stop and get off the Rover and get a gravimeter reading at that location. We're taking out another stop, I'm not sure quite where. And right now, Jack, you're right on on the film says a little note in front of me.
143:50:01	Schmitt	Okay. I'll take pictures, then.
143:50:04	Cernan	Bcb, we're on the top, coming off the highest lobe of the scarp looking back into the valley. And it's quite a scene back there, but we still cannot see the LM. That may be it - I don't know.
143:50:17	Schmitt	Hey, turn a partial pan, I know it's into the Sun. Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
143:50:23	Cernan	Okay. Let's take one from right here. I want - I want the whole thing.
143:50:27	Cernan	You ready to start?
143:50:28	Schmitt	Yes, I got it.
143:50:29	Cernan	Start taking. Well, that's -
143:50:32	Cernan	Take the whole thing.
143:50:33	Schmitt	Go ahead.
143:50:35	Cernan	Get around this crater.
143:50:36	Schmitt	I got a pan down in the valley. This is just going to be right into the -
143:50:40	Cernan	Yes. Don't take that one. Get it up as we come around. You get it? There we go.
143:50:44	Schmitt	Okay.
143:50:45	Cernan	That's the one we want. And you got the valley?
143:50:48	Schmitt	Yes. Keep going. Okay. Keep turning around over there, and I'll get that scarp.
143:50:53	Cernan	That's beautiful.
143:50:54	Schmitt	Isn't that something? Man, you talk about a mysterious looking place. They can cut some frames - some parts of those pictures out and make a nice photograph. (Laughter) TV cameras, maps -
143:51:14	Schmitt	Okay, looking at the north man - the light mantle. No more comments except that by that rake sample and just looking, there's certainly is - are fewer fragments than we saw at Station 2. The main thing that we can tell about the light mantle and when we're on it, of course, is the light-colored craters. The fresher craters all appear to be light colored. As they get older, they seem to -the albedo goes down and potentially have been dusted with material from the dark mantle or from other sites. Either that or it's just the lunar patination that we're all familiar with.
143:51:30	Cernan	You know, it's a shame. They could have had TV coming down here because my heading isn't going to change much at all. The high gain could have been on the whole time.
143:52:00	Schmitt	Bob, none of the craters out here in the light mantle appear to show - they've got new bedrock. Almost all of them are instant rock craters.
143:52:21	Cernan	Say, Bob. Give me that bearing and range again for the - -
143:52:24	Schmitt	70 right here.
143:52:24	Cernan	What is it?
143:52:24	CC	078 and 7.0
143:52:27	Cernan	- - up on the hill. How about 071 and 7.0? Will that do?
143:52:34	CC	Yes. I think that that will be enough to hack it.
143:52:39	Cernan	Well, if not, we can go down there.
143:52:41	CC	No, no, no. Stay on the road - stay on the road you're on.
143:52:48	Cernan	Well, I'm not on any road, but I'm stopping here.
143:52:52	CC	I thought you guys were making a road -
143:52:53	Cernan	071.
143:52:54	CC	Roger.
143:52:54	Cernan	Let me turn it off.
143:52:57	CC	Yes, also - -
143:52:57	Schmitt	... 98 and 70.
143:53:03	CC	Okay. And the Rover ... should be fairly flat for the ole gravimeter.
143:53:11	Cernan	Uh oh.
143:53:12	Cernan	Well - That means we have to change here.
143:53:15	Schmitt	Hey, right over here to my right - -
143:53:17	Cernan	Okay.
143:53:18	Schmitt	Maybe it's the best we can do, but it's still going to be on a slope.
143:53:21	Cernan	Well, I'll level it off on a local - -
143:53:22	Schmitt	On it?
143:53:23	Cernan	Yes. Go ahead. I'm on. Do you see -
143:53:27	Schmitt	Yes, I see it. Right there.
143:53:28	Cernan	On the rim of that crater that's builded up a little bit? Right up here. What's your - can you tell your roll? Okay, now that's about aero right there. What's your roll?
143:53:42	Schmitt	Let me turn this off.
143:53:46	Cernan	What's your roll indicator ...
143:53:47	Schmitt	Oh zero.
143:53:48	Cernan	Zero?
143:53:49	Schmitt	Yes.
143:53:50	Cernan	I'll punch it.
143:53:51	Schmitt	You'll change it as soon as you get off.
143:53:55	Cernan	Oh, it's zero.
143:53:56	Schmitt	Oh, you got to get off anyway?
143:53:57	Cernan	Do I have to get off for this?
143:53:58	CC	Roger. Both of you get off.
143:54:00	Schmitt	... gravimeter reading.
143:54:01	Cernan	Why should I have to get off?
143:54:03	CC	So you don't move the ole gravimeter.
143:54:04	Schmitt	Think you can hold still?
143:54:04	Cernan	Yes. I'll hold still.
143:54:06	CC	Negative on that, Gene.
143:54:07	Cernan	Okay, Bob. Give me your sampler cause that's the other thing I have to do.
143:54:11	CC	Yes. We'll get bag samples here - Rover samples, at least.
143:54:13	Cernan	But you need me off to sample?
143:54:15	CC	Roger. We want Jack - Gene and Jack both off.
143:54:17	Cernan	Well, if you need me off; Jack, just punch it.
143:54:20	Schmitt	Okay. Hold still. They don't know anything about your PLSS noise.
143:54:23	Cernan	We'll get off.
143:54:24	Schmitt	Ya I think ...
143:54:24	CC	Gene, we'd like both of you off.
143:54:27	Schmitt	07 - 071, 9.8, and 7.0, Bob.
143:54:33	CC	Got that.
143:54:50	Cernan	Don't push it yet - did you?
143:54:51	Schmitt	No.
143:54:59	Cernan	Okay. Go ahead. Push it.
143:55:02	Schmitt	Let me wait until it settles down here.
143:55:08	Cernan	This thing is off tape START, isn't it? Huh?
143:55:13	Schmitt	If this thing doesn't change.
143:55:14	Cernan	Oh, that should be good - -
143:55:16	Schmitt	Yes, it does change - vibrate a couple of times.
143:55:20	Cernan	Huh?
143:55:21	Schmitt	Vibrate a couple of times.
143:55:21	Cernan	No, the settings.
143:55:22	Schmitt	Oh, I don't know - yes, they'll change.
143:55:27	Cernan	Okay. Quiet Rover. Gravity.
143:55:30	Schmitt	MARK it.
143:55:31	CC	Copy that.
143:55:32	Schmitt	Say, Bob, I need a quick f-stop for the 500.
143:55:36	CC	F-stop.
143:55:38	Schmitt	It's the same - it's the same film.
143:55:40	CC	Stand by.
143:55:43	Schmitt	Hey, Bob, can I punch it again?
143:55:47	CC	Oh yes. Go to STANDBY and then punch it again.
143:55:48	Cernan	... time out, do you? Go to STANDBY.
143:55:51	Schmitt	Stand by.
143:55:52	Cernan	Stand by, Jack.
143:55:54	PAO	Ron Evans in America is on his 29th lunar revolution. We'll be acquiring him in 14 minutes. In addition to the experiments that he's been performing he's been doing a considerable amount of visual science descriptions. Ron is on his flight plan.
143:55:54	Cernan	Okay.
143:55:54	Schmitt	MARK it.
143:55:54	CC	Copy that.
143:56:10	CC	Okay. And, Geno, f-stop for the 500 millimeter should be the same as - for the 70.
143:56:17	Cernan	Okay.
143:56:37	CC	And, Jack, I presume you're getting some Rover samples here off the Rover.
143:56:58	Schmitt	Bag 30 Easy.
143:57:04	CC	Copy. 30 Easy. Are you guys finding much in the way of rocks here?
143:57:16	Cernan	I'm looking. I can get you some instant rock out of a small pit crater - pit bottom crater.
143:57:26	Schmitt	Bob, up to frame count 36 is the outcrop on the - or boulders at the top of the South Massif.
143:57:36	CC	Okay.
143:57:44	Schmitt	Bag 31 Easy. Instant rock out of a 2-meter pit bottom crater - off the inner wall.
143:57:56	CC	Copy that.
143:57:56	Schmitt	Well, let's make it 30 centimeters down from the rim.
143:58:03	CC	Okay.
143:58:28	CC	Okay, and 17, we've got about 30 seconds left for that gravimeter reading. You want to be finishing up the task and getting back toward the Rover.
143:58:44	Cernan	Okay.
143:58:50	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. And through frame count 57 are the North Massif and - from part of the western portions to part of the eastern portions.
143:59:01	CC	Okay, now; and what was that frame count?
143:59:13	CC	Okay. Copy the 57, there.
143:59:17	Cernan	Here's something different - here's a little - -
143:59:26	PAO	EVA time 3 hours 24 minutes.
143:59:31	CC	Hey, guys, we're ready for the gravimeter reading. And we'd like a frame count from you, Jack. I guess if you'd prefer - -
143:59:36	Schmitt	A chunk of yellow - yellow-brown rock that apparently has several spots behind it, probably indicating direction from which it came - Oh, no, what is that? That's a reflection (laughter). That really fooled me. A reflection off the mylar (laughter). Crazy. Well, what the heck, I'll sample it anyway.
144:00:08	Cernan	Okay. Let me get my antenna set so - it's not quite - -
144:00:12	Schmitt	Is it through reading?
144:00:14	Cernan	Yes, it's through reading. I'll - Probably read it better by now, Bob. I've got Family Mountain and some of the hills way up to the right of Family Mountain. I'm at 67 on the - on the - 500 and I'll give you the reading on the gravimeter.
144:00:32	CC	Okay. Copy. 67 on Family Mountain.
144:00:36	Cernan	Did you get the other words on the 500?
144:00:39	CC	Roger. Copied them all.
144:00:44	Cernan	Well, you were reading at probably a 90-degree low-gain angle.
144:00:48	CC	Roger. We've been reading them on the LM also.
144:00:49	Schmitt	Thirty-two Easy is another - just small - another small fragment.
144:00:54	CC	You know what I need?
144:00:56	Cernan	Okay, 670, 123, 501 - 670, 123 501.
144:01:02	CC	Okay. Copy that, Geno. And we're ready for you guys to go on at your earliest convenience.
144:01:08	Cernan	Do you want me to load the LRV sampler?
144:01:11	Schmitt	Go ahead. Yes.
144:01:30	CC	And, Jack, is that your last LRV sample bag?
144:01:35	Schmitt	I only had one left, but it's loaded now.
144:01:38	CC	Okay.
144:01:47	Cernan	You did get the reading, right, Bob?
144:01:49	CC	Roger. Got the reading.
144:01:54	Cernan	Okay. We're buttoning up.
144:01:56	CC	Okay. And if you've got something - If you don't have one left for that sample at Hole-in-the-Wall, Jack, we'd like you to get a new set of sample bags .
144:02:06	Schmitt	We've got it.
144:02:06	CC	Okay. Got it. And still understand that 32 Echo was your last sample.
144:02:16	Schmitt	Thirty-two Echo. Got three here.
144:02:19	CC	Okay.
144:02:20	Cernan	Oh, oh.
144:02:22	Schmitt	Okay?
144:02:24	Cernan	Yes.
144:02:25	Schmitt	Need some help?
144:02:27	Cernan	No. I've got the Rover.
144:02:30	Schmitt	Was that me?
144:02:30	Cernan	No.
144:02:34	Cernan	That was interesting. Bob, about 2 inches below the surface here, you ran into that very - that blue-gray material down there and it just - it's in little clods, and it breaks apart in your hands.
144:02:51	Schmitt	Yes, that's right.
144:02:52	Cernan	Did you get some of that in your Rover sample?
144:02:54	Schmitt	No, but I got it out of that instant rock crater.
144:02:58	Cernan	Just grab a quick Rover sample and we'll take off.
144:02:59	Schmitt	That's why - that was a pretty interesting (laughter) episode.
144:03:06	Cernan	Yes. Well, you know, we haven't been trenching like we should or we would have - -
144:03:11	Schmitt	... really those trenches - those craters are giving us the same information. That there's a light-colored material underneath.
144:03:24	CC	Okay. 175 we're ready for you guys to move on and we'd like to eliminate the Rover sample at Hole-in-the-Wall.
144:03:36	Cernan	Okay, Bob. We're getting on now.
144:03:39	CC	Copy that.
144:03:43	Cernan	We got on a minute ago (laughter)
144:03:48	CC	And, do I understand that these Rover samples, Jack, are in your pockets?
144:03:55	Schmitt	No. They're in the bag on the Rover.
144:03:58	CC	Okay.
144:03:59	Schmitt	40 Yankee.
144:04:01	CC	Copy that.
144:04:04	Schmitt	That's light-colored soil from a depth of about - it's mixed with a little of the upper surface, but mostly light-colored soil from a depth of about 15 centimeters.
144:04:20	Cernan	Wonder what would I do for an encore?
144:04:28	Schmitt	It looks like the light mantle in here is covered with dark to a depth of about 5 or 10 centimeters.
144:04:42	Cernan	You might want to go MIN, Jack, on your diverter.
144:04:45	Schmitt	Right now, I'm sort of warm.
144:04:47	Cernan	Okay. When we start driving, you might want to go.
144:04:48	Schmitt	I'm going to zap myself with a cold. I can do it on here.
144:04:55	Cernan	Did you take any pictures at all while you were there?
144:04:57	Schmitt	Oh, yes. I didn't take a pan. Why don't you turn right to a -
144:05:03	Cernan	Okay, Bob. If you read, we're rolling.
144:05:08	CC	Okay. Mark that.
144:05:09	Cernan	Making a right-hand turn for a pan.
144:05:10	Schmitt	Left. Let me see where we're going. I guess ... again. You know, a little more and that hole would have been in the way. We left some of our litter.
144:05:32	Cernan	Not a complete pan but it will show the location.
144:05:40	Schmitt	Okay. LMP frame count 80.
144:05:44	CC	Copy that; 80.
144:05:46	Schmitt	Okay. Geno, you're heading for a spot that's about 080/5.5, approximately. And -
144:05:54	Schmitt	Okay.
144:05:55	CC	Yes, you guys following ... form or not?
144:05:57	Schmitt	Do you have an update?
144:05:59	Cernan	No.
144:06:01	CC	Okay; and - Roger. The Hole-in-the-Wall should be at about 080 or maybe 5.7. And we're not going to stop and get a Rover sample at Hole-in-the-Wall.
144:06:14	Cernan	What about Station 3?
144:06:17	Cernan	Okay, that sounds reasonable because it's just nothing but lots of rolling terrain.
144:06:25	Schmitt	Okay. Bob, I - I think we have a good sample of only partially contaminated light mantle in that last Rover sample that Gene accidentally discovered was right under our feet. It's almost certainly the light-colored material that's the crater - we've been talking about in the walls of the craters. And, as a matter of fact, that instant rock sample I took was light-colored and probably represents the same stuff, indurated slightly.
144:06:57	Cernan	Light-colored mantle has that bluish tint that you saw in those rocks.
144:07:00	Schmitt	Yes.
144:07:03	Schmitt	I still don't think there's anything. We ought to - we ought to get a core in this light mantle sometime; and probably Station 3 is going to be the place. I hope that's still in the agenda.
144:07:19	CC	Roger. It's still in the agenda.
144:07:23	Cernan	Say, Bob, can you update tne mileage on Station 3?
144:07:28	CC	Okay, you want mileage to it or do you want the range and bearing at it?
144:07:34	Cernan	Well, range and bearing at it.
144:07:37	CC	Okay. Stand by.
144:07:41	Cernan	The Hole-in-the-Wall is fairly nebulous.
144:07:44	CC	Okay, we're going to say about 089 and 6.1 for Station 3.
144:07:52	Cernan	Okay.
144:08:01	CC	Do you want to hear another range and bearing right now?
144:08:01	Cernan	Do you get the feeling that we're the only ones out here, Jack? Looking around - 073, 10.3, 6.6.
144:08:10	CC	Copy that.
144:08:16	Schmitt	Bob, I have a feeling that whatever darkens the - Ooh, there's a beautiful little glass-lined crater, pit bottom crater - whatever darkens the light mantle is not a - a one-time-only mantling of darker material. It's something that happens over a period of time, continually, because craters of all sizes and apparent degradation are dark - darkened and there are lighter craters that are light to varying degrees, there seems to be a continuing - continuum of albedo change.
144:09:08	Cernan	You know that little crater on the side of the North Massif that we're thinking about going to doesn't look nearly as light-colored or haloed as it does in pictures, does it?
144:09:20	Schmitt	You mean - Yes - no.
144:09:32	Cernan	Now, let's see where we are, I don't want to run into that big crater at the foot of the - -
144:09:38	Schmitt	I think you're almost to the rim.
144:09:40	Cernan	Yes, I want to go down here if I can. My tracks are over there to the left, I haven't crossed them yet.
144:09:45	Schmitt	073, 6.3.
144:09:49	CC	Copy that.
144:09:52	Schmitt	LMP frame count is 86.
144:09:58	CC	Copy 86.
144:10:09	Schmitt	Boy, that's a sight, isn't it?
144:10:12	Cernan	That's spectacular.
144:10:13	Schmitt	I don't know why something that's all approximately the same hue should -
144:10:20	Cernan	The lack of color has got to contribute to the inability to judge distance.
144:10:26	Schmitt	See the lobes coming out - looks like lobes out from the Scarp. The Scarp rather being a line in there on the, on the plain, appear to be lobes. I got a couple of shots of that. Whereas when it gets up on the Massif, it's a fairly continuous curve; although it does appear to be younger, at least - at least there's less relief on it for the first few kilometers of that bend there.
144:11:02	Cernan	We're going to have to go down like the way we came because there's that big crater down at the bottom, I'm afraid.
144:11:06	CC	Yes, I think we agree with that suggestion, too.
144:11:14	Schmitt	Bob, the Scarp, so-called Scarp, impresses me as less of a scarp than a series of - of lobes which roughly have a north-south trend. And we've been driving over various hummocks within those lobes.
144:11:43	CC	Okay, copy that.
144:11:48	Cernan	I think we made a gross mistake in not trying to let them get TV, my heading hasn't changed much at all here. They would have a spectacular view. Look at it out in that valley, Jack.
144:11:58	Schmitt	Yes.
144:12:01	Cernan	Good lord. I still don't know where the LM is - I see it, I think. The shadow or blob - that's the only sharp shadow out there right in the - because you sure can't make out the craters from here, can you? Okay, hold on. Over the hill and down the rale. Man, I tell you, this machine is fantastic.
144:12:35	Schmitt	Yes; Watch it. (Laughter)
144:12:38	Cernan	Quite a machine.
144:12:39	Schmitt	Likes to spin when you turn going down hill.
144:12:42	Cernan	Quite a machine.
144:12:47	Schmitt	But - I think you've got something right ahead of you. Here -
144:12:50	Cernan	I got it.
144:12:51	Schmitt	See the instant rock.
144:12:52	Cernan	I got it. You know, the crater doesn't look nearly as bad from here, but it sure is deep when you get up there. We'll just - I'll meander around it over next to this next little lobe then I'll head down that next one - the first lobe we came up - and then along it.
144:13:06	Schmitt	Okay, there's Lara, and I think we can see station - Watch it, watch it, watch it.
144:13:17	Cernan	Okay, I'm going through it slow.
144:13:25	Schmitt	Beautiful. (laughter) I figured we'd buckle the LCRU with that one.
144:13:32	Cernan	I'll bet they can watch this road. My heart rate just dictates the kind of terrain we're going over.
144:13:44	Schmitt	Okay - Houston, we're navigating and not talking. Sorry. But the light mantle is a fair - is a uniform surface and I think you've heard just about everything we've had to say so far.
144:14:05	CC	Roger. Your conun's great and you guys are doing good work.
144:14:08	Schmitt	The fragment population is not - the fragment population hasn't changed, nor has the crater population, as near as I can tell. I hope the LRV photos will give you more details than that. Okay, Gene, do you have the target over there, that set of - -
144:14:29	Cernan	Yes. Yes, I got to get over to this next knoll and I'm going to be off the Scarp. We're about three-quarters of the way down.
144:14:39	PAO	Heart rates while on the Rover are in the 80s.
144:14:40	Cernan	Isn't that sharp shadow out there the LM? See it way out there? Almost under the Sun. It's got to be. It's the only sharp shadow out there. Right under the Sun, straight down there.
144:14:54	Schmitt	Probably.
144:14:55	Cernan	Okay, I'm going to try to make it down this. Hold on.
144:14:59	Schmitt	This is what?
144:15:00	Cernan	This is the one we climbed up.
144:15:02	Schmitt	Oh, there's Nemo over there to my right.
144:15:03	Cernan	Yes, sir. This is the one we climbed up. Would you believe that?
144:15:06	Schmitt	Well, I don't know.
144:15:07	Cernan	Yes, I would.
144:15:10	Schmitt	The problem is if there is any crater on the side - -
144:15:13	Cernan	I don't want to give it the roll, are you - -
144:15:17	Schmitt	I think you're all right.
144:15:19	Cernan	We're all right. I don't know, that's got, - -
144:15:22	Schmitt	Keep your speed down because if you have to turn, it doesn't like it on a downhill slope.
144:15:27	Cernan	Man, that's got to be a - pitch-angle's pegged, I don't know what that means. Okay. Right on time - -
144:15:42	Schmitt	... scarp.
144:15:45	CC	You guys cut each other out but I take it that means you're at the edge of the Scarp.
144:15:51	Schmitt	We're off.
144:15:51	Cernan	We're off, we came down.
144:15:53	CC	Roger. You're down the Scarp.
144:15:54	Cernan	Hey, will you look at the hill we came down same way we went up?
144:15:57	Schmitt	No. I'd rather not.
144:16:01	Cernan	Oh, I don't know, I'm impressed.
144:16:04	Cernan	Okay, now where we got to go. 345 roughly. And we want to go to 087/6.1 - -
144:16:10	Schmitt	Okay, you're - I think you're headed right - right for where we want.
144:16:14	Cernan	Yes.
144:16:14	Schmitt	It's that bright - see that bright crater? You can just start to see Station 3 over there now.
144:16:19	Cernan	Okay, navigation says I've got more than 9 degrees - I should be increasing range. Bob, we're at 079, 11.5, and 5.7.
144:16:25	CC	Okay, beautiful, guys. Really going smooth.
144:16:28	Cernan	And I'm headed - and I'm headed northwest.
144:16:33	CC	Roger. In fact, we understand it's been going so smooth down here that they haven't even spilled any coffee in the SPAN room yet this mission.
144:16:44	Cernan	Morrison must not be on duty. I'm glad we don't have any sitting on the LCRU.
144:16:54	Schmitt	Right over there is Station 3, I think.
144:16:58	Cernan	Oh, actually, I guess - I guess they would want it - is there - I can just start to see two craters - -
144:17:07	Schmitt	You know what the problem is?
144:17:08	Cernan	- - and they're closer to Lara.
144:17:09	Schmitt	I got a full planar view of the high gain and I can't see a thing out there.
144:17:14	Cernan	That's right.
144:17:15	Schmitt	Full planar view. All I can do is see underneath it.
144:17:18	Cernan	Well I - going to take it broadside. See, I can't see a lot of craters now that I'm out in front. Oh, I guess I can see most.
144:17:30	Schmitt	Here's a nice sharp little hole; look at that. Bob, the texture of the light mantle - surface texture - is really no different on the Scarp, on its flank, or out here to the east of the Scarp. Fragment population, crater population, everything looking about the same. If there is such a thing as a light mantle, it seems to be uniform across the Scarp.
144:18:00	CC	Okay, I copy that, Jack.
144:18:02	Schmitt	Here are your tracks - Hey! We crossed somebody's tracks - well, we sure did ... we made a loop.
144:18:08	CC	Hope they look like yours.
144:18:13	Cernan	That was at 081/5.7.
144:18:17	CC	Okay, copy 081/5.7. Do they look like your tracks?
144:18:23	Schmitt	Well, here's another set.
144:18:25	Cernan	Yes, this is where we went to the big crater and I came southeast in order to get around it, remember? We saw that hole?
144:18:31	Schmitt	Yes.
144:18:35	Cernan	Look at that big turn I made, ha ha! That was a quick change of mind when we came over that ridge.
144:18:43	Schmitt	Yes, sir.
144:18:45	Cernan	Okay, we're still headed northwest, Bob.
144:18:52	Schmitt	Here - I -
144:18:52	Cernan	Okay, Bob, I guess one thing we don't have a handle on yet is what are the - I think we sampled them - once in a Rover sample, but what are the fragments out here mixed with the light mantle?
144:19:09	CC	Okay, I copy that.
144:19:10	Schmitt	I think I got one at our last - our last gravimeter stop, a small one, and I guess there's one other Rover sample, but - Station 3, we probably ought to make sure we get a representative suite of those fragments.
144:19:23	CC	Roger. Agree to that.
144:19:27	Cernan	Hey, Bob, how long have we been out?
144:19:30	CC	Say there again, Gene? How long have you been out?
144:19:34	Cernan	How long have we been out?
144:19:35	CC	3 plus 45.
144:19:42	Cernan	Thank you.
144:19:46	Schmitt	We're at 083/5.7. Well, it certainly doesn't look like the geology of Norway, but it certainly is interesting.
144:20:02	Cernan	That must be Lara right there, huh?
144:20:03	Schmitt	Yes.
144:20:03	Cernan	On the left. You can see the blocks on the other side of her.
144:20:06	Schmitt	That's right. I told them about those earlier. That's the only no - I think, Gene, you want to bear a little bit - Hold on - a little bit to the left. See those two craters, two bright craters, that are just this side of Lara?
144:20:20	Cernan	Now - well - I'm not -
144:20:21	Schmitt	You're pointed right - almost right at them, now.
144:20:23	Cernan	Okay, I can barely see them now through that high gain.
144:20:25	Schmitt	Okay.
144:20:26	Cernan	But I can see - I know where we're going now.
144:20:27	Schmitt	Those are the two I think they wanted us to be at, and I think that's a good choice if we can get up there.
144:20:32	Cernan	I want to get some 500s the way that scarp flows up on top of - well, it looks like it flows up on top of the North Massif. Now if may look like the North Massif may drape material down upon it. Look at that.
144:20:46	Schmitt	Well.
144:20:49	Cernan	Not really. The texture is so different. It just doesn't look like as old a surface, but definitely different.
144:20:55	Schmitt	Yes.
144:21:03	Schmitt	Wish they had never said anything about pictures, because I've tended to not take enough - to do better.
144:21:06	CC	Okay, but, Jack, you're doing quite well in the picture department - you're not getting too far behind or ahead. Copy that, Gene?
144:21:14	Schmitt	No, but I mean I'm not getting the coverage I've - I'm not sure I'm getting the coverage I should.
144:21:18	CC	Okayl. Okay. We'll look at the frame count when you get to Station 3.
144:21:24	Schmitt	Oops, oops! Oh, there's another big crater with a pit in it.
144:21:34	Cernan	What was it, 17-1/2 or l8 clicks we hit coming down the Scarp, Jack?
144:21:39	Schmitt	I don't know (laughter).
144:21:45	Cernan	I'm in MIN cooling now.
144:21:55	Cernan	Oh, look at that - wait until you get over and look, at that South Massif. is that -
144:22:04	Schmitt	Well, I don't know where we're going to get a good - Well, let's see. You know, that big block up there might be worth going to.
144:22:15	Cernan	087 at 5.9. I think that's the best station we1w got right here.
144:22:19	Schmitt	Well - -
144:22:20	Cernan	Let's see what's over on your right. Let's see if we can get at that scarp over there.
144:22:24	Schmitt	I've sort of lost track - -
144:22:26	Cernan	We're about there.
144:22:27	CC	I think we expected you guys to be a little bit farther north. We were getting a heading of 080 for the bearing which really kind of says you said you were going a bit farther north than this.
144:22:39	Cernan	Well, there's that first crater, there, Jack.
144:22:41	Schmitt	080?
144:22:42	CC	Roger. 080 is where we think -
144:22:44	Schmitt	All of a sudden I've lost track.
144:22:47	CC	Stand by.
144:22:49	Schmitt	There's nothing wrong with that except that -
144:22:51	Schmitt	Hey, I think we ought to go back to that big block.
144:22:53	Cernan	Heading 080 is - heading north is not going to - -
144:22:57	CC	Roger. I just realized that, Geno.
144:22:58	Cernan	I'm 087 now.
144:22:59	CC	Yes, I realize that, Gene; my mistake. Somebody's got a wrong thing down here. That's the Hole-in-the-Wall. My mistake.
144:23:08	Schmitt	Gene, I think - I think we need to go - go back there a little bit.
144:23:14	Cernan	Yes, we're at 087/6.0. I think that's probably about right. Why don't we stop here?
144:23:17	CC	Okay, 17, that's a great stop. That was my mistake, I was reading the Hole-in-the-Wall coordinate.
144:23:25	Cernan	All right, Bob, we've got some boulders over here that are in the light mantle.
144:23:31	CC	Okay, now, let me brief you on Station 3. It's going to be a very brief station to make up for the - -
144:23:36	Cernan	We can see a little bit down into Lara now too.
144:23:38	CC	Okay, it will be a brief station to make up for the time we added on at the - first of all, remember we want to get the nav update. Let me go into a heading, of 270 more or less and give us the nav read-out so we can start that here.
144:23:59	Cernan	Can you get where you want from here?
144:24:00	Schmitt	No, this is no good. I wanted to get a high spot.
144:24:06	Cernan	Yes, let's - let me park down here, Jack.
144:24:10	Schmitt	Well, you should have stayed up there. This is good right here.
144:24:16	Cernan	It's not going to be very level for the gravimeter.
144:24:16	CC	Okay, Gene, and remember, we want to first head for the west so we can get the nav update.
144:24:26	Cernan	We'll park right out here and we can work those blocks right up behind us. Okay, you want a nav update here?
144:24:32	CC	Roger. That's affirm.
144:24:33	Schmitt	You need to get your antenna.
144:24:39	Cernan	Why don't you get off, Jack. Oh, I was looking at the wrong ... oh, no, I'm not. Okay. I'll get a nav update. Get off and look around. I'll give them a nav update, Jack, and we'll press on.
144:25:02	Cernan	Yes, sir, you're right, Bob. Hey, get your -
144:25:06	Schmitt	I will.
144:25:20	Cernan	Okay?
144:25:22	Schmitt	Go ahead.
144:25:22	Cernan	What do you need? Take your scoop or whatever you need.
144:25:25	Schmitt	Oh, you're going to move?
144:25:26	Cernan	Yes. I want to give them a nav update real quick.
144:25:27	Schmitt	Oh, I'm sorry, I -
144:25:31	CC	Okay. And, Jack, ... for you. We're going to want you to do some document sampling on your own. I'll get with you guys on the rest of the station plan shortly. Go ahead, Gene, we're ready.
144:25:47	Schmitt	Okay, I ought to get the gnomon, I guess.
144:25:50	Cernan	Okay, let me find a level spot; I'll come back towards you.
144:25:54	Schmitt	I'll get it. There is no.
144:26:00	Cernan	Well, okay, if you got any -
144:26:01	Schmitt	No, go ahead, make your park.
144:26:04	Cernan	Yes, I'm looking for a level spot, but my god, there sure aren't very many.
144:26:09	Schmitt	That's probably pretty good.
144:26:14	Cernan	It will be in a minute.
144:26:14	CC	It doesn't have to be all that level, Jack - Gene.
144:26:28	Cernan	Okay, 087 and 12.6, 6.0.
144:26:31	Schmitt	I got your gnomon.
144:26:33	Cernan	Sun shadow is zero. Pitch - if I can get it over to read it. Pitch is - pitch is zero. Roll is zero. About - about 1 left, Bob?
144:26:58	CC	Okay, copy. And how about that - -
144:27:01	Cernan	About 1 left.
144:27:02	CC	And how about heading?
144:27:05	Cernan	Heading is 282.
144:27:08	CC	Okay, go ahead and park. We'll give you an update when you get done.
144:27:10	Cernan	What else do you need?
144:27:12	CC	That's all we need. Go ahead and park on your 045. We'll give you an update when you are done.
144:27:23	Cernan	Jack, is one coming right there?
144:27:28	Schmitt	Looks like a pretty good location - -
144:27:30	Cernan	Okay.
144:27:31	Schmitt	- to sample the rim materials of this crater.
144:27:37	Cernan	Bob, I'm at the south, let's say the east-southeast rim of a - oh, 30-meter crater in the light mantle, of course; up on the Scarp and maybe 300 - 200 meters from the rim of Lara in a northeast direction.
144:28:11	CC	Okay, I copy that.
144:28:12	Cernan	It's body shows up as a bright crater - a bright crater on your map. There's only about a half a centimeter of gray cover over very white material that forms the rim.
144:28:27	CC	Okay. And, Gene, give me a call when you get parked and I'll give you an update on what we want to do.
144:28:37	Cernan	Okay, I am parked.
144:28:39	CC	Okay, good. We'll take the Rover read-out first.
144:28:45	Cernan	Okay. 087, 12.7, 6.0; 105 and 100. On the battery temps 100, 120. The rear motors are off scale low and the forward motors are 0 and 240.
144:29:03	CC	Okay, we copy that. Understand that 240 now instead of a 340. And what was your heading, 045?
144:29:12	Cernan	Heading is 043.
144:29:14	CC	Okay. We copy that.
144:29:15	Cernan	Hey Bob, did I ever give you a - if I ever gave you a motor temperature of 340, that figure was erroneous.
144:29:22	CC	Okay; Roger. And what we'd like you to do, Gene, is we'd like you to get the CSVC by yourself, that will essentially be your sole task at this station. We'd like Jack can do some solo sampling and we'd like to get one pan and the gravimeter, and then we'll leave this station. We're going to absorb some of the time we spent with the extra gravimeter reading and some of the time we absorbed at Station 2 in the longer stay time in sampling at Station 3. That's our plan. So it will be CDR for the CSVC for the long cans, excuse me, and LMP for solo sampling and then a pan by Jack, I presume, and then the gravimeter and then leave. And, Jack, you might check your film. We aren't quite sure where you are right now, before you get too far from the Rover.
144:30:17	Cernan	Okay, Bob.
144:30:35	PAO	TV coming in now.
144:30:47	Cernan	Bob, you got any - any preference up in this area where do you want that long can?
144:30:55	CC	Negative. That's something that was sort of near the scarp, but you're parked so near the scarp and that something, remember we do it in solo, we only did it with the Rover, so you'd have to stay right there beside the Rover and do it. No expectations of doing otherwise.
144:31:09	Cernan	Well, that's what I figured.
144:31:10	Schmitt	Gene.
144:31:12	Cernan	Yes, I think you're in good shape. Yes, I don't have any other choice. Matter of fact, if there is a scarp, and if it is a fault, I'm right - right on it because the projection of it would be uphill a little bit.
144:31:22	Cernan	Yes, I'll be right on the side of it. I'm parked on the side of it if it exists.
144:31:26	CC	Okay, and, Jack, what's your frame count?
144:31:35	Schmitt	Well, 1 - 122.
144:31:44	CC	Okay, copy. You ... Go ahead, Gene.
144:31:45	Cernan	Bob, I've dug the trench and the -
144:31:51	Schmitt	What do you need, Gene?
144:31:52	Cernan	Oh, yes. Bob, I've dug a trench in the side of this crater. I've got down-Sun pictures of it. There's quite a marbling of light and dark soil or fine grain material. It looks as if there's a uniform, about 3-centimeter layer of light material over that marbled light and dark. O n the very top surface, there's a half centimeter of light gray, and when I say dark, I mean a medium gray.
144:32:35	CC	Okay, copy that. Sounds like a great sample site.
144:32:40	Cernan	Okay, I'm going to start sampling the soils, and then I'll get you the fragments.
144:32:45	CC	Okay, I presume that we'll at least have the single upper core which we can use to sample of that stuff in the soil, and rem -
144:32:58	Cernan	Oh, that's - there's no guarantee that this is a crater rim.
144:33:02	CC	Okay. And, Gene, are you still near the Rover?
144:33:09	Cernan	Yes, I am.
144:33:10	CC	Okay, we'd like to get the SEP blankets opened, Gene, and dusted if they're dirty, so they can cool some more.
144:33:20	Cernan	Oh, boy.
144:33:21	CC	Yes.
144:33:23	Cernan	Okay, now I can't give you the gravimeter reading while I'm working on the Rover, so I'll have to time it when I get away from it.
144:33:31	CC	Okay. Roger on that. I think you'll be pounding on the hammer for a long while while you can take the Rover - gravimeter reading.
144:33:39	Cernan	Yes. Well, we'll see. Let me get your brush back.
144:33:53	Schmitt	Okay, bag 520 has a skin sample of the upper light-gray soil. Don't know where I'm going to put these things, I've got to come down and get a bag.
144:34:13	Schmitt	Have you punched the gravim - No.
144:34:14	Cernan	No, I can't punch it until I get out of here.
144:34:29	Schmitt	These switches are on OFF, STANDBY, right?
144:34:33	Cernan	They should be.
144:34:33	Schmitt	Okay, that's where they are and the temperature is 100, about 104 and - -
144:34:38	Cernan	No, they should be OFF. isn't it OFF?
144:34:39	Schmitt	No, it was STANDBY.
144:34:42	Cernan	No, push it OFF.
144:34:43	CC	Okay, it doesn't matter whether it's STANDBY; it won't be heating at that temperature anyway, but put it OFF.
144:34:49	Cernan	Okay. It might have gotten hit when I changed the blanket there. Now I have to go to INTERMEDIATE cooling here.
144:35:09	Schmitt	Zap me with a cold. Imagine those PLSS got charged okay last night. ...
144:35:27	CC	Yep, 17, those PLSSs look great.
144:35:32	Cernan	Okay, back to INTERMEDIATE. How's Ron doing?
144:35:36	CC	They're both looking - Stand by, I thought he said both fine. Ron's doing great, too. He's sitting here busily - -
144:35:42	Cernan	No, no.
144:35:44	CC	Go ahead.
144:35:46	Cernan	I mean Captain America.
144:35:49	CC	Yes, I'm just inquiring of Bob. I think he's doing great. He's just passed a little bit north of you a couple of minutes ago and took some pictures of you.
144:36:22	Schmitt	Okay. I do my work around the LMP seat here.
144:36:31	Cernan	That's lock. That must be unlock.
144:36:35	Schmitt	Okay, unlock. Brake is off. Four is coming in. Okay, Bob, the upper - the upper 5 centimeter - 3 centimeters mixed with that upper half centimeter, is the next sample.
144:37:14	CC	Copy that.
144:37:22	Cernan	Okay, Bob, I guess I'm going to go pound away and, Jack, I'm going to hit the gravimeter.
144:37:29	Schmitt	Okay.
144:37:34	Cernan	Okay -
144:37:34	Cernan	MARK it.
144:37:36	CC	Copy that.
144:37:39	Cernan	And 521 is the sample bag.
144:37:45	CC	Copy that.
144:38:02	Cernan	Well, the first core has gone down pretty good, Bob.
144:38:05	CC	Okay, great.
144:38:08	Schmitt	Oh, you're not going - you won't have any problem in here coring.
144:38:17	Cernan	Oh, man, I tell you, I wish I was putting a drill hole in here. Looks pretty nice.
144:38:25	PAO	Each of these drive tubes is 16 inches long.
144:38:35	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. The next sample is mostly the medium gray fraction of the marbling. It's mixed, though.
144:39:22	Schmitt	That's in bag 522.
144:39:39	CC	Copy that, Jack.
144:39:42	Schmitt	Okay, I think I got it. I think I got it, Bob.
144:39:45	CC	Okay.
144:39:50	CC	And, Jack, when you get done with this trench you might hit one - two of those blocks there, but then we'd - since we're really trying to cut this station down to a minimum, after that you'd probably get - better get to the pan.
144:40:07	Cernan	Bob, what do you think, can I read a gravimeter?
144:40:09	CC	Yes, if it's not flashing - -
144:40:12	Cernan	The light's out.
144:40:13	CC	Yes, it should be just done.
144:40:19	Cernan	670, 049, 701; 670, 049, 701.
144:40:26	CC	Okay, I copy that.
144:40:29	Schmitt	Bob, the - the white marble in the - the white fraction in the marble zone in 523.
144:40:39	CC	Copy that.
144:40:46	Cernan	Bob, I forgot to give you the core numbers, but I will.
144:40:50	CC	Okay. And don't forget to put your little note in the long can there.
144:41:00	Cernan	Oh, I'll get the note in there. I'll get it in there. Nobody will ever know.
144:41:30	PAO	Gene Cernan extracting the drive tube.
144:41:43	Cernan	Okay, Bob, our 524 is what I think is a blue-gray rock probably the breccia. It's got a little dust cover.
144:41:53	CC	Copy that.
144:41:54	Cernan	From just off the rim of this little crater.
144:42:02	CC	Okay, copy that. It's a blue-gray rock, it's not part of the trench, right? You finish with the trench?
144:42:09	Cernan	Yes. If you see, Bob, it's full. See that?
144:42:14	CC	Roger. We see a long thing in your hand there, Gene.
144:42:30	Schmitt	Well, I didn't think that was supposed to happen.
144:42:36	Cernan	And I'd know, Jack? Shoot! Thought I had them on the Rover.
144:42:43	Schmitt	What?
144:42:44	Cernan	Oh, the core cap covers. I'll get them.
144:42:46	Schmitt	No, you got some there in that little ca - in that little pocket.
144:42:50	Cernan	Yes, but there are so many bags in here, I can't get at them.
144:42:52	Schmitt	No, I mean the pocket on the Rover, on the bag. Remember?
144:42:57	Cernan	No, they're not. I took them out and put them on you.
144:42:59	Schmitt	Oh, okay.
144:43:00	Cernan	The rest of them are in this bag. I'll come and get them.
144:43:09	Cernan	See, the other - this other - but I don't want to get into your seat. We got those bags pi - packed in there like gangbusters. How are you doing there by yourself?
144:43:17	Schmitt	Well, it's hard.
144:43:19	Cernan	Your hook came off. If you wait a minute, I'll hook it on this bag. See. See.
144:43:29	Schmitt	I never - I didn't think the sample bag could come off the camera. But they can.
144:43:37	Cernan	Yes. Doggone it.
144:43:40	Schmitt	What's your problem?
144:43:43	Cernan	Just as well fix this bag now. Let me get this bag - it's going to come off at the bottom if we don't. It's going to come off again. I don't think the harness is tight enough now.
144:44:00	Schmitt	Want to tighten the harness?
144:44:04	Cernan	Yes, I got to, Jack.
144:44:05	Schmitt	Okay.
144:44:06	Cernan	Let me get your harness - I might just as well do it, so it's right. If it's worth doing at all, it's worth doing right. Now, let me try getting that bag back on. No, don't bend over, I can't get down there.
144:44:30	Schmitt	Okay.
144:44:31	Cernan	You're plenty short enough.
144:44:33	Schmitt	Thanks - thanks a lot. (Laughter)
144:44:35	Cernan	This bag now, that hook - or something changed the geometry.
144:44:41	CC	Okay, don't worry about it too much, guys; I'm sure the bag will stay on without the hook.
144:44:48	Cernan	Yes, it will; the conclusion I just came to.
144:44:50	Schmitt	You through?
144:44:51	Cernan	Yes, go ahead.
144:45:05	PAO	EVA time 4 hours 10 minutes.
144:45:42	Schmitt	Okay, Bob, what I know is a blue-gray breccia is in bag 525.
144:45:51	CC	Okay, copy that. And, Jack, you just skipping up - scooping up little rocks along the ... here - in your little xenolith mode? Go ahead, Gene.
144:46:07	Schmitt	Yes, ... you read my mind. I do want to get one of these light-colored rocks, though.
144:46:18	CC	Go ahead, Gene.
144:46:22	Cernan	Bob, the - when I broke the cores apart, there's just a lot of dried clods and - and the bottom core's full, the top core about - oh, I got to look - it's dark down there, but about an inch -inch and a half of the core is just - just zero g to 1/6 g'd itself right out.
144:46:48	CC	Okay, we copy that. I guess we still just cover it, and see what we got. Might just again trying compacting it after that's through; after you're done with the lower core.
144:47:00	Cernan	Yes. I'll do that.
144:47:26	CC	And, Geno, how about - -
144:47:27	Schmitt	Bag 526.
144:47:30	CC	Copy; 526.
144:47:32	Cernan	Okay, in a long can - I'll give it to you; wait a minute.
144:47:37	Schmitt	And that may have been a piece of gabbro. But again, I can't be completely sure.
144:47:43	CC	Copy that. Go ahead, Gene.
144:47:47	Schmitt	It's either that or anorthositic gabbro we saw up on the front. Up on the massif.
144:47:56	CC	Okay.
144:47:57	Cernan	And my bags aren't staying on my camera worth a darn.
144:48:00	Cernan	Forty-six, Bob, is going into the long can.
144:48:03	CC	Copy that.
144:48:20	Schmitt	Boy, another exercise in dexterity. Okay, LMP has gone to INTERMEDIATE.
144:48:40	Cernan	And, by the way, I'm at about 49 percent and 3.85 and INTERMEDIATE cooling and no flags.
144:48:47	CC	Okay, copy that, Geno. Have you got a number for the upper core when you done - I guess you're probably putting the other one in the long can, aren't you, right now.
144:48:56	Cernan	Yes, yes, yes; that's right.
144:49:00	CC	And somewhere here along the line, Jack, I guess maybe when you get those, you ought to stop and take the pan.
144:49:09	Schmitt	Okay, Bob.
144:49:11	Cernan	Okay, Bob, the long can is sealed and I guess nobody knows what's in it but me.
144:49:17	CC	No one ever will, probably.
144:49:22	Cernan	I may not - I may not even tell. It does not - none of the material in this core, in either the top section or the bottom section, look unlike that - that stuff just beneath the surface that we sampled at that special stop back there. It's a bluish-gray, and it tends to clod and break up in your hand. And that's core 31 - the number is 31.
144:49:51	CC	Okay. Copy. Thirty-one on the ...
144:50:00	Cernan	Oh, man. Bob, you've got better than - oh, you've got two-thirds of a core after I packed it down a little bit.
144:50:24	CC	Okay, thank you, Geno. Copy that.
144:50:31	Schmitt	Okay, that little set of 4 samples is in 527, barely.
144:50:39	CC	Okay, we hope it was worth the effort.
144:50:44	Schmitt	Oh, it's all worth the effort; it just hurts.
144:50:48	CC	Okay. We're ready now for your pan and don't forget your scoop.
144:50:54	Schmitt	I won't - Ahh! - You don't mind a little dirt here and there, do you, gang?
144:51:18	CC	No.
144:51:30	PAO	Jack Schmitt having a few problems.
144:51:49	Schmitt	Oh, dadgummit. Well - -
144:51:56	CC	Hey, Gene, would you help - would you go over and help Twinkletoes, please?
144:52:03	Schmitt	I tell you - you fix that camera bracket so the bags stay on and I'll be a lot better off.
144:52:08	CC	Roger.
144:52:09	Cernan	Want some help, Jack? I'll be there.
144:52:10	Schmitt	No, I don't need any help.
144:52:12	Cernan	Okay.
144:52:13	CC	Hey, Jack, you might worry about whether - you might worry about whether your camera lens is dirty or clean, Jack. I don't know what you do about it.
144:52:21	Schmitt	I'm very worried about that.
144:52:22	CC	I don't know what you do about it, but you might worry about it.
144:52:24	Schmitt	I don't have a thing to do - it's clean.
144:52:39	Cernan	Well, I'll be a son of a gun.
144:52:41	Schmitt	What's your problem?
144:52:42	Cernan	(Chuckle) can't get this thing locked on.
144:52:45	Schmitt	What the - -
144:52:46	Cernan	The rake!
144:52:47	Schmitt	The rake?
144:52:49	Cernan	Yes. That should lock. I turn that like that - there it comes.
144:52:55	CC	Jack, have you ever started your pan, so we get an EMU check from you?
144:53:03	Schmitt	Well, it's about 50 percent. About 385.
144:53:08	CC	Okay, copy that.
144:53:09	Schmitt	And no flags. ... Come on. Get back in there.
144:53:37	PAO	Jack Schmitt taking a 360 degree panorama now with the camera.
144:53:43	Cernan	Okay, that's all put away. That goes back on your back. I'll get it.
144:53:51	CC	Why don't you go over and - over towards Jack, Gene, and then the two of you can pick up the scoop and the bag together and get back towards the Rover after that?
144:54:04	Cernan	Yes, I'm cleaning up this seat here - I'll do that I think I can hack it.
144:54:09	CC	And then, at that point, we're ready for you guys ... and, at that point, we're ready for you guys to leave.
144:54:16	Cernan	Whew - Okay. Jack, I've got the rammer I've got to put on you. I'll just leave it on your seat right now?
144:54:32	Schmitt	Okay.
144:54:36	CC	We're watching you, Jack.
144:54:41	Schmitt	What's that?
144:54:42	CC	I said we're watching you, but don't let that inhibit you.
144:54:48	Schmitt	I don't - Bob, I don't let anything inhibit me - and I don't stay mad very long.
144:54:56	CC	That was very good.
144:55:04	Schmitt	(Laughter) Well, there's an easy way to do everything. The question is can you hang on to it once you've done it?
144:55:22	Cernan	Let me get those, Jack. Don't get down there. Let me get those.
144:55:27	Schmitt	Where are you? They don't stay on my camera anymore.
144:55:33	Cernan	Well, we'll fix it.
144:55:35	Schmitt	There's no reason why they shouldn't, according to this. But there are a lot - -
144:55:39	Cernan	Okay, Those - the samples from that - Oh - I need - I gotta go up there - Wait! Take an after - cross-Sun, from over to the north of the gnomon.
144:55:49	Schmitt	You didn't get an after, huh?
144:55:50	Cernan	No.
144:55:51	Schmitt	How come you're cleaning up the Rover?
144:55:52	Cernan	Oh, I got it - I'll get it.
144:55:54	Cernan	If you'll mount this thing.
144:55:56	Schmitt	Just set it there. Just set it there. I'll take four deep breaths.
144:56:02	Cernan	Bob, what else do you want us to do here?
144:56:04	CC	Nothing. Get on the Rover and leave. Get the heck out.
144:56:06	CC	Don't forget the gnomon.
144:56:08	Schmitt	Okay. No, we're going back to get that after - and we won't forget it.
144:56:19	Cernan	I think you might be able to decipher this station, Bob.
144:56:26	CC	That's the general idea. And be advised that the switchboard here at MSC has been lit up by calls from the Houston Ballet Foundation requesting your services for next season.
144:56:39	Cernan	I should hope so. Well, we can't use that one. The right-hand gate lock is - -
144:56:51	Schmitt	How's that?
144:56:52	Cernan	- nonfunctional and the left one is almost nonfunctional.
144:56:59	CC	Okay.
144:57:06	Schmitt	We - once you get it open, you can't get it locked. I'll dust them if I get a chance, but it's locked on the left side.
144:57:13	CC	Okay, well, we'll keep those bags under your feet, anyway.
144:57:15	Schmitt	Here, I'll work on it.
144:57:16	CC	I think the samples are safer under there, anyway.
144:57:21	Cernan	We don't have any room. ... we can take bag 7 out.
144:57:26	Cernan	That one is locked - in good shape.
144:57:28	Cernan	Let's press on. We got the reading? Let me put the rammer on your back and see if we can't get this on your camera.
144:57:47	Schmitt	Are we going to run the SEP this time?
144:57:49	Cernan	I don't know; he hasn't said anything. I expect he will.
144:57:51	CC	No, we will not turn the SEP on, Jack. You might cover it with a blanket as well as you can. And how about a temperature reading before you leave, when you do that?
144:58:01	Cernan	It's 100.
144:58:03	CC	Copy that, 100, and understand both switches are OFF and the covers are closed.
144:58:07	Cernan	Okay. Well, the covers are closed now. They weren't.
144:58:12	CC	Okay. Roger. That's what I mean.
144:58:15	Cernan	Okay. Turn - turn the other way, left. I think it might just put you there.
144:58:21	Schmitt	Well, I don't know why it isn't staying on, but it certainly isn't.
144:58:24	Schmitt	... Move over there.
144:58:24	Cernan	Okay.
144:58:27	Schmitt	Is that the same one? I may have bent it.
144:58:32	Cernan	I think you did now.
144:58:33	Schmitt	Yes. I just bent that, didn't I?
144:58:39	Cernan	Yes, that's not going to stay on. Yes, you bent it (laughter) very well.
144:58:45	Schmitt	... how I did that.
144:58:46	Cernan	I don't know ... You'll lose these bags.
144:58:50	Schmitt	Okay, well, We'll - -
144:58:51	Cernan	I got bags.
144:58:52	Schmitt	We'll revise our procedures.
144:58:54	Cernan	I got bags.
144:58:55	Schmitt	I guess I bent my camera mounting brack - point, the camera point.
144:59:03	Cernan	Turn around.
144:59:08	Schmitt	We may have to - think about a fix there.
144:59:13	Cernan	We might be able to fix that in the cockpit.
144:59:14	Schmitt	Yes.
144:59:16	CC	Okay - -
144:59:16	Schmitt	Okay, are we all through, have you got - -
144:59:18	CC	- - worry about that right, when you get back in.
144:59:19	PAO	Jack Schmitt waving.
144:59:31	Schmitt	Okay. Okay, where are we here?
144:59:33	Cernan	I'll get on.
144:59:35	Schmitt	Okay. Oh, I guess I need to get another film mag, huh?
144:59:39	CC	Okay, how about the frame counts on both you guys before you start?
144:59:46	Schmitt	152 on the LMP -
144:59:51	CC	We suggest magaline - magazine Juliett, please.
144:59:57	Cernan	(Laughter) Okay, we'll get magaline Julieing. The CDR's on 118.
145:00:05	CC	Okay, copy that, Geno.
145:00:11	Schmitt	Fire fire, two frames. You know, I'd enjoy this if it weren't so much fun.
145:00:21	Cernan	Okay, you going to change your mag.
145:00:23	Schmitt	Yes.
145:00:24	Cernan	Shoot a 500 while you're doing that. (Laughter)
145:00:27	Schmitt	Listen to me - -
145:00:28	Schmitt	Yes.
145:00:28	Cernan	Look at my thumb.
145:00:29	Schmitt	I know.
145:00:30	CC	17, we'd really like the - -
145:00:31	Schmitt	Any time you want to do something, though.
145:00:33	CC	- - we'd like to press on as quickly as possible.
145:00:36	Cernan	I got it.
145:00:37	Schmitt	Got it?
145:00:38	Cernan	Got it.
145:00:38	CC	In case you didn't get.
145:00:39	Cernan	Take a portion of the scarp over there you can see.
145:00:42	CC	17, do you copy? Houston.
145:00:47	Cernan	What?
145:00:48	CC	We'd like to press on - -
145:00:49	Cernan	What?
145:00:49	CC	- - as soon as possible, please.
145:00:52	Cernan	Yes, we are, Bob, but - but he's got to change his mag.
145:00:58	CC	Roger.
145:00:59	Cernan	I'm going to stand here and look around.
145:01:01	CC	Okay.
145:01:10	Schmitt	Okay, I'm picking up with mag - or with frame 56 and I'm going to try to get a little bit of where the scarp overlaps the North Massif. I can't see much of it. All I could get was three frames of that. Now I'm picking up the South Massif.
145:01:45	PAO	Jack Schmitt, changing the film magazine in his camera.
145:02:30	Cernan	Okay, how are you coming, Jack?
145:02:32	Schmitt	Okay. Oh, I ought to put that in there so you've got room for your camera.
145:02:39	CC	You got a final frame count there, Gene?
145:02:46	Schmitt	Okay, I'm all set.
145:02:55	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. When I finished with South Massif, I was on 94 and I took - now I'm on 99 - I took five more pictures back over to the northeast.
145:03:07	CC	We copy that. And we assume you guys are ready to go by now.
145:03:13	Cernan	And, Bob, they were all with the lens - Yes, sir - they were all with the lens cap off.
145:03:22	CC	Splendid.
145:03:30	Schmitt	Okay.
145:03:32	CC	Okay. And, Jack, what's the headings say? And we'll - -
145:03:34	Schmitt	Why don't you fix that high gain so you can see?
145:03:36	CC	We'll - we'll get the reading we need for the nav update. Do you think you can give us the heading right now?
145:03:45	Schmitt	Okay, heading is 41 - I think. I'm at a little bit of an angle. Better let Gene do it for you.
145:03:56	CC	Okay. We're waiting.
145:03:57	Schmitt	I got some - Gee, I've got some parallax. I think it's 41, though.
145:04:05	Cernan	What you looking at?
145:04:06	Schmitt	The headings.
145:04:07	Cernan	43 - 043 is what I gave them earlier.
145:04:12	CC	Yes, we were wondering if it drifted while you were there, because we're going to give you now a - -
145:04:15	Cernan	Bob, let me - -
145:04:16	CC	- - going to give you one to update it if it has drifted at all.
145:04:20	Cernan	Okay, it did drift, 041 is a good number.
145:04:23	CC	Okay. Stand by.
145:04:29	PAO	We'll get a picture back at Station 4 which is the crater, Shorty.
145:04:33	CC	Okay. That's fine. No torque necessary, Geno.
145:04:36	Schmitt	I'm strapped.
145:04:39	Cernan	You liked the drift, huh?
145:04:41	CC	Great.
145:04:42	Cernan	Okay, I'll - Dadgummit.
145:04:46	PAO	Estimated driving time 16 minutes.
145:04:46	Schmitt	What's wrong? Oh, the hammer?
145:04:47	Cernan	Yes. Every time. Okay, let's go.
145:04:48	Cernan	All right, sport. I'm going to head -
145:04:55	Schmitt	We didn't really do all the things we wanted do, but I think we did everything we could.
145:04:58	CC	We did everything we wanted to ... time line ...
145:04:59	Schmitt	Okay, let's get ready to roll.
145:05:00	Cernan	Flight line stereo.
145:05:04	Cernan	Okay, Bob - Oh -
145:05:07	Schmitt	You got the TGE ... on and the low gain is 060.
145:05:11	Cernan	You get the gnomon in?
145:05:13	Schmitt	Didn't you get it?
145:05:15	Cernan	Wait a minute.
145:05:15	Cernan	You took the after. It's not sitting out there.
145:05:18	Schmitt	No, I thought I handed - didn't you stick it -
145:05:20	Cernan	Yes, I stuck it in. I got it. Okay. We can look back (laughter).
145:05:31	Cernan	... Bob.
145:05:35	Schmitt	I sure thought I handed it to you, Geno.
145:05:36	Cernan	You did, and I put it in.
145:05:39	Schmitt	Okay, that's good. Okay, whoo-boy, rest the old hands.
145:06:01	CC	Okay, we've recommendations for MINIMUM for you. Gene - Jack.
145:06:03	Schmitt	... ejecta. It's double.
145:06:09	Cernan	I think I am in MINIMUM.
145:06:11	CC	Jack, ... - Jack.
145:06:11	Cernan	I am already.
145:06:12	Schmitt	Yes, I'll go to MINIMUM. Yes, I will.
145:06:21	CC	And give us a mark rolling, please.
145:06:26	Cernan	Yes, Bob, I gave you one. We've been rolling for about 30 seconds.
145:06:29	CC	Copy that.
145:06:30	Cernan	We're at 087 - 087 and 5.9 on that range.
145:06:36	CC	Copy that.
145:06:40	CC	And the drive to Station 4 will be nominal and we'll get a Rover sample at about 094/5.1 but it will be the track as indicated on the map and the cuff checklist.
145:06:57	Schmitt	Okay. Going to Shorty.
145:07:08	Cernan	Okay.
145:07:10	Schmitt	On our way.
145:07:11	Schmitt	You got your checklist there?
145:07:12	Cernan	Yes, I got it in front of me.
145:07:14	Schmitt	Okay.
145:07:15	Cernan	And, we're heading - heading is 069, around - Well, up - I got it -
145:07:20	Schmitt	Yes, that's pretty close.
145:07:22	Cernan	I know we're next to that band but I know where we're going, next is 094/5.1 is what I want for that sample.
145:07:29	Schmitt	Yeah. Zero what?
145:07:32	Cernan	I think he said 094/5.1.
145:07:34	Schmitt	He meant - 052 is what's nominal. What's the sample again, Bob?
145:07:39	CC	5.1; 094/5.1.
145:07:51	Schmitt	Oh, okay, that's the heading.
145:07:53	Cernan	All right. You got 09451.
145:07:55	Schmitt	Yes, got it.
145:08:02	Cernan	Just drive by this big rock. Want to look at it. Can't see it. I can't see when that off LCRU shines into my eyes.
145:08:22	Schmitt	Looks like one of the gray breccias.
145:08:24	Cernan	Big 3-meter - 3 to 4-meter block out here all by itself on the light mantle - I got some pictures it was at 088/5.6.
145:08:37	CC	Okay, copy that.
145:08:38	Schmitt	And it looked like a gray breccia, I'm not sure though, all I could see was the surface texture, and it had the modular or elongate modular texture that those breccias had up on the South Massif.
145:08:54	CC	Okay, copy that, Jack.
145:08:57	Cernan	Where are you, Shorty? And the battery temperatures are 100 and 130.
145:09:08	CC	Copy that.
145:09:11	Schmitt	Okay, Bob, as far as any of the things we talked about trying to see at the surface, dynamics or a variation of the light mantle, I think you've heard it all, there isn't much to say about the dynamics right now. I have a feeling that the surfaces are old enough that all those kind of detailed relationships have been obscured. Filleting (?) is just about the same all over here, it varies, but there are no systeraatics that I've seen.
145:09:47	CC	Okay, copy that. Do we ever see a Rover flag come up when you've got high temperatures there on the battery - have you seen the flag up yet?
145:09:55	Cernan	No, you didn't. No, you did not, you did not.
145:09:58	CC	Okay, that may be telling us something, we hope. Press on.
145:10:07	PAO	And Ron Evans in America are about 13-1/2 minutes away from loss of signal on the twenty- ninth lunar revolution. Ron will be getting his evening meal within a few minutes, and in about an hour and a half will begin his rest period.
145:10:15	Schmitt	Okay. LMP is in MINIMUM.
145:10:20	CC	Copy that, thank you.
145:10:24	Schmitt	Okay. Ought to cut left up here a little bit.
145:10:28	Cernan	Yes, I think so. Ooh!
145:10:34	Schmitt	Don't - Keep her going.
145:10:37	Cernan	(Laughter)
145:10:39	Schmitt	Good lord! Was that a - ... aspect ratio of that little thing.
145:10:41	Schmitt	Yes, that's what they call a pit crater. Can you swing a little bit and let me get that fragment crater - see that one on your left there?
145:10:56	Cernan	Quite a scene up here. Got your pictures? Pictures?
145:11:07	Schmitt	Yes, I got them.
145:11:08	Cernan	Okay, Bob. We're at 090/5.3 for a quick Rover sample of a very, very fragmental crater. The ejecta is about 50-percent small angular fragments much different than we have seen before in terms of the type of patterns.
145:11:28	CC	Okay, copy.
145:11:28	Cernan	Okay, and that's in bag 41 Yankee.
145:11:40	Cernan	And we're on our way.
145:11:42	CC	Great.
145:11:47	Cernan	Get your picture, Jack?
145:11:48	Schmitt	Yes. LMP frame count is 15.
145:11:56	CC	Copy that.
145:11:57	Cernan	About a 30-second stop. Okay, 094 - I'm 090, 5.3 now, Bob. We're heading toward your stop.
145:12:04	CC	Okay, 090, 5.3.
145:12:06	Schmitt	See Shorty out there yet?
145:12:07	Cernan	Well, I -
145:12:18	Schmitt	Bob, I couldn't tell whether that was just - it looked like that that might have been a crater that had got to bedrock. There may have been a high point, or let's say a thin point in the light mantle, and it got down to bedrock. But I can't - it's the most blocky-rimmed crater we've seen for a long time.
145:12:37	Cernan	Yes. All these others are nowhere near that - look at that.
145:12:40	Schmitt	No. It was about 15 meters in diameter.
145:12:54	Schmitt	Bob, there - there are no obvious lineations, at the scale we can observe, on the light mantle. I think the pan photography and the metric stuff may be what you'll have to use for any directional trends out in here. Depending on what we decide the origin is.
145:13:30	Schmitt	Bob, are you still reading?
145:13:32	CC	Roger. We're still reading you, Jack.
145:13:37	Cernan	Okay. Are you reading us through the LM or through the low gain?
145:13:40	CC	As far as I can tell, we're reading you through the low gain. It's been working just great tonight, Geno.
145:13:47	Cernan	Okay, that's great - -
145:13:49	Schmitt	Tonight?
145:13:49	Cernan	- - because I just scraped bottom on the LCRU. If it's still working, I'm glad to hear that.
145:13:55	Cernan	Okay, we're 093 and 5.2. We're almost there.
145:14:01	Schmitt	Going to be right on the rim of that crater.
145:14:09	CC	Okay. And, 17, the word from the backroom is - with that last Rover sample you got, we'd like to go straight to Station 4 - and we won't get the one here at 094 and 5.3 - 5.l, excuse me.
145:14:26	Schmitt	Bob, I thought the purpose was to sample the light mantle?
145:14:31	CC	I - We talked to them about that, but they - -
145:14:33	Schmitt	We didn't sample light mantle at that last one.
145:14:35	CC	- - I agree. I talked to them about that. But they are so anxious to get to Station 4, I guess they don't want to do it.
145:14:44	Schmitt	Well, how about it, Gene? A little real time -
145:14:47	Cernan	I think we got to, right here.
145:14:48	Schmitt	I think we got to.
145:14:49	Cernan	094, 5.1. You got your picture?
145:14:53	Schmitt	Yes. Okay, that's good enough.
145:14:55	Cernan	You happy?
145:14:56	Schmitt	We'll get the sample - anyway.
145:14:59	Cernan	Okay. 094, 5.1.
145:15:01	CC	Copy that.
145:15:03	Cernan	That's good, Jack, Sample is in 42 Yankee.
145:15:10	CC	Copy that.
145:15:14	Cernan	And we are rolling. And give me a bearing and a range to Station 4.
145:15:22	CC	Roger. It will be bearing of 100 and range of 4.6.
145:15:29	Cernan	Okay. We're now at 5.0 - 094 and 5.0.
145:15:35	Schmitt	LMP frame count is 25.
145:15:39	Cernan	Was that 100, 4.6?
145:15:42	CC	Roger, Gene.
145:16:11	Schmitt	Houston, there aren't very many rocks that just sit on the surface. All of them seem to - to be slightly buried to moderately buried. That one looked like it might be vesicular. There's a trench - linear set of craters.
145:16:44	Cernan	Hold it, babe. We got to do a little detouring.
145:16:49	Schmitt	Okay, what we're looking for is 101 - -
145:16:54	Cernan	Yes. 100, 4.6, I'll detour. I'll just get down this slope. I don't see Shorty though, do you?
145:17:02	Schmitt	Wait a minute, is that it? is that it out there straight ahead?
145:17:11	Cernan	Well, let me get down this slope.
145:17:12	Schmitt	Something's dark out there. I think that's it.
145:17:14	Cernan	The - the dark - it might be right over there to the left a little bit?
145:17:18	Schmitt	Your left, yes.
145:17:18	Cernan	Yes, right over there. I think I can cut it right across there. That's going to be about the right place.
145:17:22	Schmitt	Seems a little far from here - but - maybe not.
145:17:41	Schmitt	Oh, I forgot to take pictures again. Trying to shade my eyes. That Scarp certainly is spectacular going up there by Hanover, isn't it?
145:17:55	Cernan	It just rolls over the side, doesn't it?
145:17:57	Schmitt	Yes.
145:18:00	Schmitt	I don't know what else we can say about it, though (chuckle). Okay, we're getting a good view of the North Massif, and the cross-hatched lineaments that Gene has talked about are over there, also. They seem to be a set that - that plunge about, oh, 30 degrees to the east and another set that plunge about the same to the west. Plus the boulder tracks, which we see occasionally over there. And there are areas - boulder fields up on the Massif itself, such as we saw on the South Massif. As a matter of fact, it looks like there's one just above where we may - where Station 6 may be. Straight ahead of us there, Geno.
145:19:01	Cernan	Uh-hmm.
145:19:02	Schmitt	About bearing O60 from our present position, which is 098 and 4.8.
145:19:26	Cernan	If I change that heading, that LCRU comes right in on me.
145:19:33	Schmitt	I don't see any - anything like layering up there. Although the upper boundary of those boulder fields on the North Massif, and, as a matter of fact, on the South Massif - -
145:19:49	Cernan	That's Shorty straight ahead of us, I think. Yes, yes, that's got to be it.
145:19:54	Schmitt	- - all tend to have a linear boundary. That's the upper portion of the field; the lower portion is strung out downslope. That looks like it might be Shorty. Yes.
145:20:08	Cernan	We're at 9 - 099, 4.7, Bob.
145:20:11	CC	Okay, great. Sounds like you're just about there.
145:20:17	Cernan	Yes, I think we got it in front of us.
145:20:18	CC	Okay.
145:20:27	Schmitt	Bob, looking at the Sculptured Hills, I think Gene's comments the other day about Bare Mountain would apply. There's a small relief - or small amplitude hummockiness to the surface. It's formed by cross-hatch of - Let's say the slope I'm looking at is sort of west-facing slope. So on the other side of Wessex Cleft, it's formed by lineaments going - plunging about 10 degrees to the north and about 10 degrees to the south. And the combination gives some hummocks that are quite distinct.
145:21:14	Cernan	Well, you know it's hard to see a blanket here, but that's got to be Shorty right there.
145:21:19	Schmitt	Okay - -
145:21:20	Cernan	It's the only large - real large -
145:21:21	Schmitt	We want to park. I don't think we'll see a blanket down - -
145:21:24	Cernan	I don't either.
145:21:27	Schmitt	It - Well, I think - At least we're going to see where the break in slope is for the rim. My goodness.
145:21:35	Cernan	Oh, look at the boulders sitting on that rim.
145:21:38	Schmitt	It's different.
145:21:40	Cernan	It is darker.
145:21:41	Schmitt	Let's go over there.
145:21:42	Cernan	No question. We're at 101, 4.5-
145:21:48	CC	Copy that.
145:21:51	Cernan	Okay - -
145:21:51	CC	Let us know when you stop and where you're - -
145:21:53	Cernan	Which rim do you want to park on?
145:21:54	Schmitt	Well, I think we ought to park over here near that big boulder.
145:21:58	Cernan	Yes - yes, if I can get up there. I think I can.
145:22:01	Schmitt	You can swing in, you know, and just park parallel to the - Of course, that will put them looking back. What - Can you park any direction?
145:22:10	Cernan	Well, yes, but 045 gives me a good - Let me - I'll work on it.
145:22:14	Schmitt	Okay.
145:22:15	Cernan	Let me get up there slowly. I'll put them on this low saddle here. 045 will give them a good heading.
145:22:23	Schmitt	Shorty is a crater, the size of which you know. It's obviously darker rimmed, although the fragment population for most of the blanket does not seem too different than the light mantle. But inside - Whoo, whoo, whoo!
145:22:38	Cernan	Man, are you going to get a picture now.
145:22:40	Schmitt	Oh, yes.
145:22:42	CC	We can hardly wait.
145:22:43	Cernan	That's about as far as I want to take it.
145:22:46	CC	Okay. And when you stop and get off, give me word and I'll read you up some revised plans for Station 4.
145:22:57	Cernan	Okay, Bob, we're heading 041; bearing is 102; distance, 5.1; and 4.4 on the range. Amp-hours are 92, 90, 102, and 128 on the batteries. Off-scale low on the fronts, and off-scale low on the rears.
145:23:23	CC	Copy that. And did I understand 4.2 on the range, Gene?
145:23:32	Cernan	Yes sir!
145:23:33	CC	Okay. Copy that.
145:23:35	Cernan	I don't know whether you're wrong, or we are, but - -
145:23:39	CC	Sounds like an interesting crater, in any case.
145:23:40	Cernan	- - this is an impressive one.
145:23:43	Schmitt	Wait until you see the bottom of it.
145:23:45	CC	Okay.
145:23:48	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. Shorty is clearly a darker rimmed crater. The inner wall is quite blocky over - but except for the western portion of it, which is less blocky than the others. The floor is hummocky, as we thought it was in the photograph. The central peak, if you will, or central mound, is very blocky and jagged. And the impression I have of the other mounds in the bottom is that they may - they look like Scarp masses that may have come off the side.
145:24:38	CC	Okay; copy that and - -
145:24:40	Schmitt	That's just what they look like. I'm not sure that - They have a - they have a bench appearance.
145:24:46	CC	- - Okay, and the primary priority - number 1 and 2 priorities - at this station will be samples from the crater rim and the pan from the crater rim. Over.
145:24:59	Schmitt	Okay, we've got a large boulder of very intensely fractured rock, right on the rim, right near the Rover. It looks like - it looks like a finely vesicular version of our clinopyroxene gabbro. It's obviously crystalline and has generally that same appearance. There is, in one spot here, some inclusions of a darker gray rock also intensely fractured. The fracture systems, I think, will show up well in the flight line stereo.
145:25:49	Cernan	Bob, do you have TV?
145:25:51	CC	Roger. We have TV, and you might brush the lens for us before you run away.
145:25:57	Cernan	Yes, I'll get it. I've got to get my battery covers cleaned.
145:26:02	Schmitt	Okay, I'm going to take a pan while I'm waiting for you.
145:26:04	CC	And we're going to want the SEP opened and dusted as well here so we'll be - switches turned off.
145:26:15	Cernan	Ooo-kaay. Ooo-kaay.
145:26:22	Schmitt	Oh, hey - Wait a minute - -
145:26:27	Cernan	What?
145:26:29	Schmitt	- - Where are the reflections? I've been fooled once. There is orange soil!
145:26:32	Cernan	Well, don't move it until I see it.
145:26:35	Schmitt	It's all over! Orange!
145:26:39	Cernan	Don't move it until I see it.
145:26:40	Schmitt	I stirred it up with my feet.
145:26:42	Cernan	Hey, it is! I can see it from here!
145:26:44	Schmitt	It's orange!
145:26:46	Cernan	Wait a minute, let me put my visor up. It's still orange!
145:26:48	Schmitt	Sure it is! Crazy! Orange! I've got to dig a trench, Houston.
145:26:59	CC	Copy that, I guess we'd better work fast.
145:27:00	Cernan	Hey, he's not - he's not going out of his wits. It really is.
145:27:07	CC	Is it the same color as cheese?
145:27:08	Cernan	Temperature on the SEP is about 100 and - temperature on the SEP's about 102.
145:27:15	Schmitt	It's almost the same color as the LMP decal on my camera.
145:27:22	CC	Okay. Copy that.
145:27:23	Cernan	That is orange, Jack!
145:27:34	Cernan	Boy, this brush is getting harder to get on and off too. But I sure don't want to lose it. Man, I may start putting that under my seat. Well, zap me with a little cold water. Okay, the SEP has been dusted. I think I gave you 102 or something like that.
145:28:16	Schmitt	Fantastic, sports fans. It's trench time. You can see this in your color television, I'll bet you.
145:28:26	Cernan	How can there be orange soil on the Moon?
145:28:33	Cernan	Jack, that is really orange. It's been oxidized. Go around and get the lunar sounder over here.
145:28:41	Schmitt	It looks just like a - an oxidized desert soil, that's exactly right.
145:28:48	PAO	Total stay time here 30 minutes.
145:28:51	Cernan	Well, I'm going to clean their glasses so they don't - so they know we're - Can you wait a minute on that - on that pan you're taking?
145:28:57	Schmitt	I already took it.
145:28:59	Cernan	No, I mean the television camera. I'll put you back where I had you.
145:29:11	Cernan	Wow, I'll let you put your - right where you finished your pan.
145:29:17	Schmitt	You know - that orange - that orange is along a line, Geno, along the rim crest -
145:29:28	Cernan	To follow - what? Circum - circumferential?
145:29:31	Schmitt	Yes. Man, if there ever was a (chuckle) - I'm not going to say it. But if there ever was something that looked like a fumarole alteration, this is it.
145:29:40	Cernan	Okay, let me give you a gravimeter - -
145:29:43	Cernan	MARK it.
145:29:44	CC	Okay, mark the gravimeter.
145:29:45	Cernan	And she is flashing. Oh, never mind, Bob. I'm going to go to STANDBY. I've got to get my gnomon.
145:29:59	Schmitt	Hey, I think we hit one of those things we've got to reconsider on, Houston.
145:30:08	CC	Yes. The problem is we're looking at PLSS constraints right now, as luck would have it, of course.
145:30:15	Cernan	MARK it. Gravimeter.
145:30:17	CC	Roger. Copy that.
145:30:22	Cernan	What's wrong with the TV? Aren't you watching it?
145:30:29	CC	It seems to have died slowly there.
145:30:33	PAO	We're having tilt problems with the TV.
145:30:37	Cernan	Well, stand by. Now, I'm going to give you another STANDBY and another MARK.
145:30:48	CC	Okay.
145:30:56	Cernan	STANDBY, ON, and -
145:31:01	Cernan	MARK it.
145:31:02	CC	Copy that.
145:31:05	Schmitt	Okay, Bob, I've trenched across the trend of the yellow - or the orange. There is light gray material on either side.
145:31:18	Cernan	Oh, man, that's incredible.
145:31:20	Schmitt	Say, Gene, we're going to have to - -
145:31:22	Cernan	That's incredible.
145:31:22	Schmitt	You need to get a down-Sun color - -
145:31:25	Cernan	That's incredible.
145:31:26	Schmitt	- - as well as - I'll get my black-and-white.
145:31:29	Cernan	I'll get it.
145:31:46	Schmitt	We also got to get that rock up there - that's - -
145:31:49	Cernan	Yes, we'll get that. Okay, let's start sampling that trench. We've got to get - that's - -
145:31:55	Schmitt	Okay.
145:31:56	Cernan	- - That's phenomenal. Look at where the contact between the gray and the -
145:31:58	Schmitt	Yes. Right, and it's on both sides - -
145:32:00	Cernan	Before you disturb it, let me just get a couple of closeups of that.
145:32:03	Schmitt	Hey, can you get a down-Sun? I think your color will be best down-Sun.
145:32:06	Cernan	Okay.
145:32:07	Schmitt	Go to f/ll. Get a little closer, Geno, if you think you're minimum.
145:32:16	Schmitt	Come up. There you go.
145:32:22	Cernan	Let me get one more. Hey, you want any of this bagged in a - in the can, Bob? Canned in the bag - or whatever it is?
145:32:33	CC	Stand by. They're debating that right now.
145:32:36	Cernan	Are they?
145:32:38	CC	Roger. Let's get the short can for some of that and - -
145:32:40	Schmitt	Okay, the color is - -
145:32:43	Cernan	Okay let us get the - let us sample it first, then we'll get it.
145:32:54	Schmitt	It's quite - it's - it's indurated.
145:33:02	Schmitt	Aah - Go back and get that one.
145:33:06	Cernan	Go get a new chunk.
145:33:07	Schmitt	I'll go get a new chunk.
145:33:07	Cernan	Give me that, and get a new one. Give me that. Get some more.
145:33:11	Schmitt	I'm going to slow down here.
145:33:12	Cernan	Yes, just take it easy.
145:33:15	Schmitt	I can't see into this.
145:33:16	Cernan	I can't see when your shadow is there.
145:33:18	Schmitt	Can you get around on the other side?
145:33:19	Cernan	Yes.
145:33:20	Schmitt	Because I can't see to sample.
145:33:32	Schmitt	Oh. Well. Yes, that's it.
145:33:44	Cernan	See if you can get a sample right across that contact too.
145:33:46	Schmitt	I will. Okay, bag that one.
145:33:49	Cernan	Bag 509 has got the - the orange material from, oh, about 2 to 3 inches down.
145:34:03	CC	Copy that.
145:34:16	CC	Okay, we're suggesting INTERMEDIATE for you, Jack.
145:34:25	Schmitt	Okay, the light gray, which is on either side - we sample the - the - Want me to get some more?
145:34:38	Cernan	Yes, a little more.
145:34:43	Schmitt	It's - all of this is getting mixed a little bit with a - about a half-centimeter thick light-gray or a medium-gray covering over the whole area.
145:34:56	Cernan	Bob, the gray material that is adjacent to the red material is in at 5 - how would I say 510.
145:35:05	CC	Copy that.
145:35:06	Cernan	I had it, and I can't see it now.
145:35:08	Schmitt	And the LMP is INTERMEDIATE.
145:35:09	CC	Copy that.
145:35:10	Cernan	510, Bob.
145:35:11	CC	Copy that.
145:35:12	Cernan	And that - and that orange band is about a meter wide, I think.
145:35:16	Schmitt	About a meter.
145:35:17	Cernan	You can't get to the end of it - bottom of it though, can you?
145:35:19	Schmitt	I haven't been able to yet.
145:35:22	CC	Okay.
145:35:22	Schmitt	Just to be sure, why don't we sample this side of it, too?
145:35:26	Cernan	Then I'm going to go get the can.
145:35:29	Schmitt	Okay - one.
145:35:32	Cernan	If I can remember where we put it. Bob, where did we put the small can?
145:35:34	Schmitt	It's in the - it's in bag 7 under my seat.
145:35:37	Cernan	Okay. That's good. 511 has the gray from the other side of the orange band. And the other side happens to be the crater side.
145:35:49	Schmitt	That's right. North side.
145:35:55	Cernan	Okay. Why don't you look around a minute, and I'll get that can.
145:35:58	Schmitt	Okay. I'm going to see - see if this goes on down here as a zone.
145:36:14	Cernan	It looks like it's - ellipsoidal area if my footprints are any indication.
145:36:18	CC	17, Houston. We'd like to get the double core here instead of the small can. - Double core, please, instead of the small can.
145:36:27	Cernan	Okay.
145:36:28	Schmitt	Did you want it in the orange?
145:36:31	CC	Roger. That affirm. We can put cores in gray soil all the time.
145:36:39	Schmitt	Well, it's a vertical stratigraphy. Do you want to go sideways a little with it? Or you just want to get it as deep as you can, huh?
145:36:52	CC	I expect we want to get - let's go as deep as we can in the orange, please, there, Jack. And the one problem at this station, Jack, is not that - -
145:36:58	Schmitt	All right.
145:36:59	CC	- - we can ... decide priorities between this station or any other station. It's the fact that we're running up against the walkback constraints here in just a very few minutes, about 20 minutes.
145:37:12	Schmitt	Okay.
145:37:15	Cernan	Okay, Bob, and the bottom will be 44, and the top will be 35.
145:37:22	CC	Copy that. And after the core, we'd like for you to go over and sample some of that - some of the big rocks there on the rim, if you could very quickly. That'll be the next order of priority after that.
145:37:41	Schmitt	We will.
145:37:41	Cernan	Yes, sir.
145:37:41	CC	And I'm not sure whether your pan will look down into the crater or not, Jack. But if it didn't, we'd like to get another one from there. Hey, there's the crater.
145:37:49	Cernan	It did. Yes - yes - look into it yourself and - and then, I'll also get you a stereo pan before we leave. I can do that.
145:37:58	CC	Roger. That's some crater.
145:38:03	Schmitt	Got your hammer?
145:38:04	Cernan	Yes. I've practiced too long on taking stereo pans of craters, without getting one here.
145:38:11	Schmitt	I got mine from right - just right down there, Gene. So -
145:38:17	Cernan	What is that right there?
145:38:19	Schmitt	What?
145:38:21	Cernan	That right there.
145:38:22	Schmitt	I don't see - Oh, it's a piece of glass, probably.
145:38:27	Cernan	Boy, it sure is.
145:38:29	Schmitt	Hey, how about right up here?
145:38:42	Schmitt	You know that - we were almost - we just about got (laugh) to the upper edge of this little ellipsoid zone. I think we're going to have to - we've messed up most of it. Let's try right over here.
145:39:00	Cernan	I've got a little piece of glass in my pocket.
145:39:03	Schmitt	Bob, the upper portion of the core is going to be a little bit disturbed, because we've walked around the area so much.
145:39:11	CC	Okay. Copy that.
145:39:16	Cernan	There was a little piece of black glass - -
145:39:20	Schmitt	You may want to get up here - -
145:39:21	Cernan	- - solid black glass.
145:39:22	Schmitt	Okay. That - did you get a - hold it, and I'll get a shot.
145:39:26	Cernan	Take your picture. That's about as far as I could shove it in.
145:39:33	CC	Okay. And, 17, while you're doing that, was the gray mantle over the top of this, or was this showing all the way through to the surface?
145:39:43	Schmitt	No, it was over the top. It was about a half a centimeter over the top.
145:39:46	CC	Copy that.
145:39:48	Schmitt	He's getting about - about 3 centimeters a whack.
145:39:52	CC	Very good.
145:39:54	Cernan	I'll tell you, it's a lot harder going in than that double core was back there. It's pretty hard.
145:39:59	Schmitt	It acts like it's inherently cohesive. It breaks up in angular fragments.
145:40:06	CC	Copy that.
145:40:07	Schmitt	An essential portion of the zone is - actually has a crimson hue, or red hue. Outside of that it's orange. And outside of that, it's gray.
145:40:20	Cernan	Wait a minute, Jack.
145:40:21	Schmitt	That's all right, take it easy. I'd offer to hit it, but I don't think I can, my hands are so tired.
145:40:30	Cernan	I'm going up to max here for just a minute or 2.
145:40:34	CC	Copy that.
145:40:34	Cernan	Okay, let me hit some more. Ready?
145:40:37	Schmitt	Yes, go ahead.
145:40:39	Cernan	Watch it - I'm afraid. Jack, it's stable enough. Why don't you get out of the way? I'm afraid if I leave go of this thing, you'll get it in the head.
145:40:43	Schmitt	Okay. Have at it. He's still getting a centimeter a whack, P00r guy. Let's see. I didn't get a locator, I better get a locator. Oh, it's in the - No, it isn't.
145:41:05	Cernan	The only thing I question is our ability to get it out. Man, that's really hit bottom.
145:41:18	Schmitt	Has it?
145:41:19	Cernan	Yes.
145:41:20	Schmitt	Okay, do I have core tubes on me now? I mean caps?
145:41:22	Cernan	Yes.
145:41:23	Schmitt	Caps.
145:41:24	Cernan	Yes, sir.
145:41:26	Schmitt	And the rammer.
145:41:27	Cernan	Yes.
145:41:27	Schmitt	Okay - only -
145:41:29	Cernan	That's all the way down. But, I really - -
145:41:31	Schmitt	That's it. Thanks, Geno.
145:41:32	Cernan	- - I really wonder about getting it out.
145:41:33	Schmitt	Well, we'll give it the old college try.
145:41:35	Cernan	Yes, we ought to be good at getting cores out by now.
145:41:37	Schmitt	It'll come out.
145:41:39	Cernan	Whew - Okay.
145:41:41	Schmitt	It wouldn't dare not come out - wait a minute - -
145:41:45	Cernan	Is there enough to hold on to?
145:41:46	Schmitt	Whoops - Which side you got?
145:41:49	Cernan	I was just getting this out for you. Let me - I can get this side better.
145:41:52	Schmitt	Okay.
145:41:55	Cernan	Ready?
145:41:56	Schmitt	Okay.
145:41:56	Cernan	Go. Okay, pull slowly. Slowly so I can cap it all right. Let me get a cap.
145:42:01	Schmitt	Okay.
145:42:02	Cernan	Okay. Hold it - hold it - let me get a cap.
145:42:04	Schmitt	... get the cap.
145:42:06	Cernan	Okay. Now, wait a minute.
145:42:09	Schmitt	Are you ready?
145:42:10	Cernan	Okay, very slow. Even the core tube is red!
145:42:14	Schmitt	Look at that!
145:42:15	Cernan	Even the core is red! The bottom one's black - black and orange, and the top one's gray and orange!
145:42:22	Schmitt	The fact is, the bottom of the core is very black compared to anything we've seen.
145:42:27	Cernan	Hey, we must have gone through the red soil because it's filled, but it's filled with a black material.
145:42:32	Schmitt	Let me see, Gene.
145:42:33	Cernan	Dark gray, almost a very very fine grained - -
145:42:36	Schmitt	That might be a magnet - magnetite.
145:42:39	CC	Fantastic.
145:42:39	Cernan	... I got it.
145:42:40	CC	Fantastic.
145:42:41	Schmitt	Go ahead.
145:42:42	Cernan	Okay.
145:42:45	Cernan	But it, it, it -
145:42:47	Schmitt	Let me - god, it is black isn't it?
145:42:50	Cernan	Yes. I've got to get it so I can get the - Boy, it is black and is it contrasted to that orange stuff. Very black. Well, not very black. It's a good dark gray. Very dark bluish gray.
145:43:04	Schmitt	Yes - contrast.
145:43:05	Cernan	Okay, turn that thing so I can push this cap a little bit. Just turn -
145:43:08	Schmitt	Which way?
145:43:08	Cernan	Either way. Just turn the whole tube.
145:43:10	Schmitt	Oh, okay.
145:43:11	Cernan	It's just easier to turn the tube than my hand - -
145:43:13	Schmitt	(Laughter)
145:43:13	Cernan	- - some more. I don't want this cap to come off. Okay. I'm going to INTERMEDIATE cooling. Okay. Now you don't have any caps, so let's take this back to the Rover.
145:43:25	Schmitt	Where's the hole?
145:43:26	Cernan	Why don't you take a picture of the hole, while you've got a camera there?
145:43:30	Schmitt	Be careful with that.
145:43:31	Cernan	Yes.
145:43:32	CC	The caps are in SCB-7. They're under the LMP seat.
145:43:35	Schmitt	Well, the hole's most - the hole's mostly in shadow.
145:43:41	CC	And, 17 - -
145:43:43	Cernan	Yes, I got them Bob.
145:43:44	CC	- - And, 17, so you're at a spot - we'd like - We have to be leaving here - not like - we have to be here in 14 minutes on the move because of walkback constraints. And we'd like to get a quick sample of the basalt up there on the rim, and Gene's stereo pan, and then press on. And I emphasize that the walkback constraint we're up against in 14 minutes - 13 now.
145:44:08	Schmitt	Okay, Bob, I'll get a sample - I'll doc - I'll sample it by hand. But it'll be documented. And I'll get it in a bag in a minute since I don't have any.
145:44:18	Cernan	Come back this way when you do. I need that rammer again.
145:44:22	Schmitt	Oh, okay. Well, I better come there first, I guess.
145:44:26	Cernan	Well, I don't need it right this second - -
145:44:28	Schmitt	Okay.
145:44:28	CC	Why don't you leave the core there Gene, and you can take the stereo pan while Jack's getting that sample. And then you can get together and ram the core home.
145:44:40	Cernan	Okay. Bob, the bottom of the upper core is also dark.
145:44:46	CC	Copy that. Sounds a little thin.
145:45:14	Cernan	And, like you might expect, the top of the bottom core is dark, too.
145:45:18	CC	How about that.
145:45:18	Cernan	... It - if I ever saw a classic alteration halo around a volcanic crater, this is it. It's ellipsoidal. It appears to be zoned. There's one sample we didn't get. We didn't get the more yellowy stuff, we got the center portion -
145:45:44	Cernan	Let me get those caps, Jack. What's - That's what's holding it. Holding it from coming out.
145:45:57	Schmitt	Steal a bag.
145:45:58	Cernan	Okay.
145:46:09	Schmitt	Okay, the - I got it. Basalt is in bag 512.
145:46:20	CC	Copy that.
145:46:37	Schmitt	I'm getting in your bag here Gene. Got it. Okay.
145:46:52	Cernan	Jack, our lock is on the outside here, so we ought to watch this gauge.
145:46:58	Schmitt	What happened?
145:46:59	Cernan	Not going to worry about it. This lock is on the outside of that lever lock - out there. You'll see what I mean when you look at the lock. Okay, I'm going to go get my pan.
145:47:13	Schmitt	Okay.
145:47:15	Cernan	The cores are not rammed yet. You want to ram them while you're here?
145:47:18	Schmitt	What did you do with my extension handle? Oh, it's -
145:47:20	Cernan	Here. And If you want to ram them - -
145:47:22	Schmitt	Okay.
145:47:23	Cernan	- - there you are. They're not rammed.
145:47:24	Schmitt	I'll get them.
145:47:30	Cernan	Okay, Bob, I'm going several meters around to the east and towards the south to get this pan.
145:47:38	CC	Copy that.
145:47:42	Cernan	And I - I'm going upslope. I'm circum - I'm - on the circum - Oh, you know, on the rim. And I'm up. Oh, that ought to be a beautiful shot, if I could see what my settings are.
145:47:57	Schmitt	Okay, the lower core is chucky-jam full. I don't think I've budged that thing.
145:48:07	CC	Okay. Copy that.
145:48:22	CC	Okay, and, Jack, I copied - aside from three trench samples, I copied one single rock - one single bag of basalt samples. is that correct?
145:48:34	Schmitt	That's right. 512.
145:48:36	CC	Copy that.
145:48:36	Cernan	Hey, Bob, from where I am, about 100 meters around the west side of the rim of this crater, the mantle on the inside of the rim turns from this gray material we've been sampling - sampling in here, to a very dark gray material. And there's a lot of orange stuff that goes down - radially down into the - into the pit of the crater.
145:49:03	CC	Okay. Copy that. Outstanding.
145:49:09	Schmitt	Hey, Bob, those cores didn't feel like they - the follower went down at all.
145:49:15	CC	Okay.
145:49:16	Schmitt	Shouldn't it have gone a little bit?
145:49:18	CC	Not necessarily, if it's pretty compact stuff. You were having a hard time getting it in.
145:49:25	Schmitt	Well, I thought there was a little space up there, but maybe I just didn't feel it.
145:49:29	CC	Hot very much - -
145:49:30	Schmitt	I don't think there's much danger of them coming apart.
145:49:32	CC	Okay. Great.
145:49:37	Cernan	I got to take a couple of more pictures at that contact slope over there. I know - you can't see it from where you are, Jack, but I guess we got to leave. Otherwise it would be nice to sample that dark stuff up on top.
145:49:47	CC	We need you guys rolling in 7 minutes.
145:49:53	Cernan	We can get a sP00l - oh, I bet I'm out of film! Well, I got them all anyway, Bob. I'm at 162. I'm out of film. That stuff - and you're looking at me with the camera - that stuff is up toward that boulder, around that - about as far away from that boulder on the other side as we are on this side. And we want a hack at that boulder, too. Jack, let's see if we can't get that boulder, anyway.
145:50:25	Cernan	But I don't have any film.
145:50:27	CC	Guys, we don't have that much time.
145:50:32	Cernan	I know, Bob, I know. There's a lot of little pieces - not a lot - but enough that I've seen five or six of them. Little pieces of obsidian-like glass. I got one in my pocket. Unbagged. Undocumented. This boulder that you were looking at with the TV. I'm going to take a sample undocumented.
145:50:59	Schmitt	I got it! I got it!
145:51:00	Cernan	Oh, you got it?
145:51:01	Schmitt	Yes.
145:51:01	CC	Yes.
145:51:02	Schmitt	Let's go.
145:51:03	Cernan	I'm sorry, I didn't know you got that. Bag 461 has another sample of the - of basalt that I picked up right near where we dug the trench.
145:51:20	CC	Copy 561 [sic].
145:51:22	Cernan	Okay, Bob, I'm going to give you something with the - I'm going to give you something with the TV. I want to show you where that dar - dark material starts.
145:51:33	Schmitt	Hold still, now.
145:51:33	Cernan	As you - okay. As you look at the inner rim as it goes down (cough) to the right - you see a lot of boulders - a lot of rocks that are protruding out. Where that rock pattern thins out, just beyond that, is an orange - a visible orange radial pattern, and then beyond that is a definite change in albedo where you get the gray material, and a definite change in the number of - of rocks on the slope.
145:52:07	CC	Gene, Roger.
145:52:09	Cernan	And that particular - -
145:52:10	CC	Copy that.
145:52:10	Cernan	- - material can - -
145:52:11	CC	And if - -
145:52:11	Cernan	- - and that particular material - that par - Let me finish, Bob! That particular rim material there continues around to the due north, and then there's a drastic change again where you see the - the inner rim completely terraced with this boulder fill.
145:52:34	CC	Okay, copy that, Gene - -
145:52:35	Cernan	And I can't bet on it, but I can see it - -
145:52:35	CC	- - and you can talk about it when you get home.
145:52:40	Cernan	Okay. As long as you're happy, I am.
145:52:42	Schmitt	Wait, Gene. Wait, wait, wait.
145:52:44	Cernan	I got to get the film changed, Jack - -
145:52:46	CC	All right, Gene, change the film at the next - -
145:52:47	Cernan	- - ...
145:52:48	Schmitt	Okay.
145:52:48	CC	- - station. We can save time that way.
145:52:52	Cernan	All right.
145:52:53	CC	And we would like the SEP turned on before you leave -
145:52:55	Cernan	We did that.
145:52:55	CC	- - and we'd like EP number 1 taken, Jack, so you can deploy that at Victory.
145:53:00	Schmitt	Okay. Okay. I'll get - I'll get your scoop for you. Have you been leaving it cocked like that?
145:53:10	Cernan	Yes, Of course, we haven't been taking any SEP measurements, and I don't know what difference it makes.
145:53:32	Schmitt	Okay, everything is locked on, I guess - How are you reading, Bob?
145:53:38	CC	We've been reading you loud and - -
145:53:39	Cernan	It's 70, 012, 501; 670, 012, 501.
145:53:46	CC	Okay, we copy that, Geno, and -
145:53:49	Cernan	Okay, got the -
145:53:51	CC	Charge number 1 and - -
145:53:52	Schmitt	We got the gnomon, we got the rake - -
145:53:53	CC	- - we need the SEP on - -
145:53:59	Cernan	SEP on, Jack? I'll get charge number 1 for you.
145:54:00	Schmitt	Okay. I'll get the SEP on.
145:54:02	Cernan	I'll just hand it to you.
145:54:03	CC	And what's your frame count, Gene - Jack?
145:54:05	SC	Charge number 1.
145:54:06	Schmitt	Okay, power - power's on, recorder's on, the temperature is 112.
145:54:17	CC	I copy that.
145:54:26	Schmitt	Can you get it, Geno?
145:54:27	Cernan	Yes.
145:54:33	Cernan	You get in - I'll hand it to you.
145:54:35	Schmitt	Okay,
145:54:36	Cernan	And then I'll offer to get the TV.
145:54:38	CC	And, Jack, what's your frame count, please?
145:54:43	Schmitt	Wait, Bob, I can give you that on the Rover.
145:54:45	CC	Okay. I thought you were on there.
145:54:47	Cernan	Okay, camera MODE switch is 1. Camera's going AFT - camera's going AFT. Well, I guess that's the breaks of life. Low gain on SEP when I get on, I'll give you - this when you're ready. First thing I got to do, Bob, is change film at the next station.
145:55:17	CC	That's affirm.
145:55:21	Schmitt	And, Bob, LMP is at 75.
145:55:25	CC	Say again, there, Jack, I - I missed that.
145:55:29	Schmitt	75.
145:55:31	CC	Copy that. Thank you.
145:55:36	Cernan	I must be getting fatter, you know it.
145:55:39	Schmitt	Fatter?
145:55:41	Cernan	Well -
145:55:43	Schmitt	Depends on how you get in. Where's your hammer?
145:55:46	Cernan	Okay, we got a flag on the Rover.
145:55:49	Schmitt	Your hammer's caught again.
145:55:51	Cernan	That's all right. We got a flag on the Rover, and I'm reading 136 on battery number 2.
145:55:59	CC	Say again on that one, Gene.
145:56:03	Cernan	I'm reading 136 - make that 132 on battery number 2, and we did get a flag.
145:56:10	CC	Copy that.
145:56:15	Cernan	Okay, Jack, I'm going to make a very sharp right turn here because I do not want to go down that hill. Okay. We're moving, Houston.
145:56:27	CC	Roger. You're moving exactly 37 seconds early.
145:56:35	Cernan	Early? I could have got - gotten that dark mantle on the side of that crater. That's all it would have taken me.
145:56:42	Schmitt	So you saw a radial orange, huh?
145:56:44	Cernan	Yes, it was radial, Jack. You could see it very - It'll be in the pictures. Oh, man, I can't drive into that heading. Let me get my - -
145:56:52	Schmitt	That was on the inside of the crater?
145:56:54	Cernan	On the inside rim of the crater.
145:56:56	Schmitt	Yes, that's where the surface ... keeps slumping off so it's exposed, probably.
145:57:02	CC	Quite a station, men. We thought - -
145:57:03	Cernan	I'm going to get my ... Okay. I'm MIN.
145:57:03	CC	- - Station 2 was a good station.
145:57:11	Cernan	Okay, I'm MIN. Man, I'll tell you, that - that heading is going to put us right - Okay, Bob, give me a - Dang - wait a minute.
145:57:22	CC	The heading you should be generally taking - -
145:57:23	Cernan	Where we at?
145:57:23	CC	- - toward Victory is 090, Gene.
145:57:29	Cernan	Okay, can you give me a bearing and range at Victory?
145:57:32	CC	Okay. Stand by.
145:57:34	Schmitt	Did you get the TGE read?
145:57:36	Cernan	Yes, I did - I get it read. They got everything, that station - but not everything I'd like to give them.
145:57:42	CC	Okay, it's going to be - -
145:57:43	Cernan	Houston - -
145:57:43	CC	- - 105 and 3.1.
145:57:47	Cernan	Okay. Man, I tell you that LCRU is terrible, when it lashes into you.
145:57:55	Schmitt	Well, you can always zigzag.
145:57:57	Cernan	Yes, that's what I've got to do. I've got to tack into that Sun.
145:58:09	PAO	Station 5 is at the crater Camelot.
145:58:10	Schmitt	I got it.
145:58:11	Cernan	Okay. We got to go to Victory.
145:58:12	Schmitt	Houston, I don't know what exa - I didn't have time to really think at that station but that could - I think based on having found the alte - If I hadn't seen that alteration, and all I'd seen is the - is the fractured block on the rim, I might have - which looked like the stuff in the bottom - I might have said it was just another impact. But having all the color changes and everything, I think we might have to consider that it could be a volcanic vent.
145:58:48	CC	Roger. It surely was different, anyway.
145:58:50	Schmitt	I'm not sure how we - I'm not sure how we prove it. We didn't have time to prove it.
145:58:58	CC	We noticed. I guess that's the breaks of the game, sometimes.
145:59:03	Cernan	Hey, Bob, I forgot your numbers at - I forgot your numbers at Victory. How about giving them to me, again?
145:59:09	CC	Okay. 105, 3.1. And it'll be a heading of 090 - -
145:59:15	Cernan	Okay. Thank you.
145:59:15	CC	- - that's the general heading in that direction.
145:59:20	Cernan	Okay. 105, 3.1.
145:59:24	CC	I guess we always have Station 9 to look forward to, guys. That may be the same thing - We'll probably be out of time when we get to that one, too.
145:59:37	PAO	A six pound explosive charge will be deployed near Victory on the way to Camelot and Station 5. This is the largest of the charges for the lunar seismic profiling experiment.
145:59:38	Cernan	Nobody likes a pessimist.
146:00:11	Cernan	Hey, Bob - I note on those radiators - I have been dusting the covers at every stop, whether that's any help or not.
146:00:19	CC	Okay; we copy that.
146:00:27	Cernan	Okay, sports fans. We're still about on the - well, I think we moved - yes, we moved - we moved out into the Tortilla Flat area, I guess. Not very flat.
146:00:43	CC	That's affirmative.
146:00:51	Cernan	Those kind I can go through - I can see them coming. 102, 3.8. And where's Victory?
146:01:01	CC	Dead ahead.
146:01:02	Cernan	Boy, Victory is going to be subtle, I'll tell you. Bob, how long we been out?
146:01:12	CC	Stand by. 5 plus 26, 5 plus 26.
146:01:16	Schmitt	Hey - hey, Bob, I recommend that if we ever do this again they let me get off and pick the charge off when we want to deploy it. It really adds to the fatigue of the hands.
146:01:36	CC	I tell you - -
146:01:37	Cernan	Couldn't you just hook it onto your fingers?
146:01:38	CC	We - we copy that, Jack. And Charlie's got a big smile on his face here.
146:01:50	Schmitt	Mark my words. There's Victory over there, I bet. See that's the long edge.
146:01:57	Cernan	Yes, yes. I can't see over there, but - -
146:01:59	Schmitt	Okay.
146:01:59	Cernan	- - got too much Sun in my eyes.
146:02:02	Schmitt	That's the right way to go. That'll be about it, too.
146:02:09	PAO	Charlie is Charlie Duke the backup LMP.
146:02:10	Cernan	Man, I haven't seen - I don't think I've really seen the LM, except ... - -
146:02:13	Schmitt	... big rock in front of you.
146:02:14	Cernan	I got it.
146:02:15	Schmitt	Okay. Well, you can't tell much about the countryside going into the Sun, can you?
146:02:23	Cernan	Put your upper visor down. That's what - that'll give you a whole different perspective.
146:02:28	Schmitt	It doesn't vise very well. It's stuck.
146:02:43	Cernan	That's got to be Victory over there, Jack.
146:02:45	Schmitt	Yes.
146:03:02	Cernan	We're at 103, 3.4.
146:03:06	CC	Copy that.
146:03:12	Cernan	That is Victory.
146:03:16	Schmitt	We're still seeing the pit-bottom glass - the glass-lined, pit-bottomed craters. How's that?
146:03:30	CC	Otherwise known as - -
146:03:30	Cernan	That's geology-ese if I ever heard it.
146:03:31	CC	-- the GLPBC.
146:03:36	Schmitt	Took you a while, didn't it?
146:03:42	CC	It's 11 o'clock down here, guys.
146:03:48	Cernan	It's 11 o'clock up here, too, Bob. There's a square boulder - look at that one!
146:03:56	Schmitt	Yes, it's square all right - or at least one side of it is.
146:03:59	Cernan	No, three sides of it are square. It just fractured that way - that's by accident, looking at it. So how do we get over here?
146:04:06	Schmitt	Go left, probably. And along the rim.
146:04:08	Cernan	Yes, that's where I'm going to go. Hold on.
146:04:12	Schmitt	I'm holding. Oh man! If Charlie is smiling because my hands are tired, why did he let you give me - get the charge off? Fine backup crew we got.
146:04:40	CC	You guys didn't really mean to say that, did you?
146:04:46	Cernan	106, 3.2. We're approaching the rim of Victory.
146:04:58	Schmitt	And the LMP frame count is somewhere around 7 - well, 85, maybe.
146:05:04	Cernan	That's Victory; look at it go to the left and look at it go to the right. That's Victory; we're right on the ridge.
146:05:08	Schmitt	Yes. Yes.
146:05:09	CC	Okay; and we're picking - -
146:05:10	Cernan	We're at 106, 3. - -
146:05:10	CC	- - on a Rover ..., you guys - Copy that.
146:05:15	Cernan	1 - 106, 3.2.
146:05:19	Schmitt	Okay, let's see.
146:05:21	Cernan	Tell me where you want that thing and we'll get a pan around it.
146:05:23	Schmitt	Okay, let's - I tell you what - you see right ahead of you -
146:05:25	Cernan	Yes.
146:05:25	Schmitt	There's - it's - looks like a place you could spin a profile on.
146:05:30	Cernan	Yes, I could do it - right up in here.
146:05:32	Schmitt	And deploy the charge. Tell me where you're going.
146:05:36	Cernan	I'm going, right here; you could put it in that hole. No, you don't want to do that.
146:05:40	Schmitt	That's all right.
146:05:41	Cernan	Just pick a spot and take your photos.
146:05:43	Schmitt	Okay, I've got them. Now, go just beyond there. Little bit more. That's good.
146:05:52	Cernan	Okay. Okay, Bob, we're at 106, 3.2.
146:05:57	CC	Copy that.
146:06:03	Schmitt	Okay, pull - pin 1 is pulled and safe. Pin 2 is pulled and safe, and - Boy, these are stiff this time around. Push it in - try again.
146:06:24	Cernan	That's a - that's a big black box. Don't pull it too hard.
146:06:32	Schmitt	Stand by on pin 3, gang.
146:06:34	CC	Copying that. Remember to push it all the way back in, Jack, and start from scratch.
146:06:39	Schmitt	I did - I did - I did. I remembered - I remembered.
146:06:42	CC	Good, good, good.
146:06:45	Schmitt	But now I can't get to the -
146:06:53	Cernan	Your hands are tired. Let me try it once.
146:06:55	Schmitt	No, it's - it's not that. It's just - it's coming. Got it.
146:07:00	Schmitt	Pin 3 is out and safe.
146:07:02	CC	Copy that.
146:07:07	Schmitt	And look at the orange flag. Zowie!
146:07:11	CC	That's what you guys were sampling at Station 4, I bet.
146:07:17	Cernan	Huh? Yes - it's about that orange, only a little - not quite as bright. Same - same shade. Okay. Okay, let me turn my switch on. Hey, Bob - -
146:07:26	PAO	The crew's about 12 minutes behind the EVA timeline.
146:07:29	Schmitt	Wait a minute, wait a minute. Let me get that out a little more.
146:07:31	Cernan	Bob, there's no question but what that we're at Victory.
146:07:36	CC	Say again there, 17-
146:07:37	Cernan	It's the first crater that looked like I thought it would.
146:07:40	CC	Okay.
146:07:42	Cernan	Okay. You ready?
146:07:45	Schmitt	Let me change my setting here.
146:07:48	Cernan	Okay. Okay.
146:07:50	Schmitt	Good.
146:07:51	Cernan	Okay, let's get a nice Rover pan here.
146:07:55	Schmitt	Okay, turn the other way first.
146:07:57	Cernan	Yes.
146:08:01	Schmitt	Take her slow.
146:08:02	CC	And we'll get a Rover sample here before you guys leave, too, after the circular pan.
146:08:09	Schmitt	We will.
146:08:13	Cernan	Low enough?
146:08:14	Schmitt	Yes.
146:08:20	Schmitt	Look at the light mantle over there.
146:08:23	Cernan	You can sure see it now, can't you now?
146:08:24	Schmitt	Yes.
146:08:39	Cernan	Getting your - your setting changed fast enough?
146:08:41	Schmitt	I got it; yes.
146:08:47	Cernan	Okay. Okay, let's get our Rover sample.
146:08:50	Schmitt	Okay.
146:09:00	Cernan	And the Rover sample will be from the same locality. Boy, it's just a couple of meters from the charge, isn't it?
146:09:11	Schmitt	Yes. I hope I didn't put too much soil in there for you. Wait a minute.
146:09:19	Cernan	Okay.
146:09:22	Schmitt	Rover sample works just as advertised.
146:09:25	CC	Copy that.
146:09:26	Schmitt	Not bad. That - bag 43 Yankee.
146:09:33	CC	Copy; 43 Yankee. And how about a frame count after - right now, Gene - Jack.
146:09:39	Schmitt	I will. Stand by. You're jumping the gun occasionally but not very often. 106.
146:09:52	CC	Copy - -
146:09:52	Cernan	..., Jack. Okay?
146:09:53	CC	- - 106.
146:09:56	Schmitt	Okay. I guess we're ready to leave here, huh?
146:09:58	Cernan	Well, if they don't want us to stop here, I guess we leave.
146:10:01	CC	Roger. We're ready for you guys to leave there - -
146:10:02	Schmitt	So, there's nothing else here now.
146:10:03	CC	- - and we're pressing on tovard Station 5.
146:10:06	Cernan	Okay -
146:10:08	Schmitt	Gene?
146:10:10	Cernan	Okay, and I want to go about 120.
146:10:12	Schmitt	Gene.
146:10:12	Cernan	Yes?
146:10:12	Schmitt	Gene, when you - can you swing out there and give me one look down east - or north into Victory?
146:10:18	Cernan	Yes, I can do that, we can - I've got to go by that way anyway.
146:10:22	Schmitt	North. Well, you know, just swing it - point north so I can look in there.
146:10:26	Cernan	Yes.
146:10:27	Schmitt	I never got a good look at it. Well, it's a - it's a series of three craters. There's some boulders on the - on the Talus slope of the easternmost - eastern slope of the west - eastern slope of the southernmost crater, the one we're closest to.
146:10:48	Cernan	Now how does that look to you?
146:10:52	Schmitt	Well, it looks like - and see, there's the other - I don't know what it looks like. The northwest end of the V has a white block - white blocks on it - boulders - on the inner wall and right at the rim. And the northeast end of the V looks like it has somewhat darker rocks.
146:11:14	Cernan	Yes.
146:11:15	Schmitt	Part of that is shadowed, but I think they are darker. And they look like about the same as down here near the tip of the V on this - -
146:11:23	Cernan	Got to be careful on that one, because there's one sloping away and one sloping towards us.
146:11:26	Schmitt	Yes, I know. I've qualified it.
146:11:29	Cernan	Okay; we are rolling, by the way. And we're at 106 and - Well, we're still 3.1.
146:11:37	CC	Yes. Copy that. Thank you.
146:11:42	Schmitt	In the rim itself though, Victory is - is not blocky. There a little - there is an - some increase in fragment size, but that seems to be the result of some craters in the rim that have gotten below the debris that's covering it. I'd say that Victory's somewhat like Horatio in that it has blocky inner walls but essentially a normal block population on the rim.
146:12:10	CC	Okay. And we've got a Rover sample going toward Station 5 at about 103 and 2.5.
146:12:22	Schmitt	Okay. 103 and 2.5.
146:12:25	CC	Roger. And that'll be just a grid sample.
146:12:33	Schmitt	They're - none of them just grid samples, Bob (laughter).
146:12:42	Cernan	You see, you can't tell how deep they are until you get up to them.
146:12:44	Schmitt	Yes.
146:12:44	Cernan	That one I could have gone through.
146:12:45	Schmitt	Yes. Okay; Station 5 is Camelot. Good old Camelot. (Humming)
146:13:24	Cernan	Look at the size of that one. That's another one of those -
146:13:26	Schmitt	Yes.
146:13:27	Cernan	... - there's another one on the right. Lookit.
146:13:29	Schmitt	Some of them have -
146:13:31	Cernan	Well, that one doesn't have any fragments in the bottom of it.
146:13:33	Schmitt	No.
146:13:34	Cernan	It looks like someone walked across it.
146:13:35	Schmitt	Yes.
146:13:35	Cernan	I think that there's quite a variability in the thickness of the dark mantle in here. Did you - I for - I didn't notice us crossing the - that one tongue of light mantle.
146:13:45	Cernan	No, I didn't either.
146:13:46	Schmitt	I - we obviously did - -
146:13:48	Cernan	I think we did.
146:13:49	Schmitt	Right at Victory, but it didn't show up.
146:13:50	Cernan	Looking into the Sun, you can't tell any difference anyway. However, I tell you, I certainly get the impression there is a mantle. I would say that -
146:14:04	Schmitt	Oh, I think so. I don't know what it is, but the dark mantle exists. They're just - the craters - these craters are just too big not to have thrown up blocks. And they're either subdued by the mantle or they haven't penetrated it.
146:14:31	Cernan	And a lot of - and these blocks - -
146:14:31	Schmitt	And I think you probably have both. Excuse me, Gene.
146:14:35	Cernan	And I - I'd say they've been subdued by the mantle. That - that really imposes an impression on me.
146:14:40	Schmitt	Yes. There are those that appear that way, like Horatio, for example, or the big ones. But others, I think, are too young. They just don't penetrate. Particularly those that are big and have bright halos.
146:14:50	Cernan	Well, now - yes, but the only ones that look fresh and not enough to penetrate are these little cnes with the glass in them.
146:14:55	Schmitt	Well, there's been some big - big fresh ones. We'll - we'll look for one.
146:14:59	Cernan	Now there's one with glass in it, probably.
146:15:02	Schmitt	Yes. I think that one - that's one - -
146:15:03	Cernan	And without any blocks on it. That - that may not have penetrated.
146:15:05	Schmitt	Yes. Yes, that just has the - mostly the shock-indurated rock - ... rock.
146:15:12	Cernan	We're coming up to 103 at 2.6 now, so we need a sample up here.
146:15:19	Schmitt	Okay.
146:15:20	Cernan	Okay. 103, 2.5, anywhere.
146:15:23	CC	Roger. That's affirm.
146:15:24	Cernan	Okay, let me - good. Let me slowly go to the right here.
146:15:28	Schmitt	Okay. Right out in that little inner-crater area, right out in there is good. If you let me guide you a little, I might get a rock sample. Whoa, whoa, whoa - well, that wasn't quite enough.
146:15:40	Cernan	Okay. Pick a point.
146:15:43	Schmitt	Move - move ahead about - yes, right. Just - no, that's good. Straight ahead. Straight ahead. Good, good, good, good, good, good, whoa! Now we'll give it a try.
146:15:54	Cernan	Okay, 103, 2.5.
146:15:58	CC	Copy that.
146:15:59	Cernan	And that battery is still at about 132.
146:16:01	CC	Okay. Copy that. We're allowed to go to 140, tonight.
146:16:10	Cernan	I don't expect we'll make it. I think we'll get done before that. Save that for tomorrow. I'll tell you those batteries deserve any temperature they want today, after going - going up that - -
146:16:22	Schmitt	That's - that's the soil.
146:16:25	Cernan	- - that Scarp.
146:16:26	Schmitt	Okay. The soil is in 44 Yankee.
146:16:30	CC	Copy; 44 Yankee.
146:16:44	Schmitt	That block's too big. I can't get it. Too big. Okay.
146:16:49	Cernan	Get your picture?
146:16:51	Schmitt	No. Okay, got mine.
146:17:01	Cernan	Okay. What's the - well, we'll find Camelot.
146:17:03	Schmitt	And the - 125's the LMP frame count.
146:17:08	CC	Copy that. And just press on the same heading you've been carrying there, Gene, and that will get you to Camelot.
146:17:17	Cernan	We want the southwestern edge, huh?
146:17:20	Schmitt	Do you want to go where Station 5 is, Bob?
146:17:23	CC	That's my understanding, Jack. So press on towards there unless I tell you otherwise.
146:17:29	Schmitt	Well, but you were talking about changing Station 5. I think Station 5 is a pretty good spot.
146:17:35	CC	Roger. And I think that's where we want to go - I'm just trying to verify that. You can go in that direction, though. I'll get with you if it's not.
146:17:43	Schmitt	Okay. It's probably the most concentrated boulder field on Camelot.
146:17:49	CC	Okay. You know where it is, and we think it's about 092 and 1.6.
146:17:57	Cernan	092 and 1.6. You know this country - -
146:17:59	CC	Roger. But you know where it is, so you'll find it when you get there.
146:18:02	Cernan	- - is rug - is undu - it's different.
146:18:10	Schmitt	Wonder where Horatio is?
146:18:13	Cernan	Well, we're going to run into something in a minute if it's - it's probably right over that rim on the right, Jack. Right off your right hand at 2 o'clock.
146:18:21	Schmitt	Right. I guess so.
146:18:23	Cernan	You know, it doesn't have boulders on it. It should be over there. That should be it right over that rim. You know, I see why Al and Ed had trouble walking up Cone Crater. You - you could stand right on the edge of the rim of a crater and not know it's there.
146:18:36	Schmitt	Yes.
146:18:47	Cernan	Man, that was spectacular. It's color on the Moon!
146:18:50	Schmitt	Whooo!
146:18:51	Cernan	It was really orange! Can you see that color on the television?
146:18:57	Schmitt	No answer.
146:19:00	Cernan	I'll bet they couldn't.
146:19:03	CC	No, we couldn't see it, Gene. ... guys - -
146:19:05	Cernan	Look at the - look at the Sculptured Hills. Okay. I'm sure glad I went up to take that second pan to see that stuff go radially down into the center of the crater at that contact.
146:19:15	Schmitt	Yes, that's good.
146:19:17	Cernan	Hope that comes out.
146:19:19	Schmitt	Doesn't make any difference, it's there - comes out or not. Okay. Sculptured - -
146:19:27	Cernan	Okay. Look at - look at up - up the cleft over there. You can see definite change in albedo now between the North Massif and the Sculptured Hills. Lookit, right at - right up the - the valley. Well, you can't see it - let me -
146:19:38	Schmitt	(Laughing) You're right.
146:19:39	Cernan	You got - you got to see this. See that?
146:19:46	Schmitt	Yes. There - but, again, that may be your photometrous effects.
146:19:49	Cernan	Yes, one's an upslope and one's a downslope.
146:19:51	Schmitt	Yes. Yes. Just about right, but it's supposed to be darker in the - in the cleft you know.
146:20:04	Schmitt	Well, I guess ... I've been on - LMP's back to MINIMUM.
146:20:11	CC	Roger. Thank you.
146:20:16	Cernan	Oh, whoop, whoop, whoop! I wish I had a movie picture of us driving.
146:20:24	Schmitt	You're doing it - you're doing the driving.
146:20:27	Cernan	Who's going to - -
146:20:28	Schmitt	Who you plan on taking it?
146:20:30	Cernan	- - ... century. You're doing - Well, there must be somebody out there.
146:20:38	Schmitt	Bob, the fragment population - We're at 099, 2.0 - is still about the 1-percent category of - And it's hard to tell, going into the Sun, what kind of blocks you're dealing with. But - my - my guess is most - well, more than a guess - most of them look like they're slightly vesicular. And, in that regard, resemble the gabbros.
146:21:18	CC	Okay, copy that.
146:21:19	Schmitt	Many - there are - now there is some that - there's a class of boulders that is flat topped and fairly well rounded that is just about completely buried. Only the - the - oh, not more than 5 centimeters of it projects above the surface. We've seen those off and on, both days. Remember, Geno?
146:21:43	Cernan	Yes.
146:21:44	Schmitt	And they seem to be quite distinct. At least you notice them. Now, whether it's just a continuation of the mantling, I don't know. But - the - most other boulders - the big ones seem to be - project above the surface more than just that 5 or 10 centimeters.
146:22:09	Cernan	I tell you, the Sculptured Hills just have that wrinkled old-face feeling.
146:22:12	Schmitt	Yes. There are blocks over there though , aren't there?
146:22:17	Cernan	There's blocks, but I don't see any concentrated outcrops - -
146:22:19	Schmitt	No.
146:22:19	Cernan	- - or concentrated masses of blocks up on the slope anywhere - -
146:22:22	Schmitt	Possibly - -
146:22:22	Cernan	- - like you did on the Massif.
146:22:23	Schmitt	Possibly due - -
146:22:25	Cernan	Oh. Do you think that's Camelot or not?
146:22:27	Schmitt	I think that might be Camelot.
146:22:28	Cernan	Look at that.
146:22:29	Schmitt	Nice shot.
146:22:31	Cernan	Look at that. Right on the southeastern - -
146:22:34	Schmitt	Now, wait a minute.
146:22:35	Cernan	- - southwestern rim.
146:22:36	Schmitt	Yes, yes.
146:22:37	Cernan	Yes, because Horatio's got to be on our right. Well, wait a minute, doggone it.
146:22:40	Schmitt	It's not Horatio, is it?
146:22:42	Cernan	Well, we're at 094, 1.7.
146:22:46	CC	Stand by.
146:22:52	Schmitt	No, I think, that's Camelot. Horatio didn't - -
146:22:54	Cernan	That's too - that's too - -
146:22:54	Schmitt	- - have blocks that far up the rim.
146:22:55	Cernan	- - let me - yes, let me look - look at the bottom I'll tell you. I remember.
146:22:59	Schmitt	Yes. ... These blocks -
146:23:03	Cernan	Yes, I remember. Yes, that's it, Bob. We're coming right up at Station 5 - Right at it.
146:23:08	CC	Okay.
146:23:12	Schmitt	Only way to fly. Okay. You want to park up on the rim so they can have a good panorama?
146:23:21	Cernan	Sure. I'd like to get a little on the other side of those blocks, if I can.
146:23:26	Schmitt	Yes, you better. Then they can look with the Sun on them.
146:23:29	Cernan	Yes.
146:23:29	Schmitt	Because, otherwise, they can't see that other rim over there.
146:23:36	PAO	We've said goodnight to Ron Evans.
146:23:37	Cernan	Same heading. So, I'll be all right, there. Yes. I'll get to the other side. Then they can look at these blocks and those across the way. I got to go around this block field, though.
146:23:51	Schmitt	I should hope so. ... seeing Druid.
146:24:02	Cernan	Then you really - There's Horatio back there. I can see Horatio now. Okay?
146:24:07	Schmitt	Looks just like it did before.
146:24:09	Cernan	So, we came right where we were supposed to.
146:24:12	Schmitt	All the blocks look very much the same in the wall of Horatio.
146:24:17	Cernan	There's a path through -
146:24:18	Schmitt	Watch it. Watch it.
146:24:22	Cernan	Okay. Well, that's a test.
146:24:25	Schmitt	That was a good one.
146:24:26	Cernan	That was a good test. Didn't let any air out of that tire, did it?
146:24:31	Schmitt	No, I don't think so.
146:24:34	Cernan	Talk about a block field!
146:24:38	PAO	America in its 30 revolution, coming up in the vicinity of the landing site, now.
146:24:40	Schmitt	I think my guess of 30 percent was reasonably good before. I - Where are you going to park. Right over there?
146:24:45	Cernan	I'll park right over here, so that they can look in it.
146:24:47	Schmitt	Okay.
146:24:51	Cernan	Okay. Yes. I got to head 045, so I head right into those blocks.
146:25:08	Schmitt	Oh, you still got to turn, remember?
146:25:10	Cernan	Yes, that's why I want to leave myself a little room over there.
146:25:13	Schmitt	Woah.
146:25:14	Cernan	Okay, Bob. We're stopped. 086 and 1.4.
146:25:20	CC	Okay.
146:25:26	Schmitt	Not very level for the gravimeter. What's their limit?
146:25:32	Cernan	I don't know, but it's taken a couple better than this.
146:25:39	Schmitt	Hey, I got to change film.
146:25:43	Cernan	Let me get things going here.
146:25:44	PAO	We're at 5 hours, 50 minutes. We want to leave Station 5 at 6 hours, 15 minutes.
146:25:46	Schmitt	I think I can get by this station without it.
146:25:49	Cernan	How's our time, Bob?
146:25:50	CC	Stand by. We're talking about that now. You've got - Stand by. You've got 25 minutes at this station, guys. We've given you somewhat of an extension here. You're using up some of it back at the LM, but we've given you - I've given you somewhat of an extension. You've got 25 minutes at this station. The primary priority will be subfloor documented samples, and then subfloor rake soil. As you can imagine.
146:26:21	Schmitt	Okay.
146:26:21	CC	As you get off, we'd also like to open the SEP and again get back to COOL.
146:26:30	Cernan	Okay. You wanted to turn it OFF.
146:26:34	CC	That's affirm - -
146:26:34	Cernan	Turn it off.
146:26:35	CC	- - Turn it OFF, open, dust - -
146:26:36	Cernan	You want it off?
146:26:36	CC	- - the same thing we've been doing to it all aft - all evening.
146:26:42	Schmitt	Well, it's midday here, Bob.
146:26:50	Cernan	Leave it open and I'll dust it, Jack.
146:26:52	Schmitt	Okay. Oh, the temperature - they'd like to know.
146:26:59	Cernan	Temperature is still about 112.
146:27:02	CC	Copy that.
146:27:04	Cernan	You know, the thing I - you know the thing I dread most? About closeout?
146:27:10	Schmitt	What's that?
146:27:10	Cernan	Is dusting you.
146:27:11	Schmitt	Yes, I'm not going to be able to do much today, I don't think.
146:27:14	Cernan	Well, you know, we don't have nearly as much dust on - because yesterday we were wallowing around in it. Today, we're -
146:27:19	Schmitt	Who? Me!
146:27:21	CC	Okay, and Gene, if you're not off the Rover, how about the rest of the Rover readouts?
146:27:27	Cernan	Okay, Bob, I'm off, but I'll get them for you. I'm sorry. I look at them, and they all look good to me. And it - you know. I keep forgetting to give them to you.
146:27:39	Schmitt	Bob, I have 135 frames. I think I can finish the station, don't you?
146:27:45	CC	Yes, probably.
146:28:06	Cernan	You know that SEP isn't get much - well, it's getting a little on it, but those mirrors don't clean off as nice as the - as the LCRU mirrors.
146:28:26	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. This looks just like our old friend, the pyroxene gabbro with the shiny ilmenite platelets in the vugs and partially recrystallized vesicles. The textural variations are planar, and they're primarily - or subplanar in the concentrations of vesicles.
146:29:08	Cernan	Jack, I'm going to put this brush under my - my seat. It's just getting too hard to get off that place up there.
146:29:13	Schmitt	Okay.
146:29:16	Cernan	Bob, what magazine?
146:29:19	CC	Magazine Delta.
146:29:23	Schmitt	Wa - watch yourself through here, Geno.
146:29:25	Cernan	Yes. Delta, huh?
146:29:28	CC	That's affirm.
146:29:30	Schmitt	Okay. Delta - Bravo. There's Delta. Boy, this is certainly a uni - subfloor, as we mapped it. It's certainly a uniform - uniform rock type. I'll tell you. The only variation - are those gray zones which are - just seem to be either finer or the absence of vesicles. Boy, I'm nose to nose with a piece of it right now.
146:30:15	Cernan	Say, Bob, where can I get a new set of bags?
146:30:19	CC	Okay, you want - The new bags, they'll be under Jack's seat.
146:30:22	Schmitt	There's some under - Under my seat, there's some, Geno.
146:30:26	Cernan	Okay. Just loose?
146:30:28	Schmitt	Yes.
146:30:35	Schmitt	Here I am, folks, in the middle of a boulder field. Just minding my own business. There - I don't know whether I mentioned it. The texture - mineral texture - is - appears to be subophitic to - sort of like - like a good diabase, although a little coarser. But it's unquestionably organized with that variation in vesicle concentration.
146:31:30	Cernan	Starting on frame 4, Bob.
146:31:32	CC	Copy that, Gene.
146:31:40	Cernan	Jack, I've got to get new bags. I've only got one left, and you don't have any, I don't believe.
146:31:44	Schmitt	I don't have any.
146:31:50	Schmitt	Bob, there - I have the impression that these blocks are buried up here. That the mantle does exist, even on Camelot. There are a few blocks that are lying out on the - looks like they're lying more less on the surface, but you might - you can attribute those to - to craters that have disrupted the block field.
146:32:21	CC	Okay; good observation, Jack.
146:32:22	Schmitt	The big ones seem to be projecting out of the - the big ones seem to be projecting out of the mantle.
146:32:31	CC	Okay. Do you see any such mantle on - -
146:32:32	Schmitt	Although I can't see how the mantle in here could -
146:32:36	CC	- - on top of them?
146:32:38	Schmitt	It's not as - No, I don't. What's there seems to be what could have been knocked up there.
146:32:47	CC	Okay. Understand.
146:32:49	Schmitt	I see a place where - I see a place where I think we can skim some off the top of a rock, which I think we probably ought to do.
146:32:57	CC	Okay.
146:32:57	Schmitt	But it - I don't have the impression of draping, so much as I have just of burial. And I have a feeling that the zap-pitting process just has cleaned these boulders off, of anything that may have been on top of them, in excess of what's around them, right now.
146:33:21	CC	Okay, you're talking about - -
146:33:21	Schmitt	Also, like Horatio, the - Go ahead.
146:33:27	CC	You're talking about mantle - blocks - then mantle - and then cleaned off by zap pits, in other words.
146:33:35	Schmitt	That's right. Most of the rocks seem - that seems to be what has happened all over the Moon that we've looked at. But the rocks are always cleaner than the - than the surface, of course. The - the far rim of Camelot - you can see - fact is, everywhere but where we are and on the rim near the LM -the - there seems - the rim seems to be completely covered or, at least, the blocks don't show through. They show up in the wall but not at the rim. That's much like Horatio, but not to the extreme that we saw at Horatio. I'd say, at Camelot, the mantle is - oh, maybe - at the most - the rim thickness, if that's mantle, is on the order of a half of what we saw at Horatio.
146:34:33	CC	Okay. Copy that.
146:34:34	Schmitt	The pan should let you measure that - Well, we didn't get a pan at Horatio, but we got some Rover shots of it. But you may be able to come - quantify that a little bit.
146:34:45	CC	Okay.
146:34:52	Schmitt	How coming, Geno?
146:34:53	Cernan	Oh, I've got new bags. I've got new mags. I've got everything cleaned up and -
146:34:57	Cernan	MARK, gravimeter.
146:34:59	CC	Copy. Mark that.
146:35:00	Schmitt	Here's a - here's a nicely structured rock that we probably ought to work on here. Structured again in the vesicle concentrations. And then I think we ought to try to get - right over there, we can get mantle.
146:35:18	Cernan	Hey, I'll tell you what impresses me about some of these rocks. There's a lot of - they may be zap pits - I guess you looked at them closer than I did, but there sure is a lot of - lot of lineation in some of that white - white material, Jack.
146:35:30	Schmitt	But at what scale?
146:35:32	Cernan	Well, on a - on a - on a - on a visual-obvious scale.
146:35:37	Schmitt	Well, I mean the - Okay.
146:35:40	Cernan	I'll show you. If you don't - Let me see if it's up here.
146:35:46	Schmitt	The crystal grains are - seem to be linear, but they are more or less random. is that what you mean?
146:35:53	Cernan	No, they're linear, though. I can't - -
146:35:55	Schmitt	Yes.
146:35:56	Cernan	- - can't be really linear and random. There's some rocks here that are - -
146:35:58	Schmitt	No, I mean - -
146:35:59	Cernan	- - that are highly vesicular and there's others that are not.
146:36:01	Schmitt	That's right.
146:36:02	CC	Okay, and a reminder, 17 - -
146:36:04	Schmitt	Gene, if this is what you mean, it's - -
146:36:05	CC	- - you guys, that the primary priority is the blocks and then a rake soil of the - of the white subfloor soil there. And you've only got 15 minutes before we want you driving back to the LM. Over.
146:36:19	Schmitt	Okay. We'll get to work.
146:36:22	Cernan	Okay - -
146:36:23	Schmitt	Let's sample this.
146:36:24	Cernan	Okay.
146:36:25	Schmitt	Let me get these two first and then we'll go get that one, because there's two different kinds here - at least apparent kinds.
146:36:29	Cernan	Okay.
146:36:30	Schmitt	One's a relatively new fracture.
146:36:32	Cernan	Well.
146:36:32	Schmitt	Boy, I tell you, watch when you back up. ... you already - -
146:36:34	Cernan	... told you.
146:36:35	Schmitt	- - learned that.
146:36:40	Cernan	I've already cycled film.
146:36:41	Schmitt	We need to sample the structures, though, in this thing. We haven't really done that.
146:36:45	Cernan	We'll try and get a around-the-corner - -
146:36:48	Schmitt	And we've got to get - -
146:36:49	Cernan	- - picture.
146:36:49	Schmitt	We need to get that stuff on the mantle, too. I mean on the blocks.
146:36:56	Cernan	Yes. Okay, we want to get an around-the-corner picture of one of those big ones, too. See if we can get the structure of it. Okay, you get your picture?
146:37:03	Schmitt	Yes.
146:37:17	Cernan	Here's a piece right here.
146:37:19	Schmitt	Okay, can you hand me a bag, or I'll pick it up with a scoop, whichever you prefer.
146:37:27	Cernan	Get the bag? Let's see if we can fix your bag thing tonight.
146:37:40	Schmitt	Okay, I got it. Okay, that looks like our - our old friend, the gabbro, all right.
146:37:59	Cernan	That for a piece.
146:38:00	Schmitt	462 is Gene's fairly freshly fractured rock. Okay, you can put it in the bag.
146:38:17	Schmitt	Okay.
146:38:17	Cernan	Okay, here's another one right here. That one.
146:38:21	Schmitt	Yes.
146:38:23	Cernan	I can't squeeze these things anymore. Here you go. Got a bag?
146:38:27	Schmitt	Not yet.
146:38:30	Cernan	Okay. You in there?
146:38:50	Schmitt	Okay, 463 is another of the same variety. Wish we'd started on that structured rock because we're going to run out of time. Let's go over there and get at least one off of it.
146:39:10	Cernan	Yes, we'll get it.
146:39:10	Schmitt	Get the after. Whoops - Got it?
146:39:23	Cernan	Got it.
146:39:45	Schmitt	Okay, why don't we -
146:39:48	Cernan	What did you have picked out?
146:39:49	Schmitt	This - this - this in here with the layering in it.
146:39:54	CC	Okay, guys - -
146:39:55	Schmitt	I'll get a - -
146:39:55	CC	- - looks like you'll be going in about 10 minutes.
146:39:57	Schmitt	- - a flight line photo. Yes.
146:40:06	Schmitt	Why don't you get a flight line -
146:40:08	Cernan	I'm going to get that from here.
146:40:10	Schmitt	Sort of northeast. How you going to go?
146:40:13	Cernan	I'll come around from this end and go around to that side.
146:40:15	Schmitt	Okay, I'll go perpendicular to you more or less.
146:40:51	Schmitt	Boy, that one right behind you is just vesicular, by comparison, to a high degree - like three times as much.
146:41:01	Cernan	Oh, I hope those bags weren't in the way of every one of those pictures. Okay. Boy, I tell you there ought to be a lot of permanent shaded samples in here, Jack.
146:41:24	Schmitt	Okay, I got the down-Sun. Man! That's a hard Moon.
146:41:37	Cernan	Just a little piece but that's - see -
146:41:40	Schmitt	How about this chunk down there, Gene?
146:41:42	Cernan	Where you looking?
146:41:43	Schmitt	That'd -
146:41:44	Cernan	I don't think that'll - that plate - piece?
146:41:46	Schmitt	Yes.
146:41:46	Cernan	I don't think that'll come off very easy.
146:41:49	Schmitt	Let's see here.
146:41:49	Cernan	I'll try - here try it - you're over there. You know I've worn the RTV off that hammer already.
146:41:56	Schmitt	Yes, I saw that.
146:41:59	CC	Roger, 17. Copy that.
146:42:00	Cernan	There you go, beautiful call. Beautiful call. Beautiful call.
146:42:07	Schmitt	That's why - -
146:42:08	Cernan	I wore the RTV - -
146:42:09	Schmitt	That comes from 15 years as a trained - trained hammer bearer.
146:42:15	Cernan	By golly, your geology training did come in handy. You learned where to hit rocks.
146:42:18	Cernan	Bob, 3 - well - 464. It won't all to in there, but -
146:42:34	Schmitt	That's all right, you can wrap it around it.
146:42:39	Cernan	I get it - no, I get it, babe. It's in there.
146:42:42	Schmitt	Okay.
146:42:48	CC	Okay - -
146:42:49	Cernan	Okay, let's - -
146:42:50	CC	- - Jack, and now - -
146:42:52	Cernan	Bob, what do you - can we - -
146:42:52	CC	- - if you could get that rake soil and maybe also get the soil off the top of one of those boulders that you thought you saw.
146:43:01	Schmitt	Yes. Whew. I've got to have Gene with me since my - can't carry sample bag, you know.
146:43:09	CC	Roger.
146:43:09	Schmitt	I probably can if I'm careful; but I keep dropping them.
146:43:12	Cernan	These rocks here have an awful lot - a much greater density of the white - white minerals in them, or crystals, than I've ever seen before, Jack. Where did we see these kind before?
146:43:24	Schmitt	Well, you know, when I looked at them right at first, that's what I thought - but I think that the zap pits are making the white stand out more. They're fooling you a little bit.
146:43:33	Cernan	They might.
146:43:34	Schmitt	Because when I looked it with the hand lens, it looked like a fairly normal gabbro - like some of those that have crystallized with the mare basalt.
146:43:41	Cernan	Where are you? You ready to take them -
146:43:43	Schmitt	I'm back over here. What I want is a sample of this soil off one of these rocks.
146:43:47	Cernan	Okay, let's get that now and then let's get the rake sample.
146:43:52	Schmitt	But it looks to me like it's soil that's been thrown up there rather than - This rock is about 3 meters in diameter and it - but it's one of the flat surfaced rocks. It only stands about - at the most - one-third of a meter high.
146:44:19	CC	Copy that.
146:44:26	Schmitt	But we can get up about a meter from the - the soil/rock interface and get soil off the rock, I think.
146:44:44	Cernan	Okay. See what you can do.
146:44:49	Schmitt	Whoops, oh, yes; I got some soil.
146:44:52	Cernan	Don't kick up anything new.
146:44:53	Schmitt	No, that's all right.
146:44:54	Cernan	455 is that bag number, Bob.
146:44:56	CC	Copy that.
146:44:57	Schmitt	Okay, this is soil from a half a meter in. It's about a centimeter deep and a half a meter in.
146:45:17	Cernan	Let's take that chip there that's lying on top with the next scoop.
146:45:20	Schmitt	No, I'm going to - -
146:45:21	Cernan	Let's take the soil on that. No. I was taking - No. Okay, take that one then. Well, that's another bag. Put this - before you pick that one up, pick that little chip up -
146:45:28	Schmitt	Well - I don't - I don't want to get the chips. I want the soil. Either that or a coherent rock.
146:45:33	Cernan	Okay, there you go.
146:45:34	Schmitt	I think we better leave it at that.
146:45:39	Cernan	Okay, 465. Pick that other one up and I'll bag it real quick.
146:45:41	CC	Copy that.
146:45:46	Cernan	That's the soil from on top the rock. And we're taking a piece of the rock itself, which looks pretty much like the other one, Bob. It might be a little bit more vesicular.
146:45:56	CC	Okay, and that'll be in 466, right?
146:46:02	Cernan	You're right again. Here we are and I'll be able to grab it with my hand. Put this away.
146:46:13	Schmitt	Okay.
146:46:19	Schmitt	Okay, the soil came from a half a meter in from the soil boundary. We need to get a - let me get over here and try to get a - one bag of soil that's away from the boulder. I'm going to get my after while I'm here.
146:46:35	CC	Okay, 17 - -
146:46:37	Schmitt	Could you - could you - -
146:46:37	CC	Roger. And the present time, we drop the rake soil, we'd just like to get the kilogram of soil somewhere between the boulders - as open as you can.
146:46:48	Cernan	My scoop in that?
146:46:50	Schmitt	It will be. ... Okay, it is now.
146:46:57	Cernan	Oh, you want a kilogram?
146:46:59	CC	Roger.
146:47:00	Cernan	From between the boulders?
146:47:06	CC	Roger. That'll replace the rake soil sample we were going to get. And we'd like you moving in 3 minutes.
146:47:08	Cernan	Okay.
146:47:10	Schmitt	Let's do it right here.
146:47:12	Cernan	Yes, right there. Let me -
146:47:13	Schmitt	Oh, okay.
146:47:18	Cernan	This'll go - this will be a matched pair with our soil sample, too.
146:47:25	CC	Roger.
146:47:27	Cernan	Okay, bag 467 is where your kilogram is coming from.
146:47:31	CC	Roger.
146:47:45	Cernan	Another scoopful.
146:47:46	Schmitt	Yes.
146:47:47	Cernan	That's - I'm sampling down to about 5 centimeters.
146:47:51	CC	Copy.
146:47:58	Schmitt	Get your hand down, please. I'm coming down to you.
146:48:02	Cernan	Oh, okay.
146:48:08	Schmitt	Okay.
146:48:08	Cernan	That's full. That's 467.
146:48:13	Schmitt	Pinch her down tighter or that will leak out.
146:48:24	Cernan	Now let me get your big bag tight. Okay, let me try to get a - Jack, you got a shot of where my scoop was, didn't you?
146:48:35	Schmitt	Yes. Let me get an after of it, though.
146:48:37	Cernan	Okay.
146:48:39	Schmitt	Okay, Houston, we sampled about 3 meters southwest of the gnomon that was set up for the top of boulder soil sample. So it's a match pair, really, in that regard.
146:49:00	Cernan	Don't forget your gnomon.
146:49:02	Schmitt	I'm not.
146:49:03	Schmitt	Now I need to get a pan - are you in a pan?
146:49:05	Cernan	I'm - I've already started it.
146:49:06	Schmitt	Okay, I'll go over near the Rover and get one.
146:50:00	Schmitt	Okay, I got the gnomon.
146:50:02	Cernan	When do you want us to leave, Bob?
146:50:18	Cernan	Jack, do you read me?
146:50:19	Schmitt	Yes.
146:50:21	Cernan	Hello, Houston.
146:50:22	CC	Hello, 17. Loud and clear. We'd like you to leave immediately, if not sooner.
146:50:38	Cernan	Hippity-hoppity, hippity-hoppity, hippity-hopping over hill and dale. (Singing) Hippity-hopping along. Okay, by golly, this time goes fast.
146:51:09	CC	That's affirm. Okay, and when you leave here - -
146:51:11	Cernan	Where did it go?
146:51:12	CC	- - 17, remember that we want to pick up - -
146:51:14	Cernan	I'm giving you readings.
146:51:14	CC	- - EP number 8. Roger. We're ready.
146:51:19	Schmitt	Go.
146:51:19	Cernan	06 - 070, 031, and 401. 670, 031, and, 401.
146:51:29	CC	Copy that. And when we leave we want to take EP number 8 with us, guys. We'd like the SEP turned back ON and the blankets closed. Okay, Jack, I guess that's your option, you may - -
146:51:46	Schmitt	Let me ...
146:51:47	CC	- - stop and take the charge off when you get to the distance or, if it's only a short one, you might like carrying it in your lap.
146:51:54	Cernan	Jack, I can hold it in my left arm on the seat.
146:51:56	Schmitt	No, I'll get it. I'll get it.
146:51:58	Cernan	Okay, you want the SEP ON?
146:51:59	CC	That's affirm.
146:52:03	Schmitt	Okay, both DSEA and the other switch.
146:52:09	PAO	Explosive package number 8 is a quarter pound charge.
146:52:10	Cernan	You want the blankets open?
146:52:11	CC	No, closed.
146:52:14	Cernan	Closed. Well, closed is - What happened to the Velcro on that other side? I thought they mounted that thing, so that - -
146:52:24	Schmitt	It came off, Gene. It stuck to the Velcro.
146:52:26	Cernan	That thing they ... it. Okay, you got the TG. We'll get EP-8. The camera's gone.
146:52:37	Schmitt	We made a mistake earlier and it's too late to rectify it in carrying these charges.
146:52:43	Cernan	Oh, I don't know - -
146:52:44	CC	Negative, Jack.
146:52:45	Schmitt	We did. I wouldn't want - -
146:52:46	CC	If you don't have it off, we could stop and get off and get it, if you want to? Bur this is a short distance. You might want to carry this one.
146:52:58	Schmitt	That's right, that's right. I say the mistake was made earlier. There's no problem now.
146:53:02	Cernan	Okay, traverse to LM, low gain 100.
146:53:05	Schmitt	Did you turn this on?
146:53:06	Cernan	It's all on, all squared away.
146:53:07	Schmitt	Okay.
146:53:08	Cernan	Push that thing down and it'll stay. ... Well, sometimes it will. Okay.
146:53:15	CC	And how about a frame callout before you get back on, guys.
146:53:18	Cernan	Got it.
146:53:22	Schmitt	Yes, I need some new - Do you want me to get it here?
146:53:31	Cernan	CDR's at 50.
146:53:33	CC	Copy that.
146:53:34	Schmitt	170.
146:53:36	CC	Copy 170.
146:53:37	Schmitt	LMP's 170.
146:53:38	CC	And, Jack, it'd be my opinion, since you're just going back over the same path, that you came up this morning, it's probably not necessary.
146:53:49	Schmitt	Okay, I'll use it until it runs out.
146:53:50	CC	Okay.
146:53:51	Cernan	I am out of film anyway.
146:53:52	Schmitt	But when you leave me at - Okay.
146:53:56	CC	Yes, We'll let - We'll let Gene take some of the photos near the bomb, on near charge, ...
146:54:06	Cernan	Just jump up again and get your bomb. Yes, there you go. You got to come this way quite a bit.
146:54:13	Schmitt	Yes. Up this slope.
146:54:17	Cernan	This seat is rising with you, for some reason. There it is, I guess. You're all right.
146:54:35	Cernan	Up closer to you.
146:54:42	Schmitt	Okay.
146:54:44	Cernan	Okay.
146:54:45	Schmitt	Let's go.
146:55:16	Cernan	Okay, the switch is coming ON.
146:55:26	Cernan	Okay, traverse to LM: 12 minutes, 085/1.4. That's - Man, that says 086/1.4 to the LM, and my checklist 085/1.4. We must have landed where they wanted us to.
146:55:41	Schmitt	Just about.
146:55:43	Cernan	Hey, Bob.
146:55:44	CC	Roger.
146:55:44	Cernan	You know where we landed yet?
146:55:47	CC	Well, we think so. We've been transsecting ... positions tonight.
146:55:51	Cernan	It must be - -
146:55:57	Schmitt	It must be pretty close.
146:55:59	Cernan	You bet your life. I'm reading 085/1.4, and that's what my checklist says.
146:56:04	CC	Roger.
146:56:12	Schmitt	Okay, Bob, I guess my impression and it's purely pure interpretation right at this stage - that Camelot is mantled by whatever has formed the dark mantle.
146:56:27	CC	Copy that.
146:56:32	Schmitt	It does not seem to be mantled to the degree that Horatio is.
146:56:36	CC	Okay, copy that, too.
146:56:52	CC	And give us a mark when you're going.
146:56:56	Cernan	Oh, I'm sorry, Bob - -
146:56:58	CC	And we don't have - -
146:56:59	Cernan	And we've been going about - a minute.
146:57:00	CC	Okay, copy that. And we don't have battery temperatures there, if you could quickly give them to us.
146:57:08	Cernan	Okay, I never did give you that. It's 110 and 136.
146:57:14	CC	Copy that, good enough. Thank you.
146:57:19	Cernan	Never did get that for you.
146:57:22	CC	That's okay.
146:57:23	Schmitt	But I tell you, the inner wall of Camelot is - the inner wall of Camelot to the east is certainly blocky.
146:57:33	CC	Well, there were a few blocks where you guys were, too.
146:57:35	Cernan	... mantle, too, Jack. Yes, well, I don't know, you could see the outer wall, too. It's - Hey, here's some Rover tracks.
146:57:46	Schmitt	Hey, somebody's been here before.
146:57:51	CC	Okay, and, 17, what we're looking for is deploying charge number 082 and 0.4 on the range.
146:58:06	Schmitt	Okay.
146:58:07	Cernan	Okay, we're at 083 and 1.1. We're just about abeam the eastern rim of Camelot. And there's Challenger.
146:58:19	Schmitt	Hey, hello, Challenger. You can even see the ALSEP.
146:58:26	Cernan	I think I'll go this way. (Laughter)
146:58:40	Schmitt	Gee, it seems like a short day. (Laughter)
146:58:44	Cernan	Well, I'll tell you, the time went fast.
146:58:48	Schmitt	Okay, you've heard about this country. Hey, looking over there, though, there's no - we're about - oh, 50 meters from boulders at - in Camelot. And their appearance from this distance is the same as what we sampled at 5. I think we've pretty well identified the subfloor, Bob.
146:59:10	CC	Okay, sounds like we have and sounds like from the very deepest - even from the bottom of Camelot - it looks like it's about the same.
146:59:20	Schmitt	It sure does. I can't say I understand it. But that's the way it appears right now.
146:59:29	CC	You can't say what, Jack? Okay, understand that.
146:59:34	Schmitt	I can't say that I understand.
146:59:38	CC	Copy.
146:59:39	Schmitt	Whatever filled this valley - it certainly was different than the Massif. I think we've proved that. And it, presumably, at least everything I see indicates that it was an igneous extrusion of some kind. Either that, or we're - the whole valley's been tilted and we're looking at a - some strange cross section, planar more or less - relative to the other mountains, of a crystalline body that was formed at depth. But I don't think that's likely.
147:00:21	CC	Okay.
147:00:28	Cernan	Man, we've covered 19.3 kilometers, Jack.
147:00:31	Schmitt	Is that what we planned to cover?
147:00:32	CC	That's outstanding.
147:00:33	Cernan	I don't know. What did we plan to cover, Bob?
147:00:36	CC	Stand by. But we've been everywhere we've planned to go, so, we must have gone just about as far as we've planned to go.
147:00:43	Schmitt	Yes, but it1s a straight line. I don't know what the wander factor was, but I'm sure it was pretty high.
147:00:50	CC	17.6, they're telling me. So we went a little bit out of our way.
147:00:58	Cernan	Well, it's all mileage.
147:01:00	Schmitt	0.7 and what was the bearing? 08 - 083?
147:01:05	Cernan	082, I think, but we want 1.4.
147:01:08	CC	0.4 - 0.4, guys.
147:01:14	Cernan	Oh, 0.4.
147:01:17	Schmitt	Yes, that's the range.
147:01:18	Cernan	Yes, that's what I said, 0.4.
147:01:20	Schmitt	But you want - you want to bear north, don't you, a - little?
147:01:22	Cernan	Yes, I want - what'd you say, 082, didn't you, Bob?
147:01:24	CC	That's affirm. That'll be close enough. It's probably be right on your tracks there.
147:01:28	Cernan	Okay. Well, I don't make a habit of following myself. I like to cover new ground.
147:01:35	CC	Okay, copy that.
147:01:36	Schmitt	Watch out for that new ground there looks like in the - look at the italian flag.
147:01:41	Cernan	Hey, there is one there. I saw the box before I saw the flag. No, I didn't, I saw the flag first, I've got to admit it.
147:01:50	Schmitt	Come on now.
147:01:51	Cernan	I got to admit it, I saw the flag first.
147:01:53	Schmitt	The boss said you saw the flag first.
147:01:56	Cernan	I'm 082 and I'm 0.5. I'll just head right in towards the LM. Man, I want to stay away from ALSEP, I see the big boulders, so I'll - -
147:02:04	Schmitt	Okay.
147:02:05	Cernan	I'm going to go around - -
147:02:05	Schmitt	0.5. Okay, you'll have to swing right after we deploy, probably.
147:02:10	Cernan	Yes. Whee.
147:02:25	Cernan	Did we ever get any glass out of the bottom of those craters?
147:02:26	Schmitt	No, we haven't, we've got to try to do that before we leave. There haven't been any good - -
147:02:32	CC	Sometime you'll have time to do that, I guess, guys. I'm not sure when - -
147:02:40	Schmitt	Four.
147:02:41	Schmitt	Okay.
147:02:42	Cernan	Okay, 08, well, she just went to 1. Okay, 081/0.4.
147:02:47	Schmitt	Okay, let's put it in that little depression there. See right ahead of us to the right?
147:02:52	Cernan	Okay.
147:02:53	Schmitt	Can you - -
147:02:54	Cernan	Got your pictures?
147:02:55	Schmitt	I'm getting them.
147:02:58	Cernan	Okay.
147:02:59	Schmitt	Now just swing into that depression and I'll put it there. Beautiful. Okay. Oh, whoo.
147:03:10	Schmitt	Okay, charge number 8.
147:03:13	Cernan	You didn't get a picture to the LM then, did you?
147:03:14	Schmitt	Yes, I did. I got several of them.
147:03:17	Cernan	Well, we don't have to take any more, do we?
147:03:19	Schmitt	No.
147:03:22	Schmitt	Okay, antenna is deployed. Pin 1 is pulled and SAFE. And, let me check that. It's dusty. Yes, it's SAFE. Pin 2 is pulled and SAFE. Pin 3, pulled and SAFE.
147:03:41	CC	Copy that.
147:03:42	Schmitt	I guess as long as it didn't go off, it's safe.
147:03:46	Cernan	Ooh, don't bang it. (Laughter) I don't care what they say, that's a charge.
147:03:56	Cernan	You're having great luck with those.
147:04:00	Schmitt	You're right.
147:04:01	Cernan	Okay, the LM was in the - approach shot, I believe, let me -
147:04:07	Schmitt	Go ahead and turn around - -
147:04:08	Cernan	Yes, I got to go around anyway.
147:04:11	Schmitt	This was I can get a running shot of ... - right in the middle of it - let me get you - get them both in it.
147:04:19	Schmitt	Okay, I ran out of film, too.
147:04:21	Cernan	Oh, boy.
147:04:21	Schmitt	Now that's pretty veil located.
147:04:23	Cernan	Where is it?
147:04:23	Schmitt	When you come around, take a picture of the LM on your camera.
147:04:26	Cernan	I will. I'll take it right out the front looking right at the thing.
147:04:28	Schmitt	Yes, and give them a frame count. At about a 56 -
147:04:39	Cernan	Fifty-six.
147:04:41	Schmitt	Bob, I've got the locator of the charge and the LM all in the same order here, and I'm one more than what I just gave you. I can't look at it now.
147:04:50	CC	Okay, one more than what you gave me at Station 5, understand.
147:04:53	Schmitt	..., Bob. You want me to go to the gravimeter now.
147:05:00	CC	Roger. And if you guys will start out, we'll drive you by the ALSEP, Gene - Jack, and if you'll get out at the ALSEP, we'll have you take a look at the surface gravimeter and Gene can press on home to the LM.
147:05:19	Schmitt	Okay.
147:05:19	Cernan	Jack, I'm going to drive you in this way, and then I'll drive all the way back around that one geophone.
147:05:24	Schmitt	Okay. Shall I - -
147:05:26	CC	While you're to the north, you could drive in toward the heat flow, towards that big rock, if you can see that.
147:05:33	Cernan	Yes, well, okay; that's as good as anything.
147:05:36	Cernan	Bob, you want me to get some ALSEP pictures?
147:05:41	CC	Negative.
147:05:47	CC	Okay, and Jack, you can stand by - -
147:05:47	Schmitt	Okay. I got a flag.
147:05:48	CC	- - for a feedwater dump very shortly. Okay, FEEDWATER, go to AUX, please.
147:05:52	Schmitt	I just got it.
147:05:59	Cernan	Man, look at that mess of cables. I hope that thing's working, Bob.
147:06:04	CC	Every - Well, a lot of it's working, we've just got to try and see if we can't level this thing tonight. When you get off there, Jack, I'll talk to you a bit about procedures for that. And in the meanwhile, it's my understanding - -
147:06:16	Schmitt	Okay; that's good, Gene - -
147:06:17	CC	- - that the second UHT is not in the immediate vicinity, where it's accessible, is that right?
147:06:23	Cernan	No, it is, I can get it.
147:06:24	CC	Okay; if you can - -
147:06:25	Cernan	Okay, and watch my heat flow over there, don't trip over them.
147:06:36	Schmitt	Okay, I'm going to take a pair of tongs - -
147:06:38	Cernan	Do you have any film at all?
147:06:40	Schmitt	No, I want your camera.
147:06:41	Cernan	You want my camera?
147:06:52	CC	Okay, Jack, you won't need - we aren't planning on taking the ALSEP photos right now.
147:07:00	Schmitt	Okay.
147:07:04	CC	Okay. And, Jack, we're not sure you went to AUX on your water yet.
147:07:10	Schmitt	I thought I did.
147:07:13	CC	Okay, it's coming up, now, we see it coming, Jack, don't worry.
147:07:15	Schmitt	Gene, can you - Okay.
147:07:21	Cernan	You got what you want?
147:07:23	Schmitt	Let me take the set of tongs in case I drop something.
147:07:25	Cernan	Can you reach them?
147:07:26	Schmitt	Yes.
147:07:37	Cernan	You got everything you need?
147:07:38	Schmitt	Yes.
147:07:39	Cernan	Okay, Jack's got my camera and tongs, and I'm on my way.
147:07:44	CC	Okay, copy that.
147:07:46	Schmitt	Okay, I got a tone again, Bob. I got a tone again.
147:07:50	CC	Okay, what's it say? Probably just your water -... been building up - -
147:07:54	Schmitt	I can't - I can't read my gages. Want me to take - -
147:08:07	Cernan	Well, we better take a look. Okay, I'm coming over there.
147:08:11	Cernan	I just - I think I just got my water tone, Bob.
147:08:14	CC	Okay, that's right, also.
147:08:18	Schmitt	Okay, AUX water's ON. We got our tones - our tones yesterday. Can you see anything?
147:08:26	Cernan	Well, not unless - Let me see, let me brush your - Bend over. You don't have a brush to brush off. Okay, no flags.
147:08:35	Schmitt	Hey, wait a minute.
147:08:37	Cernan	Okay. You got no -
147:08:38	Schmitt	Huh?
147:08:38	Cernan	You got no flags.
147:08:40	Schmitt	Okay.
147:08:40	CC	You look good to us, Jack.
147:08:41	Cernan	Once more - a good look.
147:08:42	CC	Jack, you look good to us.
147:08:44	Cernan	No flags. All right, no flags, Jack.
147:08:47	CC	Okay, and, Gene, I think you need to GO AUX - -
147:08:49	Cernan	Okay.
147:08:50	CC	- - if you didn't.
147:08:53	Cernan	Yes, I just did, Bob, and my water flag cleared.
147:08:57	CC	Okay, copy that - -
147:08:57	Cernan	No, it didn't - not yet.
147:08:59	CC	Yes, it's probably still coming up.
147:09:00	Cernan	Okay, Jack, just be careful of the cables.
147:09:08	Schmitt	Okay, you want me to get a UHT, huh?
147:09:10	Cernan	It's right over there by the - -
147:09:11	Schmitt	Yes, I know where it is - -
147:09:13	CC	If it's quite close, but if it's not, don't bother, I think we can probably try this by hand.
147:09:20	Cernan	No, it's there, Bob; he'll get it.
147:09:21	CC	Okay.
147:09:26	Cernan	You got a heading for me at the Rover, is 017 good?
147:09:32	CC	018 - 018.
147:09:36	Cernan	Okay.
147:09:37	Schmitt	You don't want me to kick the LEAM yet, huh?
147:09:41	CC	Negative.
147:09:54	Schmitt	Okay, Bob, I've got a UHT.
147:09:57	CC	Okay, when you go back to the LSG, Jack, we first of all would like a reading of where the bubble is in the circle, whether it's in the center. And what we're going to have to have, unfortunately, is to have the bubble centered in the inner circle because the - this is, apparently, a requirement, even though we didn't train to it, apparently it's something that came up, and it's going to have to be within the inner circle of the bubble. The first thing we need to do is, when you go up there, is to see whether the bubble is in the center of the circle.
147:10:39	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. That bubble is centered.
147:10:47	CC	Okay. Okay, the next thing we want you to do is put the UHT in the socket there, and move the - -
147:10:53	Schmitt	Hey, Bob.
147:10:53	CC	- - LSG from side to side - -
147:10:54	Schmitt	Bob - -
147:10:55	CC	- - do not pick it up. Okay, go ahead, Jack.
147:11:00	Schmitt	I did not have to touch it, it is centered.
147:11:02	CC	Okay, but now they're worried that it's stuck like your gimbal thing was last night and, also, the thing is that maybe - we maybe - something's hung up inside, and by moving it we can jostle it free. They do not want it picked up, but they'd like to have UHT put in there and sort of have the instrument rocked from side to side to again see the bubble moves. And once that is done, to then press it down into the ground and again realign it and put the bubble within the inner circle. Over. They would also like to see if the gimbal is free.
147:11:33	Schmitt	How much do you want me to - how much do you want me to rock it? How far should I let the bubble travel?
147:11:43	CC	Basically, we just want to see it move. You - you go up to the outer circle, that's - that's plenty. And again, you ...
147:11:56	Schmitt	There's only one circle. Okay.
147:11:58	CC	Oh, I mean the outer rim, the - the rim of it.
147:12:04	Schmitt	Okay, I did that. It's still centered and gimbal is swinging.
147:12:09	CC	Okay, we copy the gimbal is swinging and we copy you moved the bubble out to the edge of the bubble level and come back into the inner circle.
147:12:18	Schmitt	That's right.
147:12:23	Cernan	Okay, Bob, I'm reading 089, 20.1, 002, 92, 88. Volts are 65 and 66. Batteries are 1 - 14 and 138. Rear motors are off scale low. Forward left is off scale low and right is 210 degrees.
147:12:56	CC	Copy that. What's the first battery temperature there, Gene?
147:13:01	Cernan	First battery temperature is ll4.
147:13:05	CC	Okay, Jack. They apparently don't believe you when you said you aligned it last night and they're concerned the shade is not on 20 degrees. Copy 114 on that battery temperature, Gene.
147:13:14	Cernan	It is on - it's on 20, Bob.
147:13:18	CC	Okay. In that case, I guess you're free to come home.
147:13:26	Schmitt	Well, what is basically the problem with it?
147:13:29	CC	They haven't been able to level it for some reason, and they were afraid that the thing wasn't leveled. They were hoping also maybe by moving it that you might jostle it a bit and it would come to level, but I think we'll just have to think about it some more. The first presumption - the easiest solution was to have it unlevel, which case we could fix it this way. But I guess that's not the case. We'll have to see what happens overnight. Give us a chance to follow the tradition of coming back to the ALSEP tomorrow.
147:13:58	Schmitt	Well, do you want me to change it's posi - it's level a little bit - put it off level a little and see if you can work it.
147:14:05	CC	I don't think so, Jack. That doesn't sound very good to me - -
147:14:11	Schmitt	Well, it might be air in the level bubble or something.
147:14:11	CC	Why don't you just leave it there if it's centered with the level bubble within the inner - within the inner circle there. That's the requirements as far as we can tell, and we'll just have to leave it overnight again. And why don't you come on back to the LM.
147:14:41	CC	Okay, Gene, are you at the Rover?
147:14:44	Cernan	Okay. Yes, sir. I'm parked.
147:14:47	CC	Okay - -
147:14:48	Cernan	Gave you my readings.
147:14:48	CC	Okay. You gave me my - your readings and when you get done, let me know, because the first thing we want to do is work on the SEP a little bit.
147:15:00	Cernan	Okay. Stand by. Got TV. Okay. What do you want to do to the SEP?
147:15:19	CC	Okay, Geno. When you go back to the SEP now, and let's do this first and get it out of the way, it'll - you can probably do this anyway while Jack's coming home. When you opened the blankets, remember that at the back of the SEP there was a piece of Velcro on the case and a piece of Velcro just above the - just inside the rear hinge on the covers, and this is what you sort of peel back when you go to remove the back end there so you can get the DSEA out. You remember that piece of tape there?
147:15:48	Cernan	Yes. That came off.
147:15:49	CC	Okay.
147:15:50	Cernan	That came off.
147:15:51	CC	Okay. This is on the side away from you as you stand facing it. Right?
147:15:58	Schmitt	Oh, no. That's the side - Go ahead, Gene, I'm sorry.
147:16:02	Cernan	Okay, go ahead.
147:16:03	CC	Okay. Gene, I'm - if you stand facing it, in the back away from you is this - there's a strip of Velcro on the case and there's another strip of Velcro on the blanket itself and this is the Velcro you have to tear off or to unhook, as it were, when you come to tear the blankets down to get the DSEA off. Remember that piece?
147:16:26	Cernan	Yes, but that's on the - yes, that's on the side away from me. I'm on the LMPs side and that's on the other side.
147:16:31	CC	Right. That's on the other side of the top. And what we're interested in, number 1, is that piece of Velcro still mated or when you open the blankets to cool it, does that Velcro come open? Over.
147:16:49	Cernan	Well, that's the Velcro that's so full of dust it comes open, Bob.
147:16:51	CC	Okay, and so what happens - -
147:16:53	Cernan	Trying to stay - it's hooked - it'll stay.
147:16:57	CC	Okay. Well, the feeling - -
147:16:58	Cernan	I don't know if you can see that but it's - Well, you can't depend -
147:17:04	CC	Okay, well, feeling is that - -
147:17:05	Cernan	Bob, I swung the covers and - they will stay open about 150 degrees.
147:17:16	CC	I - Stand by on that. What you're saying is that the cover actually stands up a little bit in space.
147:17:27	Cernan	Now, if you want the cover open, I can open it and normally it should swing 180 degrees parallel with the top of the SEP.
147:17:35	CC	Okay, but does that Velcro in back stay mated? - -
147:17:36	Cernan	Well, the Velcro holds - the way that we've been opening it - it holds. Yes, it's being mated but it - but it and probably it holds the covers open 150 degrees.
147:17:49	CC	No. That's okay. What we're - talk - what the concern originally was was that when this - -
147:17:52	Cernan	The Velcro - -
147:17:52	CC	- - happened, the front light was getting down in the back there and warming up the back of the SEP. That's apparently not the case. Over.
147:18:02	Cernan	No, that's not the case. The Velcro that came off is the Velcro that helps the - keeps the covers closed.
147:18:08	CC	Okay. We were concerned about both pieces of Velcro since the one had come off.
147:18:15	Cernan	No. The other one is still on and it still holds in the back part of the SEP where the DSEA is in the shade.
147:18:22	CC	Okay. I copy that. Okay. While we're talking about this and I'll get back with you, turn the DSEA and the receiver both to OFF, please. And read me a temperature, please.
147:18:36	Cernan	112 degrees.
147:18:37	CC	Copy that. And I mark them both off, right?
147:18:44	Cernan	Yes.
147:18:49	Cernan	Bob, I just dusted it as clean as it'll get.
147:18:51	CC	Okay. Thank you.
147:19:45	Schmitt	Hey, Bob.
147:19:47	CC	Go ahead.
147:19:47	Schmitt	I cheated on you.
147:19:49	CC	I was sure you would. What did you do?
147:19:52	Schmitt	I just sampled the glass in the bottom of a crater. I documented it by shooting the LM across the crater at infinity and then shooting the crater with stereo at 11 feet and in that cross-Sun pair at 7; and then I sampled it.
147:20:13	CC	Okay.
147:20:14	Schmitt	Then I took a cross-Sun pair at 7 after.
147:20:17	CC	I guess - I guess now gnomon is a LM.
147:20:20	Schmitt	It's very fragile. That's right. It's very fragile, and I double bagged it. I don't know whether we can keep it or not.
147:20:30	CC	Okay. We'll hope.
147:20:30	Cernan	You may think about how to preserve it.
147:20:32	CC	Okay.
147:20:42	Schmitt	While you're thinking, I'll put it on my floor pan, I guess. Okay. What do I have to do here?
147:20:50	Cernan	Get this bag off me to start.
147:20:51	Schmitt	Get that bag off you to start with.
147:20:54	Cernan	Be careful of that sample there.
147:21:01	Cernan	Those are the cleanest battery covers in existence on a Rover right now, I tell you. Oh, you don't believe me - look at that.
147:21:10	Schmitt	What?
147:21:10	Cernan	They don't believe me.
147:21:13	Schmitt	Excuse me. Move forward just a little. And I'll get your bag. Here you go.
147:21:21	Cernan	Now you're stuck down there, aren't you? No you're not. Seems like you - I may be going nuts talking to that moving machine over there.
147:21:35	Schmitt	Boy, I - we don't need any hooks; I'll tell you.
147:21:37	Cernan	I know it.
147:21:38	Schmitt	Can you stoop just a little bit.
147:21:40	Cernan	Yes, all that stuff is getting - There, it's fixed.
147:21:42	Schmitt	Get your hook back.
147:21:44	Cernan	Okay. I hook my harness back up so I don't forget that.
147:21:49	Schmitt	Velcro's closed. Okay. You know as you look at those little sparklies in the soil we're walking on and they change colors on you - -
147:21:59	Cernan	Yes.
147:22:00	Schmitt	- - Greens and purples, iridescent. Iridescent sparklies.
147:22:05	Cernan	Okay. I'll come over, and I'll unload.your stuff.
147:22:07	Schmitt	Okay. Now, we got more samples than we've got sense - I think. Let's see here - you got - you're taking care of the SEP.
147:22:21	Cernan	Yes, don't - that's all right. Okay. Hey Bob, the battery covers - or the covers are open on the SEP, rather.
147:22:27	CC	Roger. Copy that.
147:22:32	Cernan	Oh, why did I do that?
147:22:34	Schmitt	Hey, Bob, you think that glass sample would be better off in the SRC?
147:22:40	CC	We're still talking about that.
147:22:45	Cernan	Wait a minute. Your core cap assembly is empty. Up and away it goes. And that's all closed. Check your bag. Okay. Now, Bob, you've got to tell us which one of these you want in the SCB and which one you want just taken in, because we got our numbers sill confused.
147:23:17	CC	Okay. Go ahead. What we would like to do here are the closeouts, guys. Let me read this to you first of all. In the SRC, we'd like the following stuff along with - let's see - Stand by.
147:23:44	Cernan	Is this 9 or 6?
147:23:45	CC	Okay, guys. We're going to follow an Apollo 16 mode and put stuff in loose, because they'd like to segregate stuff in the following way. We'd like to put the long can and four core tubes in the SRC. I guess it's going to take a long - going to take a while just carrying stuff back and forth. But they'd probably like to get this in, because it's the volatile stuff. They'd like to get the long can and three core tubes in the SRC number 1. And then we'd like to get all the SCB-4 samples in the same SRC. Over.
147:24:23	Schmitt	Oh, wait a minute. Wait a minute.
147:24:24	Cernan	Yes. You want - -
147:24:25	Schmitt	Okay.
147:24:25	Cernan	- - Three - three - three plus the long can; that's four cores all together.
147:24:29	CC	Right. Put those in the SRC -
147:24:30	Cernan	All samples from 4.
147:24:32	CC	All the samples from SCB-4.
147:24:34	Cernan	Okay.
147:24:37	Schmitt	These are 4. You want to get the core tubes in first, though.
147:24:39	Cernan	Yes. I want to put these in. If you'd give me the - Yes, I only got two hands. I'll come back by the time you pick them out.
147:24:55	CC	Okay, and then - 17, do you guys remember where the trench samples - the three trench soil samples - which bag those were put in - from the Station 4? Over.
147:25:12	Cernan	Yes, let's see. I'm the only one who had bags, so I bagged them and put them in whatever bag Jack had. I think.
147:25:19	Schmitt	Yes.
147:25:19	CC	Okay, then that'll be SCB-4, so we'd like those in SCB-4. And that - those are the ones that will go in the rock box and that's in agreement with what we want to do.
147:25:31	Cernan	Okay, give me those other two cores, if you've got them, Jack.
147:25:34	Schmitt	Okay.
147:25:35	Cernan	Long can.
147:25:53	Schmitt	The long can. Here's a - oh. Got it? it's slippery.
147:25:59	Cernan	Yes, and we need one more core.
147:26:02	Schmitt	One more core.
147:26:04	Cernan	Okay. That right now? Three core tubes and a long can?
147:26:08	Cernan	Yes, got them all.
147:26:09	CC	And then - Roger that. And then SCB-4 - all the samples in SCB-4. We won't bother to try and sort them out, and then beyond that we'll fill them up with samples from SCB-5. Over.
147:26:25	Cernan	Which one's that? That's 5. Let me get 4, first.
147:26:27	Schmitt	Here, hold this. I'll get it.
147:26:28	Cernan	Well, it's on the gate right there, just hanging. I just put it there.
147:26:35	Cernan	Four is the one I had on there at Shorty? Or you had on at Shorty? Yes. You had it on. I don't know, but they should have that logged. That's - I don't remember who had it on.
147:26:50	Schmitt	Well, now wait a minute. I - I took the trench. You held the bags, and I put them in you.
147:26:55	Cernan	You put them on me. Did I have 4 on at Shorty?
147:26:56	CC	Yes.
147:26:56	Schmitt	That's what they said.
147:26:59	CC	That's affirm. That's why we want SCB-4 put in the - or dumped into the thing. But it's a dirty bag, so we just want to dump the samples in.
147:27:09	Cernan	Okay.
147:27:11	Schmitt	Okay. And you want 5 to fill it up. Okay, Bob -
147:27:28	CC	Okay. And, Jack, it probably would protect the glass a bit better if you put it in the SRC gently with the other rocks there. But particularly if you don't fill the SRC too full. But, again, We'll be putting SCB samples in there to more or less flesh it out if there's not too many SCB-4 samples.
147:27:55	Schmitt	Leave a space for a sample, I guess, Gene.
147:28:00	Cernan	Well, you'd better give it to me. There's not much space, it's going fast. You really - -
147:28:05	Schmitt	Well, can you leave one -
147:28:09	Cernan	Where is the sample?
147:28:10	Schmitt	Well, it's over here.
147:28:11	Cernan	I'll get it.
147:28:13	Schmitt	No, I'll bring it to you. I just - There's some way to -
147:28:22	Cernan	Just set it in there. ... I'll be delicate with it. Take this bag back. Okay. It's in the right-hand back corner of the SRC.
147:28:38	CC	Okay. Copy that.
147:28:41	Schmitt	You're just about full - you - you got some left in there?
147:28:44	Cernan	I got some small ones and some big ones, too.
147:28:47	Schmitt	Don't fill it too full.
147:28:49	Cernan	No. Hey, we got some big rock samples.
147:28:57	Cernan	Okay, Bob. SCB-6 and SC - wait a minute - what's in 6?
147:29:02	CC	Six - probably nothing. But tell us - -
147:29:03	Cernan	No, there's samples in 6.
147:29:04	CC	Okay. You should also have SCB-8 under your seat with samples in it.
147:29:09	Cernan	This is what I sampled at - -
147:29:12	CC	At Station 3, maybe.
147:29:14	Cernan	Six has the samples from - from - Yes.
147:29:21	CC	Okay. Let's take up SCB-8 - -
147:29:23	Cernan	We have more samples today than Carter - -
147:29:25	CC	And let's take up SCB-6 with a ... and why don't you dump out the Rover samples into SCB-6?
147:29:36	Schmitt	Well, one reason not to take 6 is I don't know if I can get it off.
147:29:42	CC	Okay. And let's save SCB-4 because I think you may need that tomorrow.
147:29:54	Cernan	Four is on the rack, empty.
147:29:56	CC	Okay. How about SCB-5? is that only partially emptied, or is it totally emptied?
147:30:03	Cernan	Oh, it's about half full, Bob.
147:30:04	CC	Okay. We'll take that up with us.
147:30:08	Cernan	Bob - Bob, I've already - Let me tell you what I've done. I've got SCB-8 full.
147:30:18	CC	Okay. Copy that.
147:30:19	Cernan	Let's take it up.
147:30:20	CC	Roger. On that.
147:30:27	Cernan	It's got Rover samples in it.
147:30:29	CC	Okay.
147:30:31	Cernan	But I can't get them all. They won't all be in there.
147:30:34	CC	Okay, 8.
147:30:38	Cernan	Okay. Bob, the seal was clean. It was clear, and I got - I got your four cores - three cores, plus a long can. I got Jack's glass. I got SCB-4 and a couple of samples out of SCB-5.
147:30:56	CC	Copy that. Sounds great.
147:31:03	Cernan	Okay. Now where was I? You got me all out of whack, here.
147:31:09	CC	That's affirm.
147:31:09	Cernan	Core cap dispenser - Okay, you're clean cosmic ray is done. SCB-5, yes, okay. Now, Jack, we've got SCB-5 that's half full. What have you got over there?
147:31:18	Schmitt	Bring it over here, and I'll put it into 6. Six is half - is a little more than half full.
147:31:27	Cernan	Well, this is a little less than half full.
147:31:28	Schmitt	Okay.
147:31:29	Cernan	That ought to make one full bag. Hey, these are big rocks so they'll come out easy. Where's that big, big rock we got? That's in one of those bags, too. Picked up a big rock - here let me see if I can't dump it. How's that for a lunar dump, huh?
147:31:55	Schmitt	Perfect.
147:32:01	Cernan	I want to see if I can't dust - did you lock this one over here? - No.
147:32:04	Schmitt	Hey, don't lock those - -
147:32:05	Cernan	No, I'm going to see if I can dust them and make them work easier.
147:32:07	Schmitt	Boy, I'll tell you - I really had to pull. I pulled harder than I like to in a pressure suit.
147:32:12	Cernan	See if I can -
147:32:16	Cernan	Okay, Bob. SCB-8 and 6 are going up.
147:32:22	CC	Okay, and I understand 5 will be - -
147:32:24	Cernan	... go up.
147:32:24	CC	- - on the gate.
147:32:28	Cernan	Yes, sir, Bob. It'll be there.
147:32:31	Schmitt	And 7 under the LMPs seat.
147:32:33	Cernan	4 and 5 sill be on the gate. You know, here's a problem for you tonight. You got any way of freeing up these gate hinges that lock the bags on? They're - I'm dusting them, but they're not going to lock - any of them. They're frozen tight, just about.
147:32:51	CC	Okay. Copy that. We'll talk about it.
147:32:53	Cernan	If you do get them locked - if you do - if you do get them locked, you may never get them off.
147:32:59	CC	Okay. We'll give them something to work on overnight.
147:33:04	Cernan	Okay, I'm - I'm dusting them right now. But - I still can't free them up.
147:33:13	Schmitt	Man those are heavy bags.
147:33:13	CC	Jack, have you got the top of the bag closed?
147:33:20	Schmitt	Yes, what do you need?
147:33:22	CC	Okay. No. John thought maybe you were still open. We were worried.
147:33:28	Schmitt	Oh, no, I latched them. I'll check them again before I go up.
147:33:31	CC	Okay, and we got no FSRs underneath the seat. We understand. Roger.
147:33:38	Schmitt	No, if - I just checked and it's - it's all - they're all in the bags. And the Rover sample bag is empty.
147:33:52	CC	Copy that.
147:33:53	Schmitt	Not nothing left.
147:33:55	Cernan	Bob, Bob, neither one of these bag latchers are going to latch on the back. I dusted them, but - -
147:34:02	CC	Okay.
147:34:02	Cernan	- - They're not going to work. I can't free them up -
147:34:05	CC	We'll talk about it tonight - -
147:34:06	Schmitt	We'll use the seat.
147:34:06	CC	- - Don't worry about it now.
147:34:09	Cernan	Yes, we can probably - we can probably use the seat. We've got a little more room than we had. Okay. Let me get something else done.
147:34:17	Schmitt	I wonder if I ought to take a sample bag holder up there to see if I can fix that, to see if it fixes.
147:34:24	CC	Roger, Jack. I'd suggest that.
147:34:25	Schmitt	Probably ought to, huh?
147:34:30	Cernan	Okay. Receiver's been dusted and blankets are open; power is OFF and OFF. Okay. I'm going to take the TGE off now, or dust it and then take it off, and then just leave it there. Hey, congratulate Jose on that fender will you, because I think he just saved us an awful lot of problems. He and whoever else worked on it.
147:34:56	CC	He mumbled something very humbly about a thousand guys.
147:35:03	Cernan	Well, tell him - tell him that's going to be my bring home present to him - a picture of his fender.
147:35:13	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. Unused gear, which you have an inventory on is in the - under the LMPs seat.
147:35:35	Schmitt	Okay. Where am I?
147:35:39	Cernan	I'm bringing the TGE over here, but I'm not pushing it yet.
147:35:43	CC	Okay. Copy that.
147:35:44	Schmitt	Cosmic ray's deployed. Man, I got the sorest hands in the world, right now.
147:35:57	CC	How about on the Moon?
147:35:59	Cernan	(Singing) Nothing's in the big bag, is it?
147:36:04	Schmitt	I just can't compete with you astronomers.
147:36:07	CC	Just keep trying.
147:36:08	Cernan	Nothing's in the bag, is it? Big bag?
147:36:12	Schmitt	Nothing's in the big bag.
147:36:14	Cernan	Okay.
147:36:16	Schmitt	Unless there's one rock that disappeared yesterday I don't know what happened to it.
147:36:21	Schmitt	Hey, we forgot the polarizing filter work.
147:36:24	Cernan	No, I saw it on the checklist, and I mentioned it to Bob, and he didn't come back with anything. And there was -
147:36:32	Cernan	Okay. I guess I'm going to go ahead and - -
147:36:35	Schmitt	Put those in the - under that seat, please.
147:36:37	Cernan	Yes, there's only one left.
147:36:40	Schmitt	One? No, there's three or four - -
147:36:42	Cernan	There's three left.
147:36:42	Schmitt	Just put them under there. Who knows, we may need them at the rate we're going.
147:36:46	CC	Okay. And, Jack, while you're unloading there - -
147:36:49	Cernan	Dust TV before I pull those breakers.
147:36:50	CC	- - on the 500 millimeter, you might squeeze off a few shots of the North and South Massif there, if there's any lineations visible.
147:37:02	Schmitt	Okay. I'm - I'll give it a try. Why, are we ahead of time?
147:37:09	CC	No, we're working right on time.
147:37:13	Schmitt	Okay.
147:37:14	Cernan	Why don't you give it to me while you're packing the ETB, Jack; I'll do it.
147:37:17	Schmitt	Am I - am I behind you, now?
147:37:18	Cernan	Yes, I - I just - I'm going to start inventorying the Rover and pulling the breakers so -
147:37:24	PAO	We're at 7 hours 2 minutes and anticipate ending the EVA at 7 hours 30 minutes.
147:37:30	Cernan	Man, we are so far off nominal on what bags. (Laughter) I sort of didn't think - The checklist is going to have to be updated, I guess.
147:37:40	CC	Totally.
147:37:54	Schmitt	Oh, I should call - mag Charlie.
147:37:58	CC	Copy that.
147:37:58	Schmitt	Mag Kilo.
147:38:00	CC	Copy.
147:38:01	Schmitt	Mag Bravo.
147:38:10	PAO	That's Gene Cernan using the camera with the 500 millimeter lens.
147:38:17	Schmitt	Mag Golf.
147:38:21	Schmitt	Mag India.
147:38:23	CC	Copy all those. And tell Gene that we can confirm that his lens cover's off.
147:38:36	Schmitt	Okay. Confirm that your lens cover's off. The scissors are in.
147:38:41	CC	Copy that.
147:38:47	Schmitt	Lens brushes.
147:38:52	Cernan	I hope that's at the right setting. It is (laughter).
147:38:57	Schmitt	Hey, try f/5.6 directly down-Sun or up-Sun at that Sculptured Hills there in the - in the distance. See where I mean?
147:39:19	Cernan	Yes I get it.
147:39:21	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. What else do I need Here? Let's see. 500, mag R, need mag R - as soon as you're through.
147:39:31	CC	Yes. I think we've got enough of those now, Gene. You got the maps?
147:39:40	Schmitt	Yes, got them.
147:39:47	Cernan	Some of these won't overlap, Bob, because I'm hurrying.
147:39:49	Schmitt	Don't - Don't smear them.
147:39:50	CC	Don't - Don't hurry and smear them.
147:39:52	Cernan	They're not smeared, but I just didn't overlap some of them.
147:39:55	Cernan	Okay. Everyone agrees to that. Don't hurry and smear them (laughter). I'll get those others, Jack, tomorrow.
147:40:03	CC	Okey. You got the maps in there, too, Jack?
147:40:05	Cernan	Frame count, Bob, is -
147:40:08	Schmitt	Yes.
147:40:10	Cernan	Frame count is 152 on the 500.
147:40:12	CC	Copy that.
147:40:15	Cernan	(Laughter)
147:40:16	Schmitt	Let go of it. There.
147:40:18	Cernan	Okay.
147:40:19	Schmitt	Dynamic. Did you cycle it twice?
147:40:22	Cernan	No, I'll cycle it twice.
147:40:24	CC	Do you have the maps there, Jack?
147:40:25	Cernan	Okay. I guess I'll go in and pull some Rover breakers.
147:40:29	CC	Okay. And - Roger. Copy that.
147:40:35	Cernan	Oh, boy - Oh, boy. Pulling - pulling breakers is not going to be much fun.
147:40:43	Schmitt	You want me to - you want the scissors or something?
147:40:46	Cernan	No. Oh, boy. Oh, boy.
147:40:59	Schmitt	Mag Romeo.
147:41:02	CC	Copy that. You got the maps, Jack?
147:41:05	Schmitt	No. (Laughter) You ask me that one more time partner, and I'm going to get mad at you.
147:41:15	Cernan	Oh, I got - What have you got over there - you got the scissors?
147:41:22	Schmitt	Yes, you want them?
147:41:24	Cernan	I got three or four breakers. Let me try this other one one more time. Okay. I got it - with the old fingers.
147:41:35	CC	Okay. Copy that. All four of them out, Gene.
147:41:37	Cernan	Okay; Alfa, Bravo. Yes, sir. Alfa, Bravo, Charlie, Delta are OPEN. I'll get the LCRU power.
147:41:46	CC	Okay. And, Gene, when you leave the camera, a reminder to face it away from the Sun and tilt it down.
147:41:58	Cernan	Okay.
147:42:06	CC	Hey, Gene. That's not quite away from the Sun. Really it ought to be, you know, down-Sun.
147:42:12	Cernan	...
147:42:18	PAO	And that will end the TV until EVA 3 tomorrow.
147:42:26	Cernan	Bob, are you reading?
147:42:28	CC	Roger. Loud and clear.
147:42:34	Schmitt	I read you, Gene.
147:42:35	Cernan	Yes. See, I just turned LCRU power off; they got to go through the LM.
147:42:39	CC	That's right.
147:42:42	Cernan	Bob, do you read?
147:42:43	CC	Loud and clear.
147:42:50	Schmitt	Is this gravimeter working?
147:42:52	Cernan	No, it's not. I didn't push it yet. Hello, Houston, come on - in other words, I'll turn this power back on.
147:42:59	CC	Read you loud and clear, Gene. Do you read Houston?
147:43:00	Cernan	Well, let me turn it on and talk to them.
147:43:02	CC	We read you loud and clear, Gene.
147:43:07	Cernan	Well, I just turned the LCRU back on. Are you reading us through the 124, now?
147:43:11	CC	Yes, we came through the LM that time.
147:43:16	Cernan	Okay. I'm turning it off and the - and the camera is pointed down and it's pointed effectively to the west - down-Sun.
147:43:23	CC	Okay. Copy that. Very good. Thank you.
147:43:24	Cernan	LCRU POWER'S going OFF. Okay, LCRU POWER is OFF. Battery covers - open battery covers. They're all dusted already.
147:43:44	CC	Roger that. Roger. They're reading us. 17, you read Houston?
147:43:58	Cernan	Uh-ooh, I got to - got to work on one battery.
147:44:10	CC	17, you read Houston?
147:44:21	CC	17, you read Houston? Over.
147:44:30	Cernan	Hey, Bob - -
147:44:32	CC	Roger, 17. Do you read?
147:44:35	Cernan	Still there? Well, they're supposed to be going through the LM ...
147:44:43	CC	17, do you read Houston?
147:44:44	Schmitt	Got something fouled up. Maybe we got the switches wrong, or something, up there. ... think so, though.
147:44:53	Cernan	No.
147:44:55	Schmitt	They talked to us first.
147:44:57	Cernan	Let me give them a call.
147:45:04	CC	17, do you read. Houston? Over.
147:45:05	Cernan	Bob, you want to try again. We're on the LCRU. Yes, we read you, but I'm on the LCRU again. We're not reading you through the LM.
147:45:12	CC	Yes, I don't understand that. Stand by. Press on with the rest of the closeout.
147:45:18	Cernan	Well, I'll leave you on the LCRU, here. And we're pressing on. Okay. For the first time, I've got to dust the center battery cover. All the others are good.
147:45:27	CC	Okay. Roger, 17. Do you read Houston now?
147:45:33	Cernan	Well, yes, but I'm on the LCRU. I don't know.
147:45:36	CC	No, now they say we're going back to the LM again. Press on with the closeout.
147:45:41	Cernan	Okay, Bob. I'm going to go turn the LCRU POWER, OFF. And for the first time, I've got to dust the center radiator on the batteries.
147:45:52	CC	Okay. Copy that.
147:45:52	Cernan	... until this time, they've all been real clean.
147:45:55	CC	Copy that.
147:45:59	Cernan	Okay. Give me a short count. And in the interim I'm going to turn the LCRU POWER, OFF.
147:46:03	CC	Okay. Roger. 1-2-3, 3-2-1. Okay, Houston, or 17, do you read Houston? Over.
147:46:10	Cernan	Okay. We've got you.
147:46:12	CC	Okay; very good.
147:46:18	Cernan	Yes. We got you, Bob.
147:46:20	CC	Okay. We've got about 20 minutes before we have to be inside the LM there, fellows. Let's hustle on.
147:46:29	Cernan	Oh, I think we'll just sort of take it easy, Bob. Okay. The MESA's tidied.
147:46:37	CC	Thank you.
147:46:37	Schmitt	I've got the canisters; pins are green.
147:46:41	CC	Copy that.
147:46:42	Schmitt	The LM canister's in the pocket.
147:46:44	CC	Very good.
147:46:46	Schmitt	And, let's see. I think I'm ready to dust. Could I help you?
147:46:51	Cernan	No, I'm leaving here right now.
147:46:53	CC	Okay. And, Gene, as you go by, how about giving us the SEP temperature readings.
147:46:54	Cernan	... I got to take these bags up. Oh, me. I will.
147:47:49	CC	17, Houston. It's awfully quiet.
147:47:55	Cernan	Okay, Bob. Here's your reading. About 100 and - about 108 to 10 degrees.
147:48:05	CC	Okay. Copy that. Okay. We'll leave it there, as is, overnight. Thank you.
147:48:14	Cernan	And I'll give it one good little smack with the brush. And it's as clean as it'll ever come.
147:48:20	CC	Okay. Thank you.
147:48:27	Cernan	Jack, you might just as well go cold water. There's no more use for it now, if you're warm.
147:48:31	Schmitt	No, I'm not warm I'm just - want to hand me that other SCB there.
147:48:40	Cernan	Oh, man! (Laughter). Oh, the - The cover's open on this one.
147:48:45	Schmitt	You wonder why it's hard to get up the ladder.
147:48:48	Cernan	Don't hold it by the cover.
147:48:49	Schmitt	What do I want these tongs on for?
147:48:51	Cernan	Give them to me. I'll take them out.
147:48:53	Schmitt	Just noticed them.
147:48:56	Cernan	Don't want them.
147:48:59	Schmitt	Okay. Thank you.
147:49:01	Cernan	Don't take it by the cover. The cover's going to come open. Take it by this.
147:49:04	Schmitt	Wait a minute.
147:49:06	Cernan	Got it?
147:49:06	Schmitt	I got it.
147:49:07	Cernan	Okay.
147:49:11	Cernan	Probably got tongs on for the same reason I've got them on.
147:49:51	CC	And, 17, we're ready for a grav measurement.
147:49:57	Cernan	Yes, sir, Bob. Just cleaning up the Rover. Getting our tongs out of the way.
147:50:02	CC	Okay.
147:50:04	Cernan	And for your information - for your information, at this heading, the - the western-most battery cover, like I talked about yesterday, is just starting to cover the - just started to cover the radiators.
147:50:20	CC	Okay; cover that - copy that.
147:50:28	Cernan	(Humming) You know, I think another good day's work.
147:50:32	Schmitt	Yes. Okay. I dusted all that. I just knocked as hard as I could, on my feet, several - several times.
147:50:44	Cernan	What you're going to say is you want me to brush you, huh? Well, let me keep this out of the way so it doesn't get dusty.
147:50:49	Schmitt	Okay.
147:51:00	Cernan	Wonder if our bouncing around that gravimeter is going to disturb it like this.
147:51:05	Schmitt	Shouldn't.
147:51:07	Cernan	Got to do - well - -
147:51:08	Schmitt	... Want me down.
147:51:08	Cernan	You got to do me first.
147:51:09	Schmitt	Yes. Plink.
147:51:12	Cernan	You're not nearly as dusty as you were yesterday; you're just dirty, that's all.
147:51:16	Schmitt	Well.
147:51:16	Cernan	1 think I can get everything off my shoes by banging, if you'll just get ny arms. I didn't really fall in much today, except maybe my left arm. But - -
147:51:26	Schmitt	I tell you, we saw some of the things I think we saw today. We both fell in (laughter).
147:51:30	Cernan	Don't. Oh!
147:51:33	Schmitt	What? I hurt you?
147:51:35	Cernan	Yes, you're hitting.
147:51:36	Schmitt	Well, you're right. Sorry. I don't have much control (laughter).
147:51:41	Cernan	(Laughter) I know it. That's the way mine feel. That's dirty. There.
147:51:55	Schmitt	I'm glad they can't see this.
147:52:04	Cernan	Oh, I stand out here and I look at that flag, and I look at the Rover, and I look at those massifs. It's still hard to believe.
147:52:11	Schmitt	What did we deserve to do - do to deserve being out here, huh?
147:52:22	Cernan	Okay. That's not very good. Let me get your - some - your PLSS, here. Keep - go forward just a little. ... There you go.
147:52:32	Schmitt	I think your sharp turns are - Hey, that fender is - is really a classic. One might say it's a - a Young fender; just put it on.
147:52:49	Cernan	Do we need, do we really need those clamps? clamps?
147:52:52	Schmitt	No. No.
147:52:54	Cernan	I can't think of anything we need them for. That - that light - but you can tie that light somewhere - -
147:52:58	Schmitt	We don't - well -
147:52:59	Cernan	I might bring one back.
147:53:01	Schmitt	Yes. We ought to leave one in tribute - Dr. Young.
147:53:16	Cernan	Oh, that orange soil was something.
147:53:19	Schmitt	Huh?
147:53:19	Cernan	And the way it went radially down that - down that crater. Let me turn, and then take another look, and then I'll - then you get up there.
147:53:27	Schmitt	You got quite a bit around your hoses here.
147:53:29	Cernan	My hoses?
147:53:31	Schmitt	Okay, and I don't know what I can do about it, Geno.
147:53:35	Cernan	Oh, just give it a swap ...
147:53:37	Schmitt	Well, I got it the best I could. Let me get the top of your LCRU there.
147:53:41	Cernan	Mine's pretty good.
147:53:43	Schmitt	... RCU.
147:53:44	Cernan	Yes, mine's good. Okay. Let me get to your front
147:53:47	Schmitt	No, I didn't get your other arm here.
147:53:48	Cernan	Oh, okay.
147:53:50	Schmitt	I don't know that I can.
147:53:52	Cernan	It's the inside arm. I don't have anything on it.
147:53:54	Schmitt	No, that's right. You don't. It isn't - it's about the same.
147:53:57	Cernan	When you fall out - you fall out on your other arm.
147:53:59	Schmitt	I've got - there is some on that leg there.
147:54:01	Cernan	Okay.
147:54:06	Schmitt	Don't know what I'm going to do about it. I think we're Just going to have to make do.
147:54:18	Cernan	Let me see what I can do with you. Just look at me.
147:54:23	Schmitt	What is this rock, right here, by the pad.
147:54:25	Cernan	I don't know - I. Did I just turn your comm? Do you still hear me?
147:54:29	Schmitt	Yes. I've just been intending to mention that several times. Anybody that lands on a rock ought to have their head examined.
147:54:38	Cernan	Put their ladder - Boy, where have you been again today?
147:54:42	Schmitt	Oh, I played some games there around Station 3. I'm sorry.
147:54:49	Cernan	Boy, oh, boy!
147:54:50	Schmitt	Wasn't intentional.
147:54:51	Cernan	Whoo - But I - lot of your turns - -
147:54:53	Cernan	Hold your arm up. Hold your arm up.
147:54:54	Schmitt	Lot of your turns threw dust - -
147:54:59	Cernan	Yes, I noticed that (chuckle).
147:55:00	Schmitt	- - on me.
147:55:02	Cernan	God dang that rock! If I was strong enough, I'd move it. Hey, I am strong enough. That's one we ought to bring home.
147:55:10	Schmitt	Well, if we can't fill up the LM with anything else.
147:55:12	Cernan	That's about the size of the S - SRC. Stand up on the pad. Oh, shoot! First time that's happened.
147:55:28	Schmitt	Here, hold on to me.
147:55:47	Cernan	You know, by rights, that should happen more. I want to get around back and then I want you to get up on the ladder some. Oh, man, let me get the back of your PLSS. What did you bump against? I guess that's from the Rover seat.
147:56:02	Schmitt	I think it is.
147:56:03	Cernan	No, I mean you got a couple abrasions right on through the - -
147:56:06	Schmitt	So do you. I wasn't going to mention them.
147:56:10	Cernan	Well, these are only a pin-hole thick, but - -
147:56:19	Schmitt	All I can say is it's better than walking.
147:56:21	Cernan	Oh, man, I'll tell you, we covered over 20 kilometers today, babe. You like to walk up and down those hills and ditches at 20 kilometers? Okay. Can you - turn towards me? I want to get the front of your legs one time (laughter). Come back.
147:56:43	CC	Okay. And, 17, Houston - how's the dusting coming?
147:56:45	Schmitt	Man, you've had your day of dusting, haven't you?
147:56:50	Cernan	Well, we're almost there. I'm going to send the LMP in in about a minute.
147:56:57	CC	Okay. We're getting to a point where we need to be inside in less than 10 minutes, with the thing closed up.
147:56:59	Cernan	Oh, I tell you, I've ... more hours ... dustbrush - -
147:57:06	Cernan	Yes, sir. We're on our way, Bob. That takes care of it. Knock your feet off, Jack. Knock your feet off on the ladder.
147:57:14	Schmitt	Okay.
147:57:15	CC	And don't forget the antennas, guys.
147:57:17	Schmitt	Okay. I need the pallet.
147:57:20	Cernan	Oh, Bob, you're a beauty. How did you think of that?
147:57:24	CC	John suggested it.
147:57:29	Cernan	John who? (Laughter) He strikes again. You'd broke yours off sure, because I wouldn't have seen it as you went up unless I took inventory with my book, which I'll do here in a minute. Open battery covers, taken care of; dusted LCRU; blankets open 100 percent. They've been open 100 percent all day.
147:57:54	Schmitt	Okay.
147:57:59	Schmitt	If I can just get up here. Oh, shoot. I forgot a snap up there.
147:58:03	Cernan	Now, let's make sure we got all of those. I don't want to get hung up on anything.
147:58:06	Schmitt	Yes. I mean I forgot to put the antenna under the snap - under the other thing.
147:58:25	Cernan	... get the snap.
147:58:35	Cernan	Okay. Get it.
147:58:55	Schmitt	Okay. You're set.
147:58:57	Cernan	Okay. Go on up, Jack, and I'm going to read the gravimeter.
147:59:00	Schmitt	I need that pallet before I go.
147:59:03	Cernan	Okay.
147:59:06	CC	Okay, and, Gene, we don't think you've punched the grav reading yet.
147:59:12	Cernan	Yes - Yes, I did, Bob. I'm going to read it for you in a minute.
147:59:16	CC	Okay.
147:59:17	Schmitt	Okay.
147:59:25	Cernan	The reading is 670, 023, 501; that's 670, 023, 501.
147:59:34	CC	Okay. We got that. Go to STANDBY. Open the cover and dust the radiator if it needs it. Or dust the radiator, period.
147:59:47	Cernan	It's dusted already - it's dusted already, I took care of that. And I'm in STANDBY.
147:59:51	CC	Okay. Copy that.
147:59:53	Cernan	Okay. Final check - LRV. Blankets open 100; battery covers, open; samples off. We checked under both seats. Equipment stowed. Okay. You're all clean to go in. Okay. Dust SEP, blankets open; verify POWER, OFF; RECORDER, OFF; TGE, that's read, that's where I dusted. Tidy the MESA blankets - they're okay. Okay, and I've got this box to bring up when I go. Okay, let's see - Oh, man, that's bright - no PLSS antenna, brush the ladder hook, EVA pallet to LMP - you got it - the pins are green and reading, STANDBY, open TGE thermal cover lid and dust - that's done. Final check; we got the pallet, ETB is on the hook, you inventoried the S-IVBs [sic], Mr. Parker, and I guess you're happy we got them all.
148:00:52	CC	Roger.
148:00:52	Cernan	SRC-2 is in my hand. The big bag is not required.
148:00:55	CC	Roger that. And we're ready to call you all in as you go through the hatch.
148:01:00	Cernan	Okay. Jack's going in with the -
148:01:05	Cernan	Okay, Jack's halfway through it now, and I'm going on up the ladder.
148:01:08	CC	Okay. Copy that.
148:01:16	Cernan	Oh, my; oh me. How you coming?
148:01:23	Schmitt	Just about there.
148:01:28	Cernan	Oh, that's a nice one-handed first step. Godspeed the crew of Apollo 17. I'm going to keep reading that. I like that message. How's Captain America, speaking of Apollo 17.
148:01:49	CC	Captain America is sound asleep - just about to come around to AOS. We think he's sound asleep.
148:01:56	Cernan	Hey, how does that always happen? That happened yesterday.
148:02:09	CC	He got up before noon this morning, too.
148:02:15	Cernan	Oh, okay. Just take it easy, Jack, it'll - here you go - -
148:02:29	Schmitt	Pip pin didn't work.
148:02:32	Cernan	Lot of things don't work when your hands get tired; that's the problem. Wasn't a bad day. How long we been out, Bob. Of course, we're still out.
148:02:41	CC	7 plus 27, so far.
148:02:46	Cernan	7 plus 27?
148:02:48	CC	How does that grab you?
148:02:52	CC	But we're getting anxious to get you in and get the hatch closed.
148:02:58	Schmitt	Well, we understand that.
148:02:59	Cernan	Jack's unloading the pallet and as soon as it comes out, I'll shove this stuff in, and we'll be gone.
148:03:12	Schmitt	Just takes a certain amount of time.
148:03:14	CC	Okay, Gene. Are the three SCBs inside the hatch already?
148:03:23	Cernan	No - Bob, I don't think any of them are inside. Let's see I've got - -
148:03:27	Schmitt	No.
148:03:27	Cernan	- - I've got 8 here and 6 here and - and we emptied the contents of 4 into the - -
148:03:37	CC	Roger.
148:03:38	Cernan	- - SRC, and we emptied the contents of 5 into one of these other two bags. So we've only got two of them here, plus the SRC.
148:03:44	CC	Roger that.
148:03:45	Cernan	Five went into 6.
148:03:47	CC	Roger that.
148:03:51	Cernan	And we've got two of them hanging on the tail of the Rover. And I don't know what it is under Jack's seat right now.
148:03:55	Schmitt	Seven is under my seat.
148:03:56	CC	We copy that. Don't worry about it.
148:04:04	Schmitt	One more battery, Geno, and it's yours.
148:04:06	Cernan	Okay.
148:04:15	Schmitt	You always used to stand and watch me do this, anyway.
148:04:22	Cernan	Yes, but we had some long EVAs at the Cape, but -
148:04:30	Schmitt	There you go.
148:04:32	Cernan	Okay. Just be careful of the - let me get up there a little farther. Careful of that hatch. Getting to look like a regular garbage dump down there.
148:04:46	Schmitt	Okay. Ready?
148:04:49	Cernan	Sorry, babe.
148:04:57	Schmitt	It's all right.
148:05:02	Cernan	Now, this one's going to come open if we're not careful. Let me see if I've got one more step to go up. No I think that's the last one. I'll just hold it here until you get it. I could shove that in if I push it with the SRC. Jack, the cap'll came open. Be careful.
148:05:28	Schmitt	Okay. We got big silver box.
148:05:42	Cernan	Can you push on that a little bit?
148:05:44	Schmitt	Yes.
148:05:46	Cernan	Okay.
148:06:11	Cernan	Okay. Okay, Bob, you've got the two SR - two SCBs -
148:06:19	Schmitt	I'll push it in.
148:06:20	Cernan	- - SRC, and there goes the ETB.
148:06:24	CC	Copy that. Now how about a CDR?
148:06:28	Cernan	There's only one thing left - that's right, that's the only thing left out here.
148:06:34	Schmitt	Are you on a checklist?
148:06:35	Cernan	No, I'm not even on my checklist, but I guess - Yes, I am, it says INGRESS. Let me knock some more dust off.
148:06:47	Schmitt	Okay. Let me get behind the door.
148:06:51	Cernan	Well, I'm going to take what dust I got in with me. Oh!
148:07:12	Schmitt	There you go. Keep your buttons close. You're good. Beautiful. Just float in. Hanging up a little on the purse, but that's all right. There you go.
148:07:44	Cernan	Oh!
148:07:47	Schmitt	That's my arm I'm getting in the way, there - Let me get out of the way -
148:07:50	Cernan	Let me just check that seal before we close that. Okay. Can you get your arm off?
148:08:00	Schmitt	Okay.
148:08:02	Cernan	There's no big rocks in it, that I can see. Lots of dust on the floor.
148:08:09	Schmitt	Yes, I think it's okay. Okay, the hatch is partially closed - -
148:08:15	Cernan	Let me get it. I think it says to lock it, doesn't it?
148:08:17	Schmitt	Well, we're supposed to close our water first.
148:08:19	Cernan	Okay, FORWARD HATCH, CLOSE and LOCK; dump valves both AUTO, okay; confirm our water CLOSED. Let me see if I can't get my ... here.
148:08:30	Schmitt	Here, why don't I get yours and you get mine.
148:08:33	Cernan	Okay. I just got mine. And if you'll turn, I'll get yours. You'll have to - your PLSS - your right arm high; pick it up high.
148:08:47	Schmitt	Oh, wait a minute.
148:08:48	Cernan	No, I can't reach you, Jack, unless you turn -
148:08:50	Schmitt	Don't move yet; don't turn around.
148:08:51	Cernan	Okay.
148:08:52	Schmitt	Move over to the corner.
148:08:59	Cernan	Okay. ... sure I got the right ones. Far right, far left, secure oxygen. Okay. Your water's OFF.
148:09:13	Schmitt	Okay. Water's OFF.
148:09:17	Cernan	Now, stay there and I'll lock the hatch.
148:09:19	Schmitt	I've got to get into position to do the other good things. You go ahead.
148:09:25	Cernan	Am I - Do you have enough room or do I need to turn? No, let me get down there. Now, why can't -
148:09:41	Schmitt	Okay. Let me turn back; get out of your way. Got it?
148:09:47	Cernan	Okay. Hatch is closed and locked.
148:09:50	CC	Okay. And remember, I think it's the overhead valve that you have to position to OPEN.
148:09:58	Schmitt	That's right.
148:09:58	Cernan	Yes, you'll have to move over, Jack, so I can reach it.
148:10:03	CC	And you ought to verify both, I guess.
148:10:06	Cernan	You're going to have to wait, then.
148:10:09	Schmitt	Can you reach it now?
148:10:11	Cernan	Okay. No, you got to - got to swing left - -
148:10:14	Schmitt	Well, I'll have to -
148:10:16	Cernan	- - Right.
148:10:16	Schmitt	I'll have to turn around, then. How's that? Any better?
148:10:27	Cernan	No, you've got to - Okay.
148:10:28	Schmitt	Gene, for some reason I can't put my PLSS toward you.
148:10:31	Cernan	No, you can't. Just face front, if you can, and move as far forward as you can.
148:10:34	Schmitt	Well, if I get my - I'm going to have to go all the way around, I guess.
148:10:39	Cernan	Well, just -
148:10:40	Schmitt	Look, I've got to get the PLSS against the circuit breaker -
148:10:42	Cernan	Wait. I've got you just where I want you. Now stay right there, and shift your weight as far to the right as you can.
148:10:49	Cernan	Okay, it's AUTO - -
148:10:50	Schmitt	Okay.
148:10:51	Cernan	- - and it's - and it's locked. Okay?
148:10:58	Schmitt	All right.
148:10:59	Cernan	Now, CABIN REPRESS - AUTO. Can't get it. I'll have to turn left, here.
148:11:08	Schmitt	Huh?
148:11:09	Cernan	Okay. Let me turn left.
148:11:10	Schmitt	No, I can get it.
148:11:11	Cernan	Okay. CABIN REPRESS, AUTO.
148:11:14	Schmitt	AUTO.
148:11:15	Cernan	And at 16, CABIN REPRESS breaker, CLOSED.
148:11:19	Schmitt	CLOSED.
148:11:19	Cernan	MASTER ALARM and CABIN warning lights. Cabin's coming up, Bob, 0.5.
148:11:24	CC	Copy that.
148:11:32	Schmitt	I've still got 15 percent oxygen.
148:11:37	Cernan	Okay. Cabin pressure's increasing - go PRESSURE REGs A and B, CABIN.
148:11:48	Schmitt	A CABIN.
148:11:49	Cernan	Okay. And you PLSS O2 OFF at cabin greater 2.5. It's there now. And you're probably getting talked to.
148:12:08	Cernan	Mine's OFF.
148:12:09	Schmitt	Mine's OFF.
148:12:10	Cernan	Okay, cabin's up to 3.5, cabin's up to 4.0.
148:12:27	Cernan	Okay. Next thing, Jack, you can start verifying your white dots are out.
148:12:31	Schmitt	Okay.
148:12:31	PAO	We mark the end of EVA at 148 hours 12 minutes 10 seconds. Total EVA duration 7 hours 37 minutes, 22 seconds.
148:12:32	Cernan	And you can lose your PURGE valve to depress , if you have to.
148:12:35	Schmitt	Well, I don't think I have to. Okay; white dots.
148:12:40	Cernan	Wait a minute. White dot's plus for you, EVA decals
148:12:47	Schmitt	Okay, I'm good here, here, here.
148:12:57	CC	And, 17, congratulations. That was two EVAs and a half.
148:13:07	Cernan	Thank you Robert, but until I get my helmet and gloves off, I won't say anything.
148:13:13	Cernan	Okay, Jack. On 16, ECS SUIT FAN 2 CLOSED.
148:13:16	Schmitt	CLOSED.
148:13:17	Cernan	SUIT FAN DELTA-P, CLOSED.
148:13:18	Schmitt	CLOSED.
148:13:19	Cernan	Okay. MASTER ALARM just came on. Okay. And the HEATERS, MESA, OPEN. You can OPEN your MESA HEATERS. We're getting a MASTER ALARM, Houston. I don't know why.
148:13:33	Schmitt	I think that's the - -
148:13:34	Cernan	You did get SUIT FAN number 2?
148:13:35	Schmitt	-- got the SUIT - SUIT FAN DELTA-P ...
148:13:37	Cernan	Okay. You've got SUIT FAN number 2 and me - and DELTA-P. Okay. - -
148:13:42	Schmitt	MESA is OPEN.
148:13:43	Cernan	Okay. ECS cau - That's why it came on. ECS CAUTION WATER SEP light - component light should go out after that fan comes up. You can doff your glove.
148:13:50	CC	Roger. We think that's what happened.
148:13:51	Cernan	Okay.
148:13:52	Schmitt	Oooh.
148:14:08	Cernan	Well, I never thought I'd wear my EV cover gloves through two EVAs.
148:14:15	Schmitt	Oh, I forgot all about them.
148:14:16	Cernan	No, I didn't. I thought about taking them off until I started chipping those boulders. And I'm glad I wore them.
148:14:23	Schmitt	Yes, I think it's a good idea.
148:14:25	Cernan	As hard as it is on your hands, mine - these cover gloves are just ripped to a nub. Glad it's not my gloves.
148:14:45	Schmitt	I might consider taking them off tomorrow.
148:14:51	CC	Roger, 17. You talking about your cover gloves?
148:14:57	Cernan	Yes. We're still wearing them, Bob. And, I swore I'd take them off after the drill, but I used a bit of real-time common sense.
148:15:06	CC	Okay.
148:15:06	Schmitt	Okay. Gloves are off. LMP's gloves are off. Need some help?
148:15:16	Cernan	... Yes. I think you just about - -
148:15:23	Schmitt	No, you went the other way.
148:15:24	Cernan	Did I go the wrong way? Yes, I did.
148:15:35	Schmitt	What's wrong with that one?
148:15:37	Cernan	I don't know.
148:15:38	Schmitt	Shouldn't have done that.
148:15:41	Cernan	Hey - you - Let me get this.
148:15:45	Cernan	My hand!
148:15:47	Schmitt	Yes, I'm sorry.
148:15:49	Cernan	Well, you get that one, and I'll get these two. Get that one.
148:15:54	Cernan	I'll get this one.
148:16:06	Schmitt	I'll take that off. (Laughter) Hold this thing. Okay. Let me try that one, now.
148:16:44	Cernan	It wants to go.
148:16:49	Schmitt	Let me try that. Yes, that one ... off. Got it?
148:16:54	Cernan	Yes.
148:16:56	Schmitt	It's usually easier when you do it yourself. The angle's wrong.
148:17:00	Cernan	Oh, boy. It's starting to get a little stiff. Oh, they came off. Wow, they came off. Oh, ho, ho, ho. Okay. Doff helmets, with visors. Here I'll get yours for you. Turn my way, if you can.
148:17:29	Schmitt	Yes. Do the - I know how you feel.
148:17:34	Cernan	I don't know how they're so wet. I don't know whether it's - they're just soaking wet.
148:17:52	Cernan	Everything is just twice as hard.
148:17:58	Schmitt	Now comes the old hay fever, again. That went up and that went down.
148:18:07	Cernan	Stow in BRA. Let's get mine off though.
148:18:22	Schmitt	... now that these things are off.
148:18:27	Cernan	Oh, man. Does that smell, doesn't it? You sure can pick that up.
148:18:30	Schmitt	Okay. You got yours?
148:18:31	Cernan	I've got mine.
148:18:36	Cernan	Okay, Bob. Now (laughter) helmets and gloves are off.
148:18:43	Schmitt	Pressure looks good, still.
148:19:05	Cernan	Hello, Houston. Do you read?
148:19:07	CC	Roger, 17. Read you loud and clear, Challenger.
148:19:14	Cernan	Very good, Robert. The helmets and gloves are off.
148:19:17	CC	Absolutely outstanding crew, there.
148:19:19	Cernan	Why don't you go home and get some sleep, Bob?
148:19:20	CC	Absolutely outstanding. I can't say more than that. And I mean it from the bottom of my heart or the bottom of my soul or something, my conscience.
148:19:29	Schmitt	Thank you, Bob. Well, it's all ours.
148:19:35	Cernan	Bob, it's all your good training and help - -
148:19:38	CC	777 plus 37, from 3.5 to 3.5.
148:19:47	Schmitt	As mission scientists, you're totally responsible.
148:19:49	CC	And the backup crew says that you are even better than outstanding.
148:19:52	Schmitt	Remember, it's in your contract (laughter). Well, thank you. We enjoyed it. Oh boy.
148:20:03	CC	Hey, I'll turn you over to Little Joe, here, while I go talk to some people.
148:20:09	Schmitt	Thanks again, Bob. We - -
148:20:09	CC	We've got a 9 and 1/2 hour EVA scheduled for you tomorrow. We're planning to spend 2 and 1/2 hours extra over there at Station 4.
148:20:16	Cernan	(Laughter) I hope those gloves that you've got packed in the back have got something in them. (Laughter) Oh, let's read the checklist. See if we can go to bed on time tonight.
148:20:33	Schmitt	Oh, man.
148:20:34	CC	Okay. That might be a change.
148:20:35	Schmitt	I feel better them I did last night, as a matter of fact.
148:20:37	Cernan	Do you?
148:20:37	CC	I'm turning you over - I'm going to turn you over to Joe.
148:20:41	Schmitt	That didn't do very much good.
148:20:42	CC	See you guys tomorrow.
148:20:43	Cernan	Okay. Verify safety on dump valve. Yes.
148:20:46	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. Get some sleep, huh?
148:20:48	Cernan	Yes, I verified them both.
148:20:49	Schmitt	Sorry to be touchy, occasionally.
148:20:51	Cernan	DESCENT WATER valve, OPEN.
148:20:55	Schmitt	Okay. WATER valve's OPEN.
148:21:01	Cernan	Okay. Then you can take your purge valve off.
148:21:09	Cernan	There's a little dust in that tonight. Little stiffer. ... again. Remove purge valves, stow in purse. Disconnect OPS hoses.
148:21:21	Schmitt	Oh, man. That is dusty.
148:21:23	Cernan	Yes, let's - let me disconnect yours; you disconnect mine. It's easier with the - the - -
148:21:29	Schmitt	I think I can get - What did you say?
148:21:31	Cernan	- - OPS hoses.
148:21:32	Schmitt	Oh, yes.
148:21:33	Cernan	Or whatever it said.
148:21:34	Cernan	Yes.
148:21:35	Schmitt	Disconnect - disconnect OPS hose. is that what it said?
148:21:42	Cernan	Yes.
148:21:47	Cernan	Man - maneuver my fingers in here a little bit better.
148:21:54	Schmitt	They are all showing a little bit ... stickiness. Mine were in this in pairs. (Laughter)
148:22:00	Cernan	Well, just everything's, you know, harder to -
148:22:03	Schmitt	Yes.
148:22:04	Schmitt	Okay. There, you're disconnected.
148:22:05	Cernan	PGA diverter valve, horizontal.
148:22:08	Schmitt	Okay. Horizontal.
148:22:13	Cernan	And SUIT ISOL, both to SUIT FLOW.
148:22:16	Schmitt	All right - -
148:22:16	Cernan	We don't have the IM hoses on. So don't - Put mine to SUIT FLOW to get some air in here.
148:22:23	Schmitt	Yes. ... In the dust.
148:22:30	Cernan	PLSS pump, off, and fan, off.
148:22:33	Schmitt	Okay.
148:22:35	Cernan	Man, that's hot. Feel that.
148:22:39	Schmitt	Out in the Sun.
148:22:41	Cernan	Yes.
148:22:43	Schmitt	Pump's off. Fan's off.
148:22:45	Cernan	Okay. Oh - Disconnect PLSS H2O from PGA. Okay.
148:22:53	Schmitt	And connect LM water. That's what we want.
148:22:57	Schmitt	... the ... and ... flags.
148:23:01	Cernan	Yes, and LM water - water hose, here.
148:23:09	Schmitt	I'm sorry that's so complex, there.
148:23:11	Cernan	Oh, that's perfectly fine.
148:23:12	Schmitt	But it was easier to start.
148:23:14	Cernan	It had to be. Smells like someone's been firing a carbine in here.
148:23:22	Cernan	I'm just standing here pushing that - -
148:23:24	Schmitt	I will ...
148:23:25	Cernan	- - hot breaker - When you get it.
148:23:29	Cernan	Hey, little Joe? Are you there?
148:23:36	CC	17, this is Houston. And - -
148:23:39	Cernan	Little Joe, are you there?
148:23:40	CC	Roger. How do you read Houston? Over.
148:23:45	Cernan	Joe, we're reading you loud and clear. We're - the left-hand column and we're both going PLSS mode to O and we'll be off the air for a skosh.
148:23:53	CC	Roger, Geno. I've been following you real close, and you two are mighty smooth. Boy, was that nice today.
148:24:01	Schmitt	... feel how hot that is.
148:24:04	Cernan	Yes, the whole thing.
148:24:41	PAO	Astronaut Joe Allen has come on to relieve Astronaut, Bob Parker, at CAPCOM. We're in the midst of a shift handover here in Mission Control. Flight Director, Gene Kranz and his team relieving the Pete Frank team. We anticipate the change of shift press briefing will begin at about 1:30 AM in the MSC News Center briefing room.
148:27:45	Schmitt	Okay, Joe. LMP's PLSS is getting O2.
148:27:49	CC	Thank you.
148:31:24	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 148 hours 31 minutes. The participants have left for the news center. And we anticipate the change of shift press briefing will begin in the next 5 or 10 minutes in Building 1. At present time the CSM, with Ron Evans aboard sleeping, is passing over the landing site. That second EVA ended at 148 hours 12 minutes 10 seconds with a total duration of 7 hours 37 minutes 22 seconds. And at present time the LM crew is in the process of getting the - getting out of their suits. They'll begin doing that shortly and then getting the LM cabin reconfigured and ready for their sleep period. And in the control center, tonight, while the crew is asleep, we'll be making plans for the third 7 hour EVA scheduled for tomorrow.
148:31:45	Schmitt	Joe, O2 is off.
148:31:46	CC	Roger.
148:33:00	Cernan	Hey, Joe? This is Gene.
148:33:04	CC	Go ahead.
148:33:08	Cernan	Hey, Challenger has been holding at about 5.5 ever since we got in here. Are you all happy with that?
148:33:21	CC	Looks good to us, Geno. We have been watching it and everyone is happy down here.
148:33:30	Cernan	Okay. Well, this morning, when we were getting ready, we saw it at 5.5 and part of that has been at 5.0 all of the time. Just so we are not venting anything, that's all.
148:34:05	CC	Geno, we hear you on that and we'll - we'll be watching it.
148:34:19	Cernan	Joe, we're about 2 minutes into the CDR's O2 charge.
148:34:26	CC	Thank you.
148:35:51	Schmitt	Joe, LMP has 96 percent on his gauge.
148:35:58	CC	Thank you, Jack. We copy that.
148:36:56	CC	Geno, with regard to your observation made to us a few moments ago, I guess we will ask for the CABIN RETURN to the AUTO position and your SUIT DIVERTER valve to CABIN, please. We are about 0.2 of a psi from CABIN RELIEF. Over.
148:37:20	Cernan	Okay, we're getting that now.
148:38:00	Cernan	Joe, CDR is reading 94 percent on the O2 charge.
148:38:06	CC	Thank you.
148:41:19	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 148 hours 41 minutes. The Change of Shift Press Conference is ready to begin at this time, we'll take down the live air-to-ground release lines, record any conversation with the crew for play back following the press conference.
148:41:52	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 149 hours 11 minutes. During the change of shift press briefing the major activity aboard Challenger on the lunar surface and here in mission control has been to get the spacecraft in the proper configuration for the crew to begin their eight hour sleep period. The crew reported and we confirmed through telemetry here on the ground that the spacecraft cabin pressure had come up just a little bit above what we would normally expect - normally runs around 5 pounds per square inch. And we're seeing a pressure of about 3/4 of a pound higher than that about 5.73 pounds per square inch. This is not particularly unusual. we'did see a pressure rise following rep ressurization after the first EVA where the cabin pressure came up somewhat above normal. The pressure relief valve in the cabin would operate at about 5.83 pounds per square inch. In the taped conversations with the crew that we obtained during the change of shift briefing, you'll hear some conversation about the cabin pressure and some instructions to the crew to have them looking for any sources in the cabin that might be putting extra oxygen into the cabin such as the PLSS fill valves that might not have been closed fully or something like that. At this point the cabin pressure has stabilized it looks like and we've found nothing amiss. We'll replay the tape conversation for you and then standby live.
148:44:47	Schmitt	Okay, Joe. LMP's OPS pressure is 6300.
148:44:53	CC	Thank you.
148:47:57	Cernan	Commander's OPS pressure is 6100.
148:48:01	CC	Copy, 6100.
148:49:02	Schmitt	Say, Joe, our cabin pressure is riding even higher, now. About 5.7.
148:49:10	CC	We copy that.
148:49:14	Schmitt	Joe, Joe, we had the commander's hoses stowed, but in SUIT FLOW. That might have done it. is that right?
148:49:24	CC	Sounds very plausible, Jack. We'll look at it a little more here.
148:53:14	CC	Challenger, this is Houston. Requesting you move demand REGs A and B to EGRESS, please.
148:53:28	Schmitt	They're EGRESS.
148:53:31	CC	Okay.
148:53:41	CC	17, Houston. We noted down here that your SUIT DIVERTERS went to EGRESS and we want the demand REGs to the EGRESS position, please.
148:53:55	Schmitt	That's right, but the SUIT GAS DIVERTER extends when you go to EGRESS.
148:54:01	CC	You're right, again.
148:57:04	Schmitt	Houston, do you figure we're relieving?
148:57:09	CC	Jack, we don't think so. It looks like you're pretty steady at between 5.5 and 5.6. We're watching it very closely, however.
148:57:19	Schmitt	Okay, you know when we had that problem this morning, I hope I didn't - the backflow did not hurt something when I had the LMP's hoses stowed in the isol valve and SUIT FLOW.
148:57:43	CC	Jack, just for your information, we saw about the same thing last night. The only difference was the pressure didn't climb quite so high. So, we think whatever it is, it really doesn't involve the problem - small problem you had this morning.
148:58:04	Schmitt	Okay, Joe.
148:59:35	Cernan	Okay, Joe. We got the commander's PLSS back in the recharge station. We got a new battery in it, odd numbers, and a new - and a new canister in it and we are working on - on Jack's right now.
148:59:55	CC	Okay, Gene. Sounds good.
149:02:44	CC	17, Houston.
149:02:49	Schmitt	Go ahead, Joe.
149:02:52	CC	We are still watching your cabin pressure down here. Could you check for us, please, if the PLSS fill valve is securely closed?
149:03:05	Schmitt	Yes, it was closed.
149:03:08	CC	Okay.
149:03:10	Schmitt	Joe, do you want me to check out the regulator?
149:03:44	CC	Stand by.
149:03:45	Schmitt	Houston, Challenger. Do you want me to check the - Okay. ED BATs are 37.2.
149:03:54	CC	Copy that.
149:03:58	Schmitt	PCM's going HIGH.
149:04:03	Schmitt	Let me know when you're ready for the battery management.
149:04:06	CC	Roger.
149:05:31	CC	17, Houston. Stand by on the battery management for a few minutes, please. And, in the meantime, could you check the low pressure PLSS fill valve, closed, please? Over.
149:05:48	Schmitt	Joe, I checked that. It's closed.
149:05:53	CC	Thank you.
149:05:58	Cernan	Houston, Challenger.
149:06:01	CC	Go ahead.
149:06:05	Cernan	Yes, your - does you telemetry and our gauge come off the same telemetry on that? Same transducer?
149:06:15	CC	That's affirm. It does. And, Challenger, we've got a communications problem at one of the sites and are going to ask you to go to panel 12 and turn the POWER AMPLIFIER to PRIMARY, please.
149:08:27	Schmitt	Okay, it's PRIMARY.
149:08:45	CC	And, Challenger, we're ready for battery management, at your convenience.
149:08:52	Schmitt	Okay, stand by.
149:12:03	Cernan	Hey, Joe.
149:12:04	CC	Go ahead.
149:12:08	Cernan	Okay, this is Geno. I just dug a rock out of my pocket. You - no one back there probably remembers, but when we were at Shorty, fumbling around, trying to get everything done, I said there was a piece of very shiny black glasslike-looking material that reminded me of - of obsidian. Well, it's not. It looks like a very fine-grained gray rock. But, it's a fractured piece and it looks like it - I've picked up fractures of about three or four vesicle faces on it. The vesicle faces are very shiny and that's what reflected and caught my eye. I think the unique part about it is - Jack may want to tell you something else about it - the unique part about it is - I picked it up at Shorty. Undocumented, halfway between the Rover and where we were sampling that orange stuff. And it will be in bag 12 Echo.
149:13:06	CC	Okay, Geno. Copy, 12 Echo. And, I was assured by the folks here when I came in - -
149:13:12	Cernan	That'll go in it.
149:13:13	CC	- - that - that you did indeed have shiny sample of some kind in your pocket and would probably find it later on. So, we called that one. Could you turn OFF the POWER AMPLIFIER - -
149:13:26	Cernan	Okay, we'll put in it in SCB-8.
149:13:28	CC	Okay, go ahead.
149:13:33	Cernan	Okay, it's off and we will put that rock in that sample bag and put in SCB-8.
149:13:39	Schmitt	Joe, this - rock looks very much like 12008, 12008. It's a fine-grained, coarsely - very coarsely vesicular gray rock - probably basaltic.
149:13:57	CC	Okay, Jack. Real fine. We'll - want LOW BIT RATE, POWER AMPLIFIER, OFF, and LOW BIT RATE and we can maybe label that one 17008. How does that sound?
149:14:13	Cernan	No, you got to label Gene-rock. I was going to tell you those other things, but I thought I'd let Jack.
149:14:19	CC	Okay, thank you.
149:14:25	Schmitt	The vesicles, if I may project the size of them, probably were up to 4 or 5 centimeters in diameter. They're irregular in shape, but they're clearly vesicles and it looks like they are lined with either glass or very fine-grained crystals. They're very shiny.
149:14:47	CC	Roger.
149:14:52	Cernan	And for our next act -
149:14:55	CC	Jack, we're going to ask for your next act that you check for us both PLSS valves OFF and both OPS valves OFF. Over.
149:16:51	Schmitt	Joe, they're both verified OFF.
149:16:57	CC	Okay, Jack. We understand that all four valves are verified OFF.
149:17:05	Schmitt	That's affirm, Joe.
149:17:10	CC	Okay, thank you. I'm sure that you realize that we're still showing that pressure increasing very, very slowly and are pretty well convinced that nothing is leaking in from the outside. So, we are looking around on the inside here.
149:17:28	Cernan	Joe, is our oxygen consumption abnormal at this point?
149:17:33	CC	No, not al all, Geno. Everything looks pretty normal, except this - this slow creep in the cabin pressure.
149:17:44	Schmitt	Well, the - I guess the possibility is a creeping REG or a transducer, is that right?
149:17:50	CC	Yes, either that or it may be we're just watching some of the effects of the thermal shock that your tanks took when - from the repress itself. We're not worried about it at all, but we are still watching it.
149:18:08	Schmitt	Joe, you might make a note that my two SEP area samples went into bag 8 also.
149:18:19	CC	Roger, Jack. That's noted.
149:18:23	Cernan	Joe, got seme numbers, if you'd like them?
149:18:27	CC	Go ahead.
149:18:32	Cernan	SRC is 41.5. Bag 6 is 24, bag 8 is 35.
149:18:42	CC	Copy, 41.5 and 24 in bag 6; 35 for bag 8.
149:18:52	Cernan	That's it.
149:18:55	Cernan	Joe, how many samples did we get today?
149:18:57	CC	Stand by.
149:19:02	Cernan	Don't start a big investigation. I was just curious.
149:19:08	CC	Let me ask around, Gene. We will see in a minute.
149:19:14	CC	17, we think you have 54 samples from this EVA, plus some cores.
149:19:25	Cernan	Thank you, Joe. Just curious.
149:19:29	CC	That's not half bad.
149:21:56	Cernan	And, Joe, we're on 5-5 and I am going to start doffing.
149:22:03	CC	Okay, Geno. Copy 5-5, and before you get started there, would you put both demand REGs to CLOSED, please? As we continue to watch this pressure.
149:22:17	Cernan	Okay, Joe. Demand REG A, going CLOSED. Demand REG B going CLOSED.
149:22:29	CC	Thank you. And we verify them both CLOSED.
149:25:21	PAO	This is Apollo Control, that completes our tape playback. We're standing by live now. And the LM Cabin pressure reading at this time 5.77 pounds per square inch. There's no particular concern over the higher than normal cabin pressure. However, it is something we don't understand at the present time. Now, there are a limited number of sources of oxygen that can be getting into the cabin to raise the pressure. And, as Joe Allen mentioned to the crew, there's not much chance that anything is leaking in from the outside. We've been systematically checking 1 by 1 the potential sources of the oxygen flow into the cabin. And at some point, if all of the potential sources are eliminated, we begin to reach the conclusion that perhaps the sensor is at fault. However, at this point, it's not possible to say what the - what the cause of the slightly higher than normal LM cabin and pressure is.
149:27:54	CC	17, this is Houston. We'd like SUIT DIVERTER back to CABIN, please?
149:28:06	Cernan	CABIN.
149:28:10	CC	Okay.
149:31:47	CC	Gene and Jack, you'll be interested to hear that the cabin PRES is dropping down, very slowly now. So, we think we have a tiny leak in one of the cabin regulators, one of the demand regulators, and we'll run a check after you get squared away there a little better.
149:32:16	Cernan	Okay, Joe. We'll be at your beck and call.
149:32:27	CC	I'll only smile at that.
149:33:29	PAO	The demand regulators, which Joe Allen was describing to the crew and suggesting that they might be the source of the small oxygen leak into the cabin, are used to control the flow of oxygen from the storage tanks in the lunar module to the cabin. The procedure that we're going to follow here is to let the cabin pressure continue to drop. It's come down from 5. - from a high of 5.81 pounds per square inch to 5.73 and we're going to let it get down a little closer to 5 pounds and then run some checks to determine which of the two regulators is leaking. The procedure after this was determined - after this is determined would be to simply use the good regulator and turn off the regulator which has the small leak.
149:47:54	Cernan	Houston, Challenger.
149:47:57	CC	Go ahead.
149:48:02	Cernan	Joe, we're going to air out the suits. We're going to go to SUIT FLOW on the Commander's ISOL valve now.
149:48:13	CC	All righty.
149:48:19	Cernan	Say again.
149:48:24	CC	That sounds good.
149:49:26	PAO	This is Apollo Control. The crew aboard Challenger, Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt, running about 2 hours behind in their presleep preparations at this time. And, we do expect to give them a full 8 hour rest period, which would mean that we will have a slip in the start of EVA 3, probably somewhere between an hour and 2 hours. We won't be able to pin that exact start time down until sometime after the crew has gotten to sleep, and we see how their sleep period is working out, but again 1 to 2 hours delay in the start of EVA 3 looks likely at this time.
149:57:04	Schmitt	Joe, I guess you guys are tired of looking at ny heart beat. So, I'm gonna turn the BIOMED off as I get out of my suit.
149:57:14	CC	Okay, Jack.
149:57:52	Cernan	Hey, Joe. This is Geno. How do you read me?
149:57:54	CC	Geno, you're 5 by.
149:57:59	Cernan	Okay, we're going to get Jack out of his suit. I'll be - I'll be monitoring.
149:58:07	CC	Roger. From the way the two of you worked today, I'd think you could just about turn him upside down and pour him out.
149:58:34	Cernan	Yes, if he'd fit through that little hole in the end of his wrist.
149:58:45	Schmitt	Joe, the day they can pour me out of anything, they'll call me slim. Talk to you later.
149:58:53	CC	Okay. Among other things.
149:58:59	Cernan	Remember those nice white suits?
149:59:10	CC	The Clean Room will never be the same again.
149:59:17	Cernan	You'd never believe it.
150:18:36	CC	Challenger, this is Houston.
150:18:42	Cernan	Go ahead, Houston. Challenger here.
150:18:44	CC	Geno, we're going to start to investigate which of your demand regulators is leaking and we're going to ask you to put DEMAND REG Alfa to CABIN now. And, as we watch, it, please do not make any urine dumps. Over.
150:19:04	Cernan	Okay, we will not make any urine dumps and we'll go to CABIN now. Okay, Alfa's in CABIN. And we'll be ready for your debriefing here in about 5 minutes.
150:19:24	CC	Okay, Geno. And, it's going to be a short one.
150:20:23	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 150 hours 20 minutes. We're looking at a LM cabin pressure now of between 5.61 and 5.65 and you heard CAPCOM, Joe Allen, instruct the crew to turn back on one of the cabin oxygen regulators which supplies O2 to the cabin from the storage tanks. REG A is the one that's online right now. We'll watch the cabin pressure and see if it begins to rise again, and if so, we would conclude that Regulator A has a small leak. However, if nothing happens we'll then turn Regulator A off and turn REG - Regulator B on, and watch it to see if the cabin pressure begin to go up with that regulator. The LM Environmental Systems Officer made one point to Flight Director, Gene Kranz, and that is that very very small amounts of additional gas in the cabin will show up in our telemetry readings. Now, we're talking ab out tenths to hundreths of a pound per square inch of pressure and there are a number of possible things at the end of an EVA that could contribute to this kind of a pressure rise, such things as moisture in the suits when the suits are removed, evaporating carbon dioxoide, or the temperature rise - small temperature rises in the cabin due to the heat stored in the rocks brought in. All of these things could have contributed to causing the pressure rise that we saw and it may well turn out that neither of the regulators has any problem. In the event that there is a small leak in one of the two regulators the Lunar Module functions perfectly well, the cabin atmosphere would be maintained perfectly well with one regulator and the procedure would be to simply shut down the regulator that was leaking. It, of course, could be brought back online if needed and would perform it's function. And it still appears that we are approximately 2 hours behind in getting the crew ready for their sleep period. We have a clock in the control center counting down to our best estimate at this time as to when the sleep period will begin and it now shows 2 hours 36 minutes.
150:27:18	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. We're going DOWNVOICE BACKUP.
150:27:23	CC	Stand by on that.
150:27:30	Schmitt	And okay, we are ready for your EVA-2 debriefing.
150:27:49	CC	Okay, 17. To begin with, we want you to delete that step going to DOWNVOICE BACKUP. And I've got a surface block data to read up to you. A few minor changes in your Lunar Surface Checklist. And a couple of very quick questions for the debriefing when you're ready. Over.
150:28:18	Schmitt	Go ahead, in the stated order.
150:28:25	CC	Roger. Moving right along now to the surface block data. Lift-off times, T-33, 152 plus 30 plus 01; T-34, 154 plus 28 plus 33; T-35, 156 plus 27 plus 05; T-36, 158 plus 25 plus 37; T-37, 160 plus 24 plus 09. Over.
150:29:28	Schmitt	Okay, Joe. Starting with 33: 152:30:01, 154:28:33, 156:27:05, 158:25:37, 160:24:09. And what's our present rev?
150:29:54	CC	Rev 32, Jack.
150:30:08	Cernan	Hey, Joe, for pantry purposes, what day is this?
150:30:20	CC	We've checked around the room here and the consensus is that it's Wednesday morning. Over.
150:30:32	Cernan	Oh, okay. I really wanted to know whether it was irridated [sic] ham or frankfurter morning, and I guess we can work that out.
150:30:55	CC	Roger, Gene. Apparently, the Surgeon is happy with either of those days. And we want you to turn to - right now, to 5-7 in the checklist and perform that - one particular step at 150 hours, which will prevent the computer clock from overflowing. And that's the "PROCEED, VERB 37 ENTER, 06 ENTER, PROCEED" step. We'll stand by for that. Give us a mark as you start it. Over.
150:31:35	Cernan	Okay, we're starting.
150:31:37	Cernan	PRO. PROCEED, VERB 37 ENTER - VERB 30 -
150:32:01	Cernan	Okay, Joe. You don't want me to go on the VERB 90 - You're not going to give us an update, huh?
150:32:08	CC	No update required. That was just to prevent an overflow. And then I'm ready for the quick changes in the Lunar Surface Checklist when you are.
150:32:46	Schmitt	Okay, Joe, go ahead.
150:32:52	CC	Okay. Begin by putting the demand REG Bravo to CABIN position and leave the demand REG Alfa in the - in the CABIN position where it now is. And I'll continue on with the changes in the checklist here. Page 5-6, left-hand side, where it reads "Configure ETB." The - the fourth line down that starts out "Four B&W mags," they should read, "Hotel, India, Juliet, and Romeo in LCG compartment." Then going up to the right-hand side under "Stow in ETB," change the line "One B&W mag Romeo" to read "One B&W mag Kilo." Over.
150:34:19	Schmitt	Okay, Joe. I changed the mags in the "Empty" from Kilo to Romeo and the mag in "Stow" from Romeo to Kilo.
150:34:34	CC	Okay, that sounds like the thing to do. And a note on your demand regulators. We're showing that the demand regulator Alfa is - has good integrity and we're now in the process of checking the demand regulator Bravo. I've got a couple of fairly quick questions here when you're ready for those.
150:34:58	Cernan	Okay, Joe. Go ahead with your questions, and integrity is certainly what we need around here, right?
150:35:15	CC	Okay. Jack, a question for you to begin with. Is your gold visor sticking halfway down? Apparently, that's based on a discussion earlier. Over.
150:35:41	Cernan	Yes. Apparently his visor is sticking.
150:35:43	Cernan	Which one? The gold visor? No, he said his sunshade is sticking halfway down, but his gold visor's not.
150:35:51	CC	Okay, that answers the question. We couldn't tell from the TV whether it was the visor or the sunshade. That's fine. We also heard some discussion about possible wear in the seats of the suits when you were dusting each other off. We want to know if you could see the - any hint of the aluminum layers showing through in the suits. Over.
150:36:17	Cernan	No, Joe. Not to worry. It's just a few scars on the PLSS thermal blanket in back where you probably rub the seat when you get in. Nothing on the suits.
150:36:28	CC	Okay, Geno. Now two real quick geology questions that will help us do the planning for your EVA tomorrow. The first one has to do with Station 4. And you called out some material on the rim there -the crater at Station 4 - which looked like bedded spatter. And we're wondering if that resembled things that - that you'd seen in Hawaii? Over.
150:37:04	Schmitt	Hey, Joe, I think they misheard. I think I may have said shattered and you might of said - thought spattered. No, I didn't - neither one of us intended to leave that impression. The rock - the big rock we sampled was - looked like shattered - intensely shattered gabbro, such as we've had around the LM. The rocks, probably more significantly, that Gene - one of which Gene picked up was a fine-grained vesicular basalt - corsely vesicular basalts. And we didn't have any time to really examine the interrelationships of those rock types there, but those were the two fragment types we saw.
150:37:50	CC	Okay, Jack. That's quite clear to us now. Also a question about Station 4 - -
150:37:57	Schmitt	Joe - Joe.
150:37:58	CC	Okay, go ahead.
150:38:05	Schmitt	The bottom of that crater, now, had material that was extremely disorganized in its aspect and, really, we didn't have time to examine it in detail in order to decide why it was disorganized. It did not necessarily look like the boulder that we sampled at the rim.
150:38:36	CC	Okay, Jack. Understand that. A question about the boulder you sampled at the rim. Would you compare the basalt in this boulder to - which I - which you may have called a gabbro, I'm not sure - in any case the basalt - to samples which you collected at Camelot and at ALSEP. Over.
150:39:03	Schmitt	Well, ny impression was that they were the same rock types.
150:39:07	CC	Okay, that's our impression, too. Thank you. That's - that's it for us on the questions. And for information, we're showing your cabin pressure is holding fairly steady even with both those demand regs on.
150:39:28	Cernan	Okay. Keep watching it for us, would you, and let us know. I expect one of them is probably leaking pretty slow.
150:39:35	CC	You have no - no worry about that, Gene. We're looking at it real close.
150:39:45	Cernan	How's - how's America looking to you?
150:39:49	CC	It is just as clean as a whistle.
150:40:01	Cernan	It may not be when we get back there, judging from the looks - looks of us. That's good to hear, though. It's a good bird. So is this one.
150:40:23	Schmitt	Joe, is there any - You got any more debriefing questions?
150:40:28	CC	Negative, Jack. And we're interested that you move right along so we can get you - get you turned in there and get some rest.
150:40:39	Schmitt	We're moving. We're eating now, and we're - we're - we feel the same way, I think.
150:41:12	CC	Troops, enjoy your meal there. And at your convenience, you can go ahead with the feedwater recharge. We want you to hold off on the oxygen recharge until we watch these regs for about another 10 minutes. And give us a mark if you do start the water recharge, please. Over.
150:41:36	Cernan	Okay.
150:41:46	CC	And if there are any ways we can cut corners on the time here, it'll be helping us, because we're still looking at - at being down a couple of hours nearly.
150:42:02	Cernan	Okay, Joe. We're working at it as fast as we can. Best place in the world to make it up is tomorrow night.
150:42:20	CC	Right, Geno, and we - actually, we're going to pick up a good one shortly, because we're coming up to a pad in the time line. So, as long as we don't waste too much time, we're doing pretty well.
150:42:35	Cernan	Okay; be assured we're not. There's just a certain amount of housekeeping we have to do. But, very seriously, day after tomorrow is a very short day, and I think we ought to look at making up any time. I'm a hold-faster on sleep periods but tomorrow is the one that I think is flexible.
150:42:57	CC	Roger. We hear you.
150:46:12	Schmitt	Hey, Joe. This is Jack. We're eating here. Won't be too long at it, but if you've got any significant news or anything, why don't you give it to us?
150:46:47	CC	Jack, I don't know if it's significant news, but at least I know you will be interested. Both your demand regs look good now. We show no evidence of a leak there and it may have been that just recycling them reseated them and solved whatever problem we had. You can go ahead with the O2 recharge on the PLSS and the water recharge at your convenience. And let me poll the room here for other news items. Over.
150:48:21	Cernan	Okay, Joe, we're starting an O2 charge of the CDR's PLSS, 10 minutes.
150:48:27	CC	Okay.
150:53:30	CC	Challenger, this is Houston.
150:53:37	Schmitt	Go ahead, Joe.
150:53:42	CC	Roger. This is a news report to eat by. I'll combine an orbital science report with a sports report, an unusual combination here. I'll start out with a sports report on Monday night football, which you may not have heard yet. Joe Namath tried mightily to lead the New York Jets into the American Football League playoffs, but the Oakland Raiders grounded the Jets in a fourth quarter 24 to 16 blitz. Namath passed for more than 400 yards but, in spite of it, New York scored only one touchdown. Moving along to the successes of Captain America, I'll run down different items in the SIM bay here, beginning with the UV spectrometer. In general, the data has been excellent. We're getting indications that the hydrogen atmosphere of the Moon is much less than expected. In fact, I don't think we're detecting any, but rather setting a limit on the amount of hydrogen around the Moon. There was an Aerobee launch - or an attempt at an Aerobee launch - from White Sands on Monday to calibrate solar UV radiation, but this launch failed because an instrument viewing port in the rocket failed to open. A second launch - let's see - was scheduled, I think, for today, and I don't know whether that was successful or not, I guess it'll be launched later today. The infrared scanning radiometer is performing beautifully. Indications are that subsolar-point surface temperatures are higher than we've detected from our Earth-based observations before. We're seeing many thermal anomolies, particularly in Procellarum and in the Procellarum area west of Copernicus. And we're seeing also a few unusual cold spots, which apparently are indicating areas of very fine soil with a few or no blocks in and on the soil. The lunar sounder data is beautiful, and the power monitor signals we find correlate with the surface features. And the HF data indicates to us that we are detecting a variety of layers in the mare areas.
150:56:53	Schmitt	Joe, this is Jack. Do you know where specifically they're seeing the hot spots west of Copernicus?
150:57:04	CC	Jack, I don't have it on the page in front of me here. We're going to check into it and I'll get back to you in a second.
150:58:45	CC	Jack, this is Houston. With regard to your questions on the hot spots, apparently they've not yet indexed the - these warmer sources that they're detecting to the CSM ephemeris, and - and so they don't know exactly what they correspond to as far as the surface features themselves go. So I can't help you on that right now.
150:59:18	Schmitt	Okay, Joe. Just curious.
151:01:05	CC	And, Jack, TELMU handed me some numbers which I think you will be interested in. From the EVA-2 EMU summary, the elapsed EVA time was 7 hours plus 37 minutes plus 22 seconds for a new outdoor record under international rules. The rest of the sheet looks free from problems in a comforting way. Let's see, average metabolic rates - for you, Geno, 855; and, Jack, you're running at around 920, And that, relative to premission averages of around 850. And you have a grand total EVA time now of l4 hours 49 minutes and 35 seconds.
151:02:20	Schmitt	Very interesting numbers, Joe. Do you have any idea how the metabolic rate compared to yesterday?
151:02:27	CC	Good question. Let me ask on that one. Yesterday you were running at 1045 and 1090. So you're down considerably from your work rates of yesterday, which is good news. Maybe you're learning how to do it more easily or something like that.
151:03:00	Cernan	Yes, but we spent a lot of time riding today and a lot of time working yesterday.
151:03:05	CC	That's true. But I guess that's not taken into consideration of the average here. It's certainly true. We can ask for the metabolic rate of the Rover. I bet that is pretty impressive for today.
151:03:20	Cernan	Well, don't - don't get me wrong. Driving that Rover is ... But I'll tell you, it keeps your attention.
151:03:31	CC	I'm sure it does.
151:03:32	Schmitt	It keeps the passenger's attention, too.
151:03:35	CC	I'm sure it does. We noted some comments when you were rolling along today - and reading between the lines from time to time.
151:03:59	Cernan	Actually, Joe, for good long spans on the run up to Station 2, except when we had to pick our way up the Hole-in-the-Wall, I was running full bore at anywheres from, I guess, what'd I say, 10 to 12 to 15 clicks. I didn't hit 15 going up very much.. Coming down I did, but it's - it's really a "stand by for turn and watch where you're going" type of run. Because the small craters, - of course, are the ones that can really jolt you. But the trouble is, you can't - you can never see what's just over the next ridge, and the next ridge may be 20 meters away, and you just can't see it until you're there, and you don't know whether its a dish crater or pit crater.
151:04:57	CC	Roger, Gene. We copy that.
151:05:01	Schmitt	Joe, that des -
151:05:02	CC	Go ahead.
151:05:05	Schmitt	That description - that description fits the geology up in there, because we weren't seeing blocky rimmed craters and otherwise you would have been able to tell more easily about the old versus new craters, which would be the ones you could either go through or not go through, respectively.
151:05:25	CC	Roger.
151:05:35	Cernan	That's a super machine to drive though, Joe, I'll tell you. If you had enough time you could really learn to - to take it all the way. But you don't really do that, just the second time around.
151:05:54	CC	Geno, was it spraying dirt at you today? Could you - did you notice that you still missed the real fender and that the patch fender wasn't quite doing what - what maybe it could?
151:06:11	Cernan	No, sir, I don't think we missed it at all.
151:06:17	Schmitt	Fact is, we're recommending a design change, Joe.
151:06:27	CC	That'll be for next year's models.
151:06:33	Cernan	That's right.
151:10:21	Schmitt	Hey, Joe. is it all right to use the waste management system?
151:10:28	CC	Roger. We're happy with those demand regs now. And you can proceed on with that and including all the - the - the PLSS recharges that you'll need to do as well.
151:13:23	Schmitt	Joe, we're filling my PLSS with water now. You might check on the water quantity.
151:13:30	CC	Roger. Thank you.
151:23:12	Cernan	Joe, that should take care of my PLSS for tonight.
151:23:18	CC	Okay, Gene. Thank you. Out of curiosity, have you packed, or are you packing the ETB now?
151:23:28	Cernan	Yes. Jack's doing it right now.
151:23:30	CC	Okay; we've got a last minute change. We show that you - your mag Bravo is at about 77 frames, and we'd like for you to leave it in the ETB - it is already in the ETB - and take it out with you tomorrow. We can shoot up the remaining frames if we run out of film, otherwise.
151:23:56	Cernan	Okay; fine. That goes along with our thinking.
151:24:28	CC	Geno, apparently you made some comment earlier in the day about being bothered by comm noise during your egress from Challenger. Did that go away right away, or did it just cease to bother you, or what - what was the story on that?
151:24:50	Cernan	I don't remember; so, it must have gone away, because the comm was great.
151:24:57	CC	Okay; that's what we kind of assumed.
151:25:24	Cernan	Okay; we're charging Jack's PLSS with oxygen.
151:25:34	CC	Sounds good.
151:39:44	Cernan	Houston, Challenger. The O2 is complete on - O2 FILL is complete on the LMPs PLSS, and we're working on the water.
151:39:57	CC	Roger.
151:42:19	CC	Challenger, for your information, we're coming up on comm handover in about a minute and a half.
151:42:31	Cernan	Okay.
151:46:10	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 151 hours 46 minutes. Jack Schmitt and Gene Cernan appear to be completing the last few items on their checklist before getting to sleep. We hope to get them to bed within an hour or maybe even a bit less, which would put them about an hour behind the nominal flight plan. Ron Evans aboard America is now in his 33rd revolution of the Moon. That spacecraft currently in an orbit 69.3 by 53.6 nautical miles. Evans began an 8 hour sleep period at 146 hours 40 minutes Ground Elapsed Time, which is right on the flight plan. And he's scheduled to end that sleep period at 154 hours 40 minutes. The pan camera - mapping camera, and laser altimeter in the CSM scientific instrument module bay, have been turned off. The infrared scanning radiometer - the ulraviolet spectrometer are both in the operating mode during the sleep period. And data indicates nominal performance for both.
151:47:33	Cernan	Hello, Houston; Challenger. The LMPs PLSS is charged.
151:47:39	CC	We copy it.
151:47:56	Cernan	Joe, how's the weather got down there? Any better?
151:48:01	CC	Geno, the weather is better. We were really socked in yesterday. That front's moved on through the Houston area, and it is cold and clear tonight, I suspect. It's been a while since we've been out, but they are calling for it to go down right near freezing.
151:48:28	Cernan	Okay. Thank you.
152:16:12	Schmitt	Hey, Joe; Challenger.
152:16:17	CC	Go ahead.
152:16:23	Schmitt	They succeeded in leveling the gravimeter, yet?
152:16:33	CC	Jack, we'll check it, update our information on that, my understanding at the moment is that they've not, but - but they're thinking that the unit's just too cold and they're in the process of warming it up by dumping heat into it by running some of the equipment around it and in it, and they've by no means given up - given up hope for that unit.
152:17:04	Schmitt	I figure that means that my fooling around with it didn't help them.
152:17:09	CC	Apparently, it - it didn't do too much for them, but what it did do was convince them that it's probably somehow locked up because its temperature's not right yet. And they're not worrying about whether it's level or not level now. They're - they're confident that it's been set up okay, and now they're just biding their time to bring that temperature up. We'll get some more words to you sometime tomorrow on it as you make your traditional visit to the site again - ALSEP site again, probably. How are you coming along with your sleep prep?
152:17:47	Cernan	We're just about there, Joe. We picked up some time somewhere in here. Couldn't be much more than 1 hour behind.
152:17:58	CC	No, that's just about right. You're looking pretty good on that.
152:18:04	CC	If you get to sleep in the next 5 minutes, you're 1 hour behind.
152:18:11	Cernan	Yes, sir; we're - I'm putting ny hammock up now, as a matter of fact.
152:18:18	Schmitt	What are you doing up so late?
152:18:25	CC	Well, somebody's got to sit up and keep you guys honest. I think we're getting more sleep down here than you are.
152:18:47	Cernan	... bother me.
152:18:49	CC	I might add that not only do we have to stay up late; we have to get up mighty early to keep you honest, too.
152:19:00	Schmitt	Okay; you going to let us sleep 8 hours or what?
152:19:05	CC	That's affirm, Jack. We're - we're looking good on the time, and we're - Not only will you get, we hope, 8 hours of good sleep, but you'll have a full EVA tomorrow. So, it's not costing us anything there.
152:19:25	Schmitt	Sounds great, Joe. I - I fully expect it won't be much longer now.
152:19:51	CC	And, Gene, just for rough planning purposes, we'll start to figure your sleep period starting around 152:30. And We'll be looking at your getting up around 8 hours from that time.
152:20:14	Cernan	Okay, Joe; I'll buy that.
152:20:23	CC	Might add, also, that there are a lot of us looking forward to that third EVA tomorrow. It's going to be the last one on the lunar surface for some time.
152:20:40	Cernan	I tell you, if it's anywhere near what the first two were like, we're looking forward to it, also.
152:21:03	CC	Gene and Jack, we're still marveling at the beautiful television pictures that we're getting from your TV camera there. It's fun, in fact, to watch the - the tracks that you're leaving behind in - in the - the lunar soil, both footprints and Rover tracks. And some of us are down here now reflecting on what sort of mark or track will someday disturb the tracks that you leave behind there tomorrow.
152:21:43	Cernan	That's an interesting thought, Joe, but I think we all know that somewhere, someday, someone will be here to disturb those tracks.
152:21:56	CC	No doubt about it, Geno.
152:21:57	Schmitt	Don't be too pessimistic, Joe. I think it's going to happen.
152:22:03	CC	Oh, there's no doubt about that. But it's fun to think about what sort of - of device will ultimately disturb your tracks.
152:22:17	Schmitt	Well that device may look something like your little boy.
152:22:23	CC	Boy, he'd make short work of them.
152:22:36	Schmitt	Joe, I'll tell you it's also a pretty philosophical thought to think that you're riding around out here on what is really undisturbed - undisturbed everything, you know. If there was someone here, way back when sometime, they didn't leave much - much sign of their whereabouts, but that's an interesting thought, too, as you drive around and all of a sudden cross your own Rover tracks and figure out those are the only ones that have maybe ever been here.
152:23:11	CC	Very true.
152:23:13	Schmitt	And with that, I'm rolling out my hammock.
152:24:14	Schmitt	Okay, Joe. I'm waving goodnight to you. I'm rolling up my overhead window cover.
152:24:28	CC	Okay, Gene and Jack. We'll say good night to you from down here, unless there's some other way can help you.
152:24:43	Schmitt	No, sir. If there is, we'll give you a call, though.
152:24:56	CC	Just want to end by saying what a terrific job you did today, and really looking forward to tomorrow. Have a good 8-hours rest.
152:25:10	Schmitt	Thank you, Joe. Tomorrow we answer all the unanswered questions. Right?
152:25:20	CC	If not more.
152:26:06	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 152 hours 26 minutes. The goodnights with the crew aboard Challenger were exchanged at 152 hours 25 minutes, and we plan to give them a full 8 hour sleep period which puts wakeup at 160 hours 25 minutes. That presumably would move the start time for the EVA 3 back 1 hour. We'll be getting conformation on that shortly. And both the CSM and the Lunar Module continuing to perform almost perfectly as planned. Based on the telemetry that we're getting here on the ground and at this moment our large scribing plotter display in front of mission control, shows the Command Module, America, to be passing almost directly over Challenger on the lunar surface in the Valley of Taurus Mountains. America now on its 33 revolution of the Moon. And Ron Evans well into his scheduled 8 hour sleep period. Evans is right on the planned time for sleep. Sleeping right on the - on the flight plan times. During the sleep period we'll have the air-to-ground lines down. Normally that circuit gets rather noisy after the crew has gone to sleep - configured the lunar module to sleep. The power amplifier is turned off, the transmitter output power of the Lunar Module decreased from about 18 watts down to about 1 watt and that accounts for the noise that we frequently have on that circuit during sleep periods. For that reason, we will have the circuit down configured to record any conversations with the crew for subsequent playback. At 152 hours 29 minutes, this is Apollo Control Houston.
152:26:16	Schmitt	...
153:27:08	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 153 hours 27 minutes. We have heard nothing from the crew aboard Challenger on the lunar surface, Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt, for the past hour since we said goodnight to them. And we now have a little less than 7 hours until their scheduled wakeup time. We plan to wake them up at a GET time of 160 hours 25 minutes which would be 8 hours after we said goodnight to them. Ron Evans aboard the Command Module, America, is about to begin his 34th revolution of the Moon, and on this revolution we'll be sending Ron a wakeup call. Wakeup for him is 154:40, 154 hours 40 minutes. It'll be about 35 minutes before we regain radio contact with the CSM as it comes back around the eastern limb of the Moon on its 34th revolution. Both vehicles continuing in very good shape. One minor problem appeared to crop up with the Lunar Module following the repressurization after the 2nd EVA. The cabin pressure went up to about 5.8 pounds per square inch. This is about 8 tenths of a pound above what we think of as the normal LM cabin pressure. However, it is not unusual to see the cabin pressure spike up a bit on repressurization and then drop back down. However, this rise was getting fairly close to the pressure of which the cabin relief valves would open and relieve the pressure. One consideration when the pressure goes up in this manner is that perhaps one of the several sources of oxygen in the LM cabin might be leaking. Such things as the portable life support system fill valves or the portable life support system itself, or one of the oxygen purge systems, or even the the main regulator valves that control the flow of oxygen from the LM supply tanks in the cabin. After isolating these possible sources one at a time, and still watching the pressure rise gradually, we elected to shut down both of the oxygen regulator valves and see what happened to the pressure, keeping a flow of oxygen through the cabin to remove carbon dioxide buildup, and on shutting down both regulators, the pressure did, in fact, begin to drop. The assumption at that time was that possibly one of the regulators was leaking slightly, allowing a small amount of oxygen above the needs of the crew and for replenishment, to flow into the cabin. And as the pressure dropped back down, we brought one regulator at a time online. However, the pressure continued to fall back to its normal level of about 5 pounds per square inch even with both regulators on. So, at this point, the assumption is that nothing is the matter. There are a couple of possible explanations for the rise in cabin pressure. One is - one explanation is that one of the regulators was, in fact, leaking, and when they were recycled and reseated, the seal held properly and the regulators are now performing properly. The other possibility is that moisture from the suit circuits - the temperature rise caused by bringing things from outside the LM into the lunar cabin - rocks and other equipment that had been exposed to the Sun on the lunar surface - causing an increase in water vapor, carbon dioxide, and the slight rise in the cabin temperature, which would, in turn, bump the pressure up. Those are probably the most likely possibilities. In any event, the situation as it now stands is that the LM cabin's pressure is at 4.9 pounds per square inch, which is within the normal range, and there's no indication of any leakage either through the regulators or through the other sources of oxygen. It appears that everything is functioning normally. During this shift in Mission Control, Flight Director, Gene Kranz has his flight control team reviewing the situation for liftoff. This team of flight controllers will be in charge of the lunar liftoff, and they are considering such things as the ideal time to conduct the plane change maneuver with the Command Module, to put it in the proper orbit for subsequent rendezvous with the lunar module; also, looking at LM weights and performance characteristics, assuring that all that data is in proper form for the liftoff which we expect will occur at the flight plan time. EVA 3 will be, it looks like now, delayed 1 hour from the published flight plan time. This reflects the late sleep time for the crew, the fact that they began their rest period one hour late. And we expect this will translate to a one hour late start for EVA 3, and the EVA is planned for a full 7 hours duration. At 153 hours 33 minutes, this is Apollo Control Houston.
154:35:09	PAO	This is Apolio Control at 154 hours, 35 minutes. We're about 5 minutes away from putting in a call to Ron Evans aboard Amarlca, now on its 34th revolution of the Moon. Ron, completing an 8 hour sleep period, and flight surgeon reports he has been sleeping soundly during virtually all of that sleep period. And Ron Evans, right on the Flight Plan. The command module performing very well. During the sleep period, the pan camera, the mapping camera, and the laser altimeter back in the scientific instrument module bay have been turned off. We have been gathering data from the infrared scanning radiometer and the ultra violet spectrometer. And the telemetry data that we have received indicates that they're performing normally. For Ron Evans - or for rather for Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt aboard the Lunar Module Challenger, they now have about 5 hours 53 minute remaining in a scheduled 8 hour sleep period, and the surgeon reports that Gene Cernan who is wearing the biomedical sensors during sleep period is sleeping soundly at this time, so the lunar module crew also appears to be getting well into their rest period. We show America in an orbit at the present time with a high point or apocynthion of 69 and 1/2 nautical miles and a low point or pericynthlon of 53.4. No signs of activity, aboard the Command Module at this point. We'll stand by for the wake up call to Ron Evans.
154:40:23	CC	Good morning America, how are you?
154:41:17	Evans	Hey, Houston. This is the Command Module Pilot of the United States spaceship America, and we're ready to participate in another day's activity.
154:41:28	CC	Glad to hear it, Ron. Good morning.
154:41:33	Evans	Good morning.
154:41:52	Evans	I slept with my lightweight headset on last night so didn't have to have that cap on. Is the fidelity of this thing any good, at all?
154:42:02	CC	Pretty good, Ron. Pretty good. And as you start your morning's activities, you can be aware that we were watching the spacecraft through the night, and as Flight puts it, everything is swinging.
154:42:21	Evans	Outstanding. That's what we like.
154:46:26	Evans	Hey, it's still dark outside.
154:46:35	CC	We start work early around here.
154:46:41	Evans	Well, I guess.
154:52:34	Evans	Hey, Houston; America.
154:52:39	CC	Go ahead.
154:52:44	Evans	Joe, I'd just be kind of curious how the old heart rate compares to those sleep tests that we did - preflight? Is it about the same when I'm soundly asleep or is it lower or what, you know?
154:53:04	CC	Stand by, Ron, and I'll ask the men on my left.
154:53:11	Evans	Okay. You know, maybe they'll have that information.
154:53:14	CC	Roger. They think maybe 5 minutes. And we'll be back to you.
154:53:21	Evans	Okay. No problem. Curiosity more than anything.
154:54:08	Evans	I didn't get quite as much sleep last night. I took a bath and changed my underwear, and all those good ... things, you know. Probably only got - oh, maybe 7 hours at the most. Probably closer to 6-1/2 of good sleep.
154:54:30	CC	Roger.
154:54:35	Evans	And I'll give you the rest of that in just a jiffy when I get it squared away.
154:54:39	CC	Okay.
154:58:21	CC	America, this is Houston.
154:58:26	Evans	Go ahead.
154:58:30	CC	Roger, Ron. Apparently in your preflight database, they show you with a rate of in the low 60s or high 50s, that's a sleeping rate. And we're showing you now, during your sleep periods, of heart rates of about 10 beats lower per minute. And with heart rates that show less variation than the preflight data shows.
154:59:11	Evans	Ah ha, okay. Well, thank you much. The heart does slow down a little bit up here, then.
154:59:17	CC	Apparently so - they assured me however, that it would not be approaching zero. So you can relax there.
154:59:27	Evans	(Laughter) Okay.
154:59:38	CC	And, Ron, in the meantime, Gordo's arrived here and - I'll turn the console over to him. Be talking to you later perhaps.
154:59:51	Evans	Okay, Joe. Hey, we thank you much. Appreciate it.
154:59:54	CC	Enjoyed it. Have a good day; and we'll all be watching you close.
154:59:59	Evans	Okay.
155:01:13	Evans	Okay, Houston; America. Here's my medical log.
155:01:20	CC	Okay, Ron. Good morning and go ahead.
155:01:22	Evans	I just noticed ... day off (laughter). Okay, Gordo. Glad to have you aboard with us. Okay. PRD, 15041; and the sleep, I mentioned, probably about 6-1/2 or 7 good hours. I took a Seconal last night, and I had four cans of fluid.
155:01:52	CC	Okay.
155:02:13	Evans	Okay, here's the old chow for day 6.
155:02:19	CC	Okay.
155:02:22	Evans	Scrambled eggs, bacon squares, peaches, cinnamon toasted bread cubes, orange juice, cocoa with potassium, and a vitamin pill. Okay. Lobster bisque, all the peanut butter, all the jelly, three pieces of bread, citrus beverage, a tea, a chocolate bar, and a package of pecans. And I had a beef steak, butterscotch pudding, and an orange drink.
155:03:17	CC	Okay, got that.
155:03:18	Evans	I think that was it. Hey, today I get sausage, grits, fruit coctail, orange beverage, and coffee.
155:03:44	CC	Roger.
155:04:10	Evans	And, Gordo, if you have one of these preflight, not preflight - but, what do you call it -geology summarys of EVA-2, like you had yesterday. I thought that was great.
155:04:24	CC	Okay, Ron. I just picked it up. Let me read it over and then I'll give you a summary.
155:04:32	Evans	Oh, okay. Sure; no problem.
155:08:40	CC	Hello, Ron. I'll give you a little summary here of the EVA. It's going to be a little rambling, because I haven't had time to organize it, but it was a very interesting night last night on that second EVA.
155:08:55	Evans	Sure. No problem. Go ahead.
155:08:58	CC	Traverse lay over terrain of extraordinary geologic diversity and yielded a far greater variety of information than ever obtained on any other lunar traverse. Systematic descriptions and samples of four of the six main units of the area, massifs, subfloor, the light mantle, and the dark mantle were obtained. In addition, detailed descriptions were given of a variety of craters, including exciting discoveries that the crater Shorty, and descriptions of the Lee-Lincoln Scarp and lineaments in the hilly terrain. The South Massif is composed of two main varieties of breccia; blue-gray and tan-gray blocks of both varieties were abundant at station 2 up on Nansen. I won't go into the geologic details on those breccias. But, they then found samples of the subfloor unit exposed as blocks in the ejecta around larger craters that had been partly buried by the dark mantle. Stand by.
155:10:16	CC	Okay. They are going to take the antenna away from us, Ron. I'll have to finish this next time around. Spacecraft's looking good, we'll see you in about 45 minutes or so.
155:10:31	Evans	Okay. Mighty fine Gordo. Thank you.
155:11:23	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 155 hours 11 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. Even though there are some 4 mirutes and 25 seconds remaining to actual disappearance of the spacecraft America behind the Moon, the network has taken down the uplink to the spacecraft so, for all practical purposes, we have had loss of signal to Ron Evans aboard spacecraft America. We'll see him again in about 48 minutes. Meanwhile the crew of lunar module Challenger is still asleep at Taurus-Littrow. To reiterate the new wake-up time for the Challenger crew it's Ground Elapsed Time of 160 hours 25 minutes with the start of EVA 3 coming at 163:40, which is approximately 1 hour later than the Flight Plan. Current orbit measurements of spacecraft America: 69.6 by 53.5 nautical miles. As the spacecraft disappeared behind the Moon, the velocity in orbit was 5372 feet per second. The Gold Team of Flight Directors or Flight Controllers settling in for a fairly short day shift ending at 2:00 p.m., just after the surface crew has been wakened. Gerry Griffin in charge of the LM or Lunar Module flight controllers and the CSM group headed up by Neil Hutchinson. At 155:13 Ground Elapsed Time, this is Apollo Control.
156:00:00	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 156 hours Ground Elapsed Time in the mission of Apollo 17. Coming up on acquisition of signal in about 50 seconds the Command Module, America, coming around on her 35th lunar orbit. Command Module Pilot, Ron Evans, awake at this time, should be completing his breakfast and ready for a days work in lunar orbital science. Meanwhile the crew of Challenger on the lunar surface still asleep. About 4 1/2 hours until they're awakened for the third and final EVA of this mission and of the Apollo program. Waiting for confirmation in about 5 seconds or perhaps a few more seconds that network has indeed locked onto the signal from spacecraft, America. We do have acquisition. Let's join the air-ground 2 circuit for any conversation during this 35th front-side pass.
156:03:10	Evans	Houston, this is America. I see you tried to come in there.
156:03:15	CC	Yes, Ron. You're loud and clear.
156:03:22	Evans	Okay. I'm just finishing up my fruit cocktail.
156:03:27	CC	Okay. While you're munching there, let me give you a few status reports here. First of all, your RCS is hooking right along there 4 percent above the Flight Plan line; however, we have some plans for that 4 percent, which I'll go over with you later. On the oxygen, you've gained a little on it, since I was last on anyway. O2 tank 1 is a little low, but it's balanced by tank 3 being a - a little high, and tank 2 is right on the redline, so I think they all balance out to be about on the redline on the Flight Plan line. And they all three balance out to be right on the Flight Plan line, as close as I can tell. On hydrogen, you're probably up about 4 percent in tank 1, and the other two are right on the line, so you are in good shape there, still.
156:04:31	Evans	Very good.
156:04:41	CC	Okay, while you're - I've got some words on - on your orbit here, which won't require anything - writing down anything - but for some reason you're missing the mascons or something, and your orbit's not degrading like we expected it to. It's not degrading down into a circular orbit. It's - I think it's staying just about the way it was, and so we're looking ahead to a plane change, and we're - we're thinking about an extra maneuver prior to plane change - about 1 hour prior to plane change on the back side. There was some discussion here about what to call that maneuver. Somebody wanted to call it a HAM, Height Adjustment Maneuver, and someone else said, well that one's already used in the rendezvous sequence. Maybe we ought to make it "bacon". And even "lox" was was suggested, considering the FDOs objected to "bacon" because of his religion. So the "lox" was eliminated because we already used that for the S-IVB.
156:06:05	Evans	How about "mascon adjust?"
156:06:10	CC	Anyway, what the maneuver's going to be - whatever we call it - is about 11 foot per second RCS burn, 1 hour prior to plane change so that'll be on the back side. And, that'll just about use up your RCS overage and put you back on the Flight Plan line. That will adjust the height when you get around to the plane change, and then the plane change will be a little bigger than originally planned, showing about 365 feet per second, SPS, of course. And, looking at the consumables, that will put you down right - right on the rescue red-line on SPS, so we're still in good shape - consumable-wise. Further tracking will refine this, of course, so we'll have updates on the plan. Any questions on that? Over.
156:07:13	Evans	No, it sounds like you all thought it out. I appreciate your letting me know about that. I think - Is the timeline worked out good enough in there to work in a P41? I guess it does - an hour before, huh?
156:07:25	CC	Yes, well - we'll make it. I haven't looked at it myself, but we are - FAO has - and I haven't heard exactly what needs to be changed, if anything. Okay, on the SIM bay. Basically there's nothing new to report. And all the people down here appreciate your timely operation of the SIM bay, and it's responsible for really maximizing the data return. In general, we're pretty happy. The problems that we're have - having with it are ones that have already been mentioned to you. On the - on the HF antenna retract problem that we have, if we have it, here's the plan. We're - Well, first of all, the consensus on that is that we really think the antennas are retracting okay. That it's a malfunction in the limit switch that drives the talkback that's really the problem. But we have devised an alternate method, utilizing timing and stall current, and actually the signature of the motor stall current down here in the data, to determine proper retraction. And just prior to 168 hours in the Flight Plan, you're supposed to retract those antennas, and we're going to check the data at that time, and say "yes" or "no"; they are retracting or they aren't. If they don't, then the alternate plan we'll swing into at that time is to reschedule the HF targets that are now scheduled on rev 55. Reschedule them and do them on rev 42. After which, we'll try one more time to retract the antennas, and if it still looks like they indeed are not retracting - I guess it's just the one that's in question - then we'll go ahead and jettison them at that time. And we'll still have gotten most of the - of the at least - priority HF targets with that alternate plan. Over.
156:09:42	Evans	Yes, that sounds like - sounds like a good plan to me.
156:09:46	CC	Okay, we got one request from EECOM here. Can you turn the H2 tank 2 FANs, OFF, please?
156:10:01	Evans	H2 tank 2 FANs are OFF now.
156:10:04	CC	Okay. And when you get between courses on breakfast there, I have some pencil work for you in the way of Flight Plan updates. Not too much, really.
156:10:31	Evans	Okay. Contrary to the way I eat breakfast on the ground, I always end up leaving my orange juice to last. I guess that's because you like to eat the hot things first.
156:10:44	CC	Roger.
156:10:46	Evans	What I'm saying is the only thing I've got left to eat is orange juice, and I'm ready to copy.
156:10:51	CC	Okay, 156:22 - which is coming up here - like to, at that time, verify all Command Module VHP off. It's now 11 after - You have to terminate the jet-on monitor and then get the sounder operating. I can break this off at any time if you think we're pressing that. Just interrupt me. At 156:50, lunar sounder pad. T-start is 156:51:05, and T-spot is 156:56:09. Over.
156:11:47	Evans	Okay. T-start, 156:51:05, 156:56:09.
156:11:53	CC	That's good. Flip the page - flip two pages and copy the next sounder pad, which is for 158:40. T-start is 158:49:35 and stop time is 158 - -
156:12:13	Evans	Wait a minute; wait a minute. I'm not with you.
156:12:15	CC	Oh, okay.
156:12:20	Evans	Okay. I got it (chuckle).
156:12:22	CC	Okay. T-start - -
156:12:23	Evans	Go ahead, now, very sorry.
156:12:24	CC	- - 158:49:35, and stop is 158:54:38.
156:12:41	Evans	Okay. Start 158:49:35, 158:54:38.
156:12:47	CC	Okay, that's correct. Now at - that same page - 158:13, after "PAN CAMERA - ON," add a line that says, "V/H OVERRIDE - HIGH ALTITUDE."
156:13:14	Evans	Okay, at 158:13, "V/H OVERRIDE to HIGH ALTITUDE."
156:13:19	CC	Okay, and at 158 - -
156:13:20	Evans	I think it's still in HIGH ALTITUDE from yesterday. Yes, it is.
156:13:24	CC	Okay. 158:21 is another, "Verify all Command Module VHF, OFF."
156:13:47	Evans	Okay, 158:21, "Verify all VHF, OFF," and I know what that means.
156:13:52	CC	Okay, and the next two are easy. Next page, at 159:01. Just draw a line through "MAPPING CAMERA, RETRACT", and at 159:05 - -
156:14:06	Evans	Okay, I got it.
156:14:06	CC	- - draw a line through "MAPPING CAMERA LASER ALTIM - LASER ALTIMETER COVER, CLOSED."
156:14:15	Evans	Okay, got it.
156:14:17	CC	Okay, I think we're caught up. We're ready for HIGH GAIN, AUTO.
156:14:25	Evans	Okay, I'll go back and see where we are in the old Flight Plan. Okay, you have AUTO.
156:14:33	CC	Okay.
156:14:53	Evans	Okay. I don't think this lightweight headset is quite as good as the - the other one, and I'm going to change as soon as I get a chance here.
156:15:01	CC	Okay.
156:15:02	Evans	Okay, VHF A is OFF, B is OFF, RECEIVE ONLY, B DATA is OFF, BEACON is OFF, RANGING is OFF. That's all (chuckle).
156:15:14	CC	Okay.
156:15:26	Evans	I was looking at - Aitken when they came that side. Aitken is almost right in the terminator, right now. So when they come up on terminator photos there - The only thing is that, even though it was down in the shadow, down in the bottom of the crater, I could still see the bottom of the craters ... when they come around there for the near-terminator photography. I'm going to open the camera up and take a picture down in the shadow itself and see if that works.
156:16:01	CC	Okeydoke.
156:16:02	Evans	And there was quite a bit of backlight - quite a bit of backlight reflection from the northeastern side of it and also the eastern side of it, I guess. Funny, down in the eastern rim - -
156:16:18	CC	Ron, if you give us ACCEPT, we'll give you a vector while you got it.
156:16:18	Evans	- - the only way I can describe it - Okay. You have ACCEPT.
156:16:27	CC	Roger.
156:16:31	Evans	And the DSKY is clear. With the shadow effect on the eastern - I guess the east and southeastern interior rim of the crater, it reminds me a lot of some eroded hills. Like if you've got a valley that maybe has a 20-foot - it's bigger than that - but say you got a 20-foot drop on the thing where it's been - just rain erosion down the side and it kind of washes little - little valleys down it here and there. And it leaves mounds and humps in between that haven't eroded away yet. And that's the way the side of that crater works. And then the other side of it, the northeastern rim of it and the interior rim, looks just like a - one of the massif units. That is, it's a very fine texture, no real erosional processes, just a smooth, gentle - gentle slope.
156:17:52	CC	Roger.
156:18:08	CC	Okay, Ron; it's your computer. Go gack to BLOCK.
156:18:14	Evans	Okay, we're in BLOCK.
156:19:44	Evans	You know that Skylab drink bag has really been a pretty good deal because you can use the nipple that's on the end of that thing and use it for all of the beverage packages. And that way, you don't have to cup open the end of it and let it drip out all over the place.
156:20:07	CC	Hey, I'll pass that along to the Skylab - -
156:20:07	Evans	- - you can use the nipple.
156:20:26	Evans	I'm not sure if they have any of our beverage packs or not. I think they are all packaged in these expandable little things we're using for water - water cans.
156:20:37	CC	I see.
156:22:12	Evans	Hey, Gordo, what day is this?
156:22:16	CC	Out of sync there myself. It's Wednesday. It's about 9:15 in the morning, Wednesday.
156:22:28	Evans	Ah ha! Thank you. I guess I could have figured it - up, but -
156:22:41	CC	That's why we're here. Answer important questions.
156:22:47	Evans	(Laughter) That's right.
156:22:50	Evans	Hey, getting ready for LUNAR SOUNDER to STANDBY. That's a "verify."
156:23:01	CC	Roger.
156:23:10	Evans	And RECORDER is - RADAR is ON. RECORDER is OFF, not heaters. I see the old MODE is still in VHF. Ah ha! I get to control the spacecraft again. ... Takes about five minimum impulse blips to get -a tenth of a degree per second.
156:24:05	CC	Roger.
156:28:17	Evans	The dark annulus around Serenitatis - As you look north - the dark variation there, and I'm kind of looking back - looking a little bit backwards now - but that dark has no continuity with the ridge at all. Goes right down the middle of the ridges. As you look directly east of Littrow - east - I mean directly west of Littrow, the wrinkle ridge is there, and then there's - it comes out, and you have the light tan, tannish, tannish - there's a dark, I guess - you call it a dark tannish-gray. And then you get out to the light tan of the Mare Serenitatis, itself.
156:29:18	CC	Okay, Ron.
156:33:09	Evans	You know, I'm looking almost directly into the Sun and you can still see a topographic expression - topographic high, around the rilles in the Tacquet area, and also the grayness has disappeared out of that - out of the dark material, and it's just - looking into the Sun now - it looks more of a tan - a darker tan than the Serenitatis area. And you can all see - also see the topographic rise to it now - I'm looking quite a ways away from it and looking down on it.
156:33:50	CC	Roger.
156:34:24	Evans	You know, that's kind of funny now, looking back at Sulpicius Gallus and just to the north of that, there's a crater that's about - well, it's right at the end of those rilles that go north from Sulpicius Gallus. And you can really see the ejecta blanket. The ejecta blanket looks very dark, around it now in this Sun. Now you look out across the Mare Serenitatis now and you're getting toward the sunset, looking back into the Sun, and the color is disappearing all except in that one spot. Now that must be a - either a fresh ejecta - and you lose the brightness of it or something - or either that or it's dark. It's sure a dark - it's a dark ejecta blanket around it. The blanket itself goes out maybe two or three crater diameters, and it looks like it has kind of a ray-type pattern to it. I'll mark that crater. I don't even know if it has got a name or not, but I'll mark it on my map.
156:35:29	CC	Okay.
156:35:36	Evans	I got a ding. Let's see. It must be time to do something.
156:35:39	CC	Yes, it's time to turn the recorder on.
156:35:44	Evans	RECORDER, ON. RECORDER'S ON.
156:35:51	CC	Okay.
156:37:05	Evans	Just - I don't know where I am right now, I'll be honest with you. I just looked out window 3, and I'm right on the terminator. And, let's see, I'm going west, so we've got some arcuate - There's kind of a - little bit of a mare area down there. Okay, I think it is. And you can see lava tongues sticking out through there. And lava flow fronts with the high side on the east side because you got a shadow all the way along the front. And they're about - in the one area - you might consider a scalloped area - an ejecta scallop. Coming out of that one area you can see a crazy lava flow coming out from it.
156:38:11	CC	Roger on that.
156:38:13	Evans	At least the flow -
156:39:08	Evans	Hey, those are Apennines I'm just going over, aren't they?
156:39:11	CC	That's right. That's what they ought to be. We need the IR, OFF.
156:39:20	Evans	You look back out across Seren - Okay.
156:39:25	CC	We need the IR COVER, CLOSED, please.
156:39:27	Evans	Say again, Gordo.
156:39:29	CC	We want the IR COVER, CLOSED. Right away.
156:39:35	Evans	Okay, it's going CLOSED. Okay, it's CLOSED. How about the UV?
156:39:55	Evans	IR COVER is CLOSED.
156:40:06	Evans	I was just going to say, looking back across Serenitatis into the Sun now, there must be Bessel that has an ejecta pattern out there. When you look at the ejecta patterns into the Sun, they all look black with respect to the mare. I think it must be a shadow effect or something that you get off of the - the raised ejecta that comes up across it.
156:40:39	CC	Roger.
156:42:43	CC	Hey, Ron, that frantic call there was because the Sun had started to get in the IR and hadn't really thought that would happen, but started to see it get in there. But you caught it in time; the cover saved it.
156:43:00	Evans	Okay. Real good. I figured that's probably what it was.
156:43:10	CC	And you can go ahead with the rest of the steps in there with the UV off after sunset.
156:43:23	Evans	Okay. MAPPING CAMERA is going OFF. COVER's CLOSED on the IR so then we'll turn it off. PAN CAMERA, SELF TEST, OFF. And let's see, I don't see the Sun shining up a light out there. It must be sunset. Couldn't be yet, though. Yes, it sure enough is, though. Okay, UV's going OFF. You want the IR COVERs back OPEN just to keep things straight here?
156:44:41	CC	Stand by on that.
156:44:48	Evans	They're just - I - next time we use the IR, let's just remember to open the cover.
156:45:03	CC	Okay. Just open it up the next time we use it, which is in about 15 minutes. We'll - we'll remind you on that if you forget.
156:45:15	Evans	Oh, okay. That's right. Okay. That's right, these are just short sounder passes now, aren't they?
156:45:24	CC	That's right.
156:45:45	CC	Ron, I can finish up my description of the last night's EVA if you like, since nothing to look at now. I'm watching the clock on the sounder start for you.
156:45:59	Evans	Okay; hey, appreciate it.
156:46:02	CC	Okay, think I left off, or was cut off there without mentioning two varieties of breccia in the South Massif they found. Blue-gray and tan-gray and, without going into the geological details, those are the two types they found up there at Nansen. The subfloor unit was exposed as blocks and ejecta around larger craters had been partly buried by dark mantle. And craters apparently had penetrated thin parts of the light mantle. Especially good samples were obtained from the rim of Camelot where the same textural characteristics which are banding caused by variations in vesicle concentration, coarse-grain size, and mineralogic features, as reported in EVA-1, were found. So apparently this unit is quite uniform over the distances that they have covered so far in the traverses. The prominent east-facing scarp, crossing the valley floor from north to south about 5 kilometers west of the LM, was traversed twice near the crater Lara, near Hole-in-the-Wall, although Hole-in-the-Wall appeared to be pretty subtle. No change in the surface characteristics or lithology of the mantle was discernible where the astronauts traversed the Scarp. Outcrops of boulders were observed farther to the north where the northward extension of the Scarp crosses the face of the North Massif, it forms a notably smooth and relatively young-appearing surface. Elsewhere, the surface of the North Massif is prominently furrowed and textured, and the crew described it as a cross-hatched pattern on the surface that they could see with one set of lineaments dipping eastward and the other westward at about 30 degrees. Some of the most interesting observations made during the EVA were related to craters. Many small craters within the dark mantle have glass-coated central pits. Jack called them dimples. Some of the pits are nearly cylindrical and maybe half again as deep as the crater itself. Other small craters occurring in both the dark and light mantle have bright halos, but these halos appear to be noticeably brighter on the light-colored material. This bright material is not blocky or fragmental ejecta derived from a subfloor layer, but rather appears to consist of "instant rock" or soil breccia which has been partly consolidated by the impact shock itself. The most interesting eureka during the EVA was at station 4, Shorty Crater, where Jack found some bright red or orange, he described it, orange dirt within the gray to dark-gray rim material. The colored banding is circumferential to the crater and resembled alteration halos, which occur around many terrestrial volcanic vents. So you can see why the geologists are excited on that one. The morphology of Shorty, however, is similar in some respects - -
156:49:22	Evans	You bet you.
156:49:22	CC	- - impact craters have definitive interpretation of its origin may depend on sample analysis. And I got about a minute and a half to start the sounder. You might be close to 02:30 there, if you aren't. They took a total of about 850 pictures. They've taken a total of 1270, would you believe, pictures ... on the lunar surface. Including about 150 with the 500-millimeter camera, mostly of the North, South, East Massifs, and Family Mountain. They got 56 samples, two double cores, probably about 36 kilograms worth, and they traveled a total distance of 20 kilometers. Over.
156:50:22	Evans	Okay, sounds like a good summary. They're finding all kinds of things up there. Which is the reason you explore, I guess, to find - to see what you can find.
156:50:34	CC	Yes, they - they were really in their element last night. About 30 seconds to T-start time. I'll let you call it yourself, though.
156:50:43	Evans	Okay. I'll get it.
156:51:06	Evans	DATA SYSTEMS are OFF. OPERATE, 05.
156:51:13	CC	Okay.
156:51:34	Evans	Hope this thing's in Reiner Gamma. Then you can find some sort of a topographic expression, to that light-colored material around there. It looks to me like there is - right around the Reiner Gamma itself anyhow.
156:51:53	CC	Roger.
156:52:04	Evans	Maybe the lunar sounder will collaborate my moonlight investigations here - or earthlight investigations, I'm sorry.
156:52:13	CC	(Laughter)
156:52:30	Evans	While we're waiting here - I decided - decided to sleep last night without being tied down or anything. So I slept in the old - What do you call them in the Navy? -
156:52:48	CC	Hammocks, I think.
156:52:49	Evans	Well, anyhow, sleeper strings, we call them up here. Yes, sleeping bags - or some kind of sack. And the last 2 or 3 nights, what I'd do is put the lap belt on loosely. And you know, it just kind of keeps you from rolling all over the cockpit. Then last night, I didn't put it on at all and stayed in the sack. And I really didn't go too far anyhow. One time I woke up and I was crossways in the couch up here. And then when I woke up this morning my feet were up in the tunnel, and my head was kind of still in the center couch, more or less. So you really don't roam around too much that way anyhow, even if you aren't tied down. And you can get the "huggy pillow" effect by being inside that sack and laying your head on the outside of the sack. It just about fits me, except that if I stretch my feet out - then I get a little bit of a pull. Little bit of a pull - on it and it feels like a huggy pillow that way.
156:54:10	CC	Kind of a security blanket effect, huh?
156:54:15	Evans	(Laughter) Yes, right. That was the biggest problem the first 2 or 3 days here - what do you do with your head when you go to sleep. I'm used to sleeping with a pillow. And I'm used to sleeping on my side. And it's amazing the psychological effect that you can get from - for me it's hard to go to sleep just laying on my back. So you can turn on your side and you go right to sleep (laughter). What's your side and what's your back - I don't know, but anyhow, it works.
156:54:54	CC	That's got to be psychological.
156:54:59	Evans	(Laughter) It sure is.
156:56:10	Evans	5, 6, 7, 8 -
156:56:14	Evans	MARK it. LUNAR SOUNDER to STANDBY.
156:56:17	CC	Okay.
156:57:17	Evans	Okay. RECORDER is going OFF. ... the heaters.
156:57:21	CC	Roger.
156:57:27	Evans	DATA SYSTEMs coming ON.
156:57:44	Evans	Okay. SM/AC POWER is ON.
156:58:41	Evans	I guess we need to open the old door. IR, OFF, barberpole, gray bar. I get to mess with the old optics again.
156:59:23	CC	We're getting some of that, Ron. Sounds like the mike might have slipped away from your mouth, though.
156:59:33	Evans	Okay. That's a good point - let me change my headsets here. Anyhow, I went right through the Flight Plan with all that stuff.
156:59:43	CC	Okay, and - -
156:59:43	Evans	... got the IR COVER, OPEN.
156:59:48	CC	Okay. Great memory there.
157:01:18	CC	Ron, if you like while you're getting ready for the 52, I can summarize the news real rapidly. There wasn't a whole lot.
157:01:28	Evans	Okay. Sure, go ahead, I've got a different headset now. Is that okay?
157:01:32	CC	Yes, you're loud and clear. Former President Truman is still hanging in there. His heartbeat and breathing became unstable yesterday, but then improved again. Of course, the big headlines were about the discovery of the orange dirt at Shorty Crater. And there was a picture of Jan, John, and Jaime in the paper, watching the EVA on TV. The only thing new on the peace talks is that Kissinger will probably be coming back to the United States today and there's a rumor, the French press said that the compromise is in the work on the withdrawal of the North Vietnamese troops from the south. The Rockets lost - the Aeros, the hockey team, won last night. They beat the Alberta Oilers. The Rockets lost to Buffalo. And the weather finally cleared out. The cold front cleared out the wet stuff and last night I think was the first time since you guys launched that we've had a look at the Moon, so we had a direct look at you last night. It's just high cirrus and sunny this morning when I came to work. Over.
157:02:52	Evans	Hey, thanks for the news and I guess those three guys that went up to the Moon - you know, they probably cleared that weather up there in Houston.
157:03:01	CC	It sure took you awhile though.
157:03:07	Evans	(Laughter) Right.
157:04:35	Evans	Okay, 14 is Canopus again, the same ones I had last night I think. That's Canopus. Canopus looks about as bright as Sirius, but not quite.
157:05:12	CC	Roger.
157:05:20	Evans	My sextant - is good and everything like that, but you just can't quite get the reticle in focus.
157:05:33	CC	Roger.
157:05:36	Evans	It's kind of the way they said it was going to be.
157:06:10	CC	Okay, Ron. We copy those. Clear to torque them.
157:06:16	Evans	Okay, let's see; we'll torque at - oh, make it 06:30.
157:06:23	CC	All righty.
157:07:03	CC	Ron, we've got still about 5 or 6 minutes until LOS, but in case we drop off on your maneuvering there - just want to tell you that everything's looking good. In fact, the IR is pumping out good data, so with that fantastic teamwork, we saved it back there, and we'll see you next time around.
157:07:27	Evans	Hey, okay. Sounds good, there's little old Aldebaran in there. Saturn still must be out of the - There it goes into the -
157:08:56	Evans	(Humming) Okay, got to align the old GDC here. (Humming)
157:14:50	PAO	This is Apollo Control. We've had loss of control from the spacecraft America, going behind the Moon, nearing the end of the 35th lunar orbit. That orbit measuring, at this time, 69.5 nautical miles by 53.6. There is a plan under consideration now for a small trim maneuver just prior to plane change maneuver. Some 12 feet per second with the RCS thrusters to tune up the orbit a little bit. This currently appears to be around 181 hours 33 minutes, with the plane change approximately an hour later. Command Module Pilot, Ron Evans continuing to operate the scientific instrument module experiments in the service module of his spacecraft. All systems apparently operating nominally. Three hours 13 minutes remaining until crew of Challenger is awakened at Taurus-Littrow landing site. And at 157:16 Ground Elapsed Time, this is Apollo Control.
158:00:23	PAO	This is Ap - this is Apollo Control. We've acquired the command module, America coming around on the 36th rev. He's on a bad omni antenna at the moment, just barely readable, but we'll stand by here until the communications improve and Gordo Fullerton can continue the two-way communication.
158:02:10	CC	Hello there, America. We hear your scratchy-sounding OMNI.
158:02:17	Evans	(Laughter) Probably so.
158:02:25	CC	You're readable but noisy.
158:02:33	Evans	You're cutting in and out on the OMNI. I thought I couldn't get you.
158:02:39	CC	Roger.
158:02:48	Evans	Looks like we get the high gain here pretty quick. ...
158:02:53	CC	Roger.
158:07:30	Evans	...
158:08:51	Evans	Okay, Houston this is America. We probably have pretty good comm now, huh?
158:08:57	CC	Yes, Ron. We're getting you now, and you sound good.
158:09:07	Evans	Okay. I don't have any observations to report from the back side. About time for blue bag number 4. Somebody has got to develop a better mouse trap.
158:09:23	CC	Roger on that.
158:12:08	Evans	Okay, the old PAN CAMERA'S in STANDBY.
158:12:16	CC	Roger, Ron.
158:12:18	Evans	Power's coming - power's coming on and V/H is the HIGH ALTITUDE.
158:12:29	CC	Okay.
158:12:42	CC	Okay, Ron, we're ready for SELF TEST.
158:12:48	Evans	Okay, going to SELF TEST -
158:12:51	Evans	Now. Barber pole.
158:12:57	CC	Roger.
158:15:56	Evans	Okay, by the way, mag Lima Lima is empty. 165 frames showing there. Started mag Mike Mike with frame number 95. Finished the orbital science at 142. Took the crazy camera at f/5.6 at 1/125. When I got ready to change to f/5.6 at 1/250, I looked at the crazy thing and it was setting at f/ll. Maybe those first frames in there, maybe they can develop them a little different or something and still bring - get them to come out.
158:17:00	CC	Okay, Ron. We got that.
158:17:09	Evans	I think what happens is I must have been holding the thing by the lens or something or I burnped the - the f-stop thing somehow.
158:17:28	CC	Ron, we're ready for PAN CAMERA POWER to OFF. And did you go to HEATERS after you set the SELF TEST switch to SELF TEST, when we started this?
158:17:43	Evans	No, I just went back to to OFF. Was I supposed to go to HEATERS?
158:17:53	CC	Okay, we'd like it in HEATERS, now.
158:17:59	Evans	Okay, it's going to HEATERS. Now it's spring-loaded to OFF, and I just left it there. Okay, going to HEATERS, and now it's going to - power is OFF.
158:18:09	CC	Okay.
158:18:13	Evans	Okay, let's see. Are we ready for Lunar Sounder? Need a clock down here by panel 230 (laugh). Not really. I can look back and see the LEB one. Okay, it's about time. Okay. LUNAR SOUNDER's verified in STANDBY. The RECORDER is going ON. RADAR is going ON. And the RECORDER is OFF, not the heaters. If antenna 1, verify they're out, eh? EXTEND. No barber pole. Back to OFF. Number 2 EXTEND. No barber pole. Back to OFF. Okay, MODE is going to HF and let me take a look at - Alfa is OFF; Bravo is OFF; B DATA is OFF; BEACON is OFF; RANGING is OFF. Okay, let's see. Two, two. 250 lens.
158:20:28	Evans	Okay, 5.6 ... fifth and infinity. Mag QQ.
158:20:47	Evans	Mike goes in the temporary stowage bag; QQ goes on with 104 frames.
158:21:14	Evans	That's going to be window 3.
158:21:57	Evans	Somebody had - had his nose up against window 3, here Got to wipe it off. Boy, these windows have really been great though. They haven't - you know - don't have any coatings or anything like that on them.
158:22:18	CC	Roger, on that.
158:23:05	Evans	I'll be darned. I'll bet that's a little micro-meteorite pit in window 3. Right in the middle of it. It looks like two of them out there. It's about - much smaller than a 1/32 - 1/64 - 1/64 in diameter probably.
158:23:31	CC	Gotcha.
158:23:31	Evans	It's a little, round - Doesn't seem to have any - It's just a pit, you know.
158:23:46	CC	Ron, you said that was window 3?
158:23:52	Evans	Window 3, yes.
158:23:54	CC	Okay.
158:25:55	Evans	Oh, it scared me for a minute there. I was configuring for terminator photos, and I looked on the near-side terminator, and I didn't see any. It's on the far side.
158:26:08	CC	Yes, Stu and I were looking at the same thing. We're just about a - 30 seconds ahead of you.
158:26:15	Evans	(Laughter) Okay. One's of Aitkin on the far side. Okay. Aitken and Ibn Hyan [sic], I think, or something like that. Debber [?], Ibn Hyan [sic].
158:27:08	Evans	You know, going to come across - come across the Tacquet area again, and there doesn't seem to be any - it - there's a bright crater - a recent crater in the annulus - in that dark annulus, in the southern part of Serenitatis, it shows up again as that kind of a blue-gray brightness, as opposed - as opposed to the tannish - tannish brightness of the - of the bright craters in Serenitatis. There's still is no apparent wrinkle ridge - there's no color tone or differentiation in the winkle-ridge area, in this part of it. The only differentiation, and - It looks like - South of Tacquet you get the same color tone variation occurs on over into Tranquillitatis. When you get to the Tacquet area, from Tacquet up to Miller or something - I wish I could remember the name of that crazy crater.
158:28:28	CC	How about Menelaus.
158:28:33	Evans	Menelaus. That's it. Yes. From Tacquet up to Menelaus now, the - that's got to be a buildup of material and it's more on the tan side than it is on the - more of a dark tan than it is to the tannish-gray. So it's a different type of material than - than on the annulus down below the crater, Tacquet.
158:29:08	CC	Okay, Ron. You're saying this is sort of a annular plateau, then, that stretches across between Tacquet and Menelaus?
158:29:19	Evans	Yes, it is. It's an annular plateau in there, and the plateau is got to have been coming from those rilles down - that are down in there.
158:29:34	CC	Okay, do those - Maybe you've already said this - do those wrinkle ridges cross the color boundaries?
158:29:45	Evans	No, I can't find the wrinkle ridge that crosses the color boundary. The wrinkle ridges are out in Serenitatis itself, and there is no color boundary on the western edge of Serenitatis. It's all the same.
158:30:05	CC	Okay. Those sound like supergood observations, Ron.
158:30:06	Evans	Passing over - Sulpic - and - I'm just passing over Sulpicius Gallus, now. And just beyond Sulpicius Gallus - Sulpicius Gallus is out in the Mare Tranquillitatis, itself, and it looks like you could - it's either a talus slope - you know, you got a gentle slope of the - of the massif coming down and then it changes slope a little bit, and the - it looks like you have finer-grained material. And that might be what we have at one time or another called the high-water mark, but I kind of believe that's just a talus change in the slope. As you go on down there in the fine-grained material, somehow developing down there in the bottom. But as soon as you cross that area - we're going west now from Sulpicius Gallus - again we've got kind of the same tannish - a dark tan material that essentially covers the highland - this highland-type of an area here. It's a hummocky-type material. There are a few rilles just north of Sulpicius Gallus; those rilles, again, have - have the dark tan material on it. About the same as the tan - same color tones that you pick up from Tacquet to Mele - Meleneis [sic].
158:31:55	CC	Okay sounds great. Keep talking, we'll cue you as the Flight Plan events come up.
158:32:04	Evans	Okay. D - D-Caldera is sure fascinating. I'll try and take a quick look with the binocs on that one. - binoca and I can't find it there. There it is.
158:32:56	Evans	I hope the pictures will kind of confirm a little bit of a - of a topographic rise around the D-Caldera, just a slight one, and it's about half the width of the - if you - As you look at the "D" it's a half a width of the "D", not the height, but the width. And it seems to be a raised, kind of a raised, flat rim around it. The color of the raised bumps down in the D-Caldera are the same as the surrounding material, around there. The de - the bumps that are raised up are smooth looking and the depression for it has to be a caldera, I guess, or at least, the part of the depression, anyhow, is a light bluish gray; I'll call it that way, very light bluish gray.
158:34:15	CC	Hey, Ron I'm not suggesting you do, because it's probably trouble to find. Have you tried the color wheel, comparing it on any of this stuff?
158:34:27	Evans	(Laughter) No, I haven't. Let me try. That's a good idea, though. I'll try that and see what I can come up with on that thing.
158:34:36	CC	Well, don't don't go to a lot of trouble. I never got around to it, but you might - you might peg down some of these colors a little better. Particularly when you were talking last night about - on the back side - -
158:34:48	Evans	That's a good point.
158:34:48	CC	- on one of those passes about the green.
158:34:54	Evans	Yes.
158:34:55	CC	Okay, you're about 7 seconds away from where we're wanting the recorder on, Ron. Any time here's fine.
158:35:05	Evans	Okay, RECORDER - let's see -
158:35:10	Evans	Is ON. Verify RADAR is ON, remove HF, okay.
158:36:33	Evans	You know, to me, the Moon's got a lot more color than I'd been led to believe. I kind of had the impression that everything was the same color. That's far from being true.
158:36:53	CC	Okay.
158:37:11	CC	I guess, maybe we could say, perhaps, color is in the eye of the beholder.
158:37:20	Evans	I think there is a considerable amount of truth to that.
158:38:28	Evans	(Whistling)
158:38:54	CC	Okay, Ron. We'll take the MAPPING CAMERA, OFF, now.
158:39:00	Evans	Okay, the old MAPPER is going OFF.
158:39:47	CC	Ron, you're clear to go to STANDBY on the MAPPING CAMERA.
158:39:53	Evans	Okay, MAPPER's going to STANDBY. MOTION is up, barberpole. CAMERA is OFF. PAN CAMERA SELF TEST, OFF. Okay, turn the old SM/AC POWER, OFF, again. SERVICE MODULE AC POWER is OFF.
158:43:40	Evans	(Whistling)
158:43:52	Evans	Okay, must be sunset. IR is coming -
158:44:00	Evans	OFF. ... OFF. Okay, I'm going to go to plus-X Plus 52.25. There is an UP-LINK. VERB 58 ENTER. Ah, l41. That's pretty close. 228.
158:45:07	Evans	Ah - plus 66641. ENTER, there at 48 07. ... at 49 35. That's about right.
158:48:10	CC	Ron, about a minute and a half to T-start, now.
158:48:16	Evans	Okay. Cue release, ENTER.
158:48:35	Evans	OMNI Bravo.
158:48:59	Evans	Power OFF. Okay, data systems - -
158:49:05	CC	Okay, 30 seconds to T-start.
158:49:08	Evans	- ... five. Okay, at 40 minutes - Okay. I got the HIGH GAIN, OFF. Got my finger on the DATA SYSTEMS. Okay. DATA SYSTEMS are going OFF; OPERATE at 49:35. OPERATE. 54:38. Give me a call on that, Gordo. I'm going to look out the window here for a bit.
158:50:02	CC	Sure will, Ron.
158:50:04	Evans	A minute before that or so.
158:50:13	Evans	I had the lights up. I may not be light adapted.
158:50:55	Evans	Sure is ...
158:51:52	Evans	I was trying to think if there was anything else I could add to the Reiner Gamma observation there. I'm right over that - the light albedo of that type of material that goes perpendicular between Reiner and Reiner Gamma. It's kind of a crooked type - Well, you know, it goes for a little ways, and then it breaks off into a dark-albedo-type stuff; and then breaks off in another direction a little bit. So, it doesn't look like a straight ray at all.
158:52:27	CC	Roger.
158:52:31	Evans	You know - you can see crater holes, and this type of thing. You look right down on Reiner now, you've sure got that dark annulus - the lighter-albedo-type stuff is essentially in the middle of it. And the annulus is - let's see, maybe 30 kilometers wide by twice as long - that's a relative size, anyhow - by twice as long, and that's the dark ann - dark area. And then around that, the light albedo stuff is about half of the width, and it's lighter on the outside than it is on the inside. The inside is not quite as light as the - I'd call it the rim, I guess. It's very hard to see any - -
158:53:33	CC	Okay.
158:53:33	Evans	- - great, great, great topographic expression to it, though. The reason I say that is because it kind of blends in with everything, whereas if you look at a crater, out here in the middle of the mare, or a hill, you get a brighter - part of it's brighter than the surrounding territory. You can actually see the demarcation. So that's the way you get your depth perception out of it.
158:54:05	CC	Okay, about 30 seconds now until T-stop.
158:54:12	Evans	Okay. T-stop is 54:38 and we'll go to STANDBY at that time. Tape switch. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; STANDBY.
158:54:49	CC	Okay. I'll give you a call in a minute.
158:54:54	Evans	Okay.
158:55:39	CC	Okay, Ron. It's been a minute.
158:55:48	Evans	Okay. RECORDER is OFF - not HEATERS. RADAR is OFF. DATA SYSTEM goes back ON. HIGH GAIN ANTENNA POWER to ON. And we're about minus 44, I guess. And select the old HIGH GAIN. There we go. REACQ ... AUTO. ... in NARROW. INCO's going to do some commanding. ... goes. Tape motion is going. Continue on here to the SM/AC POWER. Okay. SM/AC POWER is ON.
158:57:04	Evans	MAPPING CAMERA is STANDBY. IR ... CAMERA SELF TEST ... ... is ON. H2 PURGE LINE HEATER. Do a hydrogen purge, here, shortly, I guess.
158:57:43	Evans	Well - Leave that cover open there, and let the Mendall Mendall get some data for a while; or Dr. Low, or whoever happens to be there. And I'll step ahead and sample the old BUSS.
158:58:21	CC	Okay.
158:59:23	Evans	(Singing).
158:59:59	Evans	Houston, America. You might tell the medics not to pay any attention to those sample numbers on those busses. Pay attention to the GET time, because when you take them out of the buss storage bag, the right one never comes out. So I don't think it makes any difference, Just pay attention to the GET time.
159:00:25	CC	Okay, Ron. I'll pass that along.
159:01:15	Evans	(Singing).
159:01:39	Evans	Where are the guys on the Challenger? Are they going to go out the regular time, or are they getting a little extra sleep period here or something?
159:01:48	CC	I think we're letting them sleep in again today. They're getting up 1 hour later than the Flight Plan shows; however, there's enough pad downstream that we're planning on ascent at the scheduled time.
159:02:15	Evans	Okay.
159:03:12	Evans	(Humming and whistling)
159:05:19	Evans	(Humming)
159:06:20	Evans	I think I'll ... the STOWAGE VENT, ON, just for a little bit.
159:06:37	Evans	(Whistling)
159:06:42	CC	America, Houston. We've got a couple of - couple of items of general information, as you come up on AOS here - LOS. The - we want to remind you to CLOSE the IR - -
159:07:55	Evans	Okay.
159:07:55	CC	- - and UV COVERS, before you do any dumps. After LOS, you'll have to - -
159:08:02	Evans	Okay. Will do.
159:08:02	CC	- - reconfigure the comm.
159:08:06	CC	And suggest you wait on the dumps, as per the Flight Plan, until after the photos. And, we estimate the waste water dump will take 10 minutes. Over.
159:08:20	Evans	About 10 minutes on the waste water. Okay.
159:08:35	Evans	Okay. Let's see - must be ... LOW BIT RATE. Okay, LOW BIT RATE, with DATA SYSTEMS, so no DSE voice. I'll write everything down.
159:11:28	Evans	Okay, ... hoses and stuff all tucked down there.
159:13:08	CC	Just about LOS, Ron. See you later.
159:13:13	Evans	Okay, Gordo. Thank you much.
159:13:13		BEGIN LUNAR REV 37
159:13:26	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 159 hours 13 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. We've had loss of signal, as Ron Evans, flying the spacecraft America, passed behind the Moon nearing the end of revolution number 36. An hour and 16 minutes until Cernan and Schmitt, aboard Challenger are awakened for the third - for preparations for the third Moon Walk. America, now in an orbit measuring 69.1 by 53.7 nautical miles. We'll come back up at next frontside pass by the spacecraft America in about 48 minutes, and switch over to the wakeup call to the Challenger partway through that 37th revolution. At 159:14 Ground Elapsed Time this is Apollo Control.
159:57:13	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 159 hours 57 minutes Ground Elapsed Time in the mission of Apollo 17. Less than 1 minute away now as the command module America, Ron Evans doing his orbital science tasks and orbital photography. As he comes around on revolution number 37; less than a half hour until the wake up call is made to the crew of Challenger on the lunar surface. At that time, we'll switch over to the air/ground 1 circuit and eavesdrop on the conversation between Cernan / Schmitt - Cernan and Schmitt and the CAPCOM here in mission control. We should have acquisition of signal from command module America. We'll come up with that line now.
159:59:15	Evans	(Humming)
159:59:22	Evans	Well, I've got AOS with you. Okay. ... HEATERs OFF. (Singing) ...
159:59:47	CC	Hello, America. Are you there?
159:59:52	Evans	Okay. We got REACQ and NARROW now.
159:59:56	CC	Okay. You're loud and clear.
160:00:34	CC	Ron, when it's convenient - -
160:00:35	Evans	Okay. I just finished mag - -
160:00:36	CC	- - I have a couple of updates to the Flight Plan - -
160:00:40	Evans	Okay. Go ahead.
160:00:43	CC	Okay. On your present page, there - the UV solar atmosphere pad, at 160:38.
160:00:53	Evans	Ah-ha. I have it.
160:00:57	CC	Okay. It's T-start of l60:41:22; T-stop is l6l:26:47. And the remark that goes with that -you don't need to write this down - but the T-start time is biased 10 seconds prior to when we really think sunset will occur. If you see, visually - Okay, my mistake, it's 10 seconds after sunset. But if you see sunset visually, you can go ahead and proceed with UV cover open as soon as you see it. But we'd like you to close the UV cover exactly on the T-stop time as written. Over.
160:01:59	Evans	Okay. Let's see. I'm with you. We'll make sure it gets closed at 61:26:47, but we can open it as soon as sunset comes, okay? Even though we haven't started pitching yet.
160:02:23	CC	That's correct, and do you want to read back the start time?
160:02:30	Evans	My start time is l60:41:22. Is that correct?
160:02:34	CC	That's correct; 41:22.
160:02:39	Evans	Okay.
160:02:43	CC	Okay. Go to l6l:34.
160:02:56	Evans	l6l:34, okay.
160:02:58	CC	Okay, and the old standard "MAP CAMERA/LASER ALTIMETER COVER, OPEN" cross that out. A couple lines below, at 36, cross out "MAPPING CAMERA, EXTEND" and then turn the page - -
160:03:16	Evans	I got them.
160:03:21	CC	In fact, turn two pages to 163:31.
160:03:31	Evans	31, okay,
160:03:32	CC	At 163:31, write in "verify all command module VHF, OFF."
160:03:52	Evans	63:31, verily all VHF, OFF, okay?
160:03:57	CC	Okay. That completes it.
160:04:07	Evans	Goody, I've got a zodiacal light coming up there sometime; blue filter, no less. Oh, I started to say, when I was coming across Aitken - Of course Aitken itself was down in the shadow, and the Sun was really shining on window 3. I took the first one at f/5.6 and a 1/15. the second one 56, 5.6, I mean, at a - at a 1/30; and a third one at a 1/60; and then a fourth one at a 1/25; and the fifth and sixth ones I took off to the north - looking off to the north - out of window 4.
160:05:12	CC	Okay.
160:05:13	Evans	And they were 5.6 at 1/125. I kind of doubt if - It might work, but there's sure a lot of glare on the window. If it can get through that glare, well then we've got it made.
160:05:28	CC	Roger.
160:07:10	Evans	Oh, the other thing I was going to tell you was that magazine Quebec Quebec - I finished that one on 114.
160:07:18	CC	Okay.
160:07:20	Evans	On that pass there.
160:07:31	Evans	I don't know who took my water jug, but it's gone.
160:08:16	Evans	Okay. Overboard drain is purged enough, I guess, I'll turn that off.
160:08:37	Evans	That big filter on here - here. I always leave the hose and everything disconnected and stick it back behind this rock bag. I'm afraid I'll kick it, break it off. You know - you know those rock bags. I unzip those and blow the air out of them every night, wake up the next morning, and they're full of air again; just like two big balloons down there.
160:09:08	CC	How about that.
160:09:13	Evans	(Laughter) I don't know ...
160:09:19	CC	You can use one for the pillow you've been missing.
160:09:25	Evans	(Laughter) Yes, that's an idea. I could use that.
160:10:23	Evans	And, Houston; America. If FAO's got his finger on the next magazine - next Hasselblad mag, I'm going to use - save me looking it up, here.
160:10:39	CC	Okay. I'll ask him.
160:11:09	CC	Ron, I - You're scheduled to use Mike Mike next.
160:11:11	Evans	There's the water - Go ahead. Mike Mike. Okay. Thank you.
160:11:23	Evans	Did you hear me sucking all the bubbles out of the - out of my teeth?
160:11:38	CC	No, we've missed that pleasure.
160:11:44	Evans	Good. Didn't want this VOX to be too good.
160:12:52	Evans	Okay. We go to P00 in about 2 minutes.
160:14:09	Evans	Zero phase is going to go right over Proclus, I mean Picard this time. Just as that darkness disappears there, if I can still see the change in the color on it.
160:14:26	CC	Okay, Ron. You can put the HIGH GAIN to AUTO next chance you get and FAO advises there's no more optional film left on Mike Mike. Everything that's left on Mike Mike is scheduled up. Over.
160:14:44	Evans	Okay. I'll buy that. You know you could even - as zero phase went right across Picard there, you could still see the - the darkness on the west - let's see east - on the east from 9 o'clock around to 6 o'clock, if north is zero.
160:15:10	CC	Roger.
160:15:15	Evans	And. if north is zero as you look at the crater, then over about 1 o'clock there's some kind of a fault area in the side of the rim, and that's another spot where the dark material drapes down into the rim and also out on the outer - outside - outside of the rim. And then you have that same type of impression at about 11 o'clock. You've got a black streak going dcwn inside the rim, and then it widens out, going out toward a little crater out there, on the outside of the rim.
160:16:03	CC	Okay,- -
160:16:05	Schmitt	Now, let's see - -
160:16:05	CC	- - you're scheduled to get a VERB 49 going now.
160:16:11	Evans	Thank you. Okay. Pitch is plus 120.55 ENTER, plus 341.00 ENTER, and a plus ENTER for 0 yaw 622. Press on. 50 18. CMC caged. Proceed.
160:17:18	Evans	Okay; let's see. We're in AUTO, so we can ...teen. 26 on the dial.
160:18:34	Evans	Okay, we'll change 07 to 8 plus 9 - 1 -
160:18:56	Evans	... VENTS OPEN. ... waste water dump. Must have been some stuff that's just frozen on the - the dump or something and then when the - when the jets fired too - that kicked it loose.
160:19:31	CC	Roger.
160:19:37	Evans	Maybe that's the particles of combustion - burning.
160:20:12	Evans	Minus 0.05 - degrees per - half a degree dead band.
160:20:29	Evans	Five up - Got zero, zero. Stay there ...
160:23:13	CC	Ron, this is Houston. Check NOUN 79 again. We think you might have loaded R1 and R2 negative. That's the way it locked down here, anyway.
160:23:26	Evans	Okay, I'll check that.
160:24:02	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 160 hours 24 minutes switching now to Air-Ground 1 for the initial wake up call to the crew of Challenger, asleep at this time on Taurus-Littrow. Command module America still has some 47 minutes remaining in this frontside pass. We'll stand by for the wakeup call which should be beamed up in about a half a minute or so. (Texas Aggies Fight Song)
160:26:34	Cernan	I want you to say it first.
160:26:40	CC	Hello there, Challenger. The Gold Team Flight Director picked out the morning's selection, and he said that if can find some maroon dirt, today, instead of orange, you'll probably get a lot more cooperation out of him.
160:27:02	Cernan	I figured the Gold Team might do that. You know, I've woke up to a lot of pleasant thoughts, but never to an Aggie before.
160:27:14	Cernan	Hey, Gordo, don't forget I'm a gold - I'm a Boilermaker.
160:27:22	CC	Roger.
160:27:27	Cernan	I feel like one right now. Tell the Gold Team Flight Director we'll find about - just about anything he wants today.
160:27:42	CC	Okay; I'll do that. The Challenger looks as good as ever. No problems at all through the night.
160:27:52	Cernan	That's outstanding. How's America?
160:27:55	CC	It's in the same shape. Just clicking along. Ron's been up for a few hours now and really gathering up the data.
160:28:06	Cernan	Outstanding, Gordo,
160:28:20	CC	Challenger, the name of the game today is to stay with the - the EVA prep timeline. We're not going to talk much to you - We'd like - except to bug you a little and stay on your back to keep with the timeline, if at all possible - We'd like to get out on time. Over.
160:28:42	Cernan	Okay, Gordo. That's been our motive all along, and we will stay with it. As of right now, - we're 1 hour behind. is that correct?
160:28:52	CC	That's affinnative. Although, if you stay on the normal timeline, that's fine with us. We don't need to gain any, but we just don't want to lose any - from where we're starting now.
160:29:06	Cernan	Yes. Understand. Understand.
160:29:16	Schmitt	Good. How are you this morning?
160:30:03	PAO	This is Apollo Control. The reference to Aggie has to do with the fact that the Flight Director, Gold Team Flight Director, Gerry Griffin is an alumnus of Texas A & M University. The wake-up music this morning was the Aggie war hymn, E Plurib us Gig-Um, and Gerry proceeded to gig the crew with his own brand of music.
160:34:52	Cernan	Houston, Challenger.
160:34:53	CC	Go ahead, Challenger.
160:35:03	Cernan	Okay, Gordy. Crew status is good, in case you hadn't noticed. And again I'm not going to - We haven't kept an itemized accounting of the food - burning up blanks on the paper to do that. But we have ate - have eaten, pardon me - We have eaten just about everything in the various meals. I guess the shrimp was the only thing we didn't really eat. And we've been drinking a lot of water and all the juices and tea and stuff, so I think we're in pretty good shape there. The commander had a Seconal last night, and he slept 3 good and 3 intermittent hours. LMP had no medication and had 6 good hours of sleep. If you've got some lift-off time data, well, I'll copy it.
160:36:02	CC	That's affirm. Okay; start with - for rev 38. Time is 162:22:52. Rev 39 is 164:21:24; 166:19:55; 168:18:27; 170:16:59; 172:15:31. That should have been rev 43, and read back starting with rev 38.
160:37:05	Cernan	Okay; rev 38: 162:22:52; 164:21:24; 166:19:55; 168:18:27; 170:16:59; 172:15:31. And what is our present rev?
160:37:24	CC	That's a good question. Let's see here. We're working on rev 37. Ron just went by you about 10 minutes ago on rev 37.
160:37:56	Cernan	Okay.
160:41:31	Cernan	Gordy, we're pressing on, but if you've got any good words, like news and what have you, where we are, we'd appreciate it.
160:41:39	CC	Okay. There hasn't been a lot of news, but I'll read you what we've got. President - former President Truman is still holding on. His heartbeat, breathing, and temperature all became unstable yesterday, but then he improved again. A Methodist minister in Kansas City said, "He's a rugged guy who's hanging in there and he's going to make it." The headlines were full of reports of the find of orange dirt and the rest of your adventures yesterday. Internationally, the U.S. and North Vietnam held intensified secret peace talks, and Henry Kissinger prepared to return to Washington probably this afternoon, I understand, after a final session with Le Duc Tho. The French press said a compromise was in the works on the withdrawal of North Vietnamese troops from the South. The Houston Rockets lost to Buffalo up in Buffalo last night, but the hockey team, the Aeros, took a 6 to 4 win over the Alberta Oilers. In - Really, that's about it on the news, except maybe for the weather, which finally broke. The cold front cleared out the drizzly rain last night, and for the first time since you've launched - that I can remember anyway - we've been able to look up and see the Moon, directly. It's a pretty sight as always. That's not much of a report, but that's about all we have. Over.
160:43:33	Cernan	Okay; thank you. What's the date today?
160:43:37	CC	It's Wednesday - let's see - Wednesday, the 13th of December.
160:43:47	Cernan	Thank you.
160:43:48	CC	Right now, it's about 01:35 in the afternoon.
160:44:00	Cernan	Okay; just take a quick peek up there. I can't really see too much of the North American continent. South America looks pretty good. And it might be my eyeballs rather than the - the clouds up there, but it looks like most of the clouds are up into the north-central part of the southwestern or southeastern United States.
160:44:24	CC	I have a satellite picture here, and that's about the way it looks.
160:44:33	Cernan	Well, it's sunny and pleasant on the valley of Taurus-Littrow. And, Gordo, what is our Sun angle going out today?
160:44:52	CC	I'll get you an answer on that. Couple of questions. First of all, the Surgeon would like a biomed right. And they were wondering how your hands feel this morning?
160:45:08	Cernan	Hands are in good shape, Gordo. No problem.
160:45:13	CC	Okay; that sounds good. Sun is getting up there about 33 degrees now.
160:46:20	Cernan	Okay; we'll go a biomed left, and both PLSSs have been topped off.
160:46:38	Cernan	Gordy, the LMP isn't hooked up right now. He will be shortly. So stand by on the biomed.
160:46:44	CC	Okay. Say, I have a few words on the Command Module trajectory that might be of interest, although it doesn't affect your procedures any.
160:47:02	Cernan	Go ahead.
160:47:04	CC	Okay. The com - the command module orbit somehow is missing all the mascons. It's not de -degrading into a circular like we thought it would. It's just staying where it was, about a 70 by 50. And so what we're planning on is an extra little maneuver about 1 hour prior to the normal plane change, which will lower the Command Module altitude at the plane change mode to - to 60. This will be about a 11 feet per second RCS burn. And then Ron will do the plane change at the normal time, but it'll be little bigger than - that we had planned. I think the last half was about 365 feet per second for plane change. And we've checked the consumables. That puts the RCS right on the preflight line. He's been running about 4 or 5 percent above it. That will use up that pad there, put him back to nor - nominal on RCS, and on the SPS, that puts you right down on the CSM rescue redline; so, really no problem. In good shape, consumablewise. Over.
160:48:36	Cernan	Okay. Sounds like a good rendezvous posture.
161:21:31	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. You got any updates to the EVA cuff checklist?
161:21:31	CC	No, I don't think there is, Jack. Although I do have a wri - write-in for the Lunar Surface Checklist, and one that you really don't need to write in on the prep card. Over.
161:21:31	Schmitt	Go ahead.
161:21:31	CC	Okay. Page 5-10 on the Lunar Surface Checklist. The reason for this change is to prevent cabin pressure from increasing. It got up to 5-7 yesterday. And it also - will also prevent water sep spindown like happened yesterday, if you happen to have the hose - the return hose blocked against the wall outlet there. The change is to write in on the upper left corner of 5-10, just prior to "SUIT isOL, ACTUATOR OVERRIDE (SUIT DISCONNECT)." Write in "PRESSURE REGS A and B to EGRESS." And then down five lines, where it says "CABIN GAS RETURN, EGRESS," change it to "CABIN GAS RETURN, AUTO." Verify. Over.
161:21:31	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. At the top of the page, "REGS A and B to EGRESS," and then five lines down, "CABIN GAS, RETURN, AUTO. Verify."
161:21:31	CC	That's right. And the only other change I have is - has to do with matching - just like yesterday, - matching the purge valve to the OPS to maximize the OPS capability. And we can just call you when you get to that point. It's - Or if you want to write it down, you need 211, and Geno needs 208.
161:21:31	Schmitt	Okay. We've got that.
161:21:31	CC	Okay. That's all.
161:21:31	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. I guess we play the cuff checklist just as planned, with the exception of the bag numbers which have changed, the collection bag numbers. I have more or less repaired the -sample bag holder on my camera. It's taped on there pretty well with good tape, believe it or not, off the fruit bag. I - I don't know that we have any other outstanding hardware problems. I think in terms of sampling, Gene and I will try
161:21:31		to shift the emphasis in the mantle area to fragments that are different from the gabbros that we've sampled fairly well, I think, up to now, that presumably are subfloor materials. You might pass that word on and see if they agree with us.
161:21:31	CC	Okay, Jack. We copy that. And, Jack, if you guys are at a convenient place, sit and listen while you're doing some of your stuff. Let me read up the planning for EVA 3 and the summary of what we think we have so far.
161:21:31	Schmitt	Go ahead.
161:25:26	CC	Okay. I'll read here from this thing just verbatim. It says, "EVA 3 continues to follow essentially the nominal premission plan. Main objectives continue to be the North Massif; Station 6, J; Sculptured Hills; and Van Serg Crater. In view of the extensive observations of the dark mantle and main - and plains subfloor unit on EVA 1 and 2, particularly there before Station 5, the relatively - the relative priority of Station 10 is reduced, so that Station 10 becomes a flexible station as time allotment is a reserve, possibly providing more time at the earlier station, if desired. However, mantle and block sampling at Station 10 are still important objectives. Block pack constraints are not nearly as tight as they were yesterday, guys, and so we can be more flexible in reshuffling station times if we need. We probably won't be coming up against option walkbacks like we did at Station 4. Closeout time at the LM has been increased by 20 minutes to make the closeout less rushed and to allow for potential ALSEP troubleshooting. It is currently planned to take this time from Station 6, 7*"
161:26:27	CC	But if 6/7 requires more time when we get there,we can borrow it from one of the other stations; I guess, in particular, station 10, probably. As the initial activity then, we are going to have to take explosive package 5 with us, and we'll stick it under the LMP seat, and I'll remind you in real time when we get down on the ground on that one. And number 5, 3 pound, will be deployed at station 10, and again I'll remind you about that in real time, so don't - you don't have to bother to write it in on your checklist. Planned traverse proceeds as normal. We're expecting to spend about an hour and 20 minutes at stations 6 and 7, and the suggestion is that we may end up wanting to spend that totally at the split boulder at station 6, hut, of course, the option still exists to visit more than one place and sample other boulders if it seems feasible and attractive and desirable. They are suggesting additional 500-millimeter photographs, especially if it seems that we can use those to document tracks and sources of docu - of the sampled boulders; for instance, at stations 6 and 7. We are continuing to hold the nominal 47 minutes at station 8 - that is, 8A, and we still think that's as good a place as any to sample the Sculptured Hills. Station 9 is still nominal 30 minutes, but in view of the similarities to the in - to station 4, we're anticipating a possible desirability to remove time from station 10 to enlarge station 9, but that will have to be a real-time decision, based upon what we find at station 9. Station 47 - station 10 continues nominal. We're still interested in sampling the blocks and also interested in - in trenching to try and see - if we can say something about the dark mantle - light area relationship and, perhaps, the nominal coring. We're going to - we're going to deploy EP 5 there; and, other than that, they're basically the same. If we have the time during that closeout, and you'll know if we have enlarged the closeout somewhat, of the LM, based on our experience the last two nights, particularly for dusting; but also, if time permits, in that time we might try and get the - use up the extra double core, if there is one, in the dark mantle near the IM or do some trenching near the IM. But that's only if time permits at the very end, depending upon how the consumables run out. They want to call attention to two particular things here. One, since you guys really haven't gotten any very big rocks so far, they're recommending, they say here, and I quote: "The value of large individual samples has been demonstrated. We recommend that several football-sized samples of a uniform igneous rock be collected at Station 9 or 10." I'll pass that on as that. Another point of interest is the 1- to 20- millimeter size section of the regolith, the dark mantle, the lithology. Then, any observations or collections you can make pertinent to that would be of interest in trying to determine the relationship of the dark mantle to the subfloor units of gabbro underneath. Two short questions which I'll ask, which I hope - hope you can answer in just a very few words. One of them is a yes and no answer. One, we - they can't find the geophone photos specifically called out in the transcript. There is probably a little bit of garble at that point, and the people in the back room will be very happy if you could say once and for all, Jack, that, yes, you did get the geophone photos. Over.
161:30:03	Schmitt	Yes.
161:30:03	CC	Roger. And the second one concerns the 1/4-pound charge which we deployed on the way in last night. Two questions on that. It appears to us from your voice transcript that we weren't fast enough on it at the time that that may be deployed closer to the ALSEP than the one you deployed on the way out. And we'd like an impression on that. And, number 2, you mentioned that you placed it in a depression. We'd like some feeling for that depression in terms of how much of a danger that bomb - charge might play to the AISEP when i t i'oc-j off. If it's in a depression of any sort, thcy'ri' probably pretty well protecting the ALSEP. Any comment on those two questions? Over.
161:30:47	Cernan	Well, the second one. It's not in a major depression. But it is a - maybe a - it's a little ditch, maybe a third of a meter deep. I imagine it will help a little bit. That's why we picked it. Just a second.
161:30:47	Schmitt	I'm not sure we understand your first question very much.
161:30:47	CC	Okay. We have a feeling that when you - -
161:30:47	Cernan	Bob, don't you have the mileages?
161:30:47	CC	Roger. But there's again some confusion on that.
161:30:47	Cernan	Can't you - can't you pinpoint that?
161:30:47	CC	Yes, and those mileages also seem to indicate that we had that callout. Remember, you drove back by and you said you saw the flag, and then you said you actually saw the charge inself first. And it was some time after that you said you deployed the charge. And we have the opinion from both that and the mileage that you probably deployed the second charge closer to the ALSEP than the first one. Do you have a - any sort of a feel for that?
161:31:43	Cernan	Oh, yes. I remember saying that, but that's when I did a big 360, and Jack was out of film. And I just lined up to take that picture with him up in the background. And when I said, hey, I saw the charge first. I was really - Don't take that comment too strong.
161:31:43	CC	Okay. Copy that.
161:31:43	Cernan	As far as position of it, Bob, I - I - we're looking for them out there now. As a matter of fact, we can't see them from here.
161:31:43	CC	Okay. We'll let it go at that. And that's all the questions and comments we have on today's traverse. We'll have a few real-time things on the surface, which I won't bother you with. A possible fix to the surface electrical properties and a possible trip back to the surface gravimeter, which is still having its problems. But I'll talk with you guys in real time on those when you pet on the surface, rather than bothering you with them now.
161:31:43	Cernan	Hey, Bob. How far should that last charge be from the ALSEP?
161:31:43	CC	They want it about 300 to 400 meters.
161:31:43	CC	And, Gene, you ... 0.2 for range when - -
161:31:43	Cernan	Bob, I ... - -
161:31:43	CC	- - ... got back to the LM. And I guess the question would be, Did you ever go through zero on the way back to the LM? If you are at 0. -if you were at 0.2, and we think 9 - 092 was the bearing, then the LM is right where we thought it was, and we were just a little confused by our distances. Just doesn't quite - they don't quite hold together.
161:31:43	Cernan	No, I don't think I ever went through zero, because I initiated at the SEP.
161:31:43	CC	Okay.
161:31:43	Cernan	And, no, I didn't go through zero.
161:31:43	CC	Okay.
161:31:43	Cernan	I'm positive.
161:31:43	CC	We copy that. Okay. We'll work on that.
161:31:43	Cernan	Is this something to think - Yes, this is something to think about. It's not that far out there. You know, if there is any question about that damaging the ALSEP, it - it's Jur,t hard for us to recall how close they were. And we sort of thought you had them pinpointed for us. But, if you want it 3 to 400 meters, you might think about a late ... - -
161:31:43	CC	No. We thought about that. We don't - we don't want to do that. No, we don't want to do that. So we'll take care of it. Don't worry about it now. That's all we have. Press on with the prep.
161:31:43	Schmitt	Bob, I can - Hey, Bob; this is Jack. I can see the charge with the binocular. It's out almost behind a rock that's between us and the LM, but I can see it. I (laughter) - I mean, a rock between it and the LM. I can't give you any idea, though, how far it is.
161:31:43	CC	Okay.
161:34:54	Schmitt	No, it's the one off to the left. It's the ... -Hey, Bob. Let me say again, I think we ought to emphasize the exotic looking fragments on the dark mantle. And we ought to try to make sure that we look at a variety of rocks from the North Massif. I think we saw the major rock types on the South Massif yesterday, but we really didn't spend a lot of time ranging along the front there to verify that completely. The other comment on the 1- to 20-millimeter size fraction. There isn't an awful lot of that in the dark mantle. That's one of the striking things about it.
161:34:54	CC	Okay. Copy that. And we'll talk - -
161:34:54	Schmitt	But we'll keep our eyes open.
161:34:54	CC	- - I'll talk with the back room about stations 6 and 7* We'll get with you on that when you get there. And press on.
161:37:38	Schmitt	Houston, Challenger. I was BIOMED, RIGHT, there for about 10 minutes, in case you're curious.
161:37:38	CC	Okay, Jack. And it looked good.
161:37:38	Cernan	Okay, Bob. I've got them both. And the last one we deployed, which I think is the eastern one -easternmost one, is definitely farther out than the first one we deployed. And you know, at this distance, it's awful hard by looking at Jack's geophones. What1s your - I got to give you at least 300 meters, Bob.
161:37:38	CC	Okay, Geno. Bob's in the back room. I'm sure they're listening, and we got that'.
161:37:38	Cernan	Yes, I - I've got both of them with the monocular now. And the - the second one, the last one we deployed, is quite a bit farther out than the first one.
161:37:38	CC	Okay. I think that's what they want to hear.
161:37:38	Cernan	Gordo, I guess it's half again or maybe even twice as far away as - as the first we deployed. So we're going to forget it.
161:37:38	CC	Okay, Geno. That sounds good.
161:37:38	Schmitt	And, Gordo, ITm going off the air also here for about 10 minutes. It'll speed things up a little bit.
161:37:38	CC	Okay. Fine.
161:52:50	Cernan	Houston, Challenger. CDR's now back on.
161:52:50	CC	Okay, CDR. You're loud and clear.
162:07:42	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. This is the LMP from Challenger. How do you read?
162:07:42	CC	Jack, you are loud and clear.
162:25:58	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. I'm ready for battery management, and the ED BATs are 37-2 And I'm going to POWER AMP, PRIMARY, and PM [sic], HIGH.
162:25:58	Schmitt	Hello, Houston. How do you read Challenger?
162:25:58	CC	Okay. We have high bit rate now. You're GO on the batt ery management.
162:25:58	Schmitt	Okay.
162:28:13	CC	Okay. We've got that. We're ready for POWER AMP, OFF, and PCM, LOW.
162:29:48	Cernan	Bob, CDRs PDR - PRD is 17043. 17043.
162:29:48	CC	Copy that, Gene.
162:30:44	Schmitt	And Jack's is 24138.
162:30:44	CC	Roger. Copy that.
162:33:36	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. CDRs OPS is 5900; LMPs is 6l00.
162:33:36	CC	Okay. Copy that. Very good.
162:40:58	Schmitt	Gordy, the forward hatch is unlocked.
162:40:58	CC	Copy that.
162:40:58	Cernan	I'm sorry, Bob.
162:49:31	Cernan	Bob, CDR is starting on with the PLSS donning.
162:49:31	CC	We copy that, Geno. And we copy the forward hatch unlocked, right?
162:49:31	Cernan	Yes. Sure did.
162:53:36	CC	Challenger, Houston. We've lost down-links with you guys. We've got a very weak signal. You might check your configuration up there, please.
162:53:36	CC	Challenger, Houston in the blind. We've lost down-links with you. Please check your comm con-fi gurat ion. Over.
162:54:06	Schmitt	Roger, Bob. We're checking.
162:54:06	CC	Okay, Challenger. We have you back loud and clear.
162:54:06	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. That's - Okay. It looks like I might have hit the YAW knob on the steerable with the PLSS.
162:54:06	CC	Okay. Copy that.
162:55:11	CC	Okay. And, Jack, if you want to check those again for numbers, it's PITCH of 14 and YAW of 8, 08.
162:55:29	Schmitt	Bob, that doesn't jive with what my needles say. I've got a 20 and - and 50.
162:55:29	CC	Leave them there. We'll check with you.
162:55:29	Schmitt	That's minus 50.
162:58:20	CC	And, Jack, this is Houston. What's your SIGNAL STRENGTH meter reading there on your high gain, next time you get around to it?
162:58:20	Schmitt	We're at 3.8. It's not quite as good as it was. We had about 3-9j I think.
162:58:20	CC	Okay. Ed thinks maybe you want a side ..., and he's suggesting a PITCH of l4 - l4 - and a YAW of plus 8. Over.
162:58:46	Schmitt	Okay. I'll try it.
162:58:46	CC	Okay, we noticed that. Let's just leave her there, please. Go to SLEW, please.
162:58:46	Cernan	VOX SENS at MAX. A T/R, and B is RECEIVED. On l6, your breaker open and connect to PLSS comm. Okay, connect the PLSS comm and then put your breaker in.
162:58:46	Schmitt	...
162:58:46	Cernan	Okay. Your PLSS comm - AUDIO breaker, CLOSED. Okay, PLSS PTT MAIN right, verify, and go MODE A.
162:58:46	Schmitt	Okay.
162:58:46	Cernan	Okay, I got you. You'll get the tones on, vent flag, press flag, and 0 flag.
162:58:46	Schmitt	Okay.
162:58:46	Cernan	Call Houston and give them your O2 reading.
162:58:46	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. This is the LMP on MODE A and my oxygen is 94.
163:04:43	CC	Copy that, Jack, you're loud and clear.
163:04:43	Schmitt	Okay. I'm getting a little bit of a squeal on the initiation of my transmission.
163:04:43	Cernan	Yes. I hear that too, but it's - it's loud and clear here. Okay, I'm going mine open.
163:04:43	CC	And LMP PLSS data looks good down here.
163:04:43	Cernan	Yes. There's the tone. There's a press flag and a vent flag.
163:04:43	Schmitt	And you're - -
163:04:43	Cernan	And Og.
163:04:43	Schmitt	... you're loud and clear.
163:04:43	Cernan	Okay. Okay, I cannot hear Houston but, Houston, this is CDR with 91 percent.
163:04:43	CC	Roger, CDR and LMP. We read the CDR loud and clear. We have good LMP medical data.
163:04:43	Schmitt	Okay, you're loud and clear and they got good data on. me.
163:04:43	Cernan	(Stay, you go B and I'll go A.
163:04:43	Schmitt	Okay, going to B.
163:06:50	Cernan	Okay, how do you read me?
163:06:50	Schmitt	You're loud and clear. Houston, this is the LMP in Bravo. How do you read?
163:06:50	CC	Roger- We read the LMP loud and clear.
163:06:50	Cernan	Okay, Bob. And how me?
163:06:50	CC	Read you loud and clear also, Gene. And we have good aedical data on you, Gene.
163:06:50	Cernan	Okay, Jack, let's go AR.
163:06:50	Schmitt	Okay, going to AR.
163:06:50	Cernan	Okay, Houston, how do you read CDR?
163:06:50	CC	Loud and clear on AR.
163:06:50	Schmitt	And the LMP?
163:06:50	CC	Also loud and clear on AR.
163:06:50	Cernan	Okay, Jack, SQUELCH VHF B, full decrease.
163:06:50	Schmitt	Decrease.
163:06:50	Cernan	Okay. At l6, our LCG PUMP is CLOSED. At 16, CABIN REPRESS CLOSED, verify.
163:06:50	Schmitt	It's verified.
163:06:50	Cernan	SUIT FAN DELTA-P, OPEN, and SUIT FAN number 2, OPENED.
163:06:50	Schmitt	OPEN and OPEN.
163:06:50	Cernan	Okay, we should get a light in about 1 minute. Stand by for that. Okay, SUIT GAS DIVERTER to PULL - these are "verify" - PULL-EGRESS.
163:06:50	Schmitt	Okay, PULL-EGRESS.
163:06:50	Cernan	CABIN GAS RETURN, EGRESS.
163:06:50	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. You want us to go by the checklist now on the ECS system?
163:06:50	CC	Stand by. Roger. As per the checklist.
163:06:50	Schmitt	Say again. You didn't come through.
163:06:50	CC	Roger. As per the checklist.
163:06:50	Schmitt	Okay, EGRESS on CABIN GAS RETURN.
163:06:50	Cernan	Okay, that's SUIT GAS DIVERTER, EGRESS, CABIN GAS RETURN - EGRESS.
163:06:50	Schmitt	EGRESS and EGRESS.
163:06:50	Cernan	And SUIT CIRCUIT RELIEF - AUTO.
163:06:50	Schmitt	AUTO.
163:08:07	Cernan	Okay, OPS connect - you're first, SUIT isOLATION, ACTUATOR OVERRIDE, and SUIT DISCONNECT.
163:08:07	Schmitt	Okay, that's done.
163:08:07	Cernan	Your hoses are stowed?
163:08:07	Schmitt	They're stowed.
163:08:07	Cernan	Okay, connect your OPS hose, a#d I'll get you a number 211.
163:08:07	Schmitt	Let me turn around so I don't - -
163:08:07	Cernan	Okay.
163:08:07		That'll do it. Keep poking this water hose here.
163:08:07	Cernan	211 is yours.
163:08:07	Schmitt	2Q8 is mine.
163:08:07		Okay, the pin is in. It's elosed, you're in LOW FLOW,
163:08:07	Schmitt	Relieve it or not, it still works.
163:08:07	Cernan	Yoy want any mope?
163:08:07	Schmitt	Yes, I do.
163:08:07	Cernan	Okay, are you through with it?
163:08:07	Schmitt	... I think so, *** Right now. ...
163:08:07	Cernan	I can get down there, if you can't, Jack.
163:08:07	Schmitt	... I can reach it. I got it, I can reach it.
163:08:07	Cernan	Okay, let's get your OPS hose. OPS hose. OPS hose, it's way down here. That's your water hose. Hire's yoiJF CfBS hose. Now, let's get the dust cove?* pn it. OPS hose is going in. I verified its locked and the lock - lock is in. Cover is up, a#4 we'll take another look at them. Okay. Okay, ve got the MASTER ALARMs.
163:08:07	Schmitt	... 3 amps. Sluggish one.
163:08:07	Cernan	But it's i$ and it's lock - and locked, and you're on - the 5- that's high* That's low. You're on LOW FLOW, Pin is ip afld everything's locked. Okay,
163:08:07	Schmitt	*** ... valve closed, locked. That's all those. Install purge valve. DIVERTER VALVE - VERTICAL.
163:08:07	Cernan	Okay. Okay, you want it on VERTICAL, Pick up my OPS hose.
163:08:07	Schmitt	It's your OPS hose time.
163:08:07	Cernan	Where's the top? I'll put yours on top.
163:08:07	Schmitt	That's fine. It's as good as anything.
163:08:07	Cernan	I'm not sure it makes any difference. Okay, over and locked, and dust cover, verify.
163:08:07	Cernan	Okay. And the comm?
163:08:07	Schmitt	No, you wanted a 211.
163:08:07	Cernan	No. I wanted 208. I want 208 and you want 211.
163:08:07	Schmitt	No. I'm sorry. That's what I copied down.
163:08:07	CC	Roger. 211 for the LMP
163:08:07	Cernan	Verify that, will you, Bob?
163:08:07	CC	211 for the LMP.
163:08:07	Schmitt	That's right. That1s - -
163:08:07	Cernan	Okay. That's what he's got.
163:08:07	Schmitt	Somehow I copied the wrong one.
163:08:07	Cernan	Okay, give me 206.
163:08:07	Schmitt	Same thing we had yesterday.
163:08:07	Cernan	Well, I think I'd remember from yesterday, and that's what I thought Gordy said. Okay. That's in, locked, verified.
163:08:07	Schmitt	On LOW?
163:08:07	Cernan	On I)W and the pin's in. Okay.
163:08:07	Schmitt	*** check this one. Good, ...
163:08:07	Cernan	Okay.
163:08:07	Schmitt	All right.
163:08:07	Cernan	Okay. We just had our drink. You can turn drink -DESCENT WATER, OFF,
163:08:07	Schmitt	Okay, DESCENT WATER is OFF.
163:08:07	Cernan	And my hand loop is all prepared. You get the scissors and the ETB. I think we finished up with that.
163:08:07	Schmitt	They're in there.
163:12:05	Cernan	Okay. Position mikes.
163:12:05	Schmitt	Okay.
163:12:05	Cernan	Okay. Here we go again, let's take a look at it. PLSS FAN will come ON. Don helmets and LEVAs. Drink "bag, position. Lower LEVA protective visor, and secure tool harness strap, and we'll verify the following - let's verify the following, then we'll go ahead and put your PLSS FAN ON, and get your helmet, and you can put mine on.
163:12:05	Schmitt	Okay, going through one more time. ... connector and it's locked. And your OPS is locked, covered. You don't have water yet.
163:12:41	Schmitt	Exhaust is locked, covered. Inlet is locked, covered. Purge is locked and LOW.
163:12:52	Cernan	Okay.
163:12:52	Schmitt	And vertical our DIVERTER VALVE.
163:12:54	Cernan	That's right. Okay, let me take a check. Comm is locked and covered. OPS is locked - and covered. PLSS exhaust is locked and covered. Inlet is locked and covered. You're vertical. Purge valve is locked and low. Okay, let me get your helmet here.
163:13:26	Schmitt	Let's look at one thing here, Geno.
163:13:28	Cernan	Let me put this up here. Get it out of the way, because that's half the battle.
163:13:35	Schmitt	You want to look in.
163:13:38	Cernan	That - that shade; then you can check it.
163:13:43	Schmitt	That's what my ... like. They're all stiff. Mine - mine is a little stiff too, it'll come, if you pull. If need be, I can pull it down for you.
163:13:51	Cernan	Yes. Okay.
163:13:55	Schmitt	I can get that one up and out of the way.
163:13:58	Cernan	Okay. As soon as I get this overhead, you can put your PLSS fan on.
163:14:04	Schmitt	Okay, now, let's watch out for all your paraphernalia there. Can you pull - that - pull that stuff away from there? Okay.
163:14:46	Cernan	Well - ... Let me - let me undo this.
163:14:57	Schmitt	... problem?
163:14:59	Cernan	I just want to make sure I get my fingers on this thing, and make sure it's locked. Can't get it on. Do it. There, that got it. Okay, that should have it. Get your fan here on in a minute. Okay, you got your fan on?
163:15:35	Schmitt	FAN's ON.
163:15:36	Cernan	Good. Okay, I want to verify it right now. Your helmet is locked. It's aligned. It's aligned. It's locked. Flaps are down in back. Your LEVA is locked. Your fan's on, right?
163:16:00	Schmitt	Uh huh.
163:16:02	Cernan	Okay, let's pick mine up.
163:16:06	Schmitt	Okay.
163:16:41	Schmitt	Okay, you ready?
163:16:42	Cernan	Uh huh.
163:16:53	Schmitt	You can feel that rim all the way around. Wait a minute.
163:16:57	Cernan	What?
163:16:58	Schmitt	Well, let me - you just ...
163:17:18	CC	And, Geno, we don't see your fan on yet.
163:17:23	Cernan	It - it'll come on, Bob.
163:17:25	Schmitt	There, it's locked.
163:17:26	Cernan	Okay, are the engage marks marked.
163:17:28	Schmitt	Well, they are now.
163:17:30	Cernan	Okay.
163:17:31	Schmitt	That's in alignment only.
163:17:33	Cernan	Okay, Bob, my FAN's ON. It is locked? Look good to you?
163:17:37	Schmitt	It's locked.
163:17:37	Cernan	Good. Okay.
163:17:40	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 163 hours 17 minutes. We've picked up about 10 minutes on the timeline. Now estimate EVA starting at - in elapsed time of 163 hours 30 minutes, approximately 4:23 Central Standard Time.
163:17:45	Cernan	Get the LEVAs locked. The curtain down and back?
163:18:02	Schmitt	Yes. Velcro - Okay. Looks good. Okay, where are we here? Verify white dots plus EVA decals and then - you can don your gloves.
163:18:07	Cernan	Okay.
163:18:09	Schmitt	Okay. Why don't you turn that way and let me turn this way?
163:18:14	Cernan	Okay, Jack, I'm going to turn these lights off.
163:18:16	Schmitt	Okay.
163:18:16	Cernan	We don't need those.
163:18:19	Schmitt	Okay. EVA decals, white dots.
163:18:25	Cernan	Okay, URINE LINE HEATER's going to come off, and the breaker is OUT. Okay.
163:18:37	Schmitt	Okay, I'm ready, except for TC pump - LCG pump.
163:18:43	Cernan	Okay, leave it on. We can don our gloves now.
163:18:45	Schmitt	Okay.
163:19:51	Schmitt	Okay, right glove's LOCKED and verified. Okay, and the wrist cover is on there. On. ... Air is very dirty. Boy, do I need a shave. (Laughter) Okay. I got all mine down.
163:20:38	Cernan	You all set?
163:20:39	Schmitt	Well, I got my left hand. Got the left hand. Now, let's see what I can do with the right hand. Almost tempted to take those cover gloves off today.
163:20:57	Cernan	I might take a look at that, too. I hate to argue with success, but I need that dexterity today. Bob, I don't know if you caught it yesterday - a little interesting facet of the whole 2-EVA exercise was the fact that I've already worn -
163:21:41	CC	Gene, you dropped out there right in the middle.
163:21:55	CC	Challenger, Houston. We - you dropped out there.
163:22:17	Cernan	Okay, Bob. How do you read now?
163:22:19	CC	Loud and clear, Gene.
163:22:23	Cernan	Okay, I hit the VOX switch on my audio panel.
163:22:25	Schmitt	You did?
163:22:33	Cernan	Yes, when I picked up my glove. Okay, Bob, the only thing I said - little point of interest, I wore the RTV off the - not all of it - but right through the bare metal on the hammer - someday - some time in the previous 2 days. No problem; it just interests me.
163:22:49	CC	Okay, copy that. And copy that you still have you cover gloves on today, right?
163:22:55	Cernan	Yes, sir. I'll tell you, we have become very respectful of the dust.
163:23:00	CC	Copy that.
163:23:02	Schmitt	Oh, yes, cover gloves, yes - We've also got the - we've also got the wrist dust - dust covers on, too.
163:23:08	CC	Roger. Strike a blow for Mason jar rings.
163:23:11	Schmitt	What's left of the - and what's left of the cover gloves.
163:23:17	Cernan	Okay, Jack, you're on?
163:23:18	Schmitt	I'm on.
163:23:18	Cernan	And locked?
163:23:20	Schmitt	And locked.
163:23:20	Cernan	Well, I just - I got my thing on - I want to make sure I'm locked again. Yes, I am. I took it off again. Well, I was. Talking and you just do things - Okay. Don EV gloves. Cover, okay. PGA biting? No. Okay. LCG cold as required, and LCG PUMP, OPEN. I guess you can open it.
163:23:45	Schmitt	Yes, and disconnect the LM - -
163:23:47	Cernan	Okay. LCG pump, water hose. And I got a tone but that's because I turned my oxygen on briefly. Okay. Okay, PUMP's OPEN. Turn around here and help you.
163:24:01	Schmitt	You can - you can take the water off.
163:24:03	Cernan	Water's off.
163:24:04	Schmitt	Are the pumps off?
163:24:07	Cernan	Okay, your water's off. ... that there for a minute. Okay, hang on. Okay, you're in and locked. ... over nicely. Okay?
163:24:30	Schmitt	Okay.
163:24:35	Cernan	You're off. I'll lay that there. Where's your water? Here it is way over here.
163:24:57	Cernan	Hold on. Okay, I'm locked and your cover's on. I got to zap my PGA. Wait a minute, I'm biting here.
163:25:17	Schmitt	Okay.
163:25:19	Cernan	Let me try and stow this. Okay.
163:25:35	Schmitt	Okay, verify your PLSS is - WATER'S MIN when you get a chance.
163:25:41	Cernan	Okay, that's verified. Did that a minute ago.
163:25:44	Schmitt	And mine's verified and your pump on.
163:25:49	Cernan	Okay, PUMP's going ON.
163:25:54	Schmitt	Mine ON. PRESSURE REG A, B, to EGRESS.
163:25:57	Cernan	Okay, they are EGRESS.
163:26:00	Schmitt	Okay, pressure integrity check. Ready?
163:26:06	Cernan	Let me ...
163:26:08	Schmitt	Okay.
163:26:15	Cernan	Awful lot of line there, isn't there?
163:26:17	Schmitt	Um hmm.
163:26:21	Cernan	- exactly what to do with it. ... Okay.
163:26:33	Schmitt	All right. You happy?
163:26:35	Cernan	Yes.
163:26:35	Schmitt	PRESSURE REGs A, B, to EGRESS.
163:26:37	Schmitt	They are EGRESS.
163:26:38	Cernan	Okay; Put your PLSS O2 water - No.
163:26:44	Schmitt	ON, now. MARK it.
163:26:46	Cernan	PLSS O2 ON.
163:26:47	Schmitt	PLSS O2 ON.
163:26:48	Cernan	Right?
163:26:49	Schmitt	Okay, it's on.
163:26:50	Cernan	Okay, and mines on. We'll wait till it builds us up. Press flag should clear at 3.1 to 3.4, O2 flag you're clear at 3.7 of 4.0.
163:27:17	Schmitt	Okay, I'm coming up. Hope the old suit integrity is just as good as it has been.
163:27:32	Schmitt	I don't see why not.
163:27:51	Cernan	Coming up?
163:27:52	Schmitt	Yes.
163:27:59	Schmitt	About 3.5 now.
163:28:04	Cernan	Yes, me too. Okay, let me know when you are up.
163:28:12	Schmitt	I think I'm up; I'm 3.8.
163:28:13	Cernan	Okay, let's see if we can't get these -
163:28:23	Cernan	I can't get yours.
163:28:24	Schmitt	I can't -
163:28:26	Cernan	Okay, mine's OFF.
163:28:27	Schmitt	Mine's OFF -
163:28:28	Cernan	MARK it.
163:28:31	Schmitt	We want to decay for 1 minute.
163:28:32	Cernan	Okay, I started at 3.83.
163:28:34	Schmitt	Okay. That's about exactly where I was. Another 45 seconds to go.
163:28:43	Cernan	Okay. So far, it looks as tight as it was yesterday.
163:29:04	Schmitt	Another 30 seconds. Maybe lunar dust is a good sealant.
163:29:27	Cernan	Houston, CDR ... at 3.82 to 2.70.
163:29:32	Schmitt	2.70? 3.70.
163:29:34	Cernan	3.70.
163:29:35	CC	Understand 3.70.
163:29:35	Schmitt	Okay, LMP was - LMP was - .83 to .70.
163:29:48	Cernan	Okay, Jack. You can get your O2 on.
163:29:51	Schmitt	It's on.
163:29:52	Cernan	Okay. Can you move to the left a little bit - to your left? I got to get in front here.
163:29:56	CC	Okay, you're GO from here -
163:29:57	Cernan	Okay, let me turn this over.
163:29:59	CC	17, you copy - ...
163:30:00	Cernan	Okay, stand by. Okay, ... what time we have to turn the checklist over? Okay, we've got a GO for depress, On l6, CABIN REPRESS, OPEN, and CABIN REPRESS valve, CLOSED.
163:30:15	Schmitt	Okay.
163:30:15	Cernan	The breaker open and the valve closed.
163:30:18	Schmitt	Okay, stand by, Can you give me a little room -
163:30:22	Cernan	Let me - Okay, how's that?
163:30:24	Schmitt	Okay, Okay, REPRESS is OPEN.
163:30:31	Cernan	Okay, now, why don't you face the wall over there and move in as close and I'll get the overhead valve.
163:30:36	Schmitt	Wait a minute, I've got to close the REPRESS valve. You got it all right. Okay, it's CLOSED and I'll get where I was yesterday.
163:30:46	Cernan	Okay.
163:30:47	Schmitt	How's that?
163:30:54	Cernan	We'll find out in a minute.
163:30:57	Schmitt	Okay. I've got to get my PLSS.
163:31:01	Cernan	Can you get it?
163:31:05	Schmitt	Well, can't ... I can turn with my back to the wall and you might have a little more -
163:31:15	Cernan	Well, I think - I feel like I'm hooked on something. Wait. I can't turn either way - stay where you are. There - Okay.
163:31:34	Cernan	Okay, the safety - Oh, boy, I'm glad I'm not an inch shorter. Okay, coming down, Jack. You ready?
163:31:43	Schmitt	Go ahead, to 3.5.
163:31:46	Cernan	Okay, it's OPEN.
163:31:47	Schmitt	Okay, 4.5, 4, Stand by.
163:31:52	Schmitt	MARK.
163:31:54	Cernan	AUTO.
163:31:54	Schmitt	Okay, at 3.5.
163:31:57	Cernan	Can you read - the checklist?
163:31:59	Schmitt	Okay, I can. Okay. OPEN, AUTO 3.5 cuff checklist - cuff gage does not drop below 4.6, it hasn't.
163:32:11	Cernan	Mine's good.
163:32:13	Schmitt	... you put your hand down. I can't read it.
163:32:14	Cernan	Okay.
163:32:15	Schmitt	Cabin is holding at 3.5. And suit circuit's locked up at 4.5 and PGA is decaying greater than 4.5 - 4.6, okay.
163:32:34	Cernan	Okay, Bob, I'm starting my watch.
163:32:39	CC	We're GO.
163:32:41	Schmitt	Okay. You can go to - go to OPEN.
163:32:48	Cernan	Okay, it's OPEN.
163:32:48	PAO	EVA start time, 163 hours, 32 minutes, 36 seconds.
163:32:49	Schmitt	Okay, and pressure is gone up. And the next step is, when you oen, open the forward hatch.
163:32:58	Cernan	Okay, my suit's relieving.
163:33:04	Schmitt	Down to almost 1.5 now.
163:33:17	Schmitt	... psi. Okay, my relief valve just seated at 5.3.
163:33:36	Cernan	Okay, where are we?
163:33:37	Schmitt	We're at 0.5.
163:33:40	Cernan	I guess the next thing is to open the hatch, huh?
163:33:42	Schmitt	Yep.
163:33:48	Cernan	I've got to get down ... 5 ... here before I can turn too well and open the hatch. I'm going to let it come down a little bit this time so I don't get down there unnecessarily.
163:33:57	Schmitt	Yes. It's got a ways to go yet.
163:34:10	Schmitt	About 0.3 now.
163:34:34	Schmitt	0.2.
163:34:34	Cernan	I've got a tone and it's water tone. Okay, I'm going to go after that hatch. Can you slip to the right as far as you can? Got it.
163:34:57	Schmitt	Got to hold it until the pressure decreases. All sorts of junk going out there.
163:35:12	Cernan	Okay, now. Okay. It's partially open.
163:35:16	Schmitt	Okay, get your water if you can.
163:35:21	CC	Okay, Jack. We'd like you to close REG A, please.
163:35:27	Schmitt	Oh, close REG A, huh?
163:35:31	CC	That's affirm.
163:35:32	Schmitt	Okay, stand by. That's not an easy task.
163:35:45	Schmitt	REG A is CLOSED. Gene, can you get my water?
163:35:49	Cernan	Yes.
163:36:08	Schmitt	Did you get in there?
163:36:12	Cernan	Okay, it's OPEN.
163:36:13	Schmitt	Okay. LMP's WATER is OPEN. You got yours.
163:36:15	Cernan	Yes, I got mine. Excuse me. Well, let's see.
163:36:23	Schmitt	Okay, you got it open, so I need to turn around. See if I can back in and out of the way of the door.
163:36:29	Cernan	Say, Rob - Bob, what did you see in REG A?
163:36:34	CC	Stand by, Gene. We're seeing high suit pressures, stand by.
163:36:40	Schmitt	High suit pressure?
163:36:44	CC	Okay, and about your - -
163:36:45	Cernan	... Yes, I'm seeing about your -
163:36:46	CC	Challenger, Gene, you're GO to go out, and once you get out, maybe Jack can turn around and work on those a bit better. We're seeing, I guess, the suit loop's a little high in pressure.
163:36:55	Schmitt	Okay.
163:36:58	Cernan	Okay, I'm looking at 4 - at about 4.7 on the suit loop right now.
163:37:03	CC	Okay; we copy that,
163:37:04	Cernan	Okay, Jack, You're a - there you go.
163:37:20	Schmitt	I'll get it.
163:37:29	Cernan	Okay, turn.
163:37:44	PAO	This is Apollo Control. The reference is to the suit loop in the Lunar Module - not to the pressure suits themselves.
163:37:52	Cernan	Okay. What does it look like to you?
163:37:56	Schmitt	Well, you're - you're doing great; keep down. Just a little hangup on the DSKY.
163:38:04	Cernan	I need to get my arm down there.
163:38:06	Schmitt	Okay, you need to go to your left a little to clear the purse and your harness. There we go.
163:38:17	Cernan	Jack, you see this? This is one of those cards that - -
163:38:20	Schmitt	Yes, I saw that, Gene -
163:38:22	Cernan	I'll put it right there.
163:38:24	Schmitt	... Can you come forward just a little?
163:38:27	Cernan	Forward?
163:38:29	Schmitt	That clip got away. Come towards - in the cabin - there.
163:38:34	Cernan	Okay?
163:38:34	Schmitt	Wait a minute. Okay, I got it. Okay, you're in good shape.
163:38:48	Cernan	Okay, I'm on the porch. Whew - I'm still at 4.3.
163:38:57	CC	Roger. on that.
163:38:57	Cernan	Okay, I'm on the porch, Bob.
163:38:58	CC	Copy that.
163:38:59	Schmitt	Okay, what do you want? What can I do for you, Bob?
163:39:04	CC	Stand by Jack. We'll get a word to you in one minute.
163:39:11	Cernan	Okay, Jack, in that - Well, I guess that'll wait. Get my LEC ready for you. Okay. And everything looks normal on me, right now. Let me get the pressure down a little bit.
163:39:42	Cernan	Things norm, except a part of my nose itches I can't get to.
163:39:49	Schmitt	I'll give you the jett bag anyway, Geno, while they're thinking. I guess that's part of - R&D. Oh, yes, the jett bag.
163:40:03	Cernan	Santa Claus' bag again.
163:40:04	CC	Okay, Jack. We'd like to have you stay in just a minute or so longer. We're trying to keep track here of the suit circuit pressure and see if it stabilizes or starts to drop. The one reg which has been intermittently leaking - we still haven't isolated it. And we think we've got it shut off, but we're still watching it. So bear with us just a minute or so.
163:40:26	Schmitt	I'm bearing, Bob.
163:40:28	Cernan	Hey, what else - -
163:40:29	Schmitt	I thought you isolated it last night. Okay. Let me give you the ETB.
163:40:35	Cernan	Yes. Give me that and I'll be on my way - working on the TGE. Okay, got it.
163:40:47	CC	Okay, Jack, and how about taking the SUIT CIRCUIT RELIEF valve - cycle it just to OPEN and then back to AUTO.
163:41:00	Schmitt	Okay, Bob, stand by.
163:41:07	Schmitt	SUIT CIRCUIT RELIEF going OPEN, then AUTO. That's done.
163:41:16	CC	Okay, we'll watch it for a minute here and let you know.
163:41:23	Cernan	Okay, Bob. I'm going down the ladder.
163:41:25	CC	Roger, Geno.
163:41:40	Cernan	Well, still there, Jack. "Godspeed the crew of Apollo 17."
163:41:46	Schmitt	Good.
163:41:48	CC	Amen there, Gene. Amen.
163:41:52	Cernan	Okay, Bob, I'm on the pad. And it's about 4:30, a Wednesday afternoon, as I step out on to the plains of Taurus-Littrow, beautiful valley. The first thing I'll do is I'll turn the TGE on, and I'll give you a reading.
163:42:12	CC	Okay; we're ready.
163:42:14	Cernan	And I'm very much interested - very much interested in my Rover batteries.
163:42:18	CC	And, Jack, you're GO for exit and looks like we've got it taken care of.
163:42:26	Schmitt	Okay, and I'm checking the circuit breakers.
163:42:40	Cernan	It's on and reads - Bob, it reads 222, 262, 207; 222, 262, 207.
163:42:52	CC	Okay, I copy that, Geno.
163:43:03	Schmitt	Okay, get the visor down, Geno.
163:43:07	Cernan	Get the visor down - Holy Smoly. Think it'd be better to leave it up. Beautiful out here today, Bob. We can look to the east for a change - a little bit, anyway.
163:43:21	CC	Okay, copy that, Gene.
163:43:22	Cernan	A higher Sun angle. Okay, I'll get the LCRU battery changed out.
163:43:31	CC	Okay. And as you walk by there, if you walk by in the right side of the Rover, how about giving us a SEP temperature read-out, please.
163:43:48	Cernan	SEP temperature is 103 degrees.
163:43:53	CC	Copy, 103.
163:43:55	Cernan	103, and the mirror is still clean.
163:43:57	CC	Copy that.
163:44:04	Cernan	Well, let's see if I can change this little baby now. Supposed to be simple. Bob, we have no use for the old battery, right?
163:44:22	CC	That's affirm.
163:44:50	Schmitt	Okay. I'm on the porch and the hatch is CLOSED.
163:45:02	Cernan	Oh, don't step into that.
163:45:06	Schmitt	Are you talking to me or you?
163:45:07	Cernan	I'm talking to me.
163:45:36	Schmitt	Okay, that sounds familiar and looks familiar - the old plain. The valley of the Taurus-Littrow.
163:45:51	Schmitt	You want to get your antenna?
163:45:53	Cernan	Yes, let me get that -
163:45:53	Schmitt	I'll come over there.
163:45:55	Cernan	I'll get the TV on. I've already got the battery changed.
163:46:15	Schmitt	There's the Earth right in the middle of the antenna. Okay, verify MODE 3 - I am in MODE 3; LCRU blankets are open 100 percent, battery covers I'm closing, the battery - let me close it. Yes, you can probably get my antenna.
163:46:33	Schmitt	Wait a minute. Let me set this down.
163:46:34	Cernan	Yes, okay.
163:46:44	Schmitt	Okay, stay there.
163:46:48	Cernan	I was just try - I'm trying to.
163:46:56	Schmitt	Okay.
163:47:10	Schmitt	Okay, your antenna's up. Wait a minute. Come here and I'll snap the snap.
163:47:18	Cernan	Okay.
163:47:33	Schmitt	Didn't mean to do that.
163:47:34	Cernan	That's all right. I can't get close enough to you.
163:47:36	Schmitt	Here you are.
163:47:39	Cernan	Lean a little more. Antenna's up. Let me get the snap.
163:47:52	CC	And, IT, if you guys are interested, your shadows will be 8 feet long tonight.
163:48:01	Schmitt	How many meters is that, Bob?
163:48:04	Cernan	I'll draw it out - I'll step it out for you. You can measure it. (Laughter)
163:48:08	Schmitt	Well, I don't know. Should I take my gloves off? I mean my cover gloves.
163:48:13	Cernan	Why don't you leave them on for a while and see where we're going. See what the boulder field looks like up there.
163:48:17	Schmitt	Well, I know what it's going to look like.
163:48:20	Cernan	No, you don't.
163:48:21	Schmitt	The point is my hands will be much better off without them.
163:48:23	Cernan	Take them off, then. Okay, battery covers are closed and tight. High gain is already oriented. Oh, they've even got TV, I guess.
163:48:49	CC	That's affirm.
163:48:55	CC	And, Geno, when you push the Rover circuit breakers in, how about giving us a battery temperature reading on the Rover bats.
163:49:01	Cernan	Tell them what my batteries are reading if I can.
163:49:04	Schmitt	Well, let me see if I can do something else while I'm waiting.
163:49:06	Cernan	No, I'm done, Jack.
163:49:12	Schmitt	I'll get the old SEP receiver.
163:49:14	Cernan	Well, Bob, the - battery 1 is 95 degrees and the - battery 2 is reading zero. So we got a gage failure. No, it's not reading zero; it's off scale low.
163:49:36	CC	Okay, read that - copy that. That's a real cooldown, isn't it? Okay, Jack, if you're going to worry about the SEP, stand by and don't do the SEP until after you worry with the ETB, and we'll get to you on that. When you get the ETB to the seat, I'll talk to you about it.
163:49:52	Schmitt	Okay, it's - 1 - 1 - 102 is the temperature.
163:49:57	CC	Okay; copy that.
163:49:59	Cernan	Okay, Bob. Mark.
163:50:01	CC	MARK.
163:50:03	Cernan	MARK gravimeter; it's flashing.
163:50:05	CC	Copy that.
163:50:11	Cernan	Okay, we'll take the big bag. I hope we can keep it on.
163:50:19	Schmitt	...
163:50:19	CC	Okay. A couple of things on that, Geno. You might try tapping the thing to see if that loosens the dust. There's also the hook business on the inside of the pallet that you could hook it on. Caution: if you open the pallet, be careful not to knock the clamps off the fender. But you can also reach over the pallet to put the big bag on.
163:50:44	Cernan	Okay, Bob. We - I brushed it and tapped it yesterday, I'm not sure we're going to have much luck with them.
163:50:49	CC	Say again there, Gene.
163:50:54	Cernan	I brushed them and tapped them yesterday.
163:50:57	CC	Okay; copy that. You might want to put the big bag on the inside of the pallet there, if you can't operate them.
163:51:05	Cernan	Okay.
163:51:10	Schmitt	Okay, mag Kilo goes on the 500; is that correct?
163:51:15	CC	That's affirm.
163:51:21	Schmitt	Okay, I've got Mary and Franny and Nancy - and Donna - and Bobby and - -
163:51:43	Cernan	Jack, I'm also going to keep this in there.
163:51:47	Schmitt	- - Karen.
163:51:47	Cernan	Because it's too hard to get off the front end. We'll find a place for that in there.
163:51:54	Schmitt	Well, okay.
163:51:56	Cernan	It's just too hard to get off the front end. Okay, let's see. Big bag to gate, dustbrush to - Let me get that big bag on the inside of the gate if I can. Inside the gate or the pallet, Bob?
163:52:09	CC	Inside the pallet. My - My fault there.
163:52:12	Schmitt	That - that's - the pallet, the pallet -
163:52:16	Cernan	Yes.
163:52:16	CC	And if you open the pallet, be careful of the clamp. Probably, if it's feasible, we suggest you reach across in front of the pallet - reach across the pallet to do it. Instead of opening it because of the clamp on the fender.
163:52:33	Cernan	It's not feasible. It's not feasible to do that. I got to open it, plus our hook is - overcenter. Let me get something to work on that with. You know, Bob, how that pallet locking hook can - can be out of the little C-shaped - release in there? it is.
163:53:00	CC	Oh, boy.
163:53:04	Cernan	I noticed that yesterday.
163:53:16	CC	Jack. When you get done with the ETB, then you might save the gray tape out. We're going to use a little bit of that on the SEP when you get done.
163:53:45	Schmitt	When are you going to do that?
163:53:48	CC	We'll turn the - -
163:53:50	Schmitt	What am I supposed to do, stand - well -
163:53:51	CC	We'll turn both switches on when you're out at the SEP transmitter.
163:53:56	Schmitt	Well, the tape is in the CDRs seat, and it'll still be there.
163:54:00	CC	No, we'd like to take the tape from the CDRs seat and use it on the SEP, right now.
163:54:07	Schmitt	Okay. You want me to do it or Gene to do it?
163:54:14	CC	Why don't you do it since the tape is there. No, let's - let's let Gene do it. Doesn't really matter. Whoever wants to.
163:54:26	Schmitt	Okay, We'll get it.
163:54:29	Cernan	Okay, Bob, the big bag is on the inside of the - of the pallet.
163:54:41	CC	Okay; we copy that.
163:54:43	Schmitt	Why won't it close?
163:54:48	Cernan	The - And I know why. This is a ... that's on the way, Jack. Get rid of this thing. We don't need it anyway. Okay, opening and closing of the pallets didn't interfere at all with those fenders.
163:55:14	CC	Okay; copy that.
163:55:16	Schmitt	These aren't clamped down - Now the tape.
163:55:20	Cernan	Okay. The big bag is on the inside, though.
163:55:25	Schmitt	Yes, but it's - also in the way. Okay, I got it.
163:55:28	Cernan	Sure is. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Don't close it.
163:55:31	Schmitt	Want me to get out of the way?
163:55:32	Cernan	I'll open it. See, it drags over that locking device. Okay, let me just see what we got to do here. Okay. Big bag, dustbrush, SCB-7 to gate, mount 20-bag dispenser on commander's camera, 20-bag dispenser to the LMP, core cap dispenser to the gate.
163:56:11	CC	Okay. And, Jack, are you going out to take the pan now?
163:56:17	Schmitt	Well, as soon as I finish up here.
163:56:20	CC	Okay.
163:56:20	Schmitt	I'll do that.
163:56:21	CC	And after you take the pan, we'd like you to retrieve the cosmic ray experiment. They're expecting a little solar storm, and before the rain gets on the cosmic ray experiment, they'd like to retrieve it. We'll leave it in the ETB during the traverse.
163:56:40	Schmitt	Okay, after the pan. All right.
163:56:42	CC	Roger. It will just be a nominal retrieval and we'll put it in the ETB. Copy the gate.
163:56:50	Schmitt	Okay.
163:57:03	Cernan	Okay.
163:57:25	Cernan	Okay, SCB-7 - 20-bag dispenser goes on my camera when it gets back. Short can under the LMP's seat. Okay. Jack, I'll just go ahead and mount some of these bags on your camera while I'm here.
163:57:45	Schmitt	Okay. Thank you.
163:57:58	CC	Okay. And, Gene, if you got time there with the camera, why don't we - when you get done with the camera, how about getting some gray tape and we'll put you to work on SEP for about a minute.
163:58:12	Cernan	The SEP receiver?
163:58:13	CC	That's affirm. And if you get - -
163:58:18	Cernan	Stand by. Let me finish with SCB-7 here.
163:58:20	CC	Okay. And did you get Jack's camera fixed last night? I didn't hear.
163:58:25	Cernan	Yes, we did. Okay, there is already one on the gate. Leave that one there. Okay, SCB-7 to gate, 20-bag dispenser on commander's - camera, we'll do it when I get back - 20 bags on the LMPs camera, core cap dispenser to gate - there's one there, there's one under the seat - short cans under the LMP's seat. Okay, I got to put that cap dispenser on him, I got to get my rammer, hammer - Hey, Bob, what bag do you want on the LMP? Do we ave 8 here?
163:59:13	CC	Stand by. I think 8 went in, either 4 or 6. No, excuse me; either 5 or 4.
163:59:23	Cernan	Okay. We'll put either 4 or 5 on there. Okay. I'll have to wait until he gets back. What do you want? Or let me give you TGE reading and get that out of the way and then I'll work on your SEP.
163:59:33	CC	Okay; copy that.
163:59:47	Cernan	Okay. 670, 027, 001; that's 670, 027, 001.
163:59:57	CC	Okay; copy that, Gene. Thank you.
164:00:16	Cernan	Fender wrinkled up in the Sun a little bit last night.
164:00:19	Schmitt	Okay -
164:00:20	Schmitt	MARK it. The cosmic ray is terminated.
164:00:24	CC	Copy that.
164:00:27	Schmitt	And, Bob, I took two 5-foot stereopairs of the configuration.
164:00:34	CC	Copy. And we'll stick it in the ETB and just hang it there.
164:00:43	Schmitt	Yes. And in case you're wondering, and so you don't confuse it with a rock, it's in bag 106.
164:00:53	CC	Copy that.
164:00:57	Cernan	Okay. What do you want done to the SEP?
164:01:01	CC	Okay. Take some gray tape over to the receiver, Gene. And with reference to the fact that the - there is some Velcro missing on the front there which hold the covers down, we'd like to tape the two covers together - on the - in the middle there - you know, where the two - two sides overlap in the middle of the box. Tape those two together. A short piece about an inch long should do it if they are clean.
164:01:27	Cernan	Well, I doubt if the tape will stick because it doesn't on dust, but I mlight be able to go over it with one piece to clean it and another piece to tape it.
164:01:34	CC	Okay. And the question beyond that, is there Velcro to hold one of those flaps down or not?
164:01:42	Cernan	No.
164:01:44	CC	Okay, so both pieces - the Velcro is missing from both flaps, I take it.
164:01:50	Cernan	Yes.
164:01:50	Schmitt	Bob, what happened was that the tape that held the lower Velcro on there apparently came loose, and it stuck to the upper Velcro.
164:02:00	CC	Okay. I understand that. In that case, we'd like to take a piece of tape and tape the cover down to keep it closed when it's not - when it's supposed to be closed. The feeling is that if the cover flaps partly open, you may get specular reflection off the inside of the Mylar down onto the mirrors causing it to heat up during the drive when it's supposed to be closed.
164:02:24	Cernan	Okay, we'll give it a try.
164:02:25	CC	Okay; thank you. And, Jack, if you're done you might go rescue EP number 5 from the footpad, and we'll put it under the LMP's seat.
164:02:45	Schmitt	Well, be a lot of other things under there. Okay. I'll rescue it; we'll see where the best place to put it is.
164:02:52	CC	Okay.
164:02:53	Schmitt	Hey, I got - I got bags on you - I got bags on your camera, Geno.
164:02:58	Cernan	Okay; thank you.
164:03:06	Schmitt	Okay, we're going to put those two bags on the rear there on your PLSSs?
164:03:12	CC	One of them will go - -
164:03:13	Cernan	... those two on.
164:03:15	Schmitt	Okay.
164:03:15	CC	The one under LMPs seat will go on the CDR, the one with all the stuff in it.
164:03:22	Cernan	Yes, I got core tubes in 7 here, Jack. We'll put either one of those - -
164:03:25	Schmitt	Okay. So I can't put the charge under my seat.
164:03:31	CC	That's affirm, I think, Jack, once you get SCB-7 out of there.
164:03:36	Schmitt	Yes, I feel like a kid stuck in taffy.
164:04:02	Schmitt	Sure is strange not to see some fine-grained rocks out here. Seen a couple but certainly not very many.
164:04:09	CC	Copy that.
164:04:19	Schmitt	That rock that you picked up at - What are you doing up there? Okay.
164:04:32	Cernan	Bob, that'll hold it down. I hope it solves the problem.
164:04:36	CC	Roger. And so does Dr. Strangelove.
164:04:48	PAO	The storm reference is a minor solar flare which represents no danger to the crew, but could affect the very sensitive cosmic ray experiment.
164:04:59	Schmitt	Okay.
164:04:59	Cernan	Well, probably not any more than we would like to see it solved.
164:05:06	Schmitt	Bob - Nothing. Gene, your bag's going to have two lowers and one upper.
164:05:20	CC	Did you re-sort things there, Jack?
164:05:25	Schmitt	What's that?
164:05:26	CC	Did you re-sort things in SCB-7? I was told - -
164:05:28	Schmitt	I said I got - Bob, I - Go ahead.
164:05:41	CC	Okay. Our understanding was there were two uppers and one lower in bag 7, and two lowers under the LMP seat. Did you re-sort things there?
164:05:51	Schmitt	Do you want - how do you want them?
164:05:52	CC	It doesn't matter to us. I just wanted to make sure that we know what you are so we don't let you get away too far with two uppers and a lower. Two lowers and an upper is certainly better than two uppers and a lower. As long as we know what it is.
164:06:06	Schmitt	Okay. It's two lowers and an upper.
164:06:08	CC	Got that.
164:06:10	Schmitt	Two lowers and an upper. Man, I'm confused.
164:06:13	Cernan	Okay. When you're ready, I'll configure you.
164:06:15	Schmitt	Okay, here, let me - let me get this on you first since I got - -
164:06:18	Cernan	Okay.
164:06:22	Schmitt	And I'm going to ask you to turn a - 180 degrees because you're up on a hill. I'll never be able to do it.
164:06:30	Cernan	How's that? I'm down in a hole now.
164:06:32	Schmitt	That's beautiful.
164:06:58	PAO	Jack Schmitt attaching traverse equipment to Gene Cernan's backpack.
164:06:59	Schmitt	Okay, ... Can't get this fixed.
164:07:08	Schmitt	Tallest man on the Moon right now. Okay, that's done.
164:07:13	Cernan	Okay?
164:07:14	Schmitt	Just a second. Let me close the cover. Not a very good cover. Okay.
164:07:20	Cernan	Okay, Bob, I'm going to put SCB-4 on Jack.
164:07:29	Schmitt	Go ahead.
164:07:30	CC	Say again there, Gene. SCB-6? SCB-4; copy.
164:07:36	Cernan	SC - SCB-4 will go on Jack. Okay, Jack, I got to get these PLSS straps too. Did you get mine?
164:07:44	Schmitt	No.
164:07:45	Cernan	Those harness release straps?
164:07:47	Schmitt	Oh, no. Let's do that. I saw them as you go out, and then I forget about them.
164:07:50	Cernan	Yes. Okay, yours is on over here. Probably a better time to do them, anyway, rather than when we go out. Okay, let me get the bag. I'll get the other one when I configure your other side. Okay, you're on. Okay, want to get my PLSS straps? Then I'll be cleaned up, and then I finish your other side.
164:08:31	Schmitt	Let me get the other one. Warmer out here today. ... treatment on the hands. Okay.
164:08:47	Cernan	Okay, stay right where you are so I can get this.
164:08:52	PAO	EVA time, 36 minutes.
164:09:13	Cernan	Okay, Now come over here, and I'll get you a core cap dispenser, which I left here. Okay, you got SCB-4, you got the cap, you got the rammer, I'll take the hammer. You got the - That's all you need. TGE is on the LRV. Okay, what transport what charge you got there, Jack?
164:09:45	Schmitt	Five is under my seat.
164:09:47	Cernan	Five, okay, You got 5 there, we got 2 and 3 on the Rover, LCRU blankets are open 100 percent, battery covers are closed. I want to - Push that battery cover over there down just to make sure it goea down.
164:10:02	Schmitt	The warning flag is up ...
164:10:04	Cernan	It's probably that - Already, huh? Yes. ... down on there.
164:10:08	Schmitt	Rover - Rover warning was up.
164:10:12	Cernan	Get one right there.
164:10:13	Schmitt	It's down.
164:10:14	Cernan	I'll take a look at that gage again, but the gage on the high battery looked like it may have failed. Okay, LCRU blankets are open, battery covers are closed and pushed closed, dust LCRU -
164:10:28	Schmitt	I'm going to the SEP.
164:10:29	CC	Okay, Jack.
164:10:29	Cernan	Wait a minute before you do. You got a second? Just come over here by the left front wheel. I know you got a second. Just a little bit closer to the left front wheel, towards me. Oh, that's good, anywhere in there. Wait a minute.
164:11:08	Cernan	Can you do that likewise? Or can you hold it with that other camera? It's already set at 30.
164:11:18	Schmitt	Okay.
164:11:19	Cernan	And you might want to take a couple - -
164:11:49	CC	17, Houston. We think somebody lost their comm thre. Jack, it's probably Gene going to zero.
164:12:02	Schmitt	You read us, Bob?
164:12:03	CC	Roger. Read you now.
164:12:07	Schmitt	Bob, do you read Gene?
164:12:10	CC	Reading you, Jack. I haven't heard Gene yet.
164:12:15	Schmitt	Well, Gene's calling you.
164:12:18	CC	You read me.
164:12:19	Cernan	How do you read me, Bob?
164:12:19	CC	Okay, read you now.
164:12:24	Cernan	Okay, I didn't do anything. I Just jiggled my MODE switch here. Okay, we got 2 and 3 on the EPs, plus one under Jack's seat. LCRU blankets are opened 100 percent; battery covers are closed; dustbrush. I've got; TGE, I've got; mags and polarization filter is taken care of; and I'm ready to traverse to the SEP.
164:12:45	CC	Roger. We understand TGE stowed and you're taken care of in the comm. And you might give us a Rover read-out either now or when you get to the SEP.
164:12:56	Cernan	Okay; we'll see which is convenient.
164:12:58	CC	Yes. SEP is probably more convenient while you're sitting there waiting for the nav to warm up or initialize - waiting for us to give you the readings.
164:13:09	Cernan	Okay, taking your TV. MODE switch is 1.
164:13:27	Schmitt	Hey, Bob, are you watching LMP?
164:13:30	Cernan	Not anymore he isn't. I took the TV.
164:13:33	Schmitt	Okay.
164:13:37	Cernan	Bob, you still read?
164:13:39	CC	Roger. Read you loud and clear. We're now watching the LMP.
164:13:44	Cernan	Okay, I just wondered because I just took the TV. I just want to make sure we got comm here.
164:13:49	CC	Yes. We're reading you in MODE 1.
164:13:53	Cernan	And, for your information, we both got our cover gloves off.
164:14:00	CC	Copy that.
164:14:07	Cernan	Okay, that's in, that's in, that's in. Should have dusted my checklist on the Rover. I can't read down there.
164:14:15	Schmitt	Bob, the old tape fix on the SEP's still working.
164:14:18	CC	Beautiful.
164:14:20	Schmitt	There's a little - both mirrors have a little angular displacement but not more than 5 degrees.
164:14:31	CC	Sounds like that's the' least of the SEP's problem, but we have hope.
164:15:00	Schmitt	Okay, you're going to be over there, huh? I'm over here.
164:15:11	Cernan	I don't believe this.
164:15:13	Schmitt	What's the problem?
164:15:14	Cernan	Oh, nothing. That roll indicator isn't worth a dingdong ... roll 10 degrees.
164:15:19	Cernan	Okay. Roll zero, pitch is zero; heading is 291; distance, 001; range, 000; amps hours are 90 and 85; volts are 65, 65; Sun shadow device, by the way, is 0.
164:15:45	CC	Copy that.
164:15:45	Cernan	Batteries are 100 and off scale low, and motors are all off scale low.
164:15:55	CC	Okay, and, Gene, we'd like to torque to 287, 287.
164:16:04	Cernan	Okay; in work. Let's see, 287. That's a heading from Dodge City to Tindall. Okay, 27 28, 287 right on the money.
164:16:20	CC	Copy that, Geno. And - -
164:16:22	Schmitt	Bob, 45 - 45 Yankee is a sample - sample from near the SEP.
164:16:39	Cernan	Boy, I tell you, Jack. That was all cut out.
164:16:46	Schmitt	Oh, well. I got the sample anyway.
164:16:50	CC	We copied 45 Yankee near the SEP. That's all we have. If you give us a frame count when you get done, and give us an approximate location for the Rover, at least crosswise from the Y, we'd appreciate it. And we also need SEP receiver power and DSEA both on. And we'd like the cover taped back -taped down when you get done, Jack.
164:17:21	Cernan	Okay, Jack, keep me honest on those rilles.
164:17:25	Schmitt	Okay, you're okay now. Let me get over on the rille. I don't afee -
164:17:32	Cernan	See me?
164:17:33	Schmitt	Come on. You're good.
164:17:34	Cernan	Oh, there's the SEP. Wait - did I miss this other rille?
164:17:37	Schmitt	Yes. There's the - I'm on the antenna.
164:17:43	Cernan	What about the one coming west?
164:17:44	Schmitt	That's what I - No, you're okay on the one west - you're way away from it.
164:17:48	Cernan	Okay. Going to look back.
164:17:56	Schmitt	You want to look - head towards the SEP. You're okay.
164:18:00	Cernan	Oh, I see it now. Okay.
164:18:01	Schmitt	Head towards it and then turn - then make your turn.
164:18:03	Cernan	I see it. I'll go over to it.
164:18:05	Schmitt	Matter of fact, turn on these tracks.
164:18:06	Cernan	Yes. I'm in good shape. I see it. I see it.
164:18:15	Schmitt	Bob, that 45 Yankee was a fine-grained basalt, I think. One of the few around here. That's why I picked it up.
164:18:27	CC	Copy that.
164:18:35	Schmitt	Okay, you stopped?
164:18:37	Cernan	I'm stopped and I'm ready to go. I'm 2 meters to the west of the north line.
164:18:44	CC	Copy that.
164:18:47	Cernan	And I guess I'm certainly within 5 meters of the transmitter.
164:18:51	CC	Okay, we'll get that in the photos. And Gene, how's the low gain located - oriented?
164:19:03	Cernan	It's oriented 355 and my heading is 352.
164:19:08	CC	Okay, copy that.
164:19:14	Cernan	Okay, you want the receiver on - -
164:19:19	CC	Roger. Both - -
164:19:19	Cernan	- - and taped down again, huh?
164:19:20	Schmitt	Yes, ... put ...
164:19:20	CC	Roger. Both the receiver and the recorder on, both switches on and then tape the cover down.
164:19:31	Schmitt	Okay, good luck.
164:19:36	Cernan	I don't know if that tape is going to hold. Okay, ON and ON. Okay, it's taped down more or less.
164:19:53	CC	Thank you.
164:19:55	Schmitt	And then I guess I'm supposed to get on, huh?
164:19:57	CC	Roger on that.
164:19:58	Cernan	Okay, Bob, the NAV RESET has been - NAV RESET is now OFF and I'm all zeroed up.
164:20:07	CC	Okay. Copy that. And we're ready for you guys to roll.
164:20:15	Cernan	Okay, what's the first range and bearing to the Rover sample, past Jones?
164:20:22	CC	Okay, it will be 185 and 1.5 on the range.
164:20:31	Cernan	Okay, 185 and 1.5. 185 and 1-1/2. Okay.
164:20:42	Schmitt	Excuse me, Gene.
164:20:44	Cernan	No problem.
164:20:52	Schmitt	Well, shoot. I've forgotten how.
164:21:01	Cernan	Boy, that Challenger looks pretty from here, you know it.
164:21:04	Schmitt	Yes. Okay, I'm on.
164:21:12	Cernan	Okay.
164:21:13	Schmitt	Did I want a chart?
164:21:14	Cernan	No.
164:21:15	CC	No charts, Jack; no charts.
164:21:16	Schmitt	Okay.
164:21:19	Cernan	Got it. Got it; 185 and 1.5 and I'm going to head on at about 012. We ought to go right through Jones. Oh, baby - Jones.
164:21:27	CC	Okay, and, Gene, remember the driving fairly slow - or fairly well controlled the first 300 meters, and a mark at the end of the antenna.
164:21:39	Cernan	Watch that, Jack, watch that antenna lean - -
164:21:41	Schmitt	Uh-oh. Keep going.
164:21:50	Cernan	Look like to you?
164:21:51	Schmitt	Okay so far; keep going.
164:21:54	Cernan	Okay, let's do that again - -
164:21:55	Schmitt	Yes.
164:21:56	Cernan	- - but a little different. I'll pick up that same spot, I can see right where I was.
164:22:08	CC	Okay. Give us another mark when you start up on that side.
164:22:13	Cernan	Okay. We'll give you a hack, Bob.
164:22:19	Schmitt	Okay. You're a little - -
164:22:28	Cernan	Yes, I'm right on the track. Same tracks exactly.
164:22:31	Schmitt	Well, okay.
164:22:32	Cernan	That's exactly - I just came right over. Okay, we're starting Bob -
164:22:35	Cernan	MARK it.
164:22:36	CC	Copy that.
164:22:42	PAO	The crew is on the way to Station 6 at the base of the North Massif. Station 7 is nearby to the east of Station 6.
164:22:54	Cernan	We can't go too far in this heading. We've got a big hole up here.
164:22:58	CC	Okay.
164:22:59	Cernan	Like a big one.
164:23:02	Schmitt	Wonder if that's Rudolph?
164:23:07	PAO	Station 6 is at the foot of what's believed to be a long boulder trail up the North Massif.
164:23:08	Schmitt	Well, let's see, this is east - looks awf - it's a double crater but it's much bigger than I thought Rudolph would be.
164:23:14	CC	No, if you're where you think you are, you're beyond - you're east of Rudolph quite a ways.
164:23:25	Cernan	Hey, I think you ought to know where we are by now, Bob.
164:23:28	CC	Roger that.
164:23:28	Schmitt	Maybe that's Lewis and Clark.
164:23:32	CC	After you give me a mark there, we'll give you - I'll talk to you about it.
164:23:38	Cernan	I'm sorry, Bob. I guess you - you didn't hear it. I - we're passed the end of the antenna and we're headed south or north - northeast.
164:23:47	CC	Okay, I - -
164:23:48	Cernan	That screw you up?
164:23:48	CC	Did you give me a mark when you started or a mark when you passed the antenna?
164:23:54	Cernan	I gave you a mark when I started and it took about 20 seconds to get to the end.
164:24:00	CC	Okay, copy that.
164:24:04	Cernan	Is that good enough or do you want me to go back?
164:24:06	CC	No. No. Press on. And, Jack, if you look at your contour map there, we think you are located right now at approximately where the P in SEP is, Just below the P in Poppy. In which case you're probably driving through that little crater that's just to the northeast there.
164:24:25	Schmitt	Okay.
164:24:27	CC	That's probably the one you came upon.
164:24:31	Cernan	Not very little, though.
164:24:38	PAO	Distance to Station 6 is 3.3 kilometers.
164:24:40	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. Boy, I wish I could see a little bit better.
164:24:45	PAO	Estimated driving time 28 minutes.
164:24:56	Schmitt	The major boulders still look like the - the pyroxene gabbro. Surface texture has not changed. There is a - there is a granule population, now that I look at it more closely, with the shadows. But I have a feeling that most of those are - they look like they're just small, very small clods. That should show up in some of the bulk samples we've taken. It is remarkable to me the - only a small number of fine-grain rocks. There's one at about halfway between the SEP and the LM that I'd like to pick up, it's a fairly good sized one. Maybe we can get it when we get back. It looks like a fine-grained basalt. I may have sampled one in 45 Yankee there.
164:25:55	Cernan	Well, I tell you, it's not exactly the greatest place to navigate through.
164:25:59	Schmitt	I think you ought to bear left, don't you?
164:26:01	Cernan	Yes. That's where I'm going here. I just want to get across this mounted boulders.
164:26:05	Schmitt	There's still - there's a crater we're just passing at 207.4, about 20 meters in diameter, with the pyroxene gabbro blocks on the rim, few of them. It's not an exceptionally blocky rim crater, but we are in an area where the block population is up to about 5 percent in contrast to most of the area we traversed yesterday.
164:26:36	Cernan	I tell you, going is a little bit rough; there's a population of blocks as Jack said and there is an awful lot of small craters.
164:26:45	Schmitt	Yes, I was just going to add that the frequency of craters in the 10-meter size range is quite a bit higher than we were used to yesterday. Oops, there's one.
164:27:02	Cernan	Yes.
164:27:03	Schmitt	Snuck up on you. And they all - although not exceptionally blocky rim - they all have a slightly, maybe 2 or 3 or 5 percent more blocks in their walls and on their rim than do the - does the normal terrain.
164:27:26	CC	Roger, Jack. Copy that.
164:27:29	Schmitt	Still no - still no obvious structure within the dark mantling material itself.
164:27:38	Cernan	Bob, you said 185/1.5?
164:27:41	CC	That's affirm.
164:27:43	Schmitt	What do you want? For the Rover?
164:27:46	Cernan	Yes, for a sample.
164:27:48	Schmitt	Oh, they changed it on us. Okay. Okay - there's - still seeing the little pit-bottom craters with the glass in them. I've forgotten the acronym already, Bob, I'm sorry. And you asked me for an LMP frame count awhile back and I believe it was 5. That was at the SEP.
164:28:18	CC	That was after the SEP photos, right?
164:28:23	Schmitt	That's affirm. Negative; that was before the SEP photos.
164:28:33	CC	Copy that.
164:28:38	Schmitt	Okay, Bob, looking up at the North Massif, we see the scattered, strewn field of boulders, that generally seem to start from a - more or less, from a line of large boulders, which might indicate some structure. And those lines are roughly horizontal across the face that we're looking at. The boulder tracks are irregular in shape, obviously downhill, but you'll see in the pictures that they - that they are curved in places, but they're all - that I see - tend to be aggregates of little craters - where the boulder was obviously tumbling and bouncing a little bit. We're out in population of fragments now in the immediate area at 1 - is that 188?
164:29:50	Cernan	188/0.9.
164:29:52	Schmitt	It's generally about 1 percent between craters. But at the crater rims, it's up to about 5 percent.
164:30:00	CC	Okay. Copy that, Jack. And how far down the North Massif - -
164:30:02	Schmitt	And these craters - -
164:30:03	CC	- - is the line of boulders?
164:30:09	Schmitt	Oh, there are several of them, Bob. What I'm talking about is about 100-meter-long lines where the boulder trains initiate. And they are - there's one about - looks like about halfway - maybe two-thirds of the way down in perspective. Another one that's probably about halfway - they're just sort of scattered around on the Massif.
164:30:34	Schmitt	I think we're getting close to - No, we couldn't be.
164:30:38	Cernan	I've got to move over here a little.
164:30:40	Schmitt	That must be Jones.
164:30:42	Cernan	Where are you looking?
164:30:43	Schmitt	Off to the right.
164:30:44	Cernan	Yes, our heading that they're sending us down here, it really should put us to west of Jones. So that's about right. A lot of static in the background today.
164:30:55	CC	Yes, I think we are talking to you guys through the LM right now, and how about a speed reading?
164:31:03	Cernan	Okay. We're at 12 clicks and we're FULL BORE.
164:31:07	CC	Copy that.
164:31:20	Schmitt	Okay.
164:31:21	Cernan	187/1.1.
164:31:26	CC	Copy that.
164:31:35	Schmitt	Bob, I wish I could give you more on that structure in there, but I think those lines of boulder sources are about all we can see right now. Talked about the lineaments yesterday and they're not nearly as obvious today in the higher Sun. Looking up Wessex Cleft - even with the Sun in the flat area there, it looks darker than where - than the North Massif side. But again, the Sun angle may be fooling us but I recall it was darker on the photos. The old man wrinkled face on the - -
164:32:16	Cernan	Sculptured Hills.
164:32:17	Schmitt	- - Sculptured Hills, though, is evident as soon as you come out of the Wessex Cleft.
164:32:21	Cernan	Yes.
164:32:22	Schmitt	And it looks like there are boulders up on the side of the Sculptured Hills except that they aren't nearly as big as those on the North Massif. The areas where the boulder sources look like their made up of fine - boulders no bigger than a meter maybe whereas the North Massif boulders are up to several meters. Those boulder sources all seem to be up within a third of the height of the Sculptured Hills just south - or just east of the Massif - of the Wessex Cleft. There's a boulder track that crosses slope. See that Geno?
164:33:05	Cernan	Yes - yes. I sure do now.
164:33:07	Schmitt	It looks like it goes, rather than perpendicular contours, it probably is crossing them in a fairly straight line on an angle of 60 degrees, maybe.
164:33:18	Cernan	Back to the east.
164:33:19	Schmitt	Yes, to the east. That one may be fairly near - -
164:33:24	Cernan	Jack, see that big boulder with that big track - it looks like it's an elongated rolled-up boulder. Look at that.
164:33:29	Schmitt	Yes, it does. Looks like it's - may be broken now.
164:33:33	Cernan	Okay. Here we are - 1.5 and 185.
164:33:37	CC	Okay; copy that.
164:33:38	Schmitt	Okay, is this a Rover sample?
164:33:40	Cernan	A Rover sample.
164:33:40	Schmitt	Okay - -
164:33:41	Cernan	Tell me where you want it.
164:33:42	Schmitt	- - see that little pit right over there about 30 feet ahead.
164:33:45	Cernan	Yes, I think so.
164:33:46	Schmitt	Okay, I've got two pictures there.
164:33:55	Cernan	How's that?
164:33:57	Schmitt	That's great. Okay, this is soil sample - Hey, Geno.
164:34:17	Cernan	Okay, and I just took a locator; and CDR is on frame 41.
164:34:22	Schmitt	Got it?
164:34:24	Cernan	Oh, not yet.
164:34:25	CC	Copy that.
164:34:26	Cernan	Right now. Bag 40 - 46 Yankee.
164:34:31	CC	Copy that.
164:34:40	Cernan	Your bag open?
164:34:41	Schmitt	Yes.
164:34:41	Cernan	Okay, it's in.
164:34:44	Schmitt	We ought to tape that bead down if we can remember it next stop. It's in the way of - it's sticking up.
164:34:54	Cernan	Okay, I'll get it. That thing came down - came off that piece of Velcro. I'll get it when I get. back.
164:34:59	Schmitt	Okay. And LMP's frame count is 35.
164:35:10	Cernan	Okay, Bob, I'd like a - bearing and range.
164:35:14	CC	Okay. Bearing and range for the large block, just beyond - let's see, it's just beyond the crater Henry. The large clock there near the break of the slope, which is our next aiming point. The bearing and range there is 188 and 2.8.
164:35:32	Cernan	188 and 2.8. Roger.
164:35:35	CC	Okay. And, Jack, do you - what do you see in the way of boulders coming down the base of the Sculptured Hills, in terms of sampling opportunities of Station 8 and in terms of any boulder tracks that we might - might lead down to boulders that might just possibly be accessible at Station 8.
164:35:53	Schmitt	Watch it, Gene. Boulder tracks are not obvious on Sculptured Hills at all. It looks like there are fragments over there that would have had their sources higher up the slope. I think we can get boulders there.
164:36:10	CC	Okay; copy that. We'll see - -
164:36:12	Cernan	We'll have to get a little closer, Bob.
164:36:14	CC	We'll find out in a couple of hours.
164:36:18	Schmitt	Yes, I will give you a reading on that before long. I wouldn't eliminate Station 8 for the world - or the Moon, whatever's available today.
164:36:28	Cernan	Bob, what did you say? 188/2 point something.
164:36:31	CC	2.8.
164:36:35	Cernan	Okay, thank you. See that big boulder, Jack, with those tracks?
164:36:39	Schmitt	Yes, it looks like -
164:36:40	Cernan	That's funny looking boulder.
164:36:41	Schmitt	It looks like it may have stopped rolling because it broke up.
164:36:45	Cernan	Looks broken to me now.
164:36:52	Cernan	Boy, they've got the low gain right on. But, I tell you, we still got static.
164:36:56	Schmitt	I don't have any, Gene. You may - -
164:36:57	Cernan	Well, I sure do.
164:37:01	Schmitt	... Okay, you've got yourself in some holes here. You've never - I've read you all along, though, so there's no problem. Okay, there's a big crater. I haven't recognized Jones yet. Looks like you're getting up on the rim of Henry here.
164:37:27	Cernan	Yes - no, Henry should be to - I'm well - should be well west of Henry, I think. I wouldn't be surprised if Henry isn't right over that little rise on the right.
164:37:38	Schmitt	Bob, the surface structure hasn't changed texture. We're on a little bit of a rise in here now and still about 1 percent of the surface - -
164:37:47	Cernan	There's Henry right there, Jack.
164:37:49	Schmitt	There's Henry.
164:37:50	CC	Okay, how about a range and bearing.
164:37:51	Schmitt	I thought you were close to Henry.
164:37:53	Cernan	Yes. 188/1.8.
164:37:57	Schmitt	And we're just southwest of Henry.
164:38:03	CC	Okay. Copy that.
164:38:03	Schmitt	On the rim. Oh, Prince Henry the Navigator.
164:38:09	Cernan	Watch that foot.
164:38:12	Schmitt	It's called a wheel, I think. And Henry looks much like Horatio did. Has boulders on its inner wall - not as many. They look light colored - a light albedo gabbroic appearance. There may be some right down there, though, that are fine grained; they look a little grayer.
164:38:33	Cernan	Jack, there's our target - there's - either one of - that's one right down there on - on ... break in slope.
164:38:38	Schmitt	See the one we've got over there has a boulder track. That's the one, that's cross-slope.
164:38:43	Cernan	Yes, if we could get up high - -
164:38:44	Schmitt	Can we get up there?
164:38:45	Cernan	We'll see.
164:38:46	Cernan	That's the one - That's Station 6, and that was the - the turning boulder.
164:38:51	Cernan	Yes, that's it.
164:38:52	Schmitt	The one right there.
164:38:54	Cernan	Station 6 - we can probably get up there.
164:38:56	Schmitt	I think we can; it doesn't look too bad. At the break in slope, right now, doesn't show anything obvious, except that's where the boulders start.
164:39:07	CC	Okay, we hope that's fairly obvious.
164:39:09	Schmitt	And on up the hill you have ... -
164:39:18	Schmitt	But as I was saying, Henry just looks like somewhat more mantled Horatio (laughter). Getting to be ridiculous.
164:39:27	Cernan	Say, Bob, I'm navigating - headed northwest now - to get around the western rim of Henry.
164:39:33	CC	Okay.
164:39:34	Schmitt	Okay; And on that west rim, we've got about 10 or - 10 percent boulder cover.
164:39:42	CC	Okay; And a reminder, Jack, to keep taking your Rover photos.
164:39:48	Schmitt	Yes, sir. And when I - By boulder, I generally mean fragment, Bob, in this case. When I say 10 percent, I'm looking at stuff greater than about a centimeter in diameter. I'll try to say fragment from now on and be more precise. Okay; Here's a little area where there's - This part of Henry - this is the one part of the rim of Henry I see that has fairly large fragments, or boulders, on them up to 2 or 3 meters. But, again, they all appear to be buried. There are very few, except small ones, sitting out on the surface.
164:40:32	Cernan	And, you know, the fragment population out here only goes out to maybe 200 meters, I expect.
164:40:39	Schmitt	Okay. Now this concentration of boulders is because of a 50-meter crater in the rim of Henry.
164:40:46	CC	Okay, say that sounds like a lot ... - -
164:40:47	Schmitt	I think that was one that we -
164:40:50	Cernan	Take a picture in here, Jack.
164:40:51	Schmitt	No. Locke, I can see -
164:40:56	Cernan	I'm getting a picture.
164:40:58	Schmitt	Okay. Locke's right ahead of us -
164:40:59	Cernan	Yes.
164:41:00	Schmitt	This is one on the - about 50 meters right on the rim crest of Henry, almost due - the west rim - due west rim. Now Locke is just ahead of us. It also has boulders in its walls but has relatively few on the rim.
164:41:17	CC	Okay. Copy that.
164:41:18	Schmitt	Characteristic of both Henry, Locke, and Horatio is a re - essentially no change in the average frequency of boulders on the rim. The increase comes in the walls.
164:41:34	Cernan	We're at 184/2.3. We're just about between Henry and - -
164:41:42	Schmitt	Locke.
164:41:42	Cernan	Locke. Yes; right between them.
164:41:44	CC	Okay. I copy that. And you guys are heading for that big boulder, which must be just dead ahead of you there, about half a kilometer.
164:41:53	Schmitt	Well, we're - Gene's sort of headed for Station 6 now.
164:41:56	Cernan	I'm going to take a tour around that boulder and get a case on it.
164:41:59	Schmitt	Okay. Go ahead.
164:42:00	CC	Yes. That would be a good mark to give us a range and bearing on, since that's a pretty good straight point.
164:42:07	Cernan	Yes, we are.
164:42:09	Schmitt	Bob, the boulder concentrations in the wall of Henry have their upslope start at about - oh, I would guess an average of 30 meters down from the rim crest. The rim crest of Henry is not very well defined, but it's there. And they - from that initiation of boulders, they stream down the slope to the break in - in slope down at the floor. Still no obvious change in the dark mantle, as we're just to the east of Locke now. There's some - there's a 30-meter crater, fairly subdued b ut still quite deep - subdued rim, again, it looks as if it were mantled, that - has no significant increase in blocks on its rim. That crater, in any other place, would have been a very blocky-rim crater. It has - it's maybe 30 meters and - by 5 meters deep. Man, that is a big rock up there. Turning Point Rock is a split rock - has a - looks like a northwest-southeast overhang, with another block just this side of it - just to the south of that overhang. It's a pyramid shape in cross section - triangular shape in cross section. And it looks like it is pretty well fractured, although not pervasively like the rock at Shorty was.
164:44:04	Cernan	Okay, Jack, I know I can get up to that - to Station 6.
164:44:08	Schmitt	Yes.
164:44:08	Cernan	I might drive up there.
164:44:09	Schmitt	Yes. Now, Bob, Station 6 rock - one of them - is from that boulder track that runs obliquely across the contours.
164:44:18	CC	Okay. I copy that, Jack. Sounds like good news.
164:44:23	Schmitt	And there's - the pictures ought to be able to - the pictures ought to pin down its - at least the end of the boulder track pretty well.
164:44:31	Cernan	Boy, this is a big rock, Jack. Whew.
164:44:34	Schmitt	As I recall - as I saw it, the boulder tracks stopped about halfway up the slope of the North Massif. That is a big rock.
164:44:41	Cernan	We're at Turning Point Rock. And it looks like it's - I don't know if it's mantled on top, but it's certainly filleted. There's a - a lot of the dark mantle up and on some of the shallower slopes of the boulder. And it's on a little mound itself, as if much of it might be covered up.
164:44:56	Schmitt	Yes. Okay. It looks like a breccia from here.
164:45:01	Cernan	Can you get a sample of it right here? You see these little chips?
164:45:04	Schmitt	Yes, I probably can.
164:45:07	Cernan	Okay, Bob. I'm 3 meters from Turning Point Rock on the east side, and I'm reading l86 and 2.8.
164:45:15	CC	Roger. Copy that. Sensational.
164:45:20	Schmitt	Okay. You got to - can you drive up - -
164:45:23	Cernan	Yes.
164:45:24	Schmitt	- - to the - right there, let's see - no, I can get them. The thing is, I don't know what it is.
164:45:30	Cernan	Well, but ... it's part of these fragments around here. I guess Turning Point Rock is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, - 6 meters high anyway. It's a - Well, I'd say it's a very rough subrounded type of rock - by the face - let me get this, Jack. Okay. There are two fragments in that sample.
164:45:59	Cernan	47 Yankee.
164:46:01	Schmitt	Plus some dirt. And it's about 4 meters from the - Turning Point Rock on the north side.
164:46:15	CC	Okay. Copy that. And presume you got some good photos of the rock.
164:46:21	Schmitt	Yes, I got a couple. I hope they're good.
164:46:26	Cernan	Well, I'll tell you what I'm going to do here, real quick.
164:46:28	Schmitt	And my locator is - -
164:46:30	Cernan	I'm going to do a - -
164:46:31	Schmitt	- - 5, 6.
164:46:32	Schmitt	Copy that.
164:46:34	Cernan	Jack, let me spin around this little crater here to the left.
164:46:36	Schmitt	Bob, it looks - it's very coarsely vesicular; but, at first glance, it did not look like the pyroxene gabbro - although the rock - that rock does. I - It looks like it might be fragmental, although I'm suspicious that I'm looking at zap pits. That'd be a - Oh, yes - Getting them. I got them. Pick one. That's a nice view.
164:47:09	Cernan	And we're on a little rise looking at this boulder. That's incredible.
164:47:15	Cernan	Okay. We're on the roll, Bob.
164:47:17	CC	Copy that.
164:47:18	Cernan	You know that -
164:47:21	Schmitt	Bob, my guess is, right now, is that Turning Point Rock is a big piece of subfloor gabbro.
164:47:30	CC	Okay. I gather you changed your opinion.
164:47:32	Schmitt	What looked like fragments is just - yes, what looked like fragments is just big spalls - spalls of where the zap pits have cleaned off the rock.
164:47:49	CC	Okay. I copy that. And, guys, you might be happy to know that we think we've finally found the LM, because we were calling that for 188 and 2.8, and you got there at 186 and 2.8.
164:48:04	Schmitt	That's not bad. Okay - -
164:48:11	Cernan	It's a split one up there, Jack. I've had ray eye on it. There's some big boulders down here.
164:48:24	Schmitt	Got it. I sort of lost track of Station 6.
164:48:31	Cernan	No, I got it. I've had my eye on that boulder. You can't see the track from here. I'll bet you can. I can see it now. We'll see it - we'll be looking right up it - looking right up the old boulder track. Man, I tell you, this navigating through here is not -
164:48:54	Schmitt	Okay. We're in a region where the really - the general fragment population's no different. We're up on the - off the break in slope, although you wouldn't notice it - but we are quite a ways. And - but the fragment population is not much different than that on the plains. The big difference is that there are these scattered blocks that are from a meter to probably 10 meters - no, 5 meters in diameter. Hard to say, maybe 8.
164:49:24	Cernan	See that track coming down? We'll be looking right up that track.
164:49:26	Schmitt	Yes, yes, you got it. I didn't realize you were that far upslope.
164:49:29	Cernan	Yes, we're way upslope.
164:49:30	Schmitt	Yes. Hit it.
164:49:31	Cernan	Not very uncomfortable for me on this side. (Laughter) How do you feel?
164:49:35	Schmitt	Oh, I feel fine. I just - until I looked down there and saw the slope we're on.
164:49:38	Cernan	Yes, I know it.
164:49:42	Schmitt	And I can't see any obvious change in albedo, like we could see with the light mantle yesterday. You - you - You got a - don't - There you got a nice nice nice place. Oh, oh, you don't want to go over that way.
164:49:58	Cernan	Yes, I can make it. I want to park right - -
164:50:01	CC	And 17, we want you to park at a heading of 107. We're going to open the battery covers and let them cool at this station. So a heading of 107.
164:50:14	Cernan	107, huh? Okay. I'll get it up here.
164:50:19	Schmitt	Hey, that's going to be moderately level right there.
164:50:21	Cernan	Yes.
164:50:23	Schmitt	Trouble is, they're looking into the shady side of the block.
164:50:27	Cernan	Well, if I park on the other side, they won't be able to - I can go right upslope a little bit.
164:50:31	Schmitt	That's all right. We can work in there. No, that's all right.
164:50:34	Cernan	Yes, I can't go up there. Let me just - This is going to have to be good. I can't go up there.
164:50:46	Schmitt	I think you're all right.
164:50:48	Cernan	That's not very level, but - -
164:50:50	Schmitt	Oh, not too - not too hard. Watch that turn.
164:50:56	Cernan	That's not very level, but we're not going to get much more level than that.
164:50:59	Schmitt	No, that's good.
164:51:01	Cernan	Let me - they wanted 107. That's the best I can do. That's not very level for the gravimeter, but - Let me see if I can get comm. Hey, Bob, how do you read?
164:51:19	CC	Loud and clear, 17. How do you read?
164:51:24	Cernan	Okay. We're parked on a heading of 107. Are you happy with that?
164:51:30	CC	Roger. Sounds great.
164:51:30	Schmitt	(Laughter) You parked on a slope, too.
164:51:32	Cernan	There's no level - there's no level spots to park, here, though.
164:51:38	Schmitt	You want me - some help getting off?
164:51:40	Cernan	I've got to go uphill.
164:51:42	Schmitt	I just about ended up down at the bottom of the hill.
164:51:45	Cernan	Okay; 192/3.8, 3.1; 88 and 80; 108 and 0 on the batteries. The forward motors are 220 and about 270, and the rears are 0 - off scale low and 220.
164:52:13	Schmitt	You want me to block the wheels? (Laughter) You got the brake on, I hope.
164:52:19	Cernan	You betcha. I don't know if I can lean uphill or not. (Laughter) I can't. Holy Smoley. Boy, are we on a slope!
164:52:34	Schmitt	You okay?
164:52:36	Cernan	Yes, Let me get this thing set again.
164:52:38	Schmitt	I don't think you can ...
164:52:39	Cernan	Boy, are we on a slope!
164:52:43	Schmitt	Okay. I'm going to stay out from between the rocks. It's a beautiful east-west split rock. It's even got a north overhang that we can work with. And let me see what it is. We're right at Station 6. You wouldn't believe it.
164:53:07	Cernan	I would. Oh, man, what a slope!
164:53:10	Schmitt	And this boulder's got its own little track, right up the hill, cross contoured. It's a chain of craters track, and it looks like it stops ... where it started. It starts in, what looks to be, a lighter colored linear zone - trying to give you perspective; it's probably only about a third of the way up the North Massif. Bob, are you reading this?
164:53:45	CC	Read you loud and clear; and we got a picture.
164:53:50	Cernan	Oh, man, I tell you, are we parked on a slope! I don't know whether your TGE's going to hack it.
164:53:58	CC	Okay. It'll pick up to 15 degrees.
164:53:59	Cernan	Bob, this is a - Well, it is going to have it.
164:54:06	Schmitt	It's a coarsely vesicular, crystalline rock - finely crystalline. Looks like a - probably an anorthositic gabbro - trying to see the zap pits, for glass color, I don't have a good one yet.
164:54:32	Cernan	Say, Bob, you want both the recorder and the - and the other switch off?
164:54:37	CC	Roger. Both of those off, and ...
164:54:44	Cernan	Oh, man, it is hard to get around here.
164:54:49	Schmitt	Bob, it looks like the glass is fairly light colored. It's not white. Well no - it's black. It's anorthositic gabbro, rather than gabbroic anorthosite, I think. Yes, that's black glass in the pits.
164:55:12	CC	Okay. And, Gene, did you happen to notice the ... on the stuff when you dusted it?
164:55:18	Cernan	I didn't dust it yet.
164:55:20	CC	Copy that.
164:55:21	Schmitt	Bob, some of the vesicles are - they're flattened. All of them are flattened. There's a strong foliation of vesicles in the rock. Most of them are flattened, and they are up to 15 or 20 centimeters in diameter and about 5 to 6 centimeters thick - or wide.
164:55:51	CC	Outstanding.
164:55:56	Schmitt	And there's some beautiful north overhangs all around the block. Well, (laughter) on the north side of the block.
164:56:05	CC	Okay. That's the best place - that north overhang; and I guess that means one of you guys might grab the SEC - the small can - before you leave the Rover.
164:56:16	Cernan	Okay, Bob. It's going to take me awhile to dust. I tell you - -
164:56:19	Schmitt	Okay - -
164:56:20	Cernan	Hard to get around here.
164:56:21	CC	Roger.
164:56:22	Schmitt	Bob, now let's get it straight. You w - let's get it straight, you want the north overhang sample in the SEC - or the short can?
164:56:39	CC	Miracle of miracles. They don't want the short can. I'm not sure I understand that, Jack, but they don't want the short can here, they say, I guess they're looking for volcanic today.
164:56:51	Schmitt	Okay, we'll put them in bags. Oh, man -
164:56:52	CC	They're looking for volcanic today, Jack.
164:56:57	Schmitt	Oh, they are, huh? We found those yesterday.
164:57:00	CC	Well, they're hoping again at Station 9.
164:57:05	Schmitt	This is - Now, that foliation I mentioned does not go all the way through the rock. There are variations in texture. One zone was strongly foliated. There's another - it almost looks like a large - it is - a large inclusion of nonvesicular rock within the vesicular rock. There may be some autobrecciation involved in the formation of this thing. It really looks mineralogically like the light-colored samples from the South Massif. But I - I tell you, that's only because it's light colored, and I - I can't give you anymore than that right now, until we get a fresh surface.
164:57:59	Cernan	110 degrees on the SEP and you want the tape - the cover closed, right?
164:58:03	CC	Cover open, please. Cover open. Both off.
164:58:09	Cernan	Okay. Cover's open.
164:58:12	CC	Okay. And did you get the batteries - -
164:58:14	Cernan	Oh, my golly.
164:58:15	CC	- the LRV battery covers open. We didn't copy that, Gene.
164:58:20	Cernan	No, I didn't copy that you wanted them open. I just got 107. I was about to ask you that.
164:58:25	CC	Okay. We'd like them open. And, Jack, while I'm interrupting everybody here, how about a frame count, if convenient.
164:58:32	PAO	That's Jack Schmitt at the rock.
164:58:37	Schmitt	Oh, shoot! Bob. I gave you one at the rock. It's now 68.
164:58:42	CC	Okay. Copy that.
164:58:48	Cernan	Man, I never - (Laughter) You can't believe how tough it is getting around this Rover, on this slope.
164:58:58	Schmitt	I think I'll - -
164:58:59	Cernan	Man, that - I think we're probably pitch 20 and roll 20.
164:59:09	Schmitt	I think I'll get over here and get a pan while we're ... sample.
164:59:15	Cernan	Oh, I got to dust those radiators. I can't leave them like that. I tell you, this is not a very good place to dust them, though. Let me try one time. Oh, boy.
164:59:31	Schmitt	Be careful, Geno. Need some help?
164:59:34	Cernan	No. I need a little finesse, though. It's one thing to reach over - here and do this on level ground. I don't know if I can do that without falling on the battery.
164:59:55	Schmitt	Well, I found a place to stand where I can take a pan.
165:00:00	Cernan	Bob, I'm going to have to give you a good battery brushing at the next site. I can't get - I get half of them, but I can't get the other half. It's too slopey.
165:00:14	PAO	EVA time 2 hours and 15 minutes.
165:00:14	CC	Okay. We copy that.
165:00:18	Cernan	But the covers are open. What are you working on, Jack?
165:00:26	Schmitt	I'm taking a pan.
165:00:28	Cernan	Very good. I'm coming right now. I bet you a dollar to doughnuts that you don't get a TGE reading.
165:00:34	CC	Yes, Gene. If you're - if it's easy enough to take it off, why don't you take it off the Rover; and we'll try and level it in the stuff.
165:00:45	Cernan	Oh, come on. (Laughter) I'm not sure there's any place to put it on the ground level.
165:00:53	Schmitt	No, you have to dig a place.
165:00:57	Cernan	Yes, I'll do it. Okay. It's coming off. Well, I'll set it right up here.
165:01:12	Schmitt	It's going to fall down the hill. You'd better stomp off a good place.
165:01:18	PAO	Jack Schmitt shooting panoramic photography.
165:01:25	Cernan	Yes. That looks level to me. Can you see it from there?
165:01:28	Schmitt	Well, I can see it.
165:01:29	Cernan	I mean, does it - -
165:01:31	Schmitt	I don't know. I have no perspective anymore.
165:01:33	Cernan	I don't either.
165:01:34	Cernan	MARK. Gravity.
165:01:36	CC	Copy the mark - -
165:01:38	Cernan	It's flashing. Okay; now let me get to work. Okay ... My fender got a little kinked here, which isn't going to help us.
165:01:55	CC	Hey, Jack. And we see your gold visor's up. You may want to put it down out here in the Sun.
165:02:04	Schmitt	Well, I think I might - I can't see with it down; it's scratched. Bob, I'll use it.
165:02:11	Cernan	I think I can monitor that one.
165:02:13	Schmitt	Hey, I'm standing on a boulder track. How does that make you feel?
165:02:19	Cernan	That makes me feel like I'm coming over to do some sampling. Think how it would have been if you were standing there before that boulder came by.
165:02:33	Schmitt	I'd rather not think about it.
165:02:35	Cernan	Okay, let's go. You got a spot picked while you're here?
165:02:39	Schmitt	Well, the big thing is, let's get those - let's get the boulder and then get in that east-west split. Bob, I got an undocumented sample from the middle of the boulder track.
165:02:58	CC	Copy that. Soil sample?
165:03:00	Cernan	Whew!
165:03:02	Schmitt	Soil sample. Gene, if you hit them off in there, it's going to be awful hard to find them, that's the problem.
165:03:15	Cernan	Did you pick a spot - a good spot while you were over here?
165:03:19	Schmitt	No, I didn't. I just was looking at it. I think we need to get in the light, though.
165:03:23	Cernan	Well I - I can see with my gold visor.
165:03:26	Schmitt	Let me put a sample in your bag.
165:03:28	Cernan	Okay. Go ahead.
165:03:29	Schmitt	It's bag - shoot - it's 534.
165:03:39	Cernan	This boulder looks fairly uniform from top to bottom.
165:03:42	Schmitt	We've got to get a reference sample out - this soil.
165:03:45	Cernan	Let's get where we can get that 90-degree picture, too; so we want to get on the - really ought to get on the Sun side. Let me get that slab right there, though, to start with. I can get that one off. Well, there's no - let's go over on the Sun side because we can't really photograph it.
165:03:59	Schmitt	Okay. I got to get out of here first.
165:04:02	Cernan	Let's go through the split.
165:04:04	Schmitt	Well, okay. Be careful, though. Why don't we sample the split first so we don't - -
165:04:13	Cernan	Look at that overhang. Man, I tell you, if you can get your shovel down there, you'd have a ball.
165:04:17	Schmitt	Yes, let's sample in the split first so that we don't get it too messed up. And then we can sample some of this stuff. Not - we want this overhang over here, Geno - the north facing one.
165:04:30	Cernan	Right here.
165:04:31	Schmitt	Yes. I got to get - sneak by over there. Whoops! Don't shuffle too much dirt in there.
165:04:38	Cernan	Okay. You by me so I can set the gnomon down.
165:04:40	Schmitt	Not quite. Don't think I can make it - without hitting you. I can't.
165:04:45	Cernan	Okay. Now try it.
165:04:48	Schmitt	Okay.
165:04:53	Cernan	Ready?
165:04:54	Schmitt	Okay.
165:04:55	Cernan	Let me set the gnomon down - -
165:04:56	Schmitt	Set it down just outside the shadow here. Right - Whoa - right there. That's good. There's still some clean ground there. Okay.
165:05:04	Cernan	Okay. I can get back far enough to take these pictures. I want to go get a stereo pan around the comer anyway. Let's see if I can't start here with about 5.6. I'm so close.
165:05:20	Schmitt	Okay, I'll get a -
165:05:23	Cernan	I must have a boulder ...
165:05:24	Schmitt	I'll get it. Let me - -
165:05:26	Cernan	- I'm going to go around the cor - I got it now.
165:05:36	Schmitt	Okay. You got a bag?
165:05:37	Cernan	All set.
165:05:40	Schmitt	Okay. I'm going to get the shadowed material.
165:05:49	Cernan	It's in bag 312, Bob.
165:05:51	CC	Copy 312.
165:05:55	Schmitt	And it's - it's from - I think you saw where I got it. It's about a half a meter back of the limit of the overhang. Put it down. Put it down.
165:06:05	Cernan	Okay. Can you reach it?
165:06:07	Schmitt	I will in a minute. You can turn it a little bit towards me. Okay; 312. And the soil outside the overhang will be next.
165:06:34	Cernan	Okay. Go get it.
165:06:41	Schmitt	And the first one is from the upper 2 centimeters.
165:06:49	Cernan	Bag 313.
165:06:51	CC	Copy 313.
165:06:57	Schmitt	And the second one is from probably down - from 2 centimeters down to about 8.
165:07:08	CC	Copy that.
165:07:14	Schmitt	Bob, it looks like the fragment just to the - or the boulder just to the south of us has some inclusions in it - light-colored inclusions.
165:07:26	Cernan	Bag 472 on that.
165:07:29	CC	Copy 472 on that. You mean the south half of the split boulder?
165:07:35	Schmitt	Yes. I haven't seen inclusions in the other half.
165:07:42	Cernan	Okay? Okay. Now we need boulder stuff.
165:07:45	Schmitt	You happy with that, Houston? Let's get - you got your hammer?
165:07:52	CC	Yes, we're happy with that ...
165:08:04	Schmitt	That's a little hard, huh? I think - -
165:08:09	Cernan	I've got to find a corner I can get at.
165:08:11	Schmitt	Yes.
165:08:13	Cernan	Let me get an after picture down in this hole.
165:08:16	Schmitt	Oh, that's right. You almost stepped on the - I forgot the after, too.
165:08:30	Schmitt	Hey, there are chips up here on top. Also, that's been spalled off.
165:08:36	Cernan	Yes.
165:08:36	Schmitt	We can get some of those, but - -
165:08:37	Cernan	Looks like somebody's been chipping up there.
165:08:39	Schmitt	Looks like there's been a geologist here before us.
165:08:42	Cernan	Let me get the gnomon. I think I can get some of these pieces over here. I want to get that 90-degree angular flight line around this boulder, too.
165:08:52	Schmitt	Bob, the more I look at this thing - here's the piece that fell off. Here's the piece that was knocked off up there.
165:08:58	Cernan	Yes.
165:08:59	Schmitt	Look at that.
165:09:01	Cernan	We ought to bring a big piece of that home. That's obvious it's obvious - -
165:09:03	Schmitt	How about this one up here? Take your picture. I think we can just lift that off. See that?
165:09:10	Cernan	Stand by.
165:09:16	Schmitt	I'd better get - -
165:09:18	Cernan	I'll get a locator from here.
165:09:20	Schmitt	Okay. I was going to get my down-Sun, but I'm afraid I'll -
165:09:26	Cernan	You may be down-Sun if you do.
165:09:27	Schmitt	Yes, we'll get some. You get it?
165:09:32	Cernan	Yes, will it come off?
165:09:33	Schmitt	Let me see. Yes.
165:09:38	Cernan	Yes. Just throw it in my bag. It's broken, but it's in place. That's a nice, big piece, too. It's about the size of a - -
165:09:46	Schmitt	Why don't you put it in mine. I can't get a thing in it.
165:09:49	Cernan	Okay. Got it?
165:09:52	Schmitt	Yes, I got it.
165:09:54	Cernan	Don't move.
165:09:56	Schmitt	Okay, Bob, there's a big spall lying on the ground here that has been knocked off up there, from right on top of the boulder. And, I tell you, the more I look at this - the south half of this boulder, the more heterogeneous in texture it looks. It looks as if it may be either a recrystallized breccia of some kind, or you had a gabbroic anorthosite - magma catch up an awful lot of inclusions. I guess I prefer the latter explanation because of the extreme vesicularity of the rock.
165:10:36	CC	Okay; very interesting.
165:10:41	Schmitt	Now, some of the - a few of the inclusions are - well, they're all subrounded to rounded, and a few - and a few of them are very light colored. I'm going to try -
165:10:53	Cernan	I'm coming around the corner ...
165:10:55	Schmitt	Are you going to do it now? Okay. Well, you know, I ought to get one shot back here with a black and white. I'll get this half-black and white.
165:11:02	Cernan	Okay, if we could get -
165:11:05	Schmitt	I think we ought to pick up a piece of that spall there by the gnomon -
165:11:09	Cernan	I can break it off.
165:11:11	Schmitt	There's one right by the gnomon we can just pick up. It's a finer-grained vesicular rock than - wait - where - oh, geez.
165:11:20	Cernan	Oh, oh, oh, oh -
165:11:23	Schmitt	I thought I was going to get this half.
165:11:24	Cernan	Okay. I don't care. I've started down, Jack.
165:11:28	Schmitt	Well, they like to have some of it in black and white, you know.
165:11:33	Cernan	I'll get that rock.
165:11:41	Schmitt	I forgot to look at the objectives for this station. I hope we're meeting them.
165:11:47	Cernan	Well, we want to get 500s of that boulder track. I know I want to get that.
165:11:56	Schmitt	Okay. A piece of that spalled rock that was sitting by the gnomon - Ooh, watch out gnomon. How about that? - is in - bag 535.
165:12:18	Cernan	You got one in there already?
165:12:20	Schmitt	Yes.
165:12:21	CC	Okay. We copy that one, Jack.
165:12:23	Cernan	You won't be able to reach - you won't be able to reach my bag.
165:12:26	Schmitt	No, but you can put it in mine. Can you reach it?
165:12:36	Cernan	Looking at it.
165:12:38	Schmitt	Bob, one of the light-colored inclusions looks like it may be anorthositic - gabbroic anorthosite - let me get my terms straight. The host rock has dark enough zap pits that it's probably gab - anorthositic gabbro, if I didn't say that. Some of the light-colored inclusions have slightly lighter colored glass, and they may be the gabbroic anorthosite.
165:13:13	CC	Okay, I copy that, Jack.
165:13:14	Schmitt	... like like like this one and that one.
165:13:17	Cernan	Some of those inclusions get to be bigger than the size of a baseball. There's one here and a couple up there.
165:13:22	Schmitt	Let be borrow your hammer.
165:13:23	Cernan	Yes. Jack, try a little higher. See that one right on the - right there. Right -
165:13:43	Cernan	Yes, that's a hard rock.
165:13:49	Schmitt	Yes, that's a hard rock. You might be able to do it; I can't.
165:13:53	Cernan	I can't get down there. Okay, we need some of the soil outside the shadow here.
165:14:01	Schmitt	Yes. How about over where your bag went? Let's move around here - I think there is some - oops! Get on this slope over here. Okay. How about out over here? Are we supposed to get a - Where are we here?
165:14:24	Cernan	I don't know. I'd like to get - When you face uphill, your camera faces down.
165:14:32	Schmitt	We want to get a rake on the rim of that little crater down there, I guess.
165:14:37	CC	Okay, 17. Roger. You were asking about objectives. Of course the primary objective is docu - documented samples of the blocks; and then, also, we'd like to get some of the rake and soil samples out in the surface, namely, the rim crater there, if that's available. And one of the things, of course, we're looking for is the variety of rocks here, if there's more than just the one boulder. You can sample the boulder for a while, but we would be interested in seeing if there is more than just the single type of rock. Probably, also, samples from both sides - both halves of the rock. What we said this morning in terms of combining Stations 6 and 7 to an hour and 20 minutes -
165:15:19	Schmitt	Come on up here, Geno.
165:15:20	Cernan	Okay.
165:15:21	Schmitt	If you can.
165:15:22	CC	And so it's sort of your option as to how much time you spend here and how much you go on to Station 7 and spend. If you feel that it's worthwhile, we could spend essentially all that hour and 20 minutes at this station. But if we did that, we'd like to get a fair variety of blocks, if they're available.
165:15:39	Schmitt	Okay. Geno, we sampled some of the light colored group - as a matter of fact, this block looks different.
165:15:45	Cernan	Well, so does that big one - -
165:15:47	Schmitt	It's grayer.
165:15:47	Cernan	That's why I've been photographing it.
165:15:49	Schmitt	See, what it is, I think - it's a blue-gray. It's a big blue-gray rock - itself is crystalline, I believe. The inclusions are much more sharply defined, and it's nonvesicular; and it's included, or at least it's in contact with the very vesicular anorthositic gabbro - right up there. See that?
165:16:14	Cernan	Yes, the whole big one. I just ...
165:16:16	Schmitt	Did you get some pictures of it?
165:16:17	Cernan	As I bounced around there, I took pictures of it.
165:16:18	Schmitt	Okay. Look, we can get some of that light-colored stuff in there, along with the blue-gray.
165:16:22	Cernan	We ought to get as big a piece of that inclusion as we can. There's - -
165:16:25	Schmitt	See it up in there.
165:16:26	Cernan	Yes. I think we're out of line of sight with them. We're behind a boulder.
165:16:32	Schmitt	Yes, sorry about that. But - -
165:16:34	CC	We can hear you loud and clear. We're just looking at rocks right now.
165:16:41	Cernan	Okay, Bob, the boulder dcwnslope is more of a light-gray vesicular boulder. The one Jack just talked about with some of the larger white inclusions is less vesicular, and it's a - more of blue-gray rock. And if I don't fall on my tail here, I'll get -
165:17:03	Schmitt	The locator is of Henry.
165:17:06	CC	Copy that.
165:17:11	Cernan	Okay, let me try and get up there. Henry? We must be high enough to see something. I haven't even looked back.
165:17:24	Schmitt	Let me get a closeup before you start pounding.
165:17:29	Cernan	No, I might go from this angle too. That will give them something a little different up in there too, Jack.
165:17:45	Schmitt	Yes.
165:17:47	Cernan	We ought to try and sample that. Okay. Let's get the -
165:17:51	Schmitt	You want me to get my scoop under there? Probably won't fall out.
165:17:58	Cernan	Okay. Get as many of these pieces as we can. I don't know how many are going to come out.
165:18:20	Schmitt	(Laughter)
165:18:20	Cernan	Outstanding! Outstanding! This whole thing will come out here in a minute.
165:18:27	Schmitt	I'll watch it. I'll watch it. Got it?
165:18:30	Cernan	Move your arm up or down. Okay. I got it in case we don't get another one.
165:18:55	Cernan	Hey, we're getting good at that.
165:18:57	Schmitt	Yes. Can't hold that much longer.
165:19:01	Cernan	Yes. Let me get up on this - up here.
165:19:05	Schmitt	Why don't we get a - get a bag out. Let me put these in a bag.
165:19:07	Cernan	That's why I'm getting up here so I can - -
165:19:09	Schmitt	Oh, okay.
165:19:09	Cernan	So I can get my balance. Bob, 556 is one of the light-colored inclusions in the blue-gray rock.
165:19:20	Schmitt	It's chips.
165:19:20	Cernan	Chips of it.
165:19:23	CC	Okay. Copy that.
165:19:25	Schmitt	I think we lost that other one. That's good enough.
165:19:27	Cernan	I got it; I know where it is.
165:19:29	Schmitt	That's all right. It's not a lot of sample, but it's representative, I think. It looks a lot like that sugary rock I sampled yesterday, doesn't it? Found in the - that we sampled in the - -
165:19:44	Cernan	Yes, it's pretty easy to break up; it's really not very coherent at all.
165:19:47	Schmitt	You know, I thought last night, Bob, that I should use the word aplitic for a texture that we saw in that inclusion yesterday on the South Massif.
165:19:55	Cernan	If I could keep from falling on my tail.
165:19:58	Schmitt	Can you get a - -
165:19:59	Cernan	I want to - -
165:20:08	Schmitt	Okay, you going to get some of that?
165:20:09	Cernan	Yes, that's a different kind; that's a more beat up inclusion of some sort. Oh, there's a nice piece coming out. Oh, wait a minute - don't lose it.
165:20:24	Schmitt	I got it. I've got it.
165:20:25	Cernan	Got it.
165:20:26	Schmitt	Okay.
165:20:29	Cernan	Okay. We have another inclusion that, on the surface, has a more reddish-brown texture. Interior looks pretty much the same; it's a very light gray.
165:20:42	Schmitt	This looks like a piece of breccia. Looks like a fragment briccia that got caught up in this thing.
165:20:49	Cernan	Yes, well, the whole thing is obviously a breccia. I'd sure like to get that - -
165:20:52	Schmitt	Well, I'd say - I'm not sure; it's obviously a breccia. I think it may - may be an igneous rock with breccia inclusions.
165:20:59	Cernan	Well, okay, but -
165:21:00	Schmitt	Which is sort of in the same class.
165:21:02	Cernan	Sort of makes a breccia - -
165:21:04	Schmitt	Well - -
165:21:04	Cernan	- - out of the big rock.
165:21:06	Schmitt	Okay.
165:21:06	Cernan	Except you can - -
165:21:07	Schmitt	I can't get in there, Geno, you'll have to.
165:21:08	Cernan	Okay.
165:21:09	Schmitt	No way -
165:21:09	Cernan	Let me -
165:21:11	Schmitt	Watch it. Hold still - opps. I think it's easier for you.
165:21:21	Cernan	Did I give them a number on that? - No.
165:21:23	CC	Negative.
165:21:25	Cernan	It's - 5 - 536.
165:21:31	Schmitt	Squash it - cramp it a little bit, if you can; a little more.
165:21:38	Cernan	Did you get that 536, Bob?
165:21:40	CC	Roger. 536 for the last one.
165:21:43	Cernan	Let's get a - -
165:21:44	CC	And -
165:21:44	Cernan	Okay. Let's go get the host rock here.
165:21:47	Schmitt	How about that - How about that - whew - how about that piece?
165:21:53	Cernan	How about this one, with the inclusions here. Maybe I can get this one.
165:21:56	Schmitt	Okay.
165:21:58	CC	Okay; and, 17, we'd like -
165:22:01	Schmitt	That may have been a little optimistic.
165:22:05	CC	Do you guys have a feeling that the two halves of the big boulder are different rocks? Or is it the same rock split?
165:22:13	Schmitt	No, they're - they're two - they were all one boulder, I think. They are just two major rock types in the - whatever they came from. And I tried to describe that to you. We have the contact in the central boulder. They're really three big boulders. The central boulder had the contact between the light-gray rocks - or the blue-gray rocks and the vesicular anorthositic gabbro.
165:22:41	CC	Okay. And you guys have that pretty well photodocumented, right?
165:22:46	Schmitt	Yes, it's in pretty good shape. We're working on it still.
165:22:49	CC	Okay. Copy that.
165:22:53	Schmitt	Try going on the side there, Geno.
165:22:56	Cernan	Just went from the side, Jack.
165:22:58	Schmitt	That's enough. You got a piece of the - -
165:23:01	Cernan	... host rock.
165:23:03	Schmitt	I think you can get this one up here, can't you?
165:23:04	Cernan	I wanted that one cause it had that inclusion wrapped in it. Let me go to high here for a minute. Which one are you talking about? This one here?
165:23:21	Schmitt	Yes, I just - it's about to come. Oh - oh - oh, okay. I've got it. I've got it.
165:23:42	Cernan	Okay.
165:23:43	Schmitt	... bag.
165:23:44	Cernan	They're both host rocks; we can put them in the same bag.
165:23:46	Schmitt	No, let's don't. No, they're different places. 537, is a chip of the blue-gray rock; and the host - the blue-gray host rock - and let me get that other one.
165:24:12	Schmitt	Oh -
165:24:14	Cernan	Oh - Be careful -
165:24:23	Cernan	Pick the rock up while you're there. It's right at your hand.
165:24:25	Schmitt	I will.
165:24:39	Schmitt	Okay.
165:24:42	Cernan	... hammer somewhere.
165:24:47	Schmitt	Okay. And 538 is another sample of that material - a little dustier.
165:24:55	CC	Okay. We copy that.
165:24:58	Schmitt	That's the blue-gray - that's the blue-gray Bob, with the inclusions in it. Now the blue-gray, the more you looked at it, it looks like a - -
165:25:06	Cernan	Give me your left - your right hand.
165:25:07	Schmitt	Huh?
165:25:08	Cernan	Give me your right hand. Turn it over. Turn it over. Turn it over.
165:25:14	Schmitt	Well, I did. How do you want it over?
165:25:15	Cernan	You kept turning it over in the same direction. Like that, so I can fix that. Okay. Now give me your bag, and I'll get it in there.
165:25:26	Schmitt	It - the blue-gray rock, on closer examination, looks like a partially recrystallized fragment breccia. It's very hard.
165:25:41	Cernan	And I'm going to - -
165:25:43	Schmitt	Are you going to get the afters in there?
165:25:44	Cernan	Yes, I'll get them. I want to do a little bit better documentation on this thing. Bob?
165:25:48	Schmitt	I'm going to go over and look at that contact.
165:25:49	Cernan	I got a few closeup stereos of the inclusion that we tried to sample, and I'm going to see if I can't give you a little ... stereo around thia thing - if I can stay on my feet.
165:26:32	Cernan	Do you read me, Jack, okay?
165:26:33	Schmitt	Yes, I hear you.
165:26:34	CC	And, Houston reads you loud and clear, also.
165:26:45	Cernan	You can see where we've been pounding on this rock. We didn't succeed in getting samples everywhere. And I'm giving you a 90-degree corner.
165:27:00	Schmitt	Bob, it looks to me like there are inclusions of blue-gray in the gabbro - in the anorthositic gabbro.
165:27:10	CC	Positively outstanding.
165:27:11	Cernan	Are you saying you think this whole big - You think this whole big blue-gray thing is an inclusion?
165:27:18	Schmitt	Yes, sir. And there's some little ones over here.
165:27:20	Cernan	Yeah, but then within the blue-gray, we've got all these other fragment.
165:27:23	Schmitt	Well, that's right. It's just several generations of activity; and it looks like the gabbor though, picked up the fragmental breccia as inclusions. Bob, I'd - it really looks that way right now. There's a - -
165:27:46	CC	Okay, Charlie is here mumbling something about it looking just like house rock.
165:27:54	Schmitt	It's very crystalline. I'll tell you, it's not a breccia - not like house rock. Not to take anything away from house rock, though.
165:28:02	Cernan	Hey, Bob, there's a lot of mantling on a very shallow slope of a fracture here on one of the upslope rocks. I would assume it's just part of the ... it picked up as its rolled down. But if it's worth sampling, you might think about it.
165:28:32	CC	Okay, Gene, if you can get that fairly readily, why don't you - You can perhaps just scoop it up with the bag.
165:28:39	Cernan	That's exactly what I can do.
165:28:42	CC	If you can get up to the rock there.
165:28:43	Cernan	And it will be in my - it will be in my flight line stereo, and it's going to be bag 557. And I'll take an after and show you where it came from.
165:28:56	CC	Okay. Copy that.
165:28:56	Cernan	This is the easist part of the rock in the world to work. Man, here's a big - here's a big white clast. There's one on top about a foot and a half across, and here's one - must be 2 feet across - 3 feet. And that's in the blue-gray.
165:29:17	Cernan	Feel like a kid playing in a sandbox.
165:29:29	Schmitt	Well, Bob, I think I've done the best I can. I would - I'd say that they're pretty clearly inclusions of blue-gray in the anorthositic gabbro here near the contact.
165:29:44	CC	Okay. And Gene, your bag is hanging by one hook there. Be careful, if you can - or LMP - -
165:29:52	Cernan	Okay. I gave you 557, I believe. Didn't I?
165:29:56	CC	Roger. We have that one. And whoever is giving us 557 - -
165:30:00	Cernan	Okay, I'll have Jack fix by bag.
165:30:02	CC	Yes.
165:30:07	Schmitt	Okay, Bob, by accident - I didn't think I could do it but I got a sample of the inclusions. And it's in bag 539.
165:30:20	Cernan	Hey, Jack, that's your bag that's hanging by one hook. Let me go get it.
165:30:24	Schmitt	Oh, they're talking to me, huh?
165:30:25	Cernan	Yes, because I didn't - -
165:30:26	CC	Yes.
165:30:27	Cernan	I didn't think they could see me. I'm way up on top.
165:30:34	Schmitt	And it's blue-gray with light colored - -
165:30:39	Cernan	Put these in my bag.
165:30:40	Schmitt	- - inclusions in it.
165:30:41	Cernan	All right.
165:30:41	Schmitt	But the whole thing seems to be pretty well altered, or metamorphosed - compared to the major rock we sampled - to the other blue-gray rock.
165:30:55	Schmitt	This bag is terrible. I can't - it won't latch.
165:31:00	Cernan	Man, there's a dark hole in there.
165:31:01	Schmitt	Don't let me - I'm not -
165:31:12	Cernan	Here's another bag to put in there before you go.
165:31:14	Schmitt	Oh, okay. It won't latch.
165:31:21	Cernan	Well - -
165:31:22	Schmitt	Not at this angle.
165:31:27	Cernan	Put the thumb on one side, and I'll - -
165:31:28	Schmitt	It's dead or something. There, that's pretty good.
165:31:31	Cernan	Now let me fix your bag.
165:31:40	CC	And, 17 - -
165:31:40	Schmitt	Okay, Bob, I think that inclusion will give you an example of what - -
165:31:50	Cernan	That'll stay on.
165:31:50	Schmitt	- what this thing - what the anorthositic gabbro did to the blue-gray breccia.
165:31:58	CC	Okay. We copy that. And we're ready for you guys to leave this rock and press on and either get the rake soil and cores near that crater down below the rock just a shade, or else go on to some other different variety rocks in the area.
165:32:20	Schmitt	Well, I tell you, going down to that crater is not a problem. Getting back up is.
165:32:29	CC	Okay, well, find a decent area to get the rake soil from a couple of cores.
165:32:31	Schmitt	Tell you what, Gene, I could go down there and start a rake, and you could come down there.
165:32:35	Cernan	Okay. I - Yes, I don't think you ought to try and walk back up, Jack. Let me get a pan from right here where I got this sample.
165:32:41	Schmitt	Okay. I'm going to come over and - I'll go get the rake and get the - -
165:32:44	CC	17, it's not that vital to get to that crater. We just need a good place for a rake soil and a double - a single core.
165:32:50	Schmitt	... Get uphill a little bit, if you can, for the pan, so that you don't - so you see my other pan station.
165:33:00	Cernan	Where was it?
165:33:01	Schmitt	It was over there in that crater, just uphill from the Rover.
165:33:04	Cernan	I'm going up there.
165:33:06	CC	Hey, and, 17, we aren't all that gung ho about that particular crater, if it's that much of a Job to get down to it and back up. Just - we just need a decent place for a rake soil sample and a single core.
165:33:19	Schmitt	Okay.
165:33:20	Cernan	Bob, we don't move around from here too much. I tell you, these slopes are something else.
165:33:24	CC	Yes. We agree with that, from what we see on the television. So use your judgement, and get them where it's the best place
165:33:32	Cernan	Well, you might take a look at me walking up. But I don't think I can get to the top. I just got to get a place I can get a pan from, right here. Right in this little hole. Okay, now I left the gnomon down there.
165:33:52	Schmitt	Okay. I'll have to go get it. I think they're set up right here near the Rover.
165:33:58	Cernan	I think I'll go and save some water, back on INTERMEDIATE. Okay.
165:34:03	CC	Copy that.
165:34:05	Cernan	Hope my lens is clean. Bob, from up here, the light mantle is not evident until you see the anglular reflection up on the scarp. Very thin-like patches might be evident out on the valley, but not nearly as pronounced as I might have thought from this altitude.
165:34:53	Cernan	Oh, and there's Challenger. Holy Smoley. You know, Jack, when we finish with Station 8, we will have covered this whole valley from corner to corner.
165:35:18	Schmitt	That was the idea.
165:35:19	Cernan	Yes, but I didn't think we'd ever really quite get to that far corner. Not 2, but this other one. And we're going to make it.
165:35:30	Schmitt	Bob, that blue-gray rock near the contact with the anorthositic gabbro does get some vesicles in it. I think they'll show up in Gene's pictures.
165:35:51	CC	Okay. We have that too, Jack.
165:35:57	Cernan	Okay. I just ran out of film at 160. And I'm about two pictures short of the pan, and they're upslope. I think I can cover most of that with the 500.
165:36:19	CC	Okay, Gene. You got to go to the Rover and change your mag now.
165:36:24	Cernan	Well, Jack's going to need some help from me.
165:36:28	CC	Okay. Let me know when you - -
165:36:30	Schmitt	I'm starting to rake.
165:36:32	CC	Let me know when you get to the Rover to change the mags after you get done with that, and I'll tell you what mag to change.
165:36:34	Cernan	Jack, if you got - -
165:36:39	CC	But press on and help Jack with those first.
165:36:39	Cernan	Jack, if you got enough film, I'll just come and help you.
165:36:42	Schmitt	Okay.
165:36:54	Schmitt	Okay?
165:36:54	Cernan	Yes. Remind me to dust my camera, too, will you?
165:37:02	Schmitt	Don't forget to dust your camera.
165:37:04	CC	Okay. We'll keep track of that for you, Gene.
165:37:07	PAO	Gene Cernan took that tumble.
165:37:09	Cernan	Okay. Did you get any before pictures?
165:37:12	Schmitt	I'm getting them now.
165:37:13	Cernan	Okay.
165:37:15	Schmitt	(Laughter) it ain't easy, McGee.
165:37:17	Cernan	Man, I tell you, these slopes are great. I wouldn't mind being up on top coming down; but - hey, that boulder track is quite a trench.
165:37:25	Schmitt	Yes, sir.
165:37:27	Cernan	That thing must be a meter or 2 deep, huh?
165:37:29	Schmitt	Okay; the big rake. Well, I think I'll try - -
165:37:36	Cernan	Wouldn't it be easier to rake downhill.
165:37:37	Schmitt	It would, but the stuff wouldn't stay in.
165:37:40	Cernan	(Laughter)
165:37:42	Schmitt	Right?
165:37:43	Cernan	Well, I don't know.
165:37:44	Schmitt	It's a thought.
165:37:50	Cernan	Make sure you get that one by the - -
165:37:52	Schmitt	Yes, I will.
165:38:10	Schmitt	We're not really supposed to be selective about raking.
165:38:14	Cernan	Well, you're not; you're just covering the area.
165:38:18	Schmitt	That's why I set up there.
165:38:34	Cernan	A selective sample is better than no sample at all. Let me put some in there.
165:38:41	Schmitt	Okay.
165:38:47	Cernan	Bag 558.
165:38:51	CC	Copy 558.
165:38:56	Cernan	Bob, most of them are -
165:38:57	Schmitt	Let me go another couple of flights.
165:38:58	Cernan	Okay. There's one a couple of inches. Most of them are an inch or so or smaller. They're angular to subrounded fragments. Some of them look like inclusions. As a matter of fact, the ones that are broken open look like some of the light-colored inclusions we saw in the big boulder. The others are too dust covered to say anything about.
165:39:17	Schmitt	A couple of them look fairly coarsely crystalline. Okay. Put these in there.
165:39:26	Cernan	Big deal. Now we ended up with three more.
165:39:32	Schmitt	Okay. Let me get an after, such as it is. Oh, we want the -
165:39:38	Cernan	They want the soil here.
165:39:39	Schmitt	Soil - that's right.
165:39:41	CC	That's affirm.
165:39:46	Schmitt	Okay. You want to put that in?
165:39:47	Cernan	Yes, I'd better put it in before I - Okay. Let's try for the soil. 559's the soil.
165:40:03	CC	Okay. Copy that. And, 17, our present plans from the back room are that we'd like to get the single core, the 500 millimeter shots - and, I guess, maybe one could do one, and one could do the other - and then we'd like to press on and do a short Station 7, unless you think you've got a fair variety of rocks here. The feeling is to do that ... variety of rocks.
165:40:24	Schmitt	Yes.
165:40:24	Cernan	Little more, little more, little more.
165:40:31	Cernan	Okay, Bob. I'll get the core and let Jack get the 500. 559 is the kilogram of soil. I think we've pretty much covered the general, variety we've seen here. I think we've seen most of them in that boulder.
165:40:43	CC	Okay. And so we'd like to go on to Station 7, then, when you get the 500 and the core, in hopes of finding a variation of boulders along the front.
165:41:03	Cernan	Okay. Let me know when you get it. Okay. The after. Okay, why don't you get the 500, and I'll get the core.
165:41:14	Schmitt	And the LMP's on 120.
165:41:16	CC	Copy 120 there. And, Gene, if you want to change, we recommended magazine Foxtrot or Fran, as the case may be.
165:41:24	Cernan	Okay. Will try Foxtrot - Franny. Don't forget to get that boulder track.
165:41:30	CC	And while you're at it, Gene, you might remember to dust your camera when you're leaning over the seat.
165:41:38	Schmitt	Let me look at your camera.
165:41:49	Cernan	Oh, man, if this Rover wasn't here, we'd roll downhill.
165:41:52	Schmitt	Hey, Bob, I think we could use an upper here if you want to save the lowers.
165:41:58	Cernan	I think so, too.
165:41:59	Schmitt	Whichever you want. Do you want your - -
165:42:01	Cernan	No, I'll get it. Why don't you get your 500, and I'll - -
165:42:03	Schmitt	Okay. But do you want a core? Watch the fender.
165:42:06	Cernan	The core's in there, isn't it?
165:42:07	Schmitt	Well there's some under my seat if you want to use those.
165:42:09	Cernan	I'll use those.
165:42:10	CC	Stand by, Jack. We have three lowers and two uppers, so we'd just as soon use the extra lower here in the single core. That'll give us two uppers and two lowers left - -
165:42:19	Schmitt	Okay.
165:42:19	CC	- - for doubles.
165:42:23	Schmitt	There should be a lower in there, Geno.
165:42:25	Cernan	Yes, Bob, any special place you want that? Just out here on the slope?
165:42:29	CC	That's affirm.
165:42:29	Schmitt	Should have put the gnomon up. Well -
165:42:30	CC	Just out there on the slope. I guess if you saw a crater you might look at that, but primarily we're looking at the crater.
165:42:36	Cernan	You don't have any ... I'll get it. I'll get it, Jack. Don't worry. Okay. We have a couple of dents in our fen - in our wheels. That's better than having a flat tire.
165:43:22	Cernan	Did he say in a crater?
165:43:30	Schmitt	I'm not sure what he said. Thinking - How do - how do I get this doggone -
165:43:39	Cernan	This turn to come off?
165:43:43	Schmitt	You got to unlock it.
165:43:45	Cernan	Yes, it is unlocked.
165:43:46	Schmitt	Okay. Now push down and turn.
165:43:49	Cernan	Okay. I got it.
165:43:52	Schmitt	How am I going to see up there to shoot this thing?
165:43:56	Cernan	Well, why don't you lean against the rock? Go over there and lean against it.
165:44:01	Schmitt	Well, I have to do something. I was trying to get so I could lean against the Rover, but that ain't going to work.
165:44:08	Cernan	The Rover isn't steady enough for you to lean against.
165:44:11	Schmitt	Well, it's steady enough. There's just no place to lean.
165:44:14	CC	Okay. And, Jack, and if you'll listen for a minute, I'll tell you some possible 500-millimeter targets the people have in mind. One, the LM, if you can see it from there. Two, Nansen, if you can see it from there. Three, Lara; and four, Shorty. In other words, I guess they're talking about looking along your traverse from yesterday. It would be mostly the back shots, apparently. And then, also, the South Massif, and I don't know what you can get of boulder tracks leading up the North Massif. And most of those will be looking downhill towards the LM, stations 2, 3, and 4. Over. Nansen, Lara, and Shorty.
165:44:53	Schmitt	I got you, Bob.
165:44:55	Cernan	Yes, the LM is visible by the way.
165:45:32	Schmitt	Okay. I got a set of the - the - what looks like the outcrop from which the boulder came.
165:46:16	Schmitt	I'm afraid they're moved a little bit.
165:46:32	Schmitt	Oh, I can't - That's it. I got a few pictures looking up the boulder track and then off to the right - to the left a little bit - and one off to the right. And I think - I'm not sure how well they overlap; that's just an awful hard shot.
165:46:53	CC	Okay; good on that. And if you're done with that, have you got a frame count - or you're still taking them, I guess, it looks like.
165:47:05	Schmitt	Yes.
165:47:14	Cernan	Okay, my camera is clean. Magazine Foxtrot - is on about frame 2, and I cycled through it. And I've got the core all set, and I'm going to go get it. And I didn't hear where you said to put it, Bob.
165:47:38	CC	Anywhere.
165:47:43	Cernan	Oh, man, you're easy.
165:47:46	CC	And did you get your camera - -
165:47:47	Cernan	Anywhere. Not the bottom of a small crater, huh?
165:47:54	CC	Any place. And did you get your camera dusted?
165:47:57	Cernan	Yes. I got it all dusted and the mag's changed.
165:48:04	CC	Good.
165:48:05	Cernan	It's 448.
165:48:08	CC	Copy that.
165:48:11	Cernan	Okay. I'll even get you a picture of it.
165:48:21	Cernan	Oh me. Oh my.
165:48:25	PAO	EVA time 2 hours and 15 minutes.
165:48:50	Cernan	Oh me. Oh my. Can you get the LM from there?
165:48:53	Schmitt	Yes.
165:48:56	Cernan	That core went in very easy, Bob. I pushed it in about a quarter of the way. And about another five or six whacks, and it's in all the way.
165:49:30	Cernan	Okay. Come on out now, baby.
165:49:37	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. Shorty, and Station 3, and Station 2, and what else.
165:49:52	CC	And any sort of outcrop you see in the South Massif.
165:49:59	Schmitt	I thought we shot those.
165:50:01	CC	Okay. If you got those, fine.
165:50:05	Schmitt	No, I mean the other day.
165:50:08	CC	Well - -
165:50:08	Schmitt	I'll try again.
165:50:09	CC	Stereo is stereo is stereo, I guess.
165:50:10	Schmitt	Okay, and I got you a little soil me - Well, but it's not stereo; it's right along the same line. Little soil mechanics of the hole, which stayed intact; very nice and round.
165:50:22	CC	Okay. We copy that.
165:50:27	Schmitt	Okay. Oh, man.
165:50:38	Cernan	Yes, sir, we got a couple of dented tires.
165:50:43	Schmitt	Okay, hands have had it.
165:50:46	CC	Okay; good enough.
165:50:46	Schmitt	You aren't going to get anything else out of me if I keep taking pictures.
165:50:49	CC	And, Gene, what's a dented tire?
165:50:55	Cernan	A dented tire is a little - oh, a little golfball size or smaller indentation in the mesh. How does that sound to you? Doesn't hurt anything.
165:51:07	CC	That sounds like a dented tire; that's how it sounds.
165:51:09	Schmitt	Frame 31, Bob.
165:51:10	CC	Cappy - copy frame 31.
165:51:12	Cernan	That's sort of like what it is.
165:51:19	Schmitt	Okay. LMP was what? 120? I guess we can get to the next station with that.
165:51:25	CC	Yes, Roger.
165:51:26	Cernan	Yes, I got a brand new mag out.
165:51:27	CC	And we'd like to get you guys rolling as soon as feasible there.
165:51:33	Schmitt	Yes, sir. It's our policy.
165:51:36	Cernan	Okay. I'll need your rammer, so if you'll just turn right.
165:51:44	Schmitt	Good timing. Pin's out; core tube is safe. In full.
165:51:57	Cernan	I knew it was. Okay. You take this and put this under your seat, if you want, Jack. And I'll get the TGE. Oh, let me put your shovel back on for you. I'll get it.
165:52:14	Schmitt	Get that?
165:52:14	Cernan	Yes.
165:52:29	Schmitt	Don't lose that. Boy, if you do -
165:52:32	Schmitt	Okay. Did you give them the number?
165:52:34	Cernan	Yes, they got the number.
165:52:35	Schmitt	Under the LMP's seat.
165:52:35	CC	Roger. We got it. Copy that - under the LMP's seat.
165:52:41	Schmitt	(Laughter) I'm sneaking up on the TGE.
165:52:46	Cernan	You need some help?
165:52:47	Schmitt	No. No, I was - just sneaking up, that's all.
165:52:51	Cernan	... let you lean on me.
165:52:52	Schmitt	No, I got it.
165:52:56	Cernan	670, 109, 801; 670, 109, 801.
165:53:05	CC	Okay. We copy that.
165:53:13	Schmitt	I wish we - the one thing I didn't do. While you're doing that -
165:53:25	Cernan	...
165:53:27	Schmitt	Didn't get pictures of those foliated vesicles. I don't think the ones you had were in that kind of rock.
165:53:40	Cernan	I don't want to lose that thing, so I guess - -
165:53:43	CC	Okay, 17, when you get back on here, we don't need any charges, and we'll leave the sets turned off.
165:53:54	Schmitt	I'm not sure. Did you turn it off, Gene?
165:53:56	Cernan	Yes, I turned it off. I turned it off. Okay. Let me see. We want to move on to 7 here. Rake, talus, documented core, you got your stereos, we got two pans, TGE, camera. Okay, we're going to head east and look for Station 7 - block variation, contact change, and get a different sample of rocks. Okay, I sure want to get one or two of those nice ones in the big bag while you're over there.
165:54:31	CC	Okay - -
165:54:31	Schmitt	Open the gate, and I'll bring one.
165:54:32	CC	- - Seven - Okay. And let me know when you get ready to get back on the Rover there, 17.
165:54:46	Cernan	Guess what isn't opening again. Should, though. It's all set right.
165:54:56	CC	You could put them under Jack's seat if it's easier.
165:55:13	Cernan	Okay. What do you want done to the SEP while I'm here? Do you want the blanket stayed - left open?
165:55:15	CC	Okay, we'd - Negative. We'd like the blankets closed and taped down again, if possible, and both switches left off. We won't touch it again until Station 8.
165:55:28	Cernan	Oh, tape's not going to stick anymore, I'm afraid.
165:55:31	CC	Well, try.
165:55:32	Schmitt	Big bag open?
165:55:33	Cernan	Yes, it's all open. All set.
165:55:35	Schmitt	Get me a - I need a normal sample bag for one here. It's pretty fragile.
165:55:40	Cernan	Okay. Oh, that doggoned thing's not going to - That tape is full of dust now. Okay. Wait a minute, Jack.
165:55:49	Schmitt	Here, let me get this big one. I'm about ready to drop it. It looks like a gabbro.
165:56:00	Cernan	There's sample bag 560.
165:56:05	CC	Copy 560.
165:56:05	Schmitt	And 560 has an undoc - undocumented except by the pans - very white - looks like a crushed anorthosite. It looks like the - some of the inclusions in the breccia - in the gray breccia - gray and recrystallized breccia.
165:56:24	CC	Okay. We copy that.
165:56:24	Cernan	Jack, when you get around, and we close this gate, you might try and hit that - top of that SEP down again.
165:56:29	Schmitt	I will.
165:56:34	Cernan	Hey, Bob, you're staying keyed an awful long time. We can hear a lot of what's going on back there. Wait a minute. Let me get this out of the way. Okay. Close it. Yes. That's got it.
165:56:53	Schmitt	... it's -
165:56:54	Cernan	That's got it. Okay.
165:56:55	Schmitt	Oop, oop, oop. Why'd that come off?
165:56:57	Cernan	Well, because it's not locked. It's ... that never was locked.
165:56:59	Schmitt	(Laughter) We lucked out.
165:57:14	Cernan	Okay. We're moving. Sort of.
165:57:20	CC	And, before you get on, remember to close the battery covers if they -
165:57:26	Cernan	Yes.
165:57:33	Schmitt	Your camera lens looks all right, Geno.
165:57:36	Cernan	Yes, I dusted it already.
165:57:37	Schmitt	Oh.
165:57:41	Cernan	Okay. Cover closed -
165:57:44	Schmitt	Okay. Do they want it on or off? Leave it off, huh?
165:57:47	Cernan	Leave it off, but try and close that cover as best you can.
165:57:50	Schmitt	Well, I'm afraid the tape has had it.
165:57:53	Cernan	I know it.
165:57:54	Schmitt	You want us to tape it again, Bob? What did you do with the tape?
165:57:59	CC	If you can grab the tape right off, but don't spend a lot of time on it.
165:58:06	Schmitt	What did you do with that tape?
165:58:09	CC	Let's worry about - let's worry about it at Station 7, if we're going to worry about it. Press on.
165:58:15	Schmitt	Okay.
165:58:17	Cernan	Yes. Let's - let's forget it now. It's too hard, to work on there, and it's not going to take just a minute. It's going to take too much time. I'm not sure I can get back on here.
165:58:24	Schmitt	Well, let me give you a hand. We need any a - we don't need any -
165:58:28	Cernan	No.
165:58:29	Schmitt	Nothing. As a matter of fact -
165:58:31	Cernan	I can drive, Jack.
165:58:32	Schmitt	Why don't you drive down and get - so you're not - You can get on -
165:58:35	Cernan	You can go downhill very easy.
165:58:37	Schmitt	Yes.
165:58:38	Cernan	Okay. Let me get the TV; The battery covers are closed - Let me carry - -
165:58:43	Schmitt	Why don't you just go down there.
165:58:44	Cernan	- - I'll carry the Rover samples just in case.
165:58:47	Schmitt	Got it?
165:58:47	Cernan	Okay. I'll get that out of your way, too.
165:58:54	Schmitt	Okay. I'll head down to that, ... that side hill over to those boulders right over there and then see if that's any change.
165:59:09	Cernan	Okay. You might, if you get another sample - a large sample, you might grab it, and we'll throw it in the footpan here - and - and I'll see if I can't find a level spot to - -
165:59:19	Schmitt	I sort of ought to have my scoop, too.
165:59:20	Cernan	- - help you get on. No, don't take too much; just take that. That's all you need.
165:59:25	Schmitt	How about letting me have your hammer, then?
165:59:27	Cernan	Well -
165:59:29	CC	Okay; and, IT, can you verify that the - that the gnomon is back in the Rover?
165:59:37	Cernan	Gnomon is on the Rover. The TGE is on the Rover.
165:59:41	Schmitt	The rake.
165:59:42	Cernan	The rake is on the Rover. The scoop's on the Rover. We got the - you put the core under your pan, right?
165:59:48	Schmitt	Yes, that's right.
165:59:49	Cernan	Okay. I'm going to power up and see if I can't come down and get you.
165:59:55	Schmitt	It's fun walking downhill. Boy, that boulder track is impressive.
166:00:06	CC	Okay; and, IT, when you get moving - when you get moving we want to get, and I quote, a maximum variety of hand samples with a minimum amount of documentation, in a minimum amount of time at Station 7. It's just an attempt to see what kind of variety we can get along the face of the front. Over.
166:00:28	Cernan	Roger. Okay. Well, I'm not sure I can get down without ending up in your seat.
166:00:38	PAO	Station 7 is 8 tenths of a kilometer east of Station 6, still along the base of the North Massif.
166:00:40	Schmitt	Need some help?
166:00:41	Cernan	No ...
166:00:42	Schmitt	I shouldn't have left.
166:00:45	Cernan	No, no. I don't need any help. I'll get on.
166:01:00	Schmitt	I probably ought to turn my water off of MAX if that's where it is. It's cold. I don't want to run out today.
166:01:56	Cernan	Well, the roll indicator says 15 degrees; and the pitch indicator says about 12. I don't know if I believe all that. Bob, you with us?
166:02:06	CC	Go ahead. Right. We're with you.
166:02:10	Cernan	Okay. I'm rolling.
166:02:12	CC	Copy that.
166:02:35	Cernan	Man, this is still a slope. Jack, I'm going to pull around and in the front of the way you're facing.
166:02:44	Schmitt	I can go down - There's a crater over here. Don't drive through it.
166:02:53	Cernan	Oh, there you are. This is much better. How is this?
166:02:57	Schmitt	That's great.
166:03:01	Cernan	We ought to be able to pick up lots of those fragments out in that field out there.
166:03:07	Schmitt	Be right with you.
166:03:08	Cernan	Okay. Bob, I just came downslope reading 193/3.1 - just about 100 meters to pick up Jack.
166:03:19	CC	Okay, copy that.
166:03:23	Schmitt	Okay. Bag 48 Yankee has a sample of about a half - one-third-meter boulder that was lying in - that's sitting right smack dab in a little crater of it's own.
166:03:47	CC	Copy that.
166:03:48	Cernan	Oh, Jack.
166:03:49	Schmitt	What?
166:03:50	Cernan	Oh, you Just kicked a snowstorm of dust across here.
166:03:52	Schmitt	I'm sorry. I just fell, too.
166:03:55	Cernan	Did you? You all right?
166:03:56	Schmitt	Yes. Got your hammer?
166:03:58	Cernan	Yes.
166:04:00	Schmitt	Okay.
166:04:03	Cernan	I got to drop it in the pan here. Hold on to it, I think.
166:04:10	Schmitt	Couldn't help that one.
166:04:13	Cernan	Yes. I think we can get some more level spots. I can dust this thing back there.
166:04:16	Schmitt	Am I really on?
166:04:16	Schmitt	Am I really on?
166:04:20	Cernan	You're high. You're twisted. Go away from me one twist.
166:04:24	Schmitt	Okay.
166:04:28	Cernan	Is it caught in something? Yes, it is. You're - oh, wait a minute - get up, get up, get up. You've got - you're sitting on - get up.
166:04:33	Schmitt	What am I sitting on?
166:04:34	Cernan	Can't get out. You didn't put this away. Wait a minute. Get up, out - all the way.
166:04:40	Schmitt	Oh, that thing.
166:04:41	Cernan	Yes, this thing.
166:04:42	Schmitt	That's right. That's why you're sitting high. I knew I'd forget that. Okay. Now, let me get this thing out. Okay. Okay. Let's press. Better get latched.
166:05:22	Cernan	Okay. All set?
166:05:24	Schmitt	Yes.
166:05:25	Cernan	Okay.
166:05:36	Cernan	We're rolling, Bob.
166:05:38	Schmitt	LMP frame - is 130.
166:05:47	Cernan	You got a lot of static now?
166:05:49	Schmitt	Yes.
166:05:50	Cernan	Okay.
166:05:52	Schmitt	Hey, you got a rock on your right. I guess you - -
166:05:53	Cernan	Yes. I got them.
166:05:53	Schmitt	...
166:05:58	Cernan	I got the low gain set. Hello, Houston. Do you read?
166:06:02	CC	Roger. We read loud and clear.
166:06:06	Cernan	Okay.
166:06:10	Schmitt	Okay; how about that field, not this block but there's sort of a collection of them - -
166:06:15	Cernan	Yes. Way out there - -
166:06:16	Schmitt	- - way out there, about 300 meters or so.
166:06:19	Cernan	Oh, at least. Yes.
166:06:22	Schmitt	Oh; going into the Sun, I can't see a thing to tell you about Wessex Cleft.
166:06:27	CC	Okay. Station 7 is nominally 208 and 3.3, but it's any group of any significant boulders you want to stop at in reality.
166:06:37	Cernan	Understand.
166:06:44	Schmitt	Oh, easy.
166:06:48	Cernan	You feel like you're on a downslope over there?
166:06:49	Schmitt	Yes. I feel like you're about ready to spin out downhill any minute.
166:06:52	Cernan	Do you? I don't feel that at all up here.
166:07:00	Schmitt	Bob, it's hard to give you much, looking into the Sun the way we are.
166:07:06	Cernan	We must be about 200 meters up the slope, looking at that little valley down there, Jack. Am I right?
166:07:10	Schmitt	Yes. I think you're right. The pattern on the slope really doesn't look much different than on the light mantle. Matter of fact, it looks very much like light mantle, except for these large blocks that are in it.
166:07:23	CC	Okay. Copy that. And you guys may still have your visors up. We can't tell, but you might be better off with them down, if you've forgotten they they're up.
166:07:33	Schmitt	Well, boy, I can't see. My hands work just as well as ray visor, as a matter of fact.
166:07:41	Cernan	No, I can't believe - mine could be up.
166:07:43	Schmitt	You've got a crater right in front of you.
166:07:45	Cernan	Yes. I got it.
166:07:47	Schmitt	Okay. That looks like a pretty good pile to work on.
166:07:49	Cernan	Yes. Let's go over in there.
166:07:50	Schmitt	Hey, wait a minute. Okay.
166:07:51	Cernan	Bob, what heading are you going to want me to park on? I want to get in that flat area, Jack, sol can dust the radiators.
166:07:57	Schmitt	Yes.
166:07:57	CC	We have no constraints, Gene. This is going to be a very short station. Probably not more than 10 or 15 minutes. But just to grab, as I say a maximum variety of hand samples with a minimum amount of documentation and a minimum amount of time.
166:08:12	Cernan	Okay. We can do a pan, and pick up a lot of those small ones, Jack.
166:08:15	Schmitt	Yes.
166:08:17	Cernan	Rather than trying to chip.
166:08:22	CC	Okay. We would like to have the - -
166:08:24	Cernan	I'd like to see us a little more level.
166:08:25	CC	- - TV camera and its mirrors and stuff dusted there, however. But we won't do anything to the battery.
166:08:30	Schmitt	I thought you were going to stop back there.
166:08:33	Cernan	Well, okay. I was going out - out here around this big one.
166:08:38	Schmitt	I'm sorry. I misunderstood you.
166:08:40	Cernan	Yes. See, there's a lot of little ones up in here I want to -
166:08:51	Cernan	Okay. Do not do anything to the batteries. Understand.
166:08:53	CC	Roger.
166:08:54	Schmitt	I can't figure out where you're going to stop.
166:08:56	Cernan	Right in here - right here to give you as much of a level spot as I can. That's about as level a spot as I can find. I'm inside the slope of a crater.
166:09:04	Cernan	Bob, I'm at 200/3.3.
166:09:07	CC	Copy that.
166:09:22	Schmitt	You want me to help you with it - that thing, Geno?
166:09:24	Cernan	No, I'll get it. Only one guy can do it.
166:09:31	Cernan	I just - we'll take - you take a pan before, and we'll start picking up some of those samples, and I'll take a pan afterward.
166:09:40	Schmitt	Well, let's see here.
166:09:48	Cernan	See what kind of variety we can get here.
166:09:50	Schmitt	There is another one of our blue-gray breccias, I think, over there; recrystallized breccias with some of that crushed anorthosite in it. I think right in here I'm going to take the pan at about - -
166:10:08	CC	And, Jack, what's your frame count?
166:10:12	Schmitt	131.
166:10:14	CC	Okay. Press on.
166:10:22	Schmitt	Bob, I'm going to take the pan at 11 - feet, so you can see the fragments that we are going to pick up here. Then we can take another one at - for location work.
166:10:40	CC	Copy that.
166:11:00	PAO	The picture's coming in now. EVA time 2 hours 38 minutes.
166:11:11	Cernan	Should have it, Bob.
166:11:13	CC	We've got a TV. And, I repeat, we'd like to get some dust both on the mirror - dusting of the mirror and the lens of the TV; TCU and the TV.
166:11:26	Cernan	Let me get you - let me get you out of the Sun.
166:11:39	Cernan	I wouldn't do this for anybody but you, you know that.
166:11:44	CC	Okay. Looks good, Gene. Thank you.
166:12:07	Cernan	You know what? I'm getting tired of dusting.
166:12:28	Cernan	My primary tool, the dustbrush and the hammer - and my head. Okay. You ready to start picking?
166:12:43	Schmitt	Picking.
166:12:44	Cernan	Okay.
166:12:51	CC	And - -
166:12:51	Cernan	You notice the temperature difference with that high Sun angle?
166:12:56	CC	Roger. You're probably letting in a lot of infrared through that - without having that gold visor down, too. That's sort of an infrared shield.
166:13:05	Cernan	Yes, but mine's been down all the time, Bob.
166:13:07	CC	Copy that.
166:13:07	Cernan	Except in the shade.
166:13:12	Schmitt	Okay, 540 is the first bag of selected samples.
166:13:19	CC	Copy that.
166:13:23	Schmitt	Okay. I'm going to leave it open, but don't let me - let me get -
166:13:25	Cernan	Here, put that one in there.
166:13:28	Schmitt	Wait a minute, let's get a bag on it. We're getting too many rocks, and we don't know where they came from.
166:13:39	Schmitt	I don't think it will fit. Know it?
166:13:42	Cernan	Yes, we'll wrap it a little bit. ... it will fit. ... fit.
166:14:07	Schmitt	Okay. Bag 541 is partially around another big rock in Gene's - Gene's collection bag.
166:14:27	Cernan	Did you get pictures of this thing here?
166:14:29	Schmitt	Yes; well, not the big rock yet. Not in focus anyway.
166:14:33	Cernan	I got to do that.
166:14:36	Schmitt	I was just collecting in this area.
166:14:38	Cernan	Why don't you keep grabbing a few, and I'm going to -
166:14:42	Schmitt	That's what I'm doing.
166:14:43	Cernan	That's one of the blue-gray rocks, Bob. And it's got a light-colored fragment that runs the full height of it, about a meter and a half thick. And then it's got the gray or blue-gray rock on the other side. As a matter of fact - Let me look at it closely. It's a fragment in it all right.
166:15:18	CC	Okay. Copy that, Gene. And remember to document around the corner if you're trying to get some photo documentation of the boulder.
166:15:35	Cernan	Bob, I wouldn't be absolutely positive, but it sure looks like I see a dikelet in here that's in the inclusion. And I'm going to get a closeup stereo of it. I'd call it a dikelet, if you pinned me down.
166:15:48	CC	Okay. Copy that.
166:15:51	Schmitt	Pin him - pin him down.
166:16:10	Cernan	I wish I could break a sample right off. Here's another one. It is a dikelet! There's three or four of them.
166:16:21	CC	Okay. Copy that, Gene. Very good.
166:16:29	Cernan	Oh - me; oh, wy. The material in the dike looks - Yes, it is, it is, it's not covering it. It's between the - it's between the - lighter colored rock, and it's the blue-gray rock.
166:17:09	Schmitt	542 is another bag of goodies.
166:17:13	CC	Copy that.
166:17:14	Schmitt	Gene, let me get rid of this.
166:17:15	Cernan	Oh, wait a minute. I got - I got - Well, maybe it isn't a dikelet. Maybe it's just a screen covering, a flow covering.
166:17:23	Schmitt	No, you got - They're - they're dikes.
166:17:24	Cernan	Let me - let me -
166:17:25	Schmitt	They're little veinlets of -
166:17:27	Cernan	Let me get this whole thing in a bag.
166:17:31	Cernan	I got a - I got a rock, Bob. It's fractured, primarily around the dike. It's in several pieces, but we're going to put it all in one bag.
166:17:39	Schmitt	543.
166:17:42	Cernan	Some of the men are going to have to assemble that.
166:17:42	CC	Copy, 543.
166:17:50	Schmitt	Here.
166:17:50	Cernan	Here, I got - I got - Let me get it piece by piece.
166:17:57	Schmitt	Okay. We need to get a - put one of those dikes in another bag. Bob, it looks like some fraction of the blue-gray material has obviously - -
166:18:12	Cernan	Not too full. That's all right.
166:18:13	Schmitt	- - intruded. Huh? Now, can you get that dike there?
166:18:17	Cernan	Piece of it?
166:18:18	Schmitt	That's right.
166:18:19	Cernan	Yes.
166:18:19	Schmitt	Can you get that?
166:18:20	Cernan	I can get it right here.
166:18:22	Schmitt	No, I think - No, get the piece with the - you get more of it, right there.
166:18:25	Cernan	Yes. It's this soft, white inclusion again. It breaks pretty easy.
166:18:35	Cernan	Oh, it's got to be a dike. Look at that.
166:18:37	Schmitt	It is. It is.
166:18:42	Cernan	Okay.
166:18:43	Schmitt	Okay, 544.
166:18:45	CC	Copy that.
166:18:45	Cernan	Oh, yes, it is because I just broke into it.
166:18:47	Schmitt	Yes.
166:18:47	Cernan	I'm looking - -
166:18:48	CC	And we'd like to have you guys moving again in 5 minutes to get to Station 8 on time.
166:18:56	Schmitt	Yes, sir. Looks like - although the blue-gray up on the hill looked like a fragment breccia, if this is still related, then it's - been some partial melting at some time.
166:19:16	Cernan	There's a preserved contact between the dike and the - -
166:19:17	Schmitt	That's what I wanted.
166:19:19	Cernan	- - white material.
166:19:20	Schmitt	That's what I wanted.
166:19:20	Cernan	Why don't we get this big piece of dike now?
166:19:21	Schmitt	See if you can get - Whoa! Don't hit it again. There, you've still got some - still got some contact there.
166:19:31	Cernan	Now, there's some good contact. Man, that'll do it.
166:19:34	Schmitt	Okay.
166:19:35	Cernan	That'll do it.
166:19:36	Schmitt	Dike and intruded rock in 544. Now, these dikes are a dark bluish-gray. And it looks like there are some - it looks like they're very finely crystalline - maybe with some - -
166:19:51	Cernan	Get my bag. I'm taking some closeups.
166:19:52	Schmitt	- - very fine phenocrysts.
166:19:55	Schmitt	Okay.
166:19:58	CC	Okay. We copy that.
166:19:59	Schmitt	We ought to get - Well - we ought to get a piece of the normal gray that the dikes are coming from. You got your hammer handy still?
166:20:09	Cernan	Yes. I want to - I want to get - -
166:20:12	Schmitt	Go ahead.
166:20:13	Cernan	- - finish documenting this thing.
166:20:19	Cernan	Ah-hah! Ah-hah!
166:20:20	Schmitt	Hey, over here on this side, it looks like the vesicular anorthositic gabbro.
166:20:30	Cernan	I got to get some regular pictures on this set. Okay. Here's the - if that one won't come off, this one will. Got it?
166:20:41	Schmitt	And - Yes. 561. That's a sample of the gray, looks like recrystallized breccia that the dikes are continuous with.
166:20:57	CC	Okay. And a -
166:20:59	Schmitt	And a - Bob, that's my turn to say "and a." And the - the vesicular rocks -
166:21:18	Cernan	Let me finish the stereo around the corner here.
166:21:22	CC	Okay. And you guys have dropped the scoop there on the ground. And we're ready for you guys to leave.
166:21:30	Cernan	I know you are.
166:21:34	CC	And you might grab one FSR on the way out.
166:21:41	Cernan	Okay. We'll do that.
166:21:42	Schmitt	Okay. There's that one. The vesicular anorthositic gabbro is in 5 - What is it? 62.
166:21:54	Cernan	62.
166:21:55	Cernan	I'll get this in there, and you take the -
166:21:58	Schmitt	I got to get the scoop.
166:21:58	Cernan	Scoop, and I'll get the hammer. Then make sure your bag is closed.
166:22:02	Schmitt	Yes, I've got to check yours, too. Let me get uphill from you, though.
166:22:04	Cernan	Wait a minute. Give me the hammer. Hows that? Can you get it now?
166:22:12	Schmitt	This is one of the worst bags we've had ... It just doesn't stay down. Probably - If we get time somewhere, we ought to change that out.
166:22:34	Cernan	Two of the corners are - -
166:22:35	Schmitt	Yes. Well -
166:22:37	Cernan	How's she doing?
166:22:37	Schmitt	It's okay. It'll hold for a while.
166:22:52	Schmitt	Okay.
166:22:56	Cernan	Okay. Here's an FSR that's about -
166:23:00	CC	And, Jack, you're untied on one - one side of your bag is undone again.
166:23:07	Schmitt	Oh, I'll get it - for you.
166:23:13	Cernan	Here's a football-size rock that was 50 percent varied.
166:23:16	Schmitt	Can you grip it? I got the gate open.
166:23:26	Cernan	I'm going to get your bag. Hey! Did you see the way I handled that hammer?
166:23:29	Schmitt	Yes.
166:23:29	Cernan	Tell you what, I'm getting accustomed to things.
166:23:38	Cernan	That gate's a little sluggish, too, Jack.
166:23:46	Cernan	Boy, I think everything is so full of dust, nothing wants to move anymore.
166:23:54	Schmitt	Okay. That one looked like a piece of the gray rock, I think.
166:23:57	Cernan	Yes. I'll bet I didn't push the gravimeter here. Did I, Bob?
166:24:00	CC	No. We'll get it at Station 8.
166:24:02	Schmitt	No. They didn't tell us to.
166:24:05	Cernan	Okay. Jack, you're going to have to close the gate, and I'll have to hold the big bag over the top.
166:24:09	Schmitt	Okay.
166:24:10	CC	Okay. And, Jack, before you leave, we'd like you to change mags before you get to - before you leave this station.
166:24:18	Schmitt	Yes, sir. I'll do that. No. ...
166:24:23	Cernan	Wait a minute.
166:24:24	Schmitt	I've got it.
166:24:25	Cernan	Yes, but don't push.
166:24:26	Schmitt	I won't.
166:24:26	Cernan	One of those little ... strip - Okay, now you can push. Okay, that's locked. Well, it's in. Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Let me see what's going on in there. Oh, - we - this thing isn't - didn't - isn't released all the way. Pull it out this - that's ... Push. Okay, now -
166:24:55	Schmitt	There, you got it. It went in.
166:24:56	Cernan	Okay, that's the dust again. Now, the bag's in the way. Let me get the bag out.
166:25:01	CC	Okay. And, Gene, you might get the -
166:25:03	Cernan	Okay. Now shove it. That's too much. Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Let me - Okay. Let me lift it up and do it. Well, wait a minute, I've got to tweak this thing. Okay, now shove it in. Right now.
166:25:25	Schmitt	That got it. No? Why don't you play with it, and I'll see if I can change a mag.
166:25:41	Cernan	Well, dadgummit! That latch is -
166:25:48	Schmitt	... ?
166:25:49	Cernan	I'll lock it. I'll just push that latch - that latch is just sticking, that's all. It's just dust again. I don't know what you do about those problems.
166:25:56	Schmitt	Okay, what magazine did you want, Bob?
166:25:58	CC	Magazine Mike, as in Mary.
166:26:00	Cernan	Okay. It's latched.
166:26:04	CC	Gene, you might spend your time taking a - -
166:26:07	Cernan	It's latched.
166:26:07	CC	- - standard 74-foot pan while Jack is changing his mag, if you got a chance there.
166:26:15	Cernan	That's a splendid idea, sir. And that's exactly what I'll do. I don't mind going uphill, because it's so much fun coming down. Down in my little hole here. Oh! That's stability. That's stability.
166:27:07	Cernan	Boy, Challenger looks a long way away. That's 3 kilometers, huh?.
166:27:20	Schmitt	Yes.
166:27:29	Schmitt	Okay. Mag's changed.
166:27:32	CC	Copy that.
166:27:40	Schmitt	Bob, those two bags with the goodies in them will have enough soil to be representative of the area we sampled, too, I think.
166:27:50	CC	Okay, copy that. And did you guys get your bags fixed up there, Jack? We were concerned about your SCB for a while.
166:27:58	Schmitt	No. We have to do that.
166:28:00	Cernan	We'll do it.
166:28:01	CC	Okay.
166:28:01	Schmitt	Look at my camera lens and see how dirty it is.
166:28:14	Cernan	Now it's the other hook that came - turn a little more left. No, it didn't - it didn't come off, I don't think - unless it - the bottom's off, but the bottom is not going to stay on. And it's not - you're not going to lose it. The tops are so tight you'll - Your bottom's loose, but that - that's because your harness shrunk a little bit.
166:28:33	Schmitt	Okay.
166:28:34	CC	Okay. It looked like, from time to time, guys, that only one of Jack's hooks was hooked. On the top.
166:28:41	Cernan	Yes. They're both on, and they're both tight. And - -
166:28:45	CC	Okay. We copy.
166:28:46	Cernan	- - I got the bottom hooked again, too.
166:28:51	Schmitt	Yes. Okay.
166:28:51	Cernan	Bottom - but his bottom is not going to stay.
166:28:53	Schmitt	Okay. Check my lens.
166:28:56	Cernan	Oh, your lens is beautiful!
166:28:57	Schmitt	... What's mine look like? Can you see it?
166:28:59	Cernan	Yes, I know it's clean. Let's forget it.
166:29:01	CC	Okay; and, 17, as you get around to the front there, Gene, would you dust the LCRU; we don't think you did that here, and the top of the TV camera. And, Jack, would you take a peek at the SEP temperature for us?
166:29:15	Cernan	I'm sorry, Bob. I already did that when we stopped at the station.
166:29:19	CC	Okay. It's ... - -
166:29:21	Schmitt	SEP temperature is about 115 -
166:29:27	CC	Copy. 115.
166:29:38	CC	Okay, then. Press on.
166:29:50	PAO	The television has been shut down while the crew travels south-east to Station 8, along the base of the Sculptured Hills. It will be up to crew discression just exactly where to sample along the base of these hills.
166:29:55	Schmitt	Okay.
166:29:56	Cernan	Jack, this is tied down everywhere. You're just going to have to watch it.
166:30:12	Schmitt	I will. Okay, I'm in.
166:30:19	Schmitt	Hey, we seem to do an awful lot of down-Sun driving for - or up-Sun driving for all the planning we did (laughter).
166:30:26	CC	Yes. Wait until we come home from Station 8, then we'll take care of it.
166:30:31	Cernan	Okay.
166:30:31	CC	And, Gene, as you get started there, we'd like a couple of Rover battery temperatures; at least one, we know what the other one says. And, Jack, we might get a frame count from you - Oh, excuse me, we already got that. Thank you, because you changed.
166:30:47	Cernan	Well, okay, 110; and CDR, by the way, is about 73 on the frames.
166:30:54	CC	Copy that.
166:31:00	Cernan	Okay, Bob. I'd like the range and bearing to the - We're roll - we -
166:31:04	Schmitt	How did you get in reverse?
166:31:05	Cernan	I don't know.
166:31:08	Cernan	Okay. We're rolling, and I'd like the range and bearing to the next -
166:31:14	CC	Okay. We want a heading of around 1 - we want a heading of around 125, and there's going to be a short - some - a small turn, and I think it's just at crater - the SWP Crater at 225 and 3.4, there'll be a slight turn. That's a heading of 125 is what you should start out on.
166:31:33	Cernan	That's what I'm looking for.
166:31:35	CC	And 225 and 3.4 -
166:31:36	Cernan	I though we were bypassing -
166:31:40	CC	No, we just do that - -
166:31:41	Cernan	I thought we were bypassing SWP.
166:31:42	CC	- - through the mission planning stages.
166:31:48	Cernan	225 and 3.4. Okay.
166:31:52	Schmitt	That's pretty close to nominal.
166:31:54	Cernan	Yes. ... got my - Man, I tell you, this little navigation map I've got on my hand - cuff checklist is - is unquestionably the greatest thing that I've ever - done.
166:32:10	Schmitt	Sure hard to tell where north is on it, though.
166:32:17	Cernan	Trying my best to keep you out of those slopes.
166:32:19	Schmitt	That's all right. I'm learning to tolerate it.
166:32:26	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. We're pretty close now to - no, really not. We're still about 100 meters, I think, from where the break in slope is - with the flank. And - but we're away from the block population except for scattered - two great big blocks out ahead of us, this side of the SWP Crater. And - but the average population is down to the 1 percent or less, again.
166:32:58	Cernan	That average population really never changed up in here. Just the big blocks were around. I saw some little -
166:33:08	PAO	We estimate driving time to be 20 minutes. Distance about 2.3 kilometers.
166:33:13	Schmitt	Half-meter to one-third-meter, glass-lined, pit-bottom craters. Look at the size of those things!
166:33:27	Cernan	Boy, aren't they big mothers - mamoos (laughter).
166:33:33	Schmitt	(Laughter) And it looks like they're probably the same thing that we sampled. They have the inclusions in them, white inclusions. They look like a mixture of gray and the - sort of a tan-gray of the - the gray of the recrystallized breccia, and the tan-gray of the anorthositic gabbro.
166:34:01	Schmitt	That must - Hey, look! There's Van Serg, blocky rim crater. That's the other side of Cochise there. See it?
166:34:12	Cernan	Yes. Way over there.
166:34:15	Schmitt	Yes. Cochise is certainly a shallow crater, although we knew that. It doesn't have any - it only has one place I can see that has any blocks on the inner wall of Cochise. Otherwise, it has a surface much like what we're driving on for walls and for the floor. One place on the south - southeast wall there is a concentration of blocks much like we saw in Henry or in Horatio. But the rest of the crater seems to be pretty well mantled. Van Serg is a very blocky rim crater, big blocks up on the rim.
166:34:52	Cernan	Do you have a lot of static, Jack, or is it just me?
166:34:54	Schmitt	No, I think it's just you. People are always giving you static.
166:35:02	Cernan	Bob, if you are still reading me, I'm looking at the Sculptured Hills, and I still have that - that old man wrinkled face appearance, even up close at this Sun angle. And those wrinkles go from, generally, upslope at the west to downslope at the east.
166:35:21	Schmitt	Hey, are you - No, you're right at the edge of Cochise. Aren't you?
166:35:27	Cernan	Where? Right here?
166:35:29	Schmitt	Yes. Aren't you?
166:35:29	Cernan	No, we're not that close. Uh-uh. Cochise is up at - see that rim where those blocks are?
166:35:33	Schmitt	No, that's a small crater.
166:35:35	Cernan	Oh, I'll bet you that's Cochise up there. We've got to go quite a ways yet to get to -
166:35:39	CC	How about a range and bearing there, guys?
166:35:40	Cernan	This sideslope driving is really a tough - -
166:35:44	CC	How about a range and bearing?
166:35:45	Cernan	Okay. It's 210/3.4.
166:35:48	CC	Copy that. 210/3.4. And you should be somewhat north of Cochise there, as per planning, although you may be cutting south to try going directly up-Sun.
166:36:03	Cernan	I guess that's some other - That's Just a depression. I think Cochise is over that rim.
166:36:08	Schmitt	That's just a depression. Yes, yes. Those are getting warm.
166:36:14	Cernan	Boy, I tell you that. Every bump you go over on that sideslope is just accentuated.
166:36:28	CC	Yes, we don't think you're anywhere near Cochise.
166:36:32	Schmitt	Yes. I agree.
166:36:34	Cernan	Yes. I think it's over that rim up there.
166:36:36	Schmitt	That's just a big, shallow depression.
166:36:41	Cernan	All I'm doing is flying the 3.4-kilometer arc right now.
166:36:49	CC	Say again there, Gene.
166:36:50	Schmitt	There's another one of those deep craters that's not - that doesn't have a blocky rim.
166:36:56	Cernan	Okay. 214/3.4.
166:37:00	CC	Copy.
166:37:02	Schmitt	That's one of the more striking characteristics of the mantle are these craters that look, as far as the diameter-to-depth ratio is concerned, like they ought to be fairly young. But there's no blocks on the rim, and they seem to be - have this mantled appearance, just like some of the large craters.
166:37:26	Cernan	As I look up Wessex Cleft from just about abeam of it - Let me get over here - it still shows me an albedo change and a surface wrinkle-texture change.
166:37:43	Schmitt	And - yes, I think so. I've got it at the same Sun angle more or less, or part of it there.
166:37:48	CC	Okay. Copy that. You guys may be getting just a little far north.
166:37:51	Cernan	It's sort of a perfectly formed ...
166:37:51	Schmitt	Yes.
166:37:53	CC	You may want to head just a little south to avoid running right into the middle of SWP Crater.
166:37:59	Schmitt	Yes. I think we see it now. Is that SWP?
166:38:02	Cernan	Well, I don't know. I don't -
166:38:04	CC	SWP will be at 22 - SWP will be at 225 and 3.4.
166:38:11	Cernan	Yes. That's my - that's what I'm shooting for, Bob.
166:38:14	CC	Okay.
166:38:15	Cernan	I'm just flying a 3.4 mile - or kilometer arc.
166:38:19	CC	Roger. I was going to suggest that.
166:38:21	Schmitt	Bob, there's something I haven't mentioned, but if one had time on the next program - -
166:38:31	Cernan	I think that's SWP right there, Jack.
166:38:31	Schmitt	- - you can sample secondary craters, and they tend to have blocks either in them or on one rim, suggesting that you could tell directions if you put your mind to it. Directions of the - where the secondaries came from. These are small ones.
166:38:51	Cernan	Did we ever get a piece of glass in place?
166:38:52	Schmitt	Yes, I did yesterday.
166:38:53	Cernan	Documented in place?
166:38:54	Schmitt	Yes.
166:38:54	Cernan	Okay.
166:38:55	Schmitt	That's what I was trying to protect in the SRC yesterday.
166:38:59	Cernan	Here's SWP, Jack. It's coming right up, and I'll go along the southern rim.
166:39:05	Schmitt	I wish I wouldn't lose - start concentrating. I'm forgetting to take my pictures.
166:39:10	CC	Roger, Jack. Don't forget to take your pictures.
166:39:10	Cernan	I'll tell you, if we don't concentrate, we end up -
166:39:15	Schmitt	Okay. I'll quit thinking and just take pictures.
166:39:24	Schmitt	There's a crater, that double pit-bottom crater. That's the first one of those I've seen.
166:39:28	Cernan	Right here, Jack, you're going to be able to peek right over the top of SWP.
166:39:34	Schmitt	Right.
166:39:35	Cernan	Right here. How's that grab you?
166:39:39	Schmitt	That's SWP, all right. SWP's a bigger hole than I thought it was.
166:39:49	Schmitt	Might - SWP even has some blocks in the wall.
166:39:54	Cernan	Yes, but the eastern and southeastern rim of SWP are just continuous - Ooh - they're just continuous with the slopes of the Sculptured Hills.
166:40:06	CC	Okay. Copy that.
166:40:15	Cernan	How does 238/4.2 sound for the beginning of 8?
166:40:19	Schmitt	Hey, you're -
166:40:23	Cernan	May have to take these slopes just the most comfortable way we can.
166:40:27	CC	238 and 4.0 we're expecting for Station 8, the beginning of it. 238/4.2 - 4.0, excuse me; 4.0.
166:40:40	Cernan	Roger.
166:40:43	CC	And remember again, Station 8 is a very flexible area. You just get to a place where it looks like it's feasible to sample Sculptured Hills.
166:40:53	Schmitt	That's right.
166:40:54	Cernan	Yes.
166:41:02	Cernan	Let me tell you, this Rover is a machine. I don't know if it saw that hill we're climbing, but I did.
166:41:27	Schmitt	How's your - how're you doing?
166:41:29	Cernan	Doing fine. I'm trying to get around SWP over here and start hitting that -
166:41:35	Schmitt	East Massif has outcrops on it. I can see now on the north side. And they also tend to have linear to upper terminations. And some of those line up as if there's roughly horizontal structure within the upper one-half of the East Massif.
166:42:03	CC	Okay. Copy that, Jack. Stop thinking and take pictures.
166:42:12	Schmitt	Go by that little dark crater over there. There's a very blocky-rim small crater that's a dark-rim crater instead of a bright rim like we'd seen some around that looked fresh. It partly may be the angle at which we're approaching it.
166:42:16	PAO	The crew is about 20 minutes behind the timeline.
166:42:34	Cernan	Bob, we're on the southeastern rim of SWP at 226 and 3.6.
166:42:41	Schmitt	Why don't we get some samples of that material in there.
166:42:42	CC	Copy that.
166:42:44	Cernan	Right here.
166:42:46	Schmitt	Okay. Keep driving toward the rim and then just -a shallow curve. Okay. Now, curve it.
166:42:53	Cernan	That your spot?
166:42:54	Schmitt	Okay. Right. Just keep going, and I'll stop you.
166:42:58	Schmitt	Whoa, straight in. Good, good.
166:43:02	Cernan	Okay, Bob. 226/3.6. There's a - there's a highly fragmental, small crater about 40 - 30 or 40 meters across, right on the southeastern rim of SWP. And at - there's a - most of the fragments are football size and smaller, and they're very angular. And probably the inside of that rim is -
166:43:26	Schmitt	Turns out that they'll break. They're clods.
166:43:29	Cernan	Are they clods?
166:43:29	Schmitt	Yes.
166:43:30	Cernan	I guess that's going to be about 70 percent covered on the inside of the rim with these things.
166:43:34	Schmitt	It's all instant rock, but the crater rim looks dark compared to - to other fresh craters like this that we've seen.
166:43:47	Cernan	50 Yankee.
166:43:49	CC	Copy. 50 Yankee.
166:43:50	Schmitt	And the frame count is 26. LMP frame is 26.
166:43:57	CC	Copy that. Press on.
166:44:00	Schmitt	Yes, you're - We are, we're rolling.
166:44:04	CC	And, 17, we're hoping to go to Station 8a - -
166:44:04	Schmitt	Yes. Your wheels are just chewing those things up.
166:44:07	CC	- - the northernmost section of Station 8, if we can, of course.
166:44:14	Schmitt	Yes. I think - I think we ought to head just about - -
166:44:18	Cernan	Yes. We'll get there.
166:44:19	Schmitt	Well, the most - I think we ought to get below the highest peak up there because that seems to have the rocks on it.
166:44:27	Schmitt	I only see one rock so far - -
166:44:28	Cernan	... straight ahead, in there. See that one. Of course, I don't know where that came down. Doesn't look like it may have came down from the top.
166:44:39	Schmitt	Certainly aren't many rocks. It's certainly not like the old North and South Massifs. Yes. There's one big rock over there. That doesn't look like it might be -
166:45:01	Cernan	Well, let's head that way. That's about where the station is, anyway.
166:45:04	Schmitt	... I think we're starting to see blocks. That one is so - so unusual -
166:45:14	Cernan	That's about the station. That's the northernmost station anyway. There's another one there.
166:45:20	Schmitt	Well, this probably is - We can get the other smaller population around it. I'm worried about that one being exotic to the Sculptured Hills.
166:45:28	Cernan	Yes, it doesn't look like it rolled -
166:45:29	Schmitt	No.
166:45:29	Cernan	But I don't see any others, do you?
166:45:31	Schmitt	Well, there's some small ones up in there. Off to about the 2 o'clock position. But I think that's all. We're going to have to be satisfied with small ones. Big ones don't get down. There's some big ones way up on the slope.
166:45:44	Cernan	Yes, I see those.
166:45:49	Schmitt	Watch it; crater. You're ...
166:45:58	Cernan	Yes, let me get it for them. Okay. We're at 227/3.9.
166:46:05	CC	Copy. 227/3.9.
166:46:11	Cernan	I think it's worth - There's smaller ones around here, too, Jack.
166:46:17	Schmitt	Yes. That looks like subfloor from here.
166:46:22	Cernan	What's it look like? If it doesn't look worthwhile stopping, I'll move on up over there.
166:46:25	Schmitt	Yes, it looks like subfloor. I would recommend that we - -
166:46:28	Cernan	All right.
166:46:28	Schmitt	- - try to get up to some of those. I don't know whether we can or not. How's your - what's your pitch indicating?
166:46:35	Cernan	Oh, that doesn't mean anything.
166:46:39	Schmitt	See that - those two up there would be reasonably well up the slope.
166:46:45	Cernan	Bob, no parking constraints on the battery?
166:46:48	CC	Roger. No parking constraints. We'll park at 045, Gene. Or wherever you like, really.
166:46:56	Cernan	I have to park about 045 because I've got to be pointing uphill so we can get out.
166:47:01	CC	Okay. Either - any place you want to. 045 is fine.
166:47:03	Cernan	Jack, I'm going to park - -
166:47:06	Schmitt	How about just that rim of that little crater there?
166:47:09	Cernan	Well, this is so level right here, Jack, I'm going to just park it -
166:47:11	Schmitt	Well, I was just thinking on top of that crater is closer to the - That's level, too, on the rim. It'll give them a view of the - a good view of the sampling area. I think we can - if we work on those blocks there and we're in pretty good shape.
166:47:27	Schmitt	Bob, we're directly downhill, and that is from the highest point that I could see up on this first mass - first Sculptured Hill.
166:47:39	Cernan	Bob, I'm parked at 026; bearing is 226; distance, 6.6; range, 4.0; amp-hours, 85 and 80; battery is 1 - I think it's 115; and motors are all off scale low.
166:48:04	CC	Okay - -
166:48:04	Cernan	Not really, but - Okay - -
166:48:08	CC	And here, we would like - -
166:48:09	Cernan	- - 0 - 230 on the - on the forward and off scale low, and 220 on the right rear.
166:48:21	CC	Okay. We copy that. We'd like to get the usual dusting here. Up front.
166:48:28	Cernan	Yes. And I'm fairly level.
166:48:31	Schmitt	Not really.
166:48:33	Cernan	I'm not, huh?
166:48:33	Schmitt	(Laughter) I just about rolled downhill again.
166:48:38	Cernan	Oh, man. (Laughter) I am pointing uphill, aren't I?
166:48:41	Schmitt	Yes.
166:48:43	Cernan	Well, at least we don't have a sideslope.
166:48:47	CC	And, 17, we'd like - -
166:48:48	Cernan	Battery covers stay closed?
166:48:49	CC	Battery covers stay closed. But we do want the LCRU, and the TV camera, and the TCU dusted.
166:49:08	Cernan	Okay.
166:49:17	CC	And, 17, we'd like the SEP blankets opened and dusted one more time.
166:49:26	Cernan	I think you're a dreamer, Bob, but I'll do it.
166:49:31	CC	Roger. We keep hoping.
166:49:45	Cernan	Start doing your thing, Jack. It's going to take me a little while to get this dusted.
166:49:51	Schmitt	Bob, the first block I looked at here looks like subfloor gabbro.
166:50:01	CC	Okay. We copy that.
166:50:13	Cernan	Should have it, Bob.
166:50:16	CC	Okay. We've got a picture.
166:50:21	Cernan	You even sound better. Battery covers are awful dirty, but I will not dust them as long as you're happy.
166:50:33	CC	Yes. I don't think dusting the battery covers gives us any cooler batteries.
166:50:40	Cernan	Well, I know; but it keeps the batteries from getting dust in them. I've had pretty good luck with them. They've been pretty clean.
166:50:47	CC	Roger on that,
166:51:07	Cernan	You are dusted; and you're shiny bright, all over.
166:51:11	CC	Okay. Copy that.
166:51:15	CC	We thank you. Ed thanks you.
166:51:21	Cernan	And we all thank you. Listen, if Ed thanks me, that's enough. A man couldn't ask for any more than that. Okay. I've got my ... - -
166:51:40	CC	I think your LMP just ran away.
166:51:46	Cernan	Where'd he go? Jack?
166:51:47	Schmitt	What?
166:51:47	Cernan	Oh, there you are. I thought maybe you fell in that crater I'm looking at. Okay. I'm going to give you a TGE reading.
166:51:49	CC	Roger. Give us a mark.
166:51:58	Cernan	Our fender's beginning to fade and, uh-oh, the clip came off on the inside; that's what's wrong. We'll have to fix that before we start. The outside ones hold but the inside one's not.
166:52:10	Schmitt	Bob, all - all the blocks bigger than 20 centimeters that I've looked at up here are subfloor gabbro in appearance.
166:52:21	CC	Copy that.
166:52:23	Schmitt	I've looked at about five.
166:52:31	CC	Did we get a mark there on the gravimeter, Gene?
166:52:37	Cernan	Thirty seconds to go, Bob.
166:52:39	CC	Roger. I copied it. Just wanted to check.
166:52:47	Cernan	Okay. Jack. You find anything up there?
166:52:51	Schmitt	Gene, I'm going to go up and look at this one rock. Why don't you set up and sample any one of these other big ones. They're all the same. Like the one near the Rover. And I'll go up and try to get this big one down there.
166:53:07	Cernan	Well, okay.
166:53:09	Schmitt	It's the only one left to look at, but right now we're dealing with subfloor material, I think.
166:53:14	Cernan	What about some of these little fragments that seem to be sitting more on the surface?
166:53:17	Schmitt	Yes, we're supposed to rake here. We'll get those with the rake.
166:53:19	Cernan	That one up there, by the way, is sitting on the surface. These others are submerged.
166:53:23	Schmitt	Yes. That's why I want to look at it.
166:53:26	Cernan	If you - you won't - you don't have a hammer, but if you need me, I'll come up there because I think that may be worthwhile.
166:53:31	Schmitt	I'll roll it down to you.
166:53:33	Cernan	Yes. Thanks a lot.
166:53:54	CC	A reminder, 17. We'd like to have you leaving here in 30 minutes to make up some of the time we spent at stations 6 and 7, a little extra. And we'd also remind you that we'd like a rake soil sample here, too. That may be the only way we try and pick up seme stuff other than subfloor if that, indeed, has come down from the top of the Sculptured Hills.
166:54:18	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. This rock is a big chunk of shattered, but still visible, bluish-gray anorthosite. It's glass-coated, and it actually looks like it's vesicular. I'm going to roll it downhill so we can work on it. Well, I'll document it first.
166:54:57	Schmitt	Did you copy that?
166:54:59	CC	Roger. I copy that. We'll be watching it coming.
166:55:05	Schmitt	Okay. But the point is, as Gene said, it's the only rock, big one anyway, in the area that I see that's perched on the surface as if it might have rolled here.
166:55:23	CC	Okay. Copy that, Jack.
166:55:33	Schmitt	But I don't see a track.
166:55:38	Cernan	Man, this one here is tough as a -
166:55:42	Schmitt	Well, we can get some .small ones.
166:55:43	Cernan	Yes. That's what I'm going to do. I tell you, this one is so -
166:55:47	Schmitt	I thought you might be able to break it up.
166:55:49	Cernan	Well, there's no - there's no corners on it.
166:56:24	Schmitt	Ready for this?
166:56:27	CC	We're ready.
166:56:28	Cernan	Bob, 563 is the sample.
166:56:31	CC	Copy, 563.
166:56:32	Cernan	Over here to the - ... -
166:56:37	Schmitt	Are you ready? Are you ready for this?
166:56:39	Cernan	I'm not sure I am, but go ahead.
166:56:51	Schmitt	Go, roll - Look, I would roll on this slope, why don't you? Five-sixths gravity that's missing. Hey, I'll bet you they would like, if I didn't step on it, sample out of the bottom of that thing.
166:57:17	Cernan	Yep. These others all look - You're right, Jack, they look like what we've been sampling. And they're all pretty well mantled except the ones you got up there. There's one more piece I see on the side of that crater that may not be.
166:57:45	Schmitt	Bag 545 will be soil from under that anorthosite boulder. Bob, the only thing that bothers me about that boulder being subfloor - I mean Sculptured Hills - is that it's glass-coated.
166:58:15	CC	Copy that.
166:58:16	Schmitt	It may have been thrown in here by an impact. Oh, you're here.
166:58:26	Cernan	Thought I'd sample it, and then roll it down.
166:58:28	Schmitt	Well, okay. I never would have moved it if I thought you were coming up.
166:58:31	Cernan	Well, I wasn't coming up; but I looked at some of those others, and there's only one more -
166:58:35	Schmitt	Okay. Well, I got it documented up in place. Let's - That's not the - I think that's the side that was down. Let me roll it over -
166:58:43	Cernan	Well, let me get a piece of that side since it was underneath. Then We'll roll it over and get a piece of the other side.
166:58:46	Schmitt	Good thinking. Oh, okay, yes. Let's do it again. Except I got dust all over it.
166:58:57	Cernan	Well -
166:58:58	Schmitt	The albedo - the down-Sun picture's not going to mean much. Let me get this sample in your bag. I think we ought to change your bag because the stuff's going to start flying out.
166:59:13	Cernan	Okay.
166:59:13	Schmitt	It won't stay closed.
166:59:14	Cernan	Jack, after this one, there's only - there's one more in that crater. It may be from that crater, but I don't know.
166:59:22	Schmitt	How's your hand for hammering?
166:59:24	Cernan	Ohhhh
166:59:26	Schmitt	This will be easy. This will be easy.
166:59:27	Cernan	The old hammering hand -
166:59:29	Schmitt	This will be an easy one, Gene.
166:59:42	Cernan	Two pieces for you.
166:59:43	Schmitt	Okay. Let me - -
166:59:44	Cernan	Oh, that's a pretty one inside!
166:59:46	Schmitt	Well, it's stained by the glass coating.
166:59:48	Cernan	Oh.
166:59:49	Schmitt	It's stained by that glass coating.
166:59:51	Cernan	That's a pretty one inside.
166:59:54	Cernan	Can you get that? Here, take my hand.
167:00:02	Schmitt	Thank you.
167:00:03	Cernan	While I'm at it, I'm going to chop another piece off right here.
167:00:05	Schmitt	Yes, get more than that.
167:00:10	Cernan	Piece right there. You've got three pieces laying around. Let's get those before we lose them.
167:00:27	Schmitt	Bag 564. Maybe. I - Okay, I got it.
167:00:40	Cernan	Have you already got them in the bag?
167:00:41	Schmitt	No.
167:00:43	CC	Copy. We copy; 564 from the bottom of the boulder.
167:00:51	Cernan	Sure that's the bottom, huh?
167:00:53	Schmitt	Yes, it's got - mixed with local soil. I'm pretty sure. Let's turn it over. I think I'd recognize the top, although it's got dust all over it now.
167:01:06	Cernan	I think I'll get one more swap off there. I don't want to seal this. Let me get another swap off there. I can get it.
167:01:11	Schmitt	Okay.
167:01:32	PAO	That's Gene Cernan hammering.
167:01:36	Schmitt	Well, that disappeared. Get it this way.
167:01:40	Cernan	One time. That disappeared, too? That probably went into orbit.
167:01:54	Schmitt	Yes.
167:01:56	Cernan	Boy, is that pretty inside. Whoo! We haven't seen anything like this. I haven't. Unless you've been holding out on me.
167:02:02	Schmitt	No, this is a nice crystalline rock.
167:02:06	Cernan	Okay, I see that one.
167:02:06	Schmitt	Where did that one go?
167:02:07	Cernan	That's a good one. I'll go get it with my tongs. That's a good one. That one I worked too hard to get. Hey, I see how it makes boulder tracks. I just made one - it just - it just skipped along, made those little pothole craters as it went.
167:02:30	Schmitt	Hey, Houston. This is a - about a 50-50 mixture of - what looks like maskelynite or at least blue-gray plagioclase, and a very - let's say yel - light yellow-tan mineral, probably orthopyroxene. It's fairly coarsely crystalline.
167:02:58	CC	Copy that. Okay. When you guys get done with that rock, we'd like to get to the rake sample, please. And that's probably just as well done by the Rover as anyplace else. We don't seem to see anything worthwhile here doing besides that.
167:03:20	Cernan	Did you get it?
167:03:20	Schmitt	Yes.
167:03:30	Cernan	Okay. That went in the same bag, Bob, as the other - rest of the chips from the bottom. All the chips from the bottom are in 464.
167:03:38	CC	Copy.
167:03:46	Schmitt	Here, let me roll it over. Go ahead. Want to put it in?
167:03:48	Cernan	Yes.
167:03:49	Schmitt	Okay.
167:03:56	Cernan	Oh, boy.
167:04:00	Schmitt	By coarsely crystalline, it's - probably, the average grain size will turn out to be about 3 or 4 millimeters, maybe - maybe half a centimeter. Hold this, and I'll - -
167:04:09	Cernan	Well, I got to go get a couple of pictures.
167:04:13	Schmitt	Yes. Yes, we really got that one messed up.
167:04:15	Cernan	Yes, I -
167:04:16	Schmitt	That's all right.
167:04:17	Cernan	If you'd hold your scoop where that one came off, it'd help.
167:04:20	Schmitt	Yes, I was just going over there.
167:04:21	Cernan	On that other side.
167:04:23	Schmitt	Just going over there.
167:04:23	Cernan	This side is clear. That last one I took off. Okay.
167:04:28	Schmitt	Right there.
167:04:30	Cernan	Okay, that's good. Let's move the gnomon, and we won't roll it over on the gnomon.
167:04:47	Schmitt	Watch it. Watch it. Oh, yes. That other side is the one that was up. Well, I'm not sure now. It's got so much dust on it. But let's -
167:05:18	Cernan	It's not going to roll down that hill unless we got it on edge.
167:05:21	Schmitt	No. Did it come up here?
167:05:28	Cernan	Oh, look at that glass on it. That's what you said, huh?
167:05:30	Schmitt	Yes.
167:05:31	Cernan	Well, which side was the glass on when you looked at it?
167:05:33	Schmitt	It's on all sides. It's on all sides.
167:05:35	CC	17, there's probably not much point in spending a lot of time out here trying to decide which is the top. It's not big enough, anyway, really to worry about - -
167:05:43	Cernan	We're not.
167:05:43	CC	- - the top and bottom samples. They're radiologically significant.
167:05:49	Schmitt	Well, let's - If you don't want another sample, then we can go ahead.
167:05:52	Cernan	Well, let me get a piece of this glass.
167:05:56	Schmitt	Righto.
167:06:10	Schmitt	There it is. Okay. Let me try to get them. Put them in here.
167:06:29	Cernan	Okay; a piece of the glass from it, Bob, is 546.
167:06:32	CC	Okay. We copy 546.
167:06:32	Cernan	With a little of the local soil.
167:06:40	CC	And now we're ready for you guys to rake - -
167:06:42	Cernan	Okay. We'll rake.
167:06:43	CC	- - and I guess they suggest the crater rim if possible. Probably over there near the Rover.
167:06:50	Schmitt	Okay. Now you got a sample of that big block down there, huh?
167:06:57	Cernan	Yes.
167:06:57	Schmitt	Okay. Don't forget your gnomon. Whoo! Oh, boy.
167:07:10	Cernan	Bob, on my frame count; 85.
167:07:14	CC	Copy, 85 for the commander.
167:07:21	Schmitt	Too bad I don't have my skiis.
167:07:23	Cernan	Jack, did you get a pan up here?
167:07:25	Schmitt	No.
167:07:26	Cernan	I'll get one.
167:07:26	Schmitt	Good, I forgot. I got interested in skiing, Whoo! Can't keep my edges. Little hard to get a good hip rotation.
167:07:58	Cernan	Let's see, I must be looking back at - well, there's SWP. Golly, I don't know. I'm looking back at the complex, Cochise and Shakespeare, and I can see the LM.
167:08:36	Schmitt	Hey, Bob. One interesting thing up here, you can see the erosional pattern of the talus, the mantle that - I call it a mantle, but the talus that's on the Sculptured Hills, there's little - little boulder tracks of all sizes from all these little clods. And they all, of course, point downhill or nearly downhill.
167:09:01	CC	Okay. Copy that.
167:09:06	Schmitt	Hey, Bob. In the interest of time, I'll document this without the gnomon.
167:09:13	CC	Okay. I presume Gene's got the gnomon up there.
167:09:17	Schmitt	Yes. I should have brought it, but - -
167:09:19	CC	Okay. Don't forget the gnomon, Gene.
167:09:19	Schmitt	- - I didn't think about it.
167:09:23	CC	And we concur - -
167:09:24	Schmitt	Don't forget the Gene, gnomon!
167:09:24	CC	- - with Dr. ... about the gnomon.
167:09:31	Cernan	Whee! Boy, when you do this, and you go downslope, that first step is a long one.
167:09:41	Cernan	I'm having - This is the best way for me to travel. Uphill or downhill.
167:09:51	Schmitt	What's that?
167:09:52	Cernan	Like this. Two-legged hop.
167:09:55	Schmitt	There seems - Yes.
167:09:56	Cernan	And on level ground, I can skip. I don't like that loping thing.
167:10:01	Schmitt	Oh, the loping's the only way to go.
167:10:03	Cernan	Well, when I'm on level ground, I can skip. But this two-legged thing is great. Man, I can cover ground like a kangaroo. Oh, okay. You documented already; I was just going to put this in the field of view anyway.
167:10:26	Schmitt	Yes. Here on the after ... right out there.
167:10:56	Cernan	Well, what do you think about that? There's not much in here worth - Man, there's just nothing - Either this has been totally mantled with talus. Well, it is, because that - that downhill pattern goes right down the slope of this crater, and, actually, it goes upslope of the crater. This may be on a ray somewhere. Because it goes right downhill - this little bitty boulder trail pattern goes right up the slope.
167:11:35	Schmitt	I think those are later than the crater by a long ways.
167:11:37	Cernan	Did you - did you sample anything over here?
167:11:38	Schmitt	No, I haven't done anything - -
167:11:42	Cernan	I'm going to pick up the piece out of that little - -
167:11:44	Schmitt	Yes, get this - -
167:11:45	Cernan	- - crater.
167:11:46	Schmitt	Want your gnomon over there?
167:11:48	Cernan	No. I'll just take it to it. Let me know when you're ready for a bag.
167:11:56	Schmitt	Well, I'm about ready.
167:12:06	Cernan	You about ready?
167:12:07	Schmitt	Yes.
167:12:07	Cernan	Okay.
167:12:18	Schmitt	I went - I raked about a 2-meter square area - maybe - yes, about 2 meters, and down to 4 or 5 centimeters for these. Pretty good population. They all going to go in?
167:12:37	Cernan	They're all in; 5 - -
167:12:38	Schmitt	Wait, wait.
167:12:38	Cernan	- - 5 - 565.
167:12:40	CC	Okay. Copy that - -
167:12:41	Cernan	565.
167:12:41	CC	Sounds great. Sounds like a good rake sample for a change.
167:12:46	Cernan	Yes, sir.
167:12:49	CC	And this is a kilogram soil locations, fellas.
167:12:53	Schmitt	Yes, sir.
167:12:55	Cernan	Jack, your bag is full; we're going to have - No, it isn't, but we ought to change it when we get back there anyway. And that one ought to go under your seat.
167:13:03	Schmitt	Oh, okay.
167:13:04	Cernan	Get your kilogram. I'll be ready to take it.
167:13:17	Cernan	The kilogram is in 566.
167:13:20	CC	Copy that. And, remaining here, we'd have primarily a trench. If you fellows think it's feasible, we'd like to be moving in 1 - 1 minutes, 11 minutes. And we could use a pan from this lower location also, probably.
167:13:40	Cernan	Why don't you go back and dig a trench at the Rover?
167:13:42	CC	Roger. That sounds good to us.
167:13:45	Cernan	Okay.
167:13:46	CC	And we also remind you of getting - -
167:13:47	Cernan	Once you get a trench at the Rover - -
167:13:49	CC	- - a pan at the lower section there.
167:13:49	Cernan	- - we just scoop this out. I'll get the sample here that I got documented now and - -
167:13:57	Schmitt	Did you? - is that - is that all going to go in there?
167:13:59	Cernan	Yes, it'll go.
167:14:00	Schmitt	Can you twist it?
167:14:01	Cernan	Yes.
167:14:03	Schmitt	That ... rock may have been too much. Take that rock out, and - -
167:14:08	Cernan	No, it'll stay. We're going to have to put it in mine, though. Well, let me try. Since we're going to unload your bag, this may be the last - the last one. That's the last one for your bag.
167:14:24	Schmitt	Okay.
167:14:26	Cernan	Okay.
167:14:28	Schmitt	Did you get anything out of that little crater?
167:14:29	Cernan	No. But I'm going to right now.
167:14:31	Schmitt	Okay.
167:14:31	Cernan	Why don't you get your after picture over there and go down and get that trench. I'll come down -
167:14:36	Schmitt	You don't want a bag? Okay.
167:14:37	Cernan	I can - I can back it - I can do it -
167:14:40	Schmitt	...
167:15:06	Cernan	Boy, almost pure white and very friable. Oh, boy, is it. Pure white. Right out of a small little pit crater on the side of this crater I just walked in, Houston. And it's pure white, very friable. I got about - well, one big piece and several small in 567.
167:15:32	CC	Copy that.
167:15:39	Schmitt	Bob, the walls of these craters, the big craters around here, that is, the ones that are, say, 15 meters in diameter, tend to be a little bit lighter albedo than ones down in the mantled area. I'm afraid those pictures on that rake may be a little bit made - be through a - a dust-colored lens.
167:16:15	Cernan	Yes, they were also in my documented sample here, too.
167:16:34	Cernan	Okay. Where do you want this trench? On the side of this crater?
167:16:37	Schmitt	Well, - -
167:16:38	Cernan	I'll drop my gnomon.
167:16:38	Schmitt	- - I don't know. I don't - I was just thinking about that. I think - I think we - we - we ought to get out in the inner crater area to see if there's any stratigraphy to the - to - to whatever the talus is.
167:16:57	Cernan	Okay, Jack. I'm going to leave the gnomon right here.
167:17:04	Schmitt	I'll get it.
167:17:06	Cernan	And, while you're digging that trench, we've got to pan to get, but I want to fix this fender.
167:17:10	Schmitt	I guess this - The pan's mine, isn't it, this one?
167:17:11	Cernan	Yes, it is. And I want to fix the fender before - -
167:17:14	Schmitt	Okay.
167:17:15	Cernan	- - before we leave. ... - -
167:17:16	CC	Okay. We agree with that, and you might get us a - -
167:17:17	Cernan	- - ... one, and I'll tighten - -
167:17:19	CC	- - you might get us the gravimeter reading there, Gene, while you're at it. And if you have time, you might drop the gravimeter on the ground, and we'll get a reading with it on the ground as well.
167:17:32	Cernan	Holy Smoley. The gravimeter's coming up. 670, 096, 001 - 670, 096, 001.
167:17:46	CC	Copy that.
167:17:50	Cernan	You want it dropped on the ground, huh?
167:17:51	CC	Gently.
167:17:55	Cernan	Gently. I can't find a gentle level spot, but I'll level it. If it takes pictures - or does it's thing on the Rover, it'll do its thing here.
167:18:13	CC	Yes, this is just to get a check - -
167:18:14	Cernan	Okay.
167:18:15	Cernan	MARK. ...
167:18:16	CC	Copy that.
167:18:31	Cernan	It's fender-fixing time, it's camera-taking-off time. And I think I'll zap myself with a little cool water.
167:18:43	CC	And how's the trench going, Jack?
167:18:49	Schmitt	Oh, down.
167:18:57	Cernan	Oh, man, I tell you. When you call for cold water, does it come in nicely. Whew! I'm really happy with this fender, really happy with it.
167:19:25	Schmitt	Bob, I have dug - have gotten a wall, now in one place that's standing about 25 centimeters high. And it shows no apparent change in the texture of the soil to that depth; except possibly at the lower 5 centimeters, there's some zones that might be slightly more granular. Particle size may be up a little bit.
167:20:04	CC	Okay. I copy that. Probably just three samples then will be sufficient, then.
167:20:10	Schmitt	I think - I think so. Maybe four.
167:20:16	Cernan	Be there in a minute, Jack.
167:20:18	Schmitt	Oh, that's all right. I can probably get started.
167:20:32	Cernan	Oh, oh, oh, boy.
167:20:33	Schmitt	Need some help?
167:20:35	Cernan	No. Boy, we're sure giving this suspension system a workout. Whew! I can even see it. Well, everything's getting awful dusty. Boy, everything is stiff. Everything is just full of dust. There's got to be a point where the dust just overtakes you, and everything mechanical quits moving.
167:21:24	Schmitt	Like scoops.
167:21:30	Cernan	I'm not sure whether Detroit would like the fender, but it will sure buy the fix. Okay, it's fixed.
167:21:39	CC	Okay. Copy that.
167:21:40	Cernan	And I'm happy; I like it.
167:21:42	CC	Roger. We copy that. And copy it again. And we'd like to have you guys moving in about 3 minutes.
167:21:54	Schmitt	Good luck.
167:21:56	Cernan	You need any help you get - bag those samples, huh?
167:21:58	Schmitt	Yes, sir. I think I do. I can't adjust my scoop to my belt-bagging method.
167:22:04	Cernan	Let me get back on some lighter cooling here to - to save some water. Okay, now.
167:22:12	Schmitt	Okay - the bottom 10 centimeters - -
167:22:15	Cernan	Let me get your bags - I left my camera off when I -
167:22:17	Schmitt	- - of a - Well, shoot! I didn't take a picture of the trench after I dug it. Let me take one - one shot.
167:22:28	Cernan	What's this, the bottom?
167:22:30	Schmitt	That's the bottom.
167:22:31	Cernan	Okay. The bottom is in 548. It's very cloddy. Looks very much like the surface we're standing on except it clods up quite a bit more. Can you tell them anything from the trench itself?
167:22:45	Schmitt	I told them - I talked to them a little bit about it.
167:22:46	Cernan	Okay.
167:22:48	Schmitt	It looked a little more - a little coarser grained, but that's all.
167:22:51	PAO	EVA time, 3 hours 50 minutes.
167:22:54	Cernan	Okay. It sure holds a nice wall, though.
167:23:01	Schmitt	Yes.
167:23:03	Cernan	That's the kind of wall I expect those core tubes held.
167:23:07	Schmitt	You got another one?
167:23:09	Cernan	Okay. Skim of the upper - We'll see - how well I do - skim sample of the upper - half centimeter. Maybe a centimeter deep.
167:23:33	Schmitt	Okay. Can you hold this?
167:23:35	Cernan	I'm going to put it in your bag.
167:23:37	Schmitt	Is it going to fit in there?
167:23:38	Cernan	Well, there's no choice, right now. Let me see if these little ones will fit in there. Stand by. I want to put this one in there, too.
167:23:46	Cernan	That's in bag 549.
167:23:49	CC	Copy that.
167:24:03	Cernan	Okay. Let's try again. Okay. The upper - Below that skim, the next 5 centimeters.
167:24:26	Schmitt	Put it down, Geno.
167:24:26	Cernan	... put over.
167:24:28	Schmitt	Well, I can't turn it.
167:24:34	Cernan	550.
167:24:37	CC	Copy that.
167:24:40	Cernan	And the next 10 centimeters down -
167:24:46	Schmitt	Can you get this one too?
167:24:47	Cernan	Yes. Now, I got to get your bag.
167:24:58	Schmitt	Okay.
167:24:59	Cernan	Okay. That was the next 10 centimeters, and then the first sample, of course, was the 10 centimeters below that.
167:25:06	CC	Roger. Copy that.
167:25:07	Cernan	And that last bag was 551.
167:25:09	CC	Okay. Copy that. We're ready for you guys to move out.
167:25:16	Schmitt	Okay.
167:25:18	Cernan	You didn't get a pan here - while I clean up the Rover, you can get a - get your after of the trench in the pan.
167:25:24	Schmitt	I will.
167:25:25	Cernan	I'll get the TG and clean up the Rover.
167:25:28	CC	That's affirm. We agree with that.
167:25:30	Schmitt	What's the key that keeps - I keep getting keyed.
167:25:34	Cernan	It sounds like Bob's stepping on his foot mike.
167:25:36	Schmitt	Yes, he's so excited - -
167:25:38	Cernan	Okay - -
167:25:38	Schmitt	- - he can't stand it.
167:25:39	Cernan	- - You done with the gnomon?
167:25:40	Schmitt	Yes. Okay. I'll get the pan.
167:25:44	Cernan	You get your pan, and I'll get the TG and clean up.
167:25:46	Schmitt	You took a pan up the hill there?
167:25:48	Cernan	Yes. I took it way up there, somewhere.
167:25:49	Schmitt	Okay. I'll take it right here, then. Uh oh.
167:25:59	Cernan	What?
167:26:00	Schmitt	Sample came out.
167:26:02	Cernan	The sample came out?
167:26:03	Schmitt	I'll pick it up.
167:26:04	Cernan	Yes, your - your top came open. It's awful full, Jack. If you can't get it, I'll get it with the tongs.
167:26:09	Schmitt	Go ahead and go to work, and I'll get the pan first. I lost two of them, I guess.
167:26:16	Cernan	Yes, those are the last two I put in there. They just - your bag is so full they won't stay. Let me give them a reading here. Hey, Bob, can I move it on the Rover and then give you a reading?
167:26:25	CC	Yes. As long as you're careful not to hit the button while you're doing it.
167:26:31	Cernan	I won't hit the button. Just easier to do it that way. I don't know why I asked you; I know I can.
167:26:45	Cernan	Even this thing doesn't want to go on; it's so dusty. Okay. It's on and it's locked. And here's your reading. 670 - 670, 117, 301 - that's 670, 117, 301.
167:27:08	CC	Okay. We copy that.
167:27:10	Cernan	I've got to dust that thing the next time around. Jack, we've got to do some bag changing here.
167:27:18	Schmitt	Yes.
167:27:20	Cernan	I'll get those things with my tongs. You can't get them - You'd have to bend over. Every time you jump around, you come close to losing something. I'll just take them back there and put them under the seat.
167:27:46	Schmitt	Okay. You want me to take that one?
167:27:50	Cernan	No, I got it.
167:27:51	Schmitt	Okay.
167:28:08	Schmitt	Damn.
167:28:09	CC	You got another one dropped there, Gene - Jack got it.
167:28:14	Cernan	Another one?
167:28:15	CC	Jack's getting it.
167:28:16	Cernan	Okay. Jack, we've got to make a place in here for your - that full bag. Let me put this small can over there, and core tube over there.
167:28:32	Schmitt	I have a sample.
167:28:37	Cernan	Okay. Let me take your bag off first.
167:28:41	Schmitt	Okay. Well, you might as well fill it as full as you can.
167:28:43	Cernan	Yes, I am. Holy Smoley.
167:28:47	Schmitt	(Laughter) Turn - turn to the left.
167:28:55	Cernan	Okay. It's off. Let me fill it.
167:29:08	Schmitt	Your bag isn't in much better shape.
167:29:10	CC	Roger. We'd like to have you check the commander's bag. You might put them both under the seat there.
167:29:19	Schmitt	Well, we're running out of bags, aren't we?
167:29:21	CC	Okay. We've got one bag left - we should have there. It was on the gate, right?
167:29:30	Schmitt	Okay. Yes. We - we could have put it under the seat.
167:29:34	Cernan	Okay, bag number 4 - bag number 4 is - is absolutely full - and it's under Jack's seat.
167:29:47	CC	Okay. I suggest that you take the other bag that's on the gate there, and put that on either you or Jack. And also, the commander's bag is pretty full also, we suspect.
167:29:58	Schmitt	Why don't you put it on me? Mine gets full faster, somehow.
167:30:03	CC	You might - you might check Gene's bag anyway.
167:30:05	Cernan	Stay there. Stay there, stay there. I'm trying to get the bottom off.
167:30:09	Schmitt	Oh, I'm sorry. I checked it. He's got about six samples to go.
167:30:16	CC	Okay. And - -
167:30:17	Schmitt	And I just want to be sure that it's locked down.
167:30:23	Cernan	Okay. Well, turn to the left so I can get this other hook.
167:30:31	Schmitt	Okay.
167:30:32	Cernan	That's not coming out; I guarantee you that. Now ... take your - -
167:30:34	CC	Okay. And SCB 5 is one for the LMP if you want to take it off the gate.
167:30:41	Cernan	I got it.
167:30:41	Schmitt	SCB-5 is on the LMP.
167:30:43	CC	Okay. Copy that.
167:30:44	Schmitt	There is nothing on the gate.
167:30:49	Schmitt	Well, I think, that'll stay down, but it's not very good - -
167:30:52	Cernan	Okay. I've got one more loose sample I'm going to throw in the big bag back there.
167:30:56	Schmitt	A local one, you mean?
167:30:58	Cernan	Yes.
167:30:59	Schmitt	Well - -
167:31:00	Cernan	Well, let me leave it under your seat.
167:31:01	Schmitt	Now, let's - Can I put a "bag a round it?
167:31:03	Cernan	No, it's got a bag around it - it's all bagged.
167:31:06	CC	Okay. Jack, while Gene's doing that, why don't you read the SEP temperature, or somebody read the SEP temperature anyway, and close the blankets.
167:31:15	Schmitt	Okay. I'll do that.
167:31:21	Cernan	Okay, Bob. Let's see, you got your readings - -
167:31:26	Schmitt	120, Bob, 120.
167:31:29	CC	Copy. 120.
167:31:33	Schmitt	Those blankets just aren't staying closed.
167:31:40	Cernan	Okay. I guess we're ready to head on out. Do you agree?
167:31:43	CC	Okay. And, Gene, when you go to change the - when you go to change the LCRU, we'd like you to turn it to OFF - O-F-F, on the POWER switch, the INTERNAL POWER EXTERNAL switch. And we'll be reading you through the LM. It will give you a chance to cool down the LCRU on the way home to Station 9.
167:32:04	Cernan	All right.
167:32:07	Schmitt	And, Houston, what's the temperature limit on the DSEA?
167:32:18	CC	Stand by, Jack.
167:32:28	Cernan	Do you read us, Bob, through the LM?
167:32:30	CC	Roger. We read you through the LM. Do read us through the LM?
167:32:35	Cernan	Yes. Not as well, but we're reading you.
167:32:37	CC	Okay. And the temperature limit, Jack, is 160. We'll just leave it as is until we get back to the LM.
167:32:45	Schmitt	Okay. I was going to say, we could take it out and put it under the seat or something, but that sounds all right.
167:32:50	Cernan	Okay. An EMU status check. I'm at 3.88, and I got 48 percent, no flags, and I'm INTERMEDIATE cooling.
167:33:04	CC	Copy that.
167:33:05	Schmitt	And the LMP - is at 47 percent, no flags, 3.86. Hey, Gene?
167:33:18	Cernan	Yes.
167:33:19	Schmitt	What - Well, Bob, I guess - remind us to change the LRV sampler at the next station. It's almost out of bags.
167:33:26	CC	Okay.
167:33:26	Cernan	Well, let's do it next time around.
167:33:28	CC	Okay. When you get on, Jack, you can give me a frame count as you start moving.
167:33:34	Schmitt	Yes. Hang on. Need some help?
167:33:44	Cernan	Nope.
167:33:46	Schmitt	Go downhill. Get your feet downhill.
167:33:48	Cernan	Yep.
167:33:55	Schmitt	Okay. Let me help you.
167:33:57	Cernan	(Laughter)
167:34:01	Schmitt	Now watch it, there's a crater right behind you.
167:34:03	Cernan	I got it. I got it.
167:34:09	Schmitt	Here, here. Grab my hand.
167:34:13	Cernan	Okay, now, just push up on my head.
167:34:16	Schmitt	Okay. I'm not going to do it too hard. Going backwards.
167:34:21	Cernan	All right; just push up.
167:34:24	Schmitt	Okay.
167:34:25	Cernan	Okay.
167:34:26	Schmitt	Boy, are you - you got your pockets completely filled with dirt.
167:34:30	Cernan	Well, extra samples.
167:34:31	Schmitt	Do we throw those pockets away this time around?
167:34:32	Cernan	Extra sample.
167:34:36	Schmitt	Are you a mess!
167:34:37	Cernan	Well, that one was coming for a long time.
167:34:41	Schmitt	My hand's are already tired from dusting you.
167:34:44	Cernan	That one was coming. I keep trying to blow the dust off my camera, which is very frustrating.
167:34:49	Schmitt	Very ineffective, too.
167:34:57	Cernan	Okay. Do we try that trick again? You know that happened on that upslope getting on the Rover. Okay. I'm all locked in. Let me know when you are.
167:35:23	Schmitt	How come we aren't deploying any charges? I guess the last one - I remember when that one is.
167:35:27	Cernan	Okay.
167:35:28	CC	We'll deploy one at Station 10.
167:35:33	Cernan	Okay. We're heading to Station 9 pointed about 267. Okay, and they're reading us through the LM, so I won't worry about the low gain. We're powering up. The switch is on. Okay, I'm going to make a turn to the right.
167:35:51	CC	Okay. And the updated headings, since you're at the north end of Station 8 will be something like about 240.
167:36:03	Cernan	Okay, Bob. 240.
167:36:07	Schmitt	Bob, I think your rake sample here at the Sculptured Hills is going to have to tell a tale combined with the observation that most of the blocks we saw were, like Gene sampled, looked like subfloor gabbro. It's conceivable that the Sculptured Hills could be the same kind of material. I think it's fairly clear that the boulder population does not resemble the massif population at all.
167:36:44	CC	Okay. Copy that.
167:36:51	Schmitt	(Laughter)
167:36:52	Cernan	You been riding on this downslope all the time?
167:36:54	Schmitt	(Laughter) Yes, but - -
167:36:55	Cernan	And you hadn't said anything, huh?
167:36:56	Schmitt	Scary, isn't it?
167:36:58	Cernan	Man, I'm glad I'm driving.
167:37:02	CC	Okay, and Jack -
167:37:04	Schmitt	(Laughter)
167:37:04	CC	- when you're don't - holding on with two hands, we'd like the frame count from you.
167:37:07	Schmitt	Wait a minute. Yes.
167:37:12	Cernan	Is that Van Serg over there?
167:37:13	Schmitt	Ahhhh -
167:37:16	CC	You have a bearing of 234 - -
167:37:18	Schmitt	I think it's - -
167:37:19	CC	- - and a range of 2.1.
167:37:19	Schmitt	I don't know - no - it's - Okay.
167:37:27	Schmitt	We got to get around SWP here and then - -
167:37:31	Cernan	Well, let's - yes.
167:37:32	Schmitt	- - and then head on more westerly. LMP frame is at 80.
167:37:37	CC	Copy 80.
167:37:41	Schmitt	SWP or Bowen, I mean - Bowen, I guess it is.
167:37:44	Cernan	Well, yes.
167:37:50	Schmitt	That's SWP over there. Bowen is out here ahead of us.
167:37:52	Cernan	Yes. ... he said two - -
167:37:56	Schmitt	Bowen - Bowen isn't much of a crater on the map.
167:37:59	Cernan	- - 225 - What did you say, Bob? 225 what?
167:38:02	CC	234/2.1 - -
167:38:04	Schmitt	234 - -
167:38:04	CC	Heading ought to be about 240; 240 for a heading for there.
167:38:11	Cernan	Did you hear him? I didn't hear him.
167:38:13	Schmitt	240. Are you not reading him?
167:38:15	Cernan	But what did he say for bearing and range? That's what I'm interested in.
167:38:17	CC	234 - -
167:38:19	Schmitt	240. State bearing and range, Bob.
167:38:19	CC	- - 2.1.
167:38:24	Cernan	Okay. I got that.
167:38:32	PAO	Station 9 is 2.3 kilometers from Station 8 and we estimate driving time 18 minutes.
167:38:44	CC	Okay. And we think you're even farther north than I was saying. Maybe it's about 215 would be your heading for there.
167:38:55	Cernan	Okay, Bob. I'll find it. 234/2.1.
167:38:58	CC	Roger.
167:39:02	Schmitt	And all the big blocks still look like subfloor from the Rover. But big blocks in here are only about a - a third of a meter in diameter. And they're subrounded to subangular. Okay. We're up on the plains again now, just off the brink and slope.
167:39:34	PAO	Station 9 is Van Serg crater which could be of volcanic origin.
167:39:49	Schmitt	That sure looks like - looks like outcrop ... down in the East Massif on the lower slopes, if it's here the high albedo is. Doesn't it? See it over there?
167:39:56	Cernan	Yes - Yes. Yes. It does - ... was one of my guidelines for the geophone deployment - ... points.
167:40:15	Cernan	There's some more of the blue-gray rock here in the east end of the South Massif down low.
167:40:22	Schmitt	Yes. It looks like it might have been a slump block or something.
167:40:24	Cernan	Yes. You can see it's blue-gray because of its contrast with the light mantle.
167:40:27	Schmitt	Yes. It might be a slump block, or something - like that.
167:40:31	Cernan	Oh, Jack, I'm going to go to the left.
167:40:33	Schmitt	You going to go soon? (Laughter) Need 234 - -
167:40:37	Cernan	No, No. I'm going over here. This is closer. That's a shorter cut.
167:40:41	Schmitt	Okay, that - that's probably Bowen there, don't you think?
167:40:44	Cernan	I think - -
167:40:45	Schmitt	Oh, well - -
167:40:46	Cernan	Well, see, we never got too far - -
167:40:48	CC	How about a - how about a range and bearing, guys.
167:40:49	Schmitt	... aren't very far from SWP.
167:40:50	Cernan	Maybe we got too far east. Okay. It's 228/3.4. And we're moving along at 10 to 12 clicks. That's all it'll hack.
167:41:03	CC	Copy that. How about an amps reading? We haven't had one of those for a couple of ...
167:41:09	Schmitt	Starting to rain again. Got a crater ahead of you.
167:41:15	Cernan	Oooh, boy.
167:41:19	Schmitt	Down-Sun isn't much easier than up-Sun.
167:41:21	Cernan	It's just easier on the eyes. You just can't see any more, that's all. You don't have that static, huh?
167:41:32	Schmitt	Nope. Hope you've still got an antenna; I haven't looked recently.
167:41:43	Cernan	Hope there's no holes in the high gain.
167:41:46	Schmitt	Might have hit it on a rock.
167:41:50	Cernan	Oh, boy. Okay. The - we're back into the mantle area population of fragments is still 1 percent or so. The crater off to our left, which is at 227 and 3. - What is that?
167:42:09	Schmitt	3.1.
167:42:10	Cernan	3?
167:42:11	Schmitt	3.3; 227/3.3.
167:42:14	Cernan	And a fairly good-sized depression, but it's completely mantled. There's no blocks showing in the wall at all. How do you read, Bob?
167:42:31	CC	Loud and clear. We're listening.
167:42:39	Schmitt	Now there's that crater in the wall of that depression or a hollow near it. And it has one big block in the side as if it penetrated the mantle and exposed some of the wall of the depression. Just about a 30-meter crater. Valley of Taurus-Littrow is not planar.
167:43:11	Cernan	No, it isn't.
167:43:14	Schmitt	I'm glad we changed it to a subfloor instead of a plains unit.
167:43:20	Schmitt	(Laughter)
167:43:22	Schmitt	Okay. We're in the inner wall of the depression here, and the rocks still look like subfloor gabbro. Boy, there's certainly not much variety.
167:43:33	Schmitt	Okay. Generally, there are few exotics.
167:43:35	Cernan	Ooh, now that's got to be Cochise.
167:43:36	Schmitt	Ah, look at Cochise.
167:43:38	Cernan	That's Cochise.
167:43:39	CC	Roger. We think you're coming up on Cochise.
167:43:40	Cernan	Get your self a couple pictures while you're looking right at it.
167:43:42	Schmitt	Could you swing right? Swing right.
167:43:45	Cernan	Bob, we are on the south - or northeastern rim of Cochise. I'm going to work my way around the other side. And Bob - -
167:43:52	CC	Roger. Copy that.
167:43:53	Cernan	- - looking at the western wall of Cochise, I can see a contact within the subfloor between albedo units, one of which is a light tan-gray and the other is a light blue-gray. May reflect the two kinds of subfloor gabbro we've already sampled. Vesicular and nonvesicular. And that contact that looked like it was dipping - apparent dip in the wall - was to the north. And the west wall dipping to the north about 20 degrees.
167:44:38	CC	Okay. Copy that. What - which one's on top? Can you tell?
167:44:51	Cernan	Yes. The blue-gray's on top. I'm sorry.
167:44:53	CC	Thank you. And you got a bearing and range there at the rim of Cochise?
167:44:55	Cernan	I took a picture of it and - Okay. We're at 228/3.0, and we're not - we're headed south and not quite on the - on the east rim.
167:45:08	CC	All right.
167:45:12	Cernan	I'll give you a hack at the east rim.
167:45:19	Cernan	Bob, I got a - a picture of that contact so, I was -
167:45:25	Schmitt	I took some pictures right into Cochise, too, when we were coming up.
167:45:28	Cernan	Good. It'll show on yours, too, probably - I hope.
167:45:36	Cernan	Okay. We're sort of on the inner -
167:45:39	Schmitt	Quick; give them a mark.
167:45:40	Cernan	MARK, 230/2.9. We're on the east rim.
167:45:44	CC	Copy that.
167:45:45	Cernan	Well, we're sort of inside the east rim a little bit.
167:45:47	CC	Well, don't get too far inside.
167:45:49	Cernan	We're halfway between the rim and where the blocky wall starts.
167:45:55	CC	All right. Copy that.
167:45:56	Schmitt	Did you get that, Bob?
167:45:57	CC	Yes. We got that.
167:46:08	Schmitt	Cochise is much like Horatio and - actually, more like Camelot, although not as blocky in the walls, in general, in that it - it has blocky walls but a mantled rim. Again, all the blocks I see in here are big ones. And blocks down to about 20 centimeters are subangular, in general, and appear to be the - have the appearance of the subfloor gabbro, although most of the smaller rocks are not - do not appear to be highly vesicular.
167:46:53	CC	All right. We're copying that all.
167:47:07	Cernan	We're at 232 and 2.7.
167:47:13	CC	Roger. Copy that.
167:47:26	Schmitt	Watch it.
167:47:32	Cernan	You know why - what happened there?
167:47:34	Schmitt	What?
167:47:34	Cernan	I was just about to take a picture, and the minute you take your eye off anything -
167:47:37	Schmitt	Yes.
167:47:43	Cernan	Yes. I got another view of that contact, and let's put that - let's put that on the northwest wall of Cochise and dipping to the southeast.
167:47:55	Schmitt	All right. South and east is to our left.
167:48:01	Cernan	No, no, no, no, no. Put it on the northwest wall dipping to the northeast.
167:48:11	Schmitt	Yes, that's right. See that, Geno, can you see that over there?
167:48:19	Cernan	Oh, yes. I can see it now between the gray and blue-gray?
167:48:21	Schmitt	Yes.
167:48:22	Cernan	Oh, yes. Yes, I sure do.
167:48:26	Schmitt	Can you swing in there, and let me get another shot of it?
167:48:28	Cernan	You betcha.
167:48:37	Schmitt	Oh, this is a good view right here. Okay now, I need to have you go left.
167:48:44	Cernan	Okay. I got two of them in there, too.
167:48:45	Schmitt	Great.
167:48:46	Cernan	Look at that rock right in front of us. It looks like a contact between a blue and a gray.
167:48:50	Schmitt	Oh, yes, there it is. Yes, you're right.
167:48:52	Cernan	We can't get down to it, but take a picture.
167:48:54	Schmitt	Well, I think we've done - I think we've got that relationship. I think we got it at Station 1, as a matter of fact.
167:48:59	Cernan	But that's a big beautiful boulder on the - -
167:49:00	Schmitt	Yes, that's - -
167:49:01	Cernan	Inner rim - -
167:49:02	Schmitt	- - that's ... a block.
167:49:02	Cernan	- - inner south rim of Cochise.
167:49:04	Schmitt	Oooh - -
167:49:04	Cernan	It's a single block.
167:49:05	Schmitt	That's how you bend your tires.
167:49:07	Cernan	Well, thatf s what it's for. Oh, that's a mou - Oh, man, would that be ... - -
167:49:11	Schmitt	Well, now, that might be glass covered. That might be a glass coating; the way it sort of hangs on the outside there. Hard to say.
167:49:21	Cernan	We're at 234/2.5.
167:49:28	Schmitt	Starting to sling dust. I wonder if we've lost our fender.
167:49:30	CC	Roger. Copy that.
167:49:30	Cernan	No, they're on there tight. ... - -
167:49:31	Schmitt	You think that's Van Serg? Right over there.
167:49:35	Cernan	No.
167:49:35	Schmitt	There it is. Bet you.
167:49:38	Cernan	Yes. I think you're right, because that's just about the right place. Let's see, 234 - okay, is where - and 2.1 is where we want to go, and I'm at 230/2.5.
167:49:47	Schmitt	Okay, our - -
167:49:48	Cernan	Pretty close.
167:49:49	Schmitt	- - Our block population in here now, on the south rim of Cochise and it's - and up ahead of us looks like it's up to 5 percent. And it's - all looks like subfloor - light to tan subfloor gabbro - or tan-gray. You don't see much blue-gray; not out on here.
167:50:22	Schmitt	There's a recent hit.
167:50:26	Cernan	This Rover is getting tested for what it was built for now.
167:50:29	Schmitt	Yes.
167:50:37	Cernan	I tell you it handles just the way as advertised, maybe even better.
167:50:44	CC	Okay. We think you guys are getting to the point we ought to swing a little bit west to make that 232/2.1.
167:50:51	Cernan	Yes, I am, Bob.
167:50:56	Schmitt	I think we - We've got it. Tallyho.
167:50:56	Cernan	Bob - Bob. That's my fix. I'm just navigating to it.
167:51:00	CC	Okay. Copy that.
167:51:01	Cernan	I know where. I'll get there.
167:51:04	CC	Roger.
167:51:04	Schmitt	We have a Tallyho on Shorty - I mean of Van Serg. How about through there, Geno. Thanks.
167:51:13	CC	Let's not prejudge the crater too much.
167:51:15	Cernan	You want 234/2.1. Okay.
167:51:20	CC	And remember we talked about parking on the southeast rim.
167:51:21	Cernan	It wanders like our wander factor in here has got to be 50 percent.
167:51:25	CC	Copy that.
167:51:29	Schmitt	Bob, you're cut - you're being cut out. I can't tell what you're saying. Isn't that where we want to go, over there?
167:51:37	Cernan	23 - Well, -
167:51:38	Schmitt	Well, - look, ... way to get - -
167:51:39	Cernan	- - ... found the crater.
167:51:40	CC	234 or 232 - -
167:51:42	Schmitt	No, we didn't ... there on the right.
167:51:42	CC	- - it doesn't make much difference, 17. If you see Van Serg, that's what we want.
167:51:48	Cernan	Well, you're - Let me wander over that way. That's where I want to get, but I couldn't go there because of that -
167:51:57	Schmitt	There's a different looking rock there.
167:51:58	CC	And remember, we're talking about parking on the southeast rim.
167:52:06	Schmitt	Yes, I think you're going to have to bear right.
167:52:09	Cernan	Yes. That's why I - I've got to get through this field, though.
167:52:11	Schmitt	Yes, I know (laughter).
167:52:15	Cernan	Okay, Bob. We're still primarily in an extreme block field here now. It's up to a 20 percent cover, and - of fragments mostly the subfloor. Some of it looks quite highly shattered. There's -I just saw one piece that looked like a white anorthositic rock.
167:52:43	Cernan	How's this look to you? We can go farther up there, I guess. Let me go farther up.
167:52:46	Schmitt	Well, okay, if you can get up.
167:52:48	Cernan	Get a little farther on the southeast.
167:52:50	Schmitt	A little higher is apt to overdo it.
167:52:55	Cernan	Okay.
167:52:55	Schmitt	There are - there is some - some grayish rocks that are - -
167:53:01	Cernan	Oops! I centered. Right, coming up here. I turn to the right and park right here.
167:53:07	Schmitt	- - That have a - somewhat of a swirl texture.
167:53:12	Cernan	Okay, Bob, we're at 230/2.2.
167:53:18	CC	Copy that. Copy you parked.
167:53:25	Cernan	Yep. What did I say? 230 on that? Yes, bearing is 230/2.2, and I'm parked on a heading of 320, which gives you a better view.
167:53:42	CC	Copy 320 for the parking.
167:53:49	Cernan	Yes, 3-330.
167:53:52	Schmitt	Oh, boy. This is getting harder and harder. Got it ... also. Don't know what's wrong with it, now. I might have got it twisted.
167:54:16	Cernan	Here, let me look at it.
167:54:18	Schmitt	Got it hooked, but not so I can get it undone.
167:54:21	Cernan	Here let me look at it. I'd say stay put, but I don't think you have any choice.
167:54:30	Schmitt	That fender just curled under, that's where we're getting the dust - starting to warp.
167:54:37	Cernan	Look at those other fenders, talk about warping.
167:54:40	Schmitt	Did I get it twisted or something?
167:54:42	Cernan	Yes, you did twist it when you put it on. Okay, squanch down.
167:54:44	Schmitt	I'm squanched.
167:54:45	Cernan	Okay. Had one twist in it.
167:54:51	Schmitt	Boy, that makes a difference.
167:54:52	Cernan	Sure does. Here. Your footpan's down, too.
167:55:00	Schmitt	I'll get it. It's lost it's stiffness in there. Okay - okay, I guess now I'll plan for Shorty, huh? ... Van Serg.
167:55:14	Cernan	Okay, 2 POWER'S ON -
167:55:18	Schmitt	Van Serg looks like a blocky rim fresh impact crater right now.
167:55:24	CC	Okay. We copy that. How about scuffing your feet and seeing if it looks orange underneath?
167:55:26	Schmitt	Slight differences - Don't worry.
167:55:34	CC	And, Gene, before you go away, we'd like the rest of the Rover readouts, like batteries. And how about a SEP temp readout before one of you guys leave there?
167:55:47	Cernan	Get - Can you get that on that side, Jack?
167:55:48	Schmitt	I will.
167:55:50	Cernan	Should have TV.
167:55:50	CC	Roger. We have it, and I'm sure that Ed would like a good dusting Job up front.
167:55:57	Cernan	Well, there's so much - -
167:56:01	Schmitt	I'll dust it if you can't read it. I'll get it.
167:56:04	Cernan	- - dust. I've got it.
167:56:04	Schmitt	I'll get it.
167:56:05	Cernan	- - Just over the gauge. It's about 12 - 125 on the SEP.
167:56:12	CC	Okay. Copy that.
167:56:13	Schmitt	Boy, everything is really bad now. The fender warped.
167:56:17	Cernan	Yes, the fender cut - dug under. See if you can straighten it out.
167:56:20	CC	Okay, and leave the covers - -
167:56:21	Cernan	Okay. Amp hours, 82 and 80. Battery, 122 and off scale low. Forwards are 210, 240; Rears are 225 and 2 - 220.
167:56:43	CC	Okay, We copy that.
167:56:45	Cernan	That's just a sample of the kind of - kind of dust we would have got, Jack, if we hadn't of had that fender yesterday. Fender's almost worn out.
167:56:54	Schmitt	Can you get a dustbrush, and let's check our camera.
167:56:58	Cernan	Stay where you are, and I'll give you a zappareno wherever you are.
167:57:16	Cernan	Okay.
167:57:19	Schmitt	That it?
167:57:19	Cernan	Yes.
167:57:20	Schmitt	Okay, how many bags do I have.
167:57:22	Cernan	I don't know, but I've got a lot of dusting to do here.
167:57:24	Schmitt	Do you have a lot of bags?
167:57:26	Cernan	Yes. I must have - I've got four of them is all.
167:57:31	Schmitt	I'd better change my bag.
167:57:35	Cernan	Can't even read the Rover.
167:57:37	Schmitt	Yes. I have an empty bag on me now, right, a collection bag?
167:57:40	Cernan	Empty.
167:57:47	Schmitt	Don't know how much time do we have here?
167:57:47	CC	Okay, 17 - We're looking at a nominal, Station 9 here. You've got about 25 minutes remaining.
167:58:04	Cernan	No such thing as a nominal station anymore.
167:58:07	CC	This may be the first and only one of the traverse.
167:58:13	Schmitt	The geology won't let it be nominal. Hey, I've got some new bags, Bob.
167:58:18	CC	Okay. We copy that, Jack.
167:58:19	Schmitt	And I guess I'm pretty good on film.
167:58:21	CC	Okay. And you're going to get a radial sample here, and so you might check your Rover sample bag supply.
167:58:29	Schmitt	That's right. I want to take that.
167:58:29	CC	And you might - and you might give me frame count or check it to make sure you're okay.
167:58:36	Schmitt	I just did, and it's 123.
167:58:40	CC	Okay, good enough.
167:58:45	Cernan	How do you want the SEP blankets?
167:58:47	CC	Leave them closed, please, Gene - -
167:58:49	Cernan	Open or closed?
167:58:49	CC	- - as closed as they'll get.
167:58:51	Schmitt	CLOSED.
167:58:57	Cernan	We been riding with this thing off?
167:59:00	Schmitt	What?
167:59:01	Cernan	SEP?
167:59:03	Schmitt	Yes, it should be off.
167:59:04	Cernan	Yes, it is. Doesn't seem like it'd get much data that way. Even if it's hot.
167:59:09	CC	Yes, but it's - it's automatic - -
167:59:11	Cernan	I guess they're worried about getting it so hot it - -
167:59:12	CC	- it shuts itself off when it gets above 108, so it's no good anyway.
167:59:18	Cernan	Are you kidding? We're - oh, boy.
167:59:20	CC	We've been hoping all day - it's been off all day. We've been hoping that it would - since Station 6 - We've been hoping that it would cool down so that we could get some more data, but it's not, obviously.
167:59:31	Cernan	It's not going to make it, Bob.
167:59:33	CC	That's obvious by now.
167:59:37	Cernan	That's a - that's a shame.
167:59:39	Schmitt	This is starting to look like a geological survey expedition. The vehicle's are all covered with dust.
168:00:00	Schmitt	Oh, look what's in there.
168:00:05	PAO	EVA time 4 hours 27 minutes.
168:00:18	Cernan	I don't think I can read that unless I dust it with a lens brush - Okay. Get my - Okay, can I get by you here?
168:00:45	Schmitt	My - my bag look all right to you?
168:00:47	Cernan	Yes, it's still closed.
168:00:49	Schmitt	Okay. Okay. What are we going to do here? We're going to go up there and sample on the rim, look at the walls, and the floor, and miscellaneous, and - -
168:01:05	Cernan	Well, we are on the rim ...
168:01:05	Schmitt	- - then you're going to take 500 millimeters when you get back to the Rover while I do a radial sample.
168:01:15	Cernan	Okay.
168:01:16	Schmitt	But the big - the first thing we do is go up to the crater. Bob, I think the mantle objective here really is immaterial and - because the - there's - blocky ejecta around the crater covers - oh, boy - Well, it looks like it - it extends several hundred meters out from the rim - say a couple of hundred meters.
168:01:49	CC	All right. Copy that, Jack.
168:01:50	Schmitt	We're quite a ways - we're pretty close to the rim.
168:01:53	CC	Yes, we can see that.
168:01:55	Schmitt	We're pretty close. I'll go up on the rim, Gene, and see what we've got.
168:02:23	Schmitt	Tiptoe through the tulips (singing) - -
168:02:26	CC	Okay. Let's get grabs before you guys leave.
168:02:29	Schmitt	(Singing) I'm getting it right now. Let me see; anything else you want me to do while I'm here?
168:02:37	CC	Negative.
168:02:44	Schmitt	Sure look like shocked rocks to me.
168:02:53	Cernan	Lot of glass splattered on some of these, Jack.
168:02:55	Schmitt	Yes.
168:03:05	Cernan	We might even find some shatter cones. But don't tell anybody.
168:03:16	Cernan	Well, I'll say one thing for old Van Serg, it's blocky. Whoo!
168:03:24	Cernan	MARK. Gravimeter.
168:03:25	CC	Copy that.
168:03:30	Schmitt	Bob. This is about - I think this is the only clearly - well, I won't even say that. This is at least a blocky - a large blocky rim crater. But even it has the mantle dust ma - material covering the rim, partially buried rocks. And it's down on the floor, as near as I can tell, and on the walls. The crater itself has a central mound of - of blocks that's probably 50 meters in diameter - that's a little high - 30 meters in diameter. It - Many of the blocks are - -
168:04:31	Cernan	Holy Smoley!
168:04:32	Schmitt	- - intensely shattered in that area, as the ones that are on the walls. I don't see any sign of organization of the blocks in the walls right now. There's a possibility that on the west wall, there's an indication that there's slightly darker gray rocks starting about halfway down the crater. And that's - that level is coincident with what appears to be a bench on the northwest wall. And that bench - hints of that bench - it's not continuous, but hints of it are around on the north wall and, I think, right below us - yes, on the southeast wall. The - We'll start - The rocks are pretty badly broken in many cases. And - well, I haven't seen any real glass yet. Yes. We'll start looking at them a little more carefully.
168:05:55	Cernan	Some of them - That looks like a breccia right there in front of us.
168:05:56	Schmitt	Yes. There's some interesting patterns on the surface.
168:06:02	Schmitt	Stand by. Wait, wait, wait. I keep - Aw! Sorry, Geno, but -
168:06:21	Cernan	Okay?
168:06:22	Schmitt	Okay, there. Afraid I haven't been doing my duty on locators, occasionally.
168:06:43	Schmitt	See that?
168:06:44	Cernan	Yes. I got it.
168:06:49	Schmitt	Okay, Gene's tearing apart one of the - -
168:06:52	Cernan	Here. There you go.
168:06:53	Schmitt	- - very intensely fractured rocks. And it comes off in small flakes. Let's get this one, because this will be the best oriented one for documentation, plus why don't you get that one you've got inside there?
168:07:08	Cernan	Yes, I am.
168:07:11	Schmitt	Got a bag?
168:07:16	Schmitt	Bag 568 is a fragment from the surface. That's a corner, I think, off the block that Gene documented here.
168:07:28	Cernan	Yes; it is.
168:07:30	Schmitt	We'll get - we'll get another sample - that'll be from inside the block.
168:07:42	Cernan	Get it with this real easy. Here's a whole big - we ought to take that just as is.
168:07:57	Schmitt	Well, put it - put it in your - put a bag around if we - around one end if we can. Here the other end is smaller.
168:08:05	Cernan	Yes. Hold this - -
168:08:05	Schmitt	Let me hold this end. Let me hold it, and you put the bag on.
168:08:10	Cernan	That's breccia, too. That's - -
168:08:12	Schmitt	Well, it's - -
168:08:13	Cernan	Well, see that? See the white fragments in there?
168:08:15	Schmitt	Yes. It certainly - -
168:08:16	Cernan	It's got a lot of very small - -
168:08:17	Schmitt	It - it looks like this big one over here. You know, it might be that the - these are - might be pieces of the projectile. I don't know. Because it doesn't look like - it's not subfloor.
168:08:31	Cernan	Okay. Pin it down.
168:08:38	Schmitt	Well, that's wrapped in - if you can put it - if you put it end down, it may stay in the bag.
168:08:45	Cernan	I doubt it.
168:08:46	Schmitt	What's the number?
168:08:48	Cernan	It's a 480, and it's a - a relatively tabular [sic] shape, and it's about - -
168:08:56	Schmitt	And it's going to - -
168:08:57	Cernan	- - 10 inches long.
168:08:58	Schmitt	And it's highly friable. It breaks apart.
168:09:03	Cernan	Oh, not so much.
168:09:03	Schmitt	In small chips. Well, you can - you did it with your hands there. I call that being friable, compared to what we've seen anyway.
168:09:13	Cernan	Okay, and let me get in after of that.
168:09:14	Schmitt	Let me get a - soil - soil right over here. Okay. The soil next to the boulder down about 3 centimeters, is in bag 569.
168:09:38	CC	Copy that.
168:09:40	Schmitt	Okay. And the soil and chips - about two-thirds of a meter from the boulder - -
168:09:53	Cernan	Get another one?
168:09:54	Schmitt	Yes - are in bag 570.
168:10:01	CC	Copy that.
168:10:12	Schmitt	Okay?
168:10:14	Cernan	Let me get over here. You're going to step on your gnomon there.
168:10:18	Schmitt	I wouldn't step on my gnomon. I'm going to get this one - crimped. Okay. There, very clearly, is a central, mound. And now that we've looked at this one, the mound looks like it's composed of gray fragment breccias much like what we've just sampled - -
168:10:39	Cernan	...
168:10:40	Schmitt	- - dark gray. And again it might be related - -
168:10:44	Cernan	Jack.
168:10:46	Schmitt	Oh, excuse me. I didn't hear you.
168:10:47	Schmitt	Related to the projectile. Now, we've got to see if there is subfloor up here, or whether we're dealing with another unit somewhere.
168:10:55	Cernan	Got your after. Okay. I don't see any - -
168:10:58	Schmitt	Well, the more coherent rocks - this looks like subfloor.
168:11:02	Cernan	I don't see any orange material either.
168:11:04	Schmitt	Not yet.
168:11:12	Cernan	This particular rock we've sampled has tabular fractures, and in one-half of the rock, they are definitely oriented.
168:11:29	Schmitt	Boy, I'll tell you, I don't - There's more dust on these rocks. It's harder to see a fresh surface. They're not as clean. That's subfloor.
168:11:46	Cernan	Look, even the floor of the crater is mantled, down there.
168:11:47	Schmitt	You know, that seems - Yes. That seems like a - what you got? A piece of glass?
168:11:54	Cernan	Yes, I think it is glass. At least it's glass covered - just glass covered. Houston, I've got an undocumented sample. It's about 2 meters west of where we just sampled. It's a glass-covered -oh, baseball-size rock in 571.
168:12:12	CC	Copy that.
168:12:17	Schmitt	A lot of these blocks up here, Houston, are - particularly the more fractured ones, but even some that aren't - are a gray matrix fragment breccia. And it looks like - really, the fragments are quite fine. There are no - On the rim anyway, we haven't seen any large fragments. The largest I've seen is about 2 centimeters. But down in the mound you can see some fragments that are probably half a meter in diameter.
168:13:00	Cernan	Jack, are you going around that rim of the crater up there?
168:13:02	Schmitt	I was just looking at rocks.
168:13:03	Cernan	Well, okay.
168:13:05	Schmitt	We - we - -
168:13:05	Cernan	I want to get a pan before we leave back there.
168:13:07	Schmitt	Oh, yes. We need to see if we can get some of the subfloor. I'm not sure I understand what's happened here, yet. This should have brought up subfloor according to the theory, and it hasn't.
168:13:19	Cernan	That looks like some of the - look at some of the breccias - the blue breccias with the white - big old slabby white - with the fracture face with the white inclusions.
168:13:28	Schmitt	Down there.
168:13:29	Cernan	Yes, down in the floor, Jack.
168:13:30	Schmitt	Yes, it has that appearance all right. Hey, Gene. Do you see that rock - -
168:13:34	Cernan	That's a - -
168:13:34	Schmitt	- - that rock that's fractured in sort of a pyramid shape down there? Out here on the right - the right end of - of the floor down there - that big one?
168:13:42	Cernan	Yes.
168:13:42	Schmitt	It's sort of pointing west.
168:13:44	Cernan	Yes.
168:13:44	Schmitt	It's really neat. That's a unique fracture, isn't it?
168:13:47	CC	Roger, 17 - -
168:13:48	Schmitt	And there's another one that's fractured almost in a ... - -
168:13:50	CC	- - And we'd like to be moving from here in about 10 minutes, so we probably better be trending back toward the Rover, unless you're seeing something really great out there.
168:13:57	Schmitt	Well. Hey, Bob, we ought to - we ought to find out whether or not we got - whether - what the rock is here, if you've got a little time.
168:14:05	Cernan	Jack, do you want me to put this in your bag and start - I'm sorry.
168:14:05	CC	Roger. You got - you got 10 minutes. I'm just telling you to start thinking about getting back.
168:14:14	Schmitt	Yes. We're always thinking that way.
168:14:15	Cernan	Okay, Bob. One thing I noticed we do uncover. There's a lot of - oh, 2, 3, 4-millimeter-size fragments of glass we're kicking up all over the place.
168:14:25	Schmitt	Yes.
168:14:27	Cernan	Little glass balls.
168:14:28	Schmitt	Hey, Gene?
168:14:29	Cernan	Almost like Pele's -
168:14:31	Schmitt	Gene?
168:14:31	Cernan	Yes.
168:14:32	Schmitt	Can you come over here? I think there's some subfloor here. We ought to - -
168:14:36	Cernan	Okay.
168:14:37	Schmitt	We ought to try to document it. But I tell you, most of the rocks are the - are the fine-fragment breccias. Let me see if I can't get one of those little - -
168:14:45	Cernan	There's some glass.
168:14:46	Schmitt	Hey.
168:14:47	Cernan	You see if they're like Pele's - -
168:14:48	Schmitt	Okay.
168:14:50	Cernan	- - ... eyeballs or whatever they are.
168:14:53	Schmitt	I think we can get some over here. If you're - if you're careful coming over here, we can get glass that looks like it may have crystallized in place there.
168:15:00	Cernan	Okay. I'm talking about those little - little balls, too. See that - -
168:15:06	Schmitt	Whoo, take it easy - Take it easy.
168:15:08	Cernan	Where are you? Right there?
168:15:08	Schmitt	Yes, but put your gnomon right over here, and we can get that for glass and that for subfloor.
168:15:14	Cernan	Okay. Let me -
168:15:15	Schmitt	But I'm not sure that is. I Just - it may be breccia there - Everything is covered with dust here, and it's hard to tell the types. Most of the rocks we're seeing are breccias. Make sure that glass is in your stereo.
168:15:47	Schmitt	Okay, be careful with it.
168:15:52	Cernan	Oh, shoot!
168:16:08	Cernan	I don't have any bags so -
168:16:11	Schmitt	Okay, the glass - looks like a glass agglutinate. Oh, no!
168:16:20	Schmitt	Did it break? Good. I think that will survive going back now.
168:16:30	Schmitt	Okay. It's a frothy - glass agglutinate is going to be in bag 48l.
168:16:43	CC	Copy that.
168:16:46	Schmitt	And - and it looks like a - almost like a cowpie - pile-type of bomb, Bob, if you'll pardon the expression.
168:16:56	CC	I will. I don't know whether anybody else - -
168:16:58	Schmitt	Although it's not flattened. It's - it's - it's a - it's an aggregate of glass in - or it's a pile of about four fragments, much like the one we're sampling.
168:17:16	Cernan	Jack, we want to get a good scoop sample here. Maybe can we get some of those little fine pieces of glass around.
168:17:21	Schmitt	And it looks like it's - it's in place from the day it was born.
168:17:26	CC	Copy that.
168:17:28	Cernan	Oh, gol dig da! I'm having a hard time with this one.
168:17:37	Schmitt	A piece of that rock rigiht behind it.
168:17:42	Cernan	If I can -
168:17:51	Schmitt	Want a bag?
168:17:55	Cernan	Yes. I'm going to turn around. Just not going to be able to get that one in the bag, I don't think.
168:18:07		PAO
168:18:19	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. My sample's in - 482 is a rock, but it doesn't look like subfloor. It looks like the blue-gray material we've been seeing - the breccia-type material.
168:18:30	Cernan	Yes.
168:18:32	Schmitt	I don't think there's any difference.
168:18:36	Cernan	Got it in!
168:18:38	Schmitt	Might just as well throw them in my bag.
168:18:46	CC	Okay, and - -
168:18:47	Cernan	I want a scoop out of here, though, Jack.
168:18:49	CC	17, why don't we get that scoop sample as the first sample of Jack's radial sample, 17?
168:18:58	Cernan	Okay. That's right. You're getting a radial sample. That's fine. I forgot you were doing that.
168:19:04	Schmitt	Oh, man.
168:19:05	Cernan	That's all right, Jack. That won't come out. Just-put it in there.
168:19:16	Schmitt	Oh, boy.
168:19:19	Cernan	Okay. Let's let that one be the last -
168:19:21	Schmitt	Here's one.
168:19:22	Cernan	Well, okay. Those are the last ones that you can take. Got a lock?
168:19:32	Schmitt	No, I don't - stand by, a second on that.
168:19:41	Cernan	Okay. Okay, before you go back - I got to go down after a picture here. And I want to get a pan of this thing. We can get a stereo pan - as you start your radial sample.
168:20:03	Schmitt	Yes. Are you going to - You - you take the after from there, and I'll go over here and -
168:20:10	Cernan	Okay. You - -
168:20:10	Schmitt	Well, wait a minute.
168:20:11	Cernan	- - you need the gnomon?
168:20:12	Schmitt	No.
168:20:13	Cernan	Okay. I'm going to go over behind me and take part of the stereo.
168:20:16	Schmitt	Where are you going to take your pan? Let me see.
168:20:18	Cernan	From - from behind me, where we were.
168:20:18	Schmitt	Well, I think I'll just take my radial right from here to the Rover.
168:20:23	Cernan	That's great. That's great. Just do that, and then you'll be right back at the Rover.
168:20:27	Schmitt	And I'll take my pan from here, so you -
168:20:48	Cernan	Man, there's about four or five different modes of travel out here.
168:22:08	Cernan	I don't believe it.
168:22:10	Schmitt	What?
168:22:12	Cernan	I think I'm out of film.
168:22:14	Schmitt	You're out of film?
168:22:17	Cernan	150. And it stopped clicking. Jack, I - I - I didn't get the rest of that crater down there.
168:22:25	Schmitt	Okay.
168:22:26	Cernan	I only got it 12 o'clock and around. Well, shucks.
168:22:34	Schmitt	I can get it.
168:22:37	Cernan	Well, here's where I -
168:22:39	Schmitt	Well, I'm going to be out of film, too, here before long.
168:22:42	Cernan	Okay. Just don't worry about it then. Just press on with your radials.
168:22:44	Schmitt	I've got - I got a good pan over here. Did you get the crater at all?
168:22:47	Cernan	I got the right half of it and probably two-thirds of it, so we're going to - I'm just going to have to let that do. Okay. I'm going to see if I can get some 500s while you're doing that.
168:23:06	Schmitt	Hey, this isn't going to be an ideal - radial sample - but it will have to do. Giddyapping over hill and dale (singing).
168:23:43	Cernan	Bob, would you tell me what your primary desires are again on the 500, based upon what we have?
168:23:51	CC	Okay. The primary desire will be the North Massif, the blocks, and the trail.
168:24:00	Cernan	Okay.
168:24:04	CC	And while you're at the Rover, they want you to take the gravimeter off again, and we'll get another Rover and a - well another surface measurement here, as well - to check against the Rover.
168:24:20	Cernan	Okay. Here's a reading. I think I owe you one of those, don't I?
168:24:28	CC	Roger.
168:24:30	Cernan	670, 037, 801; 670, 037, 801.
168:24:37	CC	Copy that.
168:24:41	Cernan	I didn't know we were going to do both of these things. I thought we were going to do one or the other. But - if we're going to do it, we might as well do it right.
168:24:58	Cernan	MARK it. It's flashing.
168:25:13	Schmitt	Okay, bag - stand by - 52 Yankee is at the rim crest.
168:25:27	CC	Copy that.
168:25:41	Cernan	Well, I'll tell you what I'm going to do. I'm going to use the Rover to steady the 500, and see what happens.
168:26:28	Schmitt	Oh, I should have let you take this scoop back. Oh, no. Oh, me. Well, shoot! This isn't working out too well, Dr. Parker.
168:26:47	CC	Say again there, Jack.
168:27:01	Schmitt	This isn't working out too well. I've got to get rid of this scoop.
168:27:05	Cernan	Just set it there and take your sample. We'll get it.
168:27:09	Schmitt	I'll take the samples going back.
168:27:49	Schmitt	Just like in training, the scoop doesn't stay locked to the ...
168:28:31	CC	Okay, 17. We'd like you to press on. We'll abort the radial sample. We'd like to leave here immediately, if not sooner, to head for Station 10. Enough of the 500 millimeters, Gene. And we'll give you some information here on mags. We need the gravimeter put back on the Rover, if you haven't already. If it's on the ground, we didn't get the mark, but it's probably done by now. And we're going to take the DSEA out of the tape recorder here, and we'd like to get that all done pronto.
168:29:11	Cernan	Okay. 85 is the mag count on the 500.
168:29:14	CC	Copy 85 on the 500.
168:29:15	Schmitt	I think that's a smart move, Bob. I don't think - I don't think the radial sample's going to tell you much here.
168:29:21	CC	Okay. Let's take a -
168:29:24	Schmitt	I don't under - I - I -
168:29:26	CC	Go ahead.
168:29:31	Cernan	Jack, you ought to get a scoop of that dirt, though.
168:29:34	Schmitt	Well, there's - -
168:29:35	Cernan	One scoop. We don't have a scoop of it, do we?
168:29:37	Schmitt	Look what's underneath it.
168:29:39	Cernan	Well, I don't know what's underneath it.
168:29:40	Schmitt	It's white.
168:29:42	Cernan	Well, I wanted to make sure we got some of those small glass balls.
168:29:46	Schmitt	Yes, we'll get a scoop of it. Upon the top.
168:29:50	CC	17, we're anxious for you guys to get going.
168:29:54	Cernan	Okay. Here's your gravimeter reading from the surface; 670, 057, 101; 670, 057, 101.
168:30:07	CC	Copy that.
168:30:07	Cernan	Do you want me to change my mag at the next station?
168:30:10	Schmitt	Come here, Gene, quickly. We can't - we can't leave this. This may be the youngest mantle over - whatever was - -
168:30:21	Cernan	Take pictures of it. I don't have any film.
168:30:22	Schmitt	- - was thrown out of the craters.
168:30:25	Cernan	Take pictures of it. Bob, we've got to take 5 more minutes. We'll be right with you.
168:30:31	Cernan	What Jack's done is he dug a - a trench in a - the southwest-northeast direction, and he discovered about 3 inches below - 4 inches below the surface - a very light-gray material.
168:30:49	Schmitt	Possibility here - Careful, Geno.
168:30:51	Cernan	Yes.
168:30:59	Cernan	Take that crust.
168:31:00	Schmitt	Well, I'm trying - I'm trying to get the - the upper portion there. There we go.
168:31:07	Schmitt	The first 2 centimeters, bag 483. The next 5 - Ahhh - in 484. Augh!
168:31:43	Cernan	Get some?
168:31:44	Schmitt	I got quite a bit.
168:31:45	Cernan	That's enough.
168:31:46	Schmitt	I got quite a bit. Here, you got to put that away, don't you?
168:31:52	Cernan	Yes.
168:31:53	Schmitt	And the next 10 centimeters of the light-gray material, be in - probably in 486, if we're lucky - get it off.
168:32:12	Cernan	Okay.
168:32:14	Schmitt	I think it is 486, right?
168:32:15	Cernan	Yes. 485!
168:32:18	Schmitt	485. Okay. What did I say 483, 484? Okay.
168:32:25	Cernan	You with us, Bob?
168:32:26	CC	Roger. We're with you.
168:32:27	Schmitt	He's mad at us now.
168:32:30	CC	How'd you guess?
168:32:32	Schmitt	Okay. The third sample is in 485.
168:32:34	CC	Copy that.
168:32:38	Schmitt	Okay. Whoops, sorry. Bob, a possibility here is that the - this upper 6 inches of gray material in here is the latest mantling in the area and the light-colored debris may be what's left over from the impact.
168:32:59	CC	Okay, I copy. I understand. But we'd like to get you going. In case you didn't get the clue.
168:33:06	Cernan	I know. We're going. Okay.
168:33:09	Schmitt	All right. What else? Magazines.
168:33:12	Cernan	No, we'll change them at the next station. Isn't that right, Bob ?
168:33:15	Schmitt	No, I've got to have some. I got to get some, or I can't take -
168:33:19	CC	Okay, 17. We need Jack to put on magazine Nancy. And we'd like, Gene, for you to pull out the DSEA tape recorder at this station.
168:33:31	Cernan	Okay, I need a magazine too, Bob. I don't have any film at all.
168:33:35	CC	Roger. That'll be Bravo if you change yours here. You could change it at Station 10.
168:33:42	Cernan	I'll change it here. It's just as easy while we're in there.
168:33:45	CC	Okay.
168:33:48	Schmitt	Okay. You want Bravo, huh?
168:33:49	Cernan	Bravo. And I'll get the tape - I'll get the DSEA. Bravo was outside there, I thought.
168:34:02	Schmitt	There you go. Let me get this - hold it one -long enough for me to get this. Then I can get rid of this all at one time.
168:34:08	Cernan	Okay. Oh.
168:34:11	Schmitt	Well, that's all right.
168:34:12	Cernan	I can't put that back in.
168:34:15	Schmitt	Got it?
168:34:16	Cernan	I got - I got Bravo.
168:34:18	Schmitt	Okay. I got that one.
168:34:20	Cernan	We lost the dark slide out of Bravo, and it's - it's in the dirt. I'm not going to pick it up.
168:34:27	CC	All right. Copy that. There's no point in putting it back in. It probably wouldn't go in anyway.
168:34:32	Cernan	Well, that's dirty. Okay. I'm changed. And I don't know what the mag count is, but let me get the DSEA. If this thing is true to form, I'm going to have to get in there - I got to - oh, it tripped! Well, now what's - Hey, we got some rocks in that big bag. Okay. We're done with the SEP. DSEA is coming out. I hope there's something on it.
168:35:49	Cernan	Oh - Jiminy Christmas - I can't even pick up that big bag to close the gate.
168:35:49	Cernan	I've got to - I've got to trip that latch with - with tongs or something to lock it.
168:36:05	CC	Okay. And, Jack; Houston. Over.
168:36:12	Schmitt	Go ahead.
168:36:13	CC	Okay, we've - -
168:36:16	Schmitt	Go ahead.
168:36:16	CC	- - had a change of heart here again, as usual. And we're going to drop Station 10 now that we've heard you so much, and we're going to get a double core here. And we'd like to get the - some football-size rocks while you're doing that. But double core here, and then we're going to leave here and go back to the LM.
168:36:34	Schmitt	You don't want a - You don't want a - you don't want a double core here. I don't think we can do it, Bob. It's too rocky.
168:36:43	Cernan	You don't think we'll get through that stuff you just trenched?
168:36:45	Schmitt	Well, I'm afraid there are rocks all through it, Gene. We can try, but -
168:36:50	Cernan	Let's try it.
168:36:51	Schmitt	Well, I don't like to try things that there is a probability of failure on - if you can - You're just going to lose some time. Okay, mag Nancy in on the LMP's camera.
168:37:00	CC	Copy that.
168:37:09	Schmitt	Well, this is - you can see the rock population here, Houston. But we can try it.
168:37:24	Cernan	Sure. If we get a single, we get a single out of it.
168:37:29	Schmitt	Oh, you're doing it, huh?
168:37:30	Cernan	I've got it started.
168:37:31	Schmitt	Well, you're not even - okay. Not even going to debate the issue.
168:37:35	Cernan	Well, it takes too much time debating it.
168:37:37	Schmitt	Well, let's see how much time it takes. I hope you're right.
168:37:41	CC	Okay. And -
168:37:42	Cernan	Okay, and we need a - we need a lower out of my bag.
168:37:46	Schmitt	Let me get the core.
168:37:47	Cernan	A lower out of my bag is all we need.
168:37:49	Schmitt	Watch it. You're in a crater almost.
168:37:50	Cernan	Yes. I want to get ... for you.
168:37:52	CC	Okay. We have to have you guys moving in 10 minutes. And we'd like to also deploy EP number 5 here.
168:38:01	Cernan	Okay. I'll start on the ... - -
168:38:05	Schmitt	- - ... the lower 5?
168:38:10	Schmitt	This is a lower, right?
168:38:11	Cernan	Yes.
168:38:12	Schmitt	You got an upper?
168:38:12	Cernan	Yes. Why don't you get 5 out, and I'll start on the core.
168:38:21	Schmitt	... And I'll put it - I'll put that right there.
168:38:29	Cernan	Okay. The lower is 50; the upper is 37.
168:38:34	CC	Copy. 50 and 37.
168:38:38	Cernan	You got 5, Jack?
168:38:40	Schmitt	Yes.
168:38:41	Cernan	Okay.
168:38:49	Schmitt	Why don't you put it up - well - You put the gnomon away. Put it fairly near that trench. At least there is some documentation there. I'll try to have the pan going while you're doing it. Okay, Houston. Which way you going to drive out of here?
168:39:09	Cernan	I'm driving out of here -
168:39:11	Schmitt	Left or right?
168:39:12	Cernan	I - I've got to go right. I got to go right.
168:39:16	Schmitt	Okay. Pin 1 is pulled and safe. Pin 2 is pulled - safe. Pin 3 is pulled and safe.
168:39:46	CC	Okay, Jack. And we'll document it back to the Rover, I guess is the best way. That doesn't look too hard, Gene. Until just now.
168:39:52	Cernan	... Oops, looks like you proved me wrong.
168:39:59	Schmitt	The first core was easy; the second one a little tougher; and then it got tough down at the end. There, I'm getting a picture of you. Okay?
168:40:06	Cernan	Okay.
168:40:09	Schmitt	I got it.
168:40:10	Cernan	You got it from here? Okay.
168:40:11	Schmitt	Yes.
168:40:45	Cernan	Core but it wants to slide out. It's full. No rocks in it. It looks like just the same stuff we've been traveling through.
168:40:57	CC	Okay, Jack. I think you better help Gene with that - recovering that core there where the ... going to fall out.
168:41:06	Schmitt	You know, I think you're right. And if you'll just wait until I finish the pan, that's exactly what I'm going to do.
168:41:11	CC	Okay. I didn't know what you were doing.
168:41:13	Cernan	Bob, it's capped.
168:41:14	CC	Got you. Okay.
168:41:21	Cernan	You hold - just hold the handle.
168:41:30	Schmitt	Okay? I can take this one.
168:41:32	Cernan	It's very - very loose soil, Jack. And it's - just any little movement and you'll lose some of it.
168:41:40	Cernan	Let me cap that end. Don't move it.
168:41:41	Schmitt	Uh-oh, you're - you almost knocked some out. Get your - you know where your thing is.
168:41:45	Cernan	Yes, but I need you - that - that cap's on you. The last one's gone off the Rover.
168:41:49	Schmitt	That's all right. I'll stay here. Go put your top in. I won't move it.
168:42:24	Cernan	Any little movement and that stuff starts - -
168:42:26	Schmitt	Yes. Okay.
168:42:39	Cernan	Go - turn around. I'll get the rammer.
168:42:41	Schmitt	Okay,
168:42:43	Cernan	Oh, man! Even these pins are getting stiff. Okay, Bob. The top rammed down - oh, almost half way without any effort.
168:43:09	CC	Copy that.
168:43:10	Schmitt	The scoop's back on.
168:43:16	Cernan	The bottom rammed down about an inch.
168:43:19	CC	Copy that.
168:43:26	Cernan	Okay, Robert. Let's see -
168:43:30	Schmitt	Turn around and I'll get this.
168:43:31	Cernan	- what was the last thing - let's see - we had to do?
168:43:34	Schmitt	A couple of football-size rocks.
168:43:35	Cernan	You got the DSEA?
168:43:38	Schmitt	I got it. I got the charge. You got the double core. I got the double core. And I got one sample of a radial sample (laughter).
168:43:45	CC	We got a - that's a unique one.
168:43:48	Schmitt	In my pocket (laughter).
168:43:48	CC	And have we got the gravimeter back on the Rover?
168:43:54	Schmitt	Yes; it's on.
168:43:56	CC	Okay. Copy that.
168:43:56	Schmitt	And we want to get a large block. Why don't we - Why don't we - -
168:44:00	CC	Okay, and there's a - -
168:44:01	Cernan	No, let's get a couple of them. I've got - I've got one.
168:44:01	CC	- - ... here for a SESC from the shallow trench. We'd also like to have you moving in 4 minutes. That's with wheels rolling in 4 minutes.
168:44:11	Schmitt	SESC, huh?
168:44:13	CC	Roger; but we have to have the wheels rolling - -
168:44:15	Schmitt	I don't know if we can do that. We can try it.
168:44:16	CC	We want the wheels rolling in 4 minutes, so I don't think it's practical at this time.
168:44:22	Cernan	Bob, we cannot get an SESC in 4 minutes - -
168:44:25	CC	Okay. Copy that - -
168:44:26	Cernan	- - and roll - -
168:44:26	CC	- - Copy that.
168:44:27	Cernan	- - at the same time.
168:44:33	Cernan	Now, I've got to push this latch on the - on the gate to get it locked - on the pallet to get it locked.
168:44:39	Schmitt	Need some help?
168:44:40	Cernan	Push the pallet while I trip the latch, will you? Because I got to trip the latch. There's so much dust in that core.
168:44:50	Schmitt	Get it?
168:44:51	Cernan	No. No. Wait a minute. Open it up. Wait a minute.
168:45:04	Schmitt	Okay.
168:45:06	Cernan	Now - now that's where - now let me trip it.
168:45:13	Schmitt	Okay. Try it.
168:45:19	Cernan	Locked?
168:45:20	Schmitt	Yes. Yes.
168:45:21	Cernan	Should be locked now.
168:45:21	Schmitt	That got it. That got it.
168:45:30	Cernan	Okay.
168:45:31	Schmitt	Got a big rock there, too?
168:45:33	Schmitt	It's a - well, you know, the thing that amazes me is that there's no subfloor around here.
168:45:40	Cernan	I got one here.
168:45:50	Cernan	Okay. I'm about ready to clean up the Rover here.
168:45:57	CC	Okay, 17. What's out there in the distance on a hillside in the field of view of the camera? The camera is pointing at it. Oh, I'll bet that's the - that's the - -
168:46:09	Cernan	What's out there in the distance. Which hill? Let me see the - -
168:46:11	CC	- - that's the flag, I bet, on the charge.
168:46:16	Cernan	Yes, but it's only - you're looking right at it, but it's only 10 meters away.
168:46:21	CC	Okay. It's hanging in front of the hills. That's the problem.
168:46:23	Cernan	You're looking right at the flag.
168:46:24	CC	Okay. It's hanging in front of the hills. We thought we had an artifact or something like that. Okay. Press on.
168:46:35	Schmitt	Bob, bag 486 is a light-colored rock taken about 3 meters to the right of the Rover. It should be - you should be able to pick it out in that last pan, unless the focus was bad.
168:46:53	Cernan	Bob, you got all your TG readings?
168:46:55	CC	Roger. We've got that. We'd like to have you climb on.
168:47:00	Cernan	You want the LCRU off?
168:47:03	CC	Roger. Let's go to LCRU power off.
168:47:07	Cernan	Okay, Jack, let's - better get going.
168:47:13	Schmitt	Yes. You know, I don't think there is any subfloor in here. The rocks are so dust covered that it's hard to be sure, but no rock I picked up looked like subfloor.
168:47:26	Cernan	Get on there one time. Ready? I got three of them that time.
168:47:38	Schmitt	(Laughter)
168:47:39	CC	17, Houston. Do you read me through the - the LM?
168:47:43	Schmitt	You're loud and clear.
168:47:45	CC	Roger. Thank you.
168:47:48	Schmitt	I hope they came out. Okay.
168:47:57	Cernan	I get that twisted this time, if I can get off.
168:48:01	Schmitt	Oh, let's see if old twinkletoes can do it.
168:48:05	Cernan	Jack, there's a big - a big one right there in my floor pan. That's what I did last time.
168:48:17	Schmitt	Okay. I'm on, strangely enough.
168:48:29	Cernan	Okay. Let's see. Okay. The charge is off to the - right.
168:48:48	Schmitt	Yes, you're all - You can clear it this way or - -
168:48:56	Cernan	Yes. I see it. I see it.
168:48:57	Schmitt	Okay.
168:49:00	Cernan	I bet you they thought there was some more orange soil over there on the hills.
168:49:15	PAO	EVA time 5 hours 16 minutes.
168:49:16	Cernan	Get out of this block field, we'll be able to move it a little bit.
168:49:21	Schmitt	I wonder where we stand on time.
168:49:24	Cernan	Well, we've been out about 5 hours and 20 minutes or so.
168:49:31	Schmitt	Where is it - where are we headed, now that we are moving?
168:49:33	CC	That's affirm - -
168:49:34	Cernan	Well, I'm trying to get around - trying to get out of the block field here, then I'll head back to the southwest. We going to Sherlock at all, Bob?
168:49:51	CC	No, we're going ... follow the ... - -
168:49:52	Schmitt	That must be Gatsby over there.
168:50:10	CC	And a reminder, Jack. We can get lots of photos. We've got lots of film left right now.
168:50:10	Schmitt	Okay.
168:50:11	CC	And, 17, Gene, I guess you're the one that took the SEP out. If you could give me - do you remember the reading of the SEP temperature when you broke it down?
168:50:22	Cernan	Didn't even look, Bob.
168:50:24	CC	Okay. Copy that.
168:50:25	Cernan	It was 125 - 125 when we started the station.
168:50:30	CC	Roger. Copy that.
168:50:35	Cernan	That's Gatsby there, I guess, huh?
168:50:36	Schmitt	Yes.
168:50:38	Cernan	It's not - it's not unlike Van Serg, though.
168:50:41	Schmitt	Hey, you know that looks like mantling. Hopefully, we can get a - watch your rock - there you go - we can get a shot looking back to the northwest - -
168:50:58	Cernan	Yes, I'll get that when I - -
168:50:59	Schmitt	- - into Gatsby, because it looks like the mantle streams over the - the side from the southwest. Can you swing to your right - get up a little closer to the rim, there?
168:51:15	Cernan	Hey, here's a couple fragments in spots -
168:51:17	Schmitt	Look at that. See that?
168:51:18	Cernan	Yes.
168:51:18	Schmitt	See that structure. See how the - -
168:51:20	Cernan	Yes.
168:51:20	Schmitt	- - See how the mantle streams over -
168:51:23	Cernan	Yes.
168:51:24	Schmitt	- from the northwest. Can you get that?
168:51:26	Cernan	Yes.
168:51:27	Schmitt	And from the southwest.
168:51:29	Cernan	Got it?
168:51:29	Schmitt	Yes. Go ahead. Keep going. Good shape. Got it.
168:51:37	PAO	Station 10 has been eliminated, the crew will head back toward the LM.
168:51:39	Cernan	We're 236/2.1.
168:51:44	Schmitt	Bob, what I'm looking at is the - northwest portion of Gatsby, where there's a very very concentrated block field on the inner wall, except where there are, on the southwest, three streams and on the northwest and north a continuous stream, if you will, or band, radial band, of mantle that is bur - appears to be burying that field, overlying and mantling the field. We got some pretty pictures of it, I think.
168:52:29	CC	Okay. Copy that.
168:52:35	PAO	Distance to the LM, 2.2 kilometers, estimated driving time 19 minutes.
168:52:35	Schmitt	Bob, I'm more and more convinced there's a mantle. One possibility, I guess, is that, if it's a pyroclastic mantle, that in the lunar vacuum environment and with whatever volatiles we're dealing with, the stuff becomes extremely fine upon vesiculation. We may have been on it all the time and not known it - as far as recognizing it.
168:53:09	Cernan	As soon as we come through this draw, smooth or free of any debris or boulders it is on the other side of the upslope.
168:53:15	Schmitt	Yes. Watch it.
168:53:29	Cernan	Bob, do we have an extra EP?
168:53:32	CC	No. We have two of them behind you. We're going to deploy - we're going to deploy one. I'll give you a reading soon on that.
168:53:41	Cernan	Okay. Well, one - one I deploy at the end I know. I thought we had an extra one here somewhere.
168:53:45	CC	Okay. Yes, that's what I - Okay, that's the one we were planning on deploying all along, and it's there. We'll be deploying at a range of 0.1, which is just before you get to the SEP.
168:54:01	Cernan	Okay.
168:54:03	Schmitt	I guess Sherlock's going to be right over the top over here. I saw it when we were on that other ridge.
168:54:12	Cernan	Hey, you know, there's a lot of bad landing places around here. That old Sun angle, I think, shows most of them up. Bob, I - -
168:54:27	CC	And, Geno, we were looking - -
168:54:29	Cernan	I don't under - -
168:54:30	CC	- - at the map here - -
168:54:31	Cernan	- - I don't unders - -
168:54:32	CC	- - and if you keep going straight to the LM, you're probably going to run into this crater area around San Luis Rey. You probably ought to head somewhat south of directly back to the LM, so we can at least tip the - western edge of Sherlock and then pick it up and go from there back to the SEP. It looks like it might be rather rough there in that dotted-lined area, if you can look at the backside of your map, Jack.
168:54:58	Cernan	Bob, I've already been doing it. I'm at 244/1.7.
168:55:02	CC	Copy that. Thank you.
168:55:03	Cernan	Already been doing that.
168:55:04	CC	Okay.
168:55:04	Schmitt	And, Bob, about - about 200 meters back, we crossed back into our standard mantle surface of about 1-percent fragment cover - -
168:55:15	CC	Okay 200 meters back ... your present location - Okay. Copy that.
168:55:15	Cernan	- - out of this - the block field, which -
168:55:24	Schmitt	I can see the LM.
168:55:26	Cernan	Yes, I can see the LM. And there's Sherlock, where those blocks are.
168:55:30	Schmitt	Yes, that's the block field, the Sherlock block field; that's right. That is a block field.
168:55:36	Cernan	Some big ones there.
168:55:37	Schmitt	Yes.
168:55:39	Cernan	Old Station 10. I might even call it 10 Alpha in honor of the Apollo Program Office. The - -
168:55:49	CC	10 Bravo, Apollo.
168:55:49	Cernan	- - Apollo Spacecraft Program Office.
168:55:56	Cernan	Oh, that's right. 10 Bravo. I knew I'd never get that straight.
168:56:00	CC	Do those blocks look like gabbros, you guys?
168:56:02	Cernan	How fast do you think we're going, Jack, without looking?
168:56:05	Schmitt	I think we're going about 18 clicks.
168:56:08	Cernan	Hey, you're just about right. Seems like the first time we've been able to go downhill.
168:56:18	Schmitt	(Laughter)
168:56:19	Cernan	Not really.
168:56:23	Schmitt	Pull close to this big block, if you can.
168:56:26	Cernan	Oh, yes.
168:56:27	Schmitt	And I'll try to get a reading on what it is - some pictures of it as we come up to it.
168:56:32	Cernan	Yes. Boy that's a big one.
168:56:41	Schmitt	Watch it. ... Looks like our old friend, the subfloor - -
168:56:53	Cernan	Subfloor, isn't it? Yes.
168:56:54	Schmitt	Yes. Vesicular subfloor. Vesicles are about a centimeter maximum size. Didn't look like they were - they look like they're fairly evenly sorted, and the rock itself seemed to be massif.
168:57:08	Cernan	250/1.4.
168:57:10	CC	250/1.4.
168:57:12	Schmitt	Okay, we're back into a - we're back into about a 5-percent rock cover as we cross the edge of the Sherlock block field.
168:57:23	Cernan	That's Sherlock over that rim over there.
168:57:24	Schmitt	Yes. Yes, Once again, all these subfloor blocks look as if they're buried. Now - not mantle, necessarily, except maybe that one. Can you swing right, just a tad?
168:57:39	Cernan	That one's got the mantle blowing up on it, in it - -
168:57:42	Schmitt	Yes.
168:57:43	Cernan	- - in it's fractures and everything.
168:57:44	Schmitt	That's the best example of that, I think.
168:57:46	Cernan	Take a picture of that?
168:57:46	Schmitt	I got it. I got it.
168:57:46	Cernan	Watch it.
168:57:47	Schmitt	Got it; got it.
168:57:49	CC	Okay. Now, do those blocks look like the same subfloor gabbro?
168:57:49	Cernan	Yes, that's just got the mantle -
168:57:54	Schmitt	Watch it.
168:57:55	Cernan	...
168:57:56	Schmitt	Yes. Everything in here so far is the tan-gray subfloor gabbro that I've seen. I haven't - Oh, there's one over there that's a blue-gray. But blue-gray is not abundant.
168:58:06	CC	Okay. Copy that. And, 17, as you're getting closer, we're going to want a - an LRV sample at 1.1 on the range.
168:58:25	Cernan	Okay.
168:58:27	Schmitt	What are we now? 1.2?
168:58:28	Cernan	1.2. Okay. We'll try to get block and soil.
168:58:32	CC	That'd be good.
168:58:34	Schmitt	There's a fresh little pit.
168:58:46	Schmitt	Bob, I am continually impressed by the lack of exotic fragments in here.
168:58:52	Cernan	Hey, Jack. How about picking out a place -
168:58:55	Schmitt	... there? Okay. If you head into that little - Well that's a crater there.
168:59:00	Cernan	Let me get around it. We can go a little bit further.
168:59:02	Schmitt	Yes. Maybe - -
168:59:04	Cernan	I'll go up on that flat area up there.
168:59:05	Schmitt	Yes, yes. There are a lots of little fragments over there by that area - ha, ha.
168:59:16	Cernan	Any time.
168:59:18	Schmitt	Okay. Now swing a shallow turn. Whoa. Yes, that ought to ...
168:59:25	Cernan	- Did you get any of those?
168:59:26	Schmitt	Unfortunately, I can't see them - the shadow.
168:59:29	Cernan	How about that one right in front of you, in front of the television camera shadow. See that little one up there? Right there. With the - -
168:59:39	Schmitt	It's a little big, I think.
168:59:40	Cernan	Upper right, no upper right. Straight up the line.
168:59:42	Schmitt	Oh, okay. Yes. If you can get over there, I can get it.
168:59:46	Cernan	I can get there.
168:59:51	Schmitt	Oh, I guess I had the wrong - I guess I wasn't looking at the right one. The shadow is making it impossible to see down there. Now, see what you can get.
169:00:03	Cernan	Bob, we're at, let's see, 253/1.1.
169:00:09	CC	Copy that.
169:00:12	Schmitt	You're going to have to - If we do another sample, you're going to have to swing right so I can - see. I can't see this way.
169:00:23	Cernan	Yes.
169:00:27	Schmitt	And 53 Yankee.
169:00:29	CC	Copy that. Is that soil or rock?
169:00:34	Schmitt	That's soil. I can't see to get a rock.
169:00:36	CC	Okay.
169:00:38	Schmitt	Go forward just a little bit, Gene.
169:00:40	Cernan	Okay.
169:00:44	Schmitt	Bet you're going to get yourself in a box there.
169:00:47	Cernan	No, that's all right.
169:00:48	Schmitt	Whoa.
169:00:48	Cernan	A little more, sorry.
169:00:51	Schmitt	Little more. Okay.
169:00:55	Cernan	You get it?
169:00:56	Schmitt	I will. Got it.
169:01:05	Cernan	I can't see the LM anymore.
169:01:09	Schmitt	Okay. The rock fragments, that's 54 Yankee.
169:01:25	Schmitt	Ah!
169:01:27	Cernan	Okay. You got a rock right in front of you, don't you?
169:01:31	Schmitt	I see it. Rolled over. Good old Rover.
169:01:47	Schmitt	LMP frame for that sample - Looks like about 60.
169:01:55	CC	Copy that.
169:01:59	Schmitt	60! Have I taken 60 pictures?
169:02:08	Cernan	Boy, these rock fields are something else again.
169:02:11	Schmitt	Yes, 60. Looks like some of our gray variety of subfloor up here - around the rim of that little crater. You know, I'm starting to think that maybe the gray relatively nonvesicular subfloor may be deeper - deeper fraction, based on what we saw - well, actually, though, let's see - that could have been overturn, I don't know. Take that back. There just isn't much of it around here, although we saw a lot of it in the wall of Cochise.
169:03:00	CC	Roger. We got that.
169:03:01	Cernan	What do you think this is, San Luis Rey?
169:03:02	Schmitt	Well -
169:03:05	Cernan	We're at 252/0.9.
169:03:09	Schmitt	- I wouldn't doubt it at all. I'll bet that's San Luis Rey. Around the east side of it - Mariner and San Luis Rey. They're shallow - filled with rocks.
169:03:30	CC	As close as we can tell, you're at one or the other of them.
169:03:32	Cernan	Boy, I tell you they're a lot - Okay. We're at 250/0.9.
169:03:38	CC	Copy that.
169:03:39	Cernan	Mariner should look pretty fresh.
169:03:39	CC	Copy that.
169:03:58	Schmitt	Boy, I certainly don't see much variety other than the gray and the tan subfloor variety. There's old Challenger.
169:04:07	Cernan	There she is. Pretty as a picture. (laughter). Boy, I tell you, there's no getting out of this stuff. You go from one to the other.
169:04:23	CC	Okay, and 17 - -
169:04:24	Cernan	I don't know whether I said it or not - -
169:04:25	CC	Gene, your range is 0.1. We're going to deploy the quarter-pound charge, and that'll be Jack's getting off to deploy it like we talked about last night.
169:04:35	Cernan	Okay. That's EP-2, Jack.
169:04:48	Schmitt	EP-2; right.
169:04:57	Schmitt	Bob, we're still - we're moving in and out of areas of say 1-percent to 5- to 10-percent blockiness. And where it gets blocky - not only is it more blocky, but we seem to have more of the medium-sized craters in the range of 20- to 5-meter-diameter craters. That may be Mariner right there.
169:05:43	Schmitt	How do you read, Bob?
169:05:45	CC	Loud and clear. Loud and clear.
169:05:50	Schmitt	Hey, Van Serg, let me mention again, was an unusual experience in the plains geology here. That must be part of San Luis Rey or Mariner, one.
169:06:06	Cernan	Yes. That's pretty deep. Pretty deep.
169:06:11	Schmitt	Yes, it is. It's really big.
169:06:15	Cernan	Yes. We're at 252 and 0.6.
169:06:19	CC	Copy that.
169:06:19	Schmitt	The crater on our left - that is, south of us - is a large crater. It's somewhat deeper than the craters of the same size that we've seen. And it, too, though, has - its blocks - mainly - large blocks mainly in the walls, although there are blocks - blocks up here in the rim, occasionally up to 3 meters.
169:06:57	Schmitt	Look at that string of blocks over there - that may be it.
169:07:00	Cernan	Yes.
169:07:00	Schmitt	That's an edge of a crater, I guess.
169:07:02	Cernan	Want a picture of that?
169:07:05	Schmitt	Got it. Look at the way that thing's fractured.
169:07:15	Cernan	Yes, this is the San Luis Rey, Luis complex, because see how elongated it is?
169:07:19	Schmitt	Yes. Yes.
169:07:20	Cernan	Fact is, we're going to cut right through the western half here.
169:07:29	Cernan	We're at 244/0.4.
169:07:33	CC	Copy that.
169:07:35	Schmitt	Bob, I may have said earl - early - early on up there at Van Serg that I saw subfloor, but we never did sample any that I know of. And the dust was thick enough that I'm just not sure. Breccias were the most obvious thing there.
169:07:55	CC	Okay. Most interesting.
169:08:00	Schmitt	It might have been a window in the plains here, of some kind. But - it's strange to see it there, with so much subfloor all around it that we saw.
169:08:29	CC	And, Jack, you're going to get a feedwater tone pretty soon.
169:08:35	Schmitt	Got it. Hey, I should be in OFF now.
169:08:50	Cernan	252 and 0.2.
169:08:54	CC	Copy that.
169:08:55	Cernan	There she is.
169:08:55	CC	And as soon as we get to the 0.1, let's stop and deploy the charge.
169:09:03	Cernan	Alright.
169:09:07	Schmitt	Okay. And then I guess - then I'll head back to the LM.
169:09:14	Cernan	Yes, I don't go to the - -
169:09:17	Schmitt	Unless you want to go to the ALSEP.
169:09:19	Cernan	(Laughter) I think I'm going to.
169:09:22	Schmitt	When do I go to the - Oh, you go to SEP. That's right.
169:09:27	Cernan	No, you're SEP when I ... - -
169:09:29	CC	We're going to let you play the return to the ALSEP game there, Jack. We've got a few things for you to do out there, when the time comes.
169:09:35	Schmitt	Okay.
169:09:36	Cernan	Point 1? No. We're almost to SEP. We're about - -
169:09:42	CC	Roger. We'll be just short of SEP.
169:09:43	Cernan	- - 50 meters from SEP.
169:09:45	CC	Is it short of the antenna?
169:09:49	Schmitt	Well - -
169:09:50	CC	- - We'd like to have this - -
169:09:51	Schmitt	- - You see, we can get to the end of the antenna - -
169:09:53	CC	Well, no, no. Don't - let's have it east of the antenna. If we are there, let's deploy it right where you are.
169:10:00	Schmitt	Okay. We're about 30 meters east of the antenna. How's that?
169:10:04	CC	That sounds great.
169:10:09	Schmitt	Okay. And we're measuring 221 and 0.2; 221 and 0.2
169:10:19	CC	Copy that.
169:10:27	Cernan	There's a rock. I stood up down there, and I want to get it - -
169:10:29	CC	And it's EP number 2 that we're after, Jack, in case you didn't follow us.
169:10:35	Schmitt	Okay. Hey, our gate's open.
169:10:38	Cernan	It's open?
169:10:40	Schmitt	Yes. But it looks like everything's here.
169:10:44	Cernan	How about the big bag?
169:10:45	Schmitt	Big bag's there.
169:10:48	CC	Is that the gate or the pallet?
169:10:48	Schmitt	They wouldn't dare run away.
169:10:50	CC	The gate or the pallet?
169:10:54	Schmitt	The pallet. I'm sorry.
169:10:57	CC	Well, that's worse.
169:11:02	Schmitt	Seems to ride all right that way.
169:11:15	Cernan	Boy, that dust. It's getting into everything. (Humming) Okay, I'm going to leave the gate like it is. Seems to be all right.
169:11:32	Schmitt	Okay.
169:11:33	Cernan	Okay; EP-2.
169:11:38	Schmitt	Where is that? There it is.
169:11:43	Cernan	Hey, Jack. You're just going to walk back from here, aren't you?
169:11:46	Schmitt	I can, yes.
169:11:48	Cernan	Well, why don't you just go turn the SEP receiver off? Oh, we did that. The receiver's all done.
169:11:53	Schmitt	... the transmitter - but you've got to come out here anyway.
169:11:55	Cernan	Yes, I've got to come out here. Forget it.
169:11:57	Schmitt	I can do it.
169:11:58	Cernan	No, I was just reading ahead, but no sense - Forget it.
169:12:02	Schmitt	One thing I want you - Okay, Pin 1. Pulled and safe. Pin 2. Pulled and safe. Pin 3 is pulled and safe.
169:12:14	CC	Copied all those.
169:12:14	Schmitt	And I'll try to put it in a depression. I'm going to put it in a depression, if you want. Okay. And then I've got to take a pan, huh? Will a locater - yes - How about a locater to the LM?
169:12:44	CC	Be fine.
169:12:51	Cernan	You going to get on, Jack, or walk back? Dealer's choice.
169:12:54	Schmitt	I'll get on.
169:12:55	Cernan	Okay.
169:12:57	Cernan	Okay. Locater to the LM. I'll give you a frame count, if I can read it: 90 - 92.
169:13:06	CC	Copy; 92.
169:13:16	Schmitt	You're going to have to go left a little, right here.
169:13:21	Cernan	Go left?
169:13:22	Schmitt	To avoid the antenna.
169:13:24	Cernan	Oh - -
169:13:24	Schmitt	Yes, we don't have to worry about it.
169:13:25	Cernan	- - we don't have to worry about it, but - but I will anyway.
169:13:29	Schmitt	Go ahead.
169:13:32	Cernan	Okay. I'll take it easy.
169:13:33	Schmitt	Oh, that's all right.
169:13:40	Schmitt	I want to point out a rock to you I set up on end. You need to get in the bag, and you can let me off there and I'll carry it.
169:13:47	Cernan	Okay.
169:13:48	Schmitt	But drive close enough so I can reach down and use the ... for support.
169:13:52	Cernan	Where is it?
169:13:53	Schmitt	It's out over here. Between the - -
169:13:57	Cernan	Oh which side of that antenna?
169:14:00	Schmitt	It's - -
169:14:02	Cernan	Oh, there it is. Right there?
169:14:03	Schmitt	No. No, it's out - it's on the - it's near the LM.
169:14:06	Cernan	Oh, okay.
169:14:06	Schmitt	Here, I can go across this thing I already did.
169:14:10	Cernan	That bag is empty, isn't it?
169:14:12	Schmitt	Yes, that's the one I lost, I mean, I dropped.
169:14:19	Schmitt	Look's like you got over.
169:14:20	Cernan	Yes. Yes.
169:14:33	Schmitt	I think it's that one there that's sort of dark.
169:14:38	Cernan	Up there, straight ahead?
169:14:40	Schmitt	Yes.
169:14:43	Cernan	Bootprints are by it. That must be it.
169:14:45	Schmitt	That's it, yes. Can you swing over so I can lean on the Rover when I put the - -
169:14:49	Cernan	Oh. (Laughter)
169:14:50	Schmitt	That's good. No, that's good. That's perfect.
169:14:54	Cernan	Okay. You off?
169:14:56	Schmitt	Okay. I am now - I'd hate to get run over this late in the game. Well now, what did I do that for?
169:15:08	Cernan	(Laughter) What did you do? Kick it under?
169:15:10	Schmitt	Yes.
169:15:19	Schmitt	Need your oil changed?
169:15:21	Cernan	Yes. While you're under there, would you check (laughter) - check my transmission, please?
169:15:24	Schmitt	(Laughter)
169:15:26	Cernan	(Laughter) And - any bubbles on the inside of the tires? (laughter)
169:15:32	Cernan	Okay. Have you got it?
169:15:34	Schmitt	Yes, I got it. Hey, Bob. I got my rock. It's halfway between the SEP and the LM. Wait, wait. Let me put it in the big bag - in the big bag.
169:15:47	Cernan	Big bag. ... - -
169:15:48	CC	Is this that - is this that brown one you saw out here before, Jack?
169:15:50	Cernan	Okay. Go ahead.
169:15:52	Schmitt	No, it's a gray one.
169:15:54	CC	Okay.
169:15:55	Cernan	Oops - Okay?
169:15:57	Schmitt	Yes, I just lost the sample. It's in my pocket, I guess. Let me get some tongs.
169:16:04	Cernan	Okay.
169:16:11	Schmitt	Then you can go ahead. I'll walk back. ...
169:16:48	PAO	EVA time 5 hours 44 minutes.
169:17:47	Cernan	Okay, Bob. I'm back at the LM - -
169:17:49	CC	Roger. We have you back at the LM.
169:17:50	Cernan	151, 12.0, and 001. Well, wait a minute.
169:18:04	Schmitt	Can you get it?
169:18:05	Cernan	I got to get your bag - -
169:18:06	Schmitt	I got it; I got it.
169:18:08	Cernan	Let me get your bag off.
169:18:18	Cernan	I'm reading 80 on the amps, 78 on the amps - Correction, that's amp-hours. Voltages, 62 and 65. Battery 1 is 132, ... 0. Motor temps are 200 and 210 on the rear, 200 and 250 on the fr -forward.
169:18:47	CC	Okay. We copy that.
169:18:57	CC	Okay. And let's - let me brief you here on the closeout tonight, 17. A number of things we - we're going to do here that are slightly different. We've got some stuff for you over at the ALSEP, Jack, and I'll get with you when you go over there. Nothing we have to worry about in the meanwhile. When we unload the Rover, we're going to take the SESC out, and we're going to use that to collect the contaminated sample out behind the footpad there as per plan, and when we take the traverse gravimeter off, we're going to want to get both a grav and a bias reading, because the pallet was swinging in the breeze there. Otherwise, let's press on with the closeout, and we'll get with you as times change.
169:20:15	Cernan	Okay, Bob. The core tubes are going in SCB-7 - I mean - Yes, 7.
169:20:23	CC	Okay. I copy that.
169:20:29	Cernan	You should have TV, Bob.
169:20:31	CC	Roger. We have TV. Thank you.
169:20:41	Cernan	Did you get my bag already?
169:20:42	Schmitt	Yes.
169:21:07	Cernan	Jack?
169:21:07	Schmitt	Yes.
169:21:07	Cernan	We'll have one more to put in here. I'm just going to lay this one over here. Yes, the big one. Man, there's some big ones in there, too.
169:21:11	Schmitt	We can get some of that subfloor.
169:21:19	Cernan	Yes, there's one in my footpan, too. You see it there?
169:21:23	Schmitt	Yes, we'll have to - -
169:21:27	Cernan	Why don't you leave that there for a minute? Okay What did you say about the TGE, Bob?
169:21:29	CC	Okay. We'd like to take TGE, of course, as we planned. Take it off, and we'll try and get both a grav and a bias reading. You might initiate one of them now. We'll initiate another one later on. We've got plenty of time while it's sitting on the ground there to - to do our thing with it.
169:21:52	Cernan	... - -
169:21:52	CC	I see where you've got ... coming up pretty soon, Gene.
169:21:57	Cernan	Bob, I already got it and I'm in AUTO. Just about 30 seconds ago.
169:22:00	CC	Okay.
169:22:05	Cernan	Okay. How are we fixed for samples? Here's 5, and it's about 1/2 to 3/4 full.
169:22:12	Schmitt	Well, let's dump - -
169:22:14	Cernan	We've got to carry the SECS up.
169:22:16	Schmitt	- - let's dump these - -
169:22:19	Cernan	We got 3.
169:22:19	Schmitt	- - 3 in there, the Rover samples.
169:22:22	Cernan	Okay. Okay. We probably ought to put the SESC in there, huh? If there's room for it.
169:22:42	CC	Yes, let's put the SESC someplace - -
169:22:43	Cernan	Where do you want the SESC, Bob?
169:22:45	CC	Let's put the SESC someplace where it's accessible to get that contamination sample. We probably want to get it before you go off to the ALSEP, but there's no real hurry on that. We'll see what works in best. I'm not sure where the most convenient place for you - -
169:22:59	Cernan	Yes. Why don't we get it now, and then we can - then we can have this bag - -
169:23:03	CC	- - to put it right offhand is.
169:23:03	CC	That's probably is the - -
169:23:04	Cernan	Let's get it now. We can get the bag cleaned up. We can put it in bag 5.
169:23:05	CC	Roger. There's probably not very many convenient places to put it. That sounds like a good idea to me.
169:23:10	Schmitt	Okay. Let - let me my scoop.
169:23:13	Cernan	Get your scoop. Let's get it over with.
169:23:17	Schmitt	Say again, Bob. You want that - I don't have a scoop, I don't even have a rake.
169:23:25	Cernan	They're both gone, huh?
169:23:26	Schmitt	Yes.
169:23:27	Cernan	Use your - your Rover sampler.
169:23:30	Schmitt	Yes. They both fell off when that thing opened.
169:23:33	Cernan	Yes.
169:23:34	Cernan	Here's a full core tube we can't forget.
169:23:36	Schmitt	Yes, oh, that goes in the - -
169:23:39	Cernan	Is there room for it?
169:23:40	Schmitt	Yes, why don't you get that scoop off, and I'll put it over here in 4. I mean in 7.
169:23:47	Cernan	That was a good time to lose it. I'm glad we didn't lose it (laughter) any earlier. If we were going to lose it, that couldn't have been more ideal.
169:23:53	Schmitt	Yes. That's appropriate, I guess.
169:24:02	Cernan	We got two - we've got two empty core tubes. Feel like we took a lot of them, though.
169:24:06	Schmitt	We'll get it. We'll use them, maybe.
169:24:08	Cernan	Back here.
169:24:11	CC	Okay. We confirm that. Please go forward - -
169:24:12	Schmitt	Hey, I'm getting this ... - -
169:24:15	CC	- - and don't have to worry about bringing back, huh?
169:24:20	Cernan	Here's your thing.
169:24:24	Cernan	We're going to get this SESC now, and get it out of the way, Bob.
169:24:27	CC	Roger. We agree with that.
169:24:32	Cernan	Okay.
169:24:35	Schmitt	Minus-Z, huh? You want it in front of the minus-Z footpad?
169:24:43	CC	Roger. Sort of underneath where you probably had the - -
169:24:45	Schmitt	Looks like a good place.
169:24:46	CC	- - solar side of the cosmic ray experiment there. Between the SES - between the footpad and the ALSEP doors there.
169:25:23	Schmitt	Full?
169:25:24	Cernan	Oh, I've got about an inch to go.
169:25:27	Schmitt	Okay.
169:25:27	Cernan	... me. Let's fill it up.
169:25:42	Schmitt	Looks good.
169:25:42	CC	Okay. And both you - your feedwaters are up, 17, so things look good.
169:25:50	Cernan	Thank you.
169:25:54	Cernan	Would you brush the - that white thing off for me?
169:26:01	Schmitt	Yes. Here, let me get - there, you got her.
169:26:24	Cernan	Okay. Take a couple over here.
169:26:35	Schmitt	Let me go past the radar. Good job.
169:26:46	Schmitt	Bob, radar's built better. I'm on frame 96, and the short can sample - contaminated sample is documented by two stereopairs prior to that. And the before is the cosmic ray pictures.
169:27:08	CC	Copy that.
169:27:16	CC	Okay. And which SES - which SCB is that going in, Jack?
169:27:22	Schmitt	Number 5.
169:27:24	CC	Okay. Copy that.
169:27:26	Schmitt	Okay. The SCB's in - the SCB's in 5. That what you have?
169:27:30	Cernan	Yes, short can in 5.
169:27:32	Schmitt	The ... short (laughter) SCB. Okay.
169:27:40	CC	Okay. And while you're doing that - -
169:27:41	Cernan	Yes. He can ... your - let me get this - -
169:27:42	CC	- - remember, I want inventories of the stuff as it comes off the Rover and where you put it over there by the footpad, so we can help you keep track of it.
169:27:51	Schmitt	Okay. I've got the - we've got the big bag, bag 7,bag 5, bag 4 at the footpad.
169:28:09	CC	Copy that. We've also got SCB-3 with the Rover samples in it on the Rover, if there - if you have any - yes, you have some of those today.
169:28:17	Schmitt	No, we - we emp - we emptied those into 5.
169:28:20	CC	Okay. Copy that.
169:28:21	Cernan	Okay, Bob. The gravimeter's on the surface. And you want a gravity reading and a bias reading, is that correct?
169:28:28	CC	Roger. We'll get the grav first.
169:28:35	Cernan	Okay, Bob.
169:28:37	Cernan	MARK it. Let's see, where am I?
169:28:39	CC	Copy that.
169:28:45	Cernan	What did you do with the - -
169:28:46	Schmitt	Okay.
169:28:50	Cernan	- - gravimeter - You've got another big rock over here from the - -
169:28:54	Schmitt	It's in my footpan.
169:28:55	Cernan	That's from Station 9, right?
169:28:57	Schmitt	Yes.
169:28:58	Cernan	That's what I told them. Station 9, I a football-size rock, and I've put it in there.
169:29:07	Schmitt	Well, we eventually lost one clamp. Let's see what we've got left on here.
169:29:25	Schmitt	Okay. Gene's football-sized rock looks like it might be glass coated. And it might even have a shatter cone or two on it.
169:29:38	CC	Okay, Jack.
169:29:42	Cernan	Okay. I'll let you get - -
169:29:43	Schmitt	I don't know what you're focused on - -
169:29:45	CC	And - -
169:29:45	Schmitt	- - but here's his rock.
169:29:46	CC	- - and, Jack, we're making plans here, to change the camera usage at the end of EVA here. And we're going to let you take commander's camera out to the ALSEP and take a few photos that people think we need. And Gene's going to take your camera out and document the geophone. When he deploys it, we will not deploy it for the longterm experiment, however. And we'll bring both back, and carry them to the ETB when we get done.
169:30:19	Schmitt	Okay.
169:30:24	Cernan	Okay. We've got to reverse the rolls of the camera here.
169:30:27	Schmitt	While you're getting that, we've got to doff our harnesses. Let me - before you take this - -
169:30:31	Cernan	Are you going to start loading the ETB yet or not?
169:30:33	Schmitt	Well, I'm just about there.
169:30:35	Cernan	Okay. I'll be right with you.
169:31:51	Cernan	Okay, Bob. I've got the cosmic ray in the ETB.
169:31:58	CC	Roger. Copy that. It's been in there all along, hasn't it?
169:32:03	Cernan	Yes.
169:32:05	Schmitt	Mag Foxtrot, or Franny, I guess, we changed it to, Mag Donna, the DSEA. Mag Echo. Mag Linda. Mag Mary.
169:33:03	Cernan	Are you through with the 500?
169:33:06	CC	Roger. We're through with the 500.
169:33:13	Cernan	Jack, where is the cosmic ray? Did you put that in the ETB already?
169:33:15	Schmitt	Yes.
169:33:16	Cernan	Okay.
169:33:23	Schmitt	I don't think the 500's working anymore, anyway.
169:33:26	Cernan	It was working ... - -
169:33:26	Schmitt	There it is.
169:33:26	Cernan	- - I used it.
169:33:27	Schmitt	There it is. Okay. Film cycle. Three times.
169:33:52	Schmitt	... wait a minute ... Okay. Okay. In go the scissors.
169:34:20	Cernan	Okay. I'm going to go get a gravimeter reading.
169:34:30	Schmitt	Now, let's see. ... There it is.
169:34:53	Schmitt	Okay. Mag Karen is in.
169:35:00	CC	Copy that. That sounds like all of them to us.
169:35:06	Schmitt	Okay. And there are two on the cameras.
169:35:09	CC	Roger.
169:35:13	Cernan	Bob, I'm reading 670, 010, 701; 670, 010, 701.
169:35:21	CC	Okay. Copy that. We're ready for a bias, Gene.
169:35:26	Cernan	Okay.
169:35:40	Cernan	Bias, and it is flashing.
169:35:42	CC	Roger. Mark that.
169:35:52	Schmitt	Okay. Let me take a look around.
169:35:56	Cernan	Jack?
169:35:56	Schmitt	Yes.
169:35:59	Cernan	Was that bag in there?
169:36:01	Schmitt	Yes. It's over here on the MESA.
169:36:03	Cernan	Okay.
169:36:12	Schmitt	Oh. Let's get rid of these tool harnesses We don't need those anymore.
169:36:18	CC	Yes. That's affirm.
169:36:20	Cernan	Is your - You've come loose on the - you've come loose on the right.
169:36:25	Schmitt	Yes. Take a picture for you.
169:36:27	CC	Let me know when they come off, guys. Don't, get them tangled up in the hoses. Stand still ... - -
169:36:34	Cernan	Let me pull it off for you. ...
169:36:35	CC	- - stand still ... untangle it.
169:36:42	Cernan	Yes. Okay. Turn this way.
169:36:52	Schmitt	Now get the other side.
169:36:58	Schmitt	Okay. That's off.
169:37:02	Cernan	Came off, huh?
169:37:03	Schmitt	Yes.
169:37:03	Cernan	You don't have to get it around those hoses and everything? See if you can do it.
169:37:09	CC	Works a lot better than the simulations, doesn't it?
169:37:11	Cernan	They won't find the other one. Stand by.
169:37:16	Cernan	That's your only fallacy. They're not even watching this. Come over here and watch me, Ed. Oh, me. Let me have it.
169:37:26	Schmitt	Wait a minute. Move over that way. He - he can't - Okay. ... - -
169:37:30	Cernan	Did you see me?
169:37:31	Schmitt	- - see if it comes off.
169:37:32	Cernan	Nod your camera if you can see me.
169:37:34	CC	Roger. We can see you.
169:37:35	Schmitt	It's taking too long. Just take it off. is it off? ... - -
169:37:40	CC	That's - that's - that is almost ... at the Cape. Roger.
169:37:44	Cernan	Jack, wait - wait - wait a minute before you - Hey, Bob, are we going to need those other core tubes?
169:37:50	CC	We'd like to have you leave the two core tubes and the extension handle and the hammer and I suppose the core cap dispenser here. If we get back in time from doing all our appointed tasks at the VIP site and at the ALSEP, we'll try and drive a double core here to end things up with a bang.
169:38:08	Cernan	Don't leave it - don't - don't leave it there. Do it. No, don't leave it there.
169:38:11	Schmitt	Oh, I'm sorry. I'll leave it here. You got it.
169:38:13	Cernan	We'll play games with the extension handle, but that's all right.
169:38:16	Schmitt	Okay. Let me set them over here. Where am I? Okay. Big bag, all those - -
169:38:29	CC	17, did you guys lose your - -
169:38:29	Schmitt	Don't need the LRV sampler any more.
169:38:31	CC	- - extension handles when that pallet came open?
169:38:36	Cernan	Yes, but we can - I can still drive a core with the hammer if we need to.
169:38:40	CC	Okay. Copy that.
169:38:42	Cernan	I think.
169:38:46	Schmitt	Yes. One went with the rake, and one went with the scoop. Okay, Bob. As I read down that page, it looks like we got it. The ETB check, I think we had four mags in there, and the DSEA, and the maps, and the cosmic ray.
169:39:07	CC	Roger. You've got six mags.
169:39:07	Cernan	... and -
169:39:08	Schmitt	I guess I'm ready to go to the - -
169:39:10	Cernan	Wait a minute. I want you to do something.
169:39:13	CC	Okay. One - -
169:39:14	Schmitt	Six mags, is it?
169:39:15	CC	- - one further question.
169:39:15	Schmitt	You want these - We don't have - -
169:39:17	CC	- - Did all the FSRs get off the Rover into the big bag?
169:39:23	Schmitt	That's affirm.
169:39:25	Cernan	Yes, ... more than you need anyway. That's color. Why don't you see if you can grab a couple? Yes, right here.
169:39:42	Schmitt	Boy, are you dirty.
169:39:42	Cernan	I know it.
169:39:45	Schmitt	Let's see. I don't know whether I can get to you.
169:39:49	Cernan	Yes, you can.
169:39:54	Schmitt	Ed, you've got your camera in the way.
169:39:56	Cernan	Oh, just take them straight on. That's all right.
169:39:59	Schmitt	That's sort of - ... Okay. (Laughter) Such - such a pose. Let me get a little different - focus. That looks good.
169:40:17	Cernan	Hey.
169:40:18	Schmitt	Try one more over here. Have your pick.
169:40:22	Cernan	One - one more.
169:40:23	Schmitt	How's like this?
169:40:26	Cernan	Okay. (Laughter) You got that camera. That's the color camera.
169:40:30	Schmitt	Yes.
169:40:30	Cernan	You take it.
169:40:31	CC	Okay - -
169:40:31	Schmitt	I've got to go get a new neutron flux probe, I guess.
169:40:34	CC	That's right.
169:40:34	Cernan	Oh, yes. That's going to be easy to pull out.
169:40:37	Schmitt	Okay.
169:40:38	Cernan	Okay. Let's see if I've got everything in here.
169:40:40	CC	Okay. And - -
169:40:40	Schmitt	You ready for me to go to the ALSEP?
169:40:44	Cernan	Jack -
169:40:44	CC	Roger. We're ready for both of you guys, now.
169:40:47	Schmitt	Bob?
169:40:49	CC	Roger. Go ahead.
169:40:51	Schmitt	Hello, Houston.
169:40:52	CC	Hello, 17. Stand by. I think we're having a slight handover or something.
169:40:58	Schmitt	Houston, do you read? Gene, do you read me?
169:41:03	Cernan	Yes, I read you.
169:41:04	CC	Okay, 17. We had a - -
169:41:05	Schmitt	... Well, I don't know ...
169:41:07	CC	- - slight bit of trouble there, and we've got you again.
169:41:14	Schmitt	Are you ready for me to go to the ALSEP?
169:41:17	CC	Roger. We're ready for both of you guys, now.
169:41:23	Schmitt	What do you mean? I'm headed for the ALSEP.
169:41:35	CC	Gene, are you ready for Jack to go to the ALSEP, now?
169:41:37	Cernan	Let me see. Yes, he's gone. He's good. I'm ready to get out, and go to the VIP site. Wait a minute, Jack. Wait a minute, here. Wait a minute. Where are you?
169:41:52	CC	Yes. We're trying to - -
169:41:52	Schmitt	Right over here.
169:41:53	Cernan	Come on back here a minute.
169:41:53	CC	- - we're trying to be subtle there, guys.
169:41:55	Cernan	Come on back here a minute. Come on back here a minute. I didn't realize you were going out there quite so soon.
169:42:02	Schmitt	Well, I just looked to see where it is.
169:42:08	Schmitt	There. I'll - -
169:42:10	Cernan	What did you - what did you do with that -
169:42:13	Schmitt	How about one of - how about this one?
169:42:14	Cernan	You got it?
169:42:30	Cernan	What was it happened to that one in my footpan?
169:42:34	Schmitt	I put in the (laughter) big bag.
169:42:36	Cernan	Okay. Here we go, Jack. I - Here's one here. Here. All right?
169:42:45	Schmitt	Yes. Let me - let me get it, so you won't get it too dirty.
169:42:48	Cernan	Okay. (Laughter) Very good.
169:42:53	Schmitt	You hold it.
169:42:54	Cernan	Okay. Got it?
169:42:56	Schmitt	Yes. How about over here?
169:43:04	Cernan	I'll put it right over here aginst that back - background.
169:43:15	Cernan	Houston, before we close out our EVA, we understand that there are young people in Houston today, who have been effectively touring our country, young people from countries all over the world, respectively, touring our country. They had the opportunity to watch the launch of Apollo 17, hopefully had an opportunity to meet some of our young people in our country. And we'd like to say first of all, welcome, and we hope you enjoyed your stay. Second of all, I think probably one of the most significant things we can think about when we think about Apollo is that it has opened for us - for us being the world - a challenge of the future. The door is now cracked, but the promise of the future lies in the young people, not just in America, but the young people all over the world learning to live and learning to work together. In order to remind all the peoples of the world, in so many countries throughout the world, that this is what we all are striving for in the future, Jack has picked up a very significant rock, typical of what we have here in the valley of Taurus-Littrow, it's a rock composed of many fragments, of many sizes, and many shapes, probably from all parts of the Moon, perhaps billions of years old. But a rock of all fra - sizes and shapes, fragments of all sizes and shapes, and even colors that have grown together to become a cohesive rock, outlasting the nature of space, sort of living together in a very coherent, very peaceful manner. When we return this rock or some of the others like it to Houston, we'd like to share a piece of this rock with so many of the countries throughout the world. We hope that this will be a symbol of what our feelings are, what the feelings of the Apollo Program are, and a symbol of mankind that we can live in peace and harmony in the future.
169:45:55	Schmitt	A portion of a - of a rock will be sent to a - a representative agency or museum in each of the countries represented by the young people in Houston today, and we hope that they will, that rock and the students themselves, will carry with them our good wishes, not only for the new year coming up but also for themselves, their countries, and all mankind in the future. Put that in the big bag, Geno.
169:46:28	Cernan	In the big bag.
169:46:30	CC	Roger - -
169:46:31	Cernan	We salute you, promise of the future.
169:46:31	CC	- - Jack and Gene. We thank you for your sentiments and your interest.
169:46:50	Cernan	And now, let me bring this camera around. To commemorate not just Apollo 17's visit to the Valley of Taurus-Littrow but as an everlasting commemoration of what the real meaning of Apollo is to the world, we'd like to uncover a plaque that has been on the leg of our spacecraft that we have climbed down many times over the last 3 days. And I'll read what that plaque says to you. First of all, it has a picture of the world. Two pictures, one of the North America and one of South America. The other covers the other half of the world including Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia, covers the North Pole and the South Pole. In between these two hemispheres, we have a pictorial view of the Moon, a pictorial view of where all the Apollo landings have been made so that when this plaque is seen again by others who come, they will know where it all started. The words are, "Here man completed his first exploration of the Moon, December 1972 A.D. May the spirit of peace in which we came be reflected in the lives of all mankind." it's signed, "Eugene A. Cernan, Ronald E. Evans, Harrison H. Schmitt, and most prominently, Richard M. Nixon, President of the United States of America." This is our commemoration that will be here until someone like us, until some of you who are out there, who are the promise of the future, come back to read it again and to further the exploration and the meaning of Apollo.
169:49:07	CC	Roger, Gene. We in Houston copy that and echo your sentiments, and Dr. Fletcher is here beside me. He'd like to say a word to the two of you.
169:49:18	CC	Gene and Jack, I've been in close touch with the White House, and the President has been following very closely your absolutely fascinating work up there. He'd like to wish you Godspeed as you return to Earth, and I'd like to personally second that. Congratulations. We'll see you in a few days. Over.
169:49:44	Cernan	Thank you, Dr. Fletcher. We appreciate your comments, and we certainly appreciate those of the President. And whether it be civilian or military, I think Jack and I would both like to give our salute to America.
169:50:03	Schmitt	And, Dr. Fletcher, if I may, I'd like to remind everybody, I'm sure, of something they're aware, but this valley, this valley of history, has seen mankind complete its first evolutionary steps into the universe, leaving the planet Earth and going forward into the universe. I think no more significant contribution has Apollo made to history. It's not often that you can foretell history, but I think we can in this case. And I think everybody ought to feel very proud of that fact. Thank you very much.
169:50:53	CC	We'll see you in a little bit.
169:50:54	Cernan	Okay, babe. Let's go to the AL - Okay, Bob. I owe you a - a bias reading.
169:51:01	CC	Okay. Or you can get it later. There's no hurry on that. And we're off to the ALSEP.
169:51:06	Cernan	I'm going to give it to you right now.
169:51:08	CC	Okay. Ready to copy. I presume you've a UHT out at the ALSEP, Jack.
169:51:13	Schmitt	That's affirm.
169:51:15	Cernan	337, 417, 101; 337, 417, 101.
169:51:25	CC	Okay. Copy that.
169:51:29	Cernan	Are you through with this?
169:51:35	CC	Roger. (Laughter)
169:51:37	Cernan	Bob?
169:51:38	CC	Roger. We're through with it.
169:51:40	Schmitt	Be kind. Be kind.
169:51:42	Cernan	Well, I love it, and I'm sure it did a good job - -
169:51:44	CC	Well, we're not through with you, Gene, so don't throw yourself too far.
169:51:50	Cernan	No, sir. I just don't want to hit old Challenger there.
169:52:03	Schmitt	That was unkind. You did the javelin. That was unkind.
169:52:10	CC	Roger, Gene. And we - -
169:52:11	Cernan	I didn't throw it as far as I could have. I just - -
169:52:13	CC	- - we timed the parabola for that, and we have one excellent measurement of g on the Moon now.
169:52:22	Cernan	Yes, I didn't get you a - I didn't get you a pendulum, but I don't know where I would, Bob. Okay. I'm going to have to take you out to the VIP site --
169:52:33	CC	Okay. We're ready for that, and we'll - -
169:52:34	Cernan	- - if you concur?
169:52:36	CC	Okay.
169:52:48	Cernan	Well, let me make sure I got everything. Okay. Remember, we -
169:53:03	PAO	We won't have a picture while Gene Cernan drives the Rover to the VIP site, the Very Important Place where the Rover will be left. He will turn the television back on after reaching that site.
169:53:15	Cernan	Okay. Bob, I guess you're reading me through the LM, huh?
169:53:18	CC	Roger. Read you through the LM. You guys both read me through the LM?
169:53:24	Cernan	That's affirm. Okay. The first thing I want to do - Tell John I'm going to do it exactly like he wants. Okay. The camera is under the seat, I hope. Let me look. Yes, camera's there. Jack, did you do something with the dustbrush?
169:53:52	Schmitt	No.
169:53:53	Cernan	It was under the seat, right?
169:53:55	Schmitt	It was, yes.
169:53:56	Cernan	Yes, I want to make sure it is because I'll need it out there.
169:53:58	Schmitt	No, wait a minute. I don't know that it's there now.
169:54:00	Cernan	Well, I want to make sure that I can get - get something to dust with.
169:54:06	CC	Okay. And, Jack, as you go out to the ALSEP, let me cue in on your next 3 hours worth of work out there, repairing the ALSEP. All right? Over.
169:54:16	Schmitt	Oh, okay. Go ahead. I'm here.
169:54:18	CC	Okay. Number one, we want to retrieve the UHT. And I quote, "tap sharply" - that's "sharply" on the gimbal, which is the center section there, the little square metal piece in the middle - tap sharply on the gimbal with the UHT, and then re-verify the level on the LSG. We'll check response here in Mission Control after you've done that.
169:54:49	Schmitt	You mean tap on the thing that swings?
169:54:52	CC	That's what they say.
169:54:53	Cernan	You always wanted to do that, didn't you?
169:54:55	CC	Yes, that's right.
169:55:01	Schmitt	Well, let me see if I can grab a clean UHT to do that.
169:55:07	Cernan	Okay, Bob. Everything is zeroed.
169:55:09	CC	Okay. And I'll be talking to Jack here, Gene, for a while. You can interrupt with your comments over - talking over me, and I'll try and copy them.
169:55:21	Cernan	One comment. I got a flag on the other battery, 139 degrees.
169:55:24	CC	Okay. We copy that.
169:55:27	Schmitt	How much - how much is sharply?
169:55:31	CC	Sharply is sharply. It's probably not heavily, but sharply. Fairly light, but sharply.
169:55:37	Schmitt	On the edge?
169:55:39	CC	No. You can see that little square metal piece in the middle there?
169:55:42	Schmitt	On the edge?
169:55:42	CC	You see that little square metal piece on there? You can just sort of rap on that - -
169:55:44	Schmitt	Oh, yes. Okay. Here goes. I did it.
169:55:54	CC	Okay. And then it says - -
169:55:56	Schmitt	You want me to do it again?
169:55:59	CC	Stand by.
169:56:04	Schmitt	That was sort of a med - moderate hard tap.
169:56:10	CC	Go ahead, and hit it harder.
169:56:11	Schmitt	It is level.
169:56:12	CC	Hit it harder, please.
169:56:16	Schmitt	Okay. Okay. I can hit it harder yet.
169:56:29	CC	Okay. We've observed something there. Stand by.
169:56:40	Cernan	Bob, you might be getting TV the way the antenna's oriented right now.
169:56:43	CC	Okay. Jack, go ahead. We'll do some more stuff here. In the meanwhile, while they're thinking about what's wrong with it, did you just tap it again?
169:56:57	Schmitt	No, I didn't touch it. I'm over at the central station now.
169:57:00	CC	Okay. They're looking at it. All right. Now, we want to take some photographs at the central station and a few selected - a few selected photographs of the ALSEP. Number one, we want a 7-foot cross-Sun to the south of the ALSEP central station and then a 7-foot down-Sun of the central station. Over.
169:57:23	Schmitt	Okay, 7-foot cross-Sun to the south.
169:57:26	CC	That's what it says.
169:57:30	Schmitt	And then a down-Sun.
169:57:32	CC	Roger. A 7-foot down-Sun.
169:57:37	Schmitt	You might tell me what they're trying to get with it. I might be able to help them.
169:57:42	CC	Okay. I presume that what this means is looking to the south. It was cross-Sun originally. I suspect that's what happened here, the way it was written up. So it's a 7-foot looking at the - all the switches to make sure you guys turned them the right way, I suppose. And then a 7-foot looking down-Sun, so that would be facing west, that side of it.
169:58:04	Schmitt	Okay. I got it. What else?
169:58:07	CC	Okay. Now, there's a problem with the central station - which they think the south end of it's buried more deeply in the dirt than they had intended. And the central station is at present time getting very warm on the back side on the south side there, which is - they believe you probably buried in the ground when you were trying to tilt it to the proper alignment. They are requesting that, when you're at the ALSEP, you remove any soil buildup or debris with a convenient tool. They don't want you to touch it because it's fairly warm. But if you have a UHT or something to move it - Do you have the UHT with you or something with you that you can brush that soil aside with?
169:58:46	Schmitt	Yes, sir.
169:58:47	CC	Okay. You know the secton - -
169:58:48	Schmitt	It is piled up there. That's a good call - -
169:58:50	CC	Yes. Okay. They'd like that brushed away. And you can give me a call - -
169:58:59	Schmitt	Fortunately, I brought my handy-dandy Rover sampler out.
169:59:03	CC	Okay. You can brush that aside, and give me a call when you think that's cleared up the way it ought to be. That's probably one of those things we didn't think about when we decided to tilt the central station.
169:59:15	Schmitt	Well, you didn't - you couldn't anticipate the soil, Bob. It's very soft.
169:59:28	Cernan	Bob, we are at VIP.
169:59:31	CC	Okay. And Ed Fendell is hard on my back to remind you that it's better to be too far away than too close.
169:59:44	Cernan	All right.
169:59:47	Schmitt	I thought I was, but I think I may move just a little bit. There's a little rise here I can give you. I think I'll give it to you.
169:59:55	CC	Okay.
169:59:58	Schmitt	By the way, Bob, the soil gets more cohesive with depth. I hadn't really noticed that before.
170:00:05	CC	Okay. We copy that. Duely noted.
170:00:08	Schmitt	It's - it's quite a bit more cohesive at - about the - feels about the same down to 3 centimeters out here, and then the cohesiveness goes up, so it's difficult to scrape with the Rcver sampler.
170:00:23	CC	Copy that, Jack.
170:00:51	Cernan	Well, I think you can see almost everything from here.
170:00:54	CC	Okay, Geno. And, Jack, let me know when you get done scraping that soil away.
170:01:03	Schmitt	I will.
170:01:23	Schmitt	And now comes the hardest alignment of them all, but I'll get it.
170:01:51	Schmitt	Somewhere about there. See if I can't tweak it up for you. Bob, the east-west level bubble is not quite level. The north-south is. Do you want me to tweak that up?
170:02:07	CC	Yes, you might tweak that up. We are getting a good signal, but go ahead and tweak it up just a little bit.
170:02:23	CC	And, Gene, what are you doing these days?
170:02:27	Cernan	I'm getting the high gain set up for you.
170:02:30	CC	Okay. Now you know why we didn't make you park it in that orientation all the time, don't you?
170:02:36	Cernan	Boy, I'll tell you ... it was a piece of cake up until now.
170:02:44	Cernan	There, I got you.
170:02:55	Cernan	Bob, you got - Bob, you're looking right down the center of my eyepiece. You - -
170:03:03	CC	Okay, I don't think - -
170:03:03	Cernan	- - you should have TV.
170:03:04	CC	Yes, we're getting TV there, Geno.
170:03:09	Cernan	You getting it?
170:03:11	CC	We've got TV.
170:03:11	Cernan	Well, let me take a look, and clean things up.
170:03:13	CC	Okay. I guess you can dust and dust and dust some more for a while.
170:03:21	Cernan	let me get this dusting problem out of the way before I do anything else.
170:03:24	CC	Roger.
170:03:25	Cernan	You can look at your vantage point, and if you don't like it, let me know.
170:03:29	CC	Okay. I'll call Captain Video.
170:03:44	Schmitt	Bob?
170:03:45	CC	Go.
170:03:45	Schmitt	How close can soil be to this back plate of the ALSEP?
170:03:51	CC	Stand by. I'll check.
170:03:56	Schmitt	It's about 30 centimeters away, most of the places now.
170:04:04	CC	Okay. That sounds good. We'd like you to return to the surface gravimeter, Jack. What you did had some effect, but not - not a lasting effect. And we'd like you to rap even more sharply, more strongly on the gimbal another three times. And we're again watching it, and we'll let you know what to do. And - I might tell you that this has all been done recently this afternoon up at Bendix on the qual unit, and it survived it and so we aren't in any real danger apparently of destroying it.
170:04:39	Schmitt	Okay. Three times, huh?
170:04:42	CC	Roger. Or up to three times.
170:05:42	Schmitt	Bob, don't let me forget to bring a dustbrush back when I come. ... - -
170:05:44	CC	Okay. I'll mark that down and remind you. And, Jack, you'll be glad to know that the temperature of the back plate there has already dropped 20 degrees - 20 degrees.
170:05:56	Schmitt	Oh, beautiful.
170:05:58	Cernan	Bob, I don't think that bubble's working.
170:06:00	CC	O -
170:06:01	Cernan	How's your signal now?
170:06:03	CC	Stand by. I'll check. But why don't you go to the - to the surface gravimeter?
170:06:11	Schmitt	Bob, how's your TV lens? I don't have a lens brush. It looks good from here. I don't want to use this unless you think so.
170:06:18	CC	Stand by.
170:06:19	Schmitt	Knock three times. (Singing)
170:06:22	CC	Roger. Get out of the way please, Jack, and we'll take a look against some bright soil.
170:06:30	Cernan	What?
170:06:30	Schmitt	No, that's me he's talking to.
170:06:38	CC	Okay. It looks pretty good, Geno. Go ahead.
170:06:40	Cernan	I ... with the lens brush.
170:06:41	CC	Yes, go ahead. It looks pretty good to us.
170:06:46	Cernan	Okay.
170:06:47	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. Here come the raps. Knock three times. Okay.
170:07:15	CC	Okay, Jack. That's really fighting us pretty hard. We'd like you to put the UHT in the socket, and rock it very firmly. Don't pick it up, but rock it very firmly from side to side in all four directions about - Move the UHT about 6 inches in each direction while you're doing it.
170:07:38	Schmitt	Okay.
170:07:58	Schmitt	Okay, I rocked it. It's swinging.
170:08:08	CC	Okay. is it reading?
170:08:10	Schmitt	And the level bubble is - better.
170:08:32	CC	Okay. We understand it's in good configuration again as far as alignment and leveling is concerned, Jack. Let's go on and take some more ALSEP photos, and let them think about it for a minute.
170:08:44	Schmitt	Okay. What do you want?
170:08:46	CC	Okay. Next, what we want is some heat flow - Okay. We just got late word. They'd like to do it one more time, and then call it quits.
170:09:08	Schmitt	The rocking bit, huh?
170:09:10	CC	Roger. The walk - rocking bit one more time.
170:09:20	Cernan	Bob, I may have moved the high gain. Do you see any change in signal?
170:09:24	CC	Stand by.
170:09:27	Cernan	If you're happy, I won't touch it.
170:09:37	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. It's rocked. The shadow ... - the shade is aligned to the Sun now, and it's level.
170:09:49	CC	Okay. We copy that, and let's go get some ALSEP photos, Jack. I think you got some heat flow photos the other night, besides the two pans. If you did, we may - these may be redundant. They're - they want the cross-Sun and down-Sun of the east hole and cross-Sun and down-Sun of the west hole. And I'm not sure what you got those earlier. You said you got some extra heat flow, but tell me if you did. They're both - all four of these are 7-foot - -
170:10:20	Schmitt	... -
170:10:22	CC	Go ahead.
170:10:25	Schmitt	I'll get the heat flow pictures. They - One was 11-foot, I think. And then the steropair.
170:10:38	CC	Yes. I think all they're asking for is the two 7-foot stereopairs.
170:10:50	Schmitt	Okay. That's one of them.
170:10:58	CC	Okay. What they're asking for, Jack, is a 7-foot down-Sun and a 7-foot cross-Sun, which isn't quite what we've been taking in the past.
170:11:08	Schmitt	I'm getting the standard ones, Bob.
170:11:11	CC	Copy that.
170:11:17	Schmitt	Okay. You got the standard documentation.
170:11:20	CC	Okay - -
170:11:20	Schmitt	11-footers and 7-foot stereos.
170:11:22	CC	Okay. Go ahead. They can't complain about that, certainly.
170:11:29	Schmitt	Okay. Now what?
170:11:31	CC	Okay. We'd like a 3-foot shot of the lunar mass spectrometer, including the orifice where the breccia was. And, Geno, we are observing some degradation and would like to have the high gain - -
170:11:44	Schmitt	Cross-Sun?
170:11:47	CC	Yes, yes, Jack; 3-foot's cross-Sun. And, Gene; this is Houston. We'd like to get the high gain reoriented a little bit. We're observing some degradation in the picture.
170:11:58	Cernan	I'll tweak it.
170:12:14	Schmitt	Okay. Got it. Now what? LMS is complete.
170:12:29	CC	Okay. Copy that. Now we want to go over the neutron flux, Jack.
170:12:35	Schmitt	Okay.
170:12:49	Schmitt	How's the gravimeter doing?
170:12:51	CC	We're looking at it, Jack. I'm not sure.
170:13:28	Cernan	Hey, Bob. The panel you want covered. Yes, that's the panel. Okay. You want the - the panel with the - with the ON-OFF switch and the - and the signal strength switch and so forth covered, don't you?
170:13:46	CC	Roger. And be sure to get the thing to EXTERNAL before you cover it there, Gene.
170:13:53	Cernan	Okay. That was going to be a question of mine.
170:13:55	CC	Okay. That goes to EXTERNAL.
170:13:57	Cernan	Okay. It's EXTERNAL.
170:13:58	Schmitt	What - what do you want me to do with the neutron flux?
170:14:02	CC	Okay. We want a photograph facing south, for the 7-foot. So a 7-foot cross-Sun, essentially, of the neutron flux in the soil.
170:14:16	Schmitt	Okay. Would you like to have the RTG in that picture?
170:14:28	CC	Oh, I suppose if you're generous, you might take a partial pan around to the RTG.
170:14:43	Schmitt	Well, it's just about that direction. Okay. Now what?
170:14:52	CC	Okay. Now let's remove - remove the neutron pro - probe experiment from the ground, and turn it off.
170:15:03	Schmitt	Okay.
170:15:11	Schmitt	No more on the gravimeter, huh?
170:15:15	CC	No, the gravimeter is looking very bad, still. And, Jack, you might note as you withdraw just how difficult it is to withdraw it. It - it - whether or not it's been seiz-ed by the soil collapsing around it or not. That's soil mechanic's goody.
170:15:35	Schmitt	Not at all, not at all.
170:15:36	Cernan	It won't be, I'll tell you. No problem.
170:15:38	CC	Okay. We copy that.
170:15:40	Cernan	Okay. The high gain is - the high gain is tweaked.
170:15:44	CC	Okay. We'll consider ourselves tweaked.
170:15:50	Cernan	And I'm giving the LCRU another zap here. Boy, I tell you, I ain't going to do much more dusting after I leave here. Ever ...
170:16:03	Schmitt	Okay. Upper probe is OFF -
170:16:04	Schmitt	MARK it.
170:16:06	CC	Copy that.
170:16:12	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. I'm going to put bus B and D, OPEN, and AUX circuit breaker BYPASS, ON.
170:16:21	CC	Okay. Copy that.
170:16:25	Schmitt	And let me see. Bravo. Okay. And Delta. Okay. Bravo and Delta. Upper probe is OFF -
170:16:42	Schmitt	MARK it.
170:16:43	CC	Is that upper or lower, Jack?
170:16:46	Schmitt	Up - oh, lower. I'm sorry, Bob.
170:16:48	CC	Copy that.
170:16:51	Schmitt	AUX POWER circuit breaker is ON. BYPASS, ON. And the lower probe is capped.
170:16:57	CC	Okay; and, Gene, you need to close that CAUTION AND WARNING FLAG. It's a heat sink when it's open, I guess.
170:17:06	Cernan	Okay; it's closed.
170:17:08	CC	Copy that.
170:17:09	Cernan	You want me to put a bag in front of that thing?
170:17:14	CC	No, I don't think - -
170:17:15	Cernan	Want me to put a bag in front of it in case it pops open again? I guess it won't.
170:17:18	CC	No, I don't think so. I can't imagine why it's really a problem anyway, because we got the BYPASS, ON there, and that heat's not going anywhere.
170:17:26	Schmitt	Okay; now the switch is off, except my 15 volts. Bob, you want me away from the ALSEP now?
170:17:35	CC	Stand by, Jack. I'll get one more word before we come back to the LM.
170:17:43	Schmitt	Okay.
170:17:51	Cernan	Yes, I got a camera, over there. I'm going to look under the seats one more time. Nothing but a 500 - Okay. Used tape.
170:18:05	CC	Okay. Jack, we're ready for you to leave the ALSEP.
170:18:12	Schmitt	Well, I hate to do that, Bob. I'm sorry about this gravimeter, though.
170:18:18	CC	Well, you're not the only one. The word is down here there's a whole room full of people who are sorry.
170:18:35	PAO	EVA time 6 hours 46 minutes.
170:19:11	Cernan	Okay. I got the LMP's camera. Nothing in here but couple old bags. We used about all the bags we had, Jack. Not many here. Bob, I have the dust brush tethered.
170:19:51	CC	Copy the dust brush.
170:19:56	Cernan	Okay; let me get one parting shot of - one of the finest running little machines I've ever had the pleasure to drive.
170:20:21	CC	Okay. And, Geno, some people down here are concerned about whether you've opened the battery covers or not.
170:20:28	Cernan	Yes, sir; they're open.
170:20:30	CC	Roger. Copy that.
170:20:37	Cernan	Oh, what a nice little machine. Parked on a little downslope, but at the heading you want, and I guess Ed's satisfied with the TV response, huh?
170:20:49	CC	Roger. We're satisfied with the TV, Gene. We're ready for you to take the EP number 3.
170:20:59	Cernan	Good old Mother Earth is right smack in the center.
170:22:08	Cernan	Bob, while we've got a quite moment here, as I go to de - deploy that EP charge, I'd just like to say that any part of Apollo 17, or any part of Apollo, that has been a success thus far is probably, for the most part, due to the thousands of people in the aerospace industry who have given a great deal, besides dedication and besides effort and besides professionalism, to make it all a reality. And I would just like to thank them, because what we've done here and what has been done in the past - As a matter of fact, what has been done for 200 years, you've got to contribute to the spirit of a group of people who form the aerospace industry. And I God bless you and thank you.
170:23:16	CC	Roger, Gene. And we thank you guys.
170:23:23	Cernan	Well, we're just two little - two little sets of twinkletoes here. There's a lot that goes to getting this Rover running out here that we don't have much to do with. And I guess there might be someone else that has something to do with it too, and I've been reading his signs, maybe not from Him directly, but His in spirit, as we run up and down that ladder. And that's Godspeed, the crew of Apollo 17. And if He's listening, I'd like to thank Him, too.
170:24:25	Cernan	Pin 1 is pulled.
170:24:27	CC	MARK that.
170:24:32	Cernan	I'm at the end of the west SEP antenna. Do you agree with that?
170:24:35	CC	Roger. Exactly right.
170:24:40	Cernan	Okay. Pin 2 is pulled. Still safe. Pin 3 is pulled, and it still safe.
170:24:49	CC	Copy that, and - -
170:24:51	Cernan	Don't know what I would do if it wasn't. (Laughter)
170:24:53	CC	- - and now, also, do you have the SEP transmitter turned off there, Gene?
170:24:59	Cernan	No, sir. Thank you. Okay. Bob, - -
170:25:04	CC	Then we're ready for you guys to get back to the LM and dust, and get in.
170:25:05	Cernan	- - it's getting ready - it's getting right adjacent to the ring on the west end, and I'm going to go back and turn the SEP cff.
170:25:18	CC	Okay. And when that's done, Gene, we're ready for you and your dust brush to hasten back to the LM and dust each other and climb in.
170:25:27	Cernan	You know what, Bob?
170:25:29	CC	What, Gene?
170:25:29	Cernan	Great as an experience as it has been, I'd say we're probably both ready.
170:25:37	Schmitt	Oh, I don't know. Hey, Bob, 55 Yankee is an exotic-looking rock I found about 5 meters south of the neutron flux hole. It's another gray - possibly gray basalt. It's just that there aren't many of them around here, and so I picked it up.
170:25:55	CC	Copy that.
170:25:59	Schmitt	Cheating a little again.
170:26:03	Cernan	Jack, you'll always be picking rocks.
170:26:07	Schmitt	Oh, I don't know.
170:26:08	Cernan	Okay, the transmitter is OFF.
170:26:11	CC	MARK that.
170:26:12	Cernan	I don't blame you. There's so many interesting things around here.
170:26:26	Schmitt	Just don't lose your brush, Gene.
170:26:29	Cernan	Okay, Bob, according to my inventory I'm going to return to the LM and the camera is going to the ETB.
170:26:37	CC	That's affirm. We'll have - -
170:26:39	Cernan	... we're done with the TGE.
170:26:40	CC	Roger.
170:26:43	CC	We need a bias reading if you want to use it again, Gene.
170:26:44	Cernan	Jack, come to think of it, I - come to think of it, I guess you are, aren't you. Where are you, Jack?
170:26:56	Schmitt	I'm at the MESA.
170:26:58	Cernan	Okay.
170:27:01	Schmitt	Trying to snap a snap.
170:27:02	Cernan	I need a locater here to the LM.
170:27:18	CC	Okay; and, 17, we need you guys in the LM in 15 minutes, 15 minutes because of oxygen constraints.
170:27:29	Cernan	Okay, Bob, my pictures are taken; I'm on the way. Oh, Boy, where else can you do this?
170:28:42	Cernan	If I had landed 30 meters back, Jack, we'd be pitched down 5 degrees.
170:28:51	Schmitt	You're right.
170:28:55	Cernan	Okay, what they're saying is, I don't need my hammer any more.
170:28:59	CC	Roger -
170:28:59	Cernan	... dust and get in.
170:28:59	CC	- we want you to dust and get in. We got l4 minutes remaining before we need the hatch closed.
170:29:11	Cernan	Okay, Bob. We'll - we're doing our best. Well, that RTV worked on the hammer, but look at it, Jack. It's worn completely to a nub. It's off.
170:29:36	Schmitt	I guess that's all right - Look at - Here - my - I don't know where I am. Oh, boy, how about that? Okay.
170:29:45	Cernan	Okay, sir, you ready to go on up?
170:29:48	Schmitt	Well, I don't know. Got to take my camera off. I got another batch of pictures - the LM and the flag and - -
170:29:56	Cernan	Well, watch this real quick.
170:29:57	Schmitt	Stereo, even.
170:29:58	Cernan	Jack - -
170:29:59	Schmitt	Let me have your camera. Go ahead. Oh, there ... there. Let me throw the hammer.
170:30:03	Cernan	Okay.
170:30:04	Schmitt	Let me throw the hammer, please.
170:30:06	Cernan	It's all yours.
170:30:07	Schmitt	You got the gravimeter.
170:30:08	Cernan	You deserve it. A hammer thrower - you're a geologist. You ought to be able to throw it.
170:30:11	Schmitt	You ready?
170:30:12	Cernan	Go ahead.
170:30:13	Schmitt	You ready for this? Ready for this?
170:30:15	Cernan	Yes. Don't hit the LM or the ALSEP.
170:30:22	Schmitt	Look at that! Look at that! Look at that! Beautiful.
170:30:29	Cernan	Looked like it was going a million miles, but it really didn't.
170:30:32	Schmitt	Didn't it?
170:30:33	Cernan	Okay, here, this is an ETB.
170:30:35	Schmitt	Let me - let me make sure that that's all cinched up.
170:30:38	Cernan	Okay. And then start on up. We got to get going here.
170:30:43	Schmitt	Yes. Unfortunately, their little plan didn't count for the fact that it's hard to pack the ETB with the film magazines in it.
170:30:49	Cernan	And I'll try and get the big bag here cinched up.
170:30:54	Schmitt	That is a major task.
170:30:55	Cernan	Yes, that's going to be - oh, is it heavy. Is it heavy. Something in that core tube you put in there?
170:31:01	Schmitt	Yes, sir.
170:31:02	Cernan	Okay.
170:31:03	Schmitt	Don't tell anybody, though, because they'll get mad at me.
170:31:05	Cernan	Oh, man, is that heavy. Holy smoley. Oh!
170:31:19	Schmitt	... 252. That's about three-quarters of a core, hand pushed, half a meter inside the plus-Y footpad.
170:31:41	CC	Okay, copy that.
170:31:45	Cernan	Okay, Jack ... how's that ETB coming no you can get going?
170:31:48	Schmitt	Fine.
170:31:49	Cernan	Okay, I've got to - -
170:31:49	Schmitt	I've got to put it on a strap, though.
170:31:53	Cernan	I can get that. You can - This is all cinched up. I think it'll hold. Why don't you start on up? Then I'll start dusting you.
170:32:04	Schmitt	Okay.
170:32:08	Cernan	Okay. Very good.
170:32:11	Schmitt	Anything fall out?
170:32:12	Cernan	No.
170:32:13	Schmitt	Okay. Oh - -
170:32:15	Cernan	Let me dust you. Set that down, and I'll hand it all to you.
170:32:16	Schmitt	Okay, you'll have to hand stuff in - -
170:32:17	CC	Okay; and, 17, we - a reminder, we need you inside in 10 minutes.
170:32:24	Cernan	Okay, Bob. ...
170:32:35	PAO	EVA time 7 hours.
170:32:41	Schmitt	I'll do a lot of jumping up here in a minute.
170:32:42	Cernan	Your back is clean.
170:32:46	Schmitt	I'll get the legs as best I can.
170:32:47	Cernan	Okay. Why don't you get me here before you do that?
170:32:48	Schmitt	Okay. And while I'm doing that, will you take this - I'll get it.
170:32:55	Cernan	Okay.
170:33:01	Schmitt	Boy, you got dirty today. I think we're just going to have to live with it.
170:33:14	Cernan	Get my top. I can kick a lot of that stuff off my legs. How do I look in back?
170:33:23	Schmitt	Terrible. Okay, turn.
170:33:47	Schmitt	Oh, man. You're going to have to - Your legs are really filthy. Not much to do about it.
170:33:52	Cernan	Okay, I'll get them off. Why don't you start back - -
170:33:53	Schmitt	Just kick them against each other ... - -
170:33:55	Cernan	Okay. Start on up.
170:33:59	Schmitt	You might shake the bags.
170:34:01	Cernan	Okay.
170:34:02	CC	And don't forget your PLSS ant.
170:34:07	Schmitt	No.
170:34:09	Cernan	Do what?
170:34:10	Schmitt	PLSS antennas.
170:34:11	Cernan	Okay.
170:34:12	Schmitt	Although it doesn't make much difference anymore. That's to get them out of the way.
170:34:18	Cernan	The big bag didn't stay closed very long.
170:34:21	Schmitt	I don't know how we can get that in.
170:34:23	Cernan	There, I'll stand - I can hand it to you.
170:34:26	Schmitt	It never had a very good closure on it - -
170:34:29	Cernan	That velcro won't hold.
170:34:31	Schmitt	- - but it can be closed.
170:34:32	Cernan	I had it over - over the top. The latch was closed, but -
170:34:36	Schmitt	Oh, it won't hold with all that weight in there. Okay, I got your antenna.
170:34:39	Cernan	Okay, let me get a high - Got to close this. You don't want that in your way.
170:34:45	Schmitt	I can't close it.
170:34:47	Cernan	Oh, okay.
170:34:50	Schmitt	You might try.
170:34:56	Cernan	Get all your flaps? Okay, hold your head down.
170:35:12	Cernan	Yow.
170:35:13	Schmitt	Won't go, huh?
170:35:13	Cernan	No. Will that bother you getting in?
170:35:16	Schmitt	I can probably make it.
170:35:17	Cernan	Okay, get on up.
170:35:22	Schmitt	Oops, try that again. Okay, why don't you hand me the neutron flux, and I'll put it - -
170:35:31	Cernan	Okay, neutron flux.
170:35:32	Schmitt	- - on the platform? Okay.
170:35:39	Cernan	Why don't you start in, and I'll get some of these bags out of the way.
170:35:41	Schmitt	Well, I just - You don't want to hand them to me up here?
170:35:50	Cernan	Okay.
170:35:53	CC	And, Jack, for your thoughts, we've agreed that you can delete the tracking light. We'd like to get you guys in as soon as possible - 7 minutes now. And we'll delete the tracking light test.
170:36:03	Schmitt	Okay.
170:36:07	Cernan	Okay, Bob.
170:36:21	Schmitt	Okay, that's all I can handle up here. One more - one more and I can put it up here.
170:36:27	Cernan	Watch your cover on this one. Got it?
170:36:32	Schmitt	Got it.
170:36:33	Cernan	Stand it up because the cover won't hack it.
170:36:55	Cernan	Okay. If you get on in, I'll come up to the porch.
170:37:42	Schmitt	Where's that EVA pallet that's always in my way?
170:37:46	CC	I think we aren't going to have one of those tomorrow, Jack, so we did away with that. We hope we're not going to have one of those tomorrow.
170:37:55	Cernan	Bob, we're maximizing our efforts, so just bear with us. Jack's going to be in about 30 seconds, and I'm on the ladder hauling some stuff up now.
170:38:10	CC	Roger. Don't panic.
170:38:15	Cernan	Well, we're not. I just don't want you to.
170:38:19	CC	I never panic there, guys.
170:38:28	Schmitt	Got some stuff for me?
170:38:30	Cernan	Yes, sir. This is not the time to rush. It's the time to do it nice and slow and right.
170:38:39	Schmitt	Oh, we're all right.
170:38:40	Cernan	Okay. You're not going to like this, but I'm going to give you this one first because I've got it in my hand.
170:38:52	Schmitt	Either one. Oh, hang in there - I've got it. Yes, that's a heavy bag.
170:39:07	Cernan	That is heavy, babe. Let me tell you, that's heavy.
170:39:20	Schmitt	Okay, next.
170:39:23	Cernan	Can you reach that one? If not, I'll shove it in further.
170:39:36	Schmitt	Okay.
170:39:37	Cernan	One more coming at you.
170:39:38	Schmitt	Okay.
170:39:38	Cernan	Tilting up right now.
170:39:39	Schmitt	Go ahead.
170:39:53	Schmitt	Okay, next.
170:39:55	Cernan	...
170:39:56	Schmitt	Got it.
170:39:57	Cernan	Okay. Okay, next. Okay, Bob, we've got it - -
170:40:06	Schmitt	Up here -
170:40:07	Cernan	- - big bag, three SRCs and a neutron flux.
170:40:12	CC	Okay, and we gather an ETB coming up with two cameras in it.
170:40:18	Cernan	ETB's next.
170:40:29	Schmitt	You have an ETB? Ya -
170:40:32	Cernan	ETB has two cameras.
170:40:34	CC	Okay. And as you guys say farewell to the Moon, we're looking up to the Earth down here where you guys are returning pretty soon.
170:40:44	Cernan	Okay.
170:40:45	Schmitt	You're going to have to push that.
170:40:46	Cernan	Okay, let me get it. That's all right - I'll wait until you're ready. Okay. Can you make it?
170:40:56	Schmitt	Yes, I've got it. Okay, let me get that other thing in here.
170:41:17	Cernan	Bob, this is Gene, and I'm on the surface and as I take man's last steps from the surface, back home, for some time to come, but we believe not too long into the future. I'd like to just let, what I believe history will record, that America's challenge of today has forged man's destiny of tomorrow. And, as we leave the Moon at Taurus-Littrow, we leave as we came and, God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind. Godspeed the crew of Apollo 17.
170:42:12	CC	Roger, Geno. Thank you very much.
170:42:17	Cernan	Bob, I am up on the ladder and I'm going to be going through the hatch.
170:42:35	Schmitt	Gene, I've got to get out of your way.
170:42:37	Cernan	Yes.
170:43:04	Schmitt	Okay.
170:43:06	Cernan	Okay, let me - Okay, babe - here I come.
170:43:13	Schmitt	Come on in.
170:43:13	Cernan	Hatch look good to you?
170:43:15	Schmitt	Still looks dirty. Okay, keep her down - buttons. Come towards me a little - there you go. Okay, you've got it.
170:43:40	Cernan	Okay, I'm inside the hatch.
170:43:43	Schmitt	Okay.
170:43:44	Cernan	Let me look - let me see that hatch once more.
170:43:46	Schmitt	Okay.
170:43:48	Cernan	That's the last time we want to have to - open that.
170:43:52	Schmitt	Caught in the same way again.
170:43:54	Cernan	Let me just - I can see down there.
170:43:56	Schmitt	I can see, it's -
170:43:57	Cernan	Does it look good to you?
170:43:58	Schmitt	It's clear -
170:43:59	Cernan	Okay.
170:44:01	Schmitt	There is a little bit of dust but it's all in the - I don't think ...
170:44:05	Cernan	Roger.
170:44:08	Schmitt	There you go.
170:44:09	Cernan	If I can turn around.
170:44:10	Schmitt	Yes, I've got to get out of your way.
170:44:11	Cernan	Yes, I'll wait for you.
170:44:30	Cernan	Yes, now I can.
170:44:32	Schmitt	Okay.
170:44:33	Schmitt	Okay, I've got to get my hand over here. Okay, I'm out of your way.
170:44:39	Cernan	Okay. And -
170:44:45	Schmitt	Close the hatch.
170:44:46	Cernan	Hatch is closed. Let's see if I can lock it.
170:44:50	Schmitt	Then we've got to turn our H2O off. Oh, we've got to turn our - let's turn our water off first, before you lock it.
170:44:59	Cernan	Well, it's locked now. Can you get your own water? If not, I'll get it - -
170:45:02	Schmitt	I doubt it. Haven't been able to before.
170:45:07	Cernan	Okay, I'll get it.
170:45:08	Schmitt	Have you got your -
170:45:09	Cernan	Let me see.
170:45:17	Schmitt	Mine's off. No, wait a minute. Mine's off. Well, I can't get it.
170:45:27	Cernan	Okay. I'll get it for you. And - before you move any more, let me get over here out of the way.
170:45:33	CC	Okay. And pay attention here, 17, when you come on, we'd like you to leave PRESS REG A which is the one that's in OFF - we'd like to leave that closed.
170:45:41	Cernan	Turn around.
170:45:42	CC	Just use PRESS REG B going to CABIN.
170:45:44	Cernan	Okay, Bob.
170:45:47	Schmitt	Get it, Gene?
170:45:47	Cernan	Turn some more, I can almost reach it - another.
170:45:50	Schmitt	Okay.
170:45:54	Cernan	Okay. Your AUX water is OFF.
170:45:56	Schmitt	Okay.
170:45:57	Cernan	Okay, Bob -
170:45:58	Schmitt	No, no. The - the PRIM water.
170:46:00	Cernan	Okay.
170:46:02	Schmitt	Turn your PRIM ...
170:46:09	Cernan	Your PRIM water is OFF.
170:46:10	Schmitt	Is your PRIM OFF?
170:46:13	Cernan	Yes. It's OFF.
170:46:15	Schmitt	Okay.
170:46:17	Cernan	Okay. PLSS PRIM water closed. Forward hatch CLOSED and LOCKED. Okay, I've got to get the upper valve, Jack. Move in.
170:46:25	Schmitt	Okay. How's that?
170:46:30	Cernan	Oh, that ought to do it.
170:46:41	Cernan	AUTO and I've got the lock on it. Okay, now, Bob, say again which REG A you want left.
170:46:51	Schmitt	REG A left closed, I got it.
170:46:54	CC	That's affirm, Jack.
170:46:56	Schmitt	Go ahead.
170:46:57	Cernan	Okay, DUMP valves are both AUTO - CABIN REPRESS AUTO.
170:47:00	Schmitt	CABIN REPRESS, AUTO.
170:47:02	Cernan	Okay, and I've got plenty of oxygen so we're in good shape for an AUTO REPRESS. CABIN REPRESS breaker CLOSED at 16.
170:47:08	Schmitt	Okay, CABIN REPRESS, CLOSED.
170:47:12	Cernan	Come on, baby, there it comes. Half a psi. Okay, it is increasing - you can go to CABIN on the regulator.
170:47:25	Schmitt	REG B.
170:47:27	Cernan	Yes, just the one regulator B. 1.5.
170:47:35	Schmitt	REG B is in CABIN.
170:47:36	Cernan	Okay, she's coming up. There's 2.0. Your next move will be to get PLSS O2 OFF. 2.5. Okay, get your PLSS O2 OFF.
170:48:04	Schmitt	Mine's OFF.
170:48:06	Cernan	Get it?
170:48:07	Schmitt	... shortly.
170:48:12	Cernan	Turn around - I'll get it for you.
170:48:14	Schmitt	I think that I've got it. There I got it.
170:48:19	Cernan	Okay. Verify cabin pressure stable at 4.6 to 5.0. We'll watch it here.
170:48:24	Schmitt	I'm watching; 5.
170:48:28	PAO	EVA ended at 170 hours 48 minutes 8 seconds. EVA duration, 17 hours 15 minutes 31 seconds.
170:48:28	Cernan	Okay. 5.0.
170:48:30	Schmitt	5.0.
170:48:31	Cernan	Boy, it got hot in here, didn't it? Okay, purge valve to DEPRESS; verify your circuit breakers.
170:48:37	Schmitt	Say again, that last one.
170:48:39	Cernan	You don't need your ... DEPRESS but you don't need it.
170:48:41	Schmitt	Oh, yes. No, No.
170:48:42	Cernan	Verify your circuit breakers - White Dots -... EVA decals.
170:48:46	Schmitt	The White Dots.
170:48:58	Cernan	Okay, I'm squared away there. Squared away?
170:49:05	Schmitt	Am I.
170:49:06	Cernan	Okay.
170:49:07	Schmitt	Looks good.
170:49:08	Cernan	Stay at 16 now, ECS SUIT FAN 2, CLOSED?
170:49:11	Schmitt	SUIT FAN 2 is CLOSED.
170:49:12	Cernan	SUIT FAN DELTA-P, CLOSED.
170:49:13	Schmitt	CLOSED.
170:49:14	Cernan	Caution lights are on, that's good. Until the SEP - wait, ECS caution can still go out when it winds up.
170:49:23	Cernan	Doff gloves, stow on comm panel. Oh, oh. Sweet music to my ears.
170:49:29	Schmitt	Have to put them on again, in a few minutes.
170:49:31	Cernan	I know, it's still sweet music.
170:49:34	Schmitt	Come on, now.
170:49:37	Cernan	I have never seen so much dirt and dust in my whole life. Ever. Ron's not going to be able to see out of either one of these helmet visors.
170:49:50	Schmitt	(Laughter) Yes he will.
170:49:53	Cernan	But they sure do get scratched, if you're not careful. Okay. Hey, it's harder getting them off ... than it is getting them on.
170:50:38	Schmitt	Ah, I did it. Patience. Maximum effort. There's one. Okay, helm - gloves are off.
170:51:08	Cernan	My gloves are off.
170:51:10	Schmitt	... right there.
170:51:13	Cernan	Okay, verify safety on the dump valve. I'll do that.
170:51:17	Schmitt	Okay, I verify that there. And, ... there. I want to take a double look at something down there.
170:51:28	Cernan	What's that? Locked?
170:51:33	Schmitt	Um-hum.
170:51:39	Cernan	Happy?
170:51:39	Schmitt	Yep.
170:51:40	Cernan	Okay. Okay, DESCENT H2O valve OPEN. Okay, DESCENT H2O valve OPEN.
170:51:50	Schmitt	That is OPEN.
170:51:50	Cernan	Remove purge valves, stow in purse.
170:51:56	Schmitt	Okay.
170:52:02	Cernan	Okay, disconnect OPS hose.
170:52:25	Schmitt	Oh boy.
170:52:26	Cernan	That lock/lock is just tight on there, Jack.
170:52:31	Schmitt	It is (laughter). Got it.
170:52:44	Cernan	Is it off?
170:52:44	Schmitt	Yes.
170:52:45	Cernan	Okay. Connect LM hoses, red to red, and blue to blue. We've got to do that this time, because we've got to dump the PLSSs. Okay?
170:52:54	Schmitt	Okay. Let me turn around here. Let me get out of your way.
170:52:56	Cernan	I'll get back in here. Okay, I'm out of the way now.
170:53:01	Schmitt	How would you like to get off the PLSS water and get some spacecraft water, too?
170:53:07	Cernan	Oh, that's the next thing. Suit ISOL and suit FLOW, ON; and then We'll put PLSS pump and fan OFF. Then we'll disconnect the PLSS water and connect spacecraft water.
170:53:20	Schmitt	You might unhook that stuff up there so you can get to your hoses.
170:53:24	Cernan	I can't reach it though.
170:53:25	Schmitt	Oh, okay. I can get it then. I can get it.
170:53:34	Cernan	Okay, I guess.
170:53:39	Schmitt	Okay, we want red to red and blue to blue. We got to verify these too because -
170:53:48	Cernan	Yes. Bob, you still with us?
170:53:58	CC	You bet, I wouldn't leave for the world.
170:54:04	Cernan	Okay.
170:54:09	Schmitt	Okay, I'm hooked up and locked.
170:54:11	Cernan	Okay.
170:54:11	Schmitt	You want to verify? And I'll veri - I'll do it for you, if you want.
170:54:15	Cernan	Okay see if you can't find this one. Okay?
170:54:19	Schmitt	Yes. There, verify the red one.
170:54:24	Cernan	Okay, in and locked?
170:54:27	Schmitt	Got the red one, locked. Locked.
170:54:34	Cernan	Okay.
170:54:34	Schmitt	Let me take a look at yours.
170:54:41	Cernan	Locked. Locked.
170:54:50	Schmitt	Okay.
170:54:51	Cernan	Okay, now -
170:54:52	Schmitt	Ready for suit FLOW.
170:54:52	Cernan	Yes sir - suit FLOW on both of them.
170:54:56	Schmitt	Okay.
170:54:57	Cernan	Oh man, it feels great.
170:54:58	Schmitt	Yes sir.
170:54:59	Cernan	PLSS pump OFF and PLSS fan OFF.
170:55:01	Schmitt	PLSS fan's OFF; pump's OFF.
170:55:04	Cernan	Okay, disconnect PLSS water from PGA. Connect the LM water. Boy, I never thought air could feel so cool.
170:55:11	Schmitt	Yes.
170:55:13	Cernan	Okay, the PLSS water is disconnected.
170:55:16	Schmitt	I think that's mine. Yes, that's mine. Spacecraft water.
170:55:26	Cernan	Okay. Mine's connected.
170:55:40	Schmitt	How about pushing on that?
170:55:42	Cernan	Okay. Got to see it, yes - but, I want to see it first. Watch your helmet, Jack. You're going to scratch it.
170:55:53	Schmitt	Got it -
170:55:54	Cernan	You don't have your visor on - neither do I.
170:55:55	Schmitt	Yes, got it.
170:55:57	Cernan	Okay, connect - Okay, PLSS mode. Bob, we're both going off the air. We'll get on LM comm.
170:56:03	CC	Okay. We'll be waiting for you. We're here.
170:56:08	Cernan	Okay, go "0", Jack.
170:56:10	Schmitt	How about some cooling?
170:56:11	Cernan	Okay, zap me with it, and go "0", and then put your audio breaker OPEN and connect the LM comm. Then an audio breaker CLOSED. Okay?
170:57:03	Cernan	You read me, Jack?
170:57:14	Cernan	You read me?
170:57:48	Cernan	Read me?
170:57:48	Schmitt	You're loud and clear.
170:57:49	Cernan	Okay. Next thing, VHF B - wait a minute. You get the audio breaker OPEN, CLOSED - Okay - VHF squelch B LMP. Okay, noise threshold, plus 1-1/2.
170:58:07	Schmitt	Yes.
170:58:10	Cernan	Okay. AUDIO, both panels. VHF A RECEIVE, and B OFF.
170:58:20	Schmitt	A RECEIVE and B is OFF here.
170:58:24	Cernan	Okay, mode ICS/PTT.
171:00:06	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 171 hours. Ron Evans, in America, 3 1/2 minutes away from loss of signal on the forty second lunar revolution. Ron, in good shape, and all systems on America functioning well. SIM bay experiments performing well, also. Even though we'll be in contact for another 3 minutes we have said good night to Ron and he, shortly, will be getting a - an 8 hour sleep shift.
171:01:09	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. We're back on LM comm.
171:01:11	CC	Roger, 17. We copy you loud and clear on LM comm.
171:01:33	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 171 hours 1 minute. The 3 EVA's of Apollo 17 totaled -
171:01:34	CC	And 17, Jack and Gene, we have a couple of - in fact, we have three records here to read out to you guys. On Apollo 17, two of them; one, the longest single EVA, 7 hours 37 minutes and 22 seconds. The longest total lunar surface EVA time 22 hours 5 minutes and 6 seconds. And the summary, the total lunar surface EVA time for the Apollo Program, 80 hours 44 minutes and 8 seconds.
171:02:10	Cernan	That's quite a tribute to the people who made it possible. I'll tell you. Thank you, Bob.
171:02:15	CC	Roger, Geno. And I can't speak as authoritatively as some people have tonight, but for all of us around me, I'll say thank you, also.
171:02:30	Cernan	Your words are well taken. You know how I feel.
171:02:55	CC	Hey, Gene and Ron, this is the CSM CAPCOM. Thought you might be interested. Your buddy up on - above you there is chugging on and about ready to bed down himself, right now. And he did take a good look at the landing site through binoculars tonight and took a good look at Shorty crater there, and noticed - plotted out some variations in color that may be the same color changes you saw in that orange soil and that, but we're trying to match it all up - Farouk and Ron are working it out - we're trying to match it all up and see if we can get a comparison there.
171:03:33	Schmitt	Excellent. Tell him we'll see him tomorrow.
171:03:36	CC	Yes, he's counting on it.
171:03:42	Cernan	How's America looking to you, Bob?
171:03:45	CC	Well, I'll give an update. It - it's working perfect. No problems at all and we got good SIM bay data on everything. The UV, the IR, the lunar sounder, and everything that we - every data point we can see is just great. It's - it's just hardly any anomalies at all. Everything is just wonderful.
171:04:06	Cernan	Outstanding.
171:04:24	CC	Gene, about this total limit of any problem there is, and it's not a problem, is we're just having to stir those tanks manually because of that limiting cycle on the - on the pressure switch there. We could go back to auto but it's easier to go manual.
171:04:44	Cernan	I'll be back up there tomorrow and I'll stir it for you.
171:04:49	CC	Roger. And Jack and Gene, let me make a note here for you guys. There will be a series of references to this throughout the checklist but there's a general thing and you might even put a piece of tape across it if you want to or something - rather than go through and call out all the locations. We'll leave PRESS REG A closed for the rest of the time. Might just keep that in mind.
171:05:16	Schmitt	Okay, Bob, we'll - I think we'll handle that one okay.
171:05:54	CC	Gene, there's one thing you may be interested in as - as the Commander. We're going to have to do two burns tomorrow on America. The - the orbit - the mascons didn't deteriorate the orbit as much as everybody thought it was so there's going to be an RCS burn about an hour prior to the - to the LOPC burn.
171:06:21	Cernan	That's interesting, Bob. Are you going to do a DOI 3, huh?
171:06:25	CC	Well, yes, I guess that's what it'll be - it's going to be an RCS burn at about 11 foot per second. It'll drop the - it'll circulize the orbit and then we'll do the plane change burn.
171:06:42	CC	Okay, and 17, we'd like you to press on reasonably diligently tonight. You're just about on schedule but if we can turn off this Marine, we'd like you guys to press on. We're looking at a nominal launch time and we've used up, of course, all the MCCH conference but we think you're within a few minutes of being right on. If you can press on like you did last night we'll be in great shape.
171:07:09	Cernan	Okay, Bob. I never stopped doing what I wanted to do anyway even though a Marine was talking.
171:07:27	Schmitt	Okay, CDR's OPS 6100; LMP, 6500.
171:09:09	Schmitt	Okay, Houston this is the LMP. LMP's OPS is regulating at 4.25.
171:09:21	CC	Okay, I copy that.
171:09:23	Schmitt	And the CDR's is 3.9 - at 3.9.
171:09:27	CC	Okay that -
171:09:27	Schmitt	That might be - I started - let me bleed it off and let me see where it regulates at next time. I didn't have my hose locked, Bob, and it came off the first try. Bob, we'll take another OPS check later on when we stow them. We're pressing on.
171:10:03	CC	Jack, they're saying we better do that before you throw off the PLSSs because we have to verify a good one before you - before you dump the PLSSs.
171:10:13	Schmitt	Okay, we'll do that.
171:15:16	Schmitt	Okay, Houston, we rechecked the LMP's OPS and it's regulating at 4.25, again.
171:15:28	CC	Is that a steady 4.25, Jack?
171:15:33	Evans	Yes, it's done that twice now.
171:15:41	CC	Okay, and it's steady once you do it, Jack, right?
171:15:47	Schmitt	Right, it's open now. We've been watching it for about a minute, now.
171:15:51	CC	Okay, we'll go with it then, Jack.
171:15:56	Schmitt	Okay.
171:17:40	Schmitt	Okay, Bob, we're going to start the weighing process here - -
171:17:45	CC	Okay we're ready to copy - -
171:17:46	Schmitt	- - it might take a couple minutes to get things squared away.
171:17:48	CC	Okay give us a call. We're ready to copy the weights.
171:17:51	Schmitt	Okay.
171:18:33	Schmitt	Bob, sample 15 Echo has a bunch of dust and that gradually accumulated in my pocket.
171:18:43	CC	No fair, Jack, you can't go collecting samples after the EVA's over.
171:20:45	Schmitt	Say - say Bob, right now I can't find the sample containment bag number 5. Number 5 collection bag will be in bag 3.
171:20:57	CC	Okay, we note that. Thank you. Very good.
171:21:47	Schmitt	Okay, and we're going to cross out 3 on the bag, and put a 5 on it.
171:21:53	CC	Okay, or I think we could keep track of it otherwise; but that's fine.
171:22:01	Schmitt	That's for our reference too.
171:27:05	CC	...
171:36:32	Cernan	Okay, Bob, you ready?
171:36:33	CC	Roger. We're ready.
171:36:38	Cernan	Okay, bag 7 is 32, bag 4 is 31.5, bag 5 is 21, the big bag is 71. The ISA is 22.
171:37:04	CC	Okay, we have those five weights there, Geno. We have 32 for number 7, 31.5 for number 4, 21 for number 5. 71 for the SR - the big bag, and 22 for the ISA.
171:37:26	Schmitt	That's affirm, and we're standing by for your GO for jettison.
171:37:45	CC	Okay 17. Challenger, we are ready for jettison.
171:37:52	Cernan	Roger. Understand.
171:39:03	CC	Okay and 17, we'd like - -
171:39:04	Cernan	How do you read, Bob?
171:39:05	CC	- - loud and clear, 17. And Challenger, we'd like to keep out the original BSLSS bag, the one that you launched with. We - we think we're going to need that to stow samples in.
171:39:19	Cernan	Okay, it's out.
171:39:21	CC	Okay. Or - or it's in, we hope.
171:39:23	Cernan	Okay.
171:39:28	Cernan	RECORDER, ON.
171:39:29	Schmitt	Whichever way.
171:39:31	CC	We want it kept in the cabin, right.
171:39:33	Cernan	RECORDER'S ON.
171:39:37	Cernan	Okay, don EV gloves. Let me - -
171:39:38	Schmitt	Okay, the recorder's not giving us any recording though.
171:39:43	Cernan	See if I can't get a little ... out of some of these things. Don your gloves, Jack if you're -
171:39:55	Schmitt	Why isn't the recording recording?
171:40:01	Cernan	Are we out of tape?
171:40:05	Schmitt	Be 8 hours on it. I don't think I left it on. I might have left it on. I probably did if it's on now. I thought I read it in the checklist though. Don Arabian will never forgive me.
171:40:41	CC	Shall we save ourselves some ascent weight?
171:40:47	Schmitt	(Laughter)
171:40:50	CC	Unfortunately, Owen wasn't listening.
171:40:52	Schmitt	Well it was okay up until - it was just this EVA if it was on, Bob.
171:41:04	CC	Okay.
171:41:05	Schmitt	Because it was working when we prepped, I'm sure of that.
171:41:09	Cernan	Okay. Did you don your EV gloves? And we'll check each others connectors again.
171:41:15	Schmitt	I'll take my cuff checklists off.
171:41:25	Cernan	Needless to say, you don't have to put your dust covers on, Jack. If that makes you feel better.
171:41:43	Schmitt	Oh boy.
171:41:50	Cernan	Bob, how long were we out today, 7 what?
171:41:54	CC	Stand by, we got it here someplace; 7 hours and - 7 hours 15 minutes and 31 seconds.
171:42:10	Cernan	How many kilometers did we put on the Rover?
171:42:13	CC	We have an approximate total of atout 36.1.
171:42:22	Schmitt	Boy this one is really getting stiff.
171:42:29	Cernan	Probably another 1/2 kilometer on that when the nav wasn't working.
171:42:37	CC	I don't - yes, we didn't - we didn't get distance readouts all the time. We sort of interpolated those distances there, Gene.
171:42:46	Schmitt	Push on the button.
171:42:48	Cernan	Are you opening or closing?
171:42:50	Schmitt	Closing, trying to.
171:42:51	Cernan	You don't have to push on the button to close it.
171:42:53	Schmitt	Well yes - -
171:42:54	Cernan	It's not locked.
171:42:56	PAO	That rover mileage is straight line distance. There would be a 10 to 20 percent variable factor for skirting around craters and other excursions of that type. The experiments support room expects to have a better on the mileage sometime tomorrow.
171:42:56	Schmitt	Now I know why I brought you.
171:42:56	Cernan	Jack, did you put those gloves on?
171:42:56	Schmitt	I don't know. I was listening to you for one thing. Boy, it is stiff though. Never get it off. ... off.
171:43:30	SC	I ...
171:43:31	Cernan	I ... this thing down there so it - -
171:43:33	Schmitt	Wait a minute. Tangled.
171:43:57	Cernan	Okay, it just don't want to -
171:44:09	Cernan	All we need.
171:44:34	SC	Okay, ...
171:44:39	Cernan	Okay, EV gloves are donned. Let's check our PGA connectors. Do you want to check mine?
171:44:51	Schmitt	That's locked, that's not ...
171:44:52	Cernan	Okay.
171:44:54	Schmitt	Helmet shouldn't have changed. Okay. That's locked, locked, locked, locked. Over, I can't see, locked.
171:45:12	Cernan	Okay, suit circuits shall not be maintained at elevated pressure greater than 5 minutes.
171:45:16	Schmitt	Okay, we want to do an integrity check here.
171:45:18	Cernan	Now, we're not going to use REG A at all.
171:45:20	Schmitt	Right.
171:45:21	Cernan	Okay, SUIT GAS DIVERTER, PULL EGRESS, verify.
171:45:24	Schmitt	PULL EGRESS.
171:45:25	Cernan	Now you can verily all that other stuff. CABIN GAS RETURN EGRESS, verify.
171:45:30	Schmitt	Verified.
171:45:32	Cernan	And SUIT CIRCUIT RELIEF is a CLOSE. CLOSE it.
171:45:36	Schmitt	Okay, it's going CLOSED. CLOSED.
171:45:40	Cernan	Okay, PRESSURE REG A - let's leave A OFF, and PRESSURE REG B to DIRECT O2 - ... 4.0, and then go to EGRESS, and we'll check on decay.
171:45:55	Schmitt	Okay, go on to - -
171:45:57	Cernan	Wait a minute ... I should have ...
171:46:03	Schmitt	Yes. Okay, its unlocked.
171:46:11	Cernan	Okay.
171:46:12	Schmitt	For 3 you're ready for O2.
171:46:31	Schmitt	How high do they want the suit?
171:46:33	Cernan	3.7 to 4.0 cuff gage.
171:46:36	Schmitt	Okay, it's warming up, slowly.
171:46:43	Cernan	Yes, could you give me some water.
171:47:07	Schmitt	Off the peg. Down off the peg.
171:47:25	Schmitt	There, you - coming up on 3.5.
171:47:28	Cernan	Okay, when you hit 3.7, I'll be with you. So you can -
171:47:31	Schmitt	Okay 3.7. Okay.
171:47:34	Schmitt	MARK it. One minute.
171:47:36	Cernan	Okay.
171:47:39	Cernan	You did go EGRESS, right?
171:47:41	Schmitt	Yes.
171:47:41	Cernan	Okay.
171:47:52	SC	(Laughter)
171:48:00	Schmitt	Well, it's suppose to be possible to do it.
171:48:03	Cernan	Hope so, ...
171:48:22	Cernan	There. Get it?
171:48:25	Schmitt	Yes.
171:48:26	Cernan	Okay, we've got another 15 seconds to go.
171:48:43	Cernan	Okay, MARK it. In one minute you go to SUIT CIRCUIT RELIEF, AUTO.
171:48:48	Schmitt	Okay, suit - watch your ears.
171:48:50	Cernan	Okay.
171:48:52	Schmitt	There.
171:48:55	CC	And 17, we're watching you, and you look good to us. You're GO.
171:49:02	Schmitt	Okay, I had about 2/10.
171:49:04	Cernan	And I had 2/10. 3.7 to 3.5. Okay, let's make sure we got everything. You went to 4.0, then you went to EGRESS then we monitor SUIT CIRCUIT RELIEF, AUTO; pressure is decaying at 4.8. Okay, that's good. Okay. We're GO for cabin depress.
171:49:22	CC	Roger. Roger, you're GO for -
171:49:24	Cernan	Okay, 16 ECS CABIN REPRESS, OPEN.
171:49:28	Schmitt	Okay, REPRESS coming OPEN. CIRCUIT BREAKER, OPEN.
171:49:32	Cernan	Okay. This time, I think I'll get this down here.
171:49:36	Schmitt	They want this left in auto?
171:49:37	Cernan	Huh?
171:49:38	Schmitt	Leave this in auto?
171:49:42	Cernan	... just all you want is - -
171:49:43	Schmitt	- - circuit breaker.
171:49:43	Cernan	- - 16 CABIN REPRESS, OPEN.
171:49:45	Schmitt	Okay. Overhead or forward dump valve OPEN and then AUTO at 3.5.
171:49:50	Cernan	Get that one down there, now.
171:49:53	Schmitt	Okay, you ready?
171:49:54	Cernan	Okay, go ahead. I'll give you a call at 3.5.
171:50:02	Cernan	Circuit relief was AUTO, right?
171:50:04	Schmitt	Yes. Had to be. Okay.
171:50:12	Schmitt	Okay, going OPEN.
171:50:16	Cernan	Okay, it's coming down. I want your AUTO at 3.5, I give you a call my suit is going up.
171:50:23	Cernan	MARK it. Okay, you're 3.5. Verify cabin 3.5 and LM suit circuit locked up at 4.3 and decaying. Okay, it's about 4.6 and decaying. How's it look to you, Houston?
171:50:40	CC	Looks good to us, 17.
171:50:45	Cernan	Okay, Jack. Overhead - make it forward dump, OPEN. And I'll verify we lock up ...
171:50:57	Schmitt	Is decaying, the auto's working.
171:51:18	PAO	Challenger's cabin is being depressurized.
171:51:20	Cernan	Locking up, and the cabin's at 1.
171:51:24	PAO	Hatch will be opened and equipment no longer needed will be jettisoned.
171:51:40	Cernan	Okay, hatch opening. Downward.
171:51:51	Cernan	When I get the hatch partially opened, you can go to AUTO on that valve.
171:52:04	Schmitt	Still no good words about the gravimeter, huh, Bob?
171:52:08	CC	No, there's an out - outside chance that it's been a little cold. And they're hoping that if it warms up, that it may take care of itself but, no, everybody's very sad about that.
171:52:23	Schmitt	Well, I could have sprinkled dirt on it, maybe.
171:52:31	Cernan	Let me ... to the hatch, Jack. Still about point 2.
171:52:49	Schmitt	Okay, you want that in auto?
171:52:50	Cernan	I can get it from here.
171:52:52	Schmitt	Okay. And a lock / lock's on.
171:53:06	Cernan	Turn around over here, boy I wish you could take some of that dust out. Get it.
171:53:12	Schmitt	Better turn - wait ...
171:53:16	Cernan	The hatch is open, Houston.
171:53:19	CC	Copy that.
171:53:21	Schmitt	Okay. Okay.
171:53:29	Cernan	And, Danny's not out there, to hand us in the light weight PLSS's.
171:53:33	Schmitt	Okay. Here goes the old - whose PLSS is this now?
171:53:37	Cernan	Well, look at it, if you want a memory.
171:53:40	Schmitt	That must be yours it's red. No, that's mine, no it's yours. Here goes the old Commander's PLSS.
171:53:48	Cernan	Okay, baby thanks for doing a good job. And that was a backup PLSS too.
171:53:53	Schmitt	Well, that wasn't very good.
171:53:55	Cernan	It walked down the ladder.
171:53:58	Schmitt	It went down as gracefully as you did.
171:54:00	Cernan	Look at that. Okay, what's next?
171:54:04	Schmitt	Well, I can give you some of these. Here hold - okay. Everything that's in here. Okay. That's the first thing.
171:54:19	Schmitt	Okay. Okay.
171:54:35	Cernan	Let me. Beautiful gloves.
171:54:44	Cernan	Yes. Houston, I think we ought to probably just mention, anyway. We are jettisoning a set of - 2 sets of EVA gloves. I think that's worth mentioning. Because they did their job.
171:54:59	Schmitt	Just like everything else did its job. Can I jettison mine?
171:55:05	Cernan	Okay.
171:55:09	Schmitt	Whoops, we didn't get them clear.
171:55:11	CC	Okay, we copy 2 sets of EVA gloves to the surface for the last time.
171:55:19	Cernan	They're very reluctant. (Laughter)
171:55:22	Schmitt	What else have you got there?
171:55:24	Cernan	IS - ISS.
171:55:25	Schmitt	... the other ISS.
171:55:36	Schmitt	Nope, one more.
171:55:36	Cernan	Is that it?
171:55:40	Schmitt	Nope, one more thing.
171:55:42	Cernan	No wait. Oh, is there something ... ?
171:55:48	Schmitt	Watch it. Take this, I'll get it.
171:56:12	Cernan	Okay, that's getting thinned out.
171:56:16	Schmitt	Okay, the old LMP's PLSS. - that OPS stays where it is.
171:56:25	Cernan	Okay. Okay, put your - get it down there and then put your foot against it and it'll probably go. The only geologist's PLSS on the Moon. Good boy. Have fun PLSS.
171:56:54	Schmitt	It'll stay there. Okay, we got everything else. Okay - -
171:57:00	Cernan	Hatch seal clear.
171:57:04	Schmitt	Pretty good.
171:57:05	Cernan	Pretty good from here.
171:57:07	Schmitt	Too bad we don't have a broom.
171:57:09	Cernan	You got everything else? Nothing else here to go? Nothing behind you? Nothing here? Okay.
171:57:19	Schmitt	Hatch going closed. ... again tomorrow. I know it.
171:57:28	Cernan	Okay, forward hatch closed. Let me see if I can't lock it. Okay, it's locked.
171:57:51	Schmitt	Okay, CABIN REPRESS, DUMP valve, both AUTO, verified.
171:57:55	Cernan	They're - all are auto and locked. Okay.
171:57:59	Cernan	CABIN REPRESS, AUTO. Verify.
171:58:02	Schmitt	Verified.
171:58:03	Cernan	At 16, CABIN REPRESS, CLOSED.
171:58:05	Schmitt	REPRESS going CLOSED.
171:58:07	Cernan	MASTER ALARM and CABIN WARNING LIGHT ON. There it is. Cabin's coming up. Okay, it's increased and you go to ca - cabin on that one reg.
171:58:27	Schmitt	One reg, Bravo.
171:58:31	Cernan	Cabin - ...
171:59:24	Cernan	Okay, cabin's coming it's about 5.
171:59:28	Cernan	Okay, lights are off. Repress stopped. Cabin pressure stable. Okay, Houston, Challenger, we're going to take off our gloves.
171:59:48	Cernan	Hello, Houston. How does it look?
171:59:50	CC	Roger. You look stable, and stand by.
171:59:58	CC	Okay, you're GO to unsuit there, guys.
172:00:13	Schmitt	Speaking of suits. These things performed super.
172:00:58	Cernan	Okay, and we can get our helmets off.
172:01:01	Schmitt	If I can ever get unsuited. Oh, this is funny. (Laughter) That's my hand. Let me try the other one.
172:01:13	Cernan	Oh, let me get it for you. I can free here - Yes, but I'm (Laughter).
172:01:18	Schmitt	There. The right one went easy - I think they're all really getting -
172:01:27	Cernan	Oh, and the helmet is off and I'm throwing it in the BRA.
172:01:44	Schmitt	Well, there's no changing our mind now, the PLSSs are going to be hard to retrieve. But you could if you had to, though.
172:01:52	CC	Challenger, Houston. Challenger, Houston. From the old backup crew that followed you every step of the way, super job on EVA you guys.
172:02:10	Schmitt	Thank you, John. Appreciate the words Jose. But we also appreciate your helping us get it this far.
172:02:22	CC	Roger; Neil.
172:02:23	Cernan	Hey, you know in - in all those things you tell people - Was that Charlie? I haven't heard your voice since - you know all those good things you tell us about dust and all those other things, you know, you believe them all just like everybody else does - but you've just got to come out here and experience it for yourself to really be a believer.
172:02:47	CC	Yes, well I take it back about it all looks the same.
172:02:53	Schmitt	Hey, it - it really doesn't Charlie, but all those physical things you get handicapped with - there's a lot of easy things as far as 1/6 g - but all those other things - you know there's nothing like doing it to be a believer.
172:03:07	CC	Well, you guys did it great.
172:03:14	Schmitt	Charlie it may all look the same but Taurus Littrow, mark my words, has some variety.
172:03:21	CC	Yes, we could tell that, Jack. Great job.
172:03:27	Schmitt	Thank you, Charlie and thank you for all the help.
172:03:32	Cernan	Hey, Charlie I remember a long time ago when I said something about being down among them. I didn't know what it was until we got here.
172:03:45	CC	And, Challenger we have a good word from the old program managers even though you guys were pretty piggy there in bringing rocks back, we're going to let you keep them all. You only busted the red line by 40 pounds.
172:04:02	Schmitt	Okay, he's a pretty good guy anyway.
172:04:06	CC	That assumes your good buddy upstairs gets a good plane change tomorrow.
172:04:15	Schmitt	Oh, he will and I tell you Gene and I both have lost 20 pounds apiece on this mission.
172:04:23	CC	We can believe that.
172:04:28	Cernan	Verify safetys.
172:04:31	Schmitt	Hey, we're on VOX anyway - let's go to ICS/PTT.
172:04:35	CC	It's safer that way.
172:04:40	Cernan	Yes, specially when you don't know you're talking.
172:04:51	Schmitt	Okay, we came to the end of the EVA-3 prep and post card.
172:05:00	CC	Roger. We're following you to the surface checklist.
172:05:01	Cernan	Hey Jack and I are going to frame this - Jack and I are going to frame this page 2-3, cut it down the middle and each take half.
172:05:17	Schmitt	I'm going to take the front half. Gene will take the back half.
172:06:13	Schmitt	Okay, Roberto, we're going to manage the old batteries.
172:06:21	CC	Okay, and Challenger we're ready to manage the old batteries.
172:06:30	Schmitt	The old ED batteries are 37.2 - A and B. I was just going to say I wish we had a broom.
172:08:45	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 172 hours 8 minutes. The Change of Shift News Conference is scheduled in the MSC News Center Briefing Room for 1:30 A.M. CST, approximately 30 minutes from now.
172:10:14	CC	Okay, we're happy with your battery management. We're ready for you guys to go to low.
172:10:23	Schmitt	You got - you got low.
172:10:25	CC	Thank you.
172:10:57	CC	And Challenger, it's Bob. I'm going to turn you over to Casper about now, and let him put you guys to sleep.
172:10:57		BEGIN LUNAR REV 45
172:11:15	Schmitt	Bob, I'm not sure what you mean. Who's your friendly ghost?
172:11:19	CC	I bet you can guess.
172:11:22	Schmitt	He doesn't know anything about the LM. He doesn't know anything about the LM.
172:11:34	CC	It's never too late to learn.
172:11:41	Schmitt	For you, I believe that; for a lot of people, I wouldn't.
172:11:48	Cernan	Welcome aboard, Ken.
172:11:51	CC	You guys make a pretty interesting show to watch.
172:12:03	Schmitt	I hope so.
172:12:26	Schmitt	All I can do is hear your breathing, Ken.
172:12:30	CC	Yes. Just noticed that.
172:19:18	Schmitt	Hey, Ken. You can tell your friends off to the left there that I've turned the biomed off.
172:19:25	CC	Okay. Thank you.
172:25:27	Cernan	Hello, Houston; Challenger. CDR's going off the air.
172:25:33	CC	Okay.
172:32:41	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 172:32 Ground Elapsed Time. They're estimating a Change of Shift Briefing with the offgoing Orange Team Flight Director, Pete Frank and the Spacecraft Communicator Bob Parker, just being relieved after completion of EVA 3. We're estimating that Press Conference to commence in approximately 5 minutes in the small Briefing Room - Building 1 News Center. 172:33 this is Apollo Control.
172:36:27	CC	Hey, Jack; Houston. You busy?
172:36:33	Schmitt	Say again, Ken.
172:36:35	CC	Are you busy? I'm sitting here looking at a couple of questions that they wanted to ask. And whenever it's convenient for you - I'm not sure just how busy you are right now - and just keep in mind I've got a few questions to ask you on the traverses, and give me a call when you're ready to talk about it.
172:36:58	Schmitt	Okay; we're suit - unsuiting, Ken. Let us get unsuited, and then we'll be back - be back with you.
172:37:02	CC	Okay. Just whenever it's convenient for you.
172:44:06	PAO	This is Apollo Control. The Change of Shift Press Conference is prepared to begin at this moment. We'll take down the Air-Ground Circuit at this time and play back accumulated tape at the conclusion of the Press Conference. At 172:44, this is Apollo Control.
172:46:57	CC	Challenger, Houston.
172:47:02	Schmitt	Go ahead.
172:47:04	CC	Hey, how about if we hit a PRO on the DSKY and get it into P00 and back into STANDBY? We're worrying about the clock registers overflowing. And we'd like to get that done before 172:50, or somewhere in that neighborhood.
172:47:23	Schmitt	Okay; stand by.
172:47:28	Schmitt	Is that what you wanted?
172:47:31	CC	Oh, we can't watch it, Jack. If you just tell us that you've got it into P00 and back into PO6.
172:47:41	Schmitt	That's what happened.
172:47:46	Schmitt	I thought you watched it the other night.
172:47:48	CC	No, we don't have any high bit rate now.
172:47:48	Schmitt	That do make a difference. That's right.
172:47:48	CC	I understand that - that you've completed that transition. is that correct?
172:47:48	Schmitt	Which one?
172:47:48	CC	You did get it out of STANDBY into P00, and then back. Is that correct?
172:47:48	Schmitt	That's affirm. We completed that.
172:47:48	CC	Okay. Thank you.
172:47:48	Schmitt	Sorry to be so unclear.
172:47:48	CC	Hey, we - we also are still on your stowage. So when you get on page 7-6, where it says, "Stow Heaviest Collection Bag," down in the right-hand column towards the bottom, why don't you skip that step until after the eat period. And we're still working on the stowage locations.
172:47:48	Schmitt	Okay.
173:02:33	Cernan	Hello, Ken. How do you read Challenger's CDR?
173:02:37	CC	Loud and clear.
173:02:37	Cernan	Okay.
173:03:04	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 173 hours, 3 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. The crew aboard Challenger at this time still unsuiting, getting prepared for bedding down for their final night on the lunar surface, final Earth night that is, in as much as they're in a middle of a 14 hour lunar day. Spacecraft America now behind the Moon on the end of the 43rd lunar orbit. There are about 55 seconds of tape from the air/ground 1 contact with the lunar module, Challenger which were accumulated during the just completed Change of Shift Press Conference. We'll play back that tape at this time and continue live with the remainder of the communications prior to the sleep period for Cernan and Schmitt at Taurus-Littrow.
173:19:13	Cernan	Houston, Challenger. How would you feel about this canister being changed now?
173:19:20	CC	Stand by. Okay, change her out, Geno.
173:19:28	Cernan	Okay.
173:19:45	CC	For your information, we're trying to negotiate some time for you here. We're about one and a half down. We know how to pick up 1 hour of it, but we haven't quite figured out how to gain the other half.
173:19:58	Cernan	Okeydoke. Well, we're - we're all unsuited now, and we're about ready to talk and eat at the same time, or listen and eat here at the same time. And it won't be long and we'll be ready to hit the sack.
173:20:10	CC	Okay; fine. Ken's trying to negotiate the question sessions for you here.
173:23:52	Cernan	Canister's changed out, now.
173:23:56	CC	Thank you.
173:26:04	Cernan	Okay, Ken, we're - we're on and ready for that debriefing. And you should be getting Jack's biomed also.
173:26:11	CC	Okay. Okay, before we start cn those questions, are you prepared to copy some lift-off times in your data book, and that kind cf stuff?
173:26:26	Cernan	In about 10 seconds.
173:26:27	CC	All right, sir.
173:26:37	Schmitt	Go ahead, Ken.
173:26:39	CC	Okay. This is rev 44. Lift-off: 174 plus 13 plus 49. TPI: 177 plus 01 plus 00. Okay; I'll give you just the lift-off times. Excuse me. For rev 45: 176 plus 12 plus 19; 178 plus 10 plus 49; 180 plus 09 plus 20; 182 plus 07 plus 50; 184 plus 06 plus 20. Rev 50 is 186:04:50. Over.
173:27:40	Schmitt	Okay, Ken. Starting with 44: 174:13:49; 176:12:19; 178:10:49; 180:09:20; 182:07:50; 184:06:02 [sic]; 186:04:50. And what's the present rev, please?
173:28:05	CC	Okay; we're coming up on fourty - in fact, it looks like we're in 44 right now. Okay. And, Jack, how about let's confirm that the rev 49 was 184:06:20.
173:28:33	Schmitt	Oh, I did have that wrong, in the seconds - two zero seconds.
173:28:37	CC	That's affirmative. Okay; and we've got your biomed coming through.
173:28:44	Schmitt	Well, one - one - Am I alive?
173:28:50	CC	Just barely.
173:28:55	Schmitt	Ken, I'd like to believe that you read that one wrong, because I've gone througn 50 copies on that without a mistake.
173:29:03	CC	Well, I'll - I'll settle that with you when you get back.
173:29:06	Schmitt	50 rev.
173:29:08	CC	All right, sir. And - -
173:29:10	Schmitt	Okay.
173:29:10	CC	- - looks like it's about time for an eat period, and I've got these questions for you. But let's keep in mind that that's secondary, and if it ever gets in the way of eating, why holler up, and we'll just drop it right there. We're about an hour and a half behind the time line, and we're going to make up no more than an hour of that.
173:29:38	Cernan	Okay.
173:29:45	Schmitt	Well, I think --
173:30:10	Cernan	Okay, Ken. We're cutting into the chow and go ahead.
173:30:13	CC	Okay. Would you like for me to just read you all the questions, and let you mull those over before you work on it, or you want to do one at a time?
173:30:25	Schmitt	One at a time's better, Ken.
173:30:27	CC	All right, sir. Number 1. Wanted to know if the blue-gray rocks at Station 6 are similar to those at Station 2.
173:30:48	Schmitt	Ken, I think they are. But I think you'll find that the ones in Station 6 are much more metamorphic rock, or recrystallized rock, than the ones we had at Station 2. I had the impression that the ones we were sampling at Station 6 were - were really inclusions in the - anorthositic gabbro, and had - had been probably considerably metamorphosed by it being included in it; whereas, the ones we had at Station 2 were a separate rock type apparently, as I recall it, anyway.
173:31:41	CC	Okay; that's good.
173:31:42	Schmitt	Ken, let me just say that I - My impression is that there was a lot more action in the rocks at Station 6 than 2, I saw a lot more; a lot more was evident, the inclusions and, some of the patterns, some of the other things we saw.
173:32:07	CC	All right, sir. Let's go on to the second one, and it said: Do we understand that there were no breccias at Station 8?
173:32:26	Schmitt	In the one - that parent orthopyroxene piagiociase rock - was a breccia in the sense it was fractured and was injected by dark glass. But it would be what we would call a mosaic breccia, in that respect, I think, and not the - Didn't see any Station 6, or Station 2-type breccias there at all. Other than the subfloor gabbro, that orthopyroxene piagiociase rock was the only major rock type I think we saw, unless we picked up some in the rake sample.
173:33:13	CC	Okay. Okay; the third one says: What are your impressions of the distribution of the - the familiar subfloor gabbros throughout the EVA-3 traverse?
173:33:45	Schmitt	Well, I don't - I don't - I think we discussed that a little bit on the traverse - quite a bit, as a matter of fact. The impression I had was that most of the traverse on the plains, with the one exception of - of Van Serg Crater, were - We were in box fields or fragment fields that were almost - well, were dominately subfloor. And visually from the Rover, I had no impression of any other significant rock type, with the exception of occasional blocks of the gray variety of the subfloor gabbro. And I don't know - Gene - I don't know what Gene's impression was. He was driving a lot, but - pass it on.
173:34:35	Cernan	I think - we actually even commented when we hit the breaking slope coming back out of Station 6 and 7, and then back off at - coming back down at 8 - how the terrain features changed. I think that was due principally to the - to the - what we've been calling the subfloor material evident. And there again, it was, what I would say, particularly mantled, filleted, much like we nave here where the LM is, with the exception of Van Serg, where we actually saw fragmental boulders for the most part, a lot less buried sitting on the surface.
173:35:25	CC	All right, sir. At Van Serg, some rocks were described as gray breccias, and some contained white fragments. Was there a variety of breccias present?
173:35:41	Schmitt	I think - I think not, Ken. My impression was that there was a variety only in their - in the degree to which they were fractured. We found and sampled, I think, the two major - one extreme - extremely fractured rock that I said was - was friable. Anyway, it broke into small pieces very easily with a hammer or in your hand, if you worked at it. And the other was a breccia that was not - was much more cohesive than that. It was not fractured or friable at all, but they both were on the rim, and I think they were just varieties of - probably of shock fracturing.
173:36:27	CC	Okay. Could the Van Serg breccias correlate with the blue-gray material at Cochise?
173:36:40	Schmitt	That's possible, I guess. But my first guess would be that the blue-gray at Cochise was blue-gray subfloor. And, well, I don't know. That's a good question. That's a good question. We - Maybe with the pictures we have, we can work out the - an attitude - approximate attitude on that contact that I talked about in Cochise, and see if it would project over reasonably to Van Serg. I wouldn't be surprised if it would. That's a good - that's a good point. To me they looked very similar.
173:37:21	CC	Okay. And you guys sure you're eating?
173:37:24	Schmitt	But - but - Ken, Ken, Ken - -
173:37:29	CC	Go ahead.
173:37:33	Cernan	Yes, we're eating. We're fixing and eating at the same time.
173:37:39	CC	You're mighty efficient. Go ahead. You were starting to say something.
173:37:46	Schmitt	You just - yes, Ken. I think from the distance we saw the blue-gray in Cochise, you couldn't make a definite correlation. But it's a good idea and ought to be considered as one of the possibilities. The other is that we just had a window in the subfloor that coincidentally - I mean one underneath the subfloor might be that breccia. Coincidentally - the Van Serg impact hit that window.
173:38:21	CC	Okay. Can you tell us anything about the cowpie at Van Serg. Was that a clast in the breccia?
173:38:31	Schmitt	Negative. It was a - excuse me; I have my mouth full.
173:38:39	CC	It's about time.
173:38:42	Schmitt	It was an ag - it was an aggregate of irregular - what looked like agglutinated glass in fragments just sitting on the rim of Van Serg. And the reason I said I thought it was in place or had - had fallen there and crystallized there, is that there were four or five similar fragments arranged in a small coherent area. Not making that very clear I don't think, but it looks as if it hit and broke apart upon hitting a little bit but didn't - didn't really splatter or - or break apart in any significant manner.
173:39:38	CC	All right.
173:39:39	Schmitt	There are similar things - I tell you what it looks like. If anybody'd walked up the rim of Kilauea Iki in the ash out there, and on top of the ash, there are bombs that were fairly clearly molten when they hit, and they had just - just enough spring to break as - when they hit. But they - the individual pieces didn't move very far at all. And you can see that pattern on Kilauea Iki. And it was the same kind of thing, except that there was no directional aspect of it here.
173:40:22	CC	Okay.
173:40:25	Schmitt	And that's not to say it's volcanic glass. That's just the kind of pattern it was.
173:40:36	CC	Okay. Can you tell us if the darker material in the bottom of Van Serg was similar to the collected rim material?
173:40:50	Schmitt	I think so, except as Gene pointed out, the clasts were coarser. They were coarser in the bottom than about anything we saw in the rim.
173:41:02	CC	Okay. Are there any distinctive features, other than color, to separate tan from blue-gray breccias, such as joining, or massive nature, continuity, anything of that nature?
173:41:29	Schmitt	Yes, we're - -
173:41:32	Cernan	Where did we find those tan breccias?
173:41:39	CC	Challenger, this is Bob. I think we were talking about some of them, I think, at Station 1 the first night. We had both natures. In fact, I think we had - Didn't we have two of those in the same rock together?
173:41:53	Schmitt	They were both gabbros.
173:41:55	CC	Yes, excuse me - -
173:41:55	Schmitt	Bob, they were tan gabbros and blue-gray gabbros.
173:41:59	CC	Roger. Okay, yesterday, excuse me I wasn't reading the question. Okay, the breccias - they were tan and blue gray breccias yesterday at Station 2 were there not? You have the two types of breccias at Station 2.
173:42:12	Schmitt	Oh well, yes, yes, that's right. And now as I think back I guess that's the main difference between the tan rocks at Station 2 and Station 6, but the ones at 6 appear to be - have an igneous texture or at least a very crystalline texture and inclusion-like masses of other rocks. Whereas, the ones at Station 2 they - they seem to be fragment breccias, as I recall. That's right, although they may have been recrystallized or metamorphosed, they were clearly breccias at Station 2. I just forgot about that.
173:42:58	CC	Okay, copy that. Okay, and can you amplify your description going out to Station 6. In particular were there blue-gray and tan-gray bands on the North Massif?
173:43:17	Schmitt	Rather than bands, there were lines that appeared to be the upper terminus of the - of the source of the boulders that were strewn below that line. And those lines tended to be either - show a blue-gray source or a tan-gray source, if you will. ...
173:43:59	Schmitt	Oh, those ... bags.
173:44:05	CC	Challenger, if you - if you think you're talking to us, you're breaking up badly.
173:44:13	Schmitt	I just thought you might be interested, we just had a little spurt of dust come up by the window.
173:44:24	CC	Was there a sleigh with it?
173:44:41	Schmitt	Wise guy.
173:44:50	CC	Okay. Did you see very much of dust, or was it just one little shot?
173:44:54	Schmitt	... one little shot, it was actually just particles. Something we threw out must have popped.
173:45:09	CC	Okay, do you have any preliminary stratigraphic sequence for the plains?
173:45:22	Schmitt	For the plains, huh? Well, my guess would be that the Van Serg breccias were the oldest rocks. The gabbro - subfloor gabbro's the next oldest, and the mantling material's the youngest. But that's - the only good clear relationship was mantle on top of the subfloor gabbros. I - we really don't have a good relationship of the breccias and I just - I guess I lean towards thinking that that Van Serg was a window in the sub floor rather than being a bed of some kind, on top of the subfloor.
173:46:10	CC	Okay, and do you have an opinion on what underlies the Sculptured Hills?
173:46:22	Schmitt	Well, I think, we said - the rake sample is probably going to have to tell the tale there. My guess is from the boulder - boulders and subfloor around up there that - are of gabbro and maybe the Sculptured Hills are a version of the subfloor rocks. I don't think that the orthopyroxene anorthosite rock was necessarily indigenous to the Sculptured Hills. It was glass-coated and permeated by glass so I suspect it may have been thrown there by an impact somewhere else.
173:47:05	CC	All right sir, we've got one last thing for you to clean up. Back on page 7-6 of your checklist, it looks like we may have skipped some steps on the GAS RETURN valve, and like to make sure that you get to AUTO and the GAS DIVERTER PUSHED to CABIN before you stow the oxygen hoses.
173:47:55	Schmitt	Okay, Ken, we got CABIN GAS RETURN, AUTO.
173:48:00	CC	Okay, understand AUTO and you got the select to CABIN?
173:48:08	Schmitt	Yes, GAS DIVERTER pushed to CABIN and we're trying the PGAs now.
173:48:13	CC	All right, sir.
173:48:23	Cernan	And I guess if - if you could go in - my feeling is if you go to the bottom of every one of those large craters like Camelot, you could examine some of these fragments on the walls and down into the bottom, I just get a feeling you'd find this - this blue-gray breccia down there.
173:48:46	CC	All right, sir.
173:48:53	Cernan	I mean in all the big craters like Camelot.
173:48:57	Schmitt	Well we - I think maybe that's true, however, we did not see isolated fragments of it very often, if at all, out here on the - the plains themselves, away from the craters. So if the blue-gray breccia does - the Van Serg breccia does underlie the subfloor, the craters are not - it's far enough that the craters we have apparently have not penetrated and brought up much of that kind of material. Well that's it.
173:49:43	CC	Okay guys, it's time to press on and finish up chow time and I've got your stowage summaries whenever you're ready for that, to get started on.
173:49:58	Schmitt	Okay, Ken let us finish eating, then we'll go back to work.
173:50:02	CC	Okay, give me a call when you're ready.
173:50:16	Schmitt	I'll help you in just a second. ...
173:54:08	Schmitt	Okay. Okay. Ken I'd like to go ahead and hear your recommendations on stowage and I'll write it down.
173:54:15	CC	Alright, sir. Page 2-2. I've got some numbers to fill in at the bottom under the collection bag stowage.
173:54:28	Schmitt	Okay, I've got it.
173:54:30	CC	Okay, number 1 with the aft engine cover is bag 8. And then the second line, it's bag 7. The third line it's bag 6 left hand and 5 right hand. And the last line is bags 2 and 4. And you can disregard the max weights.
173:54:57	Schmitt	Okay, just so we got it straight aft of the engine cover, bag 8. Left hand side, bag 7. Left hand plus the right hand side; number 6 left land and 5 right. And the ISA bags 2 and 4.
173:55:12	CC	That's affirmative.
173:55:22	Schmitt	Okay.
173:58:55	CC	Hey, Jack, the people down here watching things noticed that your SUIT ISOL valve is still in DISCONNECT if you're trying to dry the suit out you might check that. It's your option what you want to do with it.
173:59:10	Schmitt	I'm glad somebody is watching things. Thank you.
174:07:57	Cernan	Ken we're in the process of getting all these bags in the proper places, now.
174:28:03	Schmitt	Ken, this is Jack, why don't you take a note that mag Bravo is empty, with miscellaneous photos since the last report on it.
174:28:14	CC	Okay.
174:31:36	Cernan	And, Ken, we're stowing mag Nancy at a reading 153.
174:31:45	CC	Okay, copy 153.
174:44:15	Cernan	Houston, Challenger.
174:44:18	CC	Go ahead, Geno.
174:44:25	Cernan	Okay, Ken we're - all we've got left to stow now is the buddy SLSS bag and that's in work. And we got all the ETB stuff taken care of. All the other bags are stowed per your recommendation. We'll be configuring the ECS for sleep and putting up the hammocks here shortly and as soon as we can get cleaned up personally a little bit, we'll be in the sack.
174:45:00	CC	Okay. Sounds great.
174:45:58	CC	Hey, Geno, the guys are looking at that buddy SLSS bag and suggested you all make sure that you're going to have room to do the equipment jettison and get the hatch open and all that. They had planned on stowing it the next day.
174:46:17	Cernan	That's a good thought, Ken. Thank you, Ed. The fact is that probably may think more convenient - we were going to be smart and get ahead here but, thank you.
174:46:26	CC	The faster I run, the behinder I get.
174:46:32	Cernan	Yes. I keep forgetting these checklists have been exercised a hundred thousand times.
174:46:51	CC	Yes, we keep remembering that.
174:51:06	CC	Challenger, Houston. If you'll just give us a call when you're ready to sack out we won't bother you and just that way we can keep track of what you're doing and when you're about ready to go to bed and we'll get you up at an appropriate time.
174:51:23	Schmitt	Okay, Ken, this is Jack. I guess I have the duty biomed tonight, so I'll give you a call when we're turning out the lights.
174:51:32	CC	Okay.
174:51:32	Schmitt	And it won't be too long.
174:51:34	CC	All right. You guys are doing pretty good. You're almost caught up.
174:52:37	Schmitt	Hey, Ken, working through this thing, we haven't been able to find instructions for the stowage of the EV gloves. Do your friends back there have any recommendations?
174:52:50	CC	Okay, stand by one and I'll check on that.
174:54:14	CC	Okay, Jack, we can stick those things on The comm panel for now, and then tomorrow on page 7-l4, it's going to have you stow them in the LEVA bags. But for the time being if you just stick those up on the panel, set them aside - you'll use them tomorrow.
174:54:36	Schmitt	Okay, Ken got you. Yes, they're going to get the inside of the LEVA pretty dirty.
174:54:59	CC	Well, from what we've seen, Jack. I think everything's going to be about the same color by the time you get through.
174:55:10	Schmitt	Okay, it didn't bother your - your EVA, did it Ken, to have a little dust in your helmet?
174:55:17	CC	No, no - that's kind of nice to have.
174:55:24	Schmitt	Hey, an experienced fellow like you might have a recommendation on how to get my visor up.
174:55:32	CC	Yes, give it to the CMP.
174:56:03	CC	We were just debating down here how come you guys threw away those nice clean gloves and kept the dirty ones.
174:56:12	Schmitt	I wish you hadn't ask that Pete. (Laughter) We were just debating that too.
174:56:25	CC	How long are your arms, Jack.
174:56:28	Schmitt	You do all sorts of things.
174:56:32	Schmitt	Hey, they're out on the porch as a matter of fact. That's not too far fetched.
174:57:08	Schmitt	I guess there's some old friends you just hate to get rid of, Pete.
174:57:12	CC	Yes, that figures.
174:57:32	CC	Hey, you guys have had some real winners there. Don't change a good thing.
174:57:41	Schmitt	Well, they seemed to do all right for us. I guess that's the way we were half-way thinking, but not thinking very well, as was witnessed in our checklist procedures tonight.
174:57:54	CC	Ah, you're doing outstanding.
175:00:09	CC	Challenger, Houston. On your comm, your checklist will call for going to down-voice backup. And, tonight, we'd rather just leave it in the normal voice. So if you leave the configuration you have, rather than change it, that would be a good deal for us.
175:00:38	Cernan	Okay, Ken, I only got part of that, I was scrubbing my face here. You want to save the same comm configuration we've got right now. is that correct?
175:00:46	CC	That's affirmative.
175:00:53	Cernan	Okay. That's easy. Yes.
175:16:55	Schmitt	Okay, Ken. Gene just stowed the EVA antenna.
175:17:01	CC	Okay.
175:17:05	Schmitt	And I'll be off COMM here just for a few minutes, biomed, so I'll be back with you when I turn in.
175:17:14	CC	Okay. I may have misled you earlier when I said, we weren't going to lose any time. We can - we can get you 8 hours up to about 19 after the hour. After that, we're going to have to start rearranging things to get 8 hours.
175:17:36	Schmitt	Well, Gene's almost in his hammock now. And I will be shortly, so I think we're probably in pretty good, shape.
175:17:42	CC	Okay, that's fine. I just - I didn't want to mislead you.
175:17:48	Schmitt	That's all right, you've never misled me before. Well, let me think about that.
175:17:59	CC	Was going to say, you catch on awful slow, if that's true.
175:18:08	Schmitt	Right.
175:19:17	Schmitt	Ken, I'm going to take off my headset here and jump into the hammock. What - what time we getting up CET - Central Time?
175:19:31	CC	Well, it's going to be roughly 45 minutes past the time listed at 182:39. So - are you asking for it in local time?
175:19:44	Cernan	Yes, I - My watch is set on Houston time. What time will it be?
175:19:48	CC	Be about - -
175:19:48	Schmitt	Eight hours from when?
175:19:50	CC	Be about 12:15, Geno.
175:19:55	Cernan	Okay, that sounds great, Deke. It won't - We're just cleaning up a few minor things and we'll actually probably be asleep in the next 10 to 15 minutes.
175:20:07	CC	Okay, sleep good. You had a lovely day. Hope tomorrow's as good.
175:20:10	Cernan	Sorry to keep - Thank you, boss. Sorry to keep you up so late. But appreciate it very much.
175:20:19	CC	We're enjoying it.
175:20:23	CC	Hey, Gene, before you unplug you might - -
175:20:24	Cernan	Okay, I'm going off the air.
175:20:24	CC	- - Check your - check the Suit Flow valve. Looks like it's not flowing, if that's the configuration you want.
175:20:41	Cernan	Yes, we've got them - we got them both flowing. And we've got good circulation in the cockpit. If it looks good to you down there, we're in good shape up here.
175:20:50	CC	Looks fine. See you later.
175:20:55	Cernan	Okay, we thank you much.
175:21:07	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 175 hours 21 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. The crew of Challenger has signed off for the night, climbing into their hammocks. The Commander, Gene Cernan in the upper berth, Lunar Module Pilot, Jack Schmitt in the lower hammock, scheduled 8 hours sleep period, wakening shortly after noon, today. Command Module America currently in a 67.8 minus 54.9 nautical mile orbit. Command Module Pilot, Evans has 4 hours and 22 minutes remaining of his sleep-period before being awakened, for plane-change maneuver and a trim maneuver, to get in the proper orbital plane for rendezvous. And at 175:22 taking down the air-ground 1 line, until somebody wakes up, this is Apollo Control.
176:07:01	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 176 hours 7 minutes Ground Elapsed Time in the mission of Apollo 17. Command Module America about 1/3 of the way through frontside pass on revolution 45. Fifty-two minutes remaining until America coasts behind the moon. The crew aboard Challenger, meanwhile is settling in for 8 hours scheduled sleep period which will end shortly after noon today, central time. Three hours 37 minutes remaining in the Command Module pilot's sleep period. Command Module America presently in a lunar orbit measuring 55.1 nautical miles at pericynthion by 67.7 nautical miles apocynthion. Gold team of flight controllers settled in for a 12 hour shift today, on a quick turn around. And at 176:08 Ground Elapsed Time this is Apollo Control.
178:07:02	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 178 hours 7 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. Command module, America, at the present time on the 46th lunar orbit immediately over the Taurus-Littrow landing site where the crew of Challenger has approximately 5-1/2 hours remaining in their sleep period. Evans, meanwhile, has some hour and 37 minutes remaining in his scheduled sleep period before a wakeup call is made. For the coming day's activity, including a trim maneuver to tune up the command module's orbit and a plane change maneuver to place the command module in the proper orbital plane for the rendezvous which will take place after the lunar module has lifted off the lunar surface and is placed back into orbit around the Moon. The command module spacecraft systems are are all functioning normally at this time according to the the flight controllers here in the Control Center. Some 49 minutes remaining until America goes behind the Moon. At 178:08 Ground Elapsed Time, this is Apollo Control.
179:41:12	PAO	This is Apollo Control, 179 hours 41 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. About a minute until we have lock-on with the Command Module America on the 47th revolution around the Moon. Shortly after we have good solid lockup, the Spacecraft Communicator Ken Mattingly will call Ron Evans on Air-Ground 2 circuit for a wakeup. We'll bring that up at that time. Meanwhile the crew in the lunar module, Challenger, is still asleep at this time, with some 3 hours remaining until they're awakened. Standing by for word that we've locked onto the Command Module downlink. We've had acquisition. We'll bring up Air-Ground 2 and standby for the wakeup call to Command Module America.
179:45:02	CC	Good morning, America. Rise and shine.
179:46:14	CC	Hello, America, this is Houston. Over.
179:46:30	Evans	Hey, Houston, this is the Command Module Pilot on the United States spaceship, America. I'll be ready to go to work as soon as I can get untangled.
179:46:41	CC	Okay. We got plenty of that for you.
179:46:46	Evans	(Laughter) Okay. I think I woke up just about the time - just before you called, for some reason.
179:49:11	Evans	VHF is OFF.
179:50:59	Evans	Houston, at least it's daylight today. Yesterday you got me up in the middle of the night.
179:51:05	CC	Oh, this is a gentleman's day.
179:51:10	Evans	(Chuckle) Right.
179:51:38	Evans	Of course, I guess it's really a 2-hour day when you go around the Moon, isn't it?
179:51:45	CC	You don't get so tired that way.
179:51:49	Evans	(Laughter) Right.
179:52:30	Evans	Okay. S-BAND MODE is to VOICE, SQUELCH is - says "OFF"; I want to leave it ENABLED. Crew report, I'll get in a minute and wind your watch.
179:55:02	Evans	Houston, America. If you happen to have a summary report of EVA-3, I'd sure like to hear it.
179:55:12	CC	Okay. We'll do that. Let me give you a - a quick rundown on review of what we're going to do this morning. We've got the extra RCS trim burn that's going to be coming in, and I've got a pad for that guy. And I have about 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 one-liners to go into your Flight Plan, to bring it up to date. The general plan is to do a minus-X RCS on the trim maneuver, in order to avoid impinging on the SIM bay. That burn will be about 30 seconds worth. And that's going to give you about 9 foot per second DELTA-V. The maneuvers have all been checked out, and it's a reasonable timeline. And so, I have both the plane change and the trim pads for you. And that may cut into your eat period just a little bit. So, you might keep that in mind, that when you get a chance to nibble; that's probably a good - good thing to be doing. And then once we finish the plane change, we - we're going to be back on the nominal Flight Plan, and pressing on in a - just like we have been. We'll be leaving the mapping camera in and taking pictures with it still retracted, in a attempt to avoid increasing the number of cycles on the camera. And we'll be running the SPS PU valve in the decreased position, in order to optimize our propellant loadings.
179:56:43	Evans	Ah ha! Okay. That sounds like ... good.
179:56:50	CC	So, when you're ready to copy some of those things, that's - Might be a good thing to get started on. Go ahead and finish squaring away your cockpit. And, while they're putting together an official summary, I can tell you my unofficial summary of EVA-3 is that that sure is super. You've got to watch those tapes when you get down. That's really a - that's really a spectacular place, as you can probably see. And they found a lot of - -
179:57:16	Evans	Oh, it really is.
179:57:16	CC	- mighty interesting rocks there. Jack, being a true geologist, is making up new geological terms as he goes along.
179:57:37	Evans	(Laughter) I can - yep, I bet.
179:57:48	CC	What you ought to do is, when he gets aboard, you ought to tell him that you saw a bunch of vertical dikelets over on the north side of the massif. Tell him they were very dark, very small.
179:58:01	Evans	Vertical dikelets?
179:58:03	CC	Yes, I think that's the word he coined on the way down there.
179:58:06	Evans	Dikelets? Oh, okay (laughter).
179:58:13	Evans	Hey, I got a Update Book here. I guess it'll be good for a trim burn - trim ...
179:58:21	CC	Okay. In general, let me tell you also that your RCS is 4.7 above the Flight Plan. And, just in a summary, unless you want to plot them, I'll just tell you that the oxygen and the hydrogen are doing good things. And you've got plenty of it. And I'm ready to give you a - The first pad will be a trim RCS burn and the second one will be the plane change burn.
179:58:56	Evans	Okay. No, that's good on the hydrogen and oxygen. And, I'm ready to copy the trim P30 pad.
179:59:05	CC	Okay. I'll give you the trim. RCS/G&N; 37416; GET 181:34:01.22; plus 0009-2, all zips, and all zips; roll 180, 179, 316; 0067.3, plus 0062.4; 0009.2, 0:30, 0009.2; 13, 292.3, 299. And at Sirius and Rigel, 118, 159, 349. This will be four jets, minus-X on the RCS. And, I'd like to just add a comment here about the attitude. This attitude is one that's computed after you've gone to the plane-change REFSMMAT. And when you call P41, you'll be getting a different set of attitudes computed out of it because of the P41 computing a plus-X burn. But, when you're in attitude and P41's called, and you get to the DELTA-V register, you should be able to put all of the DELTA-V in one axis.
180:00:48	Evans	Oh, okay. This really is a posigrade burn is what you're saying. And I really won't be able to trim it?
180:00:57	CC	I'm not sure I understood your comment there.
180:01:03	Evans	Well, in other words, we're not - we're not faking NOUN 8l. You know, like we do on the SEP maneuver.
180:01:13	CC	Oh. That's - that's correct. You're going to see the numbers go to zero during the burn.
180:01:23	Evans	Okay. Real good. We just won't - ... won't be the right attitude. We'll use the VERB 29 maneuver and use that attitude.
180:01:32	CC	That's correct. And when you get there, that should put it all in - in the X-axis.
180:01:38	Evans	Okay. Mighty fine.
180:01:42	CC	Now I'm ready for the readback.
180:01:44	Evans	Oh, let me read it back. Okay, it'll be G&N/RCS for the trim burn. Weight, is 37416; TIG is 181:34:01.22. I'm not sure on the seconds. Is that correct?
180:02:00	CC	That's correct.
180:02:04	Evans	Okay. NOUN 8l plus 9.2 in X, 0 and 0, roll, 180; pitch, 179; yaw, 316; Ha will be 67.3, PERIGEE, 62.4; DELTA-V total is 9.2; burn time is 30 seconds; DELTA-Vc, is 9.2. Sextant star is 13, shaft is 292.3, trunnion is 29.9. That'll be Sirius and Rigel, 118, missed the pitch align and the yaw align is 349. It'll be four jets, minus-X, and it'll be at the plane change REFSMMAT.
180:02:48	CC	Okay. And that pitch align is 159.
180:02:56	Evans	Okay. Pitch align, 159.
180:02:59	CC	Okay. The next one will be the plane change, and I'll have that ready in just a second.
180:03:13	Evans	Okay. I'm in the Flight Plan for that one.
180:03:16	CC	Okay. Stand by, just a second.
180:03:53	CC	Okay. LOPC SPS/G&N; 37416; plus 0.38, plus 0.92; 182:33:53.00; minus 0017.9, minus 0365.5, minus 0006.9; roll, 0; pitch, 0; yaw, 315; 0062.7, plus 0062.6; 0366.0, 0:20, 0353.8: 22, 148.9, 19.5; Sirius and Rigel and the roll, pitch, and yaw aligns are the same: ll8, 159, 349. This will be four jets and 12 seconds.
180:05:25	Evans	Okay. LOPC, SPS/G&N, 37416; plus 0.38, plus 0.92; Tig 182:33:53.00; NOUN 8l is minus 17.9, a minus 365.5, and a minus 6.9; roll, 0; pitch, 0; yaw, 315; HA, 62.7, perigee, 62.6 - that's pretty circular - DELTA-V total is 366.0. Burn time is 20 seconds, DELTA-Vc, 353.8; sextent star 22, shaft 148.9 and 19.5; Sirius and Rigel, 118, 159, 349; four jets, 12 seconds.
180:06:20	CC	Okay. It's a good readback. And, I've got a couple of Flight Plan things to give you when you're ready for that.
180:06:34	Evans	Okay. I'm with you.
180:06:36	CC	Okay. The first one is at 180 hours and 20 minutes. And -
180:06:50	Evans	Okay, I've got it.
180:06:51	CC	Okay. We owe you an attitude there and the attitude will be: 179, 222, 359. The HIGH GAIN: pitch, minus 39; yaw, 145. Why don't you read them back, individually as we go along?
180:07:14	Evans	Okay. Roll, 179; pitch, 222; yaw, 359. HIGH GAIN will be minus 39 and 145.
180:07:22	CC	Okay. And that's the - that's at 180:20. That's with the VERB 49 there. The next one is at l8l:35 - -
180:07:28	Evans	Yes, that's right.
180:07:29	CC	- which is on the next page, and it's going to be at VERB 49, maneuver to LOPC. What we're going to do here is two separate maneuvers. We're going to do a maneuver which is a roll, so that when you do the next one, you'll avoid the gimbal lock because of the direction that the CMC would normally maneuver you. So, this maneuver is going to be in two parts. The first one we're calling a VERB 49 maneuver to the gimbal lock avoidance attitude at l8l:35. That attitude 08l, l8l, and 317. The HIGH GAIN: PITCH, minus 19; YAW, 227, and AUTO and NARROW for AOS.
180:08:45	Evans	Okay, at l8l:35, we'll have a VERB 49 to gimbal lock avoidance; roll 08l, l8l, and 317. HIGH GAIN will be a PITCH of minus 19, and YAW, 227; AUTO and NARROW for AOS.
180:09:04	CC	Okay. Now at l8l:43, you can just skip that high gain call out. At l8l:45, we want to add a VERB 49 maneuver to the LOPC burn attitude.
180:09:32	Evans	Okay. At 181:45, VERB 49 to LOPC burn attitude.
180:09:38	CC	Okay. Now on the next page, we go over to 182:15. And, I want to add a PU VALVE to DECREASE.
180:09:55	Evans	182:15. PU VALVE to DECREASE.
180:10:06	CC	All right, sir. And I have two more to give you, but before we do that - now about let's terminate the jet monitor by calling P30 - P20, and a VERB 21 NOUN 26 to all zips, and then we can up-link while we're finishing it.
180:10:42	Evans	Okay. You have ACCEPT.
180:10:49	CC	Okay. And you got the monitor terminated?
180:10:54	Evans	Yes. It's terminated.
180:11:07	Evans	I guess it went to P30 faster than it showed up down there or went into P30 not through it.
180:11:24	CC	Okay, why don't you put the PAN CAN1ERA to STANDBY and POWER, ON, while we're about it and we can let them look at that stuff while we're getting the rest of our Flight Plan updates?
180:11:39	Evans	PAN CAMERA, STANDBY; POWER is ON,
180:11:42	CC	Okay, thank you.
180:11:46	CC	All right. Let's go back to our updates and the next one should come at 182:44.
180:12:04	Evans	Okay. 182:44.
180:12:09	CC	Okay. At 182:44, I want to delete the "MAPPING CAMERA, EXTEND."
180:12:23	Evans	Okay. Delete the "MAPPING CAMERA, EXTEND." Wait a minute. I scratched out the opening the cover. We got to do that.
180:12:30	CC	Yes. You won't do that because we're going to the pictures anyhow.
180:12:36	Evans	Yes. Okay.
180:12:39	CC	Okay. Then the next thing we want to do is at 132:48 just a half inch down, I have a new attitude for you. Where it says 097, 068, 019, it's now going to be 096, 097, and 352; and the orb rate attitude is still all zeros.
180:13:14	Evans	Okay. The attitude after the P20 option 5 plus-X forward will be 096, 097 and 352 and orb rate is 0.
180:13:23	CC	Okay, that last angle was 352. I'm not sure we got that right.
180:13:30	Evans	Okay. 352 for Yaw. That's correct.
180:13:33	CC	All right, sir. And while we're about it, why don't you take the PAN CAMERA POWER back OFF?
180:13:50	Evans	Okay. Pan cam - pan ca - PAN CAMERA POWER is OFF (laughter).
180:13:55	CC	Okay, and as long as we're talking about pan cameras, let's go to 183:45,
180:14:09	Evans	183:45. Okay.
180:14:12	CC	Okay, and after the pan camera block, want to add "V OVER H OVERRIDE to HIGH ALTITUDE."
180:14:29	Evans	Okay. After "PAN CAMERA, STANDBY, STEREO, and POWER," put "V OVER H to HIGH ALTITUDE."
180:14:34	CC	That's affirmative. And the last update is on the next page - 184:27. And it says "MAPPING CAMERA, RETRACT" and since we didn't extend it you don't have to retract it.
180:14:50	Evans	Sounds logical. Okay, mapping camera, delete the "MAPPING CAMERA, RETRACT."
180:14:57	CC	All right, sir. And let's see what else we have here - how about running your paw over most of your biomed sensors? Looks like you've got some noise on there. And avoid changing them. Why don't you just kind of rub on each one and see if we can get it to come in a good signal?
180:15:19	Evans	Okay. I'll do that.
180:15:46	CC	Okay. You're making progress there.
180:15:51	Evans	Hey, it's working, huh?
180:16:36	Evans	Hey, there's old Hadley Rille out there. That's a pretty deep little trough. Hey, you really didn't get a perspective of that thing, at least I didn't from some of the pictures. Not until you had a chance to get up here and take a look at some of the other things.
180:16:57	CC	Okay, I'll tell you when we get through - -
180:16:59	Evans	Okay, that's the last of the Flight Plan things, huh?
180:17:02	CC	Yes, sir; that was the last of the Flight Plans, and I still need a morning report from you and things like that; and I'll keep an eye on the clock down here and try to help you stay on the timeline. The one thing that I see that may have to change is - I gave you a DELTA-Vc for the RCS burn that wasn't very useful, and we have to set it up to count in the other direction. There's a couple of things you do - like set it to 100.
180:17:28	Evans	(Laughter) Yes, okay.
180:17:34	CC	It's just a backup monitor anyhow and so it's - setting it to 100 is probably the first thing to do.
180:17:39	Evans	Yes, that's right.
180:17:51	Evans	Okay. Let me see if I've got time to put some hot water in my eggs.
180:17:57	CC	Okay.
180:18:28	CC	Okay, Ron, the computer is yours when - whenever you want to go to BLOCK.
180:18:42	Evans	Sleep last night was probably about 6 hours - kind of intermittent - but it seemed to me like when I was sleeping I was sleeping pretty good. For some reason, I woke up a couple or 3 hours after I went to sleep and I got to sleep about an hour late. Oh, and I was just itching like a son of a gun.
180:19:08	CC	What's that, the sensors?
180:19:09	Evans	The only thing I can think of is that - no, my arms - you know my forearms.
180:19:16	CC	Oh, I see.
180:19:16	Evans	From the wrist back to the elbow.
180:19:18	CC	Okay.
180:19:20	Evans	The only thing I can think, of is maybe the old Beta cloth itch, you know. Then I looked around and there was nothing there. You know, no hives or anything like that. So I got out some of that carry cream and put that on and that stopped it and went back to sleep.
180:19:40	CC	Okay. And, it's coming up on tine to start our - our first VERB 49 maneuver which can be running and I'll watch the angles while you put a little hot water in your food there if you want to.
180:20:07	Evans	Okay, I've got a target load, I guess, in desired orientation. Okay, 2, VERB 49 ENTER, VERB 25. Plus 179.00, ENTER; plus PITCH 22 - 222.00 ENTER, YAW 359 plus 359.00 ENTER. Okay, we're still saying 2/10ths of a degree per second; PROCEED to ... keys - PROCEED.
180:20:57	CC	Okay, and the HIGH GAIN to AUTO, please.
180:21:04	Evans	HIGH GAIN is in AUTO and we'll set that at minus 39 YAW 145, just in case it breaks lock.
180:22:32	Evans	Hey, Ken, I'n going to be off the headset here while I change hack to my comm. carrier.
180:22:37	CC	All right., sir,
180:25:16	Evans	Okay. My PRD is 15044.
180:25:21	CC	Copy that.
180:25:28	Evans	... Those are easy to fix.
180:25:50	Evans	I had three jugs of water.
180:27:19	Evans	Okay. We're going ATT 1/RATE 2. Yes. Oh. Star number 11 - Aldebaran.
180:27:44	CC	You lucked out.
180:27:48	Evans	Yes. That's a good one.
180:28:10	Evans	It's a little ways off.
180:28:30	Evans	Okay. PROCEED, it was Aldebaran. ... Dnoces. To Dnoces. 6. Dnoces is hard to recognize through the telescope. Must be it. Yes, that was it.
180:29:38	CC	How about that?
180:29:43	Evans	Okay. ... for some torquing angles. Plus 173.5.
180:30:00	CC	Okay, got those.
180:30:04	Evans	Okay, We'll torque at 30 10.
180:30:07	CC	All right.
180:30:27	Evans	52 - 52 ENTER. We want to do an option 1 tc the LOPC orientation. Okay? Let's see, 622, 180 - that's a pretty neat - isn't that where I'm supposed - and 8179 and 316. Outstanding! Okay, it's dark out there, and I think I could find a star if I had to.
180:31:10	CC	Okay, I copied the angles for you if you need them.
180:31:16	Evans	Okay. It scares me everytime that light comes on. Ah ha! it went away. ... What the coarse align error is. ... Just barely in the sextant's field of view.
180:32:26	CC	Okay.
180:32:32	Evans	I don't know. That wasn't a very good mark. Let's try that again. Let's try Dnoces again. Pretty logical since we're in this attitude. But we didn't gauge our -
180:32:57	CC	Okay. And the angles I copied last time were 217 on the shaft and 33 on the trunnion.
180:33:10	Evans	That's close. Just in the sextant again.
180:33:44	Evans	Looks like 217 and 33's going to be it once you get it in there. I'll settle for that. There's the old coarse align error. I'll let you copy those down there. I don't want them up here.
180:34:15	CC	Okay.
180:34:19	CC	And you can torque any time.
180:34:21	Evans	And let's see - Okay; we'll torque at 3430.
180:34:27	CC	Okay; that's a good number.
180:35:21	Evans	Ah ha! Knows exactly where it is, Okay.
180:35:26	CC	Isn't that amazing?
180:35:30	Evans	Yes.
180:35:34	CC	And it shows we even know how to calculate the burn attitude.
180:35:40	Evans	Yes. That's good. ...
180:36:35	Evans	Okay. We're CMC, RATE 2, Here.
180:37:40	Evans	Okay. Count -
180:37:59	CC	And, Ron, I just noticed that in all our scribbling, I missed the line that said "Configure for the dump" on the previous column about 23. I don't Know if you saw it in there or not.
180:38:16	Evans	I missed it. I'll sure get it.
180:38:31	CC	And when it's convenient for you, I've got - -
180:38:34	Evans	Okay.
180:38:34	CC	- - couple of hydrogen tank fans to change and the good docs would like to hear how you're eating and pushing pills.
180:38:48	Evans	(Laughter) Okay. Took a Seconal last night, and I'm by the H2 fans.
180:38:56	CC	Okay. And that's HYDROGEN tank 3: FANs, OFF; and HYDROGEN tank 1: FANs, ON.
180:39:07	Evans	Okay, number 3 went from AUTO to OFF, tank 1 is going from OFF to ON.
180:39:14	CC	Very good.
180:39:21	Evans	Let's see, I got that done - at 40, next thing we got coming up, huh? Okay, I'll go down there and get some of this stuff configured. Oh, I ate just about everything yesterday, and then some other things on there, and a bunch of extra stuff too, so when I get a chance, I'll call that down. Okay?
180:39:45	CC	Sounds fine.
180:39:46	Evans	Getting ready for this urine dump. ...
180:46:26	CC	And Ron, we're coming up on dump time and don't forget we want to close the covers and that kind of good stuff before we start the dump.
180:46:38	Evans	Okay. UV cover is clo - Let's see - UV is OFF. IR is OFF.
180:47:06	Evans	That's. Yes, I start on old fuel call purge here. Do this O2 fuel cell purge. Okay. Now let's see, waste -
180:48:15	Evans	MARK it. The old waste water dump is on.
180:48:18	CC	Okay.
180:48:26	Evans	DRAIN VALVE is DUMP; BATTERY VENT is CLOSED.
180:49:49	CC	Okay, Ron, the EECOM's calculated about 12 minutes to go on your dump, and it, wouldn't hurt to set your kitchen clock or whatever you do to help remind yourself because that'll be after LOS. And we've taken a look at all of the systems ana everything looks pretty good there and RETRO would like to remind you tnat the weight has cnanged on your trim pad and that has some implications to the way that computes the burn arcs and you want to he superprecise. And looks like everything is GO for a trim.
180:50:33	Evans	Okay, sounds good. I'll set my little ding-ding here for about 10 minutes.
180:50:38	CC	Why don't you try about 9? Charlie swears that it's no more than that.
180:50:53	Evans	I believe Charlie.
180:51:12	Evans	Want me to configure the DSU or are you going to set it up for me?
180:51:17	CC	Why don't you do that one?
180:51:22	Evans	Okay.
180:54:30	CC	And, Ron, we've got about a minute and a half to LOS and I never did give you a summary of the EVA - just a few quick particulars were that they got 7 plus 15 out of EVA-3. Got almost everything done, They had to delete Station 10 in order to make up time, but that's made up for by the fact that they found some more interesting things at other stops. And there was - I mentioned the dikelets, and there's some indication that they may have seen a dike or something of that nature over on the North Massif, And Jack went out and applied all his - his physical skills to the lunar surface gravimeter and that included jumping ana kicking and pounding and it still doesn't work. Guess we'll get them up about 183:45 and the only thing we've had to do on their Surface Checklist for launch day is just to scrub the P22 that was in there. And we're just going to drop that one to make up some time--and it looks like they ought to get about 8 hours sleep out of it. So looks like everybody is in good shape. And you've got just a few seconds to LOS. Keep your eye on the waste water and we'll see you.
180:55:49	Evans	Good. Thank you Ken.
180:55:49		BEGIN LUNAR REV 48
180:56:13	PAO	This is Apollo Control. We've had loss of signal from the spacecraft America, going behind the Moon and nearing the end of revolution number 47. Now Ground Elapsed Time of 180 hours 56 minutes. Two hours 48 minutes remaining until Cernan and Schmitt, aboard the lunar module Challenger, awakened at Taurus-Littrow. And approximately 48 minutes until America comes around again, coming up on two maneuvers. Spacecraft communicator, Ken Mattingly, read up the PAD's or the data needed by the Command Module Pilot for performing these maneuvers. The first is a trim maneuver to tune up the command module orbit, prior to the lunar orbit plane change maneuver. The trim maneuver will be done on the back side of the Moon when we're out of contact with the spacecraft. That trim maneuver is scheduled at 181:34:01 or 181 hours 34 minutes 1 second Ground Elapsed Time. Total velocity change in posigrade - 9.2 feet per second. Burn time RCS - that's with the reaction control system engines - 30.06 seconds. And as Mattingly mentioned to Evans, it's being done in so called minus X direction. In other words the spacecraft will pitch over engine bell forward toward the direction of flight so that Evans will see where he's been instead of where he's going. And the RCS thrusters will fire forward so that the instruments in the SIM bay will not be damaged by the exhaust plume from the rearward firing engines. The effect is the same, however the spacecraft's performing the maneuver in a pitched over attitude and actually 180 degrees away from the original land direction. On the next front side pass, then, following that the scheduled lunar orbit plane change maneuver putting the command module America back into proper co-planer path with the landing site for rendezvous later today. This maneuver is scheduled at Ground Elapsed Time of 182:33:53. Total burn time on the SPS engine of 20.07 seconds, for a velocity change of 366 feet per second. This a burn that will force the plane of the orbit back to coincide with that of the lunar module as it makes its ascent from Taurus-Littrow back into orbit for the rendezvous sequence. The orbital measurements after the trim burn will be 67.3 nautical miles apocynthion by 62.4 at pericynthion. The plane change maneuver has also some retrograde component in it. A very slight retrograde component, which will Circularize the orbit at 62.7 nautical miles. At 181 hours even, this is Apollo Control.
181:39:55	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 181 hours 39 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. Some 37 seconds now until the spacecraft, America, comes from behind the Moon on revolution 48. One of the first items in business on this pass will be a report by Command Module Pilot, Ron Evans, on the trim maneuver, which he will have completed just prior to acquisition on this rev. Two hours and 4 minutes remaining of the Challenger crew sleep period. Waiting now for word from network that the -
181:41:03	PAO	We've had acquisition now. We'll stand by for the initial calls.
181:41:33	Evans	Ah ha! Looks like we're getting you already.
181:41:54	CC	Hello there. How's it going?
181:42:00	Evans	Okay. Just now calling the VERB 82. It's 67.4 by 62.8. Okay. Let me give you a little burn report here - -
181:42:38	CC	All right.
181:42:38	Evans	- - ... reading on the burns, so you can get that off the recorder.
181:42:42	CC	Okay.
181:42:43	Evans	Let's see. Okay. With 30 seconds of burn time, by my stopwatch there, I ended up with a plus - no, let's see - with a minus - minus 0.5 X. I think 0 in Y and a plus 0.5 in Z. Okay, so I tweaked out the plus X and roiled right 90 degrees and burned a 0.6 in a plus-Y. Okay. With final trim of - on the NOUN 85s of 0 plus 0.1 and a minus 0.1. DELTA-Vc was a minus 110.4 but we had that - not a minus, a plus 110.4. But there's no bias check at a plus 0.9 - on the bias.
181:43:47	CC	Okay.
181:43:48	Evans	Okay, the NOUN 20 values - NOUN 20 values - after the 90 degree roll there and for the final trim were 270, 179, 317.
181:44:05	CC	Okay. Sounds like you're way ahead of the game.
181:44:11	Evans	Yes. Worked real fine.
181:44:15	CC	Have you had a chance to get anything to eat yet?
181:44:22	Evans	Yes, I ate some scrambled eggs and I'm nibbling on the bacon bars, and I had a - some orange juice.
181:44:30	CC	Okay, I wasn't trying to fish for a report, I was just trying to find out it you were still eating or how things were going.
181:44:36	Evans	(Laughter) I'm a little - I'm still eating a little bit. But we're in good shape.
181:44:42	CC	Okay. You get a - you get a medal for not over-dumping the waste water tank.
181:44:51	Evans	Yes. It's amazing.
181:44:54	Evans	The old 9-minute mark was right on. I set it at 8 minutes, just to be sure, and 1 minute later it was 10 percent. Tell Charlie he figured right.
181:45:07	CC	Well, we won't be able to talk to Dumis again.
181:45:12	Evans	(Laughter) That's right.
181:45:26	CC	Okay. And I don't remember if I explained - -
181:45:27	Evans	... star check.
181:45:29	CC	Yes. Okay. And I don't know if you've got an explanation on why your angles changed for the P20 business after the burn, but, this - this plane change burn is going to have a little orbit shaping in it as well as the previous one. So that it - it is going to have some components that are both radial and tangential.
181:46:01	Evans	Ah ha, okay.
181:46:04	CC	So that meant that your REFSMMAT wasn't quite the REFSMMAT that you were anticipating earlier. And that explains the - why those angles had to change on you and also explains some of those odd-ball components.
181:46:23	Evans	Okay. Okay. I was wondering about that but - I'll, tell you - those guys in the trench down there know so much more about what's going on when they calculate that stuff than I do that I'll - I'll believe them.
181:46:45	CC	Say, Ron, are you - are you in a place where you spare a minute or 2? is it convenient?
181:46:56	Evans	Sure.
181:46:57	CC	Okay. Got somebody that would like to talk to you for just a minute.
181:47:03	Evans	Oh, yes.
181:47:05	NASA	Ron, this is Jim Fletcher. How are you?
181:47:11	Evans	Yes, Dr. Fletcher - mighty fine, sir.
181:47:14	NASA	We had hoped to catch you last night but you were behind the Moon when the ceremony was going on. Did you catch any of it at all?
181:47:23	Evans	Well, I - I got the briefing, or the report from it from the CAPCOM, but it sounds like it was a mighty fine ceremony and something that this nation can really be proud of.
181:47:40	NASA	Well, Ron, there's one thing that the President wanted to make sure that you got. And I had hoped to do it last night. We've been in very close touch with the White House and the President has been following closely what - what's going on up there and, of course, it's absolutely fascinating to us down here. But he wanted to be sure that you understood that he'd like to wish you Godspeed as you return to Earth. And I must say I'd like to add that and also add that, from everything I've heard, this is a spectacular success.
181:48:24	Evans	Well, thank you very much, there, Dr. Fletcher, and please convey my thinks to Mr. President. I appreciate that very much, and I - I also appreciate the opportunity to be able to do something for my country and I - hopefully, this is the one thing that I will be able to do. And I certainly appreciate it. Just the thoughts, themselves, really.
181:48:49	NASA	Well, very, good, Ron. I'd just like to say that I - I've never - I've never had any idea whatsoever that things would go so well in the scientific part of the - of the orbital science. It's - it's almost unbelievable when I talk to the guys in the backroom, and I just wanted to make sure that you knew that I knew it.
181:49:15	Evans	Yes, sir. We certainly do and they worked real hard to get the - these experiments and the equipment all squared away. I was following along with them pretty well and I had lot of confidence.
181:49:29	NASA	Well, very good. Thanks kindly.
181:49:34	Evans	Yes, sir. Dr. Fletcher; appreciate it.
181:49:38	CC	And, Ron, how about the high gain?
181:49:46	Evans	Okay. Let me reset it here, I guess.
181:50:14	PAO	That was NASA Administrator, Dr. James C. Fletcher.
181:50:20	Evans	Okay. I'm in REACQ and NARROW now.
181:50:38	PAO	He was passing along a similar message to the one that he spoke to the crew in Challenger on yesterday while Evans was apparently behind the Moon, or at least out of contact on that particular circuit.
181:51:52	CC	And how about AUTO on the HIGH GAIN when you get a chance?
181:51:58	Evans	Okay, I'm right there, so we've got her.
181:52:03	CC	Okay, and let's see we've got a few minutes. I had - I had two more magazine changes to go into the Flight Plan if it's convenient to give them to you now.
181:52:16	Evans	Let me get started on the other VERB 49 here, okay?
181:52:20	CC	Okay, just fine.
181:52:38	Evans	315. Plus ENTER - plus - and one more PROCEED.
181:53:02	Evans	Okay, we're on our way.
181:53:16	CC	Okay, Ron, just for your information, about 291 looks like the maximum yaw you ought to see on this. And we'll keep an eye on it for you.
181:53:27	Evans	Okay. 203. Okay, why don't we take some of those Flight Plan changes here?
181:54:07	CC	Okay. And these are real simple ones on page 283.
181:54:16	Evans	283. You're really looking ahead. Okay.
181:54:29	CC	Okay, at l87:45, you've got a magazine Bravo Brave called out and we'd like to make that Delta Delta.
181:54:43	Evans	Delta Delta it is.
181:54:45	CC	Okay, and a couple of lines below that you have a magazine November November which we want to change to Kilo Kilo.
181:54:55	Evans	Kilo it is.
181:54:57	CC	Okay, that was kind of painless, wasn't it?
181:55:02	Evans	Yes, that was.
181:55:06	CC	And that's all I've got. We want to remember to get the PU VALVE to DECREASE.
181:55:14	Evans	Yes, I could do that now, I guess, couldn't I?
181:55:17	CC	Okay.
181:55:22	Evans	Okay, we're setting on the minus 200-DECREASE.
181:56:06	Evans	Got a time here and let me bring you up to date on the - lookout.
181:58:14	Evans	Okay. Ready to go on the food?
181:58:17	CC	Yes, sir.
181:58:19	Evans	Looks like we're going to miss it.
181:58:22	Evans	Okay. Day 8: sausage, grits, fruit cocktail, orange beverage, coffee, and tea, and a vitamin. Next box: ham - couldn't find my cheese until last night so I didn't have it, one rye bread, can of peaches or sack of peaches, cereal bar, orange drink, coffee, graham cracker cubes, apricot cubes, jelly candy, sugar cookies. Supper: had hamburger and ketchup, vanilla pudding, grape drink; I guess that was it.
181:59:39	CC	All right, sir. We've got about 34 minutes or so until the burn. I've got a news summary I can read if you'd like to have that or if you'd like to put it off until later I can do that too.
182:00:03	Evans	No, why don't you go ahead?
182:00:06	CC	I'll just read it and if I start to bother you, why just holler at me and I'll stop.
182:00:14	Evans	Okay.
182:00:15	CC	This is put together by a - a Mr. Jim Kokowsky [?] and it looks like he's done a pretty nice job of summarizing the news, so I'm going to read it cold. And he's given us a summary of the late news. And the weather couldn't be worse in Houston. It had to be better on the Moon or in orbit around it. This morning more cold and drizzle blanketed the Houston metropolitan area. Yesterday morning it was 32 degrees. This morning a little warmer but a lot wetter, and it's getting colder on Friday. On the national-international scene: Peace talks in Paris between Dr. Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho have ended - at least for the time being. Dr. Kissinger is in Washington today to brief President Nixon on the talks. The past 3-1/2 weeks, the pair of negotiators have held 58 hours of talks. Neither side is giving out any hints. When asked about the cease-fire by Christmas, Dr. Kissinger told reporters at Andrews, "I don't want to make any predictions." The U.S. by sizeable vote has had its assessment to the fund of the United Nations reduced by a vote of 8l to 27. The U.S. will now pay only 25 percent of the cost rather than the present 31 percent. Transatlantic fares may drop beginning in February. The International Air Transport Association says all carriers will set their own prices. It appears that air travelers to Europe next year may get some real bargains. In the hotly contested and federally supervised United Mine Workers election, the insurgent candidate, Arnold Miller, has gone into a lead over incumbent President Tony Boyle. Miller has led a grass roots movement to oust Boyle who took over the union control from the late John L. Lewis. We mentioned the rather dismal weather in the Houston area this morning, but the midwest and northeast are really getting some bad weather. Ice storms seriously hampered the northern part of the nation, from Idaho to the eastern seaboard. After almost a year, troops involved in the India-Pakistani War are beginning to go back to their homelands. Truce-line maps have been exchanged and approved by both governments. Civil servants of the European Common Market, they're called Eurocrats, are on strike. The 8000 employees walked off the job due to a salary dispute. On the regional and local scene: the Houston City council has vetoed a plan to build a nev commuter airstrip in southwest Houston for the STOL aircraft. Residents of the area have been protesting. The community of Tomball, north of Houston, is looking for a new police force. The police chief and seven officers walked off the job Tuesday, after the City Council refused the officers a pay raise. In Harris County, the State Highway Patrol end reserve police have been called in to maintain police protection. That's maintain protection in Tomball. The project to expend the - expand the Armand Bayou as a park and wildlife refuge has been given a boost with a $100,000 pledge. So far $350,000 has been pledged and $750,000 is needed to gain Federal matching funds. Galveston will hold a school bond election on February 3rd. The bonds, if okayed, will be used to air-condition all schools not so equipped and to improve lighting in two schools. It's a light day in sports; the head coaching job for SMU is open, being considered are North Carolina coach Bill Dooley, and Washington coach Jim Owens. George Blanda, a living testimony for the over-40 set will become the oldest man ever to play football this Sunday. Prior to Blanda, I guess, we've had some other folks, but this ought to be a new record. In pro basketball, Houston didn't play last night. Currently, Baltimore, Boston, Milwaukee, and Los Angeles lead the divisions. In pro hockey, Alberta beat the Houston Aeros, 3 to 2. The big news in Houston sports is a City Council approval of the Greenway Plaza as a site for the 10-l/2-million-dollar sports arena. And finally in - Christmas shopping is in full swing. Christmas trees are in tents, on street corners, and supermarket sites all over the area. Private homes throughout the whole area are lighting up with decorations ranging from happy Santa Clauses in sleighs to nativity scenes. It will be a Christmas world waiting for you when you come home. And that ends our summary for this morning.
182:04:54	Evans	That's a good summary; appreciate it. Little bit of everything in there.
182:05:01	CC	Yes, it looks like Mr. Kokowsky [?] reads a lot of newspapers there.
182:05:08	Evans	(Laughter) He sure did.
182:05:29	CC	Okay, Ron. We're picking up some thermal problems on the pan camera. Would you manually roll left 30 degrees and we'll hold it until we've passed - you know the terminator - or cross the terminator.
182:05:43	Evans	Okay.
182:06:05	CC	And, Ron, that terminator crossing comes fairly close to the burn, so you might think about - if it looks agreeable to you, just go ahead and we'll use that as the burn attitude. You'll have to get a new P40 trim to take care of the gimbal offsets. So you may see a slight Pitch and Yaw attitude change.
182:06:28	Evans	Okay; that's no problem. I'll just roll left and then use a P41 trim. (Cough)
182:07:16	Evans	I hit ACCEL COMMAND to make that 90-degree roll the other day, or just a while ago. And, if you hit your stick a little too hard, you really wrapped it up to a little better than a degree a second. So, you can really get a sensation of roll, especially when you can see the Moon.
182:08:00	Evans	How's that? Pretty good attitude?
182:08:03	CC	Looks like we're going to have to go a little bit further. Why don't you give us 5 or 10 more?
182:08:10	Evans	Okay, I didn't let go of the stick -
182:08:13	CC	You're learning our tricks, aren't you?
182:08:17	Evans	(Laughter) Used a teacup of gas there.
182:08:27	CC	Okay, now - now, you're in good shape.
182:08:33	Evans	Okay, we'll stop it right there, then. About 35 degrees or so.
182:09:08	SC	Anything to make you happy.
182:10:21	Evans	Okay. I just made a DELTA-V check while ago and it was minus 22.2. Bias check was a mi - let's see, went from 100 to 100.9 in a minute and 40.
182:10:37	CC	Okay.
182:10:40	Evans	... RATE 2; auto RCS, a little light. And let's see - Okay, we'll turn off six ... Let's see, the DELTA-Vc is - 353.8 for the DELTA-Vc. Okay; SIM bay I checked it a while ago, 3MAGs are RATE 2, AUTO RCS SELECTS are okay. Okay. ... 7416, that's pretty good. Okay, plus 0.38 and a plus 0.92. That's all right. Okay, VERB - Load my own, I guess, it looks like, don't I?
182:12:50	CC	Yes, sir. When they gave you the up-link, they had to put in the - the trim burn.
182:12:57	Evans	Yes, that's right. Plus 180.2 ENTER. Plus - 182:33:53 ... - -
182:13:15	CC	Looks good.
182:13:15	Evans	- - all right. 25, ENTER. Okay; NOUN 8ls, 15.9, minus 17. Okay; Y is a minus 365.5. Z - 9 - minus 9 ENTER. Okay; 17.9; 365.5 minus 6.9, PROCEED.
182:13:58	CC	Okay, they look good here.
182:14:00	Evans	(Cough) Okay.
182:14:21	Evans	The computer thinks we're going tc be circular, 63.0 by 63.0. Of course, that's impulsive, I guess. 366.0 for total, that's right. Okay. 19 - on the DET. Okay, I got the DET going. I think my sextant star check's not going to be any good here.
182:15:10	CC	Okay, we can give you another one here if you'd like that.
182:15:15	CC	They been scurrying around here, and got you some new numbers.
182:15:17	Evans	I don't see any reason - Oh really? I'll do it just for the heck of it.
182:15:23	CC	Okay - -
182:15:25	Evans	Got time here - let's see, 19 minutes - -
182:15:30	CC	Okay - -
182:15:31	Evans	... I'll just let you read them to me as I get ...
182:15:32	CC	All right, sir, it's a shaft of 237.2, when you get there.
182:15:52	Evans	Okay. Plus - What did you say it was? Shaft -
182:15:54	CC	237.20.
182:16:01	Evans	237.20 ENTER. Okay. Trunnion?
182:16:09	CC	Okay. That's 27.480.
182:16:22	Evans	Okay. We're CMC. Optics are - ... No, it's the wrong calculation (laughter). ...
182:16:57	CC	Okay, well, we're off in roll - -
182:16:58	Evans	What star's it supposed to be - -
182:17:00	CC	- - by a degree from where he calculated it.
182:17:07	Evans	Okay.
182:17:10	CC	It's supposed to be good old star number 22.
182:17:20	Evans	Oh, I can't see squat in the telescope. Hey, there it is. There it is.
182:17:24	CC	Okay, you're passing through the right roll angle so it - -
182:17:26	Evans	Okay; yes, that's it.
182:17:30	CC	Okay.
182:17:31	Evans	Outstanding!
182:17:35	Evans	Okay, VERB 37 ENTER, 00 ENTER. DIRECT and HIGH MANUAL. ... Optics zeros. Okay. Put those things up for a minute. (Humming) Okay. There. (Cough) 358 and 314, that didn't change very much Okay.
182:18:42	Evans	Okay, it says we're there. Set IMU.
182:19:34	Evans	Ah, wrong pitch. Acts just like the simulator, you can't tell, I thought when you got in the spacecraft that if you're 180 ... it's supposed to flop back and forth, but it doesn't do it. Okay; 326, 357.5, and about 315.4. Let's see, align the GDC.
182:21:03	Evans	(Cough) Okay. It's easy to see those lines. STAB CONTROL. DIRECT ULLAGE breakers are going IN. PITCH 1, YAW 1. Okay. ... and SPS breakers are IN; MANUAL ATTITUDE - RATE COMMAND. Okay, looks like about DEADBAND MIN RATE to LOW - ... is in RATE COMMAND. LM only. GIMBAL DRIVE is in AUTO. We're down to the 6-minute check. ... Okay, we won't have any manual starts on this one. Do not restart it. If it quits, we'll shut it down at burn time plus 1. V - Vg Y only. Back to zero and then trim Y, I guess. All axis - Y and Z just a little ... trim X. Okay, we scratched out the part - we're going to turn the tape recorder on, right?
182:23:49	CC	Yes, sir.
182:23:53	Evans	Okay.
182:24:01	Evans	At 12 seconds for ullage. Burn time was 20 seconds.
182:24:12	CC	Okay, and you're GO from this end.
182:24:17	Evans	Okay.
182:25:34	Evans	Hey, refresh my memory on the mission rules there, Ken, could you? If it doesn't start on bank A, do we start on bank B?
182:26:01	CC	Stand by. We're - we're making sure we're going to tell you the right thing, here.
182:26:08	Evans	Okay. I was a little confused about the no MANUAL STARTs. That's not a manual start to me, though.
182:26:38	CC	Okay, Ron. The rule says, "If no start on A, try B."
182:26:45	Evans	Okay. That's what I thought. (Humming) Plenty of battery juice here. Let's go to A; ON - and B, is ON and coming up - Okay, fuel cell 3, pressure is all right in 2-A; and 2-B is okay. And HELIUM VALVEs are in AUTO, we're in DECREASE; and the OXIDIZER FLOW VALVE PUGS MODE is PRIMARY. PRIMARY, DECREASED, and NORMAL. Okay. That's a lot of work. I'd like to get strapped in a little bit here.
182:28:04	Evans	Okay. Bus tie - I forgot the crazy tape recorder. COMMAND RESET - here we go. Okay. Helium valves, I did that. SERVO POWER 1. Okay - number 2, back to AC.
182:28:39	Evans	MARK DIRECTs are OFF. BMAGs are uncaged. Okay, no hardovers. Okay . Go to SCS. HAND CONTROLLER number 2 is ARMED. Okay. PITCH 1, got it; YAW 1, we got it. Okay. Trim is about set there; okay. Yaw is 0.9; PITCH is about - kazink, kazink, kazink, kazink. Okay; we have the trim. Okay. Give it back to the computer. Returns to zero. THC clockwise; no MTVC. Okay; PITCH 2; got it; YAW 2, got it. Ah ha! We have the trim plus point ... and - plus, plus, minus. Okay; give it back to the computer. No MTVC.
182:29:59	Evans	Okay; 3 minutes to go. THC. Okay. On the AC. DIRECTs are ON. Cage the old BMAGs. KEY RELEASE. PROCEED for the final trim. Got a 6l8. D-l8 says we're there. Okay; we'll ENTER that. 204. Do you want a gimbal test option? Yes. Plus 2, minus 2, 0, plus 2, minus 2, 0. 3004. Okay; we have the trim with 3 minutes to go. Okay; LIMIT CYCLE'S back OFF. ... burn, we'll go RATE to HIGH (cough). DET looks good; we've got a 20-second burn. Shutdown on 21 seconds.
182:31:35	Evans	Okay. DELTA-V in STANDBY. Have CMC, GDC, RATE COMMAND; LIMIT CYCLE, OFF; DEADBAND, MIN; RATE to HIGH; TRANS CONTROL POWER is OFF. DIRECTs are both OFF; CMC, AUTO. Okay. There we go; missed one. ATT1/RATE 2 on the old BMAGs. RATE COMMAND; all four GIMBAL MOTORs are ON, We're CSM on the CG. ... LOGIC, ... ROLL, ROLL; Alpha; S-IVB. PITCH is AUTO; DET is working; ARMED, ARMED.
182:32:18	Evans	Okay; at 16, AUTO RCS SELECTs, ON; circuit breakers are still good (humming). Okay. I'm waiting for 30 seconds when ... the NORMAL TRANS CONTROL POWER and the DELTA-V THRUST A switch.
182:33:22	Evans	EMS G; EMS to NORMAL; TRANS CONTROL POWER is ON; and DELTA-V THRUST A is ON. Okay; four jets, 12 seconds. (Humming)
182:33:45	Evans	Okay; we have ullage. Okay; 699, PROCEED.
182:33:57	Evans	3 - oh - okay! There we go! We got ignition about 87. Okay; number 2 is coming ON; we're up to 90 on the DELTA-Vc. Wait a minute. Okay; 913. Looking good. Okay; ROLL ERROR is OFF. That's all right; we're done. 3,1 -
182:34:17	Evans	SHUTDOWN - automatic! Okay; minus 9.5 on the EMS. Okay; 366.8. Let's PROCEED to stop the rates here. 6.8. Okay; man, look at those 85s! I'm a little bit off, but that's good. Okay; PITCH 2; got it; YAW 2; got it; and, number 1, got it; number 1, got it. Okay; SERVO THRUST is OFF. Well, let's see. I've forgotten what it feels like. Ha! That's pretty neat. Okay; that was okay. Somehow we got a 0.3 in there. That's in X anyhow. Y is zero; that's what I want. Z is all right, so we'll just leave it that way. I'll PROCEED with the changes again. That just changed. Okay; 00 ENTER. Okay; VERB 6 NOUN 20 ENTER. Okay; I presume you're reading the DSKY, haven't you been, Houston?
182:35:45	CC	Yes, sir.
182:35:52	Evans	Two, three. The time, as near as I could tell, was pretty good. Vgx - what did I say - 366.8, I think. DELTA-Vs is a minus 9.5; tail off is 11 or something. 12.2. Okay; let's get some more switches off. TRANS CONTROL POWER - okay - LOCKED, LOCKED.
182:36:36	Evans	TRANS CONTROL POWERs are OFF; DIRECTs are OFF; DIRECT ULLAGE circuit breakers are OPEN; PITCH 1, YAW 1 are OPEN. Okay. EMS FUNCTION is OFF. MODE is STAND - RATE 2. Okay. We'll come and get the bus ties. (Humming) Hey, that was a neat burn ... (cough).
182:37:29	CC	Feels more like an airplane, that way, doesn't it?
182:37:35	Evans	Yes. Yes. It was kind of like an afterburner that time. Okay. A BAT BUS AC is OFF; BC is OFF. Not too bad. Okay; we're MAIN A. Must be a - little oxidizer is 0.6. Fuel is 28.4 ... and balance is minus - Now, let's see - about 460, I guess. Thing going in the right direction?
182:38:54	CC	We don't think the PUGs really ever stabilized.
182:38:59	Evans	I don't think it did, either. Okay; AC ROLL switches are OFF, now.
182:39:37	CC	And, Ron, we're ready to give you some new stuff in the computer whenever you're - pass by and can give us ACCEPT.
182:39:48	Evans	Okay. You have ACCEPT. While you're doing that, I'll do the post-SPS SIM prep cue card.
182:39:57	CC	All righty.
182:40:07	Evans	I'd really forgotten how that thing kicks you in the seat of the pants. I guess I must have been floating off the seat a little bit more this time than I was on the - the rest of the burns.
182:40:27	Evans	Okay. PAN CAMERA POWER is OFF; and the old LOGIC POWER should go to DEPLOY/RETRACT. Okay, ... down is A, down is B. DEPLOY/RETRACT. Got to inhibit all jets. Okay, we'll inhibit the - all except the ROLL, right now.
182:41:31	Evans	On - okay. I'll just inhibit the ROLL 1, DELTA 1, and then I can start the - Yes, here's the DAP now. You through with the computer?
182:42:11	CC	Okay. We're through. It's your computer.
182:42:17	Evans	Okay. And - ... two, ON - OFF now. CAMERA LASER ALTIMETER, OPEN. Barber pole in the gray. 20 ENTER, 22 ENTER, 5 ENTER, plus-X SIM bay att - 2.25 - 2 ENTER. We are going to use a 2-1/2-degree dead band this time. Fifty is around the Moon. Okay.
182:45:19	Evans	276 plus 2. ... (laughter) Different attitudes.
182:46:26	Evans	I think I'll make a cup of coffee.
182:47:42	CC	Ron, I've got your pan camera photo pad when you're ready.
182:47:49	Evans	Okay. I just happen to be ready to copy.
182:47:53	CC	Okay. T-start, 183:48:41; T-stop, 184:06:43.
182:48:09	Evans	Okay.
182:50:16	Evans	Ken, I'm just now remembering one of your comments from16 that we didn't get done on this extra comm carrier cloth - there's cloth here, you know.
182:50:38	CC	Uh huh.
182:50:38	Evans	Don't need any extra electronics, but we sure could use another cloth hat (laughter).
182:50:44	CC	Oh, you can wash it off. You probably do that inadvertently.
182:50:50	Evans	(Laughter) I already have. I didn't wash it with the right thing though.
182:50:54	CC	(Laughter) I was wondering if you would own up to that. Hey, the good Doctor over here says that your traces are flat lines. Thought you ought to be aware of that.
182:51:11	Evans	Oh, they are?
182:51:12	CC	You feel okay?
182:51:12	Evans	Well, let me - They're kind of itching it - They're kind of itch - Yes, I'm okay. But they're kind of itching anyhow. I feel like I ought to change them so -
182:51:22	CC	Okay. That would really make him happy.
182:51:35	Evans	No wonder they're flat lines - it's unplugged.
182:51:41	CC	Okay.
182:51:42	Evans	Said something sooner (laughter).
182:51:45	CC	All righty. We're about 4 minutes from LOS, and all systems have been looked at, and they're all looking okay. So, guess we'll see you on the tother [sic] side.
182:52:00	Evans	Okay. How's my stuff, now that I got plugged in.
182:52:09	CC	We don't see anything, yet.
182:52:13	Evans	Didn't, huh?
182:53:00	Evans	Well, I needed to change them anyhow so -
182:53:02	CC	Okay.
182:53:02	Evans	I'll try to -
182:53:04	CC	Looks like you hit something there when you did that.
182:53:22	Evans	I was just shaking my coffee.
182:53:28	CC	I tell you, it sure put life in the signal.
182:53:33	Evans	It did?
182:53:35	CC	How are those binoculars working out?
182:53:40	Evans	They're working real good. I find I have a bit of a problem holding them still, though.
182:53:48	CC	Yes, they're about the max magnification, I think, that you can hand hold.
182:53:56	Evans	Yes.
182:53:56	CC	Have you tried looking in earthshine at it? See if you can pick up anything there?
182:54:05	Evans	Yes. And they just don't quite look as - let enough light through, I don't think, in earthshine. In other-words, you can see better - with the naked eye; but they don't - they don't let enough light through the binocs to enhance your image capability at all.
182:54:25	CC	Okay. I was curious because I noticed in the - in the dark shadows in the daylight side, that they did bring out things that ycu couldn't see with the naked eye. I guess that's contrast that does that.
182:54:41	Evans	Yes, I noticed that too. Yes, ycu can look down in the shadow of a - of a crater, where you got the Sun down there, but if you have more backlighting or something. You know, but you can - you can see that pretty good with the naked eye, anyhow. Earthshine, now, about all I can get out of the earthshine, really, are differences in albedo. And you can get some textural - Well, not so much textural differences, but terrain bumps and humps, and flow fronts, and - see craters, you know?
182:55:22	CC	I wish I was there with you.
182:55:31	Evans	I tell you, I had no idea how interesting and how much fun it would be. After the first day, and I finally got over the - I guess you could - I don't know. You'd call it the effects of adapting to zero g or something. But you're just a little bit woozy. You really don't feel like doing a heck of a lot that first day up. So, it's good that the first day is kind of - -
182:56:09		BEGIN LUNAR REV 49
182:56:09	PAO	This is Apollo Control. The Command Module, America, passing behind the Moon on the end of the 48th lunar orbit. 48 minutes until the crew of Challenger is awakened at Taurus Littrow. During the just completed front side pass the Command Module Pilot Ron Evans completed the lunar orbit plain change maneuver which went nominally on time with a velocity change of 366 feet per second using the service propulsion system engine. Just prior to that before he appeared on the front side of the Moon a small trim maneuver was performed using the forward firing reaction control system thrusters. This maneuver was to trim up the orbit. Some dispursions that had grown during the lunar orbit period that America has been in motion about the Moon. The Gold Team of Flight Controllers is handing over at the moment to their replacements after about a 12-hour shift. The oncoming team is the White Team of Flight Controllers headed up by Eugene Krantz. There will not be a change of shift press briefing of the off going shift. 47 minutes to wake up of the surface crew, Schmitt and Cernan. And at 182:57 this is Apollo Control.
183:31:12	Cernan	(singing) Good morning to you. Good morning to you. Good morning dear Gordy. Good morning to you.
183:31:12	Schmitt	(singing) Good morning to you. Good morning to you. Good morning dear Gordy. Good morning to you.
183:31:33	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 183 hours 32 minutes. We're about 14 minutes away from the scheduled wakeup time for Apollo 17 - the lunar module crew, however they beat us to the punch this morning and we just got a rousing rendition of "Good Morning To You" sung by the crew of Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt on the lunar surface. The Surgeon reports that the two crewmen appear to have gotten a good nights sleep - 6 to 7 hours, and we'll pick up with the taped replay of that Good Morning rendition from the crew and then follow it live, (music)
183:32:10	CC	(Music: Thus Spake Zarathrustra by R. Strauss)
183:33:14	CC	Good morning, Challenger and thank you for the vocal rendition from - from the Moon, there.
183:33:25	Cernan	Well, we thank you for your kind music. We wanted to let you know we were thinking about you this morning, Gordie.
183:33:35	CC	You just beat us to it, but - -
183:33:37	Cernan	That was a great song.
183:33:38	CC	Decided to play it anyway, because it's such a - such a pretty selection.
183:33:44	Cernan	I think it's very apropo at the moment. I guess I can just wait for "Hail Purdue," huh?
183:33:55	CC	Yes, just stand by, you'll probably hear it before you get back.
183:34:03	Cernan	Hey, we've been stirring for about 15 or 20 minutes. We're in the midst of a nice hamburger omelet (laughter) and assorted accessories. As a matter of fact, it's all over us. And if you'll give me 5 minutes, I'll be ready to go on the PGNS, unless you want to start it sooner.
183:34:39	CC	Okay, we'll - No hurry, finish up and get cleaned up there. And the only change, we have some change in the timing as far as the checklist so we can gain back the time we're behind now, which is actually less than an hour. And the only hardware change other than deletions is to - that we'd like you to leave Demand REG A, CLOSED, at all times. So whenever you come across a place that says OPEN at CABIN or EGRESS, we'd like you to leave it CLOSED.
183:35:22	Schmitt	Okay, Gordie. We've got you on that.
183:35:26	Cernan	And, Gordie, could I have a quick status report on - on America and Challenger?
183:35:34	CC	You bet. America is just as good as gold, just like always. Ron got off the trim burn on the back side followed by a good plane change on the front side. In fact he - G&N cut-off was a tenth and - or less in all axes. Didn't even need to trim it. So, he's in about a 62-1/2 circular, I believe, and waiting for you to come up and join him.
183:36:08	Cernan	Okay, how's his consumables?
183:36:15	CC	Stand by.
183:36:24	CC	Okay, America's consumables are great and so are yours. There is a possibility we may have to switch to ASCENT WATER, just prior to lift-off, but everything really is in good shape.
183:36:42	Cernan	Those are good words, Gordie. Thank you.
183:36:49	Schmitt	Hey, Gordie. In honor of one of your comm handovers last night, and in the tradition of Apollo 8, I've got paraphrase of a familiar poem for you.
183:37:05	CC	Okay; go ahead.
183:37:11	Schmitt	Well, it's "The week before Christmas and all through the LM, not a commander was stirring, not even Cernan. The samples were stowed in their places with care, in hopes that with you, they soon will be there. And Cernan - Gene in his hammock and I in my cap, had just settled our brains for a long - short lunar nap. But out on the - up on comm loop there rose such a scatter, I sprang from my hammock, to see what was the matter. The Sun on the breast of the surface below gave the luster of objects, as if in snow. And what to my wandering eyes should appear, but a miniature Rover and eight tiny reindeer. And a little old driver so lively and quick, I knew in a moment, it must be St. Nick. I heard him exclaim as he - over the hills he did speed. Merry Christmas to all and to all - to you all Godspeed.
183:38:27	CC	Very good.
183:38:32	Cernan	Gordo, that was the first time I heard that and I got to say - I got to say that is beautiful.
183:38:39	CC	I agree. Did the LMP get any sleep or did he spend all night composing that?
183:38:48	Schmitt	People always said we ought to have a poet in space.
183:38:53	Cernan	I don't think we've made it yet.
183:38:55	Schmitt	No, for some reason I really woke up with one of your handovers last night, and that was how I went back to sleep.
183:39:18	PAO	That poetic offering was from Jack Schmitt.
183:39:19	Schmitt	Gordy, that's for the kids. ...
183:39:25	CC	Roger, Jack.
183:40:00		PAO
183:40:22	CC	Challenger, Houston. One update for the postsleep procedure. I understand you brought in the LMP's camera, and we want to be sure you get that into the jett bag before the final jettison here, and by the way, you're STAY for the final jettison.
183:40:45	Cernan	Okay, Gordy. It's already in the jett bag, thank you.
183:40:58	Schmitt	And, Gordy, you might make some notes that, before I put it in there, I took another black-and-white or black-and-white window pan with mag Nancy.
183:41:15	CC	Okay, Jack. Roger.
183:41:19	Cernan	Gordo, on REG A, that is - you interpret that is just a small leak by the reg? That it would be usable, if you had to.
183:41:35	CC	That's affirmative, Geno. It's a small, slow leak and it is usable If - if needed.
183:41:45	Cernan	Okay, thank you. - Summing up, so far, I think that's all - all the system anomalies we've got, isn't it?
183:41:56	CC	That's all I can think of at the moment. I do have revised times for the rest of the Lunar Surface Checklist which, at a convenient time, I can give to you - so that you'll have a how-goes-it as you go on down the line here.
183:42:13	Cernan	Why don't you give them to us now, Gordy?
183:42:16	CC	Okay, turn to page 7-9.
183:42:32	Cernan	Go ahead.
183:42:33	CC	Okay, 7-9 LGC/IMU POWER UP, change that time from 183:04 to 184:10. The eat period time is now 184:20. Turn the page, and the 183:59 above "Park RENDEZVOUS RADAR" is now 185:05. Next page, don suits at 185:15. Go to the next page. Prep for equipment jettison is 185:50, and the same page - helmet/glove donning is 185:58. Next page, pressure integrity check, 186:04. Cabin depress is 186:08, and hatch opening is 186:12. Next page, 7-l4, cabin repress is 186:15. Cabin cleanup for launch is 186:20. And on the following page, we're going to delete the P22 but we'd like you to go all the procedures except those from "VERB 95 ENTER," through "P00 ENTER," inclusive - the center section of procedures. So you'll still be closing the rendezvous radar breakers, going to LGC, and parking the antenna and copying pads. Over.
183:44:33	Cernan	Okay, we're going to delete everything from VERB 95 through P00 on P22. That's the center of the page.
183:44:43	CC	That's affirmative and then the next page, cabin prep for ascent is 186:45, and instead of 39 minutes we're going to have you do that in 3 minutes. And you'll actually - you should have a little more time than that, since you got up early. That puts you right back with timeline, at lift-off minus 1 hour 15, at 186:48. Over.
183:45:16	Cernan	Okay, top at 7-15 where we pick up - what was going to be the beginning of the P22. Have you got a time up there?
183:45:24	CC	I guess we'll just have to work that in with cabin cleanup time. We had deleted that whole time block but you do have to catch those procedures.
183:45:41	Cernan	Okay, and then the times on the top of 7-10, for P22, are not applicable, and I guess you can give us an update for our P57 lift-off time.
183:45:57	CC	That's affirmative. We might - that might be - there's a couple more changes coming at me here but let me make sure I got them straight and I'll call you later. Go ahead with whatever you were doing.
183:46:11	Cernan	Okay.
183:46:37	Cernan	(Cough) Gordy, if I - if I get ready for the LGC/IMU power up, I'll give you a call even though it comes earlier but I'd like to get that started, as soon as we're ready to start it.
183:46:49	CC	Okay. We concur with that.
183:47:03	Schmitt	Hey, Gordy, as far as the food, medication, and sleep goes - no medication. Gene had 5 hours of good sleep, I had probably around my usual 6, in spite of my poetic inclinations. And the food -we continue to do well, I believe. We've eaten a wet pack apiece last night. We got one this morning. We've eaten our scrambled eggs and sausage yesterday, and as we've run out of juices and tea. And which is somewhat of an inconvenience I might say. And if you've got any specific questions, I can fill you in on it but, I think, food-wise we've done pretty well.
183:47:54	CC	Can you give us a feel on the fluid intake?
183:48:02	Schmitt	Well, that's what I was trying to do when I said we'd drunk all the juices and tea. Plus, Gene, in particular, takes water from the hose.
183:48:14	CC	Okay, Jack, fine. Sounds good.
183:48:41	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 183 hours 49 minutes. Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt aboard Challenger on the lunar surface after having gotten up about 15 minutes early. Now having breakfast. They're a bit behind in the timeline but we expect to have them caught up by the time they - or about 1-1/2 hour prior to lunar lift-off, which is when we begin the really busy period of liftoff preparations, and everything appears to be going alone very smoothly at this time. The crew's early arising caught us a little unprepared here in mission control we had our own wake up tune to play up to them this morning which was to be the title theme from the motion picture 2001 A Space Oddessy, however they beat us to the punch with their own wake up song to the control center and we'll play that back for you at this time.
183:50:06	PAO	And after giving us a few minutes to catch our bearings we hit them with the theme from 2001 A Space Oddessy. Since then things have been going along pretty much normally. The poetic offering was from Jack Schmitt. He said it was for all the kids back home. It was his version of the Night Before Christmas. We have reacquired Ron Evans aboard the Command Module America and everything is progressing very smoothly aboard that vehicle. We're on separate communication circuits at the present time and will be up until the revolution prior to LM liftoff at which time we'll switch back to a single air-to-ground a single spacecraft communicator operation and be able to follow the operation in both vehicles simultaneously. That will be at acquisition of signal on the CSM's 51st revolution.
183:57:34	Cernan	Okay, Gordy, it's PGNs power up time.
183:57:39	CC	Okay, Geno, I - and I've got a couple more items to completely clean up the checklist whenever you can get to that.
183:57:56	Cernan	I'll let Jack give you a call. I'm going to start on the PGNs, if we're ready.
183:58:18	Cernan	Gordy, you ready for a PGN?
183:58:26	CC	That's affirmative, finally got you a GO to start it as per checklist.
183:58:36	Cernan	Okay there's the PRO, I did get the RESTART. I got the NO ATT, the DAP, GIMBAL LOCK light, and a PROGRAM ALARM light's on.
183:58:52	CC	Roger.
183:59:40	Cernan	MARK it the gimbal operate breaker is CLOSED.
183:59:44	CC	Roger.
183:59:49	Schmitt	That's the IMU OPERATE breaker. Yes. Stand by for a 90 seconds.
183:59:54	CC	And we're ready for a POWER AMP PRIMARY and HIGH BIT RATE.
184:00:12	Cernan	Okay. You got it.
184:04:37	Cernan	Okay, Gordo, self test is complete and is GO, and I'll give you an E-memory dump.
184:04:43	CC	Okay, we're ready, standing by for it. And while it's coming, I could give you the update for the next page.
184:04:58	Cernan	Okay, it's coming at you and you can go with the updates on the next page.
184:05:02	CC	Okay. Page 7-10, your P57 lift-off time, upper right corner, is 188:01:43.85. Over.
184:05:19	Cernan	?Okay, Gordy, P57 lift-off time 188:01:43.85.
184:05:27	CC	That's affirmative. And then we'd like you to delete all the steps below that lift-off time, from the A/T-3 data star info box through the VERB 32 after the last - after for the remaining data stars and after last star. In other words, just delete all between the box and up to circuit breaker AOT LAMP, OPEN. And, of course, they'll be no P22 time, over.
184:06:02	Cernan	Okay. Delete all the data star information between the start of that box and after last star VERB 34 ENTER, 00 ENTER.
184:06:16	CC	That's correct and then turn to page 7-15. We're changing - we - looking here a little closer we find that radars are already in good position, so you can delete all procedures on page 7-15 except "Copy Ascent pads, CSI pad, and LM DAP weight."
184:06:52	Cernan	Okay. We deleted everything but the last three lines on that page.
184:06:57	CC	Okay. On page 7-12, back up a couple pages. In the lower right corner there, in the blank space, you might jot down 185:58, VHF check with command module. And that'll be according to the procedures on 7-15 in the box. You might just parenthesis 7-15 to remind you where the procedure is. But the comm check will come during that time when you're preping for equipment jettison, or right around there.
184:07:41	Cernan	Okay. We got that.
184:07:44	CC	Okay. That's all we got for you, and we have the E-MOD dump okay.
184:07:53	Cernan	Okay.
184:09:06	Cernan	Gordy, we're in P00 and data and we're standing by for your up-link, and how long does that AOT HEATER breaker have to be open? I pushed it IN at 184:08.
184:09:17	CC	Okay. I'll get an answer on that, and I think we'll be coming with the up-link here shortly.
184:10:04	CC	Gene, no time constraint on that AOT breaker; except, if it's foggy, it hasn't been in long enough.
184:10:16	Cernan	(Laughter) Thank you, Gordy.
184:11:13	CC	Challenger. Here comes your up-link.
184:11:19	Cernan	Okay.
184:15:01	CC	Challenger, it's - your computer. You have a state vector, a time increment, and an RLS.
184:15:11	Cernan	Thank you, Gordy.
184:15:11	Cernan	Yes, it likes - it likes the command module's orbit.
184:15:11	CC	That's good.
184:34:35	CC	Okay, we see that.
184:34:39	Cernan	Houston, there's a NOUN 05.
184:34:39	CC	Doesn't look like the Challenger shifted around much in the last 3 days.
184:34:39	Cernan	Well, at least it always settles back to the same spot.
184:35:47	CC	Okay. You're clear to torque those.
184:39:58	Schmitt	Say, Gordy, are we clear to jettison the buddy SLSS bag, now?
184:39:58	CC	That's affirmative, Jack. We've determined you won't need it for rock stowage. And along the same line, John Young suggested that you might check your checklist pockets on your suits, when you get to that point. His were full of dirt. You might want to take those off and discard them If that's the case, so that it won't fly up and get you at Insertion.
184:39:58	Cernan	Yes, we already did that, Gordy. They were a mess, and we took them off. They're in the jettison bag now.
184:39:58	CC	Okay.
184:39:58	Cernan	We're going to take time out for about 15 or 20 minutes of mandatory housekeeping here.
184:39:58	CC	Okay, understand.
184:39:58	Cernan	That's - that's prior to suit donning.
184:40:59	CC	Roger.
184:40:59	CC	Okay, Jack.
184:40:59	Schmitt	And Gene will be on biomed shortly.
184:40:59	CC	Roger.
184:40:59	Schmitt	Gordy, I'm back up.
184:40:59	CC	Okay.
185:17:16	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. This is the LMP suited. How do you read biomed and voice?
185:17:16	CC	Oh, we're copying your ticker loud and clear. Also your voice.
185:17:16	Schmitt	Okay.
185:17:16	Cernan	Gordy, Gene. I'm going off the air.
185:17:16	CC	Okay, Geno.
185:31:33	Cernan	Okay, Gordo. This is CDR. You ought to have me all backup on the comm and biomed now.
185:31:33	CC	Okay, Geno. Looking good.
185:31:33	Cernan	CDR's PRD is 17045.
185:31:33	CC	Okay; got that.
185:31:33	Schmitt	LMP is 24150.
185:31:33	CC	Okay.
185:42:16	Cernan	Okay, Gordo. We're ready to don the helmets and gloves.
185:42:16	CC	Okay.
185:42:16	Cernan	Okay, Gordo. We're going to press on, but don't let us miss 185:58 for the VHF check, will you?
185:42:16	CC	Sure won't. We're watching them.
185:42:16	Cernan	Okay.
185:46:02	CC	Challenger, Houston, We're getting close to the bottom on descent water. We're expecting to have to switch to ascent water sometime- in the next hour. We'll give you a call.
185:46:02	Cernan	Okay, Gordy.
185:46:02	Schmitt	Okay.
185:46:02	Schmitt	I cleaned them up for you. What more could you ask?
185:47:38	Cernan	Yes. Hey, Houston. We're VOX now.
185:47:38	CC	Okay; and loud and clear on VOX.
185:47:38	Schmitt	Is the recorder on yet?
185:47:38	Cernan	Yes. The recorder's on, but I dor.'t think it's going to work. (Laughter) See if I've got anymore juice in here. I owe Don Arabian something.
185:47:38	Cernan	Wristlet covers. Don wristlet covers.
185:49:22	Cernan	Okay; my right - right glove is or. and locked. Verified.
185:49:22	Cernan	Oh, I just came to the end of my grease. Probably a good time, because if everything goes the way it's supposed to, I shouldn't put on these ZV clothes anymore.
185:49:22	Schmitt	Don't you use that in your IV?
185:49:22	Cernan	No, I don't need it with my IV.
185:50:10	Cernan	Mine are all on and verified. Locked. 3ack in SUIT FLOW.
185:50:10	Cernan	Hey, we got 8 minutes to the comm check, so let's press on. Hate to get in the middle of the integrity check - Oh, we can do it. This won't take long. Need any help with your glove?
185:50:10	Schmitt	I will.
185:50:10	Cernan	Okay. Let me. Buggish today. Turn that off.
185:50:10	Schmitt	Well, I did once, Gene, and I - didn't help, and I started to run out of air. There.
185:50:10	Cernan	Doublecheck. You sure they're locked?
185:50:10	Schmitt	Yes, they're locked.
185:50:10	Cernan	Okay.
185:50:10	Schmitt	Okay. Gloves are GO.
185:51:28	Cernan	Okay; stay facing that way. Pressure integrity check. Suit shall not be maintained at elevated pressure greater than 5 minutes. Okay; SUIT GAS DIVERTER, PULL to EGRESS. Verify.
185:51:28	Schmitt	Okay; that's verified.
185:51:28	Cernan	CABIN GAS RETURN, EGRESS. Verify.
185:51:28	Schmitt	EGRESS verified.
185:51:28	Cernan	SUIT CIRCUIT RELIEF, CLOSE.
185:51:28	Schmitt	I'm CLOSE.
185:51:28	Cernan	Okay; we will leave PRESSURE REG A, CLOSE.
185:51:28	Schmitt	Yes, sir.
185:51:28	Cernan	PRESSURE REG B, DIRECT 0 , and we'll go up to 3.7 or 4.0 on the cuff gauge, and then you want to go to EGRESS on it.
185:51:28	Schmitt	Okay.
185:51:28	Schmitt	Okay; you can go on up. I'm in DIRECT O2.
185:51:28	Cernan	Okay; suit circuit's coming up.
185:51:28	Cernan	Okay; suit circuit's about 7*2 now. Should be coming off the peg shortly. I'm off the peg.
185:51:28	Schmitt	And I'm off the peg.
185:51:28	Cernan	You can stop it on your cuff gage - -
185:51:28	Schmitt	Yes, I will.
185:51:28	Cernan	- - at 3.7*
185:51:28	Schmitt	That's 3-0, 3.5, 3.7.
185:51:28	Cernan	Okay; go to egress.
185:51:28	Schmitt	I'm in EGRESS.
185:51:28	Cernan	Okay.
185:53:09	Cernan	MARK it.
185:53:09	Schmitt	Okay. 3.75 and CDR was 3.75*
185:53:09	Cernan	Got about k minutes for VHF.
185:53:09	Cernan	Our suits are going to be good.
185:53:09	Schmitt	That's the whole circuit.
185:53:09	Cernan	Yes, I know.
185:53:09	Schmitt	It's about the same.
185:53:09	Cernan	Got about 10 seconds to go.
185:53:09	Cernan	Okay.
185:54:24	Cernan	MARK it. CDR dropped from 3.75 to 3.60.
185:54:24	Schmitt	Okay.
185:54:24	Cernan	Okay; SUIT CIRCUIT RELIEF, AUTO. Hold your ears
185:54:24	Schmitt	AUTO.
185:54:24	Cernan	Suit circuit pressure decays to 4.8. Coming down.
185:54:24	Cernan	Okay. Jack. The next thing is depress, but before we do that, I think we ought to get the VHF check. It's only about 3 minutes away.
185:54:24	Schmitt	Do it. I got a scratch on my helmet.
185:54:24	Cernan	Okay, Gordo. We're going to configure for the VHF here. Standing by for a call from the CMP.
185:54:24	CC	Okay; sounds like a good idea.
185:54:24	Cernan	And we'll press on after that. Jack, you better make sure your volume's up.
185:54:24	Schmitt	You're RECEIVE B, huh?
185:54:24	Cernan	I'm A, OFF - we're A, OFF and RECEIVE, B on the AUDIO.
185:54:24	Schmitt	Hey, what do we do once we hear him?
185:54:24	Cernan	Okay; when you hear him, probably answer him is the first thing. And then - and then VHF. No. They need - You want A TRANSMITTER, VOICE/RANGE, then A to T/R, and A TRANSMITTER, OFF after conversation.
185:54:24	Schmitt	Okay.
185:54:24	Cernan	As soon as you hear him, you want the VHF A TRANSMITTER to VOICE/RANGE.
185:54:24	Schmitt	Yes, I'll do it. is he going - He's going to try to lock up on us I guess, huh?
185:54:24	Cernan	They've got us VEF RANGING, so we'll have to be quiet once we get established.
185:54:24	Cernan	*** like home in these suits.
185:54:24	Schmitt	Yes.
185:54:24	CC	Challenger, about 30 seconds to the comm check.
185:54:24	Cernan	Okay. Thank you, Houston.
185:54:24	Schmitt	There he is.
185:54:24	Cernan	Yes. Talking in VOX.
185:54:24	Schmitt	Okay; I'm going to go VOICE/RANGING, I guess.
185:54:24	Cernan	Wait - No, wait until he gives us the call.
185:54:24	Schmitt	Hey, Houston; we're reading CMP on VOX.
185:54:24	CC	Roger.
185:54:24	Cernan	Hey, Captain America, this is Challenger. You're loud and clear. Go to T/R.
185:54:24	Schmitt	Okay, Ron. You're loud and clear. How do you read us? Okay; you were very good on B. On T/R, you're in the mud a little bit. On the A. Oh, okay. That's better. You must have turned away from your mike. How are you doing?
185:54:24	Cernan	Okay. Okay. Are you in VOICE/RANGE, Jack?
185:54:24	Schmitt	Yes, I am.
185:54:24	Cernan	Ron, are you going to do any ranging at all?
185:54:24	Cernan	Okay. Gee, you're loud and clear. How's - how's America looking to you? Yes, we got a beautiful bird down here. We'll - we'll see you up there shortly.
185:59:48	Schmitt	Hang in there and keep your probe extended. Okay; we're going to go VHF, OFF.
185:59:48	Cernan	Okay. Jack, you need your A TRANSMITTER, OFF.
185:59:48	Schmitt	A is OFF.
185:59:48	Cernan	That's all you need to do.
185:59:48	Schmitt	Outstanding.
185:59:48	CC	Okay, Challenger. You have a GO from us for depress.
185:59:48	Cernan	Okay; stand by 1.
185:59:48	Schmitt	I doubt it.
185:59:48	Cernan	You might be able to. It's awful glary though. He'll be well sunlit up there.
185:59:48	Schmitt	I doubt it.
185:59:48	Cernan	Okay; we have a GO for depress, Jack. On 16 ECS, CABIN REPRESS, OPEN.
185:59:48	Schmitt	CABIN REPRESS coming OPEN. OPEN.
185:59:48	Cernan	Why don't you watch your gage, and I'm going to -Okay. I'm going to open the forward dump to AUTO to 3.5.
185:59:48	Schmitt	Okay; I'll watch. You call.
185:59:48	Cernan	Hey, coming down?
185:59:48	Schmitt	Okay; it's 5 s 4.5> 4. Stand by.
186:01:21	Schmitt	MARK. 3-5.
186:01:21	Cernan	Okay. Verify - suit circuit lockup at 4.3 and decaying. Okay; it's 4.5. Stand by for the decay. Oh, man, I got to go get that WATER SEP SELECT.
186:01:44	Schmitt	Pull the 2, huh?
186:01:45	Cernan	Oh, boy.
186:01:46	Schmitt	Want me to get it?
186:01:47	Cernan	No. I got longer arms, I guess.
186:01:53	Schmitt	I can reach back in there.
186:01:55	Cernan	Okay. If you can get back there.
186:01:56	Schmitt	I think. Now, they want it?
186:02:02	Cernan	Yes, now. Pull the 2.
186:02:05	Schmitt	Okay. Pull the 2. Okay. Happy with the suit circuit. And yes, we got a decay in the suit loop.
186:02:14	Cernan	Okay. Okay; verify suit circuit lock's up. I'm dumping all the way.
186:02:21	Schmitt	Okay.
186:02:34	PAO	Cabin pressure dropping down through 2 1/2 pounds now.
186:02:46	Schmitt	Circuit's 4.2.
186:02:51	PAO	Approaching 1 pound cabin pressure.
186:03:07	Schmitt	Hey, there's 0.7 in the cabin and 4.1 in the suits.
186:03:35	Schmitt	About 4.0, and the cabin is 0.3.
186:03:55	Cernan	Okay; let me see if I can jar it.
186:03:58	Schmitt	Okay; I guess we're GO for EVA-4.
186:04:02	Cernan	Five, isn't it? Five this time? Oh, man, I got it open. If I could bleed that pressure. Oh, boy. Hey, hold it here for a minute. There's a lot of psi on that hatch.
186:04:19	Schmitt	Okay; that'll hack it. Let me go to AUTO here. Need my checklist. Make it - Oops, that's closed. That's AUTO, and the lock lock is on. Okay. Hatch is open all the way. Where are we?
186:04:53	Schmitt	Why is that still waving in the breeze?
186:04:56	Cernan	Man, there's a solar wind in here.
186:05:04	Schmitt	We're on 7- something here. Still venting, are we? Houston, how's our cabin configuration? Mean there's still the - had a little breeze going out the hatch.
186:05:28	CC	All the numbers look good here, Jack.
186:05:33	Cernan	Hey, hold that, Jack.
186:05:35	Schmitt	Okay. Okay. Ready?
186:05:38	Cernan	Okay.
186:05:41	Schmitt	Partially open; that's good. ... Jettison the jett bag. Here goes Santa Claus - -
186:05:47	Cernan	Here you go, Santa Claus. - - Santa Claus' bag. Another bag of goodies.
186:05:54	Schmitt	Give it the old - -
186:05:55	Cernan	There you go.
186:05:55	Schmitt	- - 3-point kick.
186:05:57	Cernan	Nice. Beautifully done. Just where we wanted it. All clear the ascent stage.
186:06:12	Schmitt	Need the - Okay; clear. Good boy. Now, for your next act.
186:06:27	Cernan	No. Don't - don't even think about it.
186:06:30	Schmitt	Okay. (Laughter)
186:06:30	Cernan	Okay? (Laughter)
186:06:32	Schmitt	Jettison bag. All items are clear of ascent stage. Ready to close hatch?
186:06:35	Cernan	Looks like it.
186:06:37	Schmitt	Short EVA-5. Are we STAY/NO STAY for hatch closure?
186:06:45	CC	You have a GO for closing the hatch.
186:06:50	Schmitt	Okay.
186:06:55	Cernan	Okay. The hatch is closed.
186:06:59	Schmitt	Boy, is it easy to get around in here without a PLSS on. Okay; your DUMP VALVE verified in AUTO?
186:07:09	Cernan	Yes, sir, and locked.
186:07:10	Schmitt	Okay.
186:07:13	Cernan	CABIN REPRESS. Okay.
186:07:15	Schmitt	Okay.
186:07:16	Cernan	Verify it's AUTO?
186:07:17	Schmitt	It's AUTO.
186:07:18	Cernan	Okay; on 16, CABIN REPRESS, CLOSED?
186:07:21	Schmitt	Okay; CABIN REPRESS going CLOSED.
186:07:22	Cernan	And the hatch looked clear when I - sealed it. Clear when I closed the hatch.
186:07:26	Schmitt	Okay. Closed.
186:07:28	Cernan	There's the MASTER ALARM. And the cabin is coming up. AUX O2.
186:07:42	Cernan	Okay; cabin is increasing, and you can go to CABIN on PRESSURE REG B
186:07:49	Schmitt	It's in CABIN.
186:07:53	Cernan	Every warning light will go off here shortly. And my suit's coming down.
186:08:02	Schmitt	Mine, also.
186:08:15	Cernan	Okay. We're just about to go to 50 percent. DESCENT O2. We're there.
186:08:38	Cernan	Okay. Cabin's almost at regulating pressure, and cabin lights are still on. Next thing we'll do when it stabilizes, we'll doff our gloves, doff our helmets; locked up.
186:08:50	Schmitt	Okay; 5.0.
186:08:53	Cernan	Okay. You can doff your gloves.
186:08:58	Schmitt	Let me watch that pressure a minute. Well, it looks like it's stable at five. Okay.
186:09:13	Cernan	How's the cabin look, Houston? Looks good here.
186:09:23	CC	Okay; it looks good here.
186:09:29	Cernan	Okay.
186:09:31	PAO	That EVA lasted the total of 1 minute from hatch open to hatch closed.
186:09:33	Schmitt	I hope so. Physics says it should have been.
186:09:37	Cernan	There's an experiment.
186:09:40	Schmitt	Not really, since we do that with our PLSS and everything else.
186:09:43	Cernan	Okay. Take your helmet off.
186:09:54	Schmitt	That was painless enough.
186:10:03	Cernan	Jack, I'd wrap that thing around it like that. ..
186:10:07	Schmitt	Wait a minute, don't we take our helmets?
186:10:11	Cernan	Not yet. We - No, obviously. Go behind the engine cover.
186:10:17	Schmitt	Okay.
186:13:41	CC	Challenger, Houston. Just a reminder. Before you stow the right-hand OPS on the floor, you need to attach the floor hole cover.
186:13:57	Cernan	Okay; we're - Jack's down there cleaning up the floor now, and I'm working on the visors.
186:14:02	CC	Okay.
186:18:54	CC	Challenger, Houston. We have a copy of a - an update on the rock stowage that was given to you last night. We're not sure if they read one part of it to you, and that was concerning using some contingency webbing to reinforce the tiedown of the bag that goes on the Z-27 bulkhead. If you did get that update, forget it. We do not need any extra tiedown other than the normal tiedown. Over.
186:19:27	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. That's for the buddy PLSS bag, I guess, and we did not get it. But we haven't quite stowed that yet anyway, so we will forget it.
186:19:36	CC	Okay.
186:19:40	Cernan	Are the Rover batteries still alive?
186:19:47	CC	I'll check with the back room here. Stand by.
186:40:57	CC	Challenger, Houston. I'm standing by with a pad any time you're ready.
186:41:05	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. I'll be ready in just a minute.
186:41:41	PAO	This is Apollo control at 186 hours 42 minutes. Cernan and Schmitt aboard the lunar module Challenger at this time are getting the cabin of the vehicle ship shape for liftoff. Their essentially back on the timeline at this time and ready to begin the final liftoff preparations. Aboard the Command Module, America now in its 50th revolution everything continues to go very smoothly. Ron Evans is beginning to get suited up and configuring the command module for the LMs liftoff, rendezvous and docking.
186:45:01	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy, go with the ascent pad.
186:45:06	CC	Okay, Jack. This is the direct ascent pad. Tig is 188:01:35.93; NOUN 76 is 5540.8, 0032.0 minus 000.5; DEDA 047 is plus 37430; minus 72507; plus 58669; plus 56907; plus 0032.0; plus 0535.9; and TPI time is 188:55:57.00. LM weight 10900; and HA, is 62.9; Hp, 62.2. One remark; your Tig for one rev late is 190:00:18. Go ahead.
186:46:58	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy, here is your readback. Direct rendezvous - direct rendezvous is 188:01:35.93; 5540.8, 0032.0, minus 000.5, plus 37430, minus 72507, 58669, 56907, 0032.0, 0535.9; 188:55:57.00; 10900, 629, 622. Remark: one rev late Tig is 190:00:18. Over.
186:47:55	CC	Okay, that was a good readback. Now I have a coelliptic ascent pad. Tig is 188:04:14.00; 5539.0, 0038.0, minus 000.5; plus 37430; minus 72507; 58630; 56907; 0038.0. Rest of the pad down to LM weight is NA. Your LM weight is 10900, and the HA and Hp are NA. Over.
186:49:17	Schmitt	Okay, coelliptic readback: l88:04:14.00; 5539.0, 0038.0, minus 000.5; plus 37430; minus 72507; 58630; 56907; 0038.0; rest of pad is NA except for LM weight: 10900. Over.
186:49:58	CC	Okay, that's a good readback. Turn to page 10; I have the CSI pad coelliptic.
186:50:12	Cernan	And, Gordy, I'm starting to pick up the breakers on panel 11.
186:50:17	CC	Okay, Geno.
186:50:27	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy, CSI on page 10.
186:50:31	CC	Okay. Tig is 189:01:53.81. Tig at TPI is 190:55:00.00. NOUN 8l is 053.9; and DELTA-Vy is a plus all balls. 373, 0541.9, 0655.0; plus 053.9, plus all balls, and plus 001.2.
186:51:31	Schmitt	Okay. CSI pad; 189:01:53.81, 190:55 all zeros; plus 053.9, plus all zeros; 0541.9, 0655.0; plus 053.9, plus all zeros; plus 001.2. Over.
186:51:58	CC	Okay. That's a good readback. That's all I have for you.
186:52:04	Schmitt	Okay.
186:53:46	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 186 hours 54 minutes. We've just had loss of signal now, with Ron Evans aboard the Command and Service Module. Everything going very smoothly at this time, and our preparations for Lunar lift-off. We'll be reacquiring the Command Module in about 45 minutes. And at that time, we plan to reconfigure the CAPCOM or air-to-ground circuits with the two vehicles, so that we have both the Command and Service Module and the Lunar Module on the same circuit for the single spacecraft communicator operation. Included in the string of numbers read up to the crew aboard Challenger by CAPCOM Gordon Fullerton, was the time that will be used for ignition -
186:54:33	Cernan	Okay, Gordo, we're on the top of 8-4.
186:54:37	CC	Roger, Geno.
186:54:52	PAO	The ignition time for Lunar lift-off now, as passed up to the crew, is 188 hours, 1 minute, 36 seconds. And that burn time on the Lunar Module ASCENT engine will be 7 minutes, 20 seconds.
186:55:52	Schmitt	Okay, Gordo. The rendezvous radar looks a little warm, it - I'm reading about 90 degrees.
186:55:59	CC	Okay 90.
186:56:11	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy, are you ready for AGS STATUS to OPERATE?
186:56:17	CC	Let me check. We're ready, Jack; go ahead.
186:58:29	Cernan	Okay, Gordo, NOUN 72, R2 is not varying. I've got, both shaft and trunnion, and crosspointers varying.
186:58:41	CC	Okay, Geno. We copy that.
186:59:23	Cernan	Okay, Gordy. On the radar test, everything is GO. Everything is within limits. The only anomaly is the one I just reported.
186:59:32	CC	Okay, Geno. And 20 seconds here on the hour even, we'll have a site handover to Goldstone.
186:59:43	Cernan	Okay.
187:04:08	CC	Geno, Houston. You can go ahead and park the radar at 0 and 30.
187:04:16	Cernan	Yes. It's going there right now, as a matter of fact.
187:04:20	CC	Okay.
187:06:11	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. The AGS gyro calibration is complete and looks pretty good. I guess Z's a little - little - No, that - Yes, Z's a little more than you'd expect, I guess.
187:06:28	CC	Okay, Jack.
187:06:57	CC	Challenger, Houston. Words on the radar. When you parked it there, we saw it go to the proper places. From all our indications, the interface between the radar and the PGNS is okay. And our best guess is some kind of self-test problem.
187:07:18	Cernan	Okay, Gordy. Thank you.
187:07:59	Cernan	Rate gyros are good.
187:08:04	CC	Roger.
187:09:25	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. I'm going to go to AUTO on the S-BAND, if you want it.
187:09:40	CC	Okay. We're GO. And go ahead with the check.
187:09:50	Cernan	Okay, Gordy. I'll give you a call before I fire, but we're in the process of getting ready for the RCS.
187:09:56	CC	Roger.
187:10:21	Cernan	Okay, Gordo. Here we go.
187:10:45	PAO	Cernan and Schmitt, at this time, are firing the reaction control system thrusters in what's called the hot fire test. Everything continuing to progress smoothly toward liftoff at 188 hours 1 minute 36 seconds. And, we expect to have the lunar surface television up and in operation in about 10 minutes.
187:11:35	Cernan	Gordy, the AGS check looked good.
187:11:38	CC	Roger. It looked good here also.
187:11:53	Schmitt	Okay; SYSTEM A QUAD 4 talkback still sticky.
187:11:58	CC	Roger, Jack.
187:13:01	Cernan	Okay. Here we go on the PGNS, Gordy.
187:13:05	CC	Okay, Geno.
187:13:43	Cernan	Looked good here, Gordy.
187:13:49	Schmitt	And, you've got DATA and P00.
187:13:55	CC	Okay. Your up-links are coming. We'll give you a vector and zero the pos/neg cells. Your RLS is okay.
187:15:56	CC	Challenger, Houston. We'd like you to put the ASCENT BATTERIES ON according to the procedures on the next nage, 8-8, just a little early because of pre-conditioning noticed in - before descent. And we checked your RGAs during the hot fire, ana your hot fire itself, and they both looked good.
187:16:20	Schmitt	Thank you, Gordo.
187:16:22	CC	And, Challenger, it's your computer now.
187:16:28	Schmitt	Thank you.
187:16:31	PAO	This is Apollo Control. We're now 45 minutes from LM liftoff. Everything continuing to go very smoothly. We've completed the reaction control system's checkout. It looks good through the telemetry we're receiving here on the ground. Also, aboard the spacecraft, the primary guidance and backup guidance system clocks have been synchronized. The next item on the crew's preparation checklist will be to align the platform of their guidance system which is used as a stable attitude reference. And, we're now some 20 minutes from reacquiring the Command Module, which is now in its 51st revolution of the Moon. And, as mentioned before, when we do acquire, we'll have both the LM and the Command Module on the same communication circuit.
187:19:52	Cernan	Gordo, did you ever get any word on the Rover batteries?
187:19:59	CC	No. I sure haven't. I haven't heard on that one.
187:20:05	Cernan	It's not important. 1 just wondered whether those things were going to be working back there.
187:20:11	CC	Okay. We've got no reason to believe they won't. When you get down to parking the rendezvous radar antenna after this P57, give me a call. We're going to change the parking position.
187:20:26	Cernan	Okay.
187:20:35	Cernan	Why don't you just give me the numbers now?
187:20:38	CC	Okay. Do a - as - as the checklist, shows, except do a VERB 41 NOUN 72 to 0 and 30 degrees. Go to SLEW, and then delete the "manual slew for 3 seconds." They want to leave it there for temperature purposes. This will be a cooler position for it during ascent.
187:21:05	Cernan	Okay. Understand. That's 0 and 03000.
187:21:11	CC	That's affirmative.
187:21:18	Cernan	And the first 01 - first 04 was 0.01.
187:21:24	CC	Roger. We got that.
187:21:43	PAO	Cernan and Schmitt at this time are in the midst of the platform alignment and we're standing by for television from the lunar surface, via the camera on the Lunar Rover. And we're getting the first, first bits of the picture now. We should have color. And we do have a color picture from the lunar surface.
187:24:22	CC	Challenger, Houston. We've got you on television now. We have a good picture.
187:24:33	Cernan	Glad to see old Rover's still working.
187:28:53	CC	Okay. We got your NOUN 05?
187:29:20	CC	Go ahead and torque them.
187:30:43	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 187 hours 31 minutes. Now approaching 30 minutes until time for Lunar lift-off. The count down toward lift-off is going very smoothly. The crew aboard Challenger has completed aligning their inertial platform that's used as a stable attitude reference during powered flight. And we're less than 6 minutes now from regaining our radio communications with Ron Evans, aboard the Command and Service Module, America. The television picture is coming to us from the Lunar Roving vehicle, parked about 490 feet west of the Lunar Module, looking toward the east. Cernan and Schmitt will shortly be going through their prelaunch switch checks, checking the configuration of all the switches in the Lunar Module. They'll then don their helmets and gloves.
187:33:07	Cernan	Okay, Houston. P12 looks good, and the PGNS is in AUTO.
187:33:13	CC	Okay, Challenger. There's no change to 047 and 053. I do have a K-factor for you.
187:33:29	Schmitt	Go ahead.
187:33:30	CC	Okay. It's 179:59:59.82. Over.
187:33:46	Schmitt	Okay; 15 - 179:59:59.82.
187:33:51	CC	That's right, Jack.
187:35:18	CC	Challenger, Houston. I have a couple of PIPA bias updates for the PGNS.
187:35:33	Schmitt	Okay. Go ahead.
187:35:35	CC	Okay, a VERB - with a VERB 21 NOUN 01, load address l452 with 03045, and load address 1454 with 05246. Over.
187:36:00	Schmitt	Okay. That's 1452 with 03045; and 1454, 05246.
187:36:07	CC	Readback's good.
187:36:29	PAO	This is Apollo Control now 25 minutes from Lunar lift-off. Aboard Challenger, the crew has set up their guidance computer in program 12, which is the program used for the Lunar lift-off. And we're less than 1 minute now, from regaining radio contact with Ron Evans aboard America.
187:36:55	Schmitt	Okay. They're in, Houston.
187:36:57	CC	Okay. Look good to us.
187:37:23	PAO	And, we've had acquisition of signal now, from the CSM. About 10 minutes from now, the Lunar Module's scheduled to begin pressurizing the ASCENT propulsion tanks.
187:38:02	Evans-CM	Hey, Houston; America.
187:38:08	CC	Roger, America. This is Houston. You're loud and clear.
187:38:13	Evans-CM	Okay, Gordo. Got my suit on.
187:38:18	CC	Okay, Ron. We gave you the wrong skinny on the comm configuration last rev. We're actually, now, in a full MSFN relay mode. We'd like you to stay off of VOX. Over.
187:38:36	Evans-CM	Can do. I'm off VOX.
187:39:11	CC	Challenger, Houston. When you get to a break point, I have some words on what you can expect in the way of guidance steering. Over.
187:39:21	Cernan	Stand by.
187:40:00	Cernan	Okay, Gordy. You can go ahead and talk while we're putting our helmets and gloves on.
187:40:05	CC	Okay. We never got around to debriefing you on PDI, but the out-of-plane indications you saw on the AGS during descent were proper. We had changed your - your vector slightly just prior to PDI, and so the AGS was navigating and indicating properly. We just ran the present ascent targets in the LMS with the half-a-mile crossrange as shown on the pad, and you're going to be steering south. That's the way the steering direction goes. That's to your left, for Geno's benefit. And the crosspointer indicated a maximum of about 13 feet-per-second out-of-plane velocity at about ignition plus 3 minutes and 50 seconds, and then came on back to zero. Over. That - that velocity was AGS velocity.
187:41:10	Schmitt	Okay, Gordo. That's good information to have.
187:41:19	Cernan	Understand; the AGS on that one. Okay.
187:42:33	PAO	This is Apollo control coming up now on 18 minutes until lunar liftoff.
187:42:35	Evans-CM	Okay, Houston. America maneuvering to attitude.
187:42:40	CC	Roger, America.
187:42:51	PAO	And flight director Gene Kranz has just gone around the room checked with all flight controllers. We're go for lunar liftoff.
187:42:51	Evans-CM	Also I'll start pumping up the cabin, DIRECT O2.
187:42:56	CC	Okay.
187:43:00	Schmitt	ASCENT WATER is OPEN, Houston.
187:43:02	CC	Roger.
187:43:27	PAO	And we've now switched over to the water on the ascent stage to be used in cooling electronic equipment, as called for in the flight plan. There was some concern that we would run out of descent water before we switched over to ascent water, but the water in the descent stage lasted as long as it was required.
187:44:16	Cernan	Okay, Houston. We're at lift-off minus 17 minutes, and VERB 47 is going over.
187:44:22	CC	Roger, Challenger.
187:45:36	CC	America, we see your cabin at 5.5.
187:45:44	Evans-CM	Okay, thank you.
187:45:55	Evans-CM	DIRECT O2 is CLOSED.
187:46:02	Cernan	Houston, the DESCENT BATTS are coming OFF.
187:46:05	CC	Roger.
187:46:13	CC	America, it looks like, to us here, your maneuver has stopped. Maybe you hit the stick.
187:46:25	Evans-CM	You roll around in this thing, you knock the thing off of lock.
187:46:34	PAO	This is Apollo control now 15 minutes from lunar liftoff. The descent stage tanks have been depressurized. We're about 1 minute now from beginning pressurization of the ascent stage tanks.
187:46:48	CC	Challenger, we're recommending PGNS direct rendezvous.
187:46:54	Cernan	Roger, Gordo; understand. PGNS direct rendezvous for Challenger.
187:48:09	CC	America; OMNI Delta, please.
187:48:35	CC	America, Houston; voice check.
187:48:38	Cernan	Okay, hold -
187:48:53	Cernan	Hello, Houston; Challenger. Circuit breakers are configured. We're on the top of 8-l6.
187:49:00	CC	Challenger, Houston. Okay; sounds good.
187:49:09	Cernan	And we're standing by for lift-off minus 10.
187:49:12	CC	Roger.
187:49:26	Cernan	And, Houston, are you in relay now?
187:49:31	CC	We had - we lost high gain on America, so we inhibited the down-link. We're not in relay, no.
187:49:42	Cernan	Okay.
187:49:44	CC	We're actually in a one-way relay. Ron should be able to hear you, but not vice versa.
187:50:25	PAO	This is Apollo Control. Gene Kranz now getting a GO for ascent stage pressurization.
187:50:52	Cernan	Okay, Houston; coming up on 10 minutes. And we're ready to pressurize the APS.
187:50:57	CC	Okay; you're GO to pressurize the APS.
187:51:05	Cernan	Okay. The MASTER ARM is coming ON. I've got two good lights.
187:51:13	Cernan	TANK 1 is SELECTED. Okay, ASCENT HELIUM PRESS TANK 1, FIRE. Ready; 3, 2, 1 -
187:51:24	Cernan	MARK it. We got a squib fired, Houston.
187:51:28	CC	Roger.
187:51:38	PAO	And we can confirm the ascent stage tanks are pressurizing.
187:51:43	CC	Challenger, you're GO for TANK 2.
187:51:48	Cernan	Okay, understand; GO for TANK 2. Ready? Okay. 3, 2, 1 -
187:51:57	Cernan	MARK it. TANK 2. We got the squib.
187:52:12	CC	Okay, Challenger. Both tanks look good.
187:52:14	Cernan	Wonder why they didn't balance off?
187:52:19	Cernan	Okay. MASTER ARM is coming OFF, and the lights are out.
187:52:24	Cernan	Okay, Jack. SYSTEM A ASCENT FEED 2, OPEN. Okay, monitor your - okay.
187:52:39	Cernan	SYSTEM A MAIN SOV, CLOSED. How does it look to you?
187:52:44	Schmitt	Fine.
187:52:44	Cernan	Okay; B ASCENT FEED 2, OPEN. I can feel them in the floor when they go.
187:52:52	Cernan	Okay; and B MAIN SOV, CLOSED. Check your manifold pressures. Are you happy?
187:53:02	Cernan	Okay, Houston. We got ASCEKT FEED.
187:53:06	CC	Roger. And America, can you read Houston? Over.
187:53:14	Evans-CM	America. Roger. Loud and clear.
187:53:16	CC	Okay, Ron. You're loud and clear.
187:53:27	Cernan	Okay. We're standing by for 5. Houston, Challenger is GO for lift-off. We're at 7:54 and counting.
187:53:39	CC	Roger, Challenger. You're GO for lift-off.
187:53:47	Cernan	Roger. Understand. Challenger is GO for lift-off.
187:54:01	CC	Challenger, Houston. We think the transducer in tank 2 has shifted. We want you to monitor tank 1 for APS helium. Over.
187:54:13	Schmitt	Roger. We were looking at that, and we'll monitor 1.
187:54:17	Cernan	What of this do you want?
187:54:19	Schmitt	I need the - the big one there, with the cards in it.
187:54:47	Cernan	Here you go.
187:54:48	Schmitt	Thank you.
187:54:48	Cernan	That's all right.
187:54:51	Schmitt	Okay.
187:55:18	Cernan	Okay. Let's go over the APS burn card.
187:55:19	Schmitt	Okay. My DISPLAY/ENGINE OVERRIDE LOGIC breaker is IN; circuit breakers STAB/CONTROL all CLOSED on panel 11, except AEA and DECA POWER.
187:55:30	Cernan	Okay. STAB/CONTROL breakers are all CLOSED, except AEA and DECA POWER.
187:55:33	Schmitt	Okay. LOGIC breakers IN.
187:55:34	Cernan	LOGIC breakers IN.
187:55:36	Cernan	And all of mine are CLOSED except DESCENT ENGINE OVERRIDE. LOGIC'S IN.
187:55:40	Schmitt	Okay. RATE SCALE, 25 DEGREES PER SECOND.
187:55:42	Cernan	25.
187:55:43	Schmitt	ATTITUDE/TRANSLATION, 4 JETS.
187:55:45	Cernan	4 JETS.
187:55:46	Schmitt	BALANCE COUPLE, ON.
187:55:46	Cernan	ON.
187:55:47	Schmitt	DEAD BAND, MIN.
187:55:48	Cernan	DEAD BAND in MIN.
187:55:49	Schmitt	ABORT/ABORT STAGE, RESET.
187:55:50	Cernan	ABORT/ABORT STAGE are RESET.
187:55:51	Schmitt	ATTITUDE CONTROL, three, to MODE CONTROL.
187:55:55	Cernan	ATTITUDE CONTROL, three, on MODE CONTROL.
187:55:57	Schmitt	Okay. And you're going to be in AUTO and ATT HOLD
187:56:01	Cernan	PGNS is AUTO, and AGS is ATT HOLD.
187:56:03	Schmitt	Stop pushbuttons are reset, and - -
187:56:05	Cernan	Reset here.
187:56:05	Schmitt	- - And you're in JETS.
187:56:07	Cernan	And I'm in JETS.
187:56:08	Schmitt	Okay.
187:56:12	Cernan	Okay, let's take a swing around the systems.
187:56:16	Schmitt	I just did. Everything looks good. The propellant pressure is holding up. We're tied to the ascent tanks on the RCS.
187:56:25	Cernan	Okay; 5 minutes and my -
187:56:28	Schmitt	That EC - -
187:56:28	Cernan	RENDEZVOUS RADAR breaker is CLOSED.
187:56:35	Cernan	And let's go to the timeline book.
187:56:37	Schmitt	Got it. Takes care of everything in here.
187:57:02	Cernan	Okay. At 2 minutes, I'll get the MASTER ARM. We already are VOX. You'll get 400 plus 1.
187:57:11	Schmitt	Okay. And I'll get the camera and - -
187:57:13	Cernan	Okay. At 10 seconds, I'll hit the ABORT STAGE, followed by the ENGINE ARM to ASCENT. You get the PRO. I'll backup the start. If we don't get a start, I'll go GUIDANCE CONTROL to AGS. I'll wipe out the thrusters. I'll go AGS AUTO. And if we don't get a start, we'll back off. Okay?
187:57:41	Schmitt	Okay.
187:57:52	Schmitt	Houston, we have an awful lot of noise coming up.
187:57:57	CC	Okay, Challenger. I understand.
187:58:01	Schmitt	I think we can read you, Gordy. You sound pretty good now.
187:58:06	CC	Roger.
187:58:12	PAO	Three minutes now till lift off. Everything looks good.
187:58:14	Cernan	That's VHF noise, Jack. VHF B.
187:58:26	Schmitt	Okay. I can cut it out with a high squelch on Bravo.
187:58:33	Cernan	Okay, Houston. Challenger's at 2 minutes and 50 seconds.
187:58:40	CC	Roger, Challenger - -
187:58:41	Cernan	We're GO for PGNS --
187:58:41	CC	Everything looks great down here.
187:58:43	Cernan	- - direct. Okay.
187:58:59	Schmitt	I'm not going to be able to squelch him out any more.
187:59:01	Cernan	Okay.
187:59:03	Schmitt	Turn the volume down a little bit.
187:59:12	Cernan	Reading you loud and clear, America. This is Challenger. We're coming up on 02:10 from lift-off.
187:59:24	Schmitt	We'll be with you shortly.
187:59:28	Cernan	Okay, Jack, double check your logic power breaker.
187:59:31	Schmitt	Checked.
187:59:32	Cernan	Okay, MASTER ARM is ON. I've got two good lights.
187:59:36	Schmitt	Okay. My - I've got 400 plus 1 in.
187:59:38	Cernan	Okay.
187:59:45	Schmitt	My watch is reset.
187:59:55	Cernan	Okay. You got 367. You want to pick up the camera just before I hit ABORT STAGE.
188:00:18	PAO	Coining up on 1 minute, and we look good.
188:00:22	Schmitt	One minute coming up, Gene.
188:00:26	Cernan	Take your final look at the valley of Taurus-Littrow, except from orbit. Okay, 1 minute, Houston. We're 50 seconds now, and we're GO.
188:00:41	CC	Roger. You're looking good here.
188:00:44	Cernan	I'll get that at 30.
188:00:46	Schmitt	Okay.
188:00:59	Schmitt	Camera - camera's not going to run without me holding it.
188:01:07	PAO	15 seconds.
188:01:09	Cernan	Okay. Average g, 20 seconds.
188:01:12	Schmitt	Ah, shoot!
188:01:14	Cernan	Okay. Now, let's get off. Forget the camera.
188:01:17	Schmitt	Ten seconds.
188:01:17	Cernan	- - 10 seconds.
188:01:19	Schmitt	ABORT STAGE.
188:01:19	Cernan	ABORT STAGE.
188:01:19	Cernan	- - pushed. ENGINE ARM is ASCENT.
188:01:21	Schmitt	Okay. I'm going to get the PRO; 99 PROCEEDED; 3, 2, 1 -
188:01:28	Schmitt	IGNITION.
188:01:29	Cernan	We're on our way, Houston!
188:01:31	Schmitt	Rates are good. AGS solid.
188:01:38	Schmitt	Pitchover!
188:01:38	Cernan	Pitchover!
188:01:40	CC	Roger. You have good thrust.
188:01:48	Schmitt	Okay, 30 seconds; 308's your number.
188:01:52	Cernan	Okay, coming through 1500 feet.
188:01:53	Schmitt	And H-dot looks good.
188:01:55	CC	Roger. We've lost data right now, but we - we'd like AFT OMNI, AFT OMNI, please.
188:02:06	Cernan	Okay; coming up on 40 seconds. And we're GO - coming right over the top of Camelot.
188:02:13	PAO	And, we show an altitude of 2700 feet.
188:02:15	Cernan	Awful lot of static, Jack. We break lock?
188:02:18	Schmitt	Yes.
188:02:18	Cernan	Why don't you get it on an OMNI, or something?
188:02:21	Schmitt	Yes, I got it. It's on the OMNI.
188:02:22	Cernan	See if you can get comm back.
188:02:24	Schmitt	Hello, Houston. How do you read?
188:02:26	CC	Roger, Challenger. You're loud and clear, and both systems look good. You're right on the line.
188:02:29	Schmitt	Okay. Should be about 145 and minus 47.
188:02:36	PAO	Altitude 5500 feet.
188:02:37	Cernan	See if we can get comm.
188:02:40	Schmitt	I will.
188:02:48	PAO	Both guidance systems agree, we're nearing 8000 feet altitude. Ascent engine performing very well.
188:03:02	Cernan	01:30, Houston. We're in the blind, and we're GO.
188:03:04	CC	Roger. We'd like the AGS to AUTO.
188:03:06	Schmitt	Okay. I got good lock - No. Trying to hold.
188:03:16	Cernan	Okay, Houston; coming up on 2 minutes - -
188:03:21	CC	Challenger, Houston. You're GO at 2 minutes. We'd like AGS to MODE CONTROL AUTO. Over.
188:03:21	Cernan	- - Challenger is GO and coming through l4K.
188:03:33	Schmitt	Okay. You watch the table, Geno.
188:03:34	Cernan	I'm watching it. Just get comm, if you can.
188:03:41	CC	Challenger, Houston. How do you copy Houston?
188:03:47	Cernan	Okay, Houston. Challenger's GO; coming up on 02:30. We're through 19K.
188:03:54	CC	Roger, Challenger. We need a 623 plus 10,000 in the AGS. Over.
188:04:04	Schmitt	Well, those are the angles.
188:04:07	Evans	How about an - an OMNI - -
188:04:08	Schmitt	I've got - I tried it. I've got -
188:04:17	CC	Challenger, Houston. AFT OMNI, please. Would you relay, America?
188:04:22	Cernan	Okay, Houston. Three minutes, and Challenger is GO. We're through 25K.
188:04:31	Schmitt	I tried it - I tried it, Ron, and it doesn't hold. It doesn't help.
188:04:36	Cernan	Try AFT OMNI again, Jack.
188:04:39	CC	America, Houston. Tell Challenger - -
188:04:41	Schmitt	All my comm breakers are in.
188:04:43	Cernan	Try AFT OMNI again.
188:04:43	CC	- - that they're right on the money on trajectory; both systems are GO. Over.
188:04:46	Cernan	Okay, Houston. In the blind, Challenger's GO; coming up on 03:25 and at 30K.
188:04:52	CC	Okay - -
188:04:52	Schmitt	There's AFT. How do you read, Houston?
188:04:56	CC	America, would you relay to Challenger to go AFT OMNI?
188:05:02	Schmitt	We are AFT OMNI. How do you read?
188:05:04	Evans	Okay, they are in AFT OMNI right now.
188:05:08	CC	Okay, America, tell Challenger - -
188:05:09	Schmitt	And we're reading Houston.
188:05:10	CC	- - we're reading them 5 by.
188:05:15	Schmitt	Okay. We're reading you, Houston.
188:05:17	CC	Okay, Jack - -
188:05:18	Evans	Okay, Challenger, America.
188:05:19	CC	- - we need a 623 plus 10,000. Jack, give us a 623 plus 10,000.
188:05:27	Cernan	Okay, 4 minutes. Challenger's GO. We're through 37K.
188:05:31	CC	Roger, Challenger. You're looking good here.
188:05:33	Schmitt	Okay, that's in.
188:05:37	PAO	We're about 3 minutes from shutdown now.
188:05:38	Cernan	NOUN 37 says we got about a 07:16 burn, Jack.
188:05:47	PAO	Altitude approaching 40,000.
188:05:48	Cernan	Okay, at 04:30, I'll be about 282 coming through 41k.
188:05:53	Schmitt	Okay, 04:30. 282 is great; 41K is great, 73 is good; AGS and PGNS are right together.
188:06:04	Cernan	Okay, Houston. Challenger is GO. We're now through 43.5.
188:06:15	CC	Challenger, Houston. We'd like to terminate ASCENT FEED now.
188:06:23	Schmitt	Okay, MAIN SOV is going ON.
188:06:27	CC	And the reason is the mixture ratio problem. - -
188:06:28	Schmitt	ASCENT FEED, CLOSED.
188:06:30	CC	- - That's just to be conservative and safe. Over.
188:06:35	Cernan	Understand. And we're going 5, and we're now out of 48K.
188:06:44	Schmitt	Okay, the camera's stopped.
188:06:46	Cernan	Okay, burn time's going to be about 18 or 19, 07:18 or 07:19, Jack.
188:06:50	Schmitt	Okay.
188:06:54	PAO	About a minute and a half to go. We look good. Altitude 50,000 feet.
188:06:56	Schmitt	Okay. The AGS has us just about in plane.
188:06:58	Cernan	PGNS and AGS are looking good.
188:06:59	Schmitt	A little bit north.
188:07:02	Cernan	Okay, Houston, 05:40. Challenger's coming through 52K. And PGNS says 126 on the H-dot. We're GO.
188:07:09	Schmitt	AGS likes the plane.
188:07:10	CC	Roger, Challenger. Your trajectory is right on the money. Both systems are GO.
188:07:21	Cernan	Get a good shutoff time now.
188:07:23	Schmitt	Okay.
188:07:24	Cernan	Okay, it'll be 20 - 07:20 on the shutoff.
188:07:26	Schmitt	Okay, we've already terminated ASCENT FEED. You got 1300 to go.
188:07:30	Cernan	Okay. Let's doublecheck everything now.
188:07:34	Schmitt	You got that; you want - -
188:07:35	Cernan	Next move is at 200 feet. ENGINE ARM OFF with 200 to go. AGS and PGNS are right together. We got about another minute to go, Houston. And we're coming up on 57K.
188:07:44	PAO	Lunar module now nearing orbital velocity, about 4500 feet per second.
188:07:50	CC	Roger. And we agree with the - -
188:07:51	Schmitt	900 to go.
188:07:52	Cernan	... out nicely. Okay, H-dot is rounding right out to the target.
188:07:59	Schmitt	700 to go.
188:07:59	Cernan	Coming up -
188:08:01	CC	Okay, normal shutdown and normal trim procedures.
188:08:03	Schmitt	Thank you.
188:08:06	Cernan	Roger. Normal shutdown, normal trim. Give me a hack at 200, Jack.
188:08:14	Schmitt	Okay, it's 500 now -
188:08:15	Schmitt	MARK it, and the ascent feeds are already terminated.
188:08:17	Cernan	Okay. Very good.
188:08:22	PAO	LM velocity now nearly a mile a second.
188:08:23	Cernan	Seven minutes, Houston. And we're passing 59K.
188:08:26	Schmitt	300; stand by. 200 to go.
188:08:29	PAO	Coming up on shutdown.
188:08:32	Schmitt	MARK it.
188:08:33	Cernan	Okay, ENGINE ARM is OFF.
188:08:36	Schmitt	Okay, stand by for shutdown; 80, 50 -
188:08:41	Schmitt	SHUTDOWN!
188:08:42	Cernan	Okay, AUTO shutdown - -
188:08:43	Schmitt	AUTO shutdown.
188:08:43	Cernan	- - Houston, AUTO shutdown.
188:08:46	CC	Roger.
188:08:53	PAO	Flight Dynamics officer says we can expect a tweak burn to trim up the orbit.
188:08:55	Cernan	Okay, no trim, Houston; no trim.
188:08:57	CC	Roger. We're reading the DSKY.
188:08:59	Cernan	We're showing a 50 by 9.1.
188:09:04	CC	Roger. And MSFN confirms that orbit.
188:09:09	Schmitt	Okay. AGS got a little bit of out of plane. First in was 0900. Okay, ENGINE STOP is RESET.
188:09:28	Cernan	Get in the attitude for the tweak. Okay.
188:09:33	Schmitt	Okay, AGS says it's 9.1.
188:09:44	CC	Challenger, Houston. There will be a tweak. Stand by for it.
188:09:50	Schmitt	48 by 9.1; 49 by 9.1.
188:10:04	Cernan	Okay, that's our attitude. We're in attitude for the tweak.
188:10:08	PAO	TWEAK burn, a little less than 3 minutes from now, to put the LM in the proper orbit for the rendezvous sequence.
188:10:11	CC	Okay, Challenger. Here is your tweak. Ignition is at 12 plus 12; Vx is a minus 4.0; Y, minus 9.0; and Z, plus 1.0. That's at 12:12; minus 4; minus 9; and plus 1.
188:10:34	Schmitt	Roger. That's at 12:12; minus 4; minus 9; and plus 1.
188:10:39	CC	That's a good readback.
188:10:44	PAO	This will be a very small maneuver performed with the reaction control system thrusters on the Lunar Module.
188:10:50	Cernan	Okay, that's out of - Okay, at 12:12, Jack, we'll do the X, Z, Y. I'll do minus 4. Then I'll do plus 1; and then I'll get the Y. That's going to be aft, forward, and left. At 12:12, another minute.
188:11:03	Schmitt	Okay.
188:11:05	Cernan	We're in the attitude; let me get - -
188:11:08	Schmitt	Say again. You're going to do X and then - -
188:11:10	Cernan	- - X, Z, Y.
188:11:11	Schmitt	X, Z, Y. All right. AGS is ready.
188:11:32	Cernan	Okay, we've got P47. Standing by for 12:12.
188:11:36	Schmitt	Okay, it's 10 - 20 seconds away. Okay?
188:11:43	Cernan	Okay, I'm going to do X first. Okay, let's do it.
188:12:02	Schmitt	Okay, you want 4. Little more. Okay?
188:12:09	Cernan	Okay, and 1 forward.
188:12:13	PAO	TWEAK burn is in progress.
188:12:21	Cernan	Okay. Here's 1 forward; I'm going 9 left.
188:12:23	Schmitt	Okay. Keep her coming, keep her coming, keep her coming, 9 left. That's it.
188:12:38	Cernan	Okay, Houston, I read -
188:12:40	Schmitt	Now that's it.
188:12:42	Cernan	Let me get this in.
188:12:45	Schmitt	Good, good.
188:12:47	Cernan	Okay, Houston; 4.1, 9.0, and 1.1. - -
188:12:50	CC	Okay, that's good.
188:12:50	Cernan	- - minus, minus, plus. Okay, 47.7 by 9.5.
188:13:02	CC	Roger.
188:13:08	Cernan	There's those mysterious noises.
188:13:09	Schmitt	Yes, that's right.
188:13:13	Evans	Okay, Challenger; America. I'm going to try to get the VHF ranging reset.
188:13:22	Schmitt	Go ahead. We'll keep quiet.
188:13:24	Evans	Okay, reset - now.
188:13:29	PAO	And, we confirmed an orbit on the ground very closely - agrees very closely with the orbit calculated onboard of 48 by 9 nautical miles.
188:13:45	Evans	That wouldn't quite do it. Let me try it again.
188:14:08	CC	Challenger, Houston. We'd like FORWARD OMNI.
188:14:10	Schmitt	... 36.6 ... Okay; you've got it, Houston.
188:14:18	CC	Okay, you're loud and clear.
188:14:22	Schmitt	That sounds good on the AGS, Ron. Gene's getting lockon yet.
188:14:28	Evans	Okay; great.
188:14:46	Cernan	Okay, that was me, Jack. I just reset the MASTER ARM.
188:14:48	Schmitt	Okay.
188:14:51	Cernan	No functions left on it, anyway.
188:15:48	Schmitt	How you coming, Gene?
188:15:49	Cernan	Coming good.
188:15:50	Schmitt	P20 going, huh? 26.6 breaking - -
188:15:55	Cernan	That's not supposed to take those updates. Until I tell it to.
188:16:18	Schmitt	The AGS likes the tweak.
188:16:22	Cernan	Shaft and trunnion look good.
188:16:25	CC	Challenger, Houston - -
188:16:26	Schmitt	We've gone 127 miles in - 430 feet per second.
188:16:27	CC	- - that 6l6 should be plus four balls 5. Over.
188:16:36	Cernan	Okay, Gordy. I'm - good - good call.
188:16:40	CC	Thank you.
188:16:41	Cernan	Okay, America; Challenger. We've got you at 126 miles locked up hard.
188:16:48	Evans	Okay, I got you 125.2 miles now.
188:16:55	Schmitt	You want that relay still on, Gene? We're getting a repeat on Ron.
188:17:01	Evans	I tell you what, I'll - let's turn the VHF off.
188:17:07	Cernan	Up to you, Ron.
188:17:11	Evans	Okay, I'm just going to turn the VHF off.
188:17:15	CC	Challenger, Houston. There will be no vector update, no PIPA update. The NOUN 49s you're seeing are what we expect. You can go ahead and accept them.
188:17:28	Schmitt	Okay, Geno. You can - RANGE/RANGE RATE, shaft and trunnion are all GO - -
188:17:34	Cernan	Roger, Gordo.
188:17:34	Schmitt	Okay, you like everything?
188:17:36	Cernan	You can start taking your marks, Jack.
188:17:38	Schmitt	Okay - -
188:17:38	Cernan	The DAP is changed.
188:17:39	Schmitt	- - 122. AGS likes the range.
188:17:44	CC	Challenger, Houston. Also you're GO for APS TPI.
188:17:51	Cernan	Roger. GO for APS TPI. We're looking good onboard.
188:18:01	CC	America, Houston - -
188:18:02	Schmitt	Okay.
188:18:02	CC	- - the NOUN 29 you have there looks good to us.
188:18:07	Schmitt	Okay, I checked the inverter. You can pull INVERTER 1 breaker.
188:18:10	Cernan	INVERTER 1 breaker PULLED.
188:18:12	Evans	I'm going to ... Okay, you want me to - you're not going to ship me a vector?
188:18:18	CC	Negative. No up-link for you either, Ron.
188:18:25	Evans	Okay.
188:19:04	Schmitt	Houston, you happy with the OMNIs from the Challenger?
188:19:10	CC	That's affirmative. Keep it like it is.
188:19:18	Schmitt	Okay. Terminator's coming up, Geno. We got lights and everything we need?
188:19:31	PAO	This is Apollo control. We show the lunar module, Challenger, in an orbit of 47.9 by 9.3 nautical miles now. The CSM in a nearly circular 62 nautical mile orbit. The flight dynamics officer at this time is working up the information that will be used by the lunar module crew in their terminal phase initiation maneuver that puts the lunar module on an intersecting orbit with the command module to be performed with the ascent propulsion system engine.
188:20:00	Schmitt	AGS looks good.
188:20:02	Evans	Challenger, America. I don't see you in the sextant yet. But it's probably because of Sun shafting or something.
188:20:33	Schmitt	Okay, anytime you want them. Okay, ready? 188?
188:20:44	Cernan	Hello, Houston. Challenger has a visual on America at about 112 miles.
188:20:50	CC	Okay, and America's just called. I don't know if you heard him. He hasn't got you in the sextant yet. You might check your light on. He is getting VHF marks. Over.
188:21:02	Cernan	Okay, light is ON.
188:21:08	Schmitt	Okay, 55 and 5700. That's good. That's right.
188:21:18	PAO	That was Jack Schmitt confirming visual acquisition of the Command Module about 112 miles away.
188:22:02	Schmitt	The AGS saw that out of plane, Geno.
188:22:37	CC	Challenger, this is Houston. I have a MSFN TPI for you.
188:22:44	Schmitt	Go ahead.
188:22:46	CC	Okay. DELTA-V is a plus 74.0; Y, plus 3.9; and Z, plus 9.0. DELTA-V total is 74.7. And, for once, they didn't give us the braking, Jack.
188:23:10	Schmitt	(Laughter) Okay, plus 74.0, plus 3.9, plus 9.0, and total 74.0.
188:23:24	CC	That total is 74.7.
188:23:30	Schmitt	Sorry. Okay, 74.7.
188:24:06	Schmitt	I'm working on my third mark.
188:24:08	Cernan	And, Houston; Challenger. I still have a visual on America.
188:24:13	CC	Okay. I'm sure Ron's problem is he is looking into the Sun.
188:24:19	Cernan	That's right because he's sunlit up there.
188:24:21	Evans	Oh, you are correct, Houston.
188:24:23	CC	Challenger, we'd like AFT OMNI now.
188:24:29	Schmitt	Okay, going AFT.
188:24:38	Evans	America, how do you read Challenger?
188:24:40	Schmitt	He's not - he's turned his VHF off. You want it on?
188:24:47	Evans	I'm reading you relay now, Challenger. This is America.
188:24:52	Cernan	Okay, that's fine, Ron.
188:25:00	Evans	Let me know when you want a voice - VHF voice check, there, and we'll make sure we go to VHF.
188:25:08	Schmitt	Okay. And we're holding you at 93 miles right now.
188:25:14	Evans	Roger. That'd be about 92.7, which is probably the delay.
188:25:24	Cernan	Okay, and you just went into darkness up there. I lost you.
188:25:37	Evans	Should be able to see you now, then.
188:25:43	Cernan	Yes, we're also in darkness.
188:25:45	Evans	You sure you got your tracker light on?
188:25:49	Cernan	That's affirm. I can see it flashing. We do have our tracker light on.
188:25:56	Schmitt	See it flashing?
188:25:57	Cernan	Yes, I see a reflection on - -
188:26:05	Evans	Oh, I see it. Hey, I can't see you in the telescope, but I got you right in the sextant.
188:26:12	Cernan	Good. Outstanding, Babe.
188:26:19	Schmitt	I got it. ...
188:26:26	CC	Challenger, Houston. No update on your LM weight.
188:26:34	Cernan	Okay; understand. No update on the weight.
188:26:53	Evans	And, Houston, I'm going to accept that because he was about 1 degree - almost to the edge of the sextant.
188:27:07	Schmitt	Houston, can you tell Challenger what's wrong with our high gain?
188:27:12	CC	Stand by, Challenger. For America, go ahead and accept that one.
188:27:19	Evans	Okay, brought him right in - This is America - brought him right into the center.
188:27:39	CC	Challenger, Houston. Jack - -
188:27:42	Schmitt	Okay, Houston - -
188:27:42	CC	- - if you have a free moment, you might try the steerable again: PITCH, 120; YAW, minus 70.
188:27:56	Schmitt	Okeydoke, Gordy; 120 and minus 70.
188:28:29	Schmitt	Okay, Houston, that's AUTO or. the HIGH GAIN. How do you read?
188:28:33	CC	Jack, you're loud and clear. Looks good.
188:28:38	Schmitt	Gordy, I don't know what broke lock. Did you read us all through ascent? We had some up-link signal strength.
188:28:46	CC	That's affirmative. We read you loud and clear all the way. We haven't figured it out either.
188:28:54	Schmitt	Okay, we had a loud up-link squeal - -
188:28:58	CC	Roger.
188:28:58	Schmitt	- - on all - on OMNIs - on OMNIs as well as high gain.
188:29:04	CC	Roger.
188:29:04	Cernan	That's steerable.
188:29:06	Schmitt	Excuse me.
188:29:08	Cernan	Okay, Gordy, Challenger's state vector is locked in with the raw data. We've got 12 marks going for us now.
188:29:16	CC	Roger.
188:29:29	Cernan	And, Houston, could we have an LOS time, please?
188:29:33	CC	Yes. Stand by.
188:29:54	CC	Challenger, LOS should be 188:51:15.
188:30:04	Cernan	Roger. 51:15.
188:30:44	PAO	This is Apollo Control. We now show America leading Challenger by about 78 nautical miles. The two vehicles closing at about 300 feet per second. And we have about 21 minutes now remaining before we lose contact with the Command Module and we'll lose the LM, which is in a lower orbit 1 minute earlier than that. Shortly after disappearing behind the Moon and shortly after we lose radio contact with the two vehicles, they'll be performing the terminal phase initiate maneuver from the Lunar Module. That will be a burn using the ascent propulsion system engine, a 3500 pound thrust engine imparting an increase in velocity about 74.7 feet per second. This maneuver will place the LM on an intersecting trajectory with the CSM for rendezvous.
188:31:59	Cernan	America, Challenger. We got you now just under 72 miles, and we're 279 feet per second closing.
188:32:10	Evans	Okay, got you 71 miles.
188:33:07	Evans	Hello, Challenger; America. You still there? I lost all my noise.
188:33:13	Cernan	Affirm. We're still here. And, Ron, that ... is coming right up the pike.
188:33:34	CC	Challenger, Houston. For your information, the out-of-plane difference that we - that you probably saw there during ascent was - we think, in the PGNS. The AGS is okay. There's probably a slight ... in the PGNS.
188:33:51	Cernan	Okay, Gordy. Understand.
188:34:05	CC	Challenger and America, Houston. If that noise, which is due to low signal strength on America, is bothering anyone, we could break down the relay and let you talk to each other VHF. Over.
188:34:19	Cernan	Yes, sir, Houston. This is Challenger. Let's break down the relay. And, America, let's go VHF.
188:34:25	CC	Okay.
188:34:27	Evans	Okay, America. I'm on VHF.
188:34:36	Evans	Okay; good.
188:34:42	Cernan	Okay, Houston. We have America on VHF.
188:34:46	CC	Roger.
188:34:53	Evans	I still got your echo there, Challenger. This is America.
188:35:04	Cernan	Okay.
188:35:09	Schmitt	Gordy, you want to give us an explanation of the ascent engine mixture ratio problem.
188:35:18	CC	Let me get that story myself. We're still looking at the data. I'll try to have one for you before we lose you, at least the next time around we will.
188:35:30	Schmitt	Okay. Yes. Go ahead. Go ahead. How many marks you got? 35.5. Okay. Go ahead. Go. Go.
188:36:11	Schmitt	Well, not very in Z; 15 feet per second difference But it agrees with the AGS, if that makes you feel any better.
188:36:22	Cernan	Hello, Houston. You were looking at our NOUN 8ls on the recycle. That's 17 marks.
188:36:28	CC	Roger, Challenger. And what it was on the APS there, we saw an indication, probably due to a temperature shift, which was a possible indication of unbalance in propellant usage there. And it was sort of confirmed by an increase in the roll moment offset, so we just played the conservative thing and terminated ascent feed.
188:36:59	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. Thank you. I was just curious exactly what it was.
188:37:05	CC	Okay, and it's no problem for our TPI on the APS.
188:37:12	Schmitt	Understand.
188:37:36	Evans	Okay, Challenger; America. I got some NOUN 8l for you to recycle.
188:37:43	Schmitt	Okay.
188:37:47	Evans	I agree with you pretty well.
188:38:00	Schmitt	Outstanding.
188:38:11	Evans	Well, I say TPI is about 4.9, or 5 feet a second.
188:38:19	CC	America, Houston. Let's try the HIGH GAIN: PITCH, 0; YAW, 30; MANUAL and WIDE and leave it in MANUAL.
188:38:32	Evans	Hey, relay to me. I can't hear then, Challenger. Can you do that?
188:38:45	CC	Challenger, Houston - -
188:38:45	Evans	That's all right. I'll get them.
188:38:50	Schmitt	Go ahead, Houston. This is Challenger.
188:38:52	CC	Okay, would you relay to America to try the HIGH GAIN: PITCH, 0; YAW, 30; MANUAL and WIDE.
188:39:02	Schmitt	You want PITCH, 0; YAW at 30; MANUAL and WIDE. That's pitch, 0, yaw 30; MANUAL and WIDE.
188:39:11	CC	Yes, that's affirmative.
188:39:13	Evans	Okay, I got it.
188:39:17	Schmitt	Okay. He's working at it.
188:39:20	Evans	It doesn't work. B is better than that. There's OMNI A; how's that?
188:39:29	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 188 hours 39 minutes. The noise we're getting on the communications circuits right now is coming from the CSM link and we hope to improve that by getting the Command Module in operation on it's high gain antenna, which will increase our signal strengths and should cut down the noise quite a bit.
188:40:28	CC	Challenger, Houston. Over.
188:40:29	Evans	Houston, America. How do you read?
188:40:33	Schmitt	Go ahead, Houston. This is Challenger,
188:40:35	CC	Okay. Stand by, America. We just barely read you. Go ahead.
188:40:42	Evans	Okay, just checking. I can read you loud and clear now.
188:40:45	CC	Okay, you're readable. For Challenger, the MSFN Z was kind of weak. We're expecting more like a plus 20 for the DELTA-Vz solution for TPI, and that's what all the airborne systems seem to be converging on. Over.
188:41:05	Cernan	That sounds right. We prepared that way up here. Glad to hear that. Thank you.
188:41:10	CC	Roger.
188:41:19	PAO	The numbers that the crew aboard Challenger will use for the TPI or Terminal Phase Initiate maneuver are generated onboard. The numbers from the ground are used as backup.
188:41:29	Cernan	And, Houston, Challenger. We're plotting them right on the black line. Coming right up the pike.
188:41:36	CC	Okeydoke. Sounds great.
188:41:47	Evans	Okay, Challenger; America. I got you 49 miles now. Okay?
188:41:54	PAO	Challenger's radar shows the LM now 49 miles behind the CSM, closing at the rate of 178 feet per second. And we have about 10 minutes now until loss of radio contact as the vehicles go behind the Moon. About 13 minutes 25 seconds until TPI initiate.
188:42:31	Evans	Okay. I'll check it again pretty quick, but I had the running lights and the rendezvous light on.
188:42:48	CC	Challenger, this is Houston. If you lose the steerables ... blockage, go to AFT OMNI.
188:42:58	Schmitt	Roger.
188:43:22	Evans	Okay, Challenger; America. They're both checked on. I'm going to check the circuit breakers.
188:43:37	Cernan	Yes. They are both IN, and I - I just started picking you up in the telescope.
188:44:09	Evans	(Laughter) You're going to sleep with them. They're too big.
188:44:20	Evans	(Laughter) I don't care what you look like; come on back. I was going to shave and look nice for you, but I didn't have time to shave either. So - (laughter)
188:44:46	PAO	That's Ron Evans aboard America that we're hearing right now.
188:44:53	Evans	Yes, I heard you lost a couple fenders or something.
188:46:48	Evans	I'm with you. I'm already in final comm.
188:46:52	Cernan	Okay, Houston ...
188:46:57	Evans	Your what?
188:46:59	Cernan	... ETA ...
188:47:05	Evans	Well, let me doublecheck it. 188:55:57.00.
188:47:12	Cernan	Beautiful.
188:47:13	Evans	We're lucky. (Laughter)
188:47:19	Evans	That's right.
188:47:20	Cernan	...
188:47:27	Evans	Okay, you ready to copy my NOUN 8ls?
188:47:31	Cernan	Go ahead.
188:47:32	Evans	Minus 75.9 minus 4.8 - -
188:47:35	CC	Challenger, Houston. We'd like AFT OMNI now.
188:47:47	Evans	- - and Z is a minus 17.6.
188:48:05	Evans	Okay, copy correctly. I'm going to maneuver to TPI attitude.
188:48:23	CC	America, Houston. We'd like NARROW and REACQ on the HIGH GAIN.
188:49:37	CC	Challenger, Houston. We see you heading toward gimbal lock. Over.
188:49:44	Cernan	No, you don't. I'm just rolling - yawing.
188:49:51	CC	Okay, let me check back on that call; sorry.
188:49:56	Cernan	Yes, this is just normal procedure. I'm rolling l80.
188:50:01	CC	Okay, we're about 2 minutes to LOS. All the solutions look good to us. I guess, if we apply the voting logic, we go with the PGNS. Over.
188:50:13	Cernan	Okay, we've already decided that we are going to go with the PGNS. All the solutions look good on our onboard comparison, Gordo.
188:50:21	CC	Roger.
188:50:43		BEGIN LUNAR REV 52
188:50:44	PAO	This is Apollo control. We've had loss of signal now from the LM and about 1 more minute we'll lose contact with Ron Evans aboard the Command Module, America. As the two vehicles go behind the Moon on the 51st revolution. Challenger, will be performing the terminal phase initiation maneuver in about 4 minutes 30 seconds. This maneuver computed onboard and their time of ignition and Ground Elapsed Time will be 188 hours 55 minutes 57 seconds. This burn again performed with the ascent propulsion system engine a very short burn between 2 and 3 seconds in duration. And when last we had data from the lunar module radar it showed Challenger 39 miles behind America closing at a rate of about a hundred feet per second. And we've had loss of signal now from the Command Module. We'll be reacquireing vehicles in about 45 minutes. And at that time Challenger should be closing with America going through the final breaking prior to station keeping leading up to docking. The following is a statement from the President of the United Stated of America. "As the Challenger leaves the surface of the Moon we are conscience not of what we leave behind, but of what lies before us. The dreams that draw humanity forward seem always to be redeemed if we believe in them strongly enough and pursue them with diligence and courage. Once we stood mystified by the stars today we reach up to them. we do this not only because it is man's destiny to dream the impossible, to dare the impossible and to do the impossible. But also, because in space as on Earth, there are new answers and new opportunities for the improvement and the enlargement of human existance. This may be the last time in this century that men will walk on the Moon, but space exploration will continue. The benefits of space exploration will continue. The search for knowledge through the exploration of space will continue, and there will be new dreams to pursue based on what we have learned. So let us not mistake the significance nor miss the majesty of what we have witnessed. Few events have ever marked so clearly the passage of history from one epoch to another. If we understand this about the last flight of Apollo then truly we shall have touched a many splendored thing. To Gene Cernan, Jack Schmitt and Ronald Evans we say Godspeed, and safely back to this good Earth." This statement will be available in the MSC news center.
188:58:15	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 188 hours 59 minutes. About 2 minutes 45 seconds ago, Challenger should have performed the Terminal Phase Initiation maneuver that will put the LM on an intersecting trajectory with the Command Module. We would like to recapitulate the lunar liftoff which was nearly normal in all respects. The liftoff occurred at Ground Elapsed Time of 188 hours 1 minute 36 seconds and shutdown occurred 7 minutes 20 seconds, both as predicted. The onboard guidance system, the primary guidance system of the LM calculated an initial orbit of 48 by 9 nautical miles. Correction of 50 by 9 nautical miles, and on the ground we calculated an orbit agreeing very closely with that of 48 by 9. The CSM at this time in an orbit 62 nautical miles circular, nearly circular. There was a period of time during the early phase of the liftoff, at pitchover, which occurs at about 10 seconds, when we lost tracking data. This loss of data lasted for about 3 minutes. Now later in the powered ascent, there was a period of time where the crew aboard Challenger was not receiving voice communications from the Control Center, although we were receiving communications from the LM and we were relaying messages through the Command Module to the Lunar Module. And we don't have an assessment of what caused that problem at this time. We expect to get further information on that later. We'll be reacquiring the vehicles in about 35 minutes as they come back around on the front side of the Moon on the 52nd revolution for the Command Module, America. At 189 hours 1 minute, this is Apollo Control, Houston.
189:34:02	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 189 hours, 34 minutes. We're about 2 minutes now from reacquiring the spacecraft, America and Challenger. At the time we reacquire, the two vehicles should be about 7 miles apart with Challenger behind and below the Command Module, closing at the rate of about 5 feet per second. As they pass out over the front side of the Moon, approaching the landing site at about 190 hours Ground Elapsed Time, they should be in position for docking. And we expect to have television of that event. Docking is unlike some trajectory events not constrained to occur at a specific time, but depends on when the crew feels that they have everything aligned up properly and in a position to move in and dock. But we would expect that we would be fairly close to that time of 190 hours Ground Elapsed Time.
189:36:22	Evans	Okay, Houston, America here.
189:36:27	CC	Roger, America. You're loud and clear.
189:36:33	Evans	Okay. Do you have him on the tube?
189:36:37	CC	Not yet, Ron. I'll let you know.
189:36:41	PAO	And we have a good television picture.
189:36:41	Evans	Okay.
189:36:43	Cernan	Okay, Houston, we're reading you loud and clear. We're at 1 mile and I just broke into 30 feet per second. TPI was nominal.
189:36:54	CC	Okay, Challenger. That's good news.
189:36:59	Cernan	Okay. And the midcourses were all less than 1.6 feet per second, and we're at 0.8 miles now - 5000 feet.
189:37:10	CC	Roger.
189:37:20	Cernan	Okay, our next breaking gate is at 3000 feet.
189:37:25	Cernan	Ron, I've got a platform. I can see the Command and Service Module now.
189:37:31	Evans	Okay.
189:37:34	Cernan	We're at 4200 feet - 30 feet per second. And inertial line of sights are both zero.
189:37:44	CC	America and Challenger, this is Houston. And, we've got a good picture of the Challenger coming up from the surface of the Moon.
189:37:55	Evans	(Laughter) it's coming straight up, all right.
189:38:05	Cernan	Okay, Ron. Coming up to 3000 feet. I'm going to brake off to 20.
189:38:09	Evans	Okay.
189:38:10	Cernan	Hold on; here we go.
189:38:30	Cernan	Okay, we're 2500 feet and 20.7 feet per second. Fifteen on 110.
189:38:48	Cernan	Got you centered in the needles, Ron.
189:38:51	Evans	Okay. You're looking good.
189:38:57	Cernan	Coming up right at - you at - under 114 - 116 degrees. 1900 feet, 20 feet per second.
189:39:08	Evans	Okay. Quarter of a mile, I got you.
189:39:19	Cernan	I can see your thrusters firing now, Ron. We're at 1500 feet braking.
189:39:23	Evans	Okay.
189:39:46	Cernan	Okay, Ron. We're at 1200 feet and 8.8 feet per second.
189:39:54	Evans	Okay, that's about right. Concur.
189:39:56	Cernan	Yes, you do have a stub of an antenna out there on the same side that the VHF antenna's on.
189:40:01	Evans	Yes, how far is it sticking out?
189:40:02	Cernan	I can't tell yet, but about - from where I am, about a third of the way - a third of the length of the VHF antenna.
189:40:10	Evans	Oh, that's not very far.
189:40:12	Cernan	No. Okay, we're at 970 feet.
189:40:34	Cernan	800 feet and we're at 8.8 feet per second.
189:40:43	Evans	Looks like Challenger's in good shape. I don't see anything hanging down or anything.
189:40:47	Cernan	She's in excellent shape. Okay, we're at 650 feet and 8.8.
189:40:54	Evans	Okay.
189:40:55	Cernan	God, you look pretty. Yes, you just got a smail stub, Ron. Probably not more than a couple of feet.
189:41:02	Evans	(Laughter)
189:41:03	Cernan	600 feet, braking to 5. Okay, I've got 5.0, and I'm at 520 feet.
189:41:25	Cernan	Ron, I'm closing at 5 feet per second, 440 feet.
189:41:28	Evans	Okay.
189:41:32	Cernan	Good to see you.
189:41:34	Evans	Good to have you all back up here.
189:41:37	Cernan	It's been a good trip. Okay, I'm at 5 feet per second and 350 feet.
189:41:55	PAO	Challenger's coming in with the crew in the - nearly heads down position as seen on the television monitor.
189:41:58	Cernan	Taking off a couple. I'm at 3 feet per second, 280.
189:42:09	Cernan	Just great. Okay, Ron, 240 feet and 3 feet per second.
189:42:16	Evans	Okay, keep her coming. Rice and easy. Getting a lot of pictures.
189:42:30	Cernan	200 feet and 3 feet per second. I got 2 feet per second and I'm at 170 feet.
189:43:00	Cernan	140 feet and 2 feet per second. About 3 feet of that antenna, Ron, and we'll get a better look at it when you pitch over.
189:43:10	Evans	Okay.
189:43:14	Cernan	Everything else looks clean.
189:43:16	Evans	Man, that Challenger's a beautiful vehicle.
189:43:18	Cernan	You bet you.
189:43:21	Evans	One little strap flopping on the top of it, and that's all.
189:43:25	Cernan	Okay, I've got 2 feet per second; I'm at 100.
189:43:36	Evans	Hey, Houston, you can see that strap flopping up there now on the TV, but that's the only thing.
189:43:43	CC	Okay, Ron. We haven't picked it out, but we do have a perfect picture.
189:43:52	Cernan	Ron, I'm sneaking in at about - a little over 1 foot per second.
189:43:55	Evans	Okay, I'm trying to keep you on the - the tube here, so - How come you - how come you guys do everything upside down?
189:44:12	Cernan	Okay, let's let it drift in like this slowly.
189:44:14	Evans	Okay. You still have it.
189:44:18	Cernan	I've still got it.
189:44:27	Cernan	Ron, I'm going to stop it here, and you can do your maneuver.
189:44:31	Evans	Okay.
189:44:33	Cernan	Okay, I'm stationkeeping on you.
189:44:35	Evans	Okay; I'll do my VERB 49.
189:44:39	Cernan	Seem okay, Jack?
189:44:39	Schmitt	Yes.
189:44:40	Cernan	Okay.
189:44:43	Evans	Oh, I got to get a picture here, too.
189:44:54	Cernan	Okay, will do. Stand by.
189:44:58	Evans	Just another couple of pictures here. Got them. 25 ENTER. 319, 254, and 0 ... Okay, you ready, Jack?
189:45:21	Cernan	I'll ... that; Jack.
189:45:21	Schmitt	...
189:45:23	Evans	Okay, here we go.
189:45:25	Evans	MARK it. ... a minute.
189:45:43	Cernan	Yes, I'm going to get the radar out of the way, but I'm not going to. I'll lose him here as soon as his transponder get out. I'm going to just stationkeep. Ron, your probe looks good. I can see it extended.
189:45:55	Evans	Okay; great.
189:45:59	Cernan	The radar holds you - well, we don't hold you anymore.
189:46:11	PAO	Ron Evans will now maneuver the CSM into position for the final docking.
189:46:19	Cernan	... Radar's being stowed now, Ron.
189:46:26	Evans	Okay.
189:46:35	CC	America, we'd like OMNI Delta, please.
189:46:37	Cernan	Houston, America and - -
189:46:40	Evans	OMNI ... -
189:46:43	Cernan	Houston, America and Challenger - are ... a good tight Navy formation.
189:46:50	CC	Roger, Geno.
189:46:51	PAO	We've switched to one of the omnidirectional antennas on the Command Module, and we won't have television back until we get back on the high gain antenna, which should be shortly.
189:47:03	Cernan	Hey, Ron. I may have to take back what I said. That thing I thought was an antenna is nothing more than your EVA light out there.
189:47:08	Evans	(Laughter) Okay.
189:47:09	Cernan	From where I was, it looked like - looked like it was coming out the other side - -
189:47:13	Evans	Yes.
189:47:13	Cernan	- - but I think you're clean.
189:47:14	Evans	Okay. Now the one I'm concerned about is on - is on the other side from the EVA antenna - EVA light.
189:47:19	Cernan	No-uh uh. You were clean over there.
189:47:21	Evans	Oh, okay.
189:47:33	Evans	The bottom of your vehicle's got a bunch of tinfoil on it. It's a little bit scorched; but it's all intact, as far as - as much as I can tell.
189:47:42	Cernan	... this bird is good enough to fly again. Yes sir. I'll even move left, how's that? Still got 60 percent left ... I like to fly.
189:48:20	Cernan	You in your maneuver, Ron?
189:48:21	Evans	Yes. It's maneuvering now.
189:48:23	Cernan	Okay, I'm going to go out and take a peek at your SIM bay up here. Yes, I know.
189:48:43	PAO	Our instrumentation and communications engineer estimates that it will be 10 to 12 minutes before we're in position to get the high gain antenna and television back.
189:49:11	Cernan	See him okay, Jack? See him okay?
189:49:35	Evans	Okay, we're getting pretty close now. About another 5 degrees of roll is all. Can you see it?
189:49:54	Cernan	Yes.
189:49:55	Evans	How does the mapping camera look? Should be all covered up.
189:50:10	Cernan	Stand by.
189:50:12	Evans	Okay.
189:50:13	Cernan	... fly over there and take a look at it.
189:50:15	Evans	Okay.
189:50:21	Cernan	Sun's shining right in it.
189:50:28	Cernan	Okay, Ron. It looks intact here. There's one cover - -
189:50:33	CC	Challenger, Houston. Over.
189:50:34	Cernan	... cover on the right-hand side. Go ahead.
189:50:38	CC	We'd like you take a special look at the pan camera and see if you think maybe the lens is not completely stowed. Over.
189:50:53	Cernan	Well, I'm looking at this thing upside down. There's the Sun - give me the location again of the pan camera, Houston.
189:51:03	CC	It's a round, barrel-type object, approximately right in the center of the SIM bay.
189:51:13	Evans	It's just - if you were standing in the shoes, the pan camera would be right in front of you.
189:51:18	Cernan	It's stowed; it's flush. There's one door open, Ron. If you were standing in the shoes, it's at the bottom hand - bottom left-hand side of the SIM bay.
189:51:31	Evans	Bottom left-hand side, if you're standing in the shoes.
189:51:34	Cernan	Yes. It looks like two covers open there. Doesn't it, Jack?
189:51:37	Evans	Yes. Okay; well, that's part of the mapping camera - bottom of that door that pushes open by itself.
189:51:43	Cernan	Okay, Well that's the only thing that's open. Everything is flush.
189:51:46	Evans	Okay. You think - is that a door that extends - if you're standing in the shoes - that extends out the bottom of the SIM bay or one that extends out - if you're standing on the shoes - it would be one the - extending on the left side of the SIM bay?
189:52:02	Cernan	Yes. It extends out the left side towards the front of the spacecraft down in the bottom left-hand comer, if you're standing in the shoes.
189:52:08	Evans	Yes, Okay. Yes, that's the one that the camera pushes open by itself.
189:52:11	Cernan	Okay. Well, that's good. I can't see anything that's abnormal down there. Everything's covered; everything's flushed.
189:52:18	CC	Challenger, Houston.
189:52:22	Evans	Okay.
189:52:27	CC	Challenger, Houston. Over.
189:52:29	Evans	Houston, were you calling America?
189:52:33	Cernan	Go ahead.
189:52:35	CC	Some more words on identifying whether the pan camera is stowed or not. The pan camera, as Ron said, is right in front of the shoes. And, if it's stowed - well, if it's not stowed properly, you should be able to see the lens or probably part of it. And if it's fully stowed, there'll be just a plan-faced barrel facing outward - silver colored. Over.
189:53:07	Cernan	It's stowed, Houston.
189:53:10	CC	Okay. It sounds good.
189:53:14	Cernan	It's got to be - there's nothing - it's stowed. ... one more of those.
189:53:30	Cernan	The only thing abnormal is the Service Module plates, just forward - plus-X - of the SIM bay, are all blistered - just forward of those EVA handholds.
189:53:43	CC	Roger. We copy that. Our concern - or the reason we're asking about the pan camera is - we have a higher than normal temperatures in the pan camera, and we were concerned whether it was either not completely stowed or maybe there's a heater stuck on. We'll check the heater out later on here.
189:54:09	Cernan	I'm going around the other side here a little bit, but it's - Yes, the long barrel, through the center down - X-X axis, deep into the SIM bay - then you have a little barrel - oh, about 3 inches - 2 or 3 inches - like about a 500-millimeter lens on a Hasselblad - sticking straight up, perpendicular to SIM bay, and it's well flushed. It's inside the box that it's next to.
189:54:45	CC	Okay, Geno.
189:54:49	Cernan	It's normal. There's nothing that's unstowed in that thing. Not again.
189:55:00	CC	Challenger, America, that's good on the inspection from questions from here, anyway. Clear to continue and proceed with docking.
189:55:12	Evans	Okay.
189:55:15	Cernan	It is unbelievable. This is the greatest flying in the world, Ron.
189:55:18	Evans	(laughter)
189:55:18	Cernan	Can you see me?
189:55:19	Evans	Yes, I can see you. Right in there.
189:55:22	Cernan	Yes.
189:55:23	Cernan	Reach out and tickle your probe.
189:55:26	Evans	(Laughter) Okay.
189:55:26	Cernan	Okay. Let's get - let's get this business going. Let's get in a docking attitude.
189:55:31	Evans	Okay; we'll maneuver to the docking attitude here.
189:55:36	Cernan	Ron, I can also see where your - where your HF comes out on this side, and - and it's flush with the box. It's completely stowed.
189:55:46	Evans	Okay. Well, that's the one that we think is, the one on that side. The other side is the one that we are a little concerned with. We don't worry about it.
189:55:51	Cernan	It's stowed too.
189:55:52	Evans	Oh, okay.
189:55:53	Cernan	We were over there.
189:55:54	Evans	Okay. And I'm maneuvering back to the docking attitude.
189:56:02	Cernan	Your high gain is not pointing at the Earth, though, I don't believe.
189:56:05	Evans	Oh, we're not using it yet. It's pointing where the Earth will be when we maneuver back around.
189:56:11	Cernan	Okay.
189:56:12	Schmitt	Another one from there?
189:56:15	Cernan	I'd try 11 and 8. That's what I'm doing.
189:56:20	Schmitt	Right.
189:56:32	Cernan	... Guess I ought to pull my radar breakers, now that it's stowed.
189:56:47	Evans	Okay, Houston, can you see my logic yet? Or you want to wait until the high gain? This is America.
189:56:56	CC	We can see it now, Ron. We can do it now.
189:57:02	Evans	Okay, LOGIC 1.
189:57:05	Evans	MARK it. LOGIC 2.
189:57:06	Evans	MARK it.
189:57:13	CC	Ron, you're GO for PYRO ARM.
189:57:17	Evans	Okay.
189:57:25	Cernan	Backing off here a little bit, Ron. Give you a chance to maneuver.
189:58:07	Cernan	Hey, Jack, what are we forgetting here? Let's see the high gain was - or the rendezvous radar is stowed. Okay, as soon as he gets his attitude, I'll get to mine.
189:58:31	Cernan	Looks like you've been flying well up there, partner. The spacecraft looks good.
189:58:35	Evans	Oh, you bet you.
189:58:40	Cernan	How far you got to go on your maneuvers?
189:58:44	Evans	About another 60 degrees of roll yet.
189:58:46	Cernan	Okay.
189:58:46	Evans	And about 10 degrees; pitch.
189:59:03	PAO	Ron Evans now maneuvering America into position for the docking. The final few feet of the docking maneuver performed with the Command Module because of the better visibility from that vehicle.
189:59:16	CC	America, give us OMNI Alpha.
189:59:18	Cernan	Okay, Ron - -
189:59:22	Evans	Omni ... Oh, no, there we go.
189:59:33	Cernan	Okay, Ron, I can confirm your other HF antenna is stowed.
189:59:36	Evans	Okay, good. Thank you.
189:59:53	Evans	Okay, the PYROs are ON. Sorry, but I am out of film in the DAC. You guys will just have to - -
190:00:13	Cernan	No problem.
190:00:14	Evans	- - be on TV (laughter).
190:00:17	Cernan	No problem. Let's just get in attitude and get those capture latches in that drogue.
190:00:21	Evans	Okay.
190:00:27	CC	Ron, the high gain angles look good. Go NARROW and REACQ, and we should have you.
190:00:43	Evans	Okay. I'm in attitude, Gene.
190:00:51	Cernan	Okay, let me position so I can get in attitude.
190:00:57	CC	And, America and Challenger, we've got a beautiful picture once again.
190:01:11	Schmitt	Very good, Gordy. We're happy to give it to you.
190:01:16	Cernan	This worked out great, Ron.
190:01:18	Evans	Yes, it sure did.
190:01:21	Cernan	Null PGNS, and then I'll give it to you shortly.
190:01:45	Cernan	Okay, Ron, you've got it.
190:01:48	Evans	Okay.
190:01:49	Cernan	Okay, you've got it. I'm going into my maneuver.
190:01:51	Evans	I've got it.
190:02:20	Cernan	And that's the landing site down there. We pitched right through the landing site.
190:02:25	Evans	You did?
190:02:25	Cernan	Yes.
190:02:27	Evans	Key, good (laughter). Your - -
190:02:31	Cernan	Hey, don't - don't hit that hand. It's ...
190:02:33	Schmitt	Yes (laughter). Well, the drogue is still in there.
190:02:41	Cernan	Okay. I've got you right out the overhead, Ron, now I'm going to yaw.
190:02:43	Evans	Okay, yaw her around.
190:02:47	Cernan	Okay, here we go. What a super flying machine!
190:02:59	Evans	Still looks kind of tinny to me.
190:03:13	Cernan	He's not going to have to do anything but thrust right into the - I might even get your roll angle zeroed for you by - by this maneuver. Okay, it's all yours.
190:03:22	Evans	(Laughter) Okay, I've got her.
190:03:23	Cernan	Should be looking - I'm looking right up your window.
190:03:25	Evans	Well, I got to translate through the - sideways
190:03:30	Cernan	The trouble is I'm looking right into the Sun.
190:03:32	Schmitt	Yes. Change these focus to 6 feet.
190:03:47	Cernan	Okay, Jack, let's go over that thing again. We got anything else to do?
190:03:50	Schmitt	Well, you're at the attitude. We're waiting to confirm capture, and then you flip MODE CONTROL, OFF.
190:03:57	Cernan	Okay. Wish the Sun would get out of the way.
190:05:10	Cernan	Looking good, babe. Keep it coming.
190:05:12	Evans	Okay. She's looking all right.
190:05:24	Cernan	Command Module looks just as good as the day they put it on the pad.
190:05:30	Evans	And, you know, so does Challenger, by gosh. You're missing some of the pieces.
190:05:37	Cernan	Yes, one big piece we left behind.
190:05:39	Evans	Yes; right.
190:06:26	Cernan	Ron, I guess I'm estimating you about 12 or 15 feet.
190:06:31	Evans	Yes, that's about right.
190:06:46	Cernan	Got my reticle coming right in the rendezvous window.
190:06:55	Evans	Okay. She ought to be coming right in there.
190:06:58	Cernan	Looking good. You're stable as a rock.
190:07:33	Cernan	Bet I'll be able to get with that. Give me a little warning on capture, Ron, so I can go FREE.
190:07:47	Evans	Okay; glad to.
190:07:51	Cernan	I can see all your docking latches - or I can see half of them now, but they're all looking good.
190:07:56	Evans	Okay,
190:08:19	Evans	Coming in nice and slow; no problem.
190:08:21	Cernan	Okay, you're looking good, babe. 1 got you on my COAS right up in the middle of the window. Looking good.
190:08:59	Cernan	Looking good.
190:09:01	Evans	Okay.
190:09:04	Cernan	Must be a couple of feet away.
190:09:06	Evans	About 2 or 3 feet is all.
190:09:59	Cernan	Stand by, Jack.
190:10:00	Evans	Stand by. Should be getting about the same size.
190:10:08	Cernan	Looking good from here, Ron.
190:10:36	Evans	Stand by.
190:10:59	Cernan	... to have it here.
190:11:00	Evans	Okay; I didn't get it. Let me plus X it.
190:11:10	Cernan	Okay. You didn't get it.
190:11:12	Evans	Didn't get it. Okay. Might have been a little bit slow.
190:11:50	Evans	Stand by.
190:11:53	Cernan	You got it! CAPTURE!
190:11:53	Evans	Barber pole, capture go to FREE.
190:11:55	Cernan	Good. Start here; we're FREE. All you needed was - -
190:11:58	Evans	Okay, we're FREE over here. Let me check your rates. Okay, I'm squared away on the rates here.
190:12:02	Cernan	All you needed was a little more DELTA-V.
190:12:04	Evans	Yes, a little more.
190:12:05	Cernan	That looked good though, Ron. Very good.
190:12:08	Evans	Okay. That's a good one.
190:12:10	Cernan	Okay, Houston, we have capture.
190:12:12	Evans	Okay, you ready - -
190:12:12	CC	Roger.
190:12:14	Evans	... we're a little bit - not lined up here, Houston.
190:12:19	Cernan	What did you say, Ron?
190:12:21	Evans	Well, we're not quite lined up here. Kind of drifted off a little bit.
190:12:25	Cernan	Okay; we'll stand by for you. Take your time.
190:12:28	Evans	Okay. Will do. Okay, she's coming back around.
190:12:41	Cernan	Take your time.
190:13:05	Cernan	We're still free, Ron.
190:13:07	Evans	Yes, I know. Okay.
190:13:28	Evans	Yes, when you're free, you know, you create a little bit of rates on the thing, too.
190:13:34	Cernan	I know it. I can see that. Just take your time. When you're satisfied, go. But don't go until you're satisfied.
190:13:40	Evans	Okay, I'm not.
190:14:03	PAO	The soft dock mechanism between the two vehicles has engaged. Evans is in the process now of trying to get things lines up properly, before pulling the LM and CMS together into the hard docking.
190:14:16	Evans	Okay, she's coming back around now.
190:14:21	Cernan	Okay. Give me a call when you start to retract.
190:14:24	Evans	Okay; will do.
190:15:04	PAO	Gene Cernan should be visible behind that window in the top of the lunar module.
190:15:17	Evans	Crazy thing.
190:15:20	Cernan	Say again.
190:15:21	Evans	(Laughter) I get the right ... and then it goes around the other way. I think you're bouncing around up there, too, you know?
190:15:31	Cernan	I know it. I'm just swinging free. Take it slow.
190:16:06	Evans	I think you're going to have to go to attitude hold. You're bouncing around more ... I'm not moving at all.
190:16:11	Cernan	Okay. Stand by, Ron.
190:16:15	Evans	Okay.
190:16:19	Cernan	Okay. I'm stable now.
190:16:21	Evans	Okay. Now let me come up to you.
190:16:55	Cernan	Okay, when you're happy, I'll go free.
190:16:56	Evans	Okay, stand by.
190:16:59	Cernan	Looking good now.
190:17:00	Evans	Looking good, yes. See, that's what we needed.
190:17:19	Evans	Okay, she's looking good. Why don't you go to FREE, and we'll go to RETRACT 1.
190:17:22	Cernan	Okay -
190:17:23	Cernan	MARK it. I'm FREE.
190:17:24	Evans	Okay, RETRACT, Here you come.
190:17:34	Evans	Bang! I got all the - two barber poles.
190:17:39	Cernan	You got what?
190:17:40	Evans	Okay. (Laughter) Two grays, I mean.
190:17:42	Cernan	That's better.
190:17:43	Evans	(laughter)
190:17:44	Evans	That's better, Okay, sounded good, in here.
190:17:47	Evans	Yes, sounded good in here.
190:17:49	Cernan	Okay, Houston. We're hard docked.
190:17:51	Evans	Okay, SECS PYROS - LOGIC is coming OFF.
190:17:53	CC	Roger. Understand two gray.
190:17:55	Evans	Circuit breaker is OPEN. Two gray; that's affirm.
190:18:59	CC	Challenger, Houston. We'd like to bring up the steerable there. PITCH of 155; YAW, plus 40.
190:19:21	Schmitt	Roger. 155 and plus 40.
190:19:25	CC	Affirmative.
190:19:37	Cernan	Say again, Gordy, a 155?
190:19:41	CC	A PITCH of 155; and YAW, plus 40.
190:20:20	Evans	Okay, Gene. You still free?
190:20:23	Cernan	That's affirm. I'm still free.
190:20:24	Evans	Okay. I'll take control of it.
190:20:29	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy, there's the high gain.
190:20:37	CC	America and Challenger. I'd like to - -
190:20:39	Schmitt	Okay - Gordy, we're not - -
190:20:42	CC	- - I'd like to take a minute of your time here to read the following statement by the President of the United States of America. "As the Challenger leaves the surface of the Moon, we are conscious not of what we leave behind, but of what lies before us. The dreams that draw humanity forward seem always to be redeemed, if we believe in them strongly enough, and pursue then with diligence and courage. Once we stood mystified by the stars; today we reach up to them. We do this not only because it is man's destiny to dream the impossible, to dare the impossible, and to do the impossible, but also because, in space, as on Earth, there are new answers and new opportunities for the improvement of and the enlargement of human existence. This may be the last time in this century that men will walk on the Moon, but space exploration will continue. The benefits of space exploration will continue and there will be new dreams to pursue, based on what we have learned. So let us not mistake the significance or miss the majesty of what we have witnessed. Few events have ever marked so clearly the passage of history from one epoch to another. If we understand this about the last flight of Apollo, then trtuy we shall have touched a many splendored thing. To Gene Cernan, Jack Schmitt, and Ron Evans, we say Godspeed you safely back to this good Earth.
190:22:19	Cernan	Gordon, those are beautiful words by a great American President. We're very honored to receive them; we're very honored to be able to serve our country in a way that we believe in. And we thank you.
190:22:37	Schmitt	Thank you very much, Gordy and Mr. President.
190:22:42	Evans	Mr. President, this is America. And we appreciate it very much. Thank you, sir.
190:22:56	Cernan	Say, Houston, Challenger.
190:23:19	Cernan	Ron, would you give us a call, when the tunnel's pressurized?
190:23:23	Evans	Okay. Stand by.
190:23:25	Cernan	And also, we'll need a call when you get to attitude.
190:23:29	Evans	Okay. Will do.
190:23:38	Evans	Okay, your DUMP valve is in AUTO?
190:23:42	Cernan	Yes, sir. It's in AUTO.
190:23:44	Evans	Okay. CABIN FANS are ON for the first time in the flight.
190:24:44	Evans	I got to get down there and turn the tunnel leak.
190:24:53	Evans	Okay, EMERGENCY CABIN REGS are OFF.
190:25:11	Schmitt	Houston, Challenger.
190:25:13	CC	Go ahead, Challenger.
190:25:18	Schmitt	Roger. Give us a call when you want us to go through the comm configuration. And we're going to leave the cabin fan on a little bit, keep airing out - filtering the cabin. And don't let us forget it.
190:25:34	CC	Okay.
190:25:44	Evans	Okay, Houston. I'm going to open the PRESSURE EQUALIZATION VALVE going into the tunnel. Can you keep an eye on my cabin pressure?
190:25:52	CC	Roger, America. Will do.
190:25:56	Evans	Okay.
190:26:08	Evans	Okay, there's 2. DELTA-P of 2. ... closed; we'll see if it stays.
190:26:17	CC	America, Houston. You need a PRO to get the VERB 49 maneuver to Jett attitude started. Over.
190:26:28	Evans	Oh, sorry. ... hit the stick again, huh?
190:26:38	CC	Ron, while you're down there, there's a couple switches on the SIM bay to check out this pan camera heater. Over.
190:26:47	Evans	Sure; go ahead. Just waiting for the DELTA-P to stay steady ...
190:26:49	CC	Okay. Put the PAN CAMERA MODE switch to STANDBY. And the PAN CAMERA POWER switch to POWER.
190:26:59	Evans	Verify. STANDBY. PAN CAMERA POWER is going to POWER now.
190:27:04	CC	Okay, that's good. We'll take a look at it a while and let you know when we want power off.
190:27:11	Evans	Okay.
190:28:23	Evans	Okay. Looks like pressure is holding good there.
190:28:26	CC	Challenger, Houston.
190:28:28	Evans	Cabin pressure is okay. We'll go ahead and take her on down.
190:28:35	Cernan	Go ahead.
190:28:36	CC	Okay, when you get ready to transfer an OPS, we want you to transfer the commander's OPS. Over.
190:28:47	Cernan	Okay; will do.
190:29:11	Cernan	Hello, Gordy. Were you able to see the lunar surface lift-off?
190:29:16	CC	Yes, sir; we certainly were. It was a beautiful picture, and Captain Video stayed right on you. We saw you up to about 2 minutes into the burn. We could see the plume.
190:29:30	Cernan	I'll tell you, if Challenger hits that South Massif and you're anywhere pointing in the right direction, you ought to have a spectacular shot.
190:29:40	CC	I'm sure of that because that camera is as good as any I've seen in a - in a television studio.
190:30:18	Evans	Okay, I've got about 2 - point 2 on the DELTA-P. And the equalization valve's wide open, so it must be about right.
190:30:44	Evans	Okay. EMERGENCY CABIN PRESSURE selector's going to BOTH.
190:31:36	Evans	Okay, I'm ready to open the hatch.
190:32:03	Cernan	Ron, do you read?
190:32:04	Evans	What? Yes, go ahead.
190:32:06	Cernan	Okay.
190:32:14	Evans	Yes. I still got about 5 on the cabin, I think.
190:32:18	Schmitt	... is the tunnel pressure up?
190:32:20	Evans	I got the hatch out. Yes, it's pressurized.
190:32:22	Schmitt	Okay, Just pull it open then.
190:32:24	Evans	Okay.
190:32:27	Schmitt	...
190:32:48	Cernan	Okay, Ron, I'll be a minute or two before we open that hatch. We got a little work to do in here.
190:32:51	Schmitt	... egress. LEVA bags.
190:33:27	Evans	(Laughter) I don't know what it's like.
190:33:32	Schmitt	...
190:33:33	Evans	(Laughter) I guess it's great. Let me check the old docking latches.
190:33:49	Schmitt	... 6.
190:34:41	Schmitt	Okay.
190:34:44	Evans	Okay. I hear you. And, Houston, every latch has worked perfectly.
190:34:55	CC	Roger.
190:34:57	Evans	Okay. Let's get the probe out of here.
190:36:06	Evans	I was just bleeding the nitrogen out of the probe.
190:36:11	CC	Roger, Ron. And when you get back in the cabin next, we'll take PAN CAMERA POWER, OFF.
190:36:20	Evans	Okay. The probe's loose in there.
190:36:27	CC	Sure sounds like it.
190:36:29	Evans	Is there any hurry on that, Gordo?
190:36:33	Schmitt	What did you say, Ron?
190:36:35	Evans	Houston, this is America. Is there any hurry on that pan camera thing? If not, I'll take the probe out.
190:36:41	CC	Negative. No hurry; we have plenty of time here till LOS - 14 minutes. We want to see it before then.
190:36:50	Evans	Oh, okay. I'll get it out before then.
190:36:55	PAO	Evans will now remove the probe and drogue assembly and hand them through to Jack Schmitt and Gene Cernan in the Lunar Module. He'll also be transfering in the vacuum cleaner and a list of other items that need to be transferred out of the LM into the Command Module. After, gettings things as cleaned up as possible in the LM cabin, the crew will begin transferring samples and other equipment into the Command Module, and getting - begin the process of getting transfered themselves from Challenger into America. We have about 13 minutes remaining before we lose radio contact with Apollo 17.
190:36:56	Evans	Ouch.
190:37:00	Schmitt	... over here,
190:37:05	Evans	Don't lose those (laughter).
190:37:30	Schmitt	They might be in the data file.
190:37:59	Schmitt	... I got the bags -
190:38:12	Evans	There comes the old probe.
190:38:23	Schmitt	...
190:39:20	Evans	Okay. The probe is out.
190:39:24	CC	Roger, Ron.
190:39:29	Evans	Hey, does that - Do you want the probe right away, Jack?
190:39:32	Schmitt	What?
190:39:33	Evans	Do you want the probe right now?
190:39:35	Schmitt	No, and ...
190:40:13	Evans	Okay, Gordo. PAN CAMERA POWER is OFF.
190:40:17	CC	Okay, Ron. And before you pass the transfer list out of the Flight Plan Supplement, we have two small changes to page 1-11.
190:40:33	Evans	Okay. Wait 1 and I'll get it. Okay, I'm on 1-11.
190:41:04	CC	Okay, Ron - -
190:41:05	Evans	No, that's it.
190:41:06	CC	- item 17. Just change the last part of the statement "stow on A-1" to "stow on A-7"; and, on item 19 there, change from "stow on A-7" to "stow on A-1". That's it.
190:41:24	Evans	That's it? Okay? We can do that, I think.
190:41:30	CC	Okay.
190:41:30	Evans	Hey, hey! Here they come, by gosh. How you doing? (Laughter) Beautiful! Good show!
190:41:36	Evans	Boy, is it cold up there, it's hot as hell down here. It's stuffy.
190:41:41	CC	America, advise we're reading all of you on Ron's VOX.
190:41:52	Evans	(Laughter) Okay.
190:41:57	Cernan	Let me just doublecheck all ...
190:42:22	CC	Jack, if your handy to it, we'll take the S-band reconfiguration now.
190:42:31	Schmitt	Okay, I'll do that.
190:43:01	Schmitt	Okay, Houston, how do you read on the AFT OMNI?
190:43:06	CC	You're loud and clear, Challenger, on the AFT OMNI.
190:43:24	Evans	Here's your old vacuum, cleaner (laughter). You ... No, it's not on. You want it on? (Laughter) Great.
190:43:42	Cernan	Hey, let me know when you turn it on; it costs me a MASTER ALARM.
190:43:48	Evans	Okay, I'll turn it on.
190:43:53	Evans	Turn it on. You got the switch.
190:43:57	Evans	Okay.
190:44:13	CC	America and Challenger, both vehicles may get a program alarm on the computers due to the W-matrix overflowing. A VERB 93 will fix it in both cases.
190:44:29	Evans	Oh, okay. Should we just do a VERB 93 now for the heck of it anyhow?
190:44:37	CC	That's affirmative. VERB 93 on both spacecraft will fix them.
190:44:51	Evans	Okay, I got my -
190:45:07	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. I'm on the steerable, and I'll start tweaking to the best signal strength I can get.
190:45:14	CC	Okay, Jack.
190:46:57	CC	Jack, we think you've got the steerable up as good as it's going to get.
190:47:09	Schmitt	I think you're right.
190:47:24	Schmitt	Okay, and I verify I am in SLEW and not in AUTO.
190:47:28	CC	Okay; thank you.
190:47:41	Evans	Yes, are you going to leave us? Oh, okay; I got it. Okay? Okay, I'll get ... take care of this. Man, you guys got a lot of dirt up there.
190:48:03	Schmitt	It's clean now.
190:48:09	Evans	Oh. (Laughter)
190:48:54	Evans	One OPS, stowed.
190:49:03	CC	Challenger and America, about 2 minutes to LOS now, and both spacecraft are looking good.
190:49:13	Schmitt	Roger, Gordy; thank you. We'll see you coming around.
190:49:16	Evans	Okay, Houston, this is America, and we'll see you around there.
190:49:20	CC	Okeydoke. Adios.
190:50:13	Evans	Hey, Jack, you want a jettison bag?
190:50:16	Schmitt	Not yet.
190:50:17	Evans	Okay. Let me know when you want it - an empty one, you mean?
190:50:21	Schmitt	Not yet.
190:50:22	Evans	Okay.
190:51:25	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 190 hours 51 minutes. We've had loss of signal now with America and Challenger docked together in the 52nd revolution and we'll be reacquiring in about 45 minutes. The current orbit for the two vehicles is 62.2 by 61.6, and they're currently at an altitude of about 62.2, very close to apogee at this time. This is Apollo Control Houston.
191:34:01	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 191 hours 34 minutes, about 1 minute away from reacquiring America and Challenger on the 53rd revolution of the Moon. During this front-side pass one of the major activities here in the Control Center and also aboard the spacecraft will be to get the Lunar Module, Challenger properly configured for the LM jettison and the subsequent de-orbit burn that will impact at - into the lunar surface near the landing site at Taurus-Littrow. The Flight Dynamics Officer will be coming up with the numbers that will be programmed into the LM for that de-orbit jettison and subsequent de-orbit maneuver. Right now, we're looking a time for ignition, or rather, a time for separation of the LM of 193 hours 58 minutes, and a LM de-orbit burn at 195 hours 38 minutes 14 seconds. The LM will be jettisoned by severing pyrotechnic bolts that - pyrotechnic charges that in turn sever the connection between the two vehicles. And we have AOS. We'll pick up the live conversation.
191:34:38		BEGIN LUNAR REV 53
191:35:00	Schmitt	Yes.
191:35:10	Cernan	Got a good ISA bag - -
191:35:15	Evans	Okay.
191:35:20	Cernan	- and stow on top of A-2 ...?
191:35:25	Schmitt	Darned if I know (laughter). I've been sleeping floating around in the tunnel.
191:35:33	CC	America, Houston. We hear you talking.
191:35:37	Schmitt	Hey, okay, Houston.
191:35:43	Schmitt	Hello, Houston; Challenger's up also.
191:35:45	CC	Okay, Challenger. Keeping busy up there?
191:35:49	Cernan	Yes sir, Gordo. I think we're moving right along with the - with the transfer and stowage. And we'll give you a hack here. We got the ISA bag over for A-2. We got the - two of the sample return bags stowed and a DECON bag, and they're over and a lot of miscellaneous stuff.
191:36:14	Cernan	Jack?
191:36:14	CC	Okay.
191:36:19	Evans	It's my page, probably, yes.
191:36:21	Cernan	Jack, is that -
191:36:26	Evans	... did it come loose, there? Yes, my whole book came loose.
191:36:39	Schmitt	You got something on your - -
191:36:43	Evans	(laughter)
191:36:45	Schmitt	... bags.
191:37:02	Evans	Thank, you. I'm checking some of this stuff off. Yes.
191:37:12	Schmitt	Okay.
191:37:25	Evans	That was a good one.
191:37:26	Schmitt	I didn't like that ...
191:38:33	Evans	Okay. Are you going to put the Buddy SLSS in the DECON bag and stow it on A-l?
191:38:38	Schmitt	Yes. That's in there now.
191:38:40	Evans	Okay. - Okay, the ISA has got the - ...
191:38:52	Schmitt	You just took the ISA bag, - the big ...
191:38:54	Evans	Okay, but it had a lens brush,16 millimeter mags, three of them?
191:39:00	Cernan	No, we can't have ... like that.
191:39:02	Evans	Okay, so I got those in - -
191:39:04	Cernan	The lens brush is there ...
191:39:06	Evans	Okay, those - those l6-millimeter mags are in R-13. Yes. Extra sample collection bags? You got two of those in there? in the I - in the ISA?
191:39:19	Schmitt	I need another -
191:39:20	Cernan	Yes, there's two collec - -
191:39:22	Evans	Okay.
191:39:23	Schmitt	I need another decontamination bag.
191:39:29	Evans	Got one for the - that's got a metal plate in it somewhere.
191:39:31	Cernan	That's it right there. That's got a metal plate.
191:39:34	Evans	Yes, that goes in the PGA bag, I think.
191:39:36	Cernan	Huh?
191:39:37	Evans	That goes in the PGA bag.
191:39:38	Cernan	Yes.
191:39:47	Evans	(Laughter) I don't know. I had a pretty nice little home here by myself.
191:39:53	Cernan	You got any more bags or what?
191:39:55	Evans	I'm out of bags, I think.
191:39:57	Cernan	... what are you going down there? ...
191:40:04	Evans	Yes.
191:40:07	Cernan	... bags ...
191:40:10	Evans	Yes.
191:40:11	Cernan	We've got to tie that ...
191:40:17	Evans	I'd - I don't even know what's going on in the Flight Plan. Let's see.
191:40:21	Cernan	This.
191:40:22	Evans	This, I think. Isn't it?
191:40:38	Evans	Yes. What time is it? Let's see, 191:40. Let me check. One hour from now.
191:41:05	Schmitt	... What?
191:41:05	Evans	One hour from now.
191:41:07	Schmitt	No, no. We have two revs.
191:41:09	Evans	At 1 hour from now, it's supposed to be - Okay? Okay, let me get some out.
191:41:31	Cernan	Let me work with this ... Jack.
191:41:37	Evans	Guess it doesn't make any difference whicn one goes where, does it?
191:41:41	Cernan	Hey, Jack - -
191:41:42	Schmitt	Hey, Gene.
191:41:43	Cernan	Yes.
191:41:43	Evans	You're tangled up in the vacuum cleaner cable.
191:41:54	CC	America, Houston. We heard you talking about the time there. As near as we can tell, you're right on the timeline.
191:42:03	Evans	Right on the timeline, huh? Aren't we supposed to be closed out in about an hour?
191:42:09	CC	Well, let's see - -
191:42:10	Evans	That right? Or not?
191:42:49	CC	Ron, it's about an hour and a half until you're supposed to close up the LM hatch.
191:42:56	Evans	Oh, okay. An hour and a half yet. Well, we should get it by then, I hope.
191:43:23	Evans	Hey, Gene. Do those SRCs have numbers on them, or weights, or anything like that?
191:43:29	Cernan	Both weigh the same ...
191:43:32	Evans	Both weigh the same?
191:43:33	Cernan	Yes. Almost.
191:43:34	Evans	Okay. Won't make any difference where I put ther. then.
191:43:36	Cernan	No.
191:43:42	Evans	Yes. Okay. Switch.
191:44:19	Evans	Oh, that's all right. Yes.
191:44:37	Evans	Well, it's serial number 1007. It's in the B-6 rockbox area. I don't know how you tell which one's the number, which number's what.
191:45:27	Evans	Just a second, I can't get the other one closed. No. I - I don't mean that one. I mean, the B-5 rockbox.
191:45:40	Cernan	Okay. That's good ....
191:45:53	Cernan	I have to think about it. They are in the ISA, I should say. Did you want the ...?
191:46:12	Evans	Oops, I got the B-6 back again (laughter).
191:46:18	Cernan	You ready for a ...?
191:46:19	Evans	Yes, I'll take it. Okay -
191:46:24	Cernan	... on the back side of ...
191:46:25	Evans	There's a neat way to pass things back and forth. Okay. That's all right, we'll keep - -
191:46:34	Schmitt	Don't have room for it down here yet.
191:46:35	Evans	Okay.
191:46:36	Schmitt	How's the rockboxes ... ?
191:46:39	Evans	Let me look.
191:46:41	Schmitt	I've got one, but ...
191:46:43	Evans	No.
191:47:09	Evans	Have you guys still got your PGA pockets on?
191:47:12	Schmitt	No, we threw them away.
191:47:13	Evans	Oh, okay.
191:47:21	Evans	You didn't want any of the stuff that's in them?
191:47:23	SC	No, we ...
191:47:27	Evans	Oh (laughter).
191:49:01	Evans	You guys you got any - sample bags you can put in A-9?
191:49:06	Schmitt	Say again.
191:49:07	Evans	You got a sample bag for me to put in A-9?
191:49:09	Schmitt	No.
191:49:11	Evans	You don't?
191:49:12	Schmitt	Oh, wait a minute.
191:49:15	Evans	Okay.
191:49:16	Schmitt	Do you have a bag for it?
191:49:19	Evans	No, I just got an empty box.
191:49:22	Schmitt	Oh, okay.
191:49:27	Evans	No, it just goes in a lithium hydroxide canister.
191:49:31	Schmitt	Okay.
191:49:32	Evans	You want the canister? It's easier to just put the bag in the - in the thing over here. I think.
191:49:38	Schmitt	Okay. I'll send it over.
191:52:00	Evans	What's that? Okay. That's all right, I'll get it. (laughter) I didn't - doesn't look like it's going to fit.
191:52:11	Schmitt	It may not. You may have to ... put one in the ...
191:52:19	Evans	Yes, it's number 7, huh? Well, maybe it'll fit.
191:52:24	SC	...
191:52:34	Evans	Oh, it fits !
191:52:36	Schmitt	...
191:52:44	Evans	Sample bag number 7 is in A-9.
191:53:12	Evans	You know, from the looks of this dirt, no wonder it looks dark down there at that landing site. No, we're going to keep them all. We're taking them, back.
191:53:25	Schmitt	Okay.
191:53:27	Evans	What do you mean? Unused ones?
191:53:29	Schmitt	I don't know what this is all about. I -
191:53:37	Evans	Okay.
191:53:48	PAO	We're getting a one way bit of communications here apparently with Ron Evans, whose mic is on voice operated, voice operated mode. Triggered by his own speech and Jack Schmitt and Gene Cernan in the Lunar Module apparently operating their microphones in the push-to-talk mode.
191:54:09	Evans	Have you found the - waist tethers yet?
191:54:12	Schmitt	Yes. I got them - for you.
191:54:14	Evans	Okay.
191:54:17	PAO	And we hear Evans whenever he speaks to them, but we only hear the Lunar Module crew when they press the push-to-talk switch on their mic. Interesting to note that when Evans' mic is open, you can hear the vacuum cleaner operating in the background, presumeably in the Lunar Module, where Cernan and Schmitt are facing the monumental job of cleaning up the LM cabin, the things that are being transfered into the Command Module, and the same job is going to have to be done in part in the Command Module, from all the dirt that will be tracked in from the LM and from the rock containers that are moved into the CSM for stowage.
191:54:20	Evans	Yes, it's right here in the tunnel.
191:54:25	CC	Hey, do we need any toothpaste up there?
191:55:00	Evans	Yes, this one's about three-quarters gone, or half gone. Oh, okay. Here.
191:55:08	Schmitt	Hey, Ron, ... that?
191:55:13	Evans	Ah.
191:55:16	Schmitt	What?
191:55:22	Evans	We can probably always use that, you know.
191:55:25	Schmitt	Okay, I'll send it over to ...
191:55:28	Evans	Yes.
191:56:16	Evans	Hey, Houston. How was the quality of America's TV camera? That's the first time - first chance we had to use it on this flight.
191:56:24	CC	I don't think it could have been any better. We had a real nice picture.
191:56:31	Evans	Hey, okay. Good.
191:56:51	Evans	No.
191:56:55	Evans	I never did find that one set that you were talking about.
191:57:03	SC	...
191:59:21	Evans	Send the tape over here. You want it?
191:59:24	SC	Here's your -
191:59:25	Evans	Yes?
191:59:26	SC	...
191:59:31	Evans	Okay.
192:00:28	Evans	Okay, coming up.
192:00:36	Cernan	I found a med kit. Did you say ...?
192:00:40	Evans	No, we - we only have about six more sleeping pills left, or seven, or something. I don't know.
192:00:48	Schmitt	How many more nights are you going to sleep?
192:00:50	Evans	Well, I like to - sleep about one more, probably.
192:01:15	Schmitt	Empty your jettison bag if you could get ...
192:01:19	Cernan	That would get me out of the way.
192:01:24	Evans	(Laughter)
192:01:26	Schmitt	How about the jettison bag?
192:01:28	Evans	You want it?
192:01:28	Schmitt	Yes.
192:01:29	Evans	Okay, just a second. Okay.
192:02:00	Evans	One jett bag. Oops - Oh, the big one. You got to have a bigger hole than this to get it through.
192:02:14	Schmitt	Okay. Let's wait for Gene, then.
192:02:15	Evans	(Laughter) Okay.
192:02:29	Schmitt	Okay, Houston, this is Challenger. I think we're getting close to being able to take your up-1ink.
192:02:36	CC	Okay, Challenger. We're ready when you are.
192:02:43	Schmitt	Okay. You've got P00 and DATA.
192:02:46	CC	Okay, and I've also got the pads ...
192:03:02	Evans	Is that the book that's down here in R-2?
192:03:05	Schmitt	Yes.
192:03:17	Evans	I don't think I will ever find it in here.
192:03:18	Cernan	You'll never find it in there, Ron; I just stuck ...
192:03:23	Evans	What does it look - is it a small book or what?
192:03:26	Schmitt	Some P30 pads and stuff.
192:03:28	Schmitt	Hey, Gordy, it looks like we've gotten - -
192:03:31	Cernan	Get one from the command -
192:03:33	Schmitt	- We've got our Data Card Book - -
192:03:35	Evans	What do you need? A P30 pad?
192:03:36	Evans	- stowed away. Can you read each of the items, and I'll copy down the pad that way?
192:03:41	Evans	Hey, wait a minute and I'll tear you one out of here, Jack.
192:03:43	CC	Sure enough, Jack. No problem. It's not that complicated anyway.
192:03:50	Schmitt	That's right, this is an easy one. Go ahead.
192:03:53	CC	Okay. It's a LM deorbit pad, and NOUN 33 or Tig is 195:38:13.00; NOUN 8l: X is a minus 0224.6, Y is a plus 0056.9, and Z is a plus 0167.7; the apogee and perigee are N/A, perigee is going to be minus; and DELTA-Vr is 0286.0; burn time will be 1:58; and the FDAI attitude - for what it's worth -here is 048, 138, and 075. Go ahead.
192:05:12	Schmitt	Okay, here's the deorbit pad. Tig 195:38:13-00; DELTA-V's are X, minus 0224.6; Y is plus 0056.9, Z is plus 0167.7.
192:05:32	Cernan	Ron.
192:05:33	Evans	Yes.
192:05:33	Cernan	...
192:05:33	Schmitt	Total DELTA-V is 0286.0; burn time is 1:58; and FDAI angles 048, 138, 075.
192:05:51	CC	Okay, that's all correct.
192:05:56	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy.
192:05:58	CC	And you'll need a LM weight for the DAP; if you want to write that one down, it's 5185.
192:06:13	Schmitt	Okay, 5185 is the LM weight.
192:06:17	CC	That's affirmative.
192:06:42	Evans	I never did get the purse back over here yet.
192:06:44	Cernan	It's in here. You don't need it.
192:06:47	Evans	Okay.
192:07:32	Evans	Okay.
192:07:33	Cernan	...
192:07:34	Evans	Yes, will do. Yes.
192:07:50	Evans	I think that's all the stuff - think that's all the junk.
192:08:32	Evans	Well, the - you know, we have more than enough to eat every day - the only food that's left is the - you know, the food that's to come up.
192:08:41	Cernan	You got yellow pills?
192:08:43	Evans	Yes. We got more yellow pills than we know what to do with.
192:08:46	Cernan	You do? Okay.
192:08:46	Evans	Yes. But that food that we didn't eat, it's gone.
192:08:57	Cernan	What did you do with it?
192:08:58	Evans	It's in that big bag.
192:09:01	Cernan	Okay.
192:09:04	Evans	(Laughing) Well - -
192:09:08	Cernan	They must consider that you are the judge of that.
192:09:15	PAO	The big yellow pills, that Ron Evans was referring to, are the germicidal pills that are mixed with the food after it has been - the astronauts have eaten what they want the remnant is mixed with the germicical pill and stored. The pill prevents the bacteria build up and the subsequent build up of odors and so on in the spacecraft.
192:10:03	PAO	The last series of numbers passed up to the crew included the time of ignition for the lunar module deorbit burn. And the parameters that will be fed into the LM guidance system to control that burn. The result of which will be to impact the lunar module into the lunar surface generating seismic waves.
192:10:24	Evans	Okay, Jack, you still got your helmet over there, right?
192:10:26	Schmitt	Yes.
192:10:26	Evans	Okay, because I've only got two helmets here.
192:10:44	PAO	The LM deorbit burn is now scheduled to be performed at Ground Elapsed Time of 195 hours 38 minutes 13 seconds. This will be a 158 second burn, using the reaction control system thrusters on the lunar module and the burn will be controlled by the lunar module primary guidance and navigation system. With a total Delta V of 286 feet per second.
192:10:50	Evans	Okay. You guys say you got the LCG plugs with you, huh?
192:11:00	Schmitt	Yes.
192:11:00	Cernan	Yes.
192:11:10	Evans	Okay. I want to make sure you got those. Okay.
192:11:28	PAO	The deorbit burn will give us a predicted impact time of 195 hours 57 minutes 12 seconds. And the predicted latitude and longitude for impact is 19.95 degrees north 30.57 degrees east.
192:11:30	CC	Challenger, Houston. It's your computer, now.
192:11:58	Evans	How about the monocular?
192:11:59	Schmitt	Yes. I've got it in my pocket.
192:12:00	Evans	Okay. It's in your pocket.
192:12:01	Cernan	You got that?
192:13:06	Evans	You need this?
192:13:07	Cernan	What is it?
192:13:07	Evans	Just a big bag.
192:13:09	Cernan	No, I don't need it ...
192:13:11	Evans	Okay.
192:13:49	Evans	Tape? Okay.
192:13:51	Cernan	Okay.
192:16:37	Evans	Well, if you br - if that's a good one; you just need one.
192:16:40	Cernan	It's a good one.
192:16:41	Evans	Okay.
192:17:10	Evans	Houston, America.
192:17:14	CC	Go ahead, Ron.
192:17:17	Evans	Is it a mag Dog Dog for LM jett on the l6-millimeter?
192:17:26	CC	I'll check that. One other thing. We'd like H2 Tank 1 FAN, ON now to start getting it set up for the sleep period.
192:17:39	Evans	Okay. Just a second here. I'm stuck, can't get this - (laughter). Oh, Mr. Clean. You guys are so dirty. I'm going to make you sleep in the tunnel. Let's see, H2 -
192:18:04	CC	H2 Tank 1, FAN.
192:18:05	Evans	Which tank? Tank 1?
192:18:07	CC	That's affirmative. Tank 1 FAN.
192:18:09	Evans	Okay. To ON?
192:18:13	CC	That's right. ON.
192:18:18	Evans	Okay. H2, Tank 1 FAN is ON.
192:18:21	CC	And we've got a vector for you, if you want to give us ACCEPT.
192:18:28	Evans	Okay. The old CMC - let me get a big hatch right there in the middle of things. Let's see. There it is. Okay, you've got ACCEPT.
192:18:45	CC	Roger.
192:20:09	Evans	Yes, you guys keep the bag up there. And I get the - I get the rest of it.
192:20:15	Schmitt	We keep the bag?
192:20:16	Evans	Yes.
192:20:20	CC	Ron, Houston. The answer to your question is yes. Mag Delta Delta is the one.
192:20:27	Evans	Delta Delta. Okay.
192:20:35	CC	And, it's your computer, Ron.
192:20:35	Evans	... Thank you. ... Get in there in a minute. Let's see. ...
192:20:57	Evans	Okay? Apparently, you're stuck on something. Okay. Got it.
192:21:17	Cernan	... Turn on the ...
192:21:24	Evans	Okay, I got it. You want some tape? The tape. Gene wants the tape.
192:21:33	Cernan	Yes. I'll need it. ...
192:21:41	CC	Ron, Houston. If Delta Delta is more than 50 percent finished, then use Charlie Charlie.
192:21:53	Evans	Okay. I don't think I've used Delta Delta, have I? I'll have to look at it and see.
192:22:23	CC	Ron, one other thing to bug you; we'd like you to do the VERB 48 load as shown in the Flight Plan. It'll collapse the dead band so we can check and make sure the LM steerable is right on the money.
192:22:38	Evans	You want to do that now?
192:22:40	CC	That's affirmative.
192:22:44	Evans	Okay, why don't you read it to me, Gordo? And I'll get it, in the LEB DSKY down here.
192:22:51	CC	Okay, it's a VERB 48, R-l, you want 61101.
192:23:24	Evans	Okay, Houston; this is America. That should have collapsed it there.
192:23:49	CC	Okay, Ron. That caught what we wanted.
192:23:55	Evans	Okay.
192:25:10	Cernan	495 ...
192:25:22	Evans	Yes. The jettison suited. Okay, Houston, mag Delta Delta looks like it's full. I was just going over the list of stuff here I've got. And I think you've got everything.
192:25:53	Cernan	...
192:26:49	Cernan	... bringing it back.
192:27:26	Cernan	Okay ...
192:28:44	Cernan	... bag ... too many pictures.
192:29:32	Schmitt	Okay, Houston, I guess we're GO or NO/GO for your LM closeout.
192:29:41	CC	Okay, stand by 1 on that.
192:30:22	Cernan	...
192:30:28	Evans	Yes, we're in a jettison attitude now.
192:30:38	CC	Challenger, you're GO for closeout.
192:30:44	Cernan	Okay, we're proceeding then.
192:31:07	Evans	No, I'm NARROW DEADBAND now.
192:31:09	Cernan	MIN DEADBAND ATT HOLD.
192:31:11	Evans	That's right. MIN DEADBAND ATT HOLD.
192:31:12	Cernan	GUIDANCE CONTROL, PGNS.
192:31:30	Cernan	AGS MODE CONTROL, ATT HOLD.
192:31:47	Cernan	... OFF and RECEIVER, ON. ...
192:32:47	Cernan	Hello, Houston; Challenger.
192:32:50	CC	Go ahead, Challenger.
192:32:54	Cernan	Gordo, how soon is AOS?
192:33:01	CC	Okay, LOS is 16-1/2 minutes.
192:33:08	Cernan	That's what I meant - LOS. Thank you.
192:33:48	CC	America, Houston. I have a couple updates to go in the Flight Plan.
192:34:00	Evans	Yes?
192:34:04	Cernan	Did you hear it?
192:34:05	Evans	What's that?
192:34:05	Cernan	They have an update for ...
192:34:07	Evans	Oh, okay.
192:34:16	Evans	Houston, I'm ready for the Flight Flan update.
192:34:20	CC	Okay, what it is, is the CSM and LM weights for the DAP at 192:10.
192:34:29	Evans	Okay, go.
192:34:30	CC	The CSM weight with three men, assuming you're going to have three men from here on out, is 36545 (laughter). And the LM weight is 5185. And you might jot down a couple trims for three men aboard. Pitch trim will be plus 0.60 and yaw plus 0.8l.
192:35:09	Evans	Okay, CSM weight is 36545, LM weight is 5185, pitch is plus 0.60, yaw is plus 0.8l.
192:35:23	CC	Okay, that's a good readback. The LM jettison numbers are nominal as shown down the LM jettison time for Tig. and attitudes.
192:35:39	Evans	Okay, wait a minute.
192:35:52	CC	I realize there is no ...
192:35:53	Evans	Okay. 194:03:30.
192:36:04	CC	Okay. That's right for CSM sep, and the LM jettison time is on a page before there, 193:58:30.
192:36:22	Evans	Okay.
192:37:04	Cernan	Okay, Houston. Challenger is going off the air.
192:37:14	CC	Okay, Challenger. It's been a pleasure talking to you the last few days.
192:37:24	Cernan	It seems like an unfitting finish to a super bird, but it's got one more job to do.
192:37:31	CC	Roger that.
192:37:37	Schmitt	Take care, Gordy, and thank you.
192:37:45	CC	Sounds like you're planning to stay there.
192:37:49	Schmitt	(Laughter)
192:37:52	Cernan	I speak for the Challenger.
192:38:00	CC	Say, one final thing. And sometime in the next 30 minutes, Parker will be coming on to take over here and, just for your information, today is his birthday.
192:38:21	Evans	Ah-ha. Okay, thank you much.
192:38:29	PAO	Parker is Astronaut Robert Parker, who is the spacecraft communicator, or Capcom, will be coming on to relieve Astronaut Gordon Fullerton on the shifts change in about 15 or 20 minutes.
192:39:04	PAO	After that last transmission, Gene Cernan indicated that he and Jack Schmitt were ready to return to the Command Module, close the hatch and leave Challenger to be jettisoned and later deorbited into the lunar surface. And again to go over the information for the Lunar Module deorbit, the time of ignition, which will start the LM on its trajectory toward the lunar surface is 195 hours 38 minutes 13 seconds. The deorbit burn will be a 158 second burn, using the reaction control system thrusters, providing a change in velocity of 286 feet per second, primarily slowing the LM down, and getting it in orbit that intersects the lunar surface. LM impact is scheduled to occur, will be targeted to occur at 195 hours 57 minutes 12 seconds and the target at impact point will be 19.95 degrees north, 30.57 degrees east, which is about 9 kilometers from the ALSEP in South Massif, and hopefully will be visible to the television camera on the lunar surface.
192:40:36	Evans	Yes, I can just barely hear you.
192:40:40	SC	I need the hose. I need ...
192:40:46	Evans	Want a hose, yes. What, the suit hose?
192:40:55	SC	Yes.
192:40:58	Evans	Well, I was thinking of comm. That's Jack's.
192:41:04	SC	... this one here.
192:41:08	Evans	Okay. There you go. Let me put the - ... connect in. Yes.
192:41:41	Evans	Hey, we ought to put this thing on there.
192:47:32	CC	Okay, America. You're about 2 minutes from LOS, and everything's looking fine right now.
192:47:43	Evans	Okay, it looks like the majority of the stuff is completed, so we should see you, ready to go, or. the other side.
192:47:51	CC	Okeydoke.
192:47:51		BEGIN LUNAR REV 54
192:49:03	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 192 hours 49 minutes. We're now less than 1 minute from losing radio contact with Apollo 17. We'll be reacquiring in about 45 minutes on the 54th revolution of the Moon. And, on that revolution, the Lunar Module, Challenger, will be separated and jettisoned from the CSM, preparatory to it being de-orbited and impacted into the lunar surface. We're having a shift handover here in Mission Control. Flight Director, Pete Frank and his team of flight controllers coming on to relieve the team headed by Flight Director Gene Kranz. And, we're planning a change-of-shift press briefing for 10 P.M. in the MSC News Center Briefing Room. At 192 hours 50 minutes, this is Apollo Control, Houston.
193:31:49	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 193 hours 31 minutes. We're slightly under 1 minute away from acquisition of spacecraft America on it's 54th lunar revolution. Still docked to the Lunar Module, Challenger. Challenger will be jettisoned during this front side pass. We'll stand by now for first call to the crew.
193:33:03	Evans	Okay. DIRECT O2 is OFF. The other day, mine went up to 4.5. No, it just goes that high; doesn't make any difference what you do.
193:33:17	Cernan	I am, too.
193:33:17	Evans	So am I, right now. No, not yet. We got to wait until the O2 flow stops. Yes, it'll increase on up to - should be 4.1 to 4.5. Well, she's still going up. I'm reading 4.2 on the cuff gage.
193:33:43	Cernan	4.1.
193:33:48	Evans	Well, we'll go on up to about ... Well, there's the total suits.
193:33:54	Cernan	Yes, it's got 8 - ... 9-
193:33:57	Evans	8.9?
193:33:57	Cernan	9.
193:34:00	Evans	Yes, it ought to stable off there. It's to about 4.3 - 4.4 on mine now. Houston, America. How go you read?
193:34:07	CC	Loud and clear, America.
193:34:11	Evans	Okay, we're in the old suit circuit integrity check at the present time.
193:34:19	CC	Roger, we're copying you live.
193:34:20	Evans	Okay, DIRECT O2 is coming down now - I mean the O2 Okay, O2 flow's coming down.
193:34:28	Cernan	And, Houston, the tunnel's closed out. We're still at TUNNEL VENT, and the hatch integrity is GO.
193:34:35	CC	Okay, we copy that.
193:34:50	Evans	And O2 flow's down to 0.5, now. Yes, that's right. The - the suit Integrity check will pump you up that high.
193:35:02	Schmitt	It's a - it regulates through the delta over cabin.
193:35:05	Evans	Yes. Yes, maybe she might make it down to 0.4. Yes, it's going down. Well, it means you guys' suits are still on tight.
193:35:21	Cernan	What do you mean? There's so much dust in the joint, they couldn't be anything else but tight.
193:35:24	Evans	(Laughter)
193:35:26	Schmitt	They're tighter than they were when we started.
193:35:27	Evans	Oh, yes?
193:35:33	Schmitt	But that lubing is just so it collects dust to make them tight.
193:35:36	Evans	Uh-huh.
193:35:43	Evans	Well, I was down to 0.4, now it's up to about 0.5, 0.4 and a half. All we need is less than 0.8. Well, I haven't been timing it. I guess it's about 30 seconds, though.
193:35:58	Schmitt	Oh, yes. ...
193:36:03	Evans	Yes, I'm happy; let's go to DEPRESS. ... Don't, go to OFF, yet.
193:36:10	Cernan	Okay.
193:36:13	Evans	There we go - DEPRESS.
193:36:15	CC	And, America, Houston's also happy with what we see down here.
193:36:17	Evans	Okay, it looks like you've been staying around - -
193:36:21	Evans	Okay. Speaking of happy - Happy birthday.
193:36:26	CC	Thank you, Ron. Found out you guys plan far ahead.
193:36:28	Evans	Who, Parker?
193:36:28	Cernan	Yes.
193:36:32	Evans	(Laughter)
193:36:33	Schmitt	What was that?
193:36:34	Cernan	Ron, we'll - we'll drop Challenger right on the South Massif for you - for your birthday present.
193:36:43	CC	Thank you, Gene.
193:36:47	Evans	Okay. LM POWER's OFF.
193:36:50	Schmitt	Are you going to let the suit down or what?
193:36:51	Evans	It's going down. It's going down slowly.
193:36:53	Schmitt	Yes, it is.
193:36:55	Evans	We'll take it down real fast if you want to, but that's kind of hard on my ears. Okay, SECS PYRO ARM circuit breakers - I wonder if I can reach those. Yes. There's BAT A and BAT B are in.
193:37:14	Evans	And, Houston, America. I guess we're ready for LOGIC ARM if you are.
193:37:20	CC	Roger. We're ready to watch.
193:37:21	Evans	SECS LOGIC. Okay. Here goes LOGIC 1 -
193:37:27	Evans	MARK it. And LOGIC 2 -
193:37:30	Evans	MARK it.
193:37:38	CC	Okay, America. You're GO for PYRO ARM.
193:37:44	Evans	Okay. We - we'll wait awhile to do that. We're actually a little ahead of time.
193:38:03	CC	Okay. And, America, can you report - -
193:38:05	Cernan	Houston, how does Challenger - -
193:38:06	CC	- - LM/CM DELTA-P?
193:38:07	Cernan	- - look to you?
193:38:13	CC	Okay, Challenger looks good, but we'd like the LM/CM DELTA-P.
193:38:15	Cernan	That's affirm. I - I'm seeing DELTA-P is off scale high, and I'm on about the sixth minute of my 10-minute tunnel vent, following 3.5 DELTA-P.
193:38:34	CC	Okay, copy that.
193:38:57	Evans	Yes, it does, doesn't it? (Laughter)
193:39:01	Schmitt	That's right.
193:39:03	Evans	Yours come down faster than mine?
193:39:04	Schmitt	Oh, you opened the old suit circuit relief. We're tough, though, us guys that go to the lunar surface.
193:39:11	Evans	Yes, yes. You guys got to be tough.
193:39:13	Schmitt	Yes. (Laughter)
193:39:16	Evans	We got a tough position here too, you know, if you want to try it. Just go to off.
193:39:22	Schmitt	Bet you life you do.
193:39:26	Evans	Okay.
193:39:27	Schmitt	I imagine they had you humping.
193:39:30	Evans	Yes, a little bit.
193:39:36	Schmitt	How we're back to screw up your routine.
193:39:39	Evans	Yes, that's right, you know.
193:39:44	Cernan	Don't let us bother you, Ron. You just go about and do whatever you want to do. We'll just get clean for the next 3 days.
193:39:49	Evans	Okay.
193:39:54	Schmitt	Oh, we - we're down to 7 now.
193:39:56	Evans	Lower limit. You know, I can't even see my EMS for that Sun shining in here. That'd be a great LM jett attison [sic].
193:40:08	Cernan	Ron's ears apparently are bothering him is the only thing I can decide.
193:40:11	Evans	(Laughter) Oh, we're about down, aren't we?
193:40:17	Cernan	Couple of more pounds and we'll be there.
193:40:18	Evans	Couple more pounds? Okay.
193:40:22	Evans	Tunnel light are off.
193:40:51	Schmitt	We didn't hurt this end of the LM much.
193:40:56	Evans	Yes, it looks real good. I got some pictures of the bottom of it, too, I think. When you guys were going around there. And that looks real nice.
193:41:06	Schmitt	Well, you always were a bottom man.
193:41:16	Evans	Okay, let's see.
193:41:59	Evans	Okay, suit circuit integrity check. We've already done that. Okay, I'm loading the EMS to plus 100 and making a null bias check, right now.
193:42:23	PAO	As a precautionary measure the crew will wear pressure suits while the lunar module is being jetted.
193:42:50	Cernan	Okay, Houston. I've been in TUNNEL VENT now for about 11 minutes after 3.5 on the DELTA-P, and I'm going TUNNEL VENT valve to OFF.
193:43:04	CC	Okay, we copy that, Gene.
193:43:16	Evans	Houston, the null bias check, I've got plus 100.9, starting out at 100, in a minute and 40 seconds.
193:43:27	CC	Okay, we copy.
193:43:52	Evans	(Laughter) You all done? You'll have to stay inside. Okay, align the old GDC; I just did that awhile ago. ... do it again. Good.
193:44:32	Evans	In the LM? ... In there.
193:44:46	Evans	Okay, we're right down here now, and I can't see that very well. Can you - do you want to read the - read the checklist?
193:44:57	Evans	Okay, uncage the BMAGs. RATE to LOW; DEAD BAND, MIN. Okay, wait a minute. We won't do that as late as 45. Let's see. Okay, might as well, I guess. Okay. And SCS. Oh, I don't use that anyhow, really. That's just - well, I really don't use that this time, anyhow. TRANS CONTROL POWER is ON.
193:45:55	Evans	Okay. I don't either. You're looking right into the Sun. We're looking right into the Sun so we won't be able to see it. Okay. Yes, I got this one going over here, but - it might still have something.
193:46:23	Schmitt	Twelve frames a second.
193:46:28	Evans	DIRECTS, MAIN A, MAIN B. Well, I'll wait awhile on arming those.
193:46:52	Evans	Let's see, we ought to go ... the old SUIT TEST valve to OFF now, okay?
193:46:59	Evans	Okay.
193:47:22	Evans	That's both of them. That's both the ascent stage and the - and the - Yes, we'll change that, too. O2, okay. That's good.
193:47:39	Cernan	B/D roll.
193:47:40	Evans	Yes; okay.
193:47:53	Evans	And we don't need to be P30 anymore, we can get out of there. Turn the page over there and then you can see what the - See, we'll do the jettison burn and then we'll VERB 49 to a new attitude so we don't zap the hot exhaust into the SIM bay. And then we'll do a P41 for separation, see? At that new attitude. That's all over there in this thing. So, we'll do all that as soon as we separate, then we'll go into the preseparation - or as soon as we jettison, we'll go right to the pre-SEP checklist.
193:48:41	Evans	About 10 minutes to SEP - I mean to jett. Ten minutes to jettison.
193:49:01	Evans	Oh, that's all right - it won't work anyhow, see. So -
193:50:20	Evans	Okay, plus 110.00, ENTER. Plus 7.000, ENTER. Plus 349. Okay, that's the NOUN 22s for the VERB 49.
193:50:57	Evans	Yes. Got arm controllers in, that's all. We'll use this for time, jett effect [?] 55.
193:51:46	Schmitt	Okay.
193:51:50	Evans	Those two, but not the ones next to them; yes.
193:54:22	Evans	Okay, PYROS are coming ON. There's A and B. And all breakers are IN.
193:54:37	CC	Okay, America, we see the PYROS ARMED. Looks good.
193:54:43	Evans	Okay.
193:55:00	Evans	Get the - 47? Okay.
193:55:46	Evans	(Humming)
193:56:31	PAO	Two minutes to jettison.
193:56:59	Evans	Yes, must be.
193:57:13	Evans	193 hours. I don't know what day this is, really.
193:57:33	Evans	Okay, I can go into P47 now. Hey, could I dump him, or do you want to get to dump? Yes, that was your Challenger. Okay, you can dump him. I brought him up here, though. He was - he was a good Challenger. Okay.
193:58:07	Evans	AGS ON. is it running? Yes, it's running. Okay, 55. 55, 56, 57, 58, 59 -
193:58:33	Evans	MARK! There she goes! Yes. Well, yes, it's holding out. Hey, that's firing.
193:58:42	Evans	Hey, there goes all the docking latches!
193:58:51	PAO	Jettison on time.
193:58:51	Evans	Yes, everything else's right there. Beautiful. I hope this thing's working.
193:58:59	Evans	You know, Houston, this is America. I guess in the terms of some of the Grumman people down in Florida, the LM is a "wop-off".
193:59:17	CC	Okay. We copy that.
193:59:24	Cernan	And, Houston, I think the last few days have proved that they really did save the best until last.
193:59:32	Evans	This a - I need you to get the maneuver in here, Gene.
193:59:34	Cernan	Okay.
193:59:39	Evans	No, that's all right; I'll get it. Okay, go ahead. Good. Ready. CMC; RATE 2. Okay. (Humming) PROCEED. Boy, it's just stable as a rock out there. That's a STANDBY? Let me get some more pictures of it here.
194:00:21	Schmitt	I think you might take - I'm going to change the setting down to about a 2.8, get to the bottom part of it there for a little bit. Right, well, it's not quite at the bottom. He's right on the side, but -
194:00:39	Evans	Okay, 16: up, MAIN A, MAIN B.
194:00:44	Cernan	Yes, we're maneuvering.
194:00:52	Evans	Okay, SAFE the PYROs. LOGIC 2 is OFF, LOGIC 1 is ON.
194:00:59	Evans	PYRO ARM, BAT A, BAT B, BAT A are OPEN.
194:01:04	CC	Okay, we copy them SAFE, America.
194:01:10	Schmitt	Okay, Houston.
194:01:12	CC	And your cabin looks good. LM also looks good.
194:01:18	Evans	Hey, great!
194:01:29	Schmitt	Okay, Houston, the preseparation checklist is complete, except for completing the maneuver and going to P41.
194:01:35	CC	Copy that.
194:01:51	Cernan	And the LM is holding attitude very well.
194:02:05	Evans	Okay, we're going to get there at 194:03. 30. Okay. So Tig. will be - well, it's 03:41 - we can start we can - got so excited with watching the LM that I forgot to get going.
194:02:41	CC	Hope you guys remembered to take roll call before you let it go.
194:02:47	Evans	(Laughter) Say again, sir?
194:02:53	CC	And, America, we'd like HIGH GAIN to AUTO, please
194:02:58	Schmitt	... got it.
194:03:14	PAO	That remark was by Deke Slaton.
194:03:15	Evans	... Yes. We're there. Yes. Okay, there's average g.
194:03:25	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. How do you read on the Alpha?
194:03:28	CC	We read you on the OMNI Alpha.
194:03:29	Evans	Okay, trans CONTROLLER'S ON. Let's see, what's next? Need to time. ...
194:03:32	Schmitt	Hey, you called Alpha, did you not?
194:03:35	CC	No, we want HIGH GAIN to AUTO, but I'm not sure we can do it right now. Stand by.
194:03:38	Schmitt	That doesn't make any difference on the S-band.
194:03:42	Cernan	We're burning now.
194:04:19	Evans	Ahhh, well, come on. (Laughter) ... Okay, there we go. - 0.1 to plus - well, keep the change. You can read it. Press on.
194:04:35	CC	17, we're not reading the NOUN 85s. Would you read them to us?
194:04:46	Evans	Okay. NOUN 85s were minus 0.1, a plus 0.1, and plus 0.2.
194:04:53	CC	Okay, copy.
194:04:58	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. You want me to get the high gain back?
194:05:02	CC	Stand by.
194:05:12	Evans	Okay, DIRECTs are OFF. Locked - locked it. We go into - we go into SIM bay configuration?
194:05:26	CC	Okay, Jack, OMNI Alfa is just fine, right now. You've gone past the scan limits, anyway.
194:05:40	Evans	Okay. Okay, we got SIM bay jett configuration.
194:05:55	Cernan	Give them a mark though, Jack, from the - when we extend the antennas.
194:06:01	Schmitt	Right.
194:06:31	CC	Okay, 17. We're ready for you to start that P20 maneuver, please.
194:06:47	Evans	Okay, Bob. We're getting it there. Plus 90 52 ...
194:06:58	CC	Okay, 17, we'd like to hold the extension on the HF antennas until we get the high gain reacquired. We'd like you to go to P20 at the time we see that.
194:07:09	Evans	Okay. Will do.
194:07:30	Evans	... ENTER, Yes, that's when we can get there.
194:07:50	Evans	Yes, it's supposed to be the slow rate. Now, we're going ... fast rate.
194:08:00		CC
194:08:25	Evans	Okay. We'll give you a call on that, Houston.
194:08:28	CC	Okay, Ron.
194:10:56	Schmitt	Houston, America. Magazine Dog Dog is 40 percent remaining.
194:11:05	CC	I copy that.
194:11:23	CC	Okay, and, America, we've got a pitch of minus 67 and a yaw of 300 for the high gain.
194:12:44	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. Let me have the old Flight Plan changes.
194:12:47	CC	Okay. At page 195 - excuse me - time 195:15 - that's page 304.
194:13:02	Schmitt	Go ahead.
194:13:03	CC	Okay. It says, "Set HIGH GAIN MANUAL, WIDE" and the new angles will be pitch of minus 5 and yaw of 315. And the time will be 196:30 instead of 21 - 30.
194:13:28	Schmitt	Go ahead.
194:13:29	CC	Okay. You might also at that point write in "Verify all Command Module VHF OFF." I'm sure Ron will understand what that means. He's been doing it all along anyway.
194:13:42	Schmitt	Yes.
194:13:44	CC	Okay, and then over at 195:31 -
194:13:47	Schmitt	That just means you want the VHF off, doesn't it?
194:13:49	CC	Right. All of these, I think - three switches over there along the side. And BEACON, RANGING and -
194:13:56	Schmitt	I think I understand that.
194:13:57	CC	Okay. I thought even an LMP would understand that At 195:31, we're going to move "LUNAR SOUNDER OPERATE to OPERATE." The new start time there Will be 195:31:38. Over.
194:14:36	Schmitt	Okay. "LUNAR SOUNDER OPERATE" will be done, new time will be 195:31:38.
194:14:42	CC	Okay. And then next page at 196:20 which was the original lunar sounder stop time, we will move all that block which starts with "LUNAR SOUNDER OPERATE STANDBY and T-stop" - that will all move over - and goes down to "UV ON." That block will move over to the 196:30 time of the next column, and the T-stop time there will be 196:30.
194:15:26	Schmitt	Okay. I'm going to move the "LUNAR SOUNDER OPERATE/UV ON" block from its present position to 196:30:00.
194:15:36	CC	Okay, Roger. And the "VERB 22 NOUN 79" that was originally starting at 196:30 will be done following that block of "LUNAR SOUNDER SIM bay" stuff.
194:16:32	CC	And, Jack, there - -
194:16:33	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. is there anything else?
194:16:35	CC	Okay, in the middle of that section that we moved, it says "Acquire STDN," says "High gain angles," and those will again be changed to minus 5 and 315 which is the same change we made on the earlier page.
194:16:52	Schmitt	Okay.
194:16:53	CC	Okay. And that is the extent of the update.
194:17:01	Schmitt	Okay, thank you.
194:17:40	CC	And, America, we're GO to extend the HF antennas.
194:17:53	Schmitt	All right, stand by - about 30 seconds.
194:18:49	Schmitt	Okay, Houston, HF ANTENNAS - going to EXTEND, number 1 -
194:18:55	Schmitt	MARK it.
194:18:57	CC	Mark.
194:19:27	Cernan	Houston, did you - was that mark for OFF?
194:19:30	CC	Negative, that was a mark that we copied you going ...
194:19:31	Cernan	Going to have to square a new guy away, here.
194:19:36	Schmitt	Okay, I'm sorry, I'll tell - I'm going to turn it OFF - going to EXTEND again -
194:19:40	Schmitt	MARK it.
194:19:41	CC	Okay, we marked it again.
194:19:50	Cernan	Bob, it was OFF for about 5 seconds, while I asked you that question.
194:21:13	CC	Okay, America. We copy HF 1 extended. You're GO for switch OFF there, and we're ready to extend HF 2.
194:21:23	Cernan	Okay, Bob, and that's gray, now. And HF ANTENNA 2 -
194:21:30	Cernan	MARK it.
194:23:50	CC	America, Houston. We're observing CMC in FREE instead of going through the P20. We wonder if you accidentally hit a switch.
194:24:17	Cernan	Okay, Bob. I think we've got it now. Thank you.
194:24:19	CC	Copy.
194:24:52	PAO	America's crewmen are removing their pressure suits now. We show America's present orbit is 63.8 by 61.1 nautical miles.
194:25:58	Schmitt	How's that antenna looking - -
194:25:59	CC	Okay, yes. We're just going to tell you, it's probably not quite out yet according to indicators, that I guess you see. I would like to go OFF, though, to keep the motor from heating up. We'll come back on it a little bit later.
194:26:15	Schmitt	Okay, it's OFF and the talkback went gray, with it going off.
194:26:20	CC	Roger. Let's see, it was barber pole up until then, right, though?
194:26:27	Schmitt	That's affirm, Bob.
194:26:32	Cernan	Houston, America.
194:26:43	Cernan	Houston, America.
194:26:44	CC	Go ahead, America.
194:26:49	Cernan	Okay, Robert, I just want to tune you in on our mode of operation here, for the next few hours. We're getting Ron out of his suit, so that he can operate more effectively and efficiently the SIM bay. And, then Jack and I are going to start getting out of our suits and trying to clean up a little bit, and that's going to probably be a long and tedious operation but we're just going to have to take that time.
194:27:17	CC	Okay. We copy that. And, Ron, HF 2 is the one - -
194:27:25	Cernan	No, we'll be - -
194:27:25	CC	- - that we're not quite sure if it's out and you might check a visual on that, I think you've looked at it before when it's fully extended and, and give us a clue whether it's 99 percent extended or not. And, go ahead, Gene; I think I cut you off.
194:27:40	Cernan	Stand by 1.
194:27:51	Cernan	Yes. Wait until sunrise, Bob, and he can look at it.
194:28:27	Cernan	Bob, you're probably going to have to wait until sunrise to get a good verification of that.
194:28:30	CC	Roger. Copy that. I just looked down the Flight Plan and saw you going into darkness.
194:28:41	Evans	It's easier with us.
194:28:54	Cernan	And, Bob, during this LMP and CDR suit doffing and CWD changeout and so forth, the LMP will be off biomed until he gets a new set and gets cleaned up and gets them on. So I just want you to understand all that.
194:29:13	CC	Okay, yes. We understand.
194:29:18	Cernan	Okay.
194:30:48	Cernan	Bob, what's the LM impact time?
194:30:53	CC	Okay, stand by on that. Okay, 195:57:20. So it's 57:20.
194:31:13	Cernan	Okay, that's about an hour and 20, then right?
194:31:17	CC	That's right.
194:31:21	Cernan	Okay. Of course, we're interested in the whereabouts of Challenger, so when the time comes up, give us a holler, will you?
194:31:29	CC	Oh, Roger. We will do.
194:31:34	Cernan	We're still very much interested in her performance.
194:31:43	PAO	That impact time is an update from the previous impact time of 195:57:12. Present impact time 195:57:20.
194:39:49	CC	Okay, America; Ron, we'd like you to go on HF 2 there which we've got, apparently, most of the way out; but we're apparently stuck a little bit. We'd like to get the HF 2 to RETRACT for 10 seconds and then go to EXTEND for 20 seconds. Over. And we'll be watching here on the ground.
194:40:10	Evans	Okay, that's HF 2. And we'll go to RETRACT and, let's see - I need three hands here - VOX, let me get VOX. Okay. HF 2 going to RETRACT: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 -
194:40:41	Evans	MARK it. Okay, we'll stay that way for 10 seconds, we've got a barber pole - and -
194:40:52	Evans	MARK it; okay. And it's OFF now. Now you want to go to EXTEND for 20 seconds, huh?
194:41:02	CC	That's affirm.
194:41:06	Evans	Okay, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, -
194:41:11	Evans	MARK it. Got a barber pole.
194:41:32	Evans	Okay, 21 seconds and it was OFF. Hey, you said - somebody just told me about looking at HF 2. That's the one I can't see.
194:41:43	CC	Okay; we copy that, too, Ron. Thank you.
194:41:48	Evans	Yes.
194:41:57	CC	Okay, Ron, we'd like you to do that same cycle one more time. RETRACT for 10 seconds then EXTEND for 20 seconds again.
194:42:07	Evans	Okay. And HF number 2. 3, 2, 1 -
194:42:14	Evans	MARK it, RETRACT.
194:42:23	Evans	Okay, 9, 10; it's OFF. Okay, 3, 2, 1 -
194:42:32	Evans	MARK it; it's EXTEND. Yes, it was stuck right in there. Oop, okay, that's twenty - 23 seconds before it went to OFF.
194:43:02	CC	Copy that, Ron.
194:43:11	CC	Okay, we think it's starting to clear up, Ron. If you'll leave - put it in EXTEND and leave it there, we'll give you a call - or else until it goes gray.
194:43:20	Evans	Okay. 3, 2, 1 -
194:43:25	Evans	MARK it. It's going to EXTEND.
194:44:28	CC	Okay, OFF, please, Ron.
194:44:33	Evans	Okay, OFF. And it was OFF at a minute and 8 seconds.
194:44:40	CC	Okay, and I gather it was still barber pole, right?
194:44:46	Evans	It was still barber pole, yes.
194:45:40	CC	Okay, America, you're GO for LOS; and we'll be picking up on the HF path as per the checklist. Ron, we'd like to have you look on the back side - see which or any antennas you can see out there, just to give us a status when you come around the Horn. Over.
194:46:02	Evans	Okay; we'll give her a try.
194:46:04	CC	Okay; thank you.
194:46:05	Evans	I can see the one out window 1. Window 1 is the only one I can see.
194:46:12	CC	Copy that.
194:46:13	Evans	And that happens to be HF number 1.
194:47:14	Evans	Yes - Oh, here's a little - The electrical covers? Oh, they're - each one of them is in your bag here. Yes.
194:47:38		BEGIN LUNAR REV 55
194:47:38	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 194 hours 47 minutes. We've had loss of signal from America. When we next acquire on the 55th revolution we'll be about 6 minutes away from the LM deorbit burn. Ignition time for that maneuver 195 hours 38 minutes 13 seconds. Burn time 158 seconds, velocity change 286 feet per second. The impact time was updated during this revolution, now expect impact at 195 hours 57 minutes 20 seconds. The impact coordinates have not changed, 19 point 95 degrees north, 30 point 57 degrees east. This is on the South Massif. At 194 hours 49 minutes, this is Mission Control Houston.
195:30:41	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 195 hours 30 minutes. We are 54 seconds away from acquisition on the 55th revolution and 7 1/2 minutes away from the de-orbit maneuver. We'll stand by for first communications on this pass.
195:31:45	Evans	Okay. There we are at OMNI Charlie.
195:31:57	CC	Roger. America, Houston, We read you loud and clear.
195:32:03	Evans	Okay. Houston, this is America. Okay, for your planning purposes there, I got a little tied up and started the RECEIVE ONLY TAPE RECORDER at 195 plus 24.
195:32:23	CC	Okay; I copy that, Ron.
195:33:01	Evans	Okay, Houston. HP number 1 is sticking out where it should stick.
195:33:08	CC	Okay, we copy that and - Stand by. Okay, go STANDBY on the LUNAR SOUNDER, please, Ron. Somebody is worried down here. STANDBY on the LUNAR SOUNDER.
195:33:25	Evans	Okay, what's - STANDBY. Okay, STANDBY.
195:34:03	CC	Okay, and, Ron. We're going to do this one in VHF. Apparently they're still too worried about your HF antennas. So if you'll take your MODE switch to HF when we get ready to get ready to come out of STANDBY, we'll do it in the VHF MODE.
195:34:27	Evans	Okay. We're - we'll - we'll standby on your call then. Or I'll go to VHF now, if you want. Or would you rather have HF receive? I'll stand by on your call to go to VHF.
195:34:43	CC	That's affirm, Ron. You can go to VHF now, and stand by on our call to come from STANDBY to ON.
195:34:56	Evans	Okay, MODE's in VHF.
195:35:35	Evans	Houston, America. What - is somebody kind of afraid that maybe the antenna isn't all the way out? is that what the problem is?
195:35:40	CC	That's affirm. They're worried about HF 2 not being all the way out, and they think that they won't get much - if it's partially extended. So we'll see what we can get with VHF instead. And, right now, we're going to STANDBY to warm up the film cassette. It's too cold.
195:35:56	Evans	Okay.
195:36:19	Evans	I don't think I ever told you down there that mag Kilo Kilo was on frame 99 at the end of the rendezvous - and the picture-taking sessions there.
195:36:34	CC	Okay, copy that.
195:36:51	CC	Okay; and, America, we'd like to bring up the high gain since we're going to be using VHF. And we'd like PITCH of plus 25, YAW of 200, NARROW and REACQ.
195:37:12	Evans	PITCH of plus 25, YAW, 200; and REACQ and NARROW.
195:37:36	Evans	Pitch of plus 25. Okay. Okay.
195:37:59	PAO	15 seconds to ignition.
195:38:02	Evans	Okay.
195:38:31	PAO	The LM is burning now.
195:38:32	CC	Okay; and, Ron, we'd like H2 tanks 2 and 3 FANs to ON.
195:38:39	Evans	Okay - 2 - H2 tank 2 is ON; tank 3 is ON.
195:39:36	PAO	The burn has been completed.
195:39:40	Evans	That end might stick. It might stick there, but the back of it won't stick to anything. It's the wrong kind of stuff. If that won't, this will. ...
195:44:26	PAO	We're nine and one half minutes away from predicted impact. Okay, America, stand by 5 minutes to Challenger impact.
195:44:26	Evans	That's the vacuum transfer to the ECS. I can put those away.
195:44:28	Evans	What? We're just -
195:44:48	Evans	We're coming across Crisium.
195:46:10	Evans	With three guys in here, it fogs the windows up all the time. ... card
195:47:20	CC	Okay, America. Stand by, 5 minutes to Challenger impact.
195:47:25	CC	MARK.
195:47:33	Evans	Roger; 5 minutes to Challenger impact, huh?
195:47:35	CC	That's affirm. I don't know if you guys can see it out the one window or not -
195:47:43	Schmitt	We'll do all right.
195:47:55	Evans	Let's see - we should be what? - behind it, aren't we?
195:48:01	CC	Say again, Ron.
195:48:07	Evans	Shouldn't we be behind him?
195:48:12	CC	I should think he'd be a little bit behind you, right? Ron, I'll take that back, I think he is in front of you.
195:48:30	Evans	That's kind of the way I thought it would be. But, unfortunately, we're looking behind us.
195:48:35	CC	That's affirm. And, 3 minutes to impact.
195:48:40	Evans	Okay, 3 minutes to impact.
195:51:25	CC	MARK, 1 minute to impact.
195:51:33	Evans	Okay, 1 minute. Yes, we're right over Vitruvius A, now.
195:52:17	CC	10 seconds.
195:52:37	PAO	We've had LOS on the LM.
195:52:44	CC	Okay, we had LOS LM. And we don't believe we saw it down here, fellas.
195:53:00	Evans	What do you mean, you don't believe you saw it?
195:53:08	CC	That means that we didn't see it - on the TV.
195:53:13	Evans	Oh, on the TV, I see - I see.
195:53:19	CC	We are picking up the signal on the seismographa, though, the geophones.
195:55:09	Evans	Okay. Hey, Houston, I can see a bright spot on the South Massif - on the top of the South Massif.
195:55:19	CC	Uh, go ahead again there, guys.
195:55:24	Evans	Okay, this is America. I can see a bright spot on the top of the South Massif and, let me see, from the west you got the first hill or the first part of the mountains, then there's a valley, and then - there's a valley that kind of goes into a Y - it's a Y-looking valley. I guess, if you come from the east, it's the second ridge from the east, and right on top of that ridge is a bright spot. I don't know how big - I don't know how big a crater it should make.
195:56:18	CC	Okay, we copy that and we'll take a look at the maps and see what we can find.
195:56:27	Evans	And, I'll put a spot on my map, if I can do it here. Just a second.
195:56:30	CC	Okay, thank you.
195:57:04	CC	And, Ron, this is Houston. You ready tc copy an update in the Flight Plan, please, for me?
195:57:19	Evans	Okay, do you need it right now or should I mark this on the map first?
195:57:22	CC	No; oh, no. Go ahead and mark the map first.
195:57:29	PAO	The seismic recorder data on the monitor is coming from the Apollo 17 Lunar Seismic Profiling Experiment.
195:59:24	PAO	The preleminary estimate is that the LM impact was within 15 kilometers of the Apollo 17 ALSEP site. And the TV camera will be coming off shortly.
196:04:58	Evans	Hey, Houston; America.
196:05:00	CC	Go ahead, America. This is Houston.
196:05:05	Evans	Okay, Bob, I don't have a map with South Massif on it. You know with the meridian interval on the thing and it looks like the only thing I can use is in the visual observations book here - landing site 204. And, if you draw a line - Do you have that one?
196:05:36	CC	Okay, I've landing site 204 in front of me.
196:05:42	Evans	Okay. If you draw a line from Shorty to that Reseau mark, that's on the top of the South Massif -
196:05:50	CC	Okay, I copy that.
196:05:55	Evans	And then, extend about a little better than one-eighth of an inch toward Shorty from that Reseau mark. Maybe - Yes, somewhere right in there. I'll look at it again the next time I come over. But, that's a bright spot on the top of the Massif that I hadn't noticed before in any of the observations going by there.
196:06:29	CC	Okay, I've got it marked down. We'll also see if we can find it on some bigger maps.
196:06:36	Evans	Okay. Yes, you know that bright spot might already be there, but I don't think so. I don't remember seeing it.
196:06:43	CC	Okay, copy that. Okay, and, Ron, we'd like to press on with our Flight Plan update here for you.
196:06:50	Evans	... Okay.
196:06:54	CC	Okay. Number 1, we'd like to go HF 2 to EXTEND for 3 minutes.
196:07:06	Evans	When? Now?
196:07:07	CC	Roger; now.
196:07:12	Evans	Okay, 5, 4 - okay, countdown - 3, 2, 1 -
196:07:27	Evans	MARK it! EXTEND, barber pole, still.
196:07:40	CC	Ron, stop the antenna, please. My mistake.
196:07:46	Evans	What?
196:07:47	CC	Okay, Ron, let me read through this one for you. They are anxious to extend that, but they want the DATA SYSTEM, ON, so they can see it first.
196:07:58	Evans	Ah ha, Okay.
196:07:58	CC	Why don't you go to 196.20 in the Flight Plan? You're probably sitting there looking at it, anyway. And run through that block that's there. It starts at about 196:19. We told Jack to move it but since we're aborting this lunar sounder pass, let's go to 196:20 and carry out the steps in there with the following exceptions: Do not turn RECORDER or RADAR to OFF. And - Okay. And, we want LUNAR SOUNDER left in STANDBY.
196:08:30	Evans	Okay. Let me read those through.
196:08:32	CC	Okay, and don't move the HIGH GAIN. The HIGH GAIN has been taken care of already.
196:08:39	Evans	Okay, I'll do that. LUNAR SOUNDER is verified in STANDBY. DATA SYSTEM is coming on. HIGH GAIN is already working. SM/AC power. Jack, could you turn ON the SERVICE MODULE AC? Or, I'll get it. Yes. Okay. SERVICE MODULE AC POWER's ON. LUNAR going to STANDBY - -
196:09:17	CC	Okay, and, Ron - -
196:09:17	Evans	- - and we'll leave the RECORDER, ON, and RADAR, ON.
196:09:27	CC	And, Ron, while you're putting those last three on, let's start the HF 2 to EXTEND. They'd like to get it before it gets too cold again.
196:09:36	Evans	Okay, HF 2 is going to EXTEND - 3, 2,
196:09:42	Evans	MARK it.
196:09:43	CC	Okay, we'll time it for 3 minutes for you while you get the IR and so forth.
196:09:50	Evans	Okay, IR is going ON. SELF TEST is going to HEATERS. UV is ON.
196:09:59	CC	Okay, copy that.
196:10:26	CC	Okay, Ron. We see the talkback. We can go to OFF.
196:10:32	Evans	Hey, it did! Okay, it's OFF.
196:10:37	CC	Okay, I guess we'll try and probably work that in some other time, now that we've got the antennas out. And, we'd like to go HIGH GAIN ANTENNA to AUTO and 2-1/2-degree deadband now that we're not doing the lunar sounder.
196:10:51	Evans	Okay.
196:11:44	Evans	(humming)
196:12:09	CC	Okay, Ron, and did you get the HIGH GAIN in the 2-1/2-degree deadband?
196:12:16	Evans	Affirmative. Yes, I got that.
196:12:18	CC	Okay. We got that and I got a TEI-65 pad, when you get ready for it.
196:12:27	Evans	Okay, let me pull out the old book.
196:12:40	CC	Okay, and, Ron if you'll give us the computer, we're ready to up-link some loads for you. You'll leave the jet-on monitor and state vector.
196:12:53	Evans	You can have the computer.
196:12:53	CC	Okay, thank you.
196:12:59	Evans	Okay, I'm ready to copy the TEI.
196:13:38	Evans	(humming)
196:14:04	Evans	Got it all dirty. (laughing)
196:14:30	Evans	Houston, America, I'm ready to copy the TEI pad.
196:14:33	CC	Okay, America; Houston. I'm ready to read the TEI pad if you're ready. It's an SPS/G&N, which is a surprise, I'm sure. And, it says: 36541; plus 0.60 plus 0.8l; 216:45:48.23; plus 2754.5, minus 0146.9, minus 0009.0; 179, 103, 359. The rest of the pad is N/A. GDC align stars are Sirius and Rigel. I guess they picked some bright ones for you for a change. We have alignments of 136 - -
196:15:38	Evans	Hey, they're good ones.
196:15:42	CC	- - 160, and 034. Ullage is four jet, 12 seconds. And we're using lift-off REFSMMAT. Over.
196:16:07	Evans	Okay, TEI - I've forgotten what rev it was.
196:16:11	CC	65.
196:16:11	Evans	SPS/G&N, 36541 - 55, okay.
196:16:16	CC	65, 65.
196:16:22	Evans	Oh, 65 it is. Okay, now on 47, the weight - 36541; plus 0.60, plus 0.81, 216:45:48.23; plus 2754.5, minus 0146.9, minus 000.0, 179, 103, 359. Sirius and Rigel, 136, 160, 034. Jet, 12 seconds for ullage. And we use lift-off REFSMMAT, which is what we have right now.
196:17:05	CC	Okay, Ron, and you dropped out there at 2 momentary seconds. One, the DELTA-Vz was minus a 9.0. Ullage was four jets.
196:17:18	Evans	Okay, that's right. DELTA-Vz is minus 9.0 and four-jet; ullage, 12 seconds. Lift-off REFSMMAT.
196:17:27	CC	Okay, you had a momentary dropout when you read those two figures.
196:17:32	Evans	Okay,
196:18:12	CC	And, America; Houston. Do you fellows think you have any chance, or would have any chance next time to take a picture of that possible impact point - with the handheld Hasselblad - or something?
196:18:31	Evans	Uh, sure can. You bet you. I think the best way to do it is with the 250 lens on the Hasselblad.
196:18:41	CC	Okay, it might be something worth getting just in case we don't hit it with the pan camera later on.
196:18:51	Evans	Okay.
196:19:35	CC	Okay, Ronald. The computer is yours and you can turn the LUNAR SOUNDER RADAR switch OFF. Leave the RECORDER switch OK.
196:19:46	Evans	Okay. The RECORDER'S staying ON and we'll turn the - RADAR, OFF?
196:19:56	CC	Roger. RADAR, OFF - RECORDER, ON and the computer is yours.
196:20:03	Evans	Okay, RADAR's going OFF and the RECORDER is still ON. And - we have lock.
196:20:24	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 196 hours 25 minutes. The tracking stations at Carnarvon, Honeysuckle, Hawaii and Goldstone recorded the Greenwich Mean Time at LM Loss of Signal as 6 hours 50 minutes 20 seconds.
196:21:05	Evans	Yes, shaved there one time. I've been trying to - haven't shaved today; I'm going to do it later on.
196:22:20	Evans	How about getting the recorder going there?
196:22:23	Cernan	What?
196:22:24	Evans	How about turning the recorder on? - Huh? it's right in here.
196:22:50	Evans	Yes. It's time to eat. Yes.
196:23:45	Evans	I don't care.
196:25:17	Evans	Okay, WASTE to PURGE LINE HEATERS. They're ON. Then VENT.
196:27:45	CC	America, Houston. Ron? Over.
196:27:50	Evans	Roger; go ahead.
196:27:52	CC	Okay, one, while I'm talking to you how about flipping up and turning H2 TANK 3 FAN, OFF? cl
196:28:03	Evans	Okay, TANK 3 is OFF.
196:28:05	CC	Okay, and then, how about you three guys giving us - giving some consideration the next 2 or 3 minutes to the following proposal? One, we totally aborted that lunar sounder pass because: One, we couldn't get the HF antenna out; and, two, because the temperature in the film cassette was too low. Those things are both taken care of now, And they're talking down here about essentially starting over at 197 hours, which will be the top of the next page, and pretending that that's 195 hours and running through that 195-hour page, beginning at 197 hours. The only problem with that, of course, is that it runs into your eat period and destroys that, which essentially means that you're going to get to bed 1 hour later. And I guess what we're saying is, if you're going to get to bed 1 hour later anyway, we might go ahead and ask you to do it, if you're agreeable. If you're clean-uping - cleaning-up companions there have progressed far enough that you think you're going to get to bed on time and don't want to do it, then that's another story. So, how about chewing it over there and letting us know?
196:29:17	Evans	Okay, let me talk to the guys here for a minute, but I think we'll probably do it. Stand by.
196:29:55	Evans	Hey, Houston; America. Let's press on and pretend like I'm eating between when I'm turning the LUNAR SOUNDER, ON, and OFF - Okay? In other words, let's get the lunar sounder pass.
196:30:15	CC	Okay, well, you're saying, well - well, we don't want you to have to do that in the middle of your eat period and destroy ... that, Ron. That's another concern we had here.
196:30:26	Evans	Don't worry about that. I - I can throw those switches on and I think the other guys can mix the food and I can eat it at the same time. No problem.
196:30:39	CC	Okay, we've got that recorded on tape there, Ron. Okay, what we're going to do is essentially - -
196:30:45	Evans	Okay (laughter).
196:30:46	CC	- - essentially start at the 195-hour page and we'll just mechanically add 2 hours to everything on that page and run through it as - on the page. Okay? The change that we originally had in the Flight Plan, which I read - I don't know vhether it was to you or to - Jack, which moved the group from 196:20 over to 196:30 - will still move over tn 196:30. So, that will stay as is. And, again, that will be, of course, at 198:30, then. Do you understand what I'm saying there? Over.
196:34:16	Evans	Yes, I think what you're saying is, we'll just do the Flight Plan like you - like we're starting at 195.
196:34:16	CC	Roger - -
196:34:16	Evans	- - like we'll be 2 hours later on the mission timer.
196:34:16	CC	Roger; you might call it miniclock update.
196:34:16	Evans	Okay. Sounds good. Lunar sounder operating time will be 197:31:38 then, right?
196:34:16	CC	That's affirmative.
196:39:02	CC	Okay, Ron, and two comments on that. Let me make a couple of other amendments to that. One, the lunar sounder operate time, instead of being 31:38 will be 32:51. At that 195 - top of the right-hand column on 195 there - be 195:32:51. Over.
196:39:02	Evans	And, Houston. These waste water dump and fuel cell purges - that doesn't foul up the lunar sounder, as I recall. I don't think, does it?
196:39:02	CC	Oh, we can go ahead and do those in parallel, right
196:39:02	Evans	Okay, good. That's what I thought.
196:39:02	CC	And, Ron, one other - Did you catch my one - my 32:51 update, there on that start time?
196:39:02	Evans	Did you say cancel it? I'm sorry.
196:39:02	CC	No, do you copy. I gave you 195:32:51 as the start time, instead of 31:38. Did you copy that?
196:39:02	Evans	Yes, I copied, I'm sorry. Used to working in VOX all the time and I forget to push the button.
196:39:02	CC	Okay, and the other thing we'd like to keep you aware of, if you hadn't noticed it, and that is that this thing, of course, Ron, is originally ... to a 196:30 plus, which means that you're going to be running 198:30 plus, which kind of looks like you're going to be eating at least a half an hour into your sleep period, at the very least. Over.
196:39:02	Evans	Yes, we understand that.
196:42:38	CC	Okay, Ron. We'd like to have Hg TANK 2 FAN, OFF, now please.
196:42:49	Evans	H2 TANK 2 is going OFF.
197:31:49	CC	Hello, America. This is Houston. One minute to LUNAR SOUNDER, OPERATE -
197:31:53	CC	MARK.
197:31:53	Cernan	Okay, 1 minute to LUNAR SOUNDER, OPERATE.
197:32:00	Cernan	MARK. This is your friendly commander, clean and happier5 back up.
197:32:00	CC	Roger, Geno. We're glad to hear you're clean again.
197:32:00	Cernan	Well, I'm not really clean but it's a major step in the right direction.
197:32:25	CC	30 seconds.
197:32:25	Cernan	Okay , 30 seconds.
197:32:25	CC	Okay, and -
197:32:48	CC	MARK on LUNAR SOUNDER, OPERATE, now.
197:32:48	Cernan	Okay, ...
197:32:48	CC	And, America, a question here. Did you get an isS alarm on the back side just a few minutes ago?
197:32:48	Cernan	No, sir.
197:32:48	CC	Okay. We lucked out. We'd - Since we'd had the jet monitor program operating and it hadn't been killed, which had originally been planned to come after the lunar sounder, there was a possibility that we'd get an alarm but looks like we don't have it. Good enough.
197:32:48	Evans	A'hat was going to cause that to come on?
197:32:48	CC	The possibility, Ron, was when you were reloading NOUN 79j getting a smaller dead band - it depends upon where the vehicle was at that time within the old dead band, EMP 523 might have suddenly found you outside the dead band and been unhappy.
197:32:48	Evans	Okay, I'm with you. Thank you.
197:32:48	CC	Okay, looks like we lucked out though.
197:32:48	Cernan	Say, Bob. do you know - -
197:32:48	CC	Go.
197:32:48	Cernan	Do you know any more about the demise of Challenger?
197:32:48	CC	We know that it was within 15 kilometers of where it was supposed to be, Gene. We could not get a visual on it. It was quite obvious that the geophone saw it and all that - there's no question about that, it's just that, as it turned out at the last minute it was pretty hare, to pick out where exactly it was going to be in order to have the TV camera there.
197:32:48	Cernan	But everything appeared to function properly, huh, the ALSEP and you - you're pretty happy with it?
197:32:48	CC	Roger. Everything except the TV End, of course, that's just an extra goodie.
197:35:46	CC	And, America, if you guys are interested in trying to take a couple of 250-millimeter shots of that tonight, we've got a little camera pad here for it we can pass up - if you're interested.
197:35:46	Evans	Hey, you bet I'll take it - I want to try it.
197:35:46	CC	Okay, let me know when you get a piece of paper there, Ron.
197:35:46	Evans	Okay, go ahead.
197:35:46	CC	Okay, it's a LM impact TCA and it's time is 197:56:35 and the camera data is CX5, EL, 250, CEX, f/5.6, 1/125, infinity. Ana magazine Kappa Kappa or Kilo Kilo, and you can use up to 10 frames on it. Over.
197:35:46	Evans	Okay. I think I put Kappa Kappa back, I've got Oscar Oscar on there. How about it if I use that, okay?
197:35:46	CC	Okay, that's fine, Ron, And, we'd like to get tanks 2 and 3 FANs back OK.
197:37:26	Evans	2 and 3 are ON.
197:37:26	CC	Okay.
197:37:26	Cernan	Hey, Bob. A quick summary on that rendezvous as far as LM performance was concerned. Handling characteristics were outstanding and pretty much the same as they have always been on LMs in the past. The APS burn - burn went nominal; the residuals on that one were actually quite big, about 744, that's feet per second - and we nulled those out and after that the midcourses were max of 1.3) then a max of 1.6 on the second one. But, after the TPI, we were coming up - up the pike right - over - right - all the way in the line-of-sight rates - actually both out of plane as well as in plane were - were zero - basically zero for out of plane and, as predicted, on a nominal curve for in plane. And it really ended up to be pretty much a storybook rendezvous.
197:37:26	CC	Okay. You want to give me that TPI again or did you already pass that down to ground? I didn't copy the residuals there?
197:37:26	Cernan	No, I didn't tell them that. And we didn't get a chance to copy them down because I wanted to get them ail down on tape. It surprised me after the APS burn because they were relatively large. They were 7 feet-per-second in X, 4 in Y, and 4 in Z. And that was, I guess, just short of a 4-second burn somewhere around 4 seconds.
197:37:26	CC	Okay , copy that.
197:37:26	Cernan	And one ether little thing, we put, I think, two marks, three marks - two or three marks in the AGS - manual ciarks s after the last midcourse, as we'd been doing in the simulator - three marks, and Jack tells me that the range rate ca^e right up to - right up to the actual radar-range rate -right up to 100 feet or so.
197:37:26	CC	Okay j copy that,
197:42:17	Cernan	Bob, we're all just eating away here, anything interesting in the world news that's worth commenting on?
197:42:17	CC	Okay; stand by. Let me find out. Did you guys get any news this morning?
197:42:17	Cernan	No, sir; we were busy otherwise.
197:42:17	Evans	Yes, I did.
197:42:17	CC	Okay, well, stand by and let me get hold of the people and see if we can get some news for you.
197:42:17	CC	Okay, Gene, we're working on that, it may take us a while to get it. And - but we ought to have it for you before the end of the pass. From my own experience in talking around here, although none of us hung around much to read that stuff today, we don't think anything much did happen in the world today. There is a report that something happened in outer space, and the moon vehicle, we believe, had a lift-off this afternoon, a rendezvous, we'll try and see if we can track down any further news of that. Over.
197:42:17	Cernan	Okay, we're pretty much up on that one. Just wondering, you know, Mr. Truman's been pretty sick and so forth, wondered about some of those things, but no big deal, we can - we can wait.
197:42:17	CC	Okay, we'll get with you shortly.
197:46:07	CC	And, America, did you fellows do ycur hydrogen purge on the back side?
197:46:07	Evans	That's affirm. Hydrogen purge, an O2 purge, and, would you believe we forgot to turn the purge line HEATER, OFF? ^
197:46:21	Evans	OFF, now. Thank you (laughter), ... EECOM there.
197:46:21	CC	Old EECOM was watching the currents there. He had you pinned down.
197:46:21	Evans	(Laughter) Good.
197:46:21	CC	Okay3 and, America, I presume you guys are sitting there looking at page 195. is that affirm? So I won't bother to tell you all - you all these other things that are going on on that page, presuming that you're not looking at page 197*
197:46:21	Evans	Yes, we're on page 195, yes.
197:46:21	CC	Okay, good enough.
197:46:21	Evans	Really it's the hour 195 5 you know.
197:49:10	CC	OMNI Bravo, please, America.
197:49:22	Evans	Okay, you have it.
197:58:44	Evans	Houston, this is America. That was frame 145 to 150 on magazine Oscar Oscar.
197:58:44	CC	Okay. Copy 145 to 150 on Oscar Oscar. Ana if you guys are starting to sort out film mags for the next day, which is called out about 198 hours, it'll be magazine Kilo Kilo instead of November November in that. So it'll be Kilo, Quebec, and Romeo for tomorrow.
197:58:44	Evans	Okay; Kilo, Quebec3 and Romeo.
198:07:33	Schmitt	Houston, 17.
198:07:33	CC	Go ahead.
198:07:33	Schmitt	A little historical note. Passing over the Hadley Apennines sites from Apollo 15 we notice that at their landing point, there's the same slightly or distinctly brighter albedo area as there is at Taurus-Littrow site.
198:07:33	CC	You mean down on the plains of Taurus-Littrow, like where the LM landed? Or do you mean where you think the 114 impact was?
198:07:33	Schmitt	That's affirm. It - in spite of the - no, no, no, where the LM landed. In spite of the - As we walked along the surface, and this was true at Hadley also, you stirred up a darker zone, albedo-wise. When you look at it from orbit, the area around where the LM landed - it's a distinct bright spot on the surface of a - of a fairly uniform gray albedo plain. And both sites look just alike.
198:07:33	CC	Okay, we copy that.
198:07:33	Schmitt	In that regard, anyway.
198:07:33	CC	We copy that.
198:07:33	CC	And, America, you might be interested to know that the latest SPAN status report still lists all the LM ECS parameters as normal.
198:07:33	Schmitt	Beautiful. SPAN'S up to their old tricks again, I see.
198:07:33	CC	I guess it depends upon how you define normal.
198:07:33	Schmitt	Somebody must have spilled coffee on their console.
198:10:10	Cernan	Listen, Bob, the way - the way it was performing, I wouldn't doubt it.
198:21:15	CC	America, this is Houston. Over.
198:21:15	Evans	Go ahead.
198:21:15	CC	Okay, okay; I'm keeping track of you guys here or, the lunar sounder offtimes. It'll be just slightly less than 198:30, and I'll give you some hacks on that as we get down to it. And we're ready to go to Kg TANKS 1 and 2 to OFF, and TAFK 3 to AUTO.
198:22:03	Schmitt	Okay, Bob, that's got it. 1 and 2, OFF, and 3, AUTO.
198:22:03	CC	Okay, and you can delete the - When you get to your presleep checklist, you can then delete the cryo stirring.
198:22:03	Schmitt	Okay.
198:22:03	Cernan	And Bob, what time is AOS?
198:22:03	CC	Stand by. You want AOS or LOS? LOS, stand by.
198:22:03	Cernan	Yes, LOS.
198:22:03	CC	We have LOS at 198:45:37- About a little over 22 minutes from now.
198:22:03	Cernan	Thank you, Bob.
198:26:56	CC	Okay; 2 minutes to LUNAR SOUNDER, STANDBY.
198:26:56	Cernan	Roger. Two minutes to LUNAR SOUNDER, STANDBY.
198:27:43	CC	Okay; 1 minute mark at 28:43-
198:27:43	Cernan	Roger 28:43-
198:28:33	CC	10 seconds.
198:28:43	CC	MARK; STANDBY.
198:28:50	Cernan	It's STANDBY.
198:30:33	Evans	Okay, Houston; America. All those things in the little box are done.
198:30:33	CC	Okay, we copy. You're down as far UV, ON. Now we'd like to have IR COVER, OPEN; and UV COVER, OPEN, also.
198:30:33	Evans	Okay. Stand by. Did you want 2-1/2-degree dead band for the night?
198:30:33	CC	Roger. I was just going to say we can also go to VERB 22 for the 2-1/2 degree dead band.
198:32:20	CC	Okay, and, America, another thing down here 196:47 there are the two comm callouts, the DSEA motion and setting the HIGH GAIN to MANUAL before LOS, and we'll want to catch those before you go around the back side. And ... - yes, as you around at LOS, and after that we're then ready for you guys to skip to 198 and the presleep sys -presleep checklist.
198:32:20	Evans	Okay, we can do that.
198:32:20	CC	Okay; and, America, if you have time, I have a few news items to read up to you here.
198:32:20	Evans	Go ahead, Bob.
198:33:30	CC	Okay. Dateline Washington, the United States today threw its support behind the Christmas Peace package proposed by South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu, who accused North Vietnam of using high-pressure tactics in an attempt to impose an incomplete peace settlement. American representatives at the Paris peace talks, told the Communists it was futile for them to continue clamoring for the signature of the cease-fire agreement drafted in October by Kissinger and Le Duc Tho. In Kansas City, the condition of former President Harry S. Truman weakened to, quote "very serious" Thursday. His doctor says vital signs are stable, but former President Truman was unable to speak; his lungs were filling with fluids still, and his kidneys have been impaired. In Mexico City, the International Federation of Airline Pilots, meeting in Mexico City this week, has promised a worldwide stoppage of all transportation industries if the governments do not take action to stop hijackings. In New York, the United States won an apparent victory in the United Nations when the General Assembly voted an approval of a cut in U.S. contributions to the world organization. Vote was 8l to 27, and reduces the U.S. budget assessment from 31*5 percent to 25 percent, starting in 1974. Here at home in Houston, the city council voted to locate the new proposed sports arena in the Greenway Plaza. The vote, however, stipulates that the Mayor find a way to finance it without using city tax funds. Council indicated that if the Mayor can't do this, the city will abandon plans for the 10-million-dollar, 18-thousand-seat facility. On the lighter side, in Jersey City, only one of 51 - that is one of 51 women who took physical exams for the police department, passed. Police Director Frederick Stevens said 24 of the women were too short, seven were underweight, and four did not have eyesight that could be corrected. In sports, the Alberta Oilers, that's Alberta and not Houston Oilers, these are the hockey ones, skated past the Houston Aeros for a 3-to-2 victory here in Houston. And the Minnesota Vikings, in the city of Minneapolis, came to terms on a lease agreement to play their games in a proposed stadium up there in the north, or I guess it's building a stadium to keep it from being too cold, instead of being too muggy like it is down here. And that's the news; as you can see, it's a slow news day and things are still moving very slowly down here.
198:36:27	Cernan	Thank you, Bob.
198:37:12	Cernan	Bob, we realize it's - it's tomorrow down there but this still might be appropriate.
198:37:20	MS	(Singing: Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday, dear Bob, happy birthday to you)
198:37:35	CC	Well, all I can say, it might be appropriate, but it's not very musical.
198:37:40	MS	(Laughter)
198:37:43	CC	Thank you, guys.
198:37:45	Cernan	Epic, Bob, epic. At least you know it's from the bottom of our - hearts.
198:37:52	Evans	(Laughter).
198:38:24	CC	And just to let you guys know that I'm not easily swayed and made soft by such shows of sentiment, I want to remind the CDR and the LMP that they're going to start collecting their urine from now on, and you shouldn't have been dumping it since 197:00.
198:38:45	Cernan	Okay, we're in the process of changing over.
198:38:50	CC	Okay, and COVERs are OPEN on the UV and the IR, so we won't be dumping it anyway right now, tonight, right?
198:38:59	Cernan	That's right.
198:39:03	CC	And, Jack, you're going to be on the biomed tonight?
198:39:11	Schmitt	Whose side are you on? Of course, I am. Bob, I'm hooking up right now. I sort of rested my - my own personal sensors and I'm putting the mechanical ones on - electrical ones, I guess.
198:39:43	CC	Oh good. I tell you what. If you wait 6 minutes until after LOS to finish that, you'll leave the Surgeon in suspense until you come around on AOS. That'll help keep him awake.
198:39:59	Schmitt	Okay, I'll see what I can do one way or the other.
198:40:16	Schmitt	Not according to Flight Plan.
198:40:29	Cernan	Hey, Bob.
198:40:31	CC	Go ahead.
198:40:35	Cernan	Would you say what you said a little while ago a about the waste - not waste dumps, but urine dumps?
198:40:42	CC	Okay, as per the checklist, it says at 19 - 197 hours, "CDR and LMP collect urine in UTSs until 208 hours," so that's until tomorrow morning. And I was just reminding you that we don't want to be hosing it overboard right now because the UV and IR COVERs are OPEN, and we presumed that, since you'd already done the waste water and the H2 purge on the back side, that - that sufficient time has passed to open them. And I guess that we sort of presumed that you weren't in the mode of dumping urine overboard.
198:41:16	Schmitt	Okay, that's fine. I was thinking of the BUSS collection then - that's fine.
198:42:20	CC	Okay, and, America, once you fellows finish your presleep checklist, you're GO for sleep. You're GO for LOS and we won't be saying anything to you when you come around the front side next time around, in case you've nodded off. Call us if you want to and we'll just let it be as is. We're finished with you for the night.
198:42:48	Cernan	Okay, thank you, Robert. We're hastening to finish the checklist and get to sleep, and unless we have some problems or questions, we won't talk to you until tomorrow.
198:42:57	CC	Okay, talk to you tomorrow night.
198:43:00	Schmitt	Say, Bob, - Bob, on the biomed and LMP, if it doesn't show up to my normal standards, it's because maybe the sensors have come off. I'm - I've put a little of the bacterial salve on them and they probably won't stick too well. But I'll do the best I can.
198:43:19	CC	Okay.
198:43:25	Schmitt	Preventive medicine, Bob, not curative.
198:43:31	CC	Okay, that'll make the Surgeon happy.
198:44:43	Cernan	And before we fade out of sight, you might look at the biomed.
198:44:49	Schmitt	Whoops, I got one left.
198:45:00	CC	We're in LOW BIT RATE. We can't see you right now.
198:45:33		BEGIN LUNAR REV 57
198:45:36	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 198 hours 45 minutes. We've had loss of signal on the 56th revolution. As you heard from CAPCOM Bob Parker, we do not intend to put in a call to the crew on the next acquisition, nor does the crew expect to call us. We'll take the line down and come back up with hourly reports.
199:52:05	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 199 hours 52 minutes. America is coming up over the landing site now on its 57th revolution. The crew began rest period almost an hour ago. We have not talked to them on this revolution. Rest period due to last 8 hours with wakeup at 207 hours elapsed time. All systems continuing to function well on the America. At 199 hours 52 minutes this is Mission Control Houston.
200:53:02	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 200 hours 53 minutes. America behind the Moon now. We'll next acquire in about 35 minutes on the 58th revolution. The crew is in a rest period and at loss of signal on this revolution all systems were performing well. At 200 hours 53 minutes, this is Mission Control Houston.
201:52:14	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 201 hours 52 minutes. Apollo 17, in its 58th lunar revolution, at this time is over the Taurus-Littrow landing site. We are monitoring systems via telemetry. All going well aboard the spacecraft. Crew has 5 hours 37 minutes remaining in this rest period. America's current orbit 65 by 62.5 nautical miles. At 201 hours 52 minutes this is Mission Control Houston.
202:54:18	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 202 hours 54 minutes. Apollo 17 is behind the moon on it's 58th revolution. All continuing to go well aboard spacecraft America. Spacecraft systems performing normally. The crew in a rest period. Wake up scheduled 4 hours 35 minutes from this time. Flight director, Pete Frank, and the orange team of flight controllers now handing over Mission Control duties to the gold team, which will be led today by flight director Neil Hutchinson. There will be no change of shift news conference. Early in this shift the lunar module, Challenger, was deorbited ontime and impacted the moon. Preliminary information indicates that the impact did occur within 15 Kilometers of the expected location. However, we were not able to see the impact on television from the rover which was up at that time. Impact data is still being refined and more detailed information should be available on that later today. At 202 hours 56 minutes this is Mission Control, Houston.
203:48:04	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 203 hours 48 minutes. Revolution number 59 for Apollo 17 spacecraft, now in lunar orbit with some 3 hours and 41 minutes remaining until the three crewmen are awakened, for a rather full day of lunar orbit science activities. The spacecraft, currently, is in a almost circular lunar orbit: 62.6 nautical at the pericyntion by 65.1 nautical miles apocynthion. Orbital velocity 5344 feet per second, no apparent systems problems being monitored on the ground aboard the America at this time, and the crew sound asleep according to the surgeon, and at 203:49, this is Apollo Control.
205:07:12	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 205 hours 7 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. Coming up on the front side pass on revolution number 60, some 18 minutes remaining until spacecraft America re-appears on the front side of the Moon. Two hours and 22 minutes remaining until the crew is awakened. America, at the present time, is in an orbit measuring 65.1 by 62.6 nautical miles. Here in the control center, the Flight Controllers are - those that aren't busy planning the days activity - are watching a playback of the rendezvous and docking sequence from the Command Module television camera which is being piped to the news room at this time on the monitors. And at 205 hours 7 minutes Ground Elapsed Time, this is Apollo Control.
205:47:05	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 205 hours 47 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. The spacecraft America coming up on the old Taurus-Littrow landing site, where the descent stage of the Lunar Module, Challenger, rests as a monument to the final Mission of the Apollo Landing series, Lunar Landing series. Fifty two minutes remaining until America passes behind the Moon, nearing the end of the 60th Lunar Orbit. An hour and 41 minutes until the crew awake time. America presently, is in an orbit measuring 62.5 at low point at which point it is at the moment, at pericynthion. And 180 degrees around at the rear side of the Moon it will reach apocynthion some 3 miles higher 65 nautical, and at 205 hours 48 minutes Ground Elapsed Time in the Mission of Apollo 17, this is Apollo Control.
206:47:00	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 206 hours 47 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. Spacecraft America, now behind the moon nearing the end of the 60th Lunar Orbit. Some 42 minutes remaining, until the first call is made to the crew on the spacecraft. Approximately 5 minutes after they come around on the front side of the Moon on revolution number 61. Currently, the orbital digital display here in the Mission Control Center shows the orbit measuring 69.2 by 71.8 which may or may not be the current orbit. If it is some-. body has done a maneuver here. Here in the control center the flight controllers are going over the changes to the flight plan for the day's activities, getting all of the different entries, new entries to the flight plan sorted out and agreed upon. Preparation for crew wakeup. On second thought, disregard that earlier orbital measurement. I suspect this display maybe, is invalid at the moment. At 206:48 up again in 35 minutes, this is Apollo Control.
207:23:00	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 207 hours 23 minutes Ground Elapsed Time in the mission of Apollo 17. Coming around in less than a minute on the front side pass in lunar orbit number 61 and approximately 5 and 1/2 minutes away from wake-up. The wake-up music during this mission has ranged from grand opera selections to a college war hymn. We'll wait and see what it will be this morning. Spacecraft America in an orbit now measuring 65.3 at apocynthion by 62.6 nautical miles at pericynthion. We'll stand by for first word of acquisition from the network controler. We've had acquisition of signal. Slightly under 4 minutes now until the scheduled wake-up call unless they are already awake. We'll bring up the air-ground 1 circuit at this time and stand by for spacecraft communicators alarm clock at 207:26, and standing by, this is Apollo Control.
207:37:10	CC	(Music: The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face by Roberta Flack)
207:42:32	CC	Good morning, America, from the Gold Team here.
207:43:30	CC	Good morning, America. The friendly Gold Team is standing by.
207:43:40	Schmitt	You guys have finally learned how to wake somebody up.
207:43:45	CC	Roger.
207:43:47	Evans	Good morning, Gold Team, this is the Command Module Pilot of the spaceship America, and we're ready to go to work again this morning.
207:43:55	CC	Okay, well, you don't have to do much for a while but eat and get squared away.
207:44:04	Cernan	Good morning, down there. This is the Commander of the spaceship America, and I'm glad to see that the CAPCOM console is well guarded this morning.
207:44:12	CC	Roger; yes indeed. We've got one gate here and I'm guarding it.
207:44:19	Cernan	I'm a little disappointed, though. The music was good, but I expected the Marine's Hymn or something like that.
207:44:25	CC	Oh, I wouldn't do that to you this early in the morning.
207:44:31	Schmitt	Better now and get it over with.
207:44:34	CC	(Laughter)
207:44:47	Schmitt	Has your - has your Flight Director changed or is it the same little fellow back there?
207:44:52	CC	No, we've got Neil back there and a whole new team since you went to bed.
207:45:00	Schmitt	Oh, that's right. Very good.
207:45:34	PAO	Wake-up music today was Roberta Flack's rendition of The Last Time Ever I Saw Your Face.
207:45:59	Schmitt	Who selected that song, Joe Allen?
207:46:01	CC	No, that's - that's Neil's special. You've got Neil Hutchinson to blame on that one.
207:46:26	CC	I must say he had a lot of accomplices on that, too, so -
207:46:36	Schmitt	Yes, Bob, I think maybe that's one of the best songs that's come out in the last 10 years, if you ask me.
207:46:44	CC	Roger.
207:46:46	Schmitt	But then, you didn't ask.
207:46:59	Evans	Hey, Houston; America.
207:47:01	CC	Go ahead.
207:47:05	Evans	I think mag QQ is all gone. Shall I use the RR?
207:47:14	CC	Hey, Ron, at 208 - -
207:47:16	Evans	... or something - -
207:47:17	CC	- - 05 there, we're going to delete that solar-corona pass anyway. I've got a Flight Plan update I'll give you at 208 there, and we're going to have to delete that solar-corona pass. So, forget it.
207:47:32	Evans	Okay.
207:49:14	CC	In case you guys are wondering, it looks like we finally might see the Sun down here in Houston. It is clearing off, except it's extremely cold. The temperature must be hovering right in the low 40's, or maybe even the high 30's, or even lower.
207:49:35	Schmitt	Well, my goodness. I should have been watching the weather for you, Bob. We'll come and warm things up for you before long.
207:49:44	CC	Roger.
208:01:23	CC	America, Houston. We've got the Flight Plan update and a pan camera photo pad for the Flight Plan.
208:01:51	Evans	Okay, Houston. Stand by 1, here I've got my hands full of - ... PRD thing.
208:02:03	CC	Okay, the only thing we want to tell you is don't do the solar corona, and we've already told you that. We'll get back with you later on that. If you want, I'll read you the morning news.
208:02:14	Evans	Hey, okay. Go ahead.
208:02:16	CC	Okay, there's been a temporary halt to the peace talks in Paris, and, as we mentioned before, Henry Kissinger is in Washington and has conferred with President Nixon. A cease-fire proposal suggested by South Vietnamese government officials has been rejected by the U.S. White House News Secretary Ron Zeigler has declined to characterize the present Paris peace efforts, but say - did say there are still some obstacles to overcome. And we had another hijack attempt. A youthful Canadian, who hijacked an airliner in northern Canada was talked out of his escapade by his father. The youth had held 62 persons aboard the plane for a short while, then retained only four hostages for 10 hours. It appears that the United Mine Workers may have a new president. Maverick candidate Arnold Miller retained a strong lead over Tony Boyle in the government-supervised election. The transatlantic airfare price war that seems imminent, promises to be a real boon to the vacationer. It is now estimated that airfare may be as low as $136.00 for the transatlantic fare in some special categories. Juan Peron has ended his month-long visit to Argentina. An attempt was made to nominate him for the presidential election while he was there, but the move was declared illegal and he returned to Paraguay. A few other news highlights - the village of Rhonda, Switzerland, is threatened by a half-million-ton portion of a glacier moving down a mountain. Willie Brandt has been sworn in as Chancellor of West Germany for his second term. Former President Truman remains seriously ill. Chicago Mayor Daley has made an effort to halt further commercial development along Chicago's Lake Michigan waterfront. Comedian Bob Hope is set again for his annual tour of U.S. overseas military bases. His first Christmas show in the Far East is December 21. Now, in the local news, here, there's a good chance that Texans may soon legally put a bet down on a horse race. A state senate's studying - study committee has heard some heavy opposition to parimutuel betting in Austin, but the proposal appears to have a good chance of approval. And if you follow the Tomball police force, who quit in masses a couple of days ago - Tomball has rehired three of the officers who quit, and two more of the police who walked out are seeking to be rehired. And just a note here - there was a little beautification of Houston. Some of the thousands of billboards that line main highways around Houston will be coming down after the first of the year. All signs must be licensed by the state and a fee paid after that time. Some of the sports news: Johnny Bench, the Cincinnati Reds catcher who had a benign spot removed from a lung Monday, is recovering nicely at Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, The star baseball player will remain hospitalized for about 5 more days. Brad Van Pelt of the Michigan State University defensive star won the Maxwell Club trophy as the year's top college football player. The Washington Redskin's Larry Brown took top honors as the top professional player of the year. Southern Methodist has apparently chosen a new football coach to succeed Hayden Fry, but University officials say an announcement won't come until next week. Mark Spitz and Shane Gould, both top Olympic swimmers, were honored as top athletes in the world by European sports writers - for this past year, of course. There was no action last night in college basketball. The University of Houston is getting ready to play California tomorrow night. Joe Paterno, Penn State coach, has won the Walter Camp Football Foundation award as coach of the year. And it appears that Mike Tillamen of the Oilers may play out his option this year and this - Coach Bill Peterson says that it upsets his draft plans this coming year. And I've already updated the weather to you. I just might add a little parenthetical thought that it's really not that much in the news and all the news around here anyway has been Apollo 17 and your lift-off. We picked up the lift-off last night from the Moon and carried it live TV for about 2-1/2 minutes as you went out of sight like a star, and then, of course, live TV picked up your docking and - rendezvous and docking. A very spectacular picture, I might add, of the lunar surface as the Challenger came up to meet America. Over.
208:06:58	Cernan	Very good news summary, Bob. Thank you. I didn't realize Tomball had five policemen.
208:07:05	CC	(laughter)
208:07:41	CC	America, Houston.
208:08:03	CC	America, this is Houston.
208:08:08	Cernan	Go ahead.
208:08:09	CC	Hey, you can probably tell by the comm that this is Gerry. This is - the Gold Team has been handed over to the able hands of Neil. Before things go too far, I'll be around watching for the rest of the flight, of course, but before things got too far I wanted to pass my comments on to you guys that - boy, this has really been super. You guys have - between the performance of you guys and the performance of the hardware, it's been a piece of cake down here. I hope it's staying that same way up there, and we're really looking forward to finishing this thing up and getting you on back home. And my hat's off to you.
208:08:49	Cernan	Okay, Gerry, I appreciate those words, but any performance of ours, and certainly that of the hardware, has to go all to the performance of you guys down there, because, you know, you are the guys that make it happen and we do appreciate it. And I guess this is sort of a semiretirement for you then, is that right?
208:09:12	CC	Well, I don't know whether to call it semiretirement it's - it's a relaxed feeling, I'll tell you that. But I'm anxious to do it again; and hope I get a chance to do something more like this.
208:09:26	Cernan	You bet you. We're all going to keep doing it; and, listen, you couldn't have left it in a more able set of hands than Neil's down there. We'll have to celebrate your 3-day or 4-day rest period when we get back.
208:09:38	CC	Roger. Talk to you later.
208:09:42	Cernan	I didn't - I didn't realize we wore you out.
208:09:47	CC	I will throw in one thing right quick, you know the activation descent day, that was the third one I had handled, and including all the simulations and all the three of the actual flights, I think it's the first time we can say that we really did it all right. For one reason or another, it really turned out to be a fairly easy day and I was really surprised.
208:10:13	Cernan	Gerry, that spacecraft that we were working with was undoubtedly the best vehicle, along with America, that I've ever flown.
208:10:24	CC	Okay, well I'll be talking to you later.
208:10:30	Cernan	Still ... babe.
208:10:32	Schmitt	Gerry, this is Jack. Thanks a lot, boy.
208:10:35	CC	You bet.
208:13:33	Schmitt	Okay, Houston; America. Would you like us to start charging battery Bravo?
208:13:39	CC	That's affirmed if you - if you're there, we'd like it.
208:13:48	Schmitt	I'm here.
208:14:10	Cernan	Okay, Houston, we're going to do the pan camera; stand by.
208:14:17	Schmitt	Okay, say again, Geno.
208:14:24	Cernan	Mode is STANDBY and Houston -
208:14:30	Cernan	MARK. POWER.
208:14:33	CC	Roger.
208:14:38	Cernan	And if you're curious V/H is HIGH ALTITUDE.
208:14:43	CC	Roger; copy that.
208:15:01	Evans	Okay, Houston; America here. I've got some medical logs and food.
208:15:12	CC	Okay. Stand by 1.
208:15:21	CC	Okay, go ahead. We're listening.
208:15:25	Evans	Okay, I'll start out with LMP medical log. PRD is packed down there with the suit; so, we'll have to get it later. He had 6 hours of good sleep. Took a Seconal. Fluids - he had lots of fluids - but they weren't logged.
208:16:01	Schmitt	Okay, LMP's - okay day 10, I guess, meal Charlie. Had turkey and gravy, and I need to start writing - No. I had a citrus beverage, coffee, fruit cake, meatballs, lemon pudding and lemonade. Hey, Houston, instead of a turkey and gravy that was really a beef and gravy.
208:16:49	CC	Okay.
208:16:58	Evans	Okay, we'll go over the CMP. Meal A - had bacon squares, scrambled eggs, orange juice, and coffee, vitamins; Meal B - need some light (laughter) meal B is chicken and rice soup, meatballs with sauce, butterscotch pudding, orange drink, caramel candy, apricot cereal cubes, brownies - I guess that was it. Meal Charlie, potato soup, beef and gravy, the ambrosia peaches there - about half of it - four brownies, and an orange drink.
208:18:10	Evans	Okay, on the medical log: PRD is 15047 and I had about 6-1/2 hours of sleep in, oh, catnaps I guess - some of them were a couple hours long. And had two sniffs of nose drops on each side prior to going to sleep and five cans of fluid.
208:18:58	Evans	Okay, for the Commander's menu - how did we get to day 10 - it was only day 9 yesterday wasn't it?
208:19:22	CC	Ron, excuse us. Would you have somebody turn the PAN CAMERA POWER to OFF, please?
208:19:40	Cernan	MARK it. It's off.
208:19:42	CC	Roger; we'd like the IR COVER, CLOSED, and the UV COVER, CLOSED, at this time.
208:19:54	Cernan	Okay. I'll improve, Ron.
208:20:01	Evans	Well, it takes a little training.
208:20:04	Cernan	Takes a little training once you get back from the lunar surface.
208:20:09	Evans	Okay, Houston, UV COVER is CLOSED and gray. IR COVER is CLOSED and gray.
208:20:30	Evans	Okay. Ready for the Commander's menu, day 9 meal Charlie?
208:20:59	Evans	Houston, America. Are you all set to copy?
208:21:11	CC	Yes. We're ready to copy, Ron.
208:21:12	Evans	Hello, Houston. How do you read America?
208:21:13	CC	Read you loud and clear. We're ready to copy.
208:21:17	Evans	Okay, here we go. For the Commander's day 9 meal Charlie - meatballs, butterscotch pudding, beef and gravy, orange-pineapple juice, citrus juice, chicken stew, apricots, and gingerbread.
208:21:54	Evans	Okay, his medical log: He had 7 hours of very good sleep, no medication, and drank lots of fluids but nothing was logged on that part of it, and his PRD is also at his suit - down at the bottom of the suit bag so we ought to get it out here, shortly.
208:22:15	CC	Roger; copy.
208:22:30	Schmitt	Bob, in lieu of the solar corona photography, I watched - Gene and I both watched it set, and there are two bands which I still can see now - a zodiacal light, I guess, going out symmetrically on either side of the plane in the ecliptic and they make an angle between themselves of about, let's say, 70 to 80 degrees. I can still - knowing they're there - I can still pick up the bands, streamers, I guess would be a better word. And last night when I watched one set, there was a strong linear streamer going out - oh, maybe 3 or 4 or 5 diameters - I'll have to get my directions straight. Well, I'll figure out which side of the ecliptic it was. That was not nearly so strong when I looked this time - now partly that may be dark adaptation, I don't know, but I'll try to keep track of that one. But these two streamers today are about an equal strength and they're still visible as zodiacal light.
208:23:55	CC	Okay, Jack, we'd - quick break, we'd like the HIGH GAIN to AUTO and we'd like to get on with this Flight Plan update, please.
208:24:10	Schmitt	Okay, you've got AUTO.
208:24:12	CC	Okay, and this is a real-time Flight Plan change. This real time right here, and right now if you'll go MAPPING CAMERA COVER, OPEN, and MAPPING CAMERA, EXTEND, and give us a mark, we'll time the extend time on it, please.
208:24:28	Cernan	Okay, Bob, the MAPPING CAMERA COVER - Ready?
208:24:40	CC	Jack, will you go back to REACQ on the HIGH GAIN?
208:24:49	Schmitt	Okay, we're in REACQ. ...
208:25:01	Cernan	... Oh, okay.
208:25:07	Cernan	No-no - okay, Bob. MAPPING CAMERA is going OPEN.
208:25:12	Cernan	MARK. And it's gray. And you want to extend the mapping camera, huh?
208:25:24	CC	AUTO on the HIGH GAIN, first of all.
208:25:27	Schmitt	Okay, that's what they said - they wanted. Okay, going to AUTO again.
208:25:41	CC	Okay - -
208:25:42	Cernan	Houston, America. You say you're going to extend the mapping camera, now?
208:25:46	CC	That's affirmative, we're extending it early because we want to time it, and extend it now, please, and give us a mark when you start it.
208:25:55	Cernan	Okay.
208:25:56	Cernan	MARK it.
208:26:00	CC	Okay, and might as well finish up the Flight Plan updates if you don't mind. The next one is at 209:01.
208:26:19	Schmitt	Okay, go ahead; 209:01.
208:26:22	CC	You're going to delete the "MAPPING CAMERA/LASER ALTIMETER COVER, OPEN," and "MAPPING CAMERA EXTEND," at that position, because you've just done it. Just scratch them out.
208:26:41	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. I got that.
208:26:43	CC	Okay, and at 209:03, add - after "PAN CAMERA POWER" - add "V/H OVERRIDE, HIGH ALTITUDE."
208:27:02	Schmitt	Okay, I got that: V/H high alt at 209:03.
208:27:08	CC	That's affirmative, and - -
208:27:10	Evans	Hey, Houston; America.
208:27:11	CC	Go ahead, Ron.
208:27:14	Evans	Okay, let me interrupt here a minute, Bob. Can we go ahead and dump with the mapping camera extended?
208:27:23	CC	That's affirmative, Ron.
208:27:27	Evans	Okay. Mighty fine. Thank you.
208:27:30	CC	Okay, we'll just show a full extend at 209:40, Jack, in the Flight Plan where it says, "Lift-off time update" is not required. At 209:40, we'll not do a lift-off time update.
208:27:52	Schmitt	209:40. You're not going to do a lift-off time update, huh?
208:27:59	CC	That's affirmative. And I've got a pan camera pad while you're on that page. The pan camera pad which is opposite 209:15 - 209:15.
208:28:19	Schmitt	209:15. Pan camera photo pad. Go ahead.
208:28:25	CC	Okay, T-start, 209:14:44; T-stop, 209:27:36, and that covers all of it. We can settle back to the Flight Plan, now.
208:28:51	Schmitt	Okay, we - I will do that.
208:28:54	CC	Okay, sir, and if you'll give us ACCEPT, we've got a state vector at this time for you.
208:29:04	Schmitt	Okay, you have it.
208:29:33	CC	And, Ron, you may be interested, we had a nominal extend on the mapper.
208:29:41	Evans	(Laughter) Hey, great. I guess once - once the door stays out of the way, it'll come out all right, huh?
208:29:48	CC	Roger.
208:30:50	CC	America, Houston.
208:30:56	Evans	Go ahead.
208:30:57	CC	Okay, Ron. Just for - first of all - the computer is yours, you can go back to BLOCK. Just for your information, at the beginning of the next rev, we're going to have a Flight Plan update. Or actually, we'll have small - a pan camera pad at the beginning of the rev and then into the rev after the orbital science visuals, we'll have a Flight Plan update. What we're going to be doing is we're going to be doing an extra ultraviolet-scan program and we're going to do some antenna calibration on the HF - lunar sounder antenna so we get quite a lengthy Flight Plan update and, after that, it'll just be flying the Flight Plan. The thing with the lunar sounder is that we're getting a lot of noise from Earth that we don't see on the back side of the Moon in the HF and we'd like to calibrate this out.
208:31:56	Schmitt	Okay, you want to give us those updates now or are you going to ... -
208:32:02	CC	Negative; we'll wait until next rev, they're not that extensive - we just have a number of them. Just want you to be aware that they'll be coming up. They will not interrupt your orbital-science visual targets there at Mare Smythii or at the landing-site visual.
208:32:20	Schmitt	Okay.
208:37:39	CC	America, Houston. You're about 2 minutes from LOS here. We've got two items - the America is looking great and as you go around the horn there's no problems open on it. If you do - We would like the LMP - Jack, if you'd push on your EKG sensors a little bit - we're - the data isn't too good - the EKG sensors. And on your H2 tank configuration, Ron, we'd like you to take H2 TANK 3 FANS to OFF and H2 TANK 2 FANS to ON.
208:38:15	Evans	Okay. TANK 3 is OFF. Number 2 is ON.
208:38:21	CC	Roger.
208:38:23	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. First - first break I have I'll change - have to change those sensors. I - I needed to put that salve on and I guess that's probably the same problem as on the way out.
208:38:38	CC	Roger. Don't change them, Jack. The CMP is due to come on before too long so just press on them and see if we can improve the data a little bit but don't change them out. And you're looking great, and we'll pick you up again at 209:23.
208:38:55	Schmitt	Maybe that ratty data is me.
208:38:59	CC	No, no, it's not that way.
208:39:34		BEGIN LUNAR REV 62
208:39:42	PAO	And we've had loss of signal as the spacecraft, America, passed behind the moon nearing the end of the 61st lunar orbit. Some 48 minutes until the spacecraft comes around again on revolution 62. During that frontside pass the crew was wakened rather pleasantly by a recording uplink to them by Roberta Flack of The Last Time Ever I Saw Your Face. And after they had sufficiently wakened the Flight Plan updates for the days activity were read up to the crew by spacecraft communicator, Bob Overmeyer. Current orbit, 65 nautical miles by 62.5 pericynthion. And at 208.40 this is Apollo Control.
209:22:50	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 209 hours 22 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. Apollo 17 Spacecraft America coasting around at this time on the start of lunar orbit number 62, about 40 seconds away from acquisition by the ground station antennas. Still in a 62 by 65 nautical mile orbit. Waiting confirmation as the spacecraft comes around the corner. And we have, indeed, picked up the downlink voice and data signal at the tracking station. We have had acquisition. Let's stand by for the initial conversations.
209:26:49	Schmitt	Okay, we've got you OMNI D. Somehow we got off attitude here.
209:26:55	CC	Okay, Ron, understand you're on OMNI D. You're coming up on 30 seconds away from PAN CAMERA T-stop time, and I have another pan camera pad I'd like to give you before we get into the orb science visuals.
209:27:13	Evans	Okay. Gene will get the pad. ... 27 36 - 27 36, Jack.
209:27:27	Cernan	Go ahead on the pad.
209:27:29	CC	Okay, the pan camera photo pad is at 209:30 - 209:45 are you read for that one?
209:27:42	Cernan	Standby - PAN CAMERA to STANDBY. Okay, pan camera is STANDBY.
209:27:53	CC	Roger, we got it.
209:28:02	CC	Okay, the PAN CAMERA photo pad T-start time: 209:49:04, T-stop time: 209:51:01. Over.
209:28:24	Cernan	Okay I've got T-start of 49:04 and T-stop 51:01.
209:28:29	CC	Roger, and we'll hold off on the other pads until after your visuals, here.
209:28:40	Cernan	I don't have much to do anyway, Bob. Why don't you go ahead.
209:28:48	CC	Rog, if you want, we're standing by to copy the visuals.
209:28:54	Cernan	Okay. That's right ... Okay, we're coming across Mare Symthii. One of the - first things I'm concentrating on is the - slope of the - we're out of comm, it looks like. Got some high gain angles?
209:29:17	CC	Roger, trying to get one.
209:29:26	Evans	Okay.
209:29:28	Cernan	Okay. Okay.
209:29:38	CC	Ron, if you'll do a standard REACQ for the HIGH GAIN pitch minus 10, yaw 25, we'd appreciate it.
209:29:53	CC	Sounds great.
209:30:05	Evans	How do you read, Bob.
209:30:06	CC	Loud and clear.
209:30:08	Evans	Okay, Houston, how do you hear? Okay.
209:30:23	CC	We'd like REACQ on the HIGH GAIN until we call AUTO, please.
209:30:29	Evans	Reacq in there. Okay.
209:30:47	CC	Ron, we're standing by.
209:30:49	Evans	Okay, Houston on the - the craters to the north of the Wright Brothers. The slope of the walls is steep - probably 45 degrees on the inside - it's a gradual slope on the outside slipping away from the crater. There is no apparent albedo differences in the ejecta or patterned annulus around the crater itself and we're looking specifically at the one to the northwest of the Wright Brothers, now. There is a definite mare flow that is unindated [sic], and it's a different color and, you know, that you have a light albedo to it now, it's kind of a grayish tan. It's a light grayish tan material that has flowed - and I can't tell - it almost looks like it's flowed down to the crater. There is an impact crater right in the breach of the crater - which has nothing to do with the flow itself. The material in the - I'm almost out of sight of it already. I was going to say the material in the inner crater in these boulder ring structures down there - the material all the way in the center of it is comparable to the hummocky, bumpy looking type stuff that is not really the mare - not the smooth mare of Smythii - but the other part of the mare of Smythii.
209:32:44	CC	Are there any differences in the craters, Ron?
209:32:56	Evans	Yes, some of the craters, though, you can't see the boulder-ring structures on it. And some of them that are definitely impact craters, you know, that have the ejecta rings around them. I've got to study them a little bit more. This is really the first chance I've had to look at Smythii, on this pass, but I want to take a look at him a little bit more. Some of the boulder-ring basins there - the walls are not delta shaped at all. The one to the north and let's see, as you look to the Wright Brothers there's one directly north, and then the next one, and then the next one. The one directly north we'll say is 12 o'clock; the other one is 1 o'clock; and then a 2 o'clock crater. The 1 o'clock crater looks to me there is a high lava mark around the outer basin, the outer ring of the crater, itself. The one at 12 o'clock is the one I was talking about, has the breach on it with the later impact - the small impact crater on it. And without the binocs I couldn't tell flow direction, whether they were flowing into the boulder-ring basin from that mare patch on the outside or vice versa, so I'm going to try to check that out the next time around.
209:34:38	CC	Okay, Ron, we're standing by for any comments along your ground track here and we're following you. We would like to - when you get up on the landing site, we'd like you to concentrate on Stoney and F Cra - F Crater for those textural differences we noticed the other day.
209:34:56	Evans	Okay. Shorty. I think - right, I called the Stoney the other day too I think but -
209:35:03	CC	Yes, Shorty, I'm sorry. - -
209:35:05	Evans	The one out on the landslide.
209:35:06	CC	- - And we would like you to mark - Right. Will you mark - like you to mark the breach that you see on the photo, please. Or on the map.
209:35:23	Evans	Okay. That's - that's the breach on the - in Mare Smythii.
209:35:30	CC	That's affirm, Ron.
209:35:43	CC	And Ron, if you'll ask Gene or Jack or somebody to get your PAN CAMERA to MONO now, please.
209:35:54	Evans	Okay, PAN CAMERA's going to MONO.
209:36:29	Evans	Okay ... I got the binocs.
209:36:56	CC	And Ron, we're still standing by for any calls you might want to make en route to the landing site, there.
209:37:03	Evans	Okay.
209:37:20	Evans	Well, again you can speak of test - or color differences on the thing. And the Sun angle now looking west - you get the same streaked - well, the verticle streaks that I talked about before that you see on the backside at the high Sun angle - higher Sun angles again. And that seems to show up more and more, I think, at the higher Sun angles. And these are the - what I call - radial - radial streaks down in the fresh craters that essentially start at the top of the crater rim and go down inside of them. If you take a look at these streaks, I don't - I don't see how they could be due strictly to the Sun angle on the thing, because they're all the way around the crater.
209:38:37	CC	Roger, did you have a particular crater in mind along the - -
209:38:40	Evans	Now, on the - Well, I'm trying to find the name of it right now. It doesn't make any difference which one it is. It's in all of the - all the craters, all of the valleys, and everything. It looks like the Sculptured Hills around the landing site.
209:39:19	CC	Roger. We understand that, Ron.
209:39:29	CC	Coming up on Apollonius. That area now is that correct?
209:39:36	Evans	Yes.
209:39:52	CC	Is there any significance or difference between the contact of Crisium to the Highlands or at Picard in that - or at the area where you're flying over in the Mare Tran - Fertility and, the Highlands right there in between. Is there any difference between these two contact points?
209:40:16	Evans	No, the Highlands look essentially the same as you - as you pass from Crisium on across to Fertility, and, again, they look so much like the Sculptured Hills, it's ridiculous, you know. It's all the high Sun - high Sun angle again. You got the streaks and the highs and there - there are masses of Highlands, though, on the border of Crisium here, though that - although they look like the Sculptured Hills, the sculpturing seems to be radially upslope and then downslope from the center of Crisium and just in small local areas of the Highlands.
209:41:10	CC	Roger, Roger. Do you see any radial Fra Mauro-like lineaments?
209:41:12	Evans	In that way, I think you can see ... the Sculptured Hills.
209:41:12	CC	- - Fra Mauro ...?
209:41:23	Evans	No, Bob. What I'm referring to is on the Highlands bordering Crisium, but - not all of them - you just see a definite radial pattern upslope and downslope. From the center of Crisium, but none of the lineaments like you're talking about like at Fra Mauro.
209:41:45	CC	Roger, copy.
209:41:47	Evans	What kind of film we got? Oh, I got the wrong film in the mag. Right - Let's see, there's Yerkes, and then on the side of the slope, come Yerkes and then there's about a 50-kilometer crater, then there's a subdued crater, and right on the western rim of Crisium - in the western edge of that subdued crater, it's almost a 70-degree slope down there, and it's a square straight slope on the thing. There doesn't seem to be any ejecta piled up in the bottom of it at all, but within the slope - and it must be 50 - about - yes, 50 kilometers long, and there's a bright impact crater on the top of the hill, top of the rim, right below that bright crater, you have the tannish brown streak that goes through the whole slide. The rest of the slope itself is the bright, light - real light, light tan, I call it. I'll find the name of that crater on the map in a minute.
209:43:08	Cernan	I think the circumference of that crater right there ceases to be round - -
209:43:12	Evans	Yes.
209:43:12	Cernan	- - it just is squared off with a linear break about oh - at least 20 percent of the circumference of the entire crater.
209:43:22	CC	Now, are you talking about a crater on the Mare of Crisium or are you talking about up near Proculus P in that area ... Hills?
209:43:28	Evans	Yes, it's right - no it's right on the mare.
209:43:32	CC	Okay. We got it. I think we got ... - -
209:43:32	Evans	A subdued crater right on the Mare of Crisium just below - below Yerkes. Jack, where's the -
209:43:39	Schmitt	...
209:43:42	Evans	Oh, the film? ...
209:44:00	Evans	Window 3 is going to - The landing site is going to be out of window 3. Let's see, about f - f/8 and 1/250.
209:44:30	CC	Very shortly you should be coming up on the mare prior to the landing site across Tranquillitatis and then to the landing site. Is that affirm?
209:44:41	Evans	Oh, yes, that's affirm, we should, I got Proculus at the window number 3 now.
209:44:55	Evans	Yes. Yes, the landing site really shows up - even from this distance right now. We're right over Proculus, and looking off across down through the hills there, you have that definite dark - and now the albedo or the colored texture of the thing to me is turning more of a gray than a tan-gray. In the early parts of it, I thought it was a dark grayish tan, I guess, or something like that. Now it looks to me like it's more tan - I mean more gray, I'm sorry, more gray.
209:45:36	CC	Are you using the binoculars on the landing site - -
209:45:36	Evans	It has essentially the same - Ah, not yet.
209:45:44	Cernan	Yes, this is Gene. I've got it on and the streaked albedo change differences very definite. One is the dark mantle on the floor. One is the South and North Massifs and the other is the Sculptured Hills. And the Sculptured Hills are at a light gray albedo between the Massif and the dark mantle. This line is very evident and there's a definite break in slope that you can see between the South Massif the, I won't call it the slide, but the white mantle is out on the valley floor. And from here, Shorty stands out like a sore thumb.
209:46:44	CC	Okay, we're interested in all three of you on that color texture difference up at Shorty and then we'd like to have a comparison of Shorty to F-crater if it is possible.
209:46:55	Evans	Okay, that crater is harder than a son-of-a-buck to find. F-crater is right on Family Mountain, and there's one to the north of Family Mountain, a little ways, there's a darker crater and then there's also one to the south of it. I can't find one on Family Mountain at all. I couldn't the other day so I'm going to see if I can find it today.
209:47:20	Cernan	Bob, to me the Sculptured Hills incorporate the albedo, both of the North Massif, or the massif, and the mantle area, and combine them to give you a generally in-between gray albedo, but the sculpturing is produced by the darker albedo that looks like the mantle, and the lighter albedo that looks like the massif.
209:47:47	CC	Roger. And for Ron, the F crater is just to the south of Family Mountain. It's the one that you mentioned south of Family Mountain.
209:47:57	Schmitt	Oh, okay! That's the one I saw the other day. It looks about like Shorty.
209:48:03	CC	Is there a cone associated with that crater?
209:48:03	Cernan	From here Bob, they're both very dark -
209:48:16	CC	Is there a color associated with that crater?
209:48:17	Evans	Have to check that just a second.
209:48:20	CC	Okay, and we're about 30 seconds from the T-start time on the pan camera, please.
209:48:49	Evans	Can't see that far. Stand by.
209:48:49	Evans	There is a definite bright spot up on the side of the hill - it's almost an extension of that slide area from Shorty.
209:48:49	CC	Okay, you guys, we're about 10 - -
209:48:49	Evans	See it?
209:48:52	CC	- - 10 seconds from T-start time on the pan camera.
209:48:52	Evans	Okay, Jack's getting the T-start. Okay I still get a -
209:49:03	CC	MARK. T-start time.
209:49:03	Evans	It's on.
209:49:03	CC	Go ahead, Ron.
209:49:03	Evans	Okay. On Shorty, I still have the - that light orangish-tan-type material - it's essentially perpendicular, to the line of the slide area there in the northern semicircle of the thing. I see F-crater. Boy, I can't hold these crazy glasses still enough.
209:49:03	CC	Okay, let me read you some questions about F-crater, if you will. If you'll direct your attention to F-crater. We'd like to know the shape of the crater profile, the rim crest, and probable or possible breaching, the smoothness and distribution of rim deposits, and the superposition-relationship with Family Mountain or Family Hill.
209:49:03	Evans	Okay. Get all of those. It is a - by golly, there is a raised rim to it. It's light color down inside the crater, though. And I can't hold the glasses close enough to see if it's breached or not.
209:50:35	Cernan	Bob, I can't see it any more but let me add to it what I can remember real quick. The inside is white.
209:50:35	Evans	Yes.
209:50:35	Cernan	The outside is rimmed with a - it's as if the rim itself, was just dark, very dark. There's some white to the south about a crater diameter, sort of a - small distribution radially to the south, and then there is a - sort of a, what I would call, a free-patterned dark-like ray about 2 crater diameters, maybe 3 crater diameters, to the south just slightly to the west of this light area I was talking about, but to the south, another definite one to the west and another definite one to the north, but none to the east.
209:50:35	CC	You just past pan camera T-stop time, guys. Jack, PAN CAMERA to STANDBY, please. Go on Gene, sorry to interrupt.
209:50:35	Evans	He's got it.
209:50:35	CC	Go ahead, go ahead with your description. We're listening.
209:50:35	Evans	I'm going to draw a picture, here, while I'm thinking of it.
209:50:35	CC	Okay, good show. Okay, guys, that completed the orbital science visual pass. Any other comments you'd want to make about the landing site.
209:50:35	Cernan	Yes. It's an interesting place.
209:50:35	CC	No, not that. From a geological standpoint from orbit.
209:51:35	Cernan	Yes. And I've got - well, my white spot, there, is ... the same spot. There are two white spots I'm talking about, now. The one I'm talking about primarily is the one I saw right after landing, on the thing was a lighter - lighter grayish area that was evidently blown up from the LM landing. And that's still in the same spot. You can still see that all right.
209:52:59	CC	We'd like PAN CAMERA POWER to OFF, now.
209:53:08	Schmitt	It's OFF.
209:53:09	CC	Okay, Ron, anytime you're ready now, I've got a - that whole series of Flight Plan updates and I've got a few words of explanation with each one, so, maybe you might want to take these.
209:53:25	Evans	Okay.
209:53:33	CC	Okay, HIGH GAIN to AUTO.
209:53:40	Evans	HIGH GAIN'S in AUTO.
209:53:47	CC	Ya, one more question. How large is the bright zone you were talking about, Ron?
209:53:57	Evans	Right between Sherlock and Camelot there are two small craters there and I'll have to get my map out to look for the name of them for sure.
209:54:14	CC	Okay.
209:54:15	Evans	They should have been behind the LM - right behind the LM. And the bright spot is about the same size as those.
209:54:21	CC	Okay. - -
209:54:23	Evans	And it makes I would say an equilateral triangle with those two craters.
209:54:28	CC	Okay, fine, I would recommend one of you go on to the "configure camera" while we start the Flight Plan update. We'd like to get the Flight Plan update all read prior to that P52 that you've got to do there, and somebody will be taking those terminator photos.
209:54:45	Evans	Okay, soon as Gene - Gene's drawing in the Flight Plan, there. That crater - Okay, ready for a Flight Plan update.
209:55:02	CC	Okay. Who's going to take the terminator photos. You want me to give you call about 2 minutes before the photo time?
209:55:08	Evans	Yes. Jack will.
209:55:09	CC	Okay, well, here's the Flight Plan update, then. At 210:30 - 210:30, add the following - -
209:55:20	Evans	Okay.
209:55:20	CC	- - MAPPING CAMERA, OFF; wait 30 seconds; MAPPING CAMERA, STANDBY; IMAGE MOTION, OFF; LASER ALTIMETER, OFF; select P00, P00; VERB
209:55:54	Evans	Okay.
209:55:54	CC	- - 49 maneuver to UV scan attitude. The angles are as follows: 167, 125, 354. Over.
209:56:21	Evans	Okay. MAPPING CAMERA, OFF - this is at 210:30, MAPPING CAMERA, OFF. Wait 30 seconds. MAPPING CAMERA to STANDBY, IMAGE MOTION to OFF, LASER ALTIMETER, OFF. P00. V49 to UV scan attitude. Roll 167, pitch 125, yaw 354.
209:56:38	CC	Good call, Ron. The next one is at 210:35 and this is a P20 maneuver that's going to set up a rotation about the X-axis for a UV scan. Ready to copy?
209:56:53	Evans	Okay.
209:56:55	CC	P20, option 2, UV scan. NOUN 78 - -
209:57:07	Evans	Okay.
209:57:08	CC	- - NOUN 78 all zeros; 0, 0, and 0. NOUN 79: minus 0.4000, plus 000.50; NOUN 34: 00210, 00042, 019.00. Over.
209:57:55	Evans	Okay, P2 at 210:35 will be P10, uh, P20 for UV scan option 2. NOUN 78's are all zeros, NOUN 79 a minus 0.4 of a degree per second. is that right?
209:58:12	CC	That's affirm.
209:58:13	Evans	Minus 0.4000.
209:58:17	CC	Okay.
209:58:17	Evans	Okay, then dead band is at 0.5 a half-degree. NOUN 34 is 210, 42, 19.00.
209:58:26	CC	That's affirmative, Ron. Okay, at 210:41.
209:58:35	Evans	Okay, 210:41.
209:58:36	CC	Add the line, the standard line, verify DSE tape motion, HIGH BIT RATE, RECORD/FORWARD, COMMAND RESET.
209:58:59	Evans	Okay, at 41, verify tape motion, HIGH BIT RATE, RECORD/FORWARD and COMMAND RESET.
209:59:06	CC	Roger. At 210:57, we've got another P20, Ron. And this P20 will set up the orb rate - -
209:59:14	Evans	Okay.
209:59:14	CC	- - minus sight on the horizon. Okay, here's the P20, option 5. NOUN 78, plus 162.01 - let me read that again, plus 162.01 - plus 040.76, plus 184.78; NOUN 79, plus 000.50. And we're going to orb rate around the Moon, so NOUN 70 will have a 50 in it for the Moon.
210:00:18	Evans	Okay, at 57, it will be P20, option 5. Orb rate to minus sight on horizon; NOUN 78s are plus 162.01, plus 40.76, and plus 184.78; NOUN 79s are half a degree; and it'll be an orb rate around the Moon - 50. Okay?
210:00:38	CC	Roger, Ron. Okay. Stand by.
210:00:50	Evans	Bob, while I'm standing by there, oh, that's all right. Must be my other map.
210:01:05	CC	Okay, Ron. We're ready with some more if you are.
210:01:11	Evans	Okay, go.
210:01:14	CC	Okay, at 211:02. Add the following at 211:02: UV cover CLOSED, and, in parentheses, put 211:02:09. Configure DSE - -
210:01:45	Evans	Okay, we're going to close - Oh - That's all right, go ahead.
210:01:51	CC	Configure DSE STOP/COMMAND RESET. Select P00. Manual roll left to a roll angle 039 by 211:05. Over.
210:02:27	Evans	Okay. UV cover CLOSED at 211:02:09. Configure the DSE STOP/COMMAND RESET. Whip her into P00 and manually roll left to 039 by 211 plus 05.
210:02:43	CC	Roger. And just the prediction from the simulator, you might want to use ACCEL command for a rate of about 1 degree per second to accomplish that. And that - The purpose of that is to get the Sun out of the mapping camera.
210:02:54	Evans	Okay. Okay, can do, ACCEL command to 1 degree per second.
210:03:06	CC	Okay, at 211:08.
210:03:17	Evans	Just a second, ...
210:03:19	CC	Roger.
210:03:20	Evans	Hey, Jack on here it shows the little circles on the map, which part you ought to be taking for each, rev 2 or whatever it is.
210:03:30	CC	We're in rev 62.
210:03:30	Evans	Except that, for some reason, on my map D it doesn't have - Yes - on map Delta. I must have got the backup map or something, I didn't have any of the photo - the camera settings on it. (Laughter) Terminator photos.
210:03:50	CC	Ron, we can break from this now, we're pretty well ahead, and we can come back to it, if you want to do the photos.
210:03:58	Evans	Hey, yes. Do you have the - Do you have the options, there, on the La Hire Rille? And Mount La Hire - which - what the photo settings are.
210:04:12	CC	Roger, I've got them, and I can read them - I'll read them to you right off the mop [sic] - map.
210:04:16	Evans	Okay.
210:04:17	CC	Okay, if you're looking right at the map - -
210:04:19	Evans	Okay, read them.
210:04:19	CC	- - draw - draw a circle around La Hire Bravo. And that is f/32 - -
210:04:25	Evans	Oh, I've got the circles on it.
210:04:28	CC	- - 1/500.
210:04:31	Evans	Yes. f/32, 1/500. Okay, start with that one, Jack.
210:04:36	CC	Got the circle around Mount La Hire? It's f/ll.
210:04:39	Evans	250-millimeter lens - f/ll, okay.
210:04:47	CC	At the next circle up, which crosses - which encompasses the "La" of La Hire Rilles, you want f/8 at 1/250.
210:05:01	Evans	Okay.
210:05:02	CC	And the one that crosses - the circle that covers across the terminator there at Diophantus is f/5.6 at 1/125, 1/125. Get the wrong - -
210:05:22	Evans	Okay, we got them all, Bob. Thank you.
210:05:24	CC	Okay, just a question for some other period. Will we have to update your map for P66 and P74 revs?
210:05:33	Evans	Yes. I don't have anything on this map.
210:05:36	CC	Okay, we'll schedule that in prior to those revs, Ron.
210:05:41	Evans	Yes. Okay.
210:05:49	Evans	Okay, we're coming up on Timocharis, now. Start at Lambert and get the - right along the La Hire Rille, see - Yes. Take six - six - six shots you know, kind of each area at that - You know, north and south. Yes, you know point them every which way, or whatever's interesting on the thing. Okay.
210:06:40	Evans	Okay. Mount La Hire, you can get in there at f/ll at 1/500.
210:07:22	CC	Hey, Ron. Just - Just a point. -
210:07:23	SC	There's Euler coming up there. Okay, go ahead, Bob.
210:07:29	CC	Do you have two copies of the maps onboard? And if so, did the - would the other copy of "D" have the updates on it? Or have the settings?
210:07:41	Evans	Have 2 copies? I didn't know we had two copies. Okay, and then next to Euler, we've got f/8 at 1/250 - north of Euler, There's - well we're just - Okay, we're just about at the - on the terminator line. Yes. No, f/8 at - at 1/250. Okay. Yes, north and south along the terminator. You're getting close to it. Then, change to - right on the terminator - change to f/5-6 at 1/125. I was wondering when you guys were going to say that. (Laughter) Okay.
210:09:08	Evans	(Laughter) Yes, that'll be a good one. I'll tell you, it goes a lot easier when you're by yourself.
210:09:27	Evans	Okay, yes, we're on mag 55. I mean frame 55 ana mag Romeo Romeo.
210:09:39	Evans	Yes, we didn't get some of the ones up around La Hire. We'll get those next time around.
210:09:53	CC	How's the pictures going, Ron?
210:09:57	Evans	Okay, we got - The pictures are over. And that's Lunar Orbit Chart Delta. It doesn't have anything on it, you know - -
210:10:04	CC	Okay, we'll - -
210:10:05	Evans	- - it's the circles on it, but it doesn't have any of the - -
210:10:08	CC	We'll - We'll schedule it up - all the fli - all the updates on that. After you go LOS we'll figure out some convenient time to read them up to you on there, Ron. I've got a - I've got the Flight Plan - -
210:10:18	Evans	Okay, and we're ready to continue the Flight Plan.
210:10:20	CC	Okay. 211:08, 211:08.
210:10:26	Evans	Okay. We're all set.
210:10:33	CC	Ron, just one comment before we start the Flight Plan. You've got a 52 coming up and we want to make sure that gets done prior to the VERB 49 maneuver at 210:30. And there is no slack on that VERB 49 maneuver at 210:30. So you'll have to get on to the 52 at about 20, but we should have enough time to get the rest of these updates up.
210:10:54	Evans	Okay.
210:10:56	CC	Okay, Ron, at 211:08 delete the lines: Mapping camera - OFF, wait 30 seconds, mapping camera - STANDBY, image motion - OFF, and laser altimeter - OFF. Delete those lines.
210:11:14	Evans	Okay, they're deleted.
210:11:15	CC	Okay, at 211:11, change the RECEIVE ONLY ATTITUDE to the following: roll, 039; pitch 159; yaw 300.
210:11:39	Evans	Okay at 211:11, VERB 49 will be to 039, 159, and 300.
210:11:47	CC	Okay. At 211:26 we're going to do a P20 maneuver. It's going to be a rolling P20 which will roll about the OMNI Bravo line-of-sight to the Earth. We'll need high bit rate during that time. That's why we need the - line of Bravo. And we're doing the Earth study of - with the - with the lunar sounder to determine the polarization of the noise from the Earth so we can subtract it out of our data. And during these maneuvers, you're going to see a middle gimbal angle of plus or minus 65 degrees. We saw that on the - on the simulator, but a word of caution on that. You'll see a middle gimbal angle of plus or minus 65 degrees.
210:12:32	CC	The P20 maneuver is as follows: at 211:26, P20 option - -
210:12:40	Evans	Okay.
210:12:40	CC	- - P20 option 2, HF scan, NOUN 78: plus 270.00, minus 039.30; NOUN 79: minus 0.3000, plus 000.50; NOUN 34 is all zeros.
210:13:20	Evans	Hold it there, Bob.
210:13:20	CC	Okay, Roger.
210:13:27	Evans	Let me get - I got your NOUN, - I got fouled up in the NOUN 78s. Option, I'm going to need two of those, so it's NOUN 78 is plus 270.00 and a minus 039.30. Okay, your NOUN 79's now are - are say again.
210:13:43	CC	Minus 0.3000. And now for other NOUN 39 - -
210:13:53	Evans	Okay, 0.3 of a degree per second.
210:13:56	CC	Rog, and 0.5, 0.5 - half a degree dead band.
210:14:05	Evans	Okay.
210:14:07	CC	And, NOUN 34s are all zeros.
210:14:20	Evans	Okay, so you're going to PRO at 211:26 then, right.
210:14:26	CC	That's affirmative.
210:14:29	Evans	Okay.
210:14:43	CC	Okay, Ron, this next one - actually we're calling it 212:20, but the simulator came out at 212:18:40, just for information. And it's the following: Stop scan at roll 039.
210:15:10	Evans	Okay. Stop scan at roll 039.
210:15:12	CC	Rog. VERB 49 maneuver to lunar sounder RECEIVE ONLY attitude. Roll 142, pitch 286, yaw zero.
210:15:39	Evans	Okay. VERB 49, lunar sounder RECEIVE ONLY, roll 142, pitch 286, yaw zero.
210:15:45	CC	Okay, and then the last one is 213:03. Configure the DSE high bit rate RECORD/FORWARD/COMMAND RESET.
210:16:13	Evans	Okay. At 213 - was that 03?
210:16:19	CC	03, that's affirm.
210:16:19	Evans	Configure DSE high bit rate RECORD/FORWARD/COMMAND. Okay.
210:16:24	CC	Okay -
210:16:26	Evans	For the high bit rate, RECORD/FORWARD/COMMAND RESET.
210:16:29	CC	Ron, we'll be - No more Flight Plan updates we promise today and we'll be working - -
210:16:36	Evans	(Laughter)
210:16:36	CC	- - map Delta and getting that updated to you, but everybody here thinks there's two maps onboard and I think you're right. I think there's only one, in there.
210:16:45	Evans	Oh really. is that so?
210:16:52	CC	FAO thinks there are two - -
210:16:53	Evans	- - Oh, wait a minute. Jack said they put an extra one - Okay, well, there were two. Jack just said he had one put on for him.
210:17:03	CC	Okay.
210:17:03	Evans	I must have picked his up or something.
210:17:05	CC	Roger.
210:17:05	Evans	Mine must be in there then, somewhere. We'll look for it.
210:17:07	CC	Okay, if you'll check that and tell us if we need to update you. We'll still plan to update, but if you've got it, fine.
210:17:14	Evans	Okay.
210:17:16	CC	And it looks like you ought to be getting in your P52 when you get a chance here.
210:17:23	Evans	Yes, I'll get her down here. (Humming) Can't tell about these geologists. They put on extra maps in your spacecraft and things like that, you know. Yes, I get - I gave you the last frame number on that Romeo Romeo, but I think I forgot to tell you the one after the - the other one. Oh, by the way, on the other one, Agassiz was completely in the darkness and there was no crater rim at all to shine down on Agassiz so we didn't get him at all.
210:18:07	CC	We copy that.
210:18:23	Evans	Oh, are we in P20? Go to FREE. We use to be in 20 - P20 - We'll get back into P20. Not much, but that's all right.
210:18:53	Evans	They go right along here. I have them right along here and shove them down over there is what they used to do with them. They haven't called. Get into AUTO now, CMC AUTO.
210:19:22	Evans	Okay, are we at - that's going and everything. Okay, go CMC FREE now. Okay. That's my fault, Gene, I should have gotten it. (Laughter) That's right - number 12 Rigel. Hey, I can find Rigel I bet you. There she comes. There's Orion. Man, oh man, I've done P52 only, and it's within the - within a half of a crosshair width. Come on, Alphard.
210:21:22	Evans	Ah, ha! There's Alphard - for rev 62. Come on in there, baby. Well, up to my usual tricks (laughter). Ah, 12 and 21 - stars 12 and 21. Star angle difference, 5 balls.
210:22:11	Evans	Okay, Houston. There's the NOUN 93s.
210:22:19	CC	Roger. We copied them down.
210:22:25	Evans	Okay, and we'll torque them at 22:45.
210:22:36	CC	We copy.
210:22:40	Evans	Okay.
210:22:46	Evans	Okay. Give us the AUTO now.
210:23:00	Evans	Okay.
210:23:14	Evans	Okay, just a second, Gene, let me look at it. See resolve - Power is OFF. Do the old optics? Yes. I think - (Laughter) Outstanding idea - have a great drink. (Laughter) Okay, 24. Done that. Doesn't matter. Okay.
210:24:43	Evans	Houston, America.
210:24:51	CC	Say - say again.
210:24:55	Evans	Okay. Hey, Bob, how many frames of mag RR do we have to diddle with? Kind of our own, or are there any?
210:25:07	CC	That's in work right now.
210:25:10	Evans	Okay. Aha, here's another chart D.
210:25:19	CC	I do owe you a consumables status yet, and - -
210:25:21	Evans	Who knows - it's got all stuff in it. Hey, do we - we have a good chart Delta.
210:25:35	CC	Okay. Good. Great. I owe you a consumables status, and when you woke up, you were right on the Flight Plan line, and you had 53 percent remaining of RCS. And, all other consumables are on the line or above.
210:25:49	Evans	Okay.
210:25:52	Schmitt	Hey, Bob. Sorry we didn't let you get that in. We're not moving too fast for you, are we? (Laughter)
210:26:12	CC	Ron, you have zero spares on RR. No - no film available for yourself on RR.
210:26:21	Evans	Oh, okay. We'll - -
210:26:22	Schmitt	Hey - hey, Bob, this is Jack. If you could possibly swing it, I would strongly recommend that we let Ron redo that last terminator sequence if we can work it in the Flight Plan, because Gene and I may or may not have done what you wanted there, and I know we missed the first couple of them.
210:26:40	Evans	I'll - I'll use the 35-millimeter. I still got about 8 or 10 frames on the 35 - -
210:26:47	CC	Okay, we'll take that word under advisement, and we'll evaluate it.
210:26:55	Evans	(Laughter)
210:26:57	Schmitt	Thank you. We may have to send you to the U.N. with that diplomacy.
210:27:10	CC	Thanks a lot for your confidence, Geno [sic].
210:27:25	MS	(Laughter)
210:27:31	Cernan	Glad to hear your voice down there, boss - Admiral
210:29:41	Evans	Okay, Houston. Mapping camera is OFF.
210:29:47	CC	Roger, Ron.
210:29:54	CC	Okay, we sug - suggest you start that VERB 49 maneuver at 210:30, or you'll be behind the eight-ball there on time.
210:31:26	Evans	Okay, Image motion is coming OFF. Laser altimeter is coming OFF.
210:34:02	CC	America, Houston. You're looking real good here coming up to LOS, and we'll see you at 211:22. You're looking good.
210:34:12	Evans	Okay. Will do.
210:34:26		BEGIN LUNAR REV 63
210:38:29	PAO	This is Apollo Control. We've had loss of signal. Apollo 17 spacecraft, America has gone behind the Moon nearing the end of revolution number 62. It will reappear again in about 48 minutes on revolution 63. Presently the orbit measures 62.4 by 65.2. Cabin pressure was holding steady at 4.8 pounds per square inch aboard the spacecraft, America. The crew busily running some photographic assignments, both with the Hand cameras in the cabin and the mapping and panorama camera is back in the SIM bay of the Service Module. Members of the white team of flight controllers beginning to drift in to replace the off-going gold team. And at 210 hours 39 minutes, Ground Elapse Time, this is Apollo Control.
211:21:10	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 211 hours 21 minutes. We are about 1 minute now from regaining radio contact with Apollo 17 as it comes around the eastern limb of the Moon on it's 63rd revolution. Here in Mission Control we've completed a shift handover. The Flight Director on this shift is Charles Lewis, and our Spacecraft Communicator is Astronaut Gordon Fullerton. Flight Director, Chuck Lewis has completed a status review for each of his flight controllers and from all around the room reports of everything nominal come back. During this shift two things of interest will be the firing of the explosive charges left on the lunar surface by the astronauts to SS scientists and determining the sub-surface structure. The first of these charges, designated charge No. 6 is scheduled to be detonated at about 212 hours 51 minutes. There is some latitude in this event and because of that we'll have the television camera on the lunar Rover up early to catch the event as - at it's earliest possible occurrence, which would be 212 hours 21 minutes and will leave it up through 213 hours 21 minutes.
211:21:26	CC	Hey, America; Houston here.
211:21:26	Evans	Hi, Gordo. Good morning.
211:21:26	CC	It's afternoon - right, afternoon.
211:21:26	Evans	Well, we want to PRO on that at 26. - 20 roll about OMNI Bravo.
211:21:26	SC	Oh , that' s ...
211:21:26	Evans	Yes, that's Earth study ... lunar sounder and the middle gimbal - -
211:21:26	Evans	Yes. How's the weather been there today, Gordo? (Music in background)
211:21:26	CC	America, Houston. I missed your last, if that was for me.
211:24:43	Evans	Yes. Just checking to see how the weather was doing there in Houston before you came in to work.
211:24:49	CC	Oh, it's kind of - bunch of high clouds, cirrus, I guess, but it's down around 35, I'd say, and pretty windy. So it's nippy when you're outside.
211:25:06	Evans	Ah ha!
211:25:13	Evans	And, Houston, how's my biomed looking?
211:25:34	CC	About 10 seconds to your PRO, there.
211:25:39	Evans	Okay; thank you.
211:25:46	CC	America, we'd like the IR COVER, CLOSED - -
211:25:49	Evans	Oh, and away we go.
211:25:49	CC	- - and I think there might be a chance the Sun will get in it there.
211:25:56	Evans	Okay.
211:25:57	Cernan	Okay, Gordy. And we're rolling ... - -
211:25:59	Evans	Barber pole, gray.
211:26:04	CC	Okay.
211:26:39	CC	Ron, your EKG looks good. The Surgeon wondered how the irritation that you had mentioned, because of the sensors, is - is it getting any better?
211:26:56	Evans	Well, it's - yes, it gets better when you take them off and leave it off for a while and I put the cream on it. And looks like it lasts for about a day. You know every time I put it on. I put it on at a different spot. And it takes about a day for it to get red and irritated.
211:27:20	Cernan	And, Gordo, for information, that's not unique; we're all having that, and taking them off is the best relief for it.
211:27:31	CC	Okay.
211:27:59	CC	America, I've got some words about what you might use for optional - crew optional photographs. Over.
211:28:14	Evans	Okay, yes, let's write it down there in the - why don't you write it on the back page, or something like that, so we'll know where it is.
211:28:34	Evans	Okay. (Music in background) Ready to copy.
211:28:42	CC	Okay. Magazine RR has no spare frames. So if you want to take any photos, we are suggesting using the-DAC and the 75-mm lens and using JJ which is very high-speed black and white. Ninety-eight percent of JJ is unscheduled. Here are some settings you might use for terminator photographs over mare. Use T2.8, 1/500, and infinity. For terminator over highlands, use T4, 1/500, and infinity. And for Tsiolkovsky on rev 74 that's GET of 232:58; that's sometime in the future here - we're suggesting using T5.6, 1/500, and infinity. Over.
211:30:06	Schmitt	Okay, Gordo, what was the f-stop for the highlands terminator?
211:30:11	CC	Okay, the highlands terminator would be T4. I guess that's the far-side terminator, and the nearside terminator is over mare. That's the mare setting.
211:30:28	Schmitt	Okay.
211:33:01	Schmitt	Hello, Houston; America, is today Friday down there?
211:33:15	CC	America, Houston. I'm sorry. Say again, please.
211:33:20	Schmitt	Just wondering, Gordo, if today is Friday.
211:33:24	CC	That's affirmative. It's Friday.
211:33:30	Schmitt	Okay, thank you.
211:33:32	CC	Happens to be pay day. It's the 15th.
211:38:16	CC	Jack, Houston. We see no need for you to wear any of your biomed sensors; if you'd rather take them off, give your skin a rest, feel free.
211:38:29	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. I've done that. And I'll wait till my next time and put them on then.
211:38:37	CC	Okay.
211:41:15	Schmitt	Gordy, how do you read LMP?
211:41:18	CC	You're loud and clear, Jack.
211:41:24	Schmitt	While we're in a relatively quiet period, we're going to make a few comments about some of the things that cross the two big basins that we're getting very familiar with - or, actually, three: Smythii, Ori - Smythii, Crisium, and Serenitatis - and the degradation of the balls of the major ring and the lack of any obvious blanket structures, I think, in contrast to Imbrium and Orientale, which we've also had a pretty good look at - Orientale and Earthshine, on the earlier revs - is quite striking - that contrast is quite striking - to me, at any rate. Also, within Orientale, the - at least at the southeast - on the east-southeast portions of the mare floor, the wrinkle-ridge system is not nearly as well developed; but there is a wrinkle-ridge system that roughly forms an inner floor ring, at any rate.
211:42:51	CC	Roger.
211:42:58	Schmitt	The fronts of the major ring in Crisium are strikingly different than those of the Apennines just in their general slopes; sharpness of topographical features; and in any appearance of having even a hint of boulder fields on their slopes like we observed, say, on the South Massif, anything like that. At least Serenitatis massifs seem to locally show fairly major boulder fields on their flanks. And I haven't seen any around Crisium yet. Maybe Ron's already talked to you about that, but I haven't seen any.
211:43:50	CC	Okay.
211:43:58	Schmitt	Yes. The craters now. I'm speaking of the, Ron, of the front faces themselves, the rim - the face of the ring itself.
211:44:08	Evans	Oh, I see. The face of the ring itself - okay; that's what you're talking about.
211:44:12	Schmitt	Yes, yes. Now it - a crater - a fresh crater in the mare or a fresh crater in the blanket area - rim area - will have boulders, Gordy; don't misunderstand me. But the front faces - the ring front face does not have boulders - that I can see. And I think boulders are pretty obvious when they're there. We've seen them well defined on the central peaks of Tsiolkovsky, and I think any time you have a major boulder popu - field, you can see it with the monocular - with the 10-power monocular.
211:44:48	CC	Roger.
211:45:06	Schmitt	Getting into areas that resemble, in their surface texture, the Sculptured Hills of the Taurus-Littrow landing area, here we're just passing - Now where are we? - that would be (laughter) I got disoriented all of the sudden. Proclus is there, so it's in the ray-excluded zone of Proclus where there is a mare surface projecting up into terrain that looks like Sculptured Hills. And that mare has a distinct bluish-gray color, in contrast to the regolith associated with the Sculptured Hills - between the Hills at least - which is a brown - let's call it a tannish gray. Quite a sharp color hue contrast to my eyes, at any rate.
211:46:12	CC	Roger.
211:46:32	Schmitt	Okay. That was a projection of Fecunditatis Mare, I guess, up into there. Sculptured Hills tend to have both a regional distribution and a structurally controlled distribution, the structurally - structural control being apparently related to the rims of - of old craters. For example, there are some Sculptured-Hills-appearing topographic materials that - again, in the ray-excluded zone, but out in Fecunditatis, we find the rim of a fairly large flooded crater - in Fecunditatis. And all of this may tie in with the possible - possibility that we saw at the landing site, that Sculptured Hills are composed of an igneous gabbroic rock. And these may represent local intrusions controlled by the structure of an old impact crater - extrusions controlled by the structure of the old impact crater.
211:47:57	CC	Roger.
211:48:10	Schmitt	I've noticed - now I'm getting a good view of where in Fecunditatis there is a tannish - or let's call it more of a brownish-gray mare in contrast to bluish-gray mare in Fecunditatis itself.
211:48:34	CC	Roger.
211:48:41	Schmitt	And in the walls of some - of a large crater -I'll try to figure out which one it is in a minute. It's near the large crater that the Sculptured Hills define you can see in the east wall - or maybe northeast wall of that crater - an area of bluish-gray - material that is streaking the normal tan-gray of that crater wall.
211:49:22	CC	Roger.
211:49:41	CC	This is a kind of one-sided discussion. I wish I was there so I could take a more active part.
211:49:48	Schmitt	That's all right. I just thought I'd fill in a few things. This isn't a good viewing attitude at all, and we get a few isolated views that may be worth commenting on. The contrast, in my eye anyway, between the three color units around the landing site is a - let's call it a medium bluish gray to gray for the dark mantle; a light blue-gray for the annulus around Serenitatis; and, then, a tan-gray for the Serenitatis Mare proper. And, in Dawes, you can see - I think you can see that the overturned - or the - the rim materials are made up of the brownish-gray material, and the walls underneath those rims are the bluish-gray, which is the age relationship suggested by topography. That'd be the over - lower unit is forming the rim with inverted stratigraphy.
211:51:02	CC	Roger.
211:51:11	Schmitt	The light blue-gray annulus is also the locus of most of the circumferential grabens, that Serenitatis is noted for, is in that area. And that's nothing new. But, in one place, there's a very subdued, flooded crater which seems to control a arcuate projection - or, let's say, a circular projection - of the light blue-gray out over the tan-gray mare. Most of the major wrinkle-ridge system of Serenitatis, of course, is outside the annulus of blue-gray, except locally, and one of those places was in the - to the west of the Taurus-Littrow site. Although that wrinkle-ridge system does - I can see now, as we look south of Seren - in the southern portions of Serenitatis that wrinkle-ridge system does cross the contact between the blue-gray and the tan-gray. That's the light blue-gray and the tan-gray.
211:52:46	CC	Okay.
211:52:50	Schmitt	The impression I've had in looking at all the mare where the wrinkle-ridge systems are developed is that they're a late feature. They - at least at low Sun, and sometimes even at high Sun - they have a very - very sharply defined ridges with steep slopes on either side that seem - that, in general, give me the impression that they're constructional, possibly associated with some thrusting movement.
211:53:37	Schmitt	In the vicinity of Sulpicius Gallus, there are several small craters that look like impact craters that, believe it or not, have - in my eye, anyway - orange ejecta blankets.
211:53:59	CC	Roger.
211:54:04	Schmitt	Yes. Ron says that he - that he already commented on those, and they're - and they look very obvious to me. No, I - I don't - no. I don't think you can with those windows. We'll get a good view of them again in one of the other attitudes.
211:54:33	Schmitt	It's a light orange, obviously, not a - that it but it's in contrast to the brown-gray of the dark mantle in the vicinity of Sulpicius Gallus. There's a good one right down there. Now, that one looks like a constructional cone that's orangish. And that's - that's right out on a raised projection of the - of the brown-gray dark mantle out onto the - out onto the light blue-gray annulus material.
211:55:39	Schmitt	This southern and southwestern portion of Serenitatis has a general appearance of the Sculptured Hills, although the individual hills seem to be more widely spaced than around Taurus-Littrow. Once again, historically, we're passing over the landing site of Apollo - or near the landing site of Apollo 15.
211:57:01	Schmitt	Tell Dave Scott that the north complex looks just as interesting as it ever did. It's going to remain with Emory crater as one of the unknowns of the space program for a while, I guess.
211:57:18	CC	Roger.
211:57:27	Cernan	Hey, Gordo, I've been looking at the landing site, off and on the last few revs, and I'd like to get - now that we've been there and back - your best guess of the exact position of what you think we landed, because I think I've got it pinpointed pretty much so from here.
211:57:55	CC	Okay. Stand by 1.
211:57:59	PAO	That question on the landing site location coming from Eugene Cernan.
211:58:09	Schmitt	This is one of the first opportunities that I've had to look closely at Archimedes, which is one of those craters that, in the early days of the lunar mapping program, helped establish some of the fundamental age relationships between the various units that were visible in the Earth-based photography. In this particular case, it related to the sequence of events that created Imbrium, cratered it, and then flooded it with mare. And Archimedes is a completely circular - closed circle as a crater, and it is filled with mare. And it, in itself, is superimposed on the - one of the main benches of the Imbrium crater. Now, to have mare filling that crater and actually filling all the depressions of approximately the same level in the vicinity of a mare - of a large mare region, it's one of the things that's suggested to many people that rather than single sources for mare lavas, you have a multitude of sources in a very fractured lunar crust. The ultimate source in depth, though, is still certainly a subject for controversy.
212:00:10	Schmitt	Some of the ridge and valley structure of the Archimedes impact blanket is not covered by mare and extends to the southeast out onto the Imbrium bench. That was also one of the pieces of evidence used in those early days of photogeologic mapping of the Moon. You'll have to excuse the reminiscing, Gordy.
212:00:55	CC	Roger.
212:01:10	Evans	And, Houston; America. Frame 150 - 151 and 152 were taken of the Sulpicius Gallus region with a 250 lens. 154 was taken at D-Caldera, and that's magazine Oscar Oscar.
212:01:32	CC	Okay, Ron.
212:01:43	CC	This is Apollo Control at 212 hours 2 minutes and we've within the last couple of minutes had a report from the ALSEP officer here that we're seeing seismic activity on the seismic profiling experiment which indicates that our first charge may have detonated early, either that or a meteorite has struck within range to be recorded on the instrument and we'll be checking that first grenade charge 6, which is a one pounder, was scheduled to have been detonated at 212 hours 51 minutes. It does have a mechanical timer and from past experience we know that mechanical timer to have some variability and when it opens the window allowing a continuous firing command to get through and fire the charge.
212:02:36	Schmitt	Gordy, I guess it was the crater Bessel in Serenitatis that Ron and I were looking at last night. And I think he had commented on being layers in the ledges that were visible in the walls, and I certainly concur with that. Although we could not trace layers - individual layers from ledge to ledge, within a coherent ledge the layers were traceable; and, in one case, I'm sure I could count six or seven ledges - sub - well, layers within single ledges. Reason it reminded me of it is looking at Timocharis, and I cannot do that with Timocharis. It looks like it's - those ledges - any ledges that may have been present as a result of the Imbrium Mare have since disappeared by weathering. That's lunar weathering, of course. Of course, down here in the Imbrium - southern Imbrium - is one of the better regions of the Moon to observe the wrinkle-ridge systems or mare ridges, sometimes they're called. And it's purely that. They're fairly sharply defined - quite sharply defined ridges that are wrinkled in their pattern, sinuous would be another term. And with sharply defined slopes on either side of the ridge. Sometimes they are flat-top ridges; sometimes they are more like spines. And occasionally you see them that almost appear to have vertical slopes on one wall or the other. The whole impression that I have, anyway, is that they - there may be a combination of structure and folding of the surface of the mare - construction on the surface and folding of that surface. They're particularly interesting that they tend to - wherever there has apparently been an old sub - flooded crater - Yes, did you want to get that stuff? They seem to be controlled by the shape of flooded old craters within the Imbrium basin. And I think that's a safe conclusion, because you get the standard outlines shown by the rille - the ridges; excuse me. Some of them are polygonal, and some of them are quite circular.
212:05:55	Schmitt	Ron, did you want to get these ridges, these rilles south of Euler here?
212:06:00	Evans	Yes.
212:06:00	Schmitt	Okay. They're coming up.
212:06:03	CC	America, Houston.
212:06:07	Schmitt	Go ahead.
212:06:09	CC	Okay. I guess the last team promised you no changes to the Flight Plan, but they didn't say anything about changes to the changes; and I've got one. At 15 minutes from now, 212:20 - -
212:06:23	Cernan	Can you stand by a minute?
212:06:24	CC	- - in the Flight Plan. Might get that out, and I'll give you a change.
212:06:29	Evans	Just keep talking, Gordo.
212:06:32	CC	Okay. At 212:20, you're to stop the roll at 39 degrees and then do a VERB 49 to 142. And we want to change the PITCH to 268 and zero. That would be 142, 268, and zero.
212:06:55	Cernan	Okay. I got that change. And you want that about 18 - 212:18?
212:07:02	CC	I - have to check back here. Yes, I guess that's when it is.
212:07:09	Cernan	Okay.
212:07:12	CC	Also, as long as you've got the book and a pencil, let me give you a few other one liners.
212:07:18	Cernan	Yes, I'm ready to copy them.
212:07:21	CC	Okay. Let's see. The first one is at 214:55. And they want to add after that other stuff just above there "UV COVER OPEN" and "IR COVER OPEN."
212:07:52	Cernan	Okay. At 214:55s you want UV and IR COVERs OPEN.
212:07:56	CC	Roger. Turn the page. At 215:37 - 215:37. Change magazine November November to Kilo Kilo.
212:08:15	Cernan	Okay.
212:08:17	CC	And the reason I'm so slow with an answer on that landing site position is, all I've got it in is latitude and longitude; and I assume that you want it in good coordinates, for your reference. One suggestion here was, you tell us, and then we'll confirm your guess. I just ran across an other couple updates, too. Back to 213:15 in the Flight Plan, I can give you the lunar sounder pads - the two of them on that page.
212:08:54	Cernan	Okay. I'll get them. Go ahead.
212:08:56	CC	Okay. T-start on the left-hand one there, is 213:20:10, and T-stop is 213:24:20. Then the next one is T-start of 213:41:40, and a T-stop of 213:59:54. Over.
212:09:30	Cernan	Okay, Gordo, got them all. They're all at 213 hours. Start is 20:10; stop, 24:20. Start is 41:40, and stop is 59:54.
212:09:40	CC	Okay. Good readback.
212:09:48	Cernan	And, Gordo, I guess my best guess after looking down there from here is - I've got a - the northeast chart of the lunar surface traverse ... And about 84 point - correction, about 83.3 and about and Delta ... point 5. We're right on the top of the hole in Poppy. Looks to be about where we landed.
212:10:24	CC	Okay. We got that.
212:10:28	Cernan	And, in thinking back about what my intentions were, that looks like probably a very reasonable -reasonable suggestion. And the first thought I had about being close to Trident, I didn't think I was anywhere near that close. And, of course, when you look out there and see a big hole, you don't know how big is big when you're down there. That big hole out there might very easily could have been Poppy out at 9 o'clock.
212:11:00	CC	Okay, Geno, from science we finally got it to where it converted to your map coordinates; and their guess was close. Their best guess, with all the data considered, is 83.2 and DN 0.1 - Delta November 0.1.
212:11:25	Schmitt	That would definitely make sense, Geno ... - -
212:11:27	Evans	That's pretty close to where the old CMP said it the first rev after landing, isn't it?
212:11:32	Schmitt	- - north of where we put the ... Remember, that was a little ways away. You were at the edge of the depression, and it would - move it a little.
212:11:40	Cernan	Yes, I'll buy that. That's in my scatter. And then that crater, as I looked out at 9 o'clock, we landed next to was actually Poppy. Pretty sure that's that large crater.
212:11:54	CC	Okay.
212:12:11	Evans	And, Houston; America. On mag Yankee Yankee used frames 31 through 35 at that last near-side terminator there.
212:12:24	CC	Okay, Ron. Got that.
212:12:42	PAO	This is Apollo Control. There is some debate in the Control Center at this time as to whether or not that first explosive charge did, in fact, fire early, or whether the seismic profiling experiment was instead a reacting on natural phenomenon, such as a meteorite impact or a Moon quake and we have brought up the television camera on the Lunar Rover early and we'll be looking at the area and attempting to draw some conclusions as to whether the aft charge did in fact go early or whether it's still in place. Now that question could be answered quite neatly if the charge, of course, explodes on command as it's scheduled to at about 212 hours, 51 minutes. And that first charge is 1-pound explosive charge about 1.1 kilometer from the Lunar Rover.
212:14:49	Cernan	Gordo, I'm just going to stop this maneuver this time around at 39 degrees.
212:14:57	CC	Okay, Gene. Say, we've got one question for Ron. We've got large teams of engineers trying to locate the missing scissors, and we haven't asked you in a while whether you might have found them. That might save them a lot of effort down here.
212:15:15	Evans	No, I haven't found them yet. And there's a lot of room underneath these CO2 absorbers I found out the other night because I lost my flashlight. But it kind of floated out, and I saw it every once in a while. And we found the flashlight and got it back, but I still haven't the slightest idea where the scissors are.
212:15:36	Cernan	Gordo, you might have someone hide them in the CMS and send a backup crew down to the Cape and see how long it takes them to find them.
212:15:44	CC	Okay. I'll get an airplane scheduled up right away.
212:15:50	Cernan	I just missed 39 degrees. I'll wait for it next time around.
212:15:57	Schmitt	By the way, Gordy, you working on next week's airplane schedule?
212:16:03	CC	Yes , what do you need? You mean the one from Hawaii back or something like that?
212:16:13	Schmitt	Yes, you might have some 38s waiting for us in LA; we can pick them up there.
212:16:20	CC	Okay; but we'll have to work a three-way swap with some Skylab troops that will be out there. And then Deke will meet you in Albuquerque halfway back; and I'll let you know how it all works out.
212:16:35	Schmitt	That sounds great. That sounds like easier than usual.
212:17:18	PAO	This is Apollo Control. We have a Press Breifing scheduled with the flight director from the previous shift, Neil Hutchenson. And that Press Breifing is scheduled to begin in about 5 minutes at 5:15 PM in the MSC News Center Breifing Room.
212:22:53	Cernan	Every commander has the right to change his mind.
212:23:31	Cernan	And, Gordy, I'll watch the cranapple.
212:23:37	CC	Okay, Geno.
212:26:56	PAO	This is Apollo control at 212 hours 28 minutes. We are ready to switch to the MSC news center briefing room now for the press conference press briefing with flight director Neil Hutchinson. There is a possibility that during this briefing we'll have the detonation of the first seismic charge, on the lunar surface. If that occurs we'll interrupt the press briefing to announce the firing of that charge. We'll switch now to the MSC news center and our press briefing.
212:27:29	CC	America, Houston. We're starting to get to the margin of signal strength to get the data back. We want you to improve that by turning S-BAND MODE - S-BAND NORMAL MODE VOICE switch to OFF, center for about 5 minutes.
212:27:47	Schmitt	Say again.
212:27:50	CC	Okay, Jack. We'd like you to turn the S-BAND NORMAL MODE VOICE switch to OFF, center, for about 5 minutes to improve our signal margin as you approach the termin - the LOS here.
212:28:07	Schmitt	Okay. OFF, center, for 5 minutes.
212:34:04	CC	America, Houston. Don't bother to answer, but we'd like H2 TANK 2 FANS OFF. That's hydrogen tank 2 FANS, OFF.
212:34:18	CC	America, Houston. We'd like OMNI Bravo. America, Houston. We'd like OMNI Bravo.
212:34:28	CC	America, Houston, you can turn the voice back on now. Have about a minute and a half to LOS for a final goodbye.
212:34:40	Evans	Okay. This is America with a goodbye for this pass.
212:34:45	CC	Okay. I guess the real reason for having you turn the voice switch off there is so the secretaries that are transcribing the air-to-ground here can catch up with Jack.
212:35:01	Schmitt	(Laughter) I don't believe it. Yes, I do. Okay. That's all you ever hear from me again.
212:36:26		BEGIN LUNAR REV 64
212:39:00	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 212 hours 39 minutes. During our press briefing, we had loss of signal with the Command Module. Also, we'did not have the detonation of the seismic charge. We have about 2 minutes of tape of conversation with the crew before loss of signal. We'll play that back at this time, and, of course, we'll interrupt if we should get the firing of the grenade.
212:40:54	PAO	This is Apollo Control. We've just had a report from ALSEP that one of the bombs went off. We didn't see it on television, but we are beginning to see some seismic activity and we'll switch now on our television monitor to the seismic tracing, let you - let you look at that.
212:42:01	PAO	No one here in the Control Center observed on the television the detonation of that charge. However, we are planning to replay the tape from that time and see if a close look at the tape shows any -- any activity that we can see on the television camera.
212:44:22	PAO	This is Apollo Control. It's going to take several minutes before we're ready to rerun the video tape of that time segment when the explosive charge detonated. In the meantime, we'll continue with our tape playback leading up to loss of signal with America on the 63rd revolution.
212:45:49	PAO	That brings us up to date now with all of the air-to-ground that we've received from the crew up through loss of signal. We'll be reacquiring Apollo 17 in about 36 minutes.
212:48:44	PAO	This is Apollo Control. The time at which we copied the firing of that first explosive charge was a Ground Elapsed Time of 212 hours 39 minutes 44 seconds, which translates to 6:32:45 Central Standard Time, or rather 5:32:45 Central Standard Time. And, we should be ready shortly to rerun the video tape from that segment of the television. And, again looking very closely to see if the charge explosion is visible on the TV, The charge was placed about 1.1 kilometers from the lunar rover, and it was the 1-pound charge.
212:56:48	PAO	This is Apollo control at 212 hours 56 minutes. We've had some unexpected activity on the lunar seismic experiment. And the ALSEP controller reports that there is a lot of activity in the ALSEP room looking at the very active seismic tracings that we are getting right now. Some feeling that this may, in fact, represent the detonation of that grenade rather than the previous signal that we recorded. If in fact that is the case we missed it on the television because the television camera was pointed at another area at the time that activity began. And, as soon as we have a further report from ALSEP we'll pass that along to you.
213:02:11	PAO	This is Apollo Control we've had no further word from the ALSEP Control area as to which of the 2 seismic events we registered at the Apollo 17 site represents the firing of the first charge. However, it is noted that the second event came much closer to the nominal charge firing time.
213:07:03	PAO	This is Apollo Control, we've concluded, here in the Control Center, that the second seismic event, registered on the Lunar Seismic Profiling Experiment, was, in fact, the one pound explosive charge going off. That occurred, at 212 hours 55 minutes 35 seconds, which was about 4-1/2 minutes later than the nominal or T-0 time. There will be a second charge fired. It is scheduled for 215 hours 27 minutes, that will be a 1/2-pound charge that is located 6/10 of a kilometer from the Lunar Roving Vehicle. We're now some 14 minutes from reacquiring Apollo 17 in its 64th revolution of the Moon. This is Apollo Control, Houston.
213:20:03	PAO	This is Apollo control at 213 hours 20 minutes. We're standing by now to reacquire Apollo 17 in its 64th revolution of the Moon. And we expect this at least from the crew work point of view to be a relatively quiet period. During this revolution they are scheduled to begin their eat period. And they will be operating some of the scientific instruments in the scientific instrument module bay the SIM bay. But, relatively little scheduled in the flight plan during this period of time. We show the spacecraft in an orbit of 65.3 nautical miles at its high point, and a low point or pericynthion of 62.4 nautical miles. And, we should have acquisition of signal any second now.
213:21:25	PAO	And we've had acquisition of signal. And, it will take a second before we get good solid lock up.
213:21:55	CC	Yes.
213:22:10	Schmitt	Hey, Ron, do you want me?
213:22:28	Evans	That's right. There are a lot of those with a flat floor. Got to be a lava-type thing down there.
213:22:46	PAO	And we've got a good solid signal now from the spacecraft - good data. Hearing Ron Evans in the background. Ron apparently has his mike in the so called VOX mode where it's triggered by his voice.
213:23:07	Evans	Houston, America.
213:23:08	CC	Roger, America. Hello once again. You've got about 1 minute to T-stop.
213:23:16	Cernan	Okay. We're right with you, Gordy.
213:23:17	Evans	Okay. T-stop isn't it - -
213:23:22	Cernan	... 24:20, Ron.
213:23:23	Evans	24:20?
213:23:24	Cernan	... operation STANDBY.
213:23:28	Evans	Standby. Okay.
213:23:45	Evans	Okay. We're coming up on 24:20. The visual of Tsiolkovsky is hopefully pretty much recorded on the recorder.
213:23:58	CC	Roger.
213:24:09	Evans	18, 19.
213:24:11	Evans	MARK it - STANDBY. ... in standby. I guess the somewhat - a very small summary, anyhow, of the visual of Tsiolkovsky concentrating primarily or. the flow up in the northeast corner. To me, that particular piece that's fallen down in the crater there - and it's on one of the pictures - Tsiolkovsky, 4 or 5. The piece that is down in the crater is on the right-hand side of the page. And that portion, you know, is somewhat of a molten state. It looks like it is a landslide that has slid down the wall of the crater and detached from the - well, the molten state of material, rough - rough-looking material that's on the rim of the crater Tsiolkovsky.
213:25:38	CC	Roger, Ron.
213:25:46	Evans	There seems to be high lava marks around the western and northern sides of the central peak. For some reason, it's not evident or visible on the south side of the central peak.
213:26:06	CC	Okay.
213:26:08	Evans	Also, there seems to be the high lava marks on the raised portion of the floor in the contact between the dark material of the floor and the lighter - oh, rough-looking ... - on the northern side of the crater. In the first observation, of the mass of material that goes out into the crater Fermi, the - it looks like there is a whole bunch of craters in there that have - or are essentially rimless craters. However, on close examination with the binocs, I couldn't see any that didn't have at least a slight indication of a rim. The rims that were on them were essentially very subdued. They extended out to about - oh, a half a crater diameter; and these are on the craters in the 500 - to 1000-meter size. I didn't get a chance to look at them, looking straight down the craters, to see if there was any depressions or any domes or any type of a structure in the bottom of craters. But I get the impression that they're - primarily all look - just of cones with no flat bottoms at all. And I'll look again at those things when we go by there next time. The flow that goes down into Waterman - if we look at the pictures, Tsiolkovsky 5 of 5 - the shadow is just about in the same area on this one as it is on that one, and I didn't take a chance to look in that one until I got to the west of it. So I'll have to look when I'm passing it from the north side of Tsiolkovsky looking south, to see what's down in the shadow area there. But when you're on the west looking back across it, you can't see into the shadow. But the material that's in the floor of the crater Waterman is the same type of material that the little flow on the northeast corner has broken off and slid down into its own little crater.
213:29:09	CC	Okay. Roger that.
213:29:11	Evans	So I guess what I'm saying is that essentially whatever molten material that's up around on the rim of the crater Tsiolkovsky has been - well, I want to say extruded - not extruded but pushed out, I guess, away from the crater end has been in a semiliquid or semi-molten state in its period of deposition. I'll reserve judgement on some of the flat-floored, flat-mare filled depressions that are around the crater until I get a chance to look at those the next time around.
213:30:06	CC	Okay.
213:30:35	Cernan	Say, Gordy, something that struck me, - something maybe everyone else has thought about, but I hadn't before. At the southeast corner of Smythii, there was a relatively large - several large somewhat subdued craters but with relatively steep sides to them. And next to this one was a very small, white, bright-haloed crater. And I watched the rays of this crater; and the southeastern rays draped over the slopes of this much larger subdued crater - draped over the walls, all the way down onto the floor. And as they draped over the walls, they obviously gave me a very good albedo change from the darker wall to the very much lighter colored. But as they hit the floor of the crater, they form patterns that are not only not unlike, but actually very, very similar, to the light-mantled area that we have been referring to as a possible slide, back at Taurus-Littrow. The patterns as they drape down the inner slopes of the crater and onto the floor, I would be willing to bet if we went down there we'd probably find the same type of things we found at Taurus-Littrow.
213:32:11	CC	Okay.
213:32:11	Cernan	By that I mean albedo changes that we can see here versus to what we can see down there.
213:32:17	CC	Roger. Very interesting.
213:32:18	Cernan	I looked for these type of - looked for these type of ray patterns, where the rays just went out on a more horizontal plane. You can - you can find them if you look hard, but as they drape over the slopes and onto the more level floor, they're very obviously alike.
213:32:45	CC	Roger.
213:32:57	Evans	Hey, Houston.
213:33:02	CC	Go ahead.
213:33:03	Evans	Okay. That crater, if you look at Smythii 1 of 1, and the crater that's right above the rev 62 there, you can see a bright spot on the northwest portion there. And that's the breach zone of that particular crater. The thing that's intriguing about that to me is that if you look at the inner ring, it's a gradual slope from the center - the center of the crater is lower than the secondary - the secondary ring around the thing.
213:33:43	CC	Ron, let me interrupt here. Say again which crater you're looking at again in Smythii.
213:33:51	Evans	Okay, in Smythii. And - Mare Smythii, 1 of 1, that - that picture - -
213:33:59	CC	Roger. I - have got it.
213:34:00	Evans	And right about where it says rev 62. Okay?
213:34:04	CC	Okay; gotcha.
213:34:04	Evans	Now, there's two - there's two rings in that picture. Okay. The inner ring, the central portion of that thing, is lower and slopes outward - radially outward - to the first ring. And then it drops off; in other words, it's a gradual slope, maybe - oh, somewhere in the 15 to 20 degree slope upward to the first ring. And then it's a steep slope on the outside of the ring, at about, oh, 45 degrees, dropping down into the annulus.
213:34:48	CC	Okay.
213:35:05	Evans	Yes, color? With 250 lens. Yes, all along. I just took it today, two of them, - three of them. Yes. Yes. Yes. I took three of them the last rev.
213:36:05	Schmitt	Gordy, this is the LMP. While we're waiting for the site to come up again here, which seems to interest us every time we go over it, I think we sort of came to a general concensus on the problem of the smaller cone-shaped craters on the far side that have the little P00l-like concentrations of material in the bottom. If you look at the freshest of those craters, the - that seems to be contiguous with the streaks of very dark material that cover the walls and the rim of the fresh cone-shaped craters. As the crater gets older, that material - that distinction becomes less obvious; however, the P00l remains, and all you lose is the dark streaks on the rim and on the walls of the crater. I think we sort of feel - suspect that that P00l in the bottom of the fresh craters is just the concentrated impact melt that - some of which is - stayed there during the impact and other which drained back - that drained back after the impact from the - drained from the walls. And then, with time, that P00l maybe subdued some. The structures in it, the swirls and little domes in that P00l are subdued possibly not only by the impact but by debris, slides, and avalanches off the walls of the crater.
213:37:58	CC	Okay, Jack.
213:37:58	Schmitt	It seems to be a very consistent pattern when you start piecing several of them together.
213:38:05	CC	Roger.
213:38:31	Schmitt	That black streaking on the walls and the blankets, - Ron may have already told you, but it is characteristic of only the very freshest of those cone-shaped craters, - and - or P00l craters, whichever you want to call them. And it seems to be very logical that it just represents a thin veneer on the rim and the walls of the impact-generated glass. And it's darkest, presumably, where it's quenched; and the P00l itself is somewhat lighter gray than the black, streaks and mantles.
213:39:11	CC	Roger.
213:39:26	Evans	You know, Jack, I get the impression that these bright ones, - see the bright one right down there in front of us there, - if you look at those with the binocs or with the - I get the impression of a dark greenish-black or blackish-green. In other words, I get a green - -
213:39:44	Schmitt	Green cast to the rocks?
213:39:44	Evans	Yes, green cast to the rocks. To the big blocks, you know, that are laying around there - around the crater and also the ones that are down - down in the bottom.
213:39:54	SC	Greenish cast.
213:39:54	Evans	That greenish cast to them.
213:40:11	Evans	Yes, it is; isn't it. I can see that with the naked eye. That's a bright one. What's - I'm saying, where is the crater, though? Oh, that's the - that's Yerkes and - okay. You're in VOX.
213:40:35	Schmitt	Hey, Gordy, we got another orange-rimmed crater. And we'll spot it. I think everybody agrees. And this one very clearly looks like an impact crater that has it's - let's see, we decided you're looking north?
213:40:52	Evans	Yes.
213:40:52	CC	Roger.
213:40:52	Schmitt	It's north, east, and west quadrants - -
213:41:02	Evans	Let me describe it. It's Yerkes and ...
213:41:04	CC	Hey, you got; the T-start time coming up here shortly on the sounder.
213:41:11	Evans	Okay (laughter).
213:41:12	CC	About 10 seconds.
213:41:13	Schmitt	Quit interrupting. Okay. We'll get it.
213:41:15	Evans	What time is it?
213:41:18	Schmitt	We'll hack it up here, Gordy.
213:41:20	Evans	VERB 41 ...
213:41:21	Schmitt	Thanks, Gordy.
213:41:21	CC	... now.
213:41:23	Evans	Okay.
213:41:24	Schmitt	Sounder is OPERATE.
213:41:26	CC	That was close.
213:41:30	Evans	(Laughter)
213:41:30	Cernan	That was a very good call. Thank you.
213:41:32	Evans	Thank you.
213:41:32	Schmitt	No sweat. At any rate, in the north, east and west quadrants of that little crater - and we'll spot it for you on the map, is a - very clearly an orange pattern - an orange color to the ejecta. The other quadrant is a lighter color - a light gray.
213:41:53	CC	Okay.
213:42:08	Evans	If I had a map. Let's see, what did I do with my map? Wait a minute; I got a picture of that, I think.
213:42:38	Schmitt	Right here.
213:42:43	Evans	No, go ahead I can't see the landing sight anyhow, I don't think.
213:43:23	Schmitt	Gordy, my impression from Shorty the other day, and also from seeing these craters that seem to have orange - that are - around them, that look very much like impact craters from orbit, at any rate - it may be that the - if that is an alteration phenomenon, - that it's being localized around the structure created by the impact. But in this latter case, it looks as if the impact itself penetrated into a zone of that color.
213:44:06	CC	Okay, Jack.
213:44:28	Evans	(Laughter) yes.
213:45:14	Evans	Are we going to use your -
213:45:31	Evans	Here, take it - take a look at it. Okay.
213:45:51	Evans	Doesn't show up that way today.
213:46:18	Evans	Here. The color -
213:47:10	Evans	Uh oh. That's the spot.
213:47:16	Evans	Yes.
213:47:56	Evans	Can't see it anymore.
213:49:43	Evans	Yes. That's a good view ...
213:49:56	Evans	They're between Tacquet and Mel-Mel-Melanes [sic], aren't they? Yes. I see them ... Okay. Yes, little bitty ones. They're about - a little bit bigger than Shorty. Yes. Those are - those are the ones that I called the other day. It was a very, very light tan. I guess you can put an orange tint to them.
213:51:54	Schmitt	Gordy, to put orange into perspective, at least as far as the LMPs eyes are concerned - from orbit, I would say that it's a orange-gray. It's still a gray, with an orange hue to it. And when I use any blue or tan or anything, it's a hue on gray; and I'll usually try to say gray in there. But to say something's orange, I think, would be misleading. It's really an orange-gray, but it's clearly a distinct hue.
213:52:29	CC	Okay. Kind of like dirty beach sand with a little orange in it, huh?
213:52:38	Schmitt	Well, we can't use that term anymore. That's copyrighted.
213:52:43	CC	Roger.
213:53:08	Evans	Yes. That's right. There is. That's the one. That's the area where I was trying to talk about. That's just north of, - oh, that's Sulpicius Gallus. No, there's a gouge, just - yes, northwest of Sulpicius Gallus Crater. Yes, bet I didn't doubt - I didn't talk about that thing. That's a - I thought - I was talking about the little orange crater. Now you can see all the colors down - down in the gouge itself.
213:53:43	Schmitt	Hey, Ron. We'll spot this one on the map, too - or Gordy. But there's a large gouge just south of the Sulpicius Gallus ridge. The gouge, - it's a rimless depression - and streaming down from the upper portion of that depression are not only our old friend the orange-grays, but some would be a red-brown gray. Very, very clear coloration in this light, in, - I think, - My goodness. There's another crater we'll have to look, at.
213:54:18	Evans	Yes. There's a whole bunch of them down there.
213:54:19	Schmitt	Yes, but that's something in the wall of it in that area. Yes, it's starting - (chuckle) Man, we're seeing an orange Moon now. This - this whole dark mantle in here around Sulpicius Gallus, - they are - they are scattered craters with variety of orange to red-brown hues. And they all, except for that large rimless depression, which looked, - looked as if was exposing some layers which were streaming those color, - that color debris down its walls - All the other craters seem to be small impacts that apparently are penetrating just far enough into the dark mantle material to tap this zone of orange to red-brown materials.
213:55:18	Evans	And just north of that elongate depression, there is another circular crater. And it also is penetrating down though this mantle stuff. And it had the reds and the browns and oranges dipping down it, too.
213:55:37	Cernan	Hey, Gordy, just so you're fully aware we're not sort of just leaning and getting color blind up here, I tell you last one Jack was talking about was not even subtle. It's entire ray pattern was this same ... material and definite contact between it and the dark material around it and it had that orange brown hue to it without any question at all.
213:56:06	CC	Okay. Very interesting.
213:56:11	Cernan	It really is. You know I saw that dirt day before yesterday at Littrow, but, and I really haven't seen too much from orbit that I'd call really very distinct in color, until this one. But, boy, there's no question about this one.
213:56:30	CC	Roger.
213:56:35	Cernan	And we will pick up the lunar sounder at 59.54.
213:57:09	CC	Okay, I'll try to watch it a little and give you a little more warning, too.
213:57:33	Evans	Yes, I want to get - I think it's right in that ...
213:57:41	Evans	Let me see.
213:57:45	Evans	No, here's the Sulpicius Gallus. No, you're up too far, you're up too far. It's closer to Sulpicius Gallus. Right in that ridge basin, right in there on the red line.
213:58:00	Evans	And, we'll get a picture of it.
213:58:06	Evans	Yes.
213:58:14	Evans	Yes.
213:59:06	Evans	Okay. Sorry, Houston, we turned that one OFF at the - minute early.
213:59:15	CC	Okay.
213:59:23	Evans	We'll pick up an extra minute on the next one.
213:59:27	CC	Roger.
214:00:01	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. RECORDER'S going OFF.
214:00:04	CC	Okay.
214:00:08	Cernan	Hey, Gordo. I better make this note now. What Jack and Ron were talking about apparently was an elongated depression. I was talking about in the same area, and I'm trying to mark it approximately on the chart. But it was a classic, small, bright-haloed crater. The classic with a classic ejecta and everything. Except it was this orange-hued crater. It was not bright-white. But it was very classic. And, as I said earlier, not subtle at all.
214:00:46	CC	Roger, Gene.
214:01:12	CC	America, Houston. I have a TEI for rev 72 pad. No hurry, maybe you want to wait until sunset.
214:01:25	Evans	Yes, we'll wait until sunset. Okay?
214:01:28	CC	Okay.
214:03:23	Evans	Houston, 160 and 162 of the mag Oscar Oscar were taken from the north, viewing the central peaks of Copernicus.
214:03:34	CC	Okay, Ron.
214:03:41	Evans	It's a long ways away. I don't know if it'll show up or not. It might.
214:07:14	Cernan	Houston, this is America.
214:07:17	CC	Go ahead.
214:07:21	Cernan	Okay, Gordo. I'm looking ahead - I'm trying to stay ahead and see what's happening today and tomorrow in the Flight Plan. And although this has come up in the past, we haven't said anything about it. You know, Ron put his biomed harness on a couple of hours ago, and he's going to end up wearing it a total of 6 hours. Then, all of a sudden, when we make a change-over again, and I put it on, and - for a 12-hour period, and then we change again. And one of the problems up here is putting these things on, and you'd like not to leave them on too long, but once you get them on, you like to make use of them. And it's a problem, it's time consuming. I'd like you to consider down there letting Ron wear those until tomorrow morning, having me change over then. And when EVA time comes, we'll take special consideration to whatever requirements there are.
214:08:17	CC	Hey, you just got a thumbs-up on that from the Surgeon.
214:08:22	Cernan	Okay, very good thank you.
214:08:41	Evans	Okay, Houston. Just took whatever the three were before 39 on mag Yankee Yankee of Euler, Tobias Mayer, terminator stuff.
214:09:00	CC	Okay, Ron. And for Jack, the Surgeon says he's getting occasional erratic trace from Jack's biomed. He would be happy if Jack wants to take it clear off.
214:09:20	Schmitt	Gordy, I don't know how to tell you this, but I haven't had my biomed on for about 6 hours.
214:09:32	CC	Okay.
214:09:33	Schmitt	As a matter of fact, I haven't even had the sensors on.
214:09:39		Well, we must be copying the heartbeat of the America or something, then.
214:09:52	Schmitt	How does it look? Maybe we ought to use it instead of mine.
214:10:02	CC	America's ticker is doing fine - along with everything else.
214:10:15	Cernan	Okay, Houston. This is America. I've a Plight Plan change for you if you're ready to copy.
214:10:22	CC	Okay, ready to copy.
214:10:28	Cernan	Okay, if you'll turn to page 3-26 at 217:52.
214:10:37	CC	Okay, go ahead.
214:10:39	Cernan	You can delete - you can delete both those steps.
214:10:45	CC	Okay. I've got that.
214:10:49	Cernan	Okay. If you'll turn to 230:40 - you can cross out LMP and put CDR.
214:11:04	CC	Okay. We got that.
214:11:09	Cernan	Okay, if you'll turn the page - or turn to 230:29.
214:11:13	CC	Okay.
214:11:16	Evans	You can change the first line, cross out LMP and put CDR. And on the second line, you can cross out CDR and put CMP.
214:11:28	CC	Okay, I must be on the wrong page. Did you say 230:29? Must be 231:29, okay, got you.
214:11:38	Cernan	231:29. Cross out LMP and put CDR on the first line. Cross out CDR and put CMP.
214:11:46	CC	All right.
214:11:50	Evans	Okay, and we'll further update you as the mission progresses. I know you're pretty busy, and we'll hold any Flight Plan updates down to you to a minimum from here.
214:12:01	CC	Okay.
214:15:36	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. You want to give me TEI pad?
214:15:41	CC	There's nothing I'd rather do. Ready to copy?
214:15:46	Schmitt	Go ahead.
214:15:47	CC	Okay. It's TEI for 72, SPS/G&N; 36477; plus 0.6l, plus 0.83; NOUN 33 is 230:42:59.17; NOUN 8l, plus 2887.4, minus 0339.4, minus 0050.3; 179, 095, 356; rest of the pad is N/A. GDC stars Sirius and ;Rigel; 136; 160; 034. Ullage is 4 jets, 12 seconds. Remarks: Assumes ascent REFSMMAT. Over.
214:17:19	Schmitt	Okay. TEI, 72, SPS/G&N; 36477; plus 0.6l, plus 0.83; 230:42:59.17; plus 2887.4, minus 0339; minus 0050.3; 179, 095, 356; Sirius and Rigel; 136; l60; 034. Ullage is 4 jets, for 12 seconds, and it assumes an ascent REFSMMAT. Over.
214:18:03	CC	Okay. That's a good read-back. Say, have a little summary of both the surface and the orbital scientific equipment's working. It's probably about 5 minutes worth. If there's some handy time, I'll be glad to read it to you.
214:18:25	Schmitt	Right now, Gordo. We'd love to hear it.
214:18:29	CC	Okay. Let me start with the America's gear there. The - on the UV spectrometer, well, actually having to do with UV. During - back during rev 38, they sent an Aerobee sounding rocket from White Sands, up, and it carried a UV spectrometer above the atmosphere and successfully acquired solar UV calibration data. Farside terminator shows there is a hydrogen atmosphere, but it is much less than had been predicted. The PI is very happy with the mode 4 maneuver. On the IR scanning radiometer, it's still performing beautifully, and the PI is getting lots of high-quality data, and I understand is ecstatic about it. On rev 33, the crater Kepler C showed up as a 132-degree Kelvin anomaly on a 94 degree Kelvin background after 11.6 days of lunar night, the crater Reiner was a similar anomaly on that revolution. In low orbit on rev 9, Kepler A showed a broad hotspot corresponding to its ejecta blanket with a sharp spike corresponding to the crater in the center. One coldspot anomaly seems to correspond to a cinder cone-like feature in Mare Orientale near the crater Hohmann. On the lunar sounder, telemetry monitoring of the sounder's average reflected power indicates that the mare and highlands exhibit markedly different reflectivity, both HF and VHF. The data is consistent with distinct layering in the mare, as would be expected, where the mare flooded by successive layers of lava, although, they say other explanations are possible. They don't see that layering indication in the highlands. Predicted topographic signatures over features such as craters and mare ridges have been confirmed in principal. Of course, as you know, until they get the film back they don't have - they can't really reach any definite conclusions. On the cameras - the cameras, both cameras and the laser altimeter all appear to be performing very well. And everybody's especially happy with the solid laser altimeter performance. Okay, that kind of sums up SIM bay. Do you have any questions, that I could chase down, or should I go on with surface stuff?
214:21:31	Cernan	No, why don't you press on.
214:21:32	Evans	That sounds good Gordo, press on.
214:21:36	CC	Okay. On the surface, the heat flow. These are - these are little short summaries, each written by the Pis or co-Is (sic) on each experiment. Mark reports that the entire heat flow system is working perfectly. The probes have cooled down to a temperature of -16 degrees C at a depth of 2.3 meters, and are nearly at their final temperature. For comparison, at Hadley Rille, we found a -20 degree C at 1.5 meters depth, we had, to refresh your memory, was -16 at 2.3. Both probes show an increase of temperature with depth, and it is clear that we will get a valid heat flow measurement. The LEAM is functioning properly, responding to calibration, and sensors show a low noise figure. The LEAM will be off until lunar afternoon, and on, with sensors covered, until after sunset. Otto Berg ask that you accept his thanks and appreciation. On the LSG, the sensor beam cannot be nulled at this time, in spite of Jack's efforts. We are still studying the problem and hope to find a workaround. In any case, the instrument does function to some extent, as a vertical seismometer, and may be useful in a search for a gravitational radiatior from pulsars. The LSPE is fully operational. LM ascent clearly recorded on all four geophones. And apparent seismic velocity measured across the geophone array was 110 meters-per-second. Regolith velocity was very close to that measure at the Apollo 16 site. The LM impact was clearly recorded on the geophones, and the estimated distance was 10 kilometers away, in the South Massif, actually very close to the targeted point. Although, I guess you've discussed this, we didn't see it on the video. The first charge went off while you were on the backside, last rev, and it's very apparent on the tracers which I'm monitoring right now. I think the next one's due sometime within the next 2 hours.
214:24:02	CC	Okay, the lunar mass spectrometer, the low voltage circuits of the LMS have been operated briefly. All monitors indicate the proper performance of the instuments, but application of high voltages will await lunar sunset, when both the analyzer and the site has had time to outgas. Temperature of the radiator plate is slightly above nominal, but not so high as to be even important. That was from Dick Hodges. Okay, here's a little summary from Dave Strangway on the SEP. He starts out by saying, "Water, water everywhere and plenty to be found," because you didn't get behind the timeline. The SEP transmitter was confirmed to be working well at the correct power level, using the lunar sounder. The receiver heated well above predictions during the whole mission, as I'm sure you are aware, but the two prime data legs were operated within the temperature limits of the recorder, and we have no reason to doubt that we got good data. There is also a good chance that the leg from Station 4 to the LM was within the temperature limits. Your procedures were performed excellently and we look forward to processing the DSEA tape.
214:25:25	CC	Okay, now to - let's see, we got the TGE, which is considered a spectacular success. The Earth-Moon gravity transfer indicates a valve of - won't read the numbers, in miiligals - at the - at the Tarrus-Littrow base. But the value will be used to obtain a revised value for the lunar radius at this landing site. Gravity measurement made during the three EVAs showed a large negative anomaly of about minus 38 milligals at the base of the South Massif. A similar negative anomaly of about minus 30 at the base of the North Massif. Preliminary conclusions of the traverse gravimeter meas - TGE measurements indicate that the material under the valley floor of Tarrus-Littrow is much denser than that of the North and South Massif. The gravity values will support the hypothesis that the valley subfloor consist of dense basaltic rocks, perhaps as much as 3 or 4 kilometers in thickness. The extra measurement between stations 2 and 3 will be of great help in determining the nature of the boundaries of this basaltic layer and the varied extension of the massif.
214:26:42	CC	The cosmic ray detector - actually, you know as much as we do about the data return from it, of course, but the - we did - recover it early in EVA 3, as you remember, and that was due to a minor increase in low-energy solar protons and heavier particles detected here. And a reduced exposure will not offset the scientific results.
214:27:13	CC	The neutron probe was exposed to the surface for 49 hours. PI estimates that the distance from the RTG to the probe is 40 meters, which will mean that the background count will be low, and he thanks you kindly for those few extra steps. And the last one was - to be summarized - was the field geology and they asked for a very short summary, so Walt Berger came through with three typewritten pages. So, we're just going to skip the whole thing, except the last line, which was to say that you guys did an outstanding job. Over.
214:28:01	Schmitt	Thank you Gordy. We're just pleased that so many things are working well, and happy that the PIs are satisfied. That was our objective, and we came up here to meet it - and those things that are done, I hope we met it well, and we've get a few more things to do yet.
214:28:24	CC	Well, I can assure you you're not the only or.ci, that are pleased.
214:28:28	Cernan	Gordy - Gordy, and you know it's satisfying to have put that much time in and - and come out with some meaningful results. That makes us all feel good. Have you been able, or did you see that first charge on the video?
214:28:48	CC	I forgot to mention that. No, we sure didn't see a thing. We had the camera aimed over there, but it was almost a kilometer away. That was 1-pound charge, and we played it back several times, but nobody saw a hint of anything.
214:29:07	Cernan	Okay. If you got - if you got a few more going off here in short order don't you?
214:29:15	CC	That's affirmative. I don't think we're up to the next one yet, but we'll keep - keep you posted on whether we see anything, or how they're doing.
214:29:27	Cernan	I might also say that we appreciate the time and effort the PIs put in with their experiments and with us also.
214:29:37	CC	Okay. I'll make sure that gets to the backroom.
214:30:08	Schmitt	Gordy, this is Jack. What did they see over next to the Sculptured Hills on the gravimeter?
214:30:17	CC	Well let's see, Jack. They kind of - let me turn back here. They actually included - when they mentioned the negative anomaly of minus 30 milligals at the base of the North Massif. They said stations 6 and 8, parenthetically there. So evidently they're including the whole area there as the negative anomaly. I'll try to get a more amplified answer to your question.
214:30:58	Schmitt	Now, could you see if you can verify with them that they were unable to - or there was no distinction between the measurements of the Sculptured Hills and the North Massif?
214:31:14	CC	Yes. I'll - I'll work on that.
214:31:23	Schmitt	Or better yet, what was the distinction between the Sculptured Hills and the subfloor area?
214:31:29	CC	Okay.
214:31:41	CC	You may have to wait until next time around for your answer.
214:31:48	Schmitt	Oh, there's no hurry. You can wait until tomorrow or even a (laughter) week if you want to. I was just thinking about that problem.
214:31:56	CC	Okay.
214:32:06	Schmitt	By the way, Gordy, you might tell Bob Walker, if he's around, that the cosmic ray, as far as I know, was untouched by human hands, at least on the Moon. And it looked very very clean when I put it in the - put it back together.
214:32:24	CC	Okay, Jack. We'll pass that along.
214:33:18	CC	America, Houston. One more question from the Surgeon on this mysterious trace on the LMPs biomed. Do you have anything plugged in to the - is the biomed still plugged in and laying over on Jack's umbilical, or is there, is there anything plugged in to - to Jack's that could explain the funny trace here? It's kind of a sporadic-looking - looks like somebody with a heart in a pretty bad shape. (Laughter) Over.
214:34:03	Schmitt	Gordy, my heart has always been in bad shape, for other reasons than the one the Surgeon's thinking about. It turns out that I am still plugged together. I just don't have the sensors on. I will remedy that situation, so he doesn't have to worry anymore.
214:34:21	CC	Okay, that solves the mistery. Thank you.
214:35:21	CC	Say, America, about 30 seconds to LOS. See you next time.
214:35:29	Cernan	Okay, Gordy. Thank you very much, and we'll see you coming around.
214:35:32	CC	Okay.
214:35:49		BEGIN LUNAR REV 65
214:36:01	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 214 hours 36 minutes and we've had loss of signal now with America on the 64th revolution of the Moon. Be reacquiring in a little less than 45 minutes. And coming up at about 215 hours 27 minutes, a little less than 1 hour from now, we're scheduled to have the second detonation of an explosive charge on the lunar surface as part of the lunar seismic profiling experiment. This charge will be a one-half pound charge located about six tenths of a kilometer from the Lunar Roving Vehicle. The summary of science information read up to the crew by our CAPCOM Gordon Fullerton will be available in the News Center. We hope to get copies of the information read up to the crew to the News Center and reproduced and available. It will of course also be available on the transcript somewhat later. At 214 hours 37 minutes, this is Apollo Control, Houston.
214:56:01	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 214 hours 56 minutes. In about one minute we'll be commanding the television on the lunar roving vehicle ON and we'll have it positioned to look for this second explosive charge which is going to be fired at about 215 hours and 27 minutes. This charge is part of the lunar seismic profiling experiment. It is a one-half pound charge of explosives located about six-tenths of a kilometer southeast of the lunar roving vehicle. And we've got black and white TV now from lunar surface and we'll have that through the converter and up on the area where that charge is located. And the instrumentation communications engineer will be putting that camera in the proper position.
215:00:54	PAO	We're about 27 minutes away from the predicted time of detonation. However, we are within the window during which the charge could explode. As we mentioned on the previous charge, this window is brought about by the fact that the timer is a mechanical timer, the firing charge is set continuously during the window and as the timer moves across the face of the firing pin, the firing charge going in - the firing command going in continuously fires the charge as the window moves across the pin.
215:03:29	PAO	And we believe the television camera is now centered on the area where this charge is located. Hopefully the charge is right in the middle of the television screen.
215:07:01	PAO	We now have a clock configured here in the Control Centre, counting down to what our best estimate is for detonation of the seismic charge. And our T0 time is about 20 minutes away, 20 minutes 17 seconds to be exact. This is the clock that's designated H/O on the video monitors.
215:19:20	PAO	This is Apollo Control, we're now about 1 minute 20 seconds away from reacquiring Apollo 17. It will be on the 65th revolution. And, we're looking through the lunar rover television camera at the spot on the Moon where we believe the second of two seismic charges to be detonated, is located. We do have a problem with the TV camera in that it appears to be heating up close to the acceptable limit and it could become necessary to shut the camera down prior to the time we have the detonation. This decision will be based in part on what sort of priorities the scientists have for other things they would like to view with the camera in relation to the detonation of this charge. And the instrumentation communications engineer, keeping a close eye on those temperature readings, reports that the temperature has apparently begun to stablize and to maybe even move down a bit, so we maybe out of the woods on that score.
215:21:02	PAO	And we have acquisition of signal. Should get a good stable lock on shortly which will decrease the noise on the air-to-ground circuit.
215:21:34	Evans	Houston, America.
215:21:54	CC	Hello, America. Do you read Houston?
215:22:34	Evans	Houston, America.
215:22:35	CC	Yes, America, loud and clear.
215:22:41	Evans	Okay, Houston. America here. The mapper - when we took the image motion from OFF to ON and then the MAPPING CAMERA switch from OFF to ON also, I think - maybe it was STANDBY to ON - but anyhow, as soon as it went up to ON, we had a barberpole on the talkback. Went back to STANDBY, and just before AOS, or just about AOS there, at 215:20, about 215:20, then we got a gray on the talkback with the MAPPING CAMERA switch to STANDBY. Then we went back through the cycle, and it worked okay. So it's working now and it's ON. What I'm saying is I didn't start working until about 20.
215:23:38	CC	Okay, Ron. We got that.
215:23:45	Evans	Must have been too cold, huh?
215:23:50	CC	We'll look at it. Don't know.
215:24:02	CC	America, would you select WIDE on the HIGH GAIN and then NARROW?
215:24:26	Evans	Doesn't seem to make any difference. I'll try a REACQ position again. MANUAL - and WIDE.
215:24:53	Evans	AUTO or NARROW, it doesn't seem to be working very good.
215:25:00	CC	Let's try REACQ, Ron. You're in a skin reflection zone there, is probably the problem.
215:25:46	PAO	And, we just had a call from our Instrumentation Communications Engineer that he saw the charge blow down in the lower left corner of the television screen, and simultaneous with that, we're getting very active response from the seismic experiment, the tracing pens are very - very active, almost going wild at this point.
215:27:03	PAO	And, the scientists in the back room here also confirm having seen the charge explode. We'll be re-rolling the tapes - rewinding the tape and playing back the video tape of that detonation.
215:27:59	Schmitt	Gordy. This is the LMP. How do you read?
215:28:02	CC	Jack, you're loud and clear.
215:28:07	Schmitt	Okay. Add to that little discussion of the P00l-bottomed, cone-shaped craters that I had, I think, the last rev, that the one place there seems to be some variety in the freshest of those kinds of craters is in Mare Smythii where the ejecta blanket of many of those kind of craters has some small dark halo craters on them - have small dark halo craters on them. Three or four, or half a dozen per crater, on occasion. But that seems to be something I've only seen so far in the Mare Smithii region.
215:29:05	CC	Roger.
215:29:14	Schmitt	They're superimposed on the bright ray or ejecta blanket and/or ejecta blanket system of the - of those cone, or fresh cone craters.
215:29:30	CC	Okay.
215:30:13	CC	America, Houston. We've got some words for you to - a request for a little visual observation at the landing site area, having to do with orange material. If you're ready for about a 5-minute briefing, I'd like to give it to you now, so you can get set up.
215:30:40	Evans	Okay; go ahead there, Gordo.
215:30:43	CC	Okay, what we want to do is see if - This was triggered off by your observation of orange material last rev, I guess, and possibly earlier. But the idea here is to look for some craters that we've identified on photographs that are in a similar geologic setting to Shorty Crater and see if we can see orange material around them. We're trying to determine if the orange material at Shorty is a one-time special occasion or whether possibly it's common to the area and just never been noticed before. And we think you'll be able to determine this visually, better than any other way. So, if you can get out the orbit - the orbit charts; the orbit photographs; let's see, the Lunar Landmark Maps for the CSM, and turn to the landing site number 2 of 4 picture. Let me know when you get that, and I'll show you where we think a likely point is to see craters that are similar in setting to Shorty, to look for orange material.
215:32:03	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy, we'll do that. I've made a couple passes with the binoculars over the dark mantle around Littrow already, and have seen nothing comparable with what's around Sulpicius; but let's have the examples, and we'll make a special effort on it.
215:32:19	CC	Okay. Have you got the site photo number 2 of 4?
215:32:22	Schmitt	Here it is. Stand by just 1.
215:32:54	Schmitt	Tab on it.
215:32:55	Evans	Which one is that, Gordo?
215:32:56	Schmitt	204.
215:32:58	CC	No. Number 2 of 4 of the site photos.
215:33:03	Schmitt	Oh, 2 of 4. Okay. Okay, we got her.
215:33:26	CC	Okay. You can see the landing site there at - down about 4 o'clock, and - -
215:33:33	Schmitt	Yes sir. Go.
215:33:34	CC	- - the 7-kilometer crater in the - on the centerline of the page, about a third of the way down from the top, the large bright crater there is - is Littrow B is the name of it.
215:33:46	Cernan	Got it.
215:33:47	CC	And on the southern half of the ejeeta blanket from that crater, there are several dark halo craters, which we think are in similar structure as Shorty. We think that would be a likely spot to look for orange material. There's a - Farouk has circled about four or five. They show up, say, at 4 o'clock, 7 o'clock, 8 o'clock, and 9 o'clock out about - from the center - about a crater diameter. In other words, a crater radius beyond the lip, roughly. We suggest that you utilize the best window in your attitude which you should be maneuvering to now, if you - if I haven't completely interrupted the Flight Plan. is - at that attitude, window - let's see - 1 is the best, and 4 should point up that way also. We suggest you get somebody on the binoculars at 1. And use the same camera setup, with the exception of using tbs 250-millimeter lens, if you can, that you're going to be setting up for as per the Flight Plan for the orbital science photos. If you can put the 250 on there; use KK as shown; and f/8, 1/250, and infinity - I'll repeat that when you get to it - for the pictures, if you see anything. What we're looking for is orange material.
215:35:35	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. We're working on that now, and we'll get KK out.
215:35:39	CC	Okay. We were thinking you might be able to get the guy on the camera in window 4 and the binoculars in window 1.
215:36:04	PAO	This is Apollo Control. We're about ready to replay now the video tape showing that second seismic charge detonating. You'll see it down in the lower left corner of the screen. It'll appear as a bright flash, with little or no dust visible.
215:36:07	Schmitt	We're coming up on the edge of Crisium now.
215:36:08	CC	Roger.
215:36:17	Schmitt	Okay. I think maybe you're right about window 4 possibly being the photography window. If I can get oriented right. I thought you - No, There you go. Yes. It's all set, right here. And, Gordy, I'm going to try to also shoot, if you'll let me, two pictures on KK of that depression - colorful depression we saw near Sulpicius Gallus, if I can see it. Is that okay?
215:36:56	CC	Okay. I'll give you a unilateral GO on those two frames, and we suggest you use two or three frames on this area we've been talking about, also, in addition to the scheduled 28.
215:37:09	Schmitt	Okay.
215:37:11	CC	If we get short of film or something, Farouk says the last part of this orbital science photos, after you get to the end of the run and change to 1/125 of a second, is kind of marginal for photography anyway.
215:37:26	Evans	(Laughter) Right,
215:37:44	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy, you want the pictures whether we think we see orange or not, huh?
215:37:51	CC	That's affirmative.
215:37:58	Schmitt	That's very strange. May have to pass you the camera in a hurry, Geno. I looked.
215:38:33	Schmitt	You know, Gordy, the craters we're seeing around Sulpicius that are orange or - orangish are very clearly orange - orangish gray and the whole, or at least most of the crater is that way. We looked at Shorty today, and Ron said that even the little bit of orange that he saw the other day is not visible, and I'd have to agree with that. The amount of orange we saw on the surface certainly would not be comparable to what we're seeing around Sulpicius Gallus.
215:39:09	CC	Roger.
215:39:14	Schmitt	And in a couple of quick scans, on previous revs, of the area, the dark mantle, near Littrow, I could not - I did not notice any obvious orange-gray craters.
215:39:29	CC	Okay.
215:39:43	CC	Just to make - to be sure we're clear on this: We suggest that area to look for them only as a likely spot; but any evidence of craters with orange material, in the whole dark-mantle area around Littrow and the edge of Tranquillity there, is worth noting and getting a picture of, if you see it.
215:40:16	Schmitt	Okay. Yes.
215:46:31	Evans	I don't think there's anything there.
215:46:32	Schmitt	Why don't you take a couple of pictures, then.
215:46:35	Evans	... Yes, I've got a few.
215:46:41	Cernan	Can you take a picture?
215:46:42	Evans	Yes.
215:46:44	Cernan	Did he take a picture ...?
215:46:49	Evans	Okay. 5.6 at 1/250.
215:47:23	Evans	No, I don't either. I don't see anything comparable at all. You know, the ones that we've been seeing the - definite orange or the light-tan stuff around are pure light ejecta blankets around them, not dark.
215:47:47	Schmitt	Houston, I guess none of us see anything comparable to what is down by Sulpicius.
215:47:57	CC	Okay.
215:47:57	Schmitt	And no obvious color either.
215:48:01	CC	Roger.
215:48:01	Evans	Well, they're comparable to Shorty, but they're not comparable to - they're not comparable to the ones that we've been seeing the obvious orange - -
215:48:09	Cernan	Yes. The craters are comparable to Shorty, as Ron points out, and - but the color is not there.
215:48:16	CC	Okay. We'd like to give you a couple of spacecraft chores - like to terminate the charge on battery B, and turn tank 1 FANs , ON.
215:48:33	Schmitt	- hand me the camera.
215:48:36	Schmitt	H2 tank 1 FANs going ON, and I'll get that charge in just a second.
215:48:42	CC	Okay. And just a reminder to go back to f/4 - -
215:48:45	Evans	Are you going to be able to get that?
215:48:45	CC	- - at 1/250 when you get ready for the orbital science photos. Also, the 80-millimeter lens, if you happen to be - have the 250 on there.
215:48:57	Cernan	What's the setting for the ...?
215:49:01	Schmitt	Oh, f/8.
215:49:02	Evans	Well, we're getting a little close to the terminator. Change to 5.6, Jack, I don't know. No, maybe not.
215:49:09	Schmitt	We're looking down zero phase.
215:49:11	Evans	That's right. It's almost zero phase, okay. See. It's just beyond that - -
215:49:16	PAO	The crew is taking pictures of the landing site at this time.
215:49:18	Evans	- - I changed to f/4.
215:49:23	Schmitt	Yes, but you're going to be looking at the nadir, aren't you?
215:49:25	Evans	Yes, that's right. Are you sure we want the - Yes, that's right; 8-second intervalometer for looking at the nadir with the 80 millimeter. Right?
215:49:51	Schmitt	Yes.
215:49:52	Evans	Okay. Let me take a look down at the - that mare floor and Dawes. No. That's not Dawes, that's Bessel. Doesn't look like Dawes. Dawes has got a bunch of little depressions that look like rimless pits in the bottom of it. Bessel doesn't have any of those. It looks - like a bunch of debris.
215:50:54	Evans	There you go, Gene.
215:51:21	Evans	Yes. Yes, yes, I see it.
215:51:34	Evans	Yours is on - I see yours, Gene. It's on up there a little farther. Isn't it? But all of these are in the - this is not out in the - the mare floor of Serenitatis. It's on the hills there, the Haemus Mountains. It's just to the west of the Sulpicius Gallus Rille, and it's an elongate feature than runs kind of north-northwest by south-southeast. Yes.
215:52:15	Cernan	... was yours ...?
215:52:17	Evans	No, it's not in the mare floor at all. It's up there in the edge of the Haemus Mountains. But that was the same type of material that - it has the same color difference as the - the material around the Tacquet Rilles back there. There now, see all those bright orange craters right in the - in the Sulpicius Gallus Rille, up at the north end of it? Jack calls them an orangish-gray; I call them an orangish-tan.
215:53:00	Cernan	... out in the mare that's got this - all that -
215:53:04	Evans	No. No. Jack, did you get the pictures, good pictures? Because I can take it. See that one - oh, yes - see that one on the mare?
215:53:16	Schmitt	Yes. Good one on the mare.
215:53:18	Evans	Yes.
215:53:20	Schmitt	Did you get that one - -
215:53:21	Schmitt	Oh, lost my - -
215:53:22	Cernan	Okay, here's my orange crater - -
215:53:24	Schmitt	Here, take it.
215:53:25	Schmitt	Let me take a look at it.
215:53:28	Evans	Yes, that's it. Yes, I can, too.
215:53:59	Evans	Yes, Gene, yours is out on the - I got a picture of it.
215:54:02	Cernan	Are you sure?
215:54:03	Evans	Yes, yes, I know. It's got a - -
215:54:04	Cernan	Okay. It's just inside, just in the foothills.
215:54:06	Evans	Yes. Just in the - Wait a minute. Okay, I've got one out in the mare itself. It's got a - strip - -
215:54:14	Cernan	... foothills, and I can't take any ...
215:54:25	Evans	Well, when we get to - when I see one out there, I'll get it. Yes, I better have because they're getting close to - As a matter of fact, I need it just about right now. Okay?
215:54:48	Cernan	Well, Gordo, we're going - we're going to get set up for Ron's orbital science, but that little classic crater, I could see it again with the - -
215:54:55	Evans	... 1/250.
215:54:56	Cernan	- - with the naked eye. I don't think it's the same one that Ron and Jack were talking about, but this is so classic. It's just out of the mare into the foothills to the - right along our orbital track.
215:55:11	Evans	And we're starting with mag 109 for the orbital science on Kilo Kilo, and I don't know what the number was before we started taking all of our (laughter) -
215:55:23	Schmitt	...
215:55:26	CC	Okay. We copy that; 109 on a key - on KK.
215:55:31	Evans	Okay.
215:55:32	Schmitt	...
215:55:34	Evans	(Laughter) Fortunately. Oh, what? Okay, there's the old Apennines. Where are we heading for on this, Gordy? Can you give me a clue as we go along?
215:55:57	Schmitt	South Imbrium.
215:55:58	Evans	Well, yes; South Imbrium's a big thing.
215:56:10	Evans	Oh, the stupid thing doesn't work. I got that one.
215:56:20	Schmitt	Huh?
215:56:21	Evans	I got that one. I took it.
215:56:22	Schmitt	Oh, I don't think you did.
215:56:23	Evans	Yes, I did.
215:56:26	Schmitt	Gordy.
215:56:27	Cernan	Just a little bit on it. This one is -
215:56:31	CC	Go ahead.
215:56:35	Schmitt	This is Jack. My impression on that rimless, V-shaped depression that had the striking talus on it - that it - it also - there was a spotted, mottled rim area that has the orangish-tan, or orangish-gray color as the spots. And it looked as if the - in this first - in this pass, and I'll try to verify it if we have another opportunity, it looked as if the more red-gray, red-brown-gray, if you will, material was lower in the section within the walls of the depression. This is a very steep-walled depression, by the way. It has talus streaming down the sides of it, and the coloration streams in this same direction. It looks as if there may be layers or roughly horizontal zones that are - have the coloration that we're seeing, which are forming the talus slopes down below them.
215:57:49	Evans	Break, break. When do I change to 2.8?
215:57:52	Cernan	I'll give them to you.
215:57:53	CC	Okay, not until you get on up the line, Ron, to Lambert.
215:57:59	Evans	Oh, okay. Lambert? Okay.
215:58:02	CC	And your pictures are pretty much right along the nadir.
215:58:10	Evans	Okay.
216:00:38	Evans	Now I got it. Okay. Yes. It's La Hire Rilles.
216:00:41	Cernan	Is that Timocharis we're coming up on?
216:00:42	Evans	Yes, Timochar - We're over Timocharis now, and then La Hire Rilles are coming up.
216:00:53	Schmitt	Okay. There's Lambert up there - -
216:00:55	Evans	Yes. Lambert's right up there, coming up. I'm not sure - well, I don't know what the - just to the south of Lambert. What is that? No, just on the map.
216:00:10	Schmitt	Well, Pytheas, but it's -
216:01:21	Evans	That way. Remember it's right with the La Hire Rilles. There's one rille that goes right through it almost, and then another one - see, goes northeast-southwest. Oh, I see, okay.
216:01:40	Schmitt	Gordy, getting a good oblique view of Copernicus on this trip. And some of the dark-halo craters that we mapped originally on the north portion of the ejecta blanket, which were similar to Copernicus H, are very clearly darker halo than the - or have darker blankets around them than the ejecta blanket from Copernicus.
216:02:17	CC	Roger. And Ron should be due to change to 2.8 about now.
216:02:26	Evans	Okay.
216:02:26	Schmitt	And this is a good view of the central peaks, although from some distance; and, as Ron and I were discussing earlier, it's not at all clear that that - in fact, in fact, that dike does not come through as a - the so-called dike - as a - as a unit that is clearly defined.
216:02:50	Evans	Yes. I was looking at it through the binocs last time, and I couldn't really see anything that was really defined as coming on through there.
216:03:00	CC	Okay.
216:03:01	Schmitt	There's still a very - there's a very clear distinction between the dark floor material of Copernicus and the hummocky floor material, the dark smooth being in the northwest quadrant.
216:03:08	Evans	You know, if Lambert is an impact crater, it's sure awful smooth ejecta around that thing. It only goes out about a half a crater diameter, maybe a crater diameter in some spots, at the most; but it's not rough, it's blocky looking. You know, it's smooth - smooth, undulating -
216:04:03	CC	Ron, your next camera change is at Euler, which you change to 1/125 of a second.
216:04:12	Evans	I think we just croaked. We did.
216:04:18	Schmitt	You out of film?
216:04:18	Evans	Yes.
216:04:20	Schmitt	You want that other mag?
216:04:22	Evans	Let's throw Oscar Oscar in there to see if it will work.
216:04:27	Evans	Need the - dark slide. Here. Okay. Where's Oscar Oscar? Whoops. VHBW. There's a -
216:04:56	Schmitt	We've got a good oblique view of the Hortensius Domes, and with their nice little central pit craters.
216:05:29	Evans	Did we hit the stick, or something? Huh? Looks like we're changing attitude. Well, I'll be darned. I put Oscar Oscar on there and I got but one picture. (Laughter) And it's empty. Well, that's probably right. Those won't come out too good there, anyhow. Too close to the terminator for this kind of film.
216:06:01	CC	Yes, we agree with that, Ron. Farouk was mentioning that was kind of - beyond Euler was pretty marginal anyway.
216:06:09	Evans	Yes.
216:06:35	Cernan	Gordo, that classic crater that I talked about last rev, I picked it up again this rev with the naked eye, and then I also looked at it again with the binocs. If Ron was talking about the same crater, and I have my doubts, he got a picture of it, he said. But the interior - I won't say there's a change to black; it's just dark. I'd say it's probably about the size, to put it in the right perspective, of Shorty, or just a little bit bigger. The inside is dark. By that, I don't nean it's black or anything inside; I just can't really see inside of it. But the - it's a rust-colored blanket that comes out and overlaps on the rims and then has the classic ejecta. And I'm going to take a shot at trying to get a picture of it next rev or sometime when we're in an attitude, because it's too good to miss.
216:07:36	CC	Okay. And, commander, if you can send one of your subordinates over there to terminate the battery charge, we'd appreciate it.
216:07:50	Cernan	(Laughter) Okay, that's in work.
216:08:07	Evans	Seven Bravo. It's 1 point - it's coming up just a little bit. Well, not much, 1 point - well, 1.25.
216:08:24	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. Battery charge on B is terminated, and we got 1.25 on 7 Bravo.
216:08:31	CC	Okay, thank you.
216:08:40	Evans	Here's November November; it may have three or four pictures left. It's on l60. ... me set one up. Oh, we've got Papa Papa for opportunity, huh? Yes. I'll get it.
216:09:28	Schmitt	Houston, are you ready for LASER ALTIMETER, ON?
216:10:08	CC	Stand by.
216:10:25	CC	America, we're seeing some higher than normal temperatures on fuel cell 1. We'd like you to go to panel 226 and check the FUEL CELL 1 PUMP circuit breaker and also the switch on panel 5. Over.
216:10:53	Schmitt	Well, don't ask me how it happened, but your switch on panel 5 is OFF. Going to AC1.
216:11:02	CC	Okay. I guess that's the best news that we could have had on that. And we're ready for the laser altimeter - -
216:11:09	Schmitt	Okay. Hey, Gordy - -
216:11:10	CC	- - whenever you get to the attitude.
216:11:12	Schmitt	- - Gordy? Here's one you can explain to me: When I turned that on - well, I guess that - I got a sudden drop in H2 flow; and then it went up, overshot a little bit, and now it's steady. I suspect that's what your EECOM friend there will say should happen.
216:11:39	CC	Yes. That's right, and we see indications that the pump started up.
216:12:04	Schmitt	Okay, that was a good call. I can't - How long have you noticed that, Gordy? Do you know?
216:12:10	CC	Well, it's been about 3 minutes, Jack.
216:12:16	Schmitt	Okay. I guess I'm to blame then; I don't know how it happened.
216:12:35	Evans	Hey, Houston, America. Do we have any more orbital science photos?
216:12:43	CC	Stand by.
216:12:47	Evans	I think that was it, but I'm not sure.
216:14:04	Evans	Okay, Houston. LASER ALTIMETER is ON, and IMAGE MOTION is barber pole plus 4.
216:14:11	CC	Okay. Thank you.
216:15:58	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 216 hours 15 minutes. A few minutes ago you heard Capcom, Gordon Fullerton, query the crew as to whether or not a switch might have been placed in the wrong position on one of the pumps circulating glycol, a coolant, to fuel cell 1. And Jack Schmitt looked at the panel, confirmed that a switch was in fact in the OFF position, turned it back on and everthing was back to normal with no problem. By way of background the EECOM, John Aaron, had noticed a slight increase in temperature on fuel cell 1 via the telemetry. After watching it for or 4 minutes he asked Capcom to check with the crew, see if the switch controlling the glycol pump was in the OFF position and as mentioned, Jack Schmitt confirmed that it was. This pump, as we say, circulates liquid glycol coolant through the fuel cells and cools it in much the same way that water flowing through radiators and around the engine of your automobile, cools the automobile engine. The most likely explanation for the switch being in the wrong position that we have here, appeared to be a more or less transitory phenomenon, was that it was bumped by one of the crewmen moving about the cabin in zero g. The fuel cell temperatures very quickly dropped back to normal once the pump was turned on again. We have about 18 minutes remaining in this pass before we loose radio contact with Apollo 17. We are showing an orbit at this time with a high point or apocynthion of 65.2 nautical miles and a low point or paracynthion of 62.2 Among the other statistics the orbital weight of the CSM at this time is 36,477 pounds. And the orbital period just a tad under 2 hours - 1 hour 59 minutes 17 seconds.
216:18:32	CC	Say, Ron, this is Houston. And there's no more scheduled orbital science photos. We can't seem to run down Farouk to see if he has anything up his sleeve. There are a couple of passes with black and white coming up; one next rev, and then a couple just prior to TEI.
216:18:54	Evans	Okay. Looks like what we've got left here, as far as I can tell anyhow, is just - we've got all of magazine Papa Papa, and maybe four or five of them on November November.
216:19:08	CC	Okay. And we'll come back to you if there's anything we got in mind to schedule on - on either of those.
216:19:18	Evans	Okay. We'll want to save some for after TEI to shoot back at the Moon.
216:19:25	CC	Roger.
216:19:31	Schmitt	Hey, Gordy, that's TEI-1, not TEI-2 he's talking about.
216:19:41	Evans	Okay, I see what he said.
216:19:46	CC	Roger. TEI, period.
216:19:55	Evans	That's right.
216:20:06	Cernan	These guys can call it what they like, but I know what it's going to be and when.
216:21:17	CC	America, a little human interest stuff here. We just watched the second charge go off; not just watched, it's been about half hour ago or so. Second charge went off, and we caught it just in the lower left corner of the TV view. It looked like a - to me it looked like a flashbulb went off - flashbulb laying on the ground vent off, just a kind of a quick flash. No big shower of dirt or anything that I could tell.
216:21:17	Cernan	How far away do you expect that one was, Gordy?
216:21:55	CC	That one was 600 meters away. And it was a half-pound charge.
216:22:05	Cernan	Yes, you're still pretty far away over that - yes, you're still pretty far away over that - that terrain that those things are sitting in over there. You're going to probably see something when you look at those that are placed by the end of the SEP and back to the east there.
216:22:23	CC	Roger.
216:24:24	Schmitt	Houston, America.
216:24:27	CC	Go ahead.
216:24:31	Schmitt	Do you need the cryos stirred at all today?
216:24:37	CC	Let me see here. Stand by. No. I guess you've been bouncing around there enough. We don't need to stir them.
216:24:52	Schmitt	It won't hurt them, will it?
216:24:56	CC	No.
216:25:01	Schmitt	Okay.
216:25:50	CC	Showing about 115 beats per minute on the CMP.
216:26:16	PAO	That call of a 115 beats refers to Ron Evans' heart rate, the Command Module Pilot, exercising at this time.
216:27:11	CC	America, we'll take AUTO on the HIGH GAIN.
216:27:21	Schmitt	Okay, you've got AUTO.
216:34:52	CC	Okay, America, we're about to LOS in 40 seconds. Everything looks good as it always has. See you next time around.
216:35:06	Cernan	See you Gordy, and thanks for keeping an eye on us.
216:35:16	CC	One last frantic reminder to configure the DSE per the Flight Plan after LOS.
216:35:28	Cernan	Okay, we'll get it.
216:35:28		BEGIN LUNAR REV 66
216:35:36	PAO	And, we've had loss of signal with Apollo 17 on this the 65th revolution. We'll be reacquiring as usual in about 45 minutes. And for the rest of the flight plan up to the crews sleep period which begins at about 220 hours we have relatively quiet time very little scheduled in the flight plan - have an eat period. During the next revolution the crew will be operating the panoramic camera in the SIM bay. They're scheduled to be in the midst of an exercise period at this time. And we could confirm from the biomedical data on Ron Evans, his heart rate, that he was indeed exercising. Prior to beginning the sleep period the crew will be going through their film magazines getting everything ready for an active day of picture taking tomorrow. There will be a lunar surface science briefing at 9:20 a.m. Saturday December 16 in the main auditorium building 1 at MSC. Again that time is 9:20 a.m. December 16. At 216 hours 37 minutes this is Apollo Control Houston.
217:18:09	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 217 hours 18 minutes, and we'll be back in radio contact with Apollo 17 in about a minute. On this revolution, the major activities aboard the spacecraft will be the operation of scientific instruments. It's a relatively quiet period of time for the crew. The pan camera will be turned on briefly, just so we can get a look at the telemetry data on that camera. We won't be obtaining any photography with it. The mapping camera will be on for one full revolution obtaining ground track coverage supplemented by the laser altimeter data that provides an altitude reference in each photograph. Also the infrared and ultraviolet spectrometers will be operating and the crew will be taking a few hand held photographs out the spacecraft windows, using the Hasselblad camera. We may have a bit of noisy communications toward the beginning of this pass. We've just gotten acquisition of signal and we'll be receiving the spacecraft through one of the 85 foot dish antennas, rather than the 210 antenna. We do have acquisition of signal now and appear to have reasonably good signal strength.
217:20:19	Evans	Houston, America. Looks like we're with you again.
217:20:23	CC	Okay, America.
217:20:23	Evans	. ... We've been taking its picture just as we came up.
217:20:29	CC	Roger. You're loud and clear.
217:20:39	Evans	Okay.
217:23:10	CC	America, Houston. I have three one-liners for the Flight Plan.
217:23:22	Schmitt	Is this the same Flight Plan we've been working on up here?
217:23:29	CC	I think it is.
217:23:38	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. Go ahead.
217:23:42	CC	Okay, at 218:09, delete MAPPING CAMERA - RETRACT. At 218:30, delete MAPPING CAMERA/LASER ALTIMETER COVER - CLOSED. And at 219:59 - next page - in addition to IR and UV COVERs - OPEN, put in LASER ALTIMETER - ON.
217:24:28	Schmitt	Okay. At 219:59, LASER ALTIMETER - ON; and at 218:30, delete MAPPING CAMERA/LASER ALTIMETER - OPEN; and at 218:09, delete MAPPING CAMERA - RETRACT.
217:24:45	CC	Okay, that second one was deleting a COVER CLOSED, but I'm sure that's the one you got. MAPPING CAMERA/LASER ALTIMETER COVER - CLOSED. And that laser altimeter, we'll just leave her run through the sleep period.
217:25:04	Schmitt	Okay.
217:27:30	Evans	Can't see it, sorry.
217:27:43	Evans	May have. Smythii may have, on the thing. I still want to talk a little bit about these polygonal craters and Smythii. The one right above rev 62 picture on the thing, there's definitely kind of a - an unindated (sic) old depression there with a mare, very smooth mare floor on the thing. With two, - two old craters. And, that is definitely a younger flow than whatever made the polygonal craterlike depression. Right above the rev 62 number. The thing that bothers me about that is that they, they almost - oh, looks like if you threw a rock in the mud, you know - made a mud pie, and you get a wave or a ripple going out from there. In other words, you've got a high wavefront going out from a circular direction with a slightly sloping up to that wavefront. That's on the inner ring on the thing. The outer ring, of course, is a typical-type ring that you get from an impact type of an operation. It looked like the rough-looking floors of those rings, ring basins, essentially have the same albedo, the same characteristic, as the rougher looking floor in the Mare Smythii itself.
217:29:18	CC	Okay, Ron.
217:29:23	CC	We'll take HIGH GAIN to AUTO.
217:29:31	Evans	Okay, you have it.
217:29:40	Evans	And, I took a picture of that one in Smythii - is frame l60 on mag November November, and the reason I took the picture is really because on the western edge of the big basin it looks like there's a small impact crater, but it's only been dished out in the more recent flat dark-gray mare material. {Music in background) And looks like when it comes to the edge of the original basin ring, that part is not ejected out at all. So, essentially, you have a cone-type depression with an impact crater. The material's only been excavated in the - in the newer mare material.
217:30:41	CC	Okay, understand that. Say again, where that one is?
217:30:45	Evans	Yes, that's the one above rev 62 or directly north of the Wright Brothers, in the 12:00 position from the Wright Brothers.
217:30:55	CC	Oh, okay.
217:32:47	Evans	You know, Houston, we're just passing over a little polygonal crater that's maybe 15 kilometers in diameter - 15, 20 kilometers in diameter. It may be 10 to 15 - and down in the basin of it is a kind of a polygonal fill. It, again, has that dark greenish-black rock that is collected down at the bottom of it, and you also see it streaking down the side of it. But, I think one of the most significant features about the crater itself is that it has a swirl, and these are honest to goodness - they look like swirls rather than rays. It has a swirl pattern around there - it's radial, from that most recent impact.
217:33:43	CC	Roger, Ron.
217:35:50	CC	America, Houston, we haven't got data right at the moment because we are in a skin reflection zone. We'd like you to hold the pan camera to STANDBY until we call you.
217:36:06	Schmitt	Thank you.
217:36:08	Evans	Okay.
217:36:23	Evans	It's near - just see Yerkes. Come down from Yerkes. Yerkes is the subdued crater up there. Come down from Yerkes, and then there's a little one about 10 kilometers in diameter; and, then a big one that's about 50; and, then there's a bright one. Okay, and then - -
217:36:40	Evans	Yes, and then right - let me see, kind of northwest of that bright one, about a crater and a half diameter from it - is an orange-ringed crater, again.
217:37:30	Evans	See it - right, right, just a - bright one just about a crater and a half diameter from the bright one. See it? See, it's an orange ring on it, isn't it? That's the one we were talking - - I'll get it. Yes.
217:37:44	Evans	Yes, I know it. That's right. It's not a classic, but it's another example of an orangish-tannish - Say what? See that bright crater down there. Just about a crater and a half diameter to the north of it - f/8 at 250 - that ought to be good. And Houston, that was frame 162.
217:38:11	CC	Okay, Ron.
217:38:12	Evans	Yeah, we - -
217:38:17	Cernan	And, the frame just before that - I took of a ridge just on the southern edge of Crisium, - the pattern of the massifs in that area were very impressive, but two frames just before that.
217:38:33	CC	Okay.
217:39:05	Evans	Houston, just one other question. I was looking around here at my film, and I got mag Victor Victor, which is VHBW for the Nikon. And looking through the Flight Plan, it doesn't look like we're going to be able to use that anytime. I just wonder if we might be able to use it for some of these terminator photos?
217:39:40	CC	We'll check on the film. We'd like you to go WIDE for 10 seconds and then back to NARROW.
217:39:48	Evans	Okay. There's WIDE. Looks like that did it.
217:40:24	CC	Okay, Ron. The HIGH GAIN looks good; and, on the film - it's your option on that magazine. There's no scheduled usage.
217:40:33	Evans	Oh, okay, thank you.
217:40:36	Schmitt	Okay, you want PAN CAMERA POWER, ON, now?
217:40:40	CC	That's affirm. We're ready now.
217:40:46	Schmitt	Okay, it's ON.
217:43:07	CC	Okay, America. We'll take PAN CAMERA POWER OFF, now.
217:43:17	Schmitt	Okay, it's OFF.
217:43:38	Evans	The landing site?
217:43:39	Evans	No, the optics are up in the air all the time on this SIM bay stuff.
217:43:52	Schmitt	Houston. Areas in the landing site where we now know there are extensive blocks of the subfloor material, particularly in the walls of the larger craters, I have the impression that those block fields, from this altitude, give a light bluish-gray appearance.
217:44:22	CC	Roger, Jack.
217:44:31	Schmitt	I don't know how far we could extrapolate that in other craters, but we might start trying a little bit.
217:44:38	CC	Roger.
217:45:31	Schmitt	Following that a little bit farther, looking into Dawes, the lower talus slopes of Dawes have about the same hue and are overlaying the first by a zone that's producing - or several ledges that seem, to be producing white talus and then above that is the - or make that very light-gray talus - and above that is a tan-gray talus slope that carries right up to the rim of Dawes. So, there are three distinct major stratigraphic units showing up in the talus slope in Dawes that I can see.
217:46:20	Evans	Jack, can you see any holes in the - square holes in the floor of Dawes, there?
217:46:25	Schmitt	Wait a minute. No, I was, I guess I was talking about the crater northeast of Dawes - Let me check Dawes with the same sequence.
217:46:36	Evans	No. Dawes is the little one down there. That other one is - -
217:46:39	Schmitt	Okay, take it back again. That was Dawes I was talking about.
217:46:41	Evans	Yes.
217:46:44	Evans	Jack, you using the binocs?
217:46:50	Evans	Yes, I talked about Dawes already but - No, those aren't holes down there, those are just great big - great big blocks that have fallen off the side of the mountain. Side of the - Okay.
217:47:16	Schmitt	Okay, between the tan gray and the very light gray there may be another thin and possibly intermittent zone of a - just a plain, apparently gray unit forming in the talus slope.
217:48:16	Schmitt	And the crater to the southeast of - southwest - excuse me, of Dawes - large crater, I'll get the name in a minute, you see the lower bluish-gray unit and - and the next white unit or light-gray unit up, but the brown-gray unit is not nearly so evident at the top. In fact, I didn't really say I could recognize it there at all. I'll have to check that one, though. Put a query by it.
217:48:59	CC	Roger.
217:49:00	Evans	That's Bessel you're talking about. Yes. The top of Serenity?
217:49:06	Schmitt	No, no the one back.
217:49:08	Evans	Oh, Plinius.
217:49:10	Schmitt	Plinius?
217:49:10	Evans	Plinius is that rough-looking one. Yes.
217:49:13	Schmitt	Yes. That was Plinius I was talking about.
217:49:24	Evans	Oh, Yes. ... the oranges. Yes.
217:49:36	Schmitt	And, the next large - well, it's not large - not as big as Dawes, it's a reasonable-sized crater that to the west, the talus is largely just white debris on the slope of it. But, it doesn't look like it penetrated nearly as deep as the other two we're talking about.
217:50:23	Evans	Ah, Menelaus? Tacquet is the one that is out - right underneath us right now. And then Menelaus is right on the edge of the Serenitatis Basin before you get to the Haemus Mountains.
217:50:37	Schmitt	Okay, looking at Menelaus, you can see where the dark - the edge of Serenitatis goes through the crater. And, the north wall is quite distinctly grayer to - let's say, bluish-gray, than the south wall, which is light - very light gray in the talus. My guess is that it's a very nearly vertical contact at that point.
217:51:14	CC	Roger.
217:51:17	Schmitt	At least that's the way the talus suggests it, but talus does move vertically.
217:51:50	Schmitt	Looking at the depression with all the color streaking in the talus on the walls - there - I'll say again, that the more red-looking unit, or talus, is coming from below the orangish-gray material. But it is not a continuous horizon, at least not so far as the talus indicates. It's local spots that are giving the reddish color.
217:52:29	CC	Okay.
217:52:40	Schmitt	Gordy. That particular depression doesn't look like it's an impact-generated depression at all.
217:52:50	CC	Roger.
217:53:02	Evans	You know, we sure got to look and see if those things still look orange tomorrow. Because, yesterday, Stoney looked kind of orange there - on the northeast rim but it sure doesn't today - Shorty, yes. It pays to learn the names of all those craters you guys named down there.
217:53:29	Evans	Oh yes. I know quite a bunch of them.
217:53:38	Evans	Hey, we'd better, hadn't we. Black and - D-Caldera is what I called it.
217:53:47	Schmitt	Yes, Ron's D-Caldera - I'm just correlating apparent colors now, or hues. And, the lighter-colored material there is comparable in hue to the subfloor color at the landing site.
217:54:21	Evans	The first one's f/32 at 1/500. Tobias Mayer.
217:54:35	Evans	... A window.
217:54:37	Schmitt	Window 5-
217:54:37	Evans	Window 5? Okay.
217:54:39	Schmitt	What's the frame count ... surface?
217:54:42	Evans	Count is 55 now on Romeo Romeo, Houston. No, not until we come up to Tobias, just before Tobias Mayer.
217:54:50	Cernan	Be able to pick that up there about - -
217:54:51	Evans	On the other side of Copernicus.
217:54:59	Evans	Right after 218. Okay.
217:55:06	CC	Roger that, Ron.
217:56:42	Evans	(Cough)
217:56:53	CC	Ron, this is Houston. Do you want any help from me calling the f/stop changes on this P66 run? Or do you want to do it onboard there?
217:57:06	Evans	Why don't you give me a little help there. Just kind of reminders? So to f/ll about Tobias Mayer, I guess, and, then -
217:57:19	CC	Okay. Then f/8 and a 1/250 is at Brayley D.
217:57:30	Evans	Yes, right.
217:57:34	CC	Are you shooting pretty much straight down or out in front, on this one?
217:57:43	Evans	Let's see. We're pretty much straight down on this one.
217:57:49	CC	Okay, I've got a real-time plot of your longi - or your - yes, longitude here. So I can call right on longitude.
217:58:00	Evans	Oh, okay. Yes, I started before Tobias Mayer.
217:58:20	Evans	There goes - What's there? Eratosthenes, okay.
218:01:36	Evans	Yes, about right in here it's a good place.
218:03:14	Schmitt	Okay, Houston, back to talking about colors a little bit. It looked as If lower talus is more - -
218:03:20	CC	Hold 1, Jack. It's about time for f/ll - -
218:03:24	Schmitt	Go ahead.
218:03:25	CC	... Ron.
218:03:28	Evans	Okay, f/ll at 1/500.
218:03:31	CC	That's affirmative.
218:03:33	Schmitt	Euler is - lower is blue-gray and the upper is a very light gray, from the talus slope up to the rim.
218:04:06	Cernan	Houston, I can just start to see the peaks of Euler now - exposed in the central peak - the tops of them exposed in the sunlight, and it looks like there's massive quantities of large boulders on the - on the peaks.
218:04:21	CC	Roger, Gene. Okay, it must be about time for f/8 and 1/250.
218:04:45	Evans	f/8 at 1/250, okay? That's my little "C" - crater chain down there. Looks like a cinder cone chain. Right (cough) between Tobias Mayer and Euler.
218:05:16	CC	Roger.
218:05:45	CC	Okay, try f/5.6 and 1/25.
218:05:54	Evans	5.6 at 1/25. Is this the last - -?
218:05:57	CC	Last setting, right, and you should finish up there at Tobias Mayer W.
218:06:05	Evans	Okay.
218:06:10	CC	Or a little beyond.
218:06:34	Cernan	Houston, the MAPPING CAMERA is coming OFF.
218:06:39	CC	Roger.
218:07:07	Evans	Okay, Houston. We ended up on frame 80, magazine RR.
218:07:14	CC	Okay, Ron.
218:07:29	Schmitt	Okay, Houston, MAPPING CAMERA - STANDBY, now. IMAGE MOTION is OFF and LASER ALTIMETER - OFF.
218:07:40	CC	Roger.
218:10:10	Schmitt	Houston, what do you read our GLYCOL EVAP TEMP as? I tapped the gauge up here and got a little bit of upward jump in temperature. Just curious how much a hang up it was.
218:10:24	CC	Stand by. Okay, we show 66 EVAP out TEMP.
218:10:33	Schmitt	That's exactly what it jumped to. Okay.
218:11:04	Cernan	Gordo, I'm interested. How have you been reading me most all day today? I've been on lightweight headset, all the time.
218:11:13	CC	I'd say you're fine, since I've been on. Let me check you the rest of the day.
218:11:22	Cernan	No, it would be the same all day. You're - you're as good a data point as any. I haven't really tried to make ajay effort to talk into the mike or anything, I just been talking around it, and If you're satisfied, I'm happy.
218:11:39	CC	Okay, sound gooded (sic) all day. No cutout or anything - no problem.
218:11:48	Cernan	Okay.
218:17:25	Cernan	Houston, America. The canister's changed.
218:17:30	CC	Okay, Gene.
218:19:34	Evans	I think you can stand by for some small torquing angles on this one. Right within the center of the sextant.
218:19:44	CC	Okay.
218:21:04	Evans	Well, I did get 5 balls that time; but, that's not bad.
218:21:09	CC	We'll buy that. Well, the Z-axis here looks pretty good, anyway. You're clear to torque.
218:21:31	Evans	(Laughter) Okay. We'll torque at 21 - I missea 30 - Let's go to 21:45.
218:21:41	CC	Okay.
218:26:13	CC	America, Houston. Request the H2 TANK 2 FAN, ON. Over.
218:26:25	Evans	Okay. H2 TANK 2 FAN is ON.
218:26:28	CC	Okay, and the waste water dump that you'll start after LOS should take 11 minutes, if you want to set your kitchen clock. Also a reminder, this time after LOS we go to REACQ. Over.
218:26:51	Evans	(Laughter) Okay. Thank you. Will do. We'll go to REACQ.
218:29:03	Schmitt	Houston, the IR/UV COVERs are CLOSED.
218:29:06	CC	Okey-doke.
218:33:45		BEGIN LUNAR REV 67
218:34:34	PAO	This is Apollo Control. Apollo 17 now going behind the Moon on it's 66th revolution out of radio contact. The crew is scheduled to begin an 8 hour sleep period about 2 hours from now. The next revolution will be a rather quiet one. The crew is scheduled to eat prior to completing final checklist items before going to bed. And we do anticipate having a change of shift press briefing, which will start at around 12:15 to 12:30 a.m. in the MSC news center briefing room. At 218 hours 35 minutes this Apollo Control Houston.
219:11:03	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 219 hours 11 minutes. Change of shift news conference is ready to begin in the MSC News Center Briefing Room. We're 5-1/2 minutes away from acquisition of signal on the 67 revolution. We'll tape and play back any conversation after the news conference.
219:16:52	CC	Hello, America; Houston. Glad to have you back.
219:16:59	Cernan	Well, we got a good one for you, Bob. Not too good, but - in the midst of other things, we let the waste water go to zero on that dump. As a matter of fact, it went past zero. And the ... is starting to fill up again, and the best we can tell onboard, that - it shouldn't disturb anything, but you might take a good look at it.
219:17:18	CC	Okay. We've got our moon beside me taking a look at it.
219:17:23	Cernan	Okay. How are you doing tonight?
219:17:26	CC	Not too badly. I'll have you know, it's clear down here. We saw the Moon for the first time since launch day, and it's getting bright. It looks like you must be somewhere over the terminator on Imbrium.
219:17:36	Cernan	Is that right?
219:17:37	CC	First time we've seen the Moon since launch.
219:17:40	Evans	Oh, we just - Oh, it's beautiful. Your weather has been that bad, huh?
219:17:46	CC	That's affirm. Fog and drizzle and rain and rain and rain.
219:17:53	Schmitt	How much older do you feel, Bob?
219:17:56	CC	About 1 day. Okay. And, America, we'd like H2 TANK 2 FANS, OFF. H2 TANK 2, OFF.
219:19:14	Schmitt	They're OFF.
219:19:20	CC	And, America, as you can tell from the Flight Plan, we aren't expecting too much from you guys this rev. And we aren't expecting to send up too much to you guys either. A reminder that we won't be asking Gene and Jack for their PRDs tonight, but we certainly would like them in the morning. So you might take that into consideration. And we'll be sending you a few up-links there as per the Flight Plan at 220, both the state vector and the EMP 523. We also have a clock update for you - that we'll send up, and it's a 0.04 seconds; so it's another biggie.
219:19:56	Cernan	Okay, Bob. We'll make an effort to get those PRDs. We can get one of them, probably, without too much trouble. But if it's a case of restowing both those suits to get the second one, we're not going to get it until EVA day. I'm sorry, but that's it.
219:20:16	CC	We copy that. I guess they're back stored in the L-bag, huh?
219:20:22	Cernan	Yes, sir.
219:20:25	CC	Okay. And we'll want the onboard read outs there at the bottom of the page, just before you go LOS, And I might pass up one little piece of news - very local news here - concerning us members of the Orange Team. We're all extremely proud that you and Jack chose to call the soil you found the other night, while we were on shift, the Orange soil because we take it as an obvious honor for the Orange Team to have been on shift at that point.
219:20:55	Cernan	Bob, you know our intent was certainly well meant. We certainly are glad you appreciate it.
219:21:06	Schmitt	I detect a certain amount of skepticism whether it's really orange, though.
219:21:13	CC	It looked orange on Ed's TV.
219:21:19	Cernan	Did it really? Could you see the color enough?
219:21:22	CC	Well, so did the blue ocean on the Earth, and so did the white suits and everything else; but they looked orange on Ed's TV anyway.
219:21:35	Schmitt	Is Ed on tonight?
219:21:40	CC	We don't have any - No, we've seen the two - only two charges for the day. We don't have another charge for, I guess, about another 24 hours or so.
219:22:21	Cernan	I think I understand.
219:22:24	CC	Roger. Ed is on the Orange Team, however.
219:22:30	Cernan	Bob, I would like a word from you, though, as to whether or not you think there is going to be any problem with that waste water dump to zero as I said. We don't, after looking at it.
219:22:41	CC	No, we aren't expecting any problem. They're looking at it. They're kind of amused, but they're looking at it. And I'd like to pass up to you fellows, it's - -
219:22:54	Schmitt	... an interesting.
219:22:56	CC	Go ahead.
219:23:00	Cernan	All right. Nothing, Bob.
219:23:04	CC	Okay, I might also tell you fellows, in case nobody told you yesterday, that we tracked the LM on ascent for 30 seconds. Beautiful pitchover. And we saw you going away from us after pitchover for 30 seconds. It came out quite well.
219:23:24	Cernan	Yes, sir. We heard that. Good. I guess I was able to find 102 at 0.1
219:23:43	CC	In fact, Ed calculates that you were 480 feet-480 feet - from the lens. As they say, too far is better than too close.
219:23:57	Cernan	Well, I was just going to say I cheated a little bit. I made two stops and backed up a little bit out there.
219:24:04	CC	You backed up, huh? That's another first, isn't it?
219:24:10	Cernan	No, I didn't back up that time. But I did back up.
219:24:15	CC	We heard that one at Station 7 - yes, 7, wasn't it?
219:24:23	Cernan	No, that was somewhere during EVA-2, I can't remember where.
219:24:54	Evans	Houston, frame numbers 40 through 43 are timed sequences of the waste water dump as we were in the sunlight.
219:25:13	CC	Okay. I copy that one.
219:26:09	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 219 hours 26 minutes. We are in contact with spacecraft, America and have accumulated a few minutes of tape. We'll play that now.
219:27:01	Cernan	And, Bob, just give us a call when you want the computer.
219:27:05	CC	Okay. It's about another half hour or so, I guess, when we're ready. It will be about 220. And, a reminder, we got - at 220 there we're going to go LASER ALTIMETER, ON and the IR and UV COVERS, OPEN as per your Flight Plan there.
219:27:21	Cernan	Yes, sir. I got LASER, ON and IR and UV, OPEN.
219:27:24	CC	Right.
219:34:17	PAO	This is Apollo Control. We're back live now.
219:35:27	Cernan	Hey, Bob, while it's sort of quiet, anything of a news worthy - or noteworthy news happen today?
219:35:37	CC	Okay. Stand by on that. From my recollection this evening, there really wasn't anything; but I'll check. Did you guys get a news briefing this morning?
219:35:50	Cernan	Yes, we did.
219:35:54	CC	Okay. We got some news coming over, and we'll have it here before you go around the hern. Might just, while things are quiet also, pass up to you that, if you run out of the command module film. there, you do have two - You've got some LM surface film left, as I'm sure you're aware. And two mags in particular, which look fine to us, are mag Barabara and mag Karen. Barabara has 500 frames of CEX, and Karen, 100 frames of black and white. Excuse me, 50 frames, not 500, of CEX. And 100 of black and white. These mags have never been fit checked on the command module cameras; but we believe that they will, along with - as long as we take precaution because the locks don't work the same, ... on the command module on the LM cameras, number 1. And number 2, the focus won't be quite as good as on the - with the LM cameras. However, it will be satisfactory. So there's 150 frames there you might want to take advantage of in those two mags. We think those are in Romeo 2 - stowage Romeo 2.
219:37:09	Cernan	Yes, yes. We've already inventoried those. And we've got our hands on them. However, we - Bravo is empty. We used it coming up in the rendezvous and docking.
219:38:03	CC	And just in case you got some left over, I want to shoot some of that black and white on the Moon. We got some instructions for you, which we can call up in real time, if you want to do it -different exposures. The CEX will be the same, of course, as the CEX that's in the command module.
219:38:21	Schmitt	Okay. Bob, what factor on the black and white would you use?
219:39:24	CC	Okay. Jack, if you use them, use the same chart you have onboard for the CEX, but you cut the shutter speed by a factor of 2. So it's - for instance, you'd use a 1/500 instead of 1/250 -and so forth. Over.
219:39:44	Schmitt	Okay.
219:41:27	Cernan	Say, Bob, I don't think - At least I haven't heard anything concerning the home front for about 4 days. You haven't, by any chance, had any contact, have you?
219:41:42	CC	As a matter of fact, I haven't. And Gordy didn't talk to them tonight. And - in fact, Gordy and I talked about it on one of your - when we were doing the changeover, and I thought, well, it doesn't look like an opportune time to call up and find out right now. If you like, I can. I'm not sure whether they're still up or not; or I can leave instructions for Overmeyer in the morning to round people up and see what's going on. I'll - I'll make sure Overmeyer does it in the morning.
219:42:09	Cernan	No. Don't worry about it, Bob. I was just curious I - No news is as good as good news.
219:42:17	CC	Yes, that's my presumption. I kind of thought the daytime people would have taken care of that. It's not the best time in the morning to call up right now. I'll make sure Overmeyer calls in the morning and checks on it.
219:42:46	Cernan	Gordy gave us a briefing on the SIM bay and on the lunar surface experiments. And it sounds like all that good liaison work you did paid off. Sounds like most everybody is pretty satisfied.
219:43:02	CC	As far as I can tell, that's right. We - we try there, fellow.
219:43:13	Cernan	We thank you.
219:43:19	CC	What can I say? We thank you guys, too.
219:54:18	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 219 hours 54 minutes. 38 minutes remaining in this pass. The crew is eating at the present time. America's orbit now 65.4 by 62.3 nautical miles.
219:59:21	CC	Okay, America; Houston. We're ready for a little action there in the SIM bay.
219:59:24	Evans	... is on.
219:59:25	CC	Copy that. You just beat us by a minute. And if you guys will give us - -
219:59:29	Cernan	It's already on, Bob.
219:59:30	CC	Roger. And if you guys will give us the computer, we'll send those updates to you.
219:59:40	Evans	Okay, you have the computer.
219:59:42	CC	Okay. And if you guys want to sit and listen, I'll broadcast you what's possibly the world's shortest newscast.
219:59:54	Cernan	Both covers are open and gray, Bob.
219:59:56	CC	Okay. We copy that.
220:01:07	Schmitt	Go ahead, Bob, on the news. We were waiting for you.
220:01:10	CC	Oh, okay. I was waiting to see if you guys were ready to listen to it. The first item - which has been a continuing item here during the flight. In Kansas City, former President Harry S. Truman's condition continues to deteriorate as doctors are unable to restore his vital kidney functions. On the Paris peace talks scene, there has been essentially no apparent further developments today. It continues about the same. And in New York, police are red-faced, it says, when it was learned that more than 50 pounds of heroin originally seized way back in 1962 - this is part of the French Connection business - has been stolen from the police building where it was being kept as evidence. And a last local news item. Three prominent Houston men are missing. They were last seen in person at Cape Kennedy in Florida on December 6 but were apparently lost among the 500,000 people who watched the launch of Apollo 17 The following appeal, it says, is issued in case they are listening: "Gene, Jack, and Ron, - come home. And if you pass a fellow with a bushy white beard and crimson suit, advise him you'll be home before Christmas." That's the extent of the news.
220:02:29	Schmitt	We saw him the other morning briefly, Bob. And all four of us will be around at the right time.
220:02:37	CC	That's good news. We'll pass it on.
220:05:38	Schmitt	Bob, I've got some on-board readouts if you want them.
220:05:40	CC	Okay. We're ready to copy.
220:05:47	Cernan	I'll just give them to you - okay - I was going to say - I don't know if you've got - yes, in order: 36.7, 37, 37. RCS is 68, 61, 65, and 66.
220:06:04	CC	Okay, we copy that, and we'd like a battery manifold pressure reading. That's 7-A on the selector down there. Seven Alfa.
220:06:59	CC	And, America, the computer is yours again.
220:07:08	Schmitt	Bob, 7 Alfa is 1.4.
220:07:12	CC	Copy, 1.4. And did you copy the computer is yours?
220:07:19	Cernan	Yes, sir. We got it.
220:18:08	CC	Okay, and, America, we'd like to configure our H2 tanks for the night. TANK 1 to OFF, TANK 2 is already OFF, and we'd like TANK 3 to AUTO.
220:18:29	Evans	Okay, Houston, you've got TANK 1 is OFF, TANK 2 is OFF, and 3 is AUTO.
220:18:35	CC	Okay, thank you.
220:22:00	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 220 hours 21 minutes. Clock shows 11 minutes 13 seconds before loss of signal on this revolution. However, because of the pointing angle of the high gain antenna on the spacecraft, which is now configured for the rest period, we anticipate an early LOS, perhaps 5 minutes prior to the clock time.
220:23:32	Schmitt	Houston, 17.
220:23:33	CC	Roger, 17. Go ahead.
220:23:37	Schmitt	Roger. As you - we approach having earthset, you night be interested to know, being an astronomer, Bob, that we're getting a very bright specular reflection off the Earth now from the Sun that produces - reproduces the Sun's image quite well.
220:23:55	CC	Very good. And we're about, between 4 and 5 minutes from losing track of you guys tonight, and you're GO for LOS and GO for sleep and we won't be saying anything more to you coming around the horn, but we'll be up listening to you though. But we'll consider you guys as going to sleep on the back side. Over.
220:24:19	Schmitt	Okay. Well, we're moving in that direction, partly to get the cabin cooled down. And we'll probably talk to you in the morning, before very long.
220:24:29	CC	Okay, well then, open the windows to get it cooled down too much, there.
220:24:32	Schmitt	By the way - Okay.
220:24:46	CC	And while you guys are sleeping tonight, you might be glad to know that the old Orange Team will be sitting around the fireplace here and they'll all be singing Christmas carols.
220:25:00	Cernan	That I believe.
220:25:08	Schmitt	Is Stan serving coffee to you?
220:25:16	CC	We're holding out out for egg nog tonight.
220:25:19	Cernan	Well, good night, Robert.
220:25:21	CC	Good night, Geno.
220:25:22	Schmitt	Well, that would be appropriate, I don't - you know - I think it's about time they treated the MOCR to something.
220:25:35	Evans	Good night, Robert.
220:25:37	CC	Good night, Ron. Say good night, Dick.
220:25:43	Cernan	Good night, Dick. And we'll see you in the morning, I guess, Bob, if you're still around. If not, we'll see you tomorrow about this time.
220:25:54	CC	Okay, and by then you'll be headed home.
220:26:00	Cernan	Yes, sir. And if my homefront's listening, I just want to say good night and sleep tight.
220:27:36	Evans	Bob, that's the most beautiful crescent Earth I've ever seen.
220:27:44	CC	It's a nice place to come home to, guys.
220:28:51		BEGIN LUNAR REV 68
220:30:13	PAO	This is Apollo Control, we have had loss of signal on the 67th revolution. The crew of Apollo 17 preparing for an 8 hour rest period now. That rest period to begin at 220 hours 30 minutes, about - less than, well, about right now as a matter of fact. All systems on the spacecraft operating normally. We will be monitoring the spacecraft through out the night while it is on the front side of the Moon, although we do not plan to talk to the crew on the next pass, we'll come up hourly during the rest period with status reports. At 220 hours 30 minutes, this is Mission Control, Houston.
221:37:00	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 221 hours 37 minutes. Apollo 17 is in the 68th revolution, coming up over the landing site at Taurus-Littrow very shortly. We've had no conversation with the crew since loss of signal on the 67th revolution, their rest period starting at that time. All spacecraft systems are performing well, 6 hours and 42 minutes remaining in the rest period. At 221 hours 37 minutes, this is Mission Control Houston.
222:37:00	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 222 hours 37 minutes. All still going well with Apollo 17 now behind the Moon in its 68th revolution. 5 hours 42 minutes remaining in the crew's rest period. At 222 hours 37 minutes this is Mission Control Houston.
223:37:00	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 223 hours 37 minutes. The spacecraft, America is orbiting the front side of the Moon in it's 69th revolution. Flight controllers are monitoring systems and all are performing well. The ultraviolet and infared experiments are being performed during this rest period of which 4 hours and 42 minutes remains. At 223 hours 37 minutes, this is Mission Control Houston.
224:37:00	PAO	This Is Apollo Control at 224 hours 37 minutes. The Command Module America is behind the Moon at this time in its 69th lunar revolution. All systems looked good as they were monitored here prior to loss of signal. The crew is asleep with 3 hours 42 minutes remaining in this rest period. On awaking, the crew will continue to perform orbital science experiments and photography until approximately 5:30 p.m. Central Standard Time today when the translunar insertion burn will be made and America and its crew will be on the way back to Earth. Approximately 30 minutes ago an attempt to turn on the lunar surface television camera was unsuccessful. The reason the camera did not respond to ground commands is not known at this time and another attempt to activate the camera probably will be made later today. At 224 hours 38 minutes this is Mission Control Houston.
225:37:00	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 225 hours 37 minutes. Command Module America is on its 70th lunar revolution and in a few minutes will be over the Taurus-Littrow landing site. The crew is still asleep with 2 hours 42 minutes remaining in this rest period. About 5 minutes ago, a second attempt was made to activate the television camera on the lunar surface, again, without success. Another attempt may be made later today, and probably one attempt a day will be made for the next several days. At 225 hours 37 minutes, this is Mission Control Houston.
226:37:00	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 226 hours 37 minutes Apollo 17 is behind the Moon on its 70th revolution. Flight Director, Neal Hutchenson and the Gold Team are preparing to relieve Flight Director, Pete Frank and the Orange Team at this time. There will be no change of shift News Conference. The crew has been in a rest period since shortly after the Orange shift came in for flight control duties. One hour, 42 minutes remaining in the crew rest period. We've had no conversation with the crew since the rest period began and all spacecraft systems are operating normally. Attempts at approximately 5:00 and 6:30 AM to turn on the lunar surface television camera were unsuccessful. The reason why the camera failed to respond to ground commands is not known. And further attempts to activate the camera will be made. At 226 hours 38 minutes this is Mission Control, Houston.
227:37:00	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 227 hours 37 minutes Ground Elapsed Time in the mission of Apollo 17. Spacecraft America now about a third of the way across the front face of the moon in revolution 71. Forty two minutes remaining until the crew is wakened. Some 50 minutes until the spacecraft passes behind the moon. In other words the wake-up call will be made some 8 minutes prior to loss of signal on this front side pass. And the crew will start their preparations for a fairly busy day of orbital science tasks and photography. And the transearth injection burn late this afternoon. Presently the spacecraft is in a 61.8 by 66.1 nautical mile lunar orbit. Current velocity 5,344 feet per second. We'll bring up the air-ground circuit just prior to the wake up call and follow the balance of the day's activities live and as they happen. And at 221:38 - 227:38 Ground Elapsed Time this is Apollo Control.
228:09:00	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 228 hours 9 minutes Ground Elapsed Time, less than a minute away from wakeup, and 19 minutes away from the time the Spacecraft America passes behind the Moon nearing the end of revolution number 71. Current Orbit 66.1 at apocynthion and 61.8 pericynthion, those are nautical miles. We'll stand by here as we wait for the wakeup call from the spacecraft communicator, Bob Overmyer. And whatever the music selection is this morning, which is becoming tradition for wakeup. We'll standby here for wakeup call.
228:11:01	CC	(Wakeup Music "Come On Baby Light My Fire").
228:13:58	CC	Good morning, America.
228:14:47	CC	Good morning, America.
228:15:38	CC	Good morning, America, and we'd appreciate HIGH GAIN to AUTO so we could talk to you all the way through LOS.
228:15:49	Cernan	Okay. We've got to get the guy on watch up here in a minute.
228:15:56	CC	Time to put your feet on the floor and a smile on your face and face another day in lunar orbit. The last one.
228:16:08	Cernan	They're there, but our fellow on watch is still asleep.
228:16:12	CC	Roger. Would you like to play the music again to wake him up?
228:16:19	Cernan	Apparently it has no affect. Good choice, though.
228:16:26	CC	We're going to light your fire today, babe.
228:16:31	Cernan	Okay, let me try to get AUTO without waking him. Stand by.
228:17:54	Cernan	Hey, you better play the punch line of that song again. Nobody believes you did it.
228:18:25	CC	Gene, just before we get the lunar sound - say again - before we get the recording going again, just remember you'll have to go MANUAL then WIDE in a normal acquisition at AOS. And the angles on the dial are correct.
228:18:45	Cernan	Okay.
228:18:48	Evans	Hey, good morning.
228:18:51	CC	Sound a little groggy.
228:18:57	Schmitt	Good morning, Robert. How are you doing this morning?
228:19:01	CC	Things are great. Stand by.
228:19:06	Schmitt	Navy groggy, I think's what you mean.
228:19:18	CC	(Music: "Light My Fire")
228:19:48	CC	That's for the CMP. Do you believe it now?
228:19:54	Evans	Yes, I heard it that time.
228:19:59	Cernan	Beautiful, Bob. We're going to get your picture as you set this time. Right out number ...
228:20:23	CC	Is that from onboard?
228:20:29	Cernan	Say again, Bob.
228:20:31	CC	Did you have that tape onboard or is that just a back - But we've got the song again in our background here. Or do you all have that?
228:20:40	Cernan	No, we had it; and I think it's very appropriate for today. And that's exactly what we're going to do.
228:20:46	Evans	No, we didn't play it back to you.
228:20:48	CC	Okay, it's just ... comm - -
228:20:50	Schmitt	That was those other guys.
228:24:57		America, Houston. You've got about 3-1/2 minutes until LOS, and you're looking good. All systems look good to us. And have a good breakfast, and we'll see you on the other side.
228:25:11	SC	Okay, Houston, ...
228:25:55	PAO	This is Apollo Control. We've had loss of signal as Apollo 17 spacecraft, America, coasted behind the moon nearing the end of revolution number 71. A briefing on Apollo 17 lunar surface science will begin momentarily in the main auditorium - repeat, main auditorium at MSC. The briefing likely will last into the next rev at least. The air-ground communications will be taped and played back at the conclusion of the lunar surface science press briefing. And at 228:28 Ground Elapsed Time, this is Apollo Control.
229:13:14	CC	America, Houston. Realize you're eating and don't want to interrupt you, but if you get your headsets on, we'll give you some news.
229:13:25	Evans	Sound great, Houston. We'd appreciate that.
229:13:25	Cernan	Go ahead, Bob, we're listening to you.
229:13:26	CC	Okay, let's give you the really important news first. Went around the horn here, and over in Nassau Bay, everybody's doing real fine, and it looks like Tracy's going to go out and visit one of our bigger amusement centers around the country and going to have a great day. And everybody just looking forward to the EVA and the deorbit and the splash. Out in El Lago - everybody's fine out there, Ron. And John's out selling Christmas trees today and Jaime's going to go out shopping with her aunt sometime today and - a little Christmas shopping - it's getting near that time of year. And one of your friends from Phoenix is due in today, for the rest of the mission, I guess. And out in Tucson, it was a little early this morning, Jack, but everybody's up and about and I talked to your mother, and everybody's fine. She's getting anxious to go back to Silver City and see all the celebration. I guess those people out there are really enjoying it and really getting wild about it. But everybody's fine all the way around, all the way around.
229:14:34	Cernan	Thank you. Bob.
229:14:36	CC	Okay, we'd like REACQ and NARROW.
229:14:38	Schmitt	We're fine up here and I'm sure you told them that.
229:14:42	CC	Oh, I didn't have to tell them that. They're listening. They heard everything already this morning - at all three places.
229:14:51	Cernan	Well, we send our good morning on our last wakeup day from the Moon.
229:14:57	CC	Okay. Here is a summary of the late news as compiled in the MSC Public Affairs Office. if you'd like it, we're ready to go with it.
229:15:09	Schmitt	Okay, we'd love to have it. Go ahead.
229:15:11	CC	Okay, everyone - everybody is talking about the success of the Apollo 17 mission here in Houston, and the weather. It was cold this morning. Some thermometers in the Houston metropolitan area were in the mid-20's. The lowest official temperature for the city of Houston was 31. I might add Ellington had a record 29. A huge high pressure system is dominating the midsection of the nation. Barometric pressure reached a high of 30.7 in the Houston area this morning at about 5:00 a.m. With strong gusty winds, the chill factor was a 5 above in Houston, and about a minus 10 degrees in Galveston. Man, that's cold. The national Christmas tree was lighted last night in Washington by Vice President Spiro Agnew. A small crowd, braving cold and rainy weather, watched, as the Vice President threw the switch to light up the 70-foot spruce that came from Medicine Bow, Wyoming. During the ceremony, Mr. Agnew said we must remember the many servicemen who are missing in action or prisoners of war in Indochina and pray for them this holiday season. North Vietnamese peace talk negotiator Le Duc Tho has told newsmen he is very optimistic about prospects for an early cease fire in Vietnam. Before leaving Paris, Le Duc Tho said he will remain in very close contact with Dr. Henry Kissinger. Dr. Kissinger is in Washington. A Paris radio station has said a peace pact signing is imminent, tut the report has been denied in Washington. Former Treasury Secretary John Connally says he expects to get a call from President Kixon shortly to carry out some foreign visits this coming year. One assignment nay be a visit to Moscow. John Scaii, a former newsman from A3C and a special consultant to President Nixon, is expected to be the next U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. a formal announcement from the White House is expected in a few days. An explosion has taken the lives of 21 men in West Virginia. The blast occurred at a steel-making complex near Weirtown, West Virgina, on the Ohio River. President Nixon has given the green light for a pay raise for all Federal employees. The across-the-board increase of 5.14 percent will benefit both civilian and armed forces personnel. A 747 jumbo jet, while taking off out of Miami International yesterday, went through a flock of birds and reportedly lost - had an engine go out. The pilot turned the aircraft around and went out over the Atlantic and burned down some fuel and landed at Miami, but skidded off the runway, hit a concrete culvert, and sheared the nose gear. A few passengers fainted, but only 4 were injured when they went down the slide. The unexpected always deserves some attention. The small community of Westwood, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City, will send back a check it has received from the Federal government in the Federal-revenue-sharing program. Major Joe Dennis said Westwood just didn't need the money. On the regional and local scene - I just might add - I see it's not here, that President Truman's condition seemed to deteriorate some last night, but he is still not listed on the critical list, he is serious. Miss Ima Hogg, the 90-year-old founder of the Houston Symphony, was honored at a gala birthday party last night and cake-cutting ceremony at the symphony. And little Tomball, Texas, has had police trouble, but nearby Pasadena doesn't seem to have any. Thirteen new pretty policewomen have just joined the suburban police force out in Pasadena. And Jack, here's a special for you. If you ever get tired of cracking rocks, why not try politics? A geologist, J. Leonard Davidson, is going to run for mayor of Houston during the 1973 election. And we also received word this morning that an elementary school in Silver City, New Mexico, is being renamed for their most illustrious graduate. It will now be the Harrison H. Schmitt Elementary School in Sliver City, New Mexico. A couple new college coaches have been named- Dave Smith has been named the new coach of Southern Methodist. Up in West Lafayette, Indiana, a veteran coach has been named to improve football fortunes at Purdue. Alex Agase, former head coach at Northwestern, will take over the Boilermakers. Kent Nix is expected to get the nod as starting quarterback for the Oilers against the Cincinnati Bengals in the final game of the year. Pastorini is still out with a pulled hamstring muscle. The Houston Rockets dropped their basketball game with the Baltimore Bullets last night by a score of 94 to 91. Purdue beat Western Kentucky last night 91 to 75. Friendswood High School was eliminated last night in the Class II-A semifinals as they bowed to Boling at Rice Stadium 33 to 7. And a final in the news today, Marian Rice Hart, the 8l-year-old American aviatrix, says she has at least two more years left for flying. Mrs. Kart is currently flying around the world in a singleengine Beechcraft Bonanza. She is presently in Katmandu, India. That's all from Editor Jim Kukowski here. A special hello from the Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network crew around the world.
229:20:39	Cernan	Thank you, Bob, and our hello and thank you to the tracking team. We sure have been able to work well with them, and communications have been super.
229:20:54	CC	That's real great. I'm sure those words will be appreciated up at Goddard, and around the world, of course.
229:21:02	Cernan	Well, like a lot of other people - you know -you can't do it without them.
229:21:36	Schmitt	Bob, this is Jack. My appreciation and thanks, for an unnecessary honor, to Silver City.
229:21:42	CC	Roger, I'm sure they're listening out there, and just glad to do it.
229:28:20	Evans	Hey, Houston; America. How do you reao. now?
229:28:57	CC	Read you loud and clear, Ron.
229:29:00	Evans	Okay, I've got the Commander's menu for you.
229:29:03	CC	We're listening.
229:29:05	Evans	Okay, day 10, spiced oat cereal, mixed fruit, cinnamon toast and bread cubes, instant breakfast, tea, grape juice, and bacon squares, vitamin. For lunch, frankfurters, two pieces of bread, catsup, orange drink, and a package of pecans. Okay, for meal C, turkey and gravy, orange juice, and lemonade. Okay, for the medical log - commander's - 17052, 5 hours of very good sleep, no medication, and three cans of water. Okay, for the old LMP. Food: cinnamon toast and bread, instant breakfast, coffee, fruit cake, grape drink, peach ambrosia. Meal B, frankfurters, one piece of bread, orange drink, sugar cookies, grape drink, and coffee. Meal Charlie, turkey and gravy, caramel candy, and orange juice. Okay, LMP medical log - the old PRD is still at the bottom of the sack down there. Had about 5 hours of sleep, no medication, and two cans of water. Okay, the Command Module Pilot had to eat: spiced oat cereal, mixed fruit, instant breakfast, coffee, grape punch, cinnamon toast and cubes, brownies, vitamin. For lunch, four frankfurters, two pieces of bread, catsup, chocolate pudding, grape drink, coffee. Meal C, turkey and gravy5 chocolate bar, orange beverage, and pork and potatoes. Okay, CMP medical log -15050, about 5 hours of sleep, pretty good - once I got to sleep. For medication, two sniffs of nosedrops, each side, prior to retiring, and four cans of water. Over.
229:32:43	CC	Roger, Ron; we got all that.
229:32:49	Evans	Okay.
229:32:54	CC	Ron, could I jog your memory a minute back to the HF antenna extension period after docking?
229:33:06	Evans	Go ahead. We'll try.
229:33:08	CC	Roger, Ron. We've been chasing a data dropout glitch and we just wonder - trying to cover all bets. When you were extending HF ANTENNA 1, could have you gone to operate on the immediate switch next to it, which is the LUNAR SOUNDER switch which was right next to 1? Could you have gone to OPERATE for a minute or 2 without realizing it while your hold - holding 1 to EXTEND?
229:33:37	Schmitt	Stand by, Bob. Which extension anomaly are you talking about, the one prior to rendezvous?
229:33:45	CC	No, the one after rendezvous and docking when we were putting them - they're out now and when we put them out - when we were putting them out and were extending HF ANTENNA 1, the LUNAR SOUNDER OPERATE switch is immediately next to it, and I realize HF ANTENNA 1 is a momentary switch. When you were holding it there, could you have gone to OPERATE on that LUNAR SOUNDER switch?
229:34:07	Schmitt	Bob, I don't think so. I - no. No, I don't think so.
229:34:13	CC	Okay, we'll keep track of that.
229:34:14	Schmitt	I would have had to - I would have had to been gone - I would have had to been gone to the OFF position too, I guess, right after that, and I think I'd remember that.
229:34:29	CC	Yes, that's affirm. You would have had to go to OFF, there. And I didn't feel it, but Joe needs - you know we got a data glitch - it's nothing serious - no problem - but they're just back there trying to track down all little glitches and that - that seemed to be the only thing that could add up right now.
229:34:44	Schmitt	Sure, I - I understand. I understand. Yes.
229:34:50	Cernan	Hey, Bob, have you had any more charge firings on the surface?
229:34:58	CC	I don't believe so. When I came on shift, they mentioned that the LCRU wasn't working right now, and they were trying to work it.
229:35:15	CC	Okay, just for an update, we fired 6 and 7 last night and we'll be firing 1 at about 1 o'clock this afternoon.
229:35:25	Schmitt	They all went off okay, huh?
229:35:27	CC	Yes, and 4, 1, and 8 go off today. And we're seeing good results, Jack, on all the data.
229:35:40	Schmitt	Okay, has Bob Kovach gotten any depth to the debris cover or to anything below it yet?
229:35:53	CC	Let me check that out before I give it to you, piecemeal here. We'll check it out.
229:36:44	Schmitt	I realize that's pushing a little bit, but I'm curious.
229:40:06	Schmitt	Bob, how do you read 17?
229:40:10	CC	Read you loud and clear, Jack.
229:40:14	Schmitt	Okay. I'm looking right down the slope of the South Massif, above the slide right now - right down at the - just about the angle of the slope. And there's a very slight indentation in the slope, just opposite the maximum - the point of maximum extent of the dark - light mantle. Opposite other portions of it, though, it - there's no clear indication of any change in the direction of the Massif - front. It's very, very slight, and I'd say you'd have a hard time saying that it - that it is a source area for the light mantle but it's - there's a slight indentation there.
229:41:11	CC	Roger.
229:41:15	Schmitt	Bob, just north of the - of the bright-rayed craters in the Littrow area, there are five craters - oh, probably in the thousand meter diameter class range, 500 to 1000, and all five of those have the sequence of colors in the walls, from rim down, of a brown-gray - blue-gray and then brown-gray. They are all identical in that sequence and quite clear.
229:42:04	CC	Roger.
229:42:04	Schmitt	And that blue-gray is comparable to the blue-gray that's visible in the craters such as Sherlock in the landing area. And along the graben, in the vicinity of those five craters, there is a series of very black spots, I'm going to have to look at again on the next pass, if we can. I don't have any idea what those spots are, but I'm looking very obliquely now to that graben and it's extremely - black spots along that graben.
229:42:49	CC	Roger.
229:50:42	CC	Ron, NOUN 26 doesn't require a sign.
229:50:49	Evans	Thank you, Bob.
229:50:54	Cernan	I've heard more about this P20 on this side of the tunnel this mission than I ever could have.
229:51:02	CC	Roger. Looks like you guys are ready to go to work.
229:51:12	Cernan	Well (laugh). Yes, we are. We're ready to do anything you want to do.
229:51:18	CC	Okay, we need ACCEPT. Got you a CSM state vector.
229:51:27	Cernan	Okay, sock it to us.
229:51:31	CC	Okay, it's on its way. Going down the Flight Plan, we've got a Flight Plan update If you're ready to copy. It isn't too awful long, although it's not the easiest one.
229:51:43	Cernan	Go ahead, Bob.
229:51:47	CC	Okay. At 230:20, 230:20, add the following: "LASER ALTIMETER, OFF; LA, OFF."
229:52:01	Schmitt	Just keeping pressing on, Bob. I'll get then and let you know if I get then. all.
229:52:05	CC	Okay. At 230:20, "LASER ALTIMETER, OFF." At 230:29, add "Verify all VHF, OFF." At 230:31, delete "WASTE WATER DUMP." At 230:40, scratch out "LMP" and put "CDR don biomed harness." Just put "CDR" in place of "LMP".
229:52:41	Cernan	Hey, that was a Flight Plan update we passed on yesterday. I've got those.
229:52:46	CC	Okay, just keep going down the line here. At 231:29, change "Check LMP biomed" to "Check Commander biomed. And change "CDR doff" to "CMP doff". Okay. And the computer's yours, by the way, you can go back to BLOCK. And this is the one important one here. We want to make sure, and I'll explain a little bit. Over at 232:27, 232:27, "If LUNAR SOUNDER, OPERATE, talkback flag goes barber pole, switch LUNAR SOUNDER, OPERATE, to STANDBY." The situation here is that it might run out of film during this lunar sounder HF target on Hertzsprung. If it does, we need to go to STANDBY immediately, and we - it'll probably require somebody monitoring that panel during that 5-to-6 minute pass there. Our best guess is -
229:54:04	Cernan	Okay, Bob.
229:54:05	CC	Our best guess is we've got a 5-minute pad on that film, but this is just a precaution. And at 233:13, after "PAN CAMERA, POWER," add "V/H OVERRIDE, HIGH ALTITUDE." Okay. That ends the Flight Plan update. I've got a lunar sounder pad.
229:55:24	Cernan	Okay.
229:55:28	CC	Okay, lunar sounder pad is at 230:55, 230:55-T-start time, 231:00:00; T-stop time is at 07:58.
229:55:50	Cernan	Is that everything, or you got a couple more sounder pads?
229:55:53	CC	That's trie only sounder pad for now.
229:55:59	Cernan	Okay, if - Let me just run it back through you to make sure I got them right.
229:56:07	CC	Go ahead.
229:56:12	Cernan	Okay. At 230:21, you want the LASER ALTIMETER, OFF. At 230:30, you want to verify all the VHF is OFF. And we want to eliminate the waste water dump at 230:31. The sounder pad on that page is 231:00 and 231:07:58. At 232, following LUNAR SOUNDER, OPERATE, for that pad, if the OPERATE talkback goes barber pole, we want to switch the LUNAR SOUNDER5 OPERATE, to STANDBY, and we'll be monitoring the panel during that time. And at 233:12, following PAN CAMERA to POWER, you want V/H to HIGH ALT.
229:57:07	CC	That's a good readback, Gene. I have a TEI-75, preliminary TEI-75 PAD for your Update Book.
229:57:28	Cernan	Stand by a second.
229:58:20	Cernan	Go ahead, Bob.
229:58:22	CC	Okay, that's preliminary TEI-75, SPS/G&N; 36372; plus 0.63, plus 0.86; 236:42:08.58; NOUN 8l: plus 3040.3, minus 0183.3, plus 0080.4; l80, 000, 000; HA is not applicable; plus 0023.0; 3046.9, 2:25, 3029.2; sextant star is 06, 109.5, 30.0; boresight, and that is not applicable. NOUN 6l: minus 17.89, minus 166.00; 1047.2, 36172; GET of 05 G is 304:18:36. Over on the comments line, Sirius and Rigel; 136, 071, 035. Four jetts, 12 seconds on the ullage. I've got two assumptions or rather two other comments. This pad assumes TEI REFSMMAT. Comment 2: With the liftoff REFSMMAT which you have in, it'll be roll, 179; pitch, 088; yaw, 359. Over.
230:01:18	Cernan	Okay, Bob. TEI-75. preliminary: SPS/G&N; 36372; plus 0.63 plus 0.86; 236:42:06.58; plus 3040.3, minus 0183.3, plus 0080.4; 18O, all zeros, all zeros; HA is NA; plus 0023.0; 3046.9, 2:25, 3029.2; 06, 109.5, 30.0; boresight is NA; minus 17.89, minus 166.00; 1047.2, 36172; 304:18:36. Sirius ana Rigel; 136; 071; 035. Four jet, 12-second ullage. Assume TLI REFSMMAT. If lift-off REFSMMAT, attitude is 179, 088, 359.
230:02:30	CC	Real good readback. No problems. Got a consumable update here for you on RCS update. We're right On the Flight Plan: we've got 56 percent remaining. And the O2 and H2 are basically right on the Flight Plan and we've got plenty remaining - no problem on that. And for the Jack - for Jack, for the LMP, I've got a special Flight Plan update on your crew option photo target on Tsiolkovsky. Would you like to copy that?
230:03:10	Schmitt	Stand by 1.
230:03:48	CC	And we'd like HIGH GAIN to AUTO.
230:04:07	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. What's this update?
230:04:11	CC	Okay, Jack, at 232:55 this is the LMP crew option photo target Tsiolkovsky.
230:04:23	Schmitt	Go ahead.
230:04:24	CC	Okay, they're recommending CM-5 to EL 80 or 250 - I guess your option. HBW - maybe I should have used VHBW. I'll check that out, but HBW is what they've got here. Exposure from crew option photo chart as listed, except change 1/250 to 1/500 for the 80-millimeter lens. Change 1/125 to 1/250 for the 250-millimeter lens. Recommend use lunar surface mag Kilo Kilo. That's use lunar surface mag Kilo. Record frame number for start-stop.
230:05:19	CC	Okay; and I've been corrected. That is HBW. That's one of those surface mags that I guess I don't know anything about. And we would like cryo tank configuration, H2 TANK 3 FANs to OFF; H2 TANK 2 FANs to ON. Over.
230:06:17	Schmitt	Okay, you've got that. And the photo pass on mag Kilo, be the 80- or 250-millimeter lens; HBW exposures as per chart except change 1/250 to 1/500 for the 80 and 1/125 to 1/250 for the 250-millimeter lens.
230:06:39	CC	Roger, Jack.
230:06:40	Schmitt	And record the frames.
230:06:44	CC	Good show.
230:09:38	Schmitt	Bob, just had a good view of the sunset and the corona, and there are two strong, bright streamers just right at sunset, one parallel to the plane of the ecliptic and the other - oh, maybe 10 degrees to the south of the plane. And they form two of the major, longer, du - duller streamers that are streaming out from the Sun now. There are some other linear streamers that are still visible, but those were the major ones. Once you get out about to the position of Mars they all have about the same intensity - which is very low.
230:10:35	CC	Roger.
230:10:38	Schmitt	The pattern is distinctly different from the one I believe I mentioned to you yesterday, sometime.
230:10:44	CC	Roger.
230:10:44	Schmitt	It was right at sunset at any rate.
230:10:50	Schmitt	Still have a very strong glow visible at the sunset point.
230:10:55	CC	Roger.
230:10:55	Schmitt	And that glow - the - the general glow visible to me now - and of course I'm not very well light -adapted - dark-adapted - but, extends about to a position - oh, let's see - about the same distance from the Sun as the apparent distance of Venus - between Venus and Mars right now. Well, let me - let me start over on that. The apparent distance from Venus to Mars is about the same distance as from Mars to the limit of the strong solar glow.
230:11:38	CC	See the NOUN 05 - -
230:11:38	Schmitt	Bob, when I'm talking about streamers, I'm talking about lin - Say again.
230:11:44	CC	I said, "We see the NOUN 05." Go ahead, Jack.
230:11:48	Schmitt	Okay, I just - when I talk about streamers, I'm talking about each time - very linear bright lines that extend - oh, maybe two or three crate - solar diameters out. And then they merge quite sharply into these very long much duller - streamers that - I guess presumably are zodiacal light.
230:12:18		Roger, Jack. We see the NOUN 93; you can torque.
230:13:48	Cernan	Okay, we're torquing at 45, now. Bob, we'll go ahead and torque at 230:14.
230:13:56	CC	Roger.
230:23:06	Schmitt	Okay, Houston, are you through with the high gain now?
230:23:10	CC	Stand by on that. We've just gone around the horn and you're looking real good. Looks like we'll have AOS at 231 about 8 or 7 - right in there. And we are now through with the high gain - -
230:23:23	SC	... we are - we're reconfiguring now. Okay.
230:24:43	CC	America, Houston. We didn't see the mapping camera go off. Did you get that one off?
230:24:50	Cernan	That's affirm. We've got MAPPING CAMERA OFF, Bob.
230:24:53	CC	Okay. Thank you. And your AOS time is updated a little bit - -
230:24:58	Cernan	We've got them all now, We're coming up - -
230:24:59	CC	- - it's 210:11 - 230:11. Try another one, 231:11.
230:25:10	Cernan	What's at 231:11, Bob?
230:25:12	CC	That's your AGS time. It's a little bit later than what the Flight Plan shows.
230:25:19	Cernan	Okay, fine. Thank you.
230:25:23		BEGIN LUNAR REV 73
230:37:00	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 230 hours 37 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. That completes the 72nd revolution front side pass on a delayed playback. Spacecraft America coming around on revolution 73 in 32 minutes. We'll bring the line back up at that time. And at 230 hours 38 minutes this is Apollo Control.
231:09:52	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 231 hours 9 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. Fifty seconds away from acquisition of signal as America, Spacecraft America comes around the front side of the moon on revolution #73. We'll stand-by as we wait confirmation from the network controller of acquisition of signal. Some initial transearth injection figures coming up later today around 5:33 Central Time. The tentative ignition time for transearth injection is ground elapsed 236:42:08 for posigrade velocity increase of 3046.9 feet per second. Total burn time of 2 minutes 24 seconds on the service propulsion system engine - and we've had acquisition of signal from America. We'll stand by now, for resumption of communications as the spacecraft becomes electronically visible to the tracking stations on Earth.
231:11:31	Evans	Houston, this is America.
231:11:35	CC	Hello, America. You're a little scratchy down here. We'll pick you up there shortly.
231:11:42	Evans	Okay. We'll stand by until then.
231:11:46	CC	Oh, that's all right. Go ahead. We can near you.
231:11:52	Evans	Okay. That last lunar sounder pass got an extra 40 seconds on the film - 40 seconds on the last end of it.
231:12:05	CC	Okay.
231:14:18	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. This is America.
231:14:21	CC	Go ahead.
231:14:24	Schmitt	Okay, Bob, I was over there on the right side and I hit the FUEL CELL 1 REACTANTS switch for about half a second and got it back on again. It looks okay here.
231:14:44	CC	Roger. We copy that.
231:17:55	CC	America, Houston. If you're reading us loud and clear. I'd like to give you a lunar sounder flight - sounder pad here at 231:21.
231:18:13	Cernan	Okay, Bob. Go ahead.
231:18:15	CC	Okay; it's at 231:21, the lunar sounder T-start time, 231:26:18; T-stop, 50:33.
231:18:41	Cernan	Okay, I got that. Thank you. You happy with the biomed on the CDR?
231:18:51	CC	We won't know until we get the high gain here at 21.
231:18:58	Cernan	Okay.
231:20:33	PAO	This is Apollo Control, for those news men in the MSC news center who want to watch their television monitors they can see a playback of explosive package number 7 if they'll watch the lower left corner of the monitor you'll see a brief glow and then dims out again and that's all there is to see, we'll roll the video tape back through at this time.
231:21:03	Evans	Houston, America.
231:21:07	CC	Go ahead, Ron.
231:21:11	Evans	Okay, here. I was just looking at the Wright Brothers Crater as we were going through there again. And the outer - crater rims on that thing are kind of like the one - ... about rev 62 in the picture, but the outer rim - is sloping in the opposite direction from the normal crater, or something. In other words, the steep slope is on the outside of the rim, and you have a gradual slope up to the - you know, from the center of the crater, you've got a gradual slope up to the rim, and then it drops off to the steep slope on the outside. And the steep slope on the outside is maybe - oh, 35 to 45 degrees. The slope on the inside is probably - somewhere around 20 degrees - would guess. And there is one portion of the rim - kinda of on the western portion of that one that I was lookmg at, anyhow, it's almost a delta-shaped ring.
231:22:15	CC	Roger, Ron. We're ready for the high gain. If somebody can bring it up, we can read you better.
231:22:39	CC	How do you read, America? You're sounding great now.
231:22:47	Evans	Okay; looks like we've got you.
231:22:49	CC	Real good. Go ahead, Ron.
231:22:57	Evans	Okay. I was just kind of reminiscing a little bit about the - my mud puddle craters there in Smythii. I guess that's what I can term them or call them - that's what they always kind of looked like to me. But - they slope up. But the rims of those craters and even the interior rims on ones that are multi-ringed, they slope upward from the center of the crater toward the rim, and a gradual slope, and then they drop off on the outside of the crater rim, sloping down from the outside crater up to 45 degrees. And then at some points on there, it almost looks like it's a real classic delta-shaped rim on them, where you have the same slope on the inside as well as the outside of the crater.
231:23:59	CC	Roger, Ron.
231:24:09	Cernan	Houston, you ready for mode VHF?
231:24:11	CC	That's affirmative.
231:24:19	Cernan	VHF.
231:25:27	Evans	Okay; 50 seconds to LUNAR SOUNDER OPERATE, okay? RECORDER is ON; RADAR's ON; we're in VHF, okay. Be a VHF pass. And what time? 26:18. Okay; 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 -
231:26:22	Evans	MARK it. SOUNDER to OPERATE.
231:27:21	CC	America, be advised. Gene, your biomed looks good.
231:27:32		Thank you, Bob.
231:29:17	Evans	Okay, Houston, frame 163 and 164 and 165 were taken of the mud craters in Smythii. And 166, I guess, was taken of the great slopings - side of the crater in Crisium. That's just south of Yerkes.
231:29:49	Evans	That's mag November November. Oh, wait a minute. That's Gene's crater, isn't it?
231:30:33	CC	America, Houston.
231:30:37	Evans	All right, go ahead.
231:30:38	CC	Ron, we did not get the HIGH GAIN to NARROW. We have sequence for you which is important to go through so that we do not break lock and lose this lunar sounder VHF data. We would like you to dial in PITCH, minus 45; YAW 5. Go to MANUAL and WIDE. And when you get the signal strength, go to REACQ and then step to the BEAM, NARROW, MEDIUM, and WIDE, or, say again, WIDE, NARROW, MEDIUM.
231:31:13	Evans	Okay, I'm with you. Okay, I got minus 45 on the PITCH, plus about 5 on the YAW - -
231:31:22	CC	That should be minus 45 on the PITCH.
231:31:27	Evans	Isn't that what I said? That's what I got. Minus 45. And plus 5 on the YAW, right?
231:31:34	CC	Affirmative. And we're ready for you to do it. Go ahead.
231:31:38	Evans	And we're going to MANUAL and WIDE.
231:31:55	Evans	How's that?
231:31:57	CC	That's great; we didn't drop any. That's great.
231:32:02	Evans	Okay.
231:32:09	Cernan	Hello, Bob.
231:32:10	CC	Go ahead.
231:32:14	Cernan	Okay, this is Gene. I've got a - a very interesting crater out in Tranquillity I'd like to pass some info on for you - to you on. It's about in the central part of Tranquillity. It's got a very sharply raised lip, and it's got some very dark - rough rimmed deposits. It's got a - a very, very obvious ... furrow, looks like it's elongated, basically to the - generally to the east and to the west. I can't tell, but because of the shape of it, and because of those a ... darker rim deposits I'm sure there must be a vent there somewhere, but it's too dark down in there. I can't really see for sure whether there is one or not. But, if there is, I imagine it's pretty big. And I can't tell., it's only sort of intuitive, but I imagine the elongation was produced during the thrust of the initial dynamics, the formation of the impact.
231:33:24	CC	Roger, Gene. Do you have a scale on the size of the crater?
231:33:37	Cernan	Stand by 1 and let me look.
231:34:01	Cernan	Bob, yes, I may have said Tranquillity. I meant Fecunditatis. I did not mean Tranquillity.
231:34:09	CC	Copy.
231:34:29	Cernan	Bob, I'll have to give you an estimate on the - on the relative size of it, but the length-to-width ratio is probably about 2 to 1, and it - it's certainly bigger than the Camelot size range.
231:34:43	CC	Roger. That's good. Just wanted to pin it down for you.
231:34:48	Cernan	... might be able to pick it out. Okay.
231:35:04	CC	And whoever's got the Flight Plan in their hand, I've got a lunar sounder pan which is at 232:20 and a pan camera pad, which is at 233:20.
231:35:16	Cernan	Okay, Bob. I'm keeper of the left-hand side plus the manager of the Flight Plan. here, so pass it up.
231:35:24	CC	Okay. Lunar sounder pad. T-start time, 232:26:11; T-stop time, 34:18.
231:35:51	Cernan	Okay, 26:11 34:18.
231:35:54	CC	Okay, pan camera photo pad, which is over at 233:20: T-start time, 233:24:07; T-stop, 38:42.
231:36:15	Cernan	233:24:07, 38:42.
231:36:19	CC	Roger. Good copy.
231:41:00	CC	17, just for your information, it's Miami 3, Baltimore noth - about mid-way - nothing - they're about midway through the first quarter, and Miami's making an effort to go undefeated today.
231:41:15	Schmitt	It's the last game of their season, isn't it?
231:41:17	CC	That's right. This will be the undefeated season if they hack it.
231:41:56	Evans	Houston, America. I think I mentioned - a couple or 3 days ago that - however, when we first got up here - that I had a heck of a time seeing that Tycho ray that goes out across Bessel. And I forgot to tell you that yesterday, kind of for the first time, it really started showing up when we were getting up in the higher Sun. And today, it really shows up quite vividly. It's just a ray that takes off from the edge of Crisium and goes right across Bessel and goes out to about the middle of Crisium - I don't mean Crisium, I mean Serenitatis, I was talking about Serenitatis all the time.
231:42:34	CC	Roger.
231:42:52	Schmitt	Say, Bob. Those craters on the south-western side of Serenitatis still have got that orange hue at this Sun angle, and that's with the naked eye.
231:43:03	CC	Roger. These are the ones right in the Sulpicius Gallus region?
231:43:17	Schmitt	Yes.
231:44:42	Evans	And, Houston; 166 and 167 were taken of a crater that looks like it's got a reddish dike in it and it's on - in the - again in the Haemus Mountains to the west of Sulpicius Gallus.
231:45:01	Schmitt	Houston, a little more on that. It's an impact crater with a line essentially across the diameter in a east-west direction, maybe a little bit north of west direction and the ejecta to the north of that - just went under us - the ejecta to the north of the line is the orange - actually more red-brown than orange, although there are both hues in it - -
231:45:32	CC	Roger, Jack. Can you give us some scale on that crater?
231:45:32	Schmitt	- - looks similar to - Yes, it's about a 600-meter crater. And it looks very much like - in it's geologic pattern to the - that crater out in the Nevada test site on Buckboard Mesa that had an explosion along a contact between two very sharply contrasting rock types. In this case, however, the line does not go completely across the crater, and that's why we feel it may be a dike or a vein which fortuitously has been hit by that impact.
231:46:25	CC	Okay; can you give me a little relationship with respect to Sulpicius Gallus, the crater?
231:46:32	Schmitt	Yes, I'll try to spot it in a minute.
231:46:34	CC	Okay, why don't you just mark it on your map so for pre - postflight we'll have it.
231:47:40	Schmitt	On the - somewhere around - I'll try to spot it more exactly - on the 20 north latitude line and about 7 east on a ridge. It's right on top of a ridge. I think it's that ridge. I'll try to spot it more exactly later.
231:48:01	CC	Okay.
231:49:37	CC	Ron, you're less than a minute to LUNAR SOUNDER STANDBY T-stop time.
231:49:44	Evans	Okay, we're on it, Bob. ...
231:50:53	CC	And, America, just a reminder. When you're powering the SIM bay, up here again, the mapping camera laser altimeter cover is already open and the mapping camera is already extended.
231:51:05	Cernan	Okay. Thank you.
231:51:25	Cernan	Okay, Bob. We'll just eliminate those last two steps, is that correct?
231:51:30	CC	That's affirmative.
231:51:34	Cernan	Okay. You still want MAPPING CAMERAS, STANDBY, up there in the fourth step?
231:51:39	CC	That's affirm.
231:52:04	Cernan	Okay, Houston. The SIM bay is powered up. We eliminated the last two steps.
231:52:12	CC	Roger. Thank you, Gene.
231:52:34	Cernan	Okay, Houston. I guess you saw those - we got through those procedures and you probably saw most of the switching. Sorry, I should have been in VOX.
231:52:44	CC	No problem.
231:53:22	PAO	This is Apollo Control we're going to repeat the playback of the video tape of the explosive package number 7. Down in the - This will be the final time it will be played back. If you'll look in the lower left corner behind a slight ridge, you'll see a glow part way through the playback. Let's watch the playback now.
231:55:38	Schmitt	Houston, this is 17.
231:55:42	CC	Go ahead.
231:55:47	Schmitt	One of the questions we asked ourselves years ago, when we mapped the Copernicus area, was were we really seeing dark mantling deposits on some of the massifs of the Carpathians, and looking at it obliquely here, it - some of those areas that we've mapped as dark mantling are distinctly brownish gray versus the normal tan gray of the - of most of the Carpathians. It looks like - and it's about the same color as - extrapolating - as the dark mantle around Sulpicius and Taurus-Littrow.
231:56:37	CC	Roger.
231:56:41	Schmitt	Also, the north boundary of the Carpathian Massifs has a very sharply defined high lava marks - and if that's actually what we're seeing. And in - I'll mark the place on the map, but it looks like it extends about a sixth to an eighth of the way up the highest peak. It's quite a striking and obvious mark. There's a major textural change - below the mark of a little scarp that defines it, the texture is very smooth. Above that it has the lineated and typical mountain front texture for the Apennine - for the Imbrium range.
231:57:36	CC	Roger.
231:58:59	Schmitt	Bob, I might summarize my impression of the rilles in the vicinity of Euler and their relationship to the mare ridges. I've been able to, over the last day - just generally searching it out, I've been able to find rilles that clearly cross and separate portions of ridges. And ridges that clearly cross and partially bury rilles. And in another third case of a rille that appears to be levied - that is, have banks of - flat banks on either side, but near the end of it, it transitions into a mare ridge, very clearly. It looks as if, to me, that the rille and ridge problem in here is just one of repetitive compression and extension within the surficial flows of the Imbrium Basin. And that possibly during the compressive stages, there were extrusions locally along the ridge system, but in the main part, the ridge systems do represent, I think, a doming it looks like just a doming of the mare surface except for these local ridgelike extrusions.
232:00:31	CC	Roger.
232:00:32	Schmitt	I might also add that the rilles, to me, seem to be made up of zigzag straight line segments rather than being truly sinuous. They appear sinuous because of the rounding of the corners, but in - my impression is that they're really made up of straight line segments.
232:02:44	Evans	And, Houston, on mag Victor Victor - Oh - well, I'm on number 28 now, and the last ones before 28 there were taken of the spacecraft sunset terminator.
232:03:02	CC	Roger, Ron. Jack, we just had a feed-in to your answer to your question from ALSEP. The PI has not seen enough data at this time to draw any conclusions regarding the depth of the mantle in the landing area. And we've got another bomb charge due to go off here in about - a short time; let me check it.
232:03:29	Schmitt	Okay, I'll wait until we get back. Thank you.
232:03:34	CC	Roger.
232:03:56	CC	That next charge goes off in 15 minutes, Jack. I don't have an exact GET yet.
232:04:09	Cernan	Bob, is the LCRU still working?
232:04:18	CC	Say again, please.
232:04:23	Cernan	Bob, this is Geno. I was just wondering if the LCRU and the TCU were still working?
232:04:30	CC	They think the LCRU failed last-night.
232:04:49	CC	Gene, they are going to try it again today, but they could not get a - raise it last night and they think it failed.
232:05:00	Cernan	Okay.
232:05:20	CC	We'd like AUTO on the HIGH GAIN, please.
232:14:55	Schmitt	Houston, 17.
232:14:58	CC	Go ahead.
232:15:03	Schmitt	Has Mark come up with a preliminary heat flow number yet or is he still equilibrating?
232:15:21	CC	We'll check that, Jack.
232:15:53	CC	Jack, nothing on that - the heat flow yet. It's still stabilizing, it'll be awhile before they get many data. But we're watching the data play out here on the TV screen. They just had another one of those charges go off and it really does rap the old heaters.
232:16:14	Schmitt	Excellent.
232:18:50	Cernan	Houston, MAPPING CAMERA is OFF; and the IR's OFF; PAN CAMERA SELF TEST, OFF; UV is OFF; and the DATA SYSTEM'S OFF; and SM/AC POWER is OFF.
232:19:24	CC	Okay, we - I think - We copy that configuration change there. We're about 6 minutes to LOS. Just - on the next pass, just be advised, we're going to change the HF antenna retract times to let them warm up a little bit more. We'll call you on that before we want the HF antennas retracted. And just an update, it's Miami 10 to nothing over Baltimore at the half.
232:19:52	Cernan	Okay, we'll stand by on a call on the retraction and got the score 10 to nothing.
232:20:42	Cernan	Hello, Houston; America. When do want us to configure the DSE? Do you want us to wait a couple minutes?
232:20:48	CC	Roger. We'd like you to wait a couple minutes.
232:20:53	Cernan	Okay, we'll stand by for your call on DSE and the HIGH GAIN.
232:21:31	Evans	Houston, America; are you giving any odds on the time we might get the barber pole on the lunar sounder?
232:21:39	CC	We don't think you'll get it this group but that pad is now about a 4-minute pad. But it's getting so close I'd like to watch it.
232:21:49	Evans	Oh, Okay.
232:22:35	CC	America, if we should lose you before our published LOS here, check the DSE and when you get the barber pole, you can reconfigure. We're rewinding that tape now.
232:22:51	Schmitt	Yes, sir.
232:22:59	CC	Okay; it's all rewound. You can go ahead ana configure the DSE.
232:25:22	Evans	Say, Bob, what about us configuring high gain. We're getting close to T-start.
232:25:27	CC	Roger. Go ahead.
232:25:28		BEGIN LUNAR REV 74
232:25:39	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 232 hours 25 minutes Ground Elapsed Time in the mission of Apollo 17. Spacecraft America has just gone behind the Moon on revolution number 73 running the last lunar sounder pass in lunar orbit. The spacecraft will reappear again the start of rev - revolution 74 in approximately 48 minutes. We'll rejoin the conversation live when it resumes next revolution. And at 232:26 Ground Elapsed Time this is Apollo Control.
233:08:48	PAO	This is Apollo Control, 233 hours 8 minutes, Ground Elapsed Time. Starting front-side pass of revolution number 74 mission of Apollo 17. 40 seconds remaining until spacecraft acquisition by the antennas of the tracking network. Approximately 3 and a half hours until the spacecraft leaves lunar orbit for the trip back to Earth. To reiterate the current predicted times of and values of the transearth injection maneuver, ignition time currently estimated at Ground Elapsed Time of 236 hours 42 minutes 8 seconds. Burn time of 2 minutes 24 seconds for a velocity increase in posigrade of 3046.9 feet per second. We have Apollo 17 acquired on the high gain apparently right around the corner.
233:10:30	CC	Hello America. Houston is standing by.
233:10:38	Evans	Hey, America - Houston, this is America. We've got you loud and clear. A little late on picking you up that time, but worked okay. Okay, on mag Q, Quebec - it's finished right now, and whatever frame number it was on when they left the lunar surface to 143. Q? Oh, K. Mag Kilo, okay. Whatever frame they were on on the lunar surface to 143 were selected shots by the LMP. Frame 143 to 172 were near-side terminator photos of Tsiolkovsky.
233:11:34	CC	Okay, Ron. We copy that right from the Flight Plan change.
233:11:39	Evans	Okay. And PAN CAMERA to STEREO - Jack, ... help me get it. Verify STANDBY on STEREO. Okay, PAN CAMERA POWER coming ON. Oops, stand by here. Okay. V over H, HIGH ALTITUDE. Okay, PAN CAMERA to POWER. Okay, got the power. Okay, we've got a T-start coming up here at 24:07, 12 minutes. ... suppose that's what it should be ... yes, ... Tsiolkovsky. Let's see, Houston, America. I only have one pan camera pad here. is that correct?
233:12:44	CC	Let me see. We've got one sitting right in front of us for 233:40. Do you want that one?
233:12:59	Evans	I don't have that one.
233:13:01	CC	Yes.
233:13:01	Evans	I've got the one that starts at 24:07, and ends at 38:42.
233:13:07	CC	That's correct, and you don't have the other one because we never said it. We've got here ready to go.
233:13:14	Evans	Oh, okay.
233:13:17	CC	Okay, T-start time, 233:48:15; T-stop is 234:00:30
233:13:41	Evans	Okay, photo pad is - T-start is 233:46:15, T-stop is 234:00:30.
233:13:50	CC	Roger, Ron. And let me give you some words here that you might be interested in. Right now we're looking at probably pulling in those antenna at 233:45 or 46, right in that time frame. If those maneuvers - that should not work, we shall have to jettison the antennas at around 234:3 - 235:39. We have, and we won't give it to you until we need it. We have a VERB 49 maneuver to a jett attitude for 234:25, and that'll keep in that attitude and then we'll jettison the antennas at 235:43, and, of course, we'll have to bring up the logic power on those. We have this all available standing by and there's no sense passing it until we find out how the antennas do on RETRACT.
233:14:46	Evans	Okay, that sounds reasonable. Do you have the, cr you want to use, the page in the Experiments Checklist there?
233:15:11	CC	Roger. Except for the NOUN 78s. We'll change those.
233:15:17	Evans	Oh, okay. Sounds good.
233:15:33	Evans	It's in the Volkswagen pocket. Okay.
233:15:53	Evans	I don't think we ever changed it though. Okay, the arrow's there, which indicates that we didn't do it. Okay, LIOH canister change, 19 into A, take 17 and put it into A - A-4. That's correct.
233:17:16	Evans	At 24, we want the pan camera.
233:17:22	Schmitt	Bob, while we're waiting for the pan camera time, a quickie here. One of the ways that seems be useful for determining the relative age of the larger basins, to me anyway, is the abundance of block fields on the slopes of the walls or the slopes of the central peaks. That abundance decreasing with increasing age, and one of the comparisons that I just made that it looks as if Tsiolkovsky and Sklodowska have about the same abundance of - of block fields on both those features of the crater.
233:18:11	Evans	Okay, canister's changed.
233:18:12	Schmitt	They presumably then would be about the same age.
233:18:18	CC	Roger, Jack. I noted that.
233:18:26	Evans	Jack, to me, Sklodowska is lot more subdued, though, than Tsiolkovsky on the ... Oh, okay. It's ... criteria? Yes.
233:19:47	Evans	And, Houston, the northern most - I hate to use mud impact, but that's what I'll call it, multiring basin structure there and it also has a delta-shaped rim to it. There is kind of a moat between the inner ring and the outer ring and then it slopes, again a gradual slope from the center of the crater up to the first basin ring and with a steeper slope on the outside of the first ring going down into the moat. And then the outer ring has the delta - the delta-shaped rim to it.
233:20:26	CC	Roger. Ron, we copy that.
233:20:28	Evans	Okay, 4 minutes to - and, Bob, you'll keep us honest on this pan camera T-start, won't you?
233:20:39	CC	I sure will.
233:20:42	Evans	Okay; thank you.
233:21:30	Evans	And, Houston, Surgeons may be interestea to know CMPs blue bag number 5 was comparable to ground test number 3.
233:21:50	CC	Roger, Ron.
233:22:19	Evans	I think I should probably add a no problems note.
233:22:24	CC	Understand, no problems.
233:22:29	Evans	That's affirmative (laughter). The LMP would like to make a comment, but I won't let him.
233:22:47	CC	Things pretty miserable up there?
233:22:53	Evans	For a while it was.
233:23:03	CC	Ground test bag number 3 wasn't the one you had to drive in with, was it?
233:23:10	Evans	Yes.
233:23:27	CC	You're 30 seconds to T-start time on that pan camera.
233:23:33	Evans	Okay, PAN CAMERA to OPERATE at 07. Jack, I'll give you a mark on that.
233:24:04	Evans	Okay, 1, 2, 3, start at 7, 4, 5, 6 -
233:24:11	Evans	MARK it. Okay, stop will be 38:42. And, Houston, how would you like to have a VERB 74?
233:24:25	CC	Roger; we're standing by for it.
233:24:30	Evans	Okay, VERB 74 ENTER.
233:24:44	Evans	Now take a good - Yes, I got a picture of one of those with - that star is kind of a classic, I think. Can you get it? I can get it right here, a lot easier, Jack. Yes, that's all right, I can do it. Lay down beside it. There we go. That's 8 at 1/250; that'll be good. Okay, is that what we call Star? Okay, that's right, I didn't think this was Star. That's the one I was talking about having the polygonal base on it and it's west of Mare Smythii for sure. I don't know where we - directly south of - eastern edge of Fecunditatis. And that's frame number 14, I guess, of mag Papa Papa.
233:27:09	CC	Ron, if you'll give us ACCEPT, we'll give you your TEI REFSMMAT.
233:27:16	Evans	Outstanding. You have ACCEPT.
233:27:26	Schmitt	And, while we are getting a TEI REFSMMAT, there's a fairly striking graben on the very north edge of Fecunditatis, south of Crisium - just south of Crisium. And it starts in the west within the Fecunditatis Mare and then curves gradually up through the Sculptured Hills structure to the north. And, there's a crater, looks like a subdued impact crater, right on that structure, and you can see the trace of the graben down the walls - the west wall of the crater and up the east wall. And it does - from directly overhead, it appears to taper downward. The walls of the graben, that is, get closer together as it approaches the bottom of the crater. And on the south wall of the graben, as exposed in the west wall of the crater, there's a fairly sharp - sharply defined white area in the talus.
233:28:52	CC	America, the computer's yours; you can go to BLOCK.
233:28:59	Evans	Okay, we're in BLOCK.
233:29:12	Schmitt	With the old pan camera running, we probably can find that graben structure in there pretty well.
233:29:29	Evans	Yes, we ought to get some good pictures. It isn't quite as good that way, but you-do get some pictures anyhow.
233:30:24	Evans	That's what I was trying to figure out. Houston, what's that big crater we're going over right now in Fecunditatis? It's probably on your map - Yes, Taruntius, that's it. Yes.
233:30:40	Schmitt	Speaking of grabens again - how's our pan camera doing?
233:30:44	Evans	38, and we still got ...
233:30:47	Schmitt	Speaking of grabens again, on the southeastern blanket of Taruntius, about a crater radius outward, there's a crater looks like an impact also on a trace of a graben, and in this case the ejecta blanket that extends out along the graben both to the west and to the east is noticeably blue gray against the tan gray of the Fecunditatis or at least the Taruntius ejecta blanket. Basically, it looks like blue-gray wings on the crater along the direction of the graben.
233:31:47	CC	Roger, Jack.
233:32:04	Schmitt	Looking at the crater stratigraphy in the northeastern and northern portions of Tranquility, it looks as if you could say that there are blue-gray mare materials overlying very light gray material of some kind. And, without any strong exceptions that I've seen, and it resembles the same stratigraphy that I think I talked about yesterday on the annulus of Serenitatis and that goes alor.g with what I think Ron told you, that the visual appearance of the annulus and the northern Tranquility Mare, on the surface is indistinguishable .
233:33:02	Evans	Yes, that's right.
233:33:10	Schmitt	It also suggests that the mare in here's relatively thin if you're getting down to whatever the basement rock is, and that's being represented by the light gray. The ledges of the blue-gray material are high up in the crater ana really appear to form only about - oh, a fifth to a sixth of the wall height. And I'll give you a crater - There's a crater right between the two Cauchy rilles that shows this fairly well. And Ross Crater also shows it a little farther along, I remember from last time.
233:34:06	Evans	Cauchy Crater, isn't it?
233:34:06	Schmitt	Yes, Cauchy Crater is the one I was talking about that's between the two rilles. Actually, it's not as well defined in Cauchy as it is in seme of the other craters.
233:34:47	Schmitt	The western end of the Cauchy rilles, both north and south ones, seem to have a right lateral or echelon structure, but along the trace still to the west of the crater Cauchy that locally changes to left lateral.
233:35:26	Evans	And, Houston, even at the high Sun angle here, the ejecta of the - oh, four or five recent craters around Maraldi, still kind of a bluish-gray, light-bluish-gray. The floor of the crater Maraldi is essentially a dark - more of a dark gray today, I guess, than anything. And the ejecta patterns on that are the same albedo and color distinctions as the ones in the landing site. And, the landing site itself, from this angle, I think is going to - No, once we get up at the same viewing angle as we had on Maraldi , the mantling material in the landing site is the same color, same albedo as Maraldi.
233:35:58	CC	Roger.
233:35:58	Evans	... In the crater Maraldi.
233:36:52	Evans	Yes, I get just a tint or - yes, I was going to say, well no, I still get a feeling that there's just a twinge of the orange or tannish orange around Shorty looking at it with the binocs. What's that black bump on the sides - on the -Let's see, south of the southern side of the South Massif. Can you see that one, Jack? ...
233:37:38	Evans	Okay, we ought to be getting ready for P38. About another minute, Jack. PAN CAMERA to STANDBY. At 38:42.
233:38:36	Evans	Okay, 35 now and we want to stop it at 42. Okay.
233:38:44	Evans	MARK it. Okay.
233:38:48	CC	America, we'd like AUTO on the HIGH GAIN.
233:38:54	Evans	AUTO it is.
233:38:56	CC	Ron, the numbers on magazine RR show that you have nine spare frames and you will need nine frames there for calibration, so looks like you'll have nine frames on mag RR for whatever you want to use them on.
233:39:17	Evans	Okay, let's see now. We have just this next pass coming up here?
233:39:25	CC	That's affirmative, Ron.
233:39:26	Evans	... on 85 now. Okay, and Tsiolkovsky, we got those the last time with, on the LM mag is that correct?
233:40:37	Evans	Hey, Jack, we want to get D-Caldera to high Sun here too. And then, yes, and then the crater with the dike in it, because I think we probably should get those - Yes, Papa Papa, yes. And then as soon as you finished with those, we'll switch mags and I'll whip over there and take some terminator photos. Okay, let's see.
233:41:16	Evans	Hey, Houston, you sure you want to start retracting the antennas?
233:41:21	CC	Oh, stand by, Ron. Just to answer your question on mag Romeo Romeo, you can take it to an absolute number of 106 on the frame count, and the remainder must be used for calibration.
233:41:34	Evans	Okay, then 106 is far as we can go on that one. Okay. Thank you.
233:41:48	Evans	Fine. Okay.
233:42:02	CC	America, Houston. After we start the pan camera at 233:48:15, we would like then to go and 3tart to retract HF antenna number 2. Number 2 first, please.
233:42:18	Evans	Okay. As soon as I get the pan camera started, we'll go to retract on that.
233:42:48	Evans	Jack, are you talking about the one that's got the red ejecta out to the east? Yes. Right now. Just now looking down there, is that the one you were talking about? Okay. It's just now coming up. ... See. Okay, can you see D-Caldera? Okay.
233:43:34	Evans	Okay, I'll get it. Yes.
233:44:10	Evans	Let's see, we're almost at subsolar. Wait a minute, I don't know where we are. Right. We're way past subsolar. Yes, I think.
233:44:57	Schmitt	Okay, Houston, on Papa Papa frames - let's see, 13 and l4 were of the crater with the red, brown to orange vein across it, and 15 and 16 were of D-Caldera, stereo pairs.
233:45:30	Evans	See your dark slide, Jack.
233:45:44	Schmitt	And, Houston, I saw at least two other examples of impact craters in the highlands south of Serenitatis and south of - of the Sulpicius area that had vein-like distribution of red-brown or orange material in them.
233:46:10	CC	Roger.
233:46:21	Evans	And for terminator, but you want to handle the re-retract of the antenna? No, not yet. Soon we - at 48:15, go to pan camera to operate. Yes, and then we start retracting HF number 2.
233:46:45	Evans	Ouch!, I cut my finger on the dark slide. Boy, that son of a buck. Yes. That's right. Yes, we'll time it through to start with HF number 2. Be at 8:15, 47:15s 47 twice. And, let's see, where does this thing start? 52, I guess. No, 57.
233:48:11	Evans	Okay, 48:15, stand by. 11, 12, 13, 14 -
233:48:18	Evans	MARK it. Okay. And, Houston, HF antenna number 2 is going to RETRACT. 3, 1 -
233:48:30	Evans	MARK it. Barber pole.
233:48:43	Evans	They can do it down there. But in case ... Let's, see. I think they've been taking about 2 minutes, last time - I forgot for sure. Houston knows. How about long is it supposed to take to retract number 2 this time? (Laughter) Any guesses?
233:49:06	CC	130 seconds would be nominal retraction.
233:49:12	Evans	130, huh? Would be nominal. Number 2, yes. No, that's number 1 on your side.
233:50:09	Evans	That's the one - we had trouble getting it out, the second time, and finally did. Just took a long time to get out there. Yes, we were taking it out and in.
233:50:56	Evans	Gene, yes, we're doing this now, and we need a T-stop here, at this time - on the pan camera.
233:51:14	CC	How does the barber pole look up there, boys?
233:51:15	Evans	..., Gene.
233:51:19	Schmitt	It looks gray. Okay, ...
233:51:21	CC	Okay, that's a full retract.
233:51:24	Evans	Good. Beautiful.
233:51:29	Schmitt	Now you want to do number 1?
233:51:32	CC	That's affirmative and the time of the other was 1:55.
233:51:33	Schmitt	Shall I start on number 1 now?
233:51:38	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. Going to RETRACT on number 1.
233:51:43	Schmitt	MARK it. Barber pole.
233:51:47	Cernan	Okay, Houston. I get it visually going in.
233:51:55	Evans	Yes, it doesn't come in very fast, does it?
233:52:09	Evans	(Laughter)
233:52:51	Evans	Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes.
233:53:42	Evans	Oh, okay.
233:53:46	Evans	Boy, okay.
233:54:21	CC	America, Houston. Go to OFF on the switch where it's stall current. Do you have a barber pole or is it gray?
233:54:31	Evans	It was still a barber pole. And do you want number 2 OFF, also?
233:54:47	CC	Stand by, Ron.
233:54:52	Evans	Just asking.
233:54:56	CC	That's affirmative, Ron, number 2 to OFF.
233:55:01	Evans	Okay, number 2 is going to OFF, now?
233:55:06	CC	Okay, and the preliminary quick look shows a nominal retract on both of them, Ron.
233:55:13	Evans	Mighty fine. That's good. Although I was - had - getting the camera ready to take some pictures.
233:56:27	Evans	Well, look at the one down here by - You can pick linear segments if you want to on some of them. One long one that goes all the way across there now, it's got a bunch of - Well, this is a ... synthius [sic] one down right down here. Lock at this one. Right - right down there. See, just this side of that little - the short one.
233:57:59	Evans	Okay, give me a holler on that pan camera when it comes up because I'm going to be taking pictures here; f/8 at 1/250. Boy, it really shows up a flow from the Tobias Mayer area coming on out to - I don't know whether - is that the Bessel Rille or something like that? I don't know what that Rille is. I agree with you, Jack, in that whatever that rille is, that's running east and west there - made up of linear segments, except for the curves around the corner (laughter).
233:58:59	Evans	Yes, I think that's Prinz on up there just - Yes, see there. Can you get them back there?
233:59:07	Cernan	Yes.
233:59:07	Evans	Here, take it. Should - should be - Oh, the lowest one?
233:59:12	Cernan	Yes, on your right-hand side.
233:59:13	Evans	Oh, well, let me get these first then. Or - can you get those now?
233:59:17	Cernan	Yes.
233:59:19	Evans	Okay.
233:59:54	Evans	Here. I'll get the pan camera. That's the lowest one. Yes, that's the terminator, right on the terminator. I got something on it. Okay. Here. Need a hack here, Gene.
234:00:24	Evans	Okay? Okay, PAN CAMERA to STANDBY.
234:00:35	Cernan	You got it?
234:00:35	Evans	Yes. What's my frame number here? Oh, wait a minute. It's 105. We'll take one more picture.
234:00:49	CC	Ron, did you get the pan camera to T-stop?
234:00:53	Schmitt	Yes, sir. ... good, got it.
234:01:00	Evans	Frame 106. That's the last one we could use on this one.
234:01:09	Evans	Where - where's our stars? Let me take a look, can I? Oh, yes. Okay. Down in R-l.
234:01:52	Evans	Okay, let's see, we can take this one ...
234:01:58	Schmitt	Houston, in earth-light, we have a dim but good view of the Cobra's Head and Schroter's Valley and the Aristarchus Plateau. It's not as bright as it was the first night we were here, but still light enough to distinguish their outlines.
234:02:22	CC	Roger.
234:02:32	Evans	Okay. That's all the hoses coming from ... And, Houston, we're ready to go to RETRACK on the MAPPING CAMERA. Okay - -
234:02:46	CC	Okay , we're watching it.
234:02:46	Evans	- - 3,2,1 -
234:02:50	Evans	MARK it. Barber pole. Okay, we'll stand by on our cue for ... camera. Oh, okay.
234:03:25	Evans	Well, ... know how to do that.
234:03:42	CC	PAN CAMERA POWER to OFF, America.
234:03:52	Schmitt	POWER'S OFF.
234:04:03	Schmitt	Okay, LASER ALTIMETER'S OFF.
234:04:10	Evans	Okay, stand by for P52.
234:04:30	Schmitt	Okay, the MAPPING CAMERA COVER is going CLOSE.
234:04:33	Schmitt	MARK it.
234:04:35	CC	Negative, negative on that, please.
234:04:36	Schmitt	And, it's gray.
234:04:38	Evans	Hey, negative. Don't - Well, he got away with it.
234:05:00	Cernan	That's my fault, Bob. I thought that camera was already in, when you gave us a GO on that.
234:05:05	Schmitt	And I put it back to OPEN, and it went barber pole, then gray again, and it acted properly.
234:05:12	CC	Roger.
234:05:22	Evans	The MAPPING CAMERA'S CLOSED now. It's RETRACTED, I mean. Yes, we're okay.
234:05:39	Cernan	Houston, we'll stand by for your GO on closing the cover.
234:05:42	CC	Roger. Stand by.
234:06:15	CC	Ron, we'd like one test here. We'd like to take the MAPPING CAMERA TRACK switch to RETRACT and verify the barber pole stays gray.
234:06:37	Evans	Houston, it's in RETRACT right now or still is and has been all the time, and barber pole is still - I mean is still gray.
234:06:44	CC	Okay, you're clear to CLOSE the MAPPING CAMERA / LASER ALTIMETER COVER.
234:06:51	Evans	Okay.
234:07:00	Cernan	Okay, it's CLOSED, barber pole, then gray.
234:10:12	Evans	Ah ha, I recognize Sirius.
234:10:18	CC	Gave you another easy one, huh?
234:10:22	Evans	Yes, another easy one.
234:10:48	Evans	That's Regulus, I think. isn't it? 22. Yes, is that one - yes - Okay. The dot on the question mark.
234:11:30	Evans	It's a little hard to see, but I think that's it. (humming)
234:11:56	Evans	Yes, maybe I ought to do that one again. Yes.
234:12:13	Evans	Rigel, this time, okay?
234:12:58	Evans	(Humming) 21, Alphard. Okay, that's down below Sirius.
234:13:48	Evans	Okay, there's 0.01.
234:13:53	CC	We'll buy that.
234:13:54	Evans	Plus 0.065; minus 0.050; minus 0.039. Okay, we'll torque at 14:50.
234:14:15	CC	Roger, Ron. We copied those.
234:14:17	Evans	No, it won't make any difference. Okay.
234:14:27	Evans	Okay; 1 ENTER. Okay, let's torque her - let's go to the TEI REFSMMAT. 55144. About 90 degrees from pitch, isn't it? Difference? Yes, okay. That's good. Ground knows what they're doing. Okay, we're in CMC, FREE, let's coarse align it. Okay, PROCEED. No ATT.
234:15:09	Evans	Okay, let's picapar. Okay, it still likes Rigel. (Humming) not if there's a big one.
234:16:22	Evans	Twenty-one, should be Alphard, I think. Two stars, huh?
234:17:02	Evans	Yes, that's a long ways away off. It's outside of the field of view of the sextant. Both of them were.
234:17:17	Evans	Okay, 21. Yes. Yes, let's coarse - let's torque this one then I'll do another one.
234:17:40	Evans	(Humming) You got em? Yes. Yes. Yes.
234:18:37	Evans	Yes, that brought it in there nice and close. We'll just tweak her up just for the heck of it. Yes.
234:19:30	Evans	Well, ptttth! How's our time doing?
234:20:06	Evans	Well, that was close enough, really, but - That's within the limits, but I'd like to get her down to at least 0.01.
234:20:21	Cernan	Hello, Houston. You want those O2 tank HEATERS pulled ON?
234:20:28	CC	That's affirmative, Geno.
234:20:33	Cernan	Okay, then we'll pull the O2 TANK 50-WATT HEATERS - three of them - yes, the 50-WATT HEATERS. Three of them OPEN and the O2 1 and 2 100-WATT HEATERS, CLOSED.
234:20:58	CC	America, Houston.
234:20:58	Cernan	Okay, those heaters are taken care of, Houston.
234:21:02	CC	We see you going around the corner here and you're looking good as you go by us.
234:21:09	Cernan	Okay, thank you.
234:21:24	Evans	Well, the heck with it (laughter). Okay (laughter).
234:21:52	CC	You got lots of CMPs watching today, Ron.
234:21:57	Evans	(Laughter)
234:21:58	Cernan	CDR has taken over, now.
234:22:01	CC	Do you take credit for that last zero, two?
234:22:02	Schmitt	And after that, the LMP tries one.
234:22:06	Evans	(Laughter)
234:22:08	Cernan	No, sir. I just got tired of looking at it; that's why I'm going to do the next one.
234:22:30	CC	Ron, Stu said that all CMPs ought to accept a two. It just makes you more humble.
234:22:37	Evans	Yes, I know. I've really accepted it, but I just thought I could do better.
234:22:45	Schmitt	And one thing that you can't do is make Ron more humble.
234:23:43	CC	Just a reminder with 1 minute to go, Ron. We want to remind you to go back to auto - to the autopilot when you're done with your 52s and the final score in the game was 16 to nothing. Miami over Baltimore.
234:23:58	Evans	Okay, mighty fine. Commander's down there trying his luck, now.
234:24:07	CC	We're all watching. We just hope we see it before you go LOS.
234:24:12	Evans	(Laughter)
234:24:20	Cernan	If you don't hear about it, if you miss it, don't worry - -
234:24:21		BEGIN LUNAR REV 75
234:24:53	PAO	This is Apollo Control. We've had loss of signal as the spacecraft America passed behind the Moon on revolution number 74 will be out of sight from the Earth for approximately 28 or 48 minutes. Coming up in 2 hours and 16 minutes on the transearth injection burn behind the Moon during - at the end of revolution number 75. To repeat the ignition time currently is Ground Elapsed Time of 236:42:08. A burn of 3046.9 feet per second to boost the spacecraft out of lunar orbit and on a trajectory toward Earth. A splashdown in the South Pacific Tuesday afternoon. The spaceflight meteorology group of the national weather service said this afternoon that weather conditions are expected to be satisfactory for the landing and recovery of Apollo 17 next Tuesday. A weather forecast for the planned landing area which is located about 350 miles southeast of American Samoa calls for scattered to broken clouds, winds of 10 knots, three foot seas and temperatures near 81 degrees. Members of the white team of flight controllers are beginning to drift in for the hand over just prior to acquisition of signal next revolution. We're estimating a change of shift press conference at approximately 4 p.m. in the small briefing room with the off-going flight director Neil Hutchinson. To repeat, estimated change of shift press conference at 4 o'clock, small briefing room, Houston News Center. At 234:26 this is Apollo control.
234:28:02	PAO	This is Apollo Control again at 234:28, Scrub that last estimate of a change of a shift briefing and back it up to 3:45 P.M. Repeat 3:45 P.M. in the small briefing room in the Houston News Center, with Flight Director Neil Hutchinson. At 234:28, this is Apollo Control. Out.
234:48:00	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 234 hours 48 minutes. We'll be regaining radio contact with Apollo 17 in about 20 minutes. The change of shift press briefing is ready to start momentarily in the MSC News Center briefing room. We'll switch you to the briefing room at this time.
235:07:49	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 235 hours 8 minutes. Now less than one minute from regaining radio contact with Apollo 17. And, when once again we hear from the crew, they should be in the midst of eating their last meal in lunar orbit. Everything is in very good shape for the trans-Earth insertion maneuver to be performed at the end of this revolution, and at the beginning of the 76th revolution as they come around the front side of the Moon, they'll be on their way back to Earth. During this front-side pass, we'll be passing up to the crew the final set of numbers that'll be fed into their computer, targeting the trans-Earth injection burn. Also, we have the times for acquisition of signal following TEI. With the normal TEI burn, we would expect to acquire signal at 236 hours 55 minutes. If for some reason, the burn is not performed as planned, we would regain radio contact at 239 hours 7 minutes 18 seconds. And, we should have AOS momentarily.
235:09:47	PAO	I wanted to make one correction to the AOS times there. Without the burn, if the Trans Earth Injection burn is not performed, the acquisition of signal time is 237 hours 7 minutes 18 seconds rather than 239 hours, as we gave you. Again those times. With the burn, 236 hours 55 minutes; without the burn, 237 hours 7 minutes 18 seconds. That would be about 12 minutes 18 seconds later if the burn is not done.
235:13:52	PAO	We've got good solid telemetry from the space craft.
235:14:05	CC	Hello, America, Houston. Over.
235:14:29	Cernan	Hello, Houston. How do you read America? Over.
235:14:32	CC	America, this is Houston. You're loud and clear on your last time around. Over.
235:14:39	Cernan	Okay, Gordo. You're loud and clear. We thought we'd lost you there for a little bit.
235:14:56	Cernan	And we're just finishing up an eat period, and looked around, and the spacecraft still looks good on-board.
235:15:05	CC	Okay. Sounds good.
235:15:12	Cernan	Got some gyro torquing angles, if you'd like them, please.
235:15:15	CC	Okay; go ahead.
235:15:19	Cernan	Okay; the last P52 produced gyro torque of minus 011, minus 007, and minus 002; GET torque time was 234:26:07. And let's just let it suffice to say we torqued on the commander's P52.
235:15:52	CC	Okay,
235:18:55	Schmitt	Houston, 17.
235:18:58	CC	Go ahead.
235:19:02	Schmitt	Yes, Gordy. Gene was trying to call you guys for about 4, or 5 minutes, after we had fairly good up-link signal strength, and you didn't answer, until you said that was the first tine you'd called. Is that something that you can explain down there?
235:19:23	CC	I think it is, but let me make sure I get the right answer here.
235:19:32	Schmitt	We did not change any configuration in the spacecraft during that 5 minutes.
235:19:38	CC	Roger.
235:20:55	CC	America, Houston. I guess we don't have an explanation. We checked with the site, they were locked on and I can't see any reason why, if you were coming down, that we didn't hear you.
235:21:34	CC	America, Houston. You read now?
235:21:39	Schmitt	Oh, that's affirm, Gordy. Sorry, I - we were discussing whether or not we had really transmitted, apparently we had.
235:21:48	CC	Okay. We'll keep checking here, but first glance doesn't turn up the - any answers.
235:21:57	Schmitt	Okay. Well, after the next run, we would like to have comm as soon as possible, and that's what I was checking on.
235:22:05	CC	Roger.
235:23:11	CC	America, Houston. We're ready with all the updates, both verbal and electronic, whenever you are.
235:23:22	Schmitt	Okay. Stand by a few, please.
235:23:34	Cernan	Houston, you want the computer?
235:23:38	CC	That's affirmative. We're ready with the up-link.
235:23:42	Cernan	Okay. You've got ACCEPT now, and stand by on the updates.
235:23:51	CC	Okay.
235:26:47	CC	America, Houston. The up-link's in there, you can go back to BLOCK.
235:26:55	Evans	Okay.
235:29:19	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. We're ready to take final TEI pad from you.
235:29:33	CC	Okay, Jack, here's the numbers you've been waiting for. TEI, rev 75, SPS/G&N; 36372; plus 0.63, plus 0.86; NOUN 33 is 236:42:08.35; plus 3039.8, minus 0185.0, plus 0066.1 attitude is 180, 000, and 000; NOUN 44 HA is NA, HP is a plus 00228; And DELTA-V total is 3046.1, 225, 3028.5; sextant star is 06, 109.5, 30.0; boresight star is NA. NOUN 61 is a minus 17.87, minus 166.00; 1047.4; 36172; GET for 0.05G is 304:18:32. GDC stars are Sirius and Rigel; 136; 071, 035. Ullage is four jets, 12 seconds. And three remarks: number 1 is single-bank burn time is 2:29. Number 2, post-TEI RCS DELTA-V is equal to 173 feet per second. And number 3 remark is the SPS PU Ox FLOW VALVE, DECREASE, and then control as required. Over.
235:33:16	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. Here is your readback. TEI-75, SPS/G&N; 36372; plus 0.63, plus 0.86; 236:42:08.35; plus 3039.8, minus 0185.0, plus 0066.1; 180, all zeros, and all zeros; HA is NA, plus 0022.8; 3046.1, 2:25, 3028.5; 06, 109.5; 30.0; boresight star is NA, minus 17.87, minus 166.00; 1047.4; 36172; 304:18:32. Sirius and Rigel; 136; 071, 035. The ullage is four jets for 12 seconds. Remarks: 1, single-bank burn time 2 plus 29; 2, post-TEI RCS DELTA-V is 173 feet per second; and 3, the SPS PU Ox FLOW VALVE will start in DECREASE and then control as required.
235:34:46	CC	Okay. That's a good readback and I have another one of those for rev 76.
235:34:59	Schmitt	Okay; go ahead.
235:35:01	CC	Okay. It's TEI-76, SPS/G&N; weight is 36372; plus 0.63, plus 0.86; 238:42:07.62; plus 3079.9, minus 0283.7, plus 0004.8; 180, 359, 358; all the rest of the pad is NA. GDC stars are Sirius and Rigel; 136, 071, 035. Four jets, for 12 seconds. The remark is burn attitude based on TEI REFSMMAT. Go ahead.
235:36:43	Schmitt	Okay. TEI-76. SPS/G&N; 36372; plus 0.65, plus 0.86; 238:42:07.62, plus 3079.9, minus 0283.7, plus 0004.8; 180, 359, 358; rest of pad is NA. Sirius and Rigel; 136, 071, 035. Ullage is four jets for 12 seconds, and the remark is burn based on TEI REFSMMAT.
235:37:27	CC	Okay. And one more is a map update. It goes on the Flight Plan opposite 236 hours and 50 minutes on the right side of the page.
235:38:04	Schmitt	Okay. 236:50, right?
235:38:08	CC	That's affirm.
235:38:13	Schmitt	Go ahead.
235:38:16	CC	Okay. The AOS without burn is 237:07:18; and the nominal good TEI AOS will be 236:55:00. Over.
235:38:42	Schmitt	Okay. AOS without, 237:07:18; AOS with, 236:55:00.
235:38:52	CC	Okay, Jack. We're getting pretty good with these pads. Another 3 days, we ought to have it down pat.
235:39:01	Schmitt	I think so, Gordy. is that an offer or do we have a choice?
235:39:10	CC	Okay. Yes.
235:39:11	Schmitt	I presume you meant 3 days around the Moon, didn't you?
235:39:14	CC	No, no, 3 days to splashdown.
235:39:19	Cernan	(Laughter) it's all right, Gordy, I know vhat you meant.
235:39:23	CC	We got a lot of parties planned we don't want to put off.
235:39:38	CC	Okay. We'd like the HIGH GAIN on AUTO. And also, EECOM would like the H fans reconfigured. Number 2, OFF, number 1, ON. Over.
235:39:59	Schmitt	Okay. As per EECOM's request, H2 fan 2 is OFF and number 1 is ON.
235:40:09	CC	Okay. And we've taken another check on the problem with AOS this rev. We have several sites confirm that they had a solid down-link signal strength and that none of them heard you. We were wondering if you had found anything in audio panel configuration, possibly, that would explain it. Over.
235:40:35	Cernan	Gordy, no. But it's conceivable I could have been keying the intercom. I don't think so, but it's certainly conceivable. I - I checked everything else around here.
235:40:46	CC	Okay, Gene. You're loud and clear now, so guess we'll let it go at that.
235:40:52	Evans	Houston, this is Command Module Pilot, do you read me now?
235:40:56	CC	That's affirmative. Loud and clear,
235:41:01	Evans	Okay. I'm on the audio panel that Gene was on when he first transmitted.
235:41:07	CC	Sounds good.
235:41:11	Evans	Okay.
235:41:48	Schmitt	And, Houston; DELTA-V test was minus 22.2.
235:41:54	CC	Roger.
235:45:38	Cernan	Okay, Gordo; this is America. Are you ready for the mapping camera?
235:45:44	CC	Roger, Geno. Stand by. Okay; we're ready.
235:45:57	Cernan	Okay.
235:46:05	Cernan	Okay, MAPPING CAMERA is OFF.
235:47:03	Cernan	Okay. MAPPING CAMERA is STANDBY and IMAGE MOTION is OFF.
235:47:10	CC	Roger.
235:49:59	Schmitt	Houston, I'm going to - I'm waiting your cue to check out the number 2 pressure Indicator.
235:50:08	CC	Okay. Stand by, Jack.
235:50:11	Schmitt	I'm on SPS, of course.
235:50:16	CC	Okay, Jack. We're ready.
235:50:28	Cernan	Okay, Gordo, We're going to go ahead and maneuver, P30 looks good. The ... flag is reset for VERB 49.
235:50:38	CC	Roger.
235:50:45	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. Then I'm going back to number 1 on the pressure indication.
235:50:51	CC	Okay. We watched it.
235:51:06	Evans	And, Houston; America. The EMS DELTA-V test went from plus 100 to plus 100.5, and went from minus 100 to minus 99.5.
235:51:21	CC	Copy, Ja - Ron.
235:51:42	Evans	Okay; what's our DELTA-Vc? 3028.5. Oh, come on here.
235:52:33	Evans	Okay; DELTA Vc is set. 3028.5. We're DELTA-V is STANDBY.
235:52:54	Evans	Okay; we're caged, RATE 2. Okay; we'll put all 16 of them on. Down, up, up, down, up, down, down, up. We're CMC in AUTO and DET is set.
235:53:20	Evans	Okay.
235:53:43	Cernan	Houston, America. We'll pick up the star sextant check and set the DAP when we're in attitude.
235:53:51	CC	Roger.
235:54:09	CC	America, Houston with some words about the pan camera operation after TEI.
235:54:18	Schmitt	Okay, go ahead.
235:54:19	CC	Okay. We haven't told you about this, but we noticed a failure during the last operation of the pan camera, of the stereo. It's completely failed and, so - when you go to OPERATE, which is about 7 minutes after AOS, after TEI, you car. expect to get - a barber pole after three frames have cycled through. Want you to just ignore that and let her run. We figure you have 2 minutes of film left, but we won't be able to monitor end of film, because you'll be on TV on the FM. So we're going to limit the pan camera operation to 5 minutes total, and we'll be able to give you the mark when to turn it off after the 5 minutes. Over.
235:55:17	Cernan	Okay, Gordo. At 237 in the Flight Plan, where it's "PAN CAMERA, OPERATE" we'll ignore the barber pole. We'll run for 5 minutes and we'll shut it down on your cue.
235:55:25	CC	That sounds good.
235:56:27	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. The PAN CAMERA is going to BOOST. And also, we're presently configured with the IR, ON and the COVER, OPEN. Apparently Flight Plan neglected to have us turn it off, or are we supposed to burn with it open?
235:56:46	CC	Let me check that.
235:57:28	CC	America, Houston. We'd like the IR cover closed to keep the Sun out of it.
235:57:36	Evans	Okay, and you want the instrument off?
235:57:40	CC	Negative, Leave the IR on and I - I'll get back to you in a minute on all these covers.
235:58:00	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. Cover's closed and we'll wait your further word.
235:59:14	CC	America, Houston. On the covers, we want all three covers closed, according to the pre-SPS burn cue card. The instruments, the IR and UV, keep running, until after TEI, when you open the covers and back up per the Flight Plan. Over.
235:59:37	Schmitt	Okay, we'll do that and going OMNI Delta.
236:00:16	Schmitt	Houston, our last view this time around is the Sun rising over the Aristarchus Plateau and with the Prinz rilles and generally a continuation of the striking views we've had up to now.
236:00:36	CC	Roger.
236:00:52	Schmitt	We'll leave this country - this part of this planet for the next group to explore, I guess.
236:07:52	CC	America, Houston. I think this is what you wanted to hear, you're GO for TEI.
236:08:01	Evans	Outstanding.
236:08:03	Cernan	Okay, Gordo. Understand America is GO for TEI ana I'll give you a confirm on the star here, in just a second.
236:08:12	CC	Okeydoke.
236:08:49	Cernan	Say, Gordo, I'm - I got the Moon now in the telescope, be just a little bit before I can give you a confirm on that, but the DAP is set.
236:09:14	Evans	Okay; we'll go ahead and go into P40.
236:10:01	Schmitt	Houston, 17.
236:10:04	CC	Go ahead.
236:10:09	Schmitt	Gordy, could you give me a summary of what your expectations are on the operation of the PUGS?
236:10:20	CC	Okay, just a minute.
236:10:58	CC	Jack, Houston. We expect you'll need decrease throughout the whole burn. However, we'd like you to control it as required, to keep it in the green band.
236:11:12	Schmitt	Okay. And why do you expect that, Gordy? I missed one of the burns.
236:11:27	CC	Just - just the way it's worked from past history, that's what we expect this time.
236:11:36	Schmitt	Okay.
236:14:43	Cernan	Okay, Houston we're down to 6 minutes in the checklist, except for a star sextant check.
236:14:52	CC	Okay, Gene.
236:15:46	CC	Jack, Houston, with a further word on the PUGS. We have noticed after ignition, on previous burns, some oscillation. We suggest you stay in DECREASE for the first 25 seconds or so, until it stabilizes before you start controlling it.
236:16:05	Schmitt	Roger, Gordy.
236:17:55	Cernan	Houston, the star sextant check is GO.
236:17:59	CC	Roger.
236:21:13	CC	America, Houston. About 2 minutes until LOS. One reminder about the DSE: we'd like you to go to LOW BIT RATE just prior to LOS as per the Flight Plan. And then go back to HIGH BIT RATE at 6 minutes prior to ignition per your burn cue card and you can just leave it in HIGH BIT RATE from there on through AOS. We just went around the room once more; everything looks good. Have a good burn, and we'll see you and the TV picture as you come out the other side. Over.
236:21:52	Cernan	Okay, Gordy, thank you. We're looking forward to a good burn. And, we'll see you coming out the other side.
236:22:59	PAO	This is Apollo control. We've now had loss of signal. Apollo 17 completing it's last full revolution of the Moon. Flight Director, Chuck Lewis, has just advised his flight controllers this would be a good time to take a 10 or 15 minute break and then be back on the consoles ready for acquisition of signal at which time Apollo 17 should be on its way back to Earth. The final set of numbers passed up to the crew to perform the transearth injection burn are very close to those that we had earlier. A couple of very minor changes. The ignition time is 236 hours 42 minutes 8 seconds. That represents a change of one second. The total burn duration remains unchanged essentially at 2 minutes 25 seconds. And this will impart an increase in velocity to the spacecraft of 3046 feet per second and that represents a decrease of 1 foot per second over the numbers we had previously. Splashdown is targeted for a Ground Elapsed Time of 304 hours 31 minutes 25 seconds in the Pacific southeast of Samoa. The targeted splashdown coordinates are 17 degrees 54 minutes south and 166 degrees west. The television picture as Apollo 17 comes around into acquisition of signal. We regain radio contact should be a very spectacular view of the lunar surface, The spacecraft at the time we acquire should be at an altitude of about 291 miles above the lunar surface moving out at more than 55 hundred miles per hour and it will be almost directly over the crater Tsiolkovsky which is on the lunar farside normally not visible from Earth. This will be the second time that we've had a chance to view the lunar far side via television from an Apollo mission. The first time occurred on Apollo 10. We were discussing that mission with the Commander of Apollo 10 General Tom Stafford, who's here in the Control Center. Stafford also recalled it being a very spectacular view, as all lunar crews have reported. One thing he did point out is that Apollo 10 had significantly more velocity at transearth injection than Apollo 17 will have. Had a shorter trip time of something like 40 hours for the return compared with about 68 hours for the return time on Apollo 17. This would perhaps cause the Moon to shrink a little less rapidly than we recall it from Apollo 10, but nevertheless, should be a very spectacular sight. The previous crews have described it, the Moon is looking as if you were in a high performance jet aircraft going straight up and the Moon goes from filling the TV screen to shrinking into a discernable sphere in a relatively short period of time, a matter of 10 to 15 minutes as we recall. Again, the acquisition of signal time, the time at which we should have radio contact with Apollo 17, given a normal TEI burn is 236 hours 55 minutes. We have a clock in the Control Center, counting down to that acquisition time. We're now 28 minutes 14 seconds from acquisition. If, for some reason, the transearth injection burn was not performed, we would acquire about 12 minutes later at 237 hours 7 minutes 18 seconds. This is due to the fact that without the burn the spacecraft remains in a lower orbit, does not clear the lunar horizon and become visible to antennas on Earth as soon. Everything has continued to progress very smoothly leading up to transearth injection. On the last front side pass, we fed up the final numbers to the crew. They made the final checks of their guidance and navigation equipment, and as they went around the corner of the Moon everything was looking absolutely normal. We did have one minor unexplained situation occur at the start of the revolution. Gene Cernan reported that he tried for 4 or 5 minutes to establish radio contact and apparently not getting through. The instrumentations communications officer here in the Control Center checked with the various tracking sites, both the prime and backup sites, and they all confirmed that they had rot heard downlink from the spacecraft, although we did have, that is, voice downlink, we did have good telemetry lock on and good solid signal strength. The indications that we had, both on the ground and from the spacecraft were that everything was in the normal configuration and we simply have no explanation for that 4 or 5 minutes when the crew was unable to contact us. But the communications equipment has continued to work absolutely normally. No sign of any problem and no concern. This burn of course is performed while the spacecraft is behind the Moon, so we have no data on the maneuver. We'll get our first report, of it as the crew comes back around on the lunar front side. Comparing this transearth injection maneuver burn with previous burns, it's interesting to observe the Flight Controllers. They're certainly all aware that this is a significant event, leaving the Moon for the final time in the Apollo Program, but the atmosphere here in the Control Center is not much different from previous transearth injection burns that we've observed. Having watched the spacecraft and crew perform this same maneuver flawlessly seven times previously, there's obviously less of the tension that was evident at this time after Apollo 8, when Apollo 8 was preparing to leave the Moon four years ago. We have a number of small clusters of people gathered around in casual conversation and in about 5 or 10 minutes, I'm sure we'll see everybody returning to consoles, getting set to receive that first data from the spacecraft. We're now 12 minutes away from the time at which the crew will be igniting their 20,500 pound thrust service propulsion system engine for 2 minutes and 25 seconds of what's been described as a rather stiff kick in the tail for the spacecraft that starts it on it's path back to Earth. And we're now about 25 minutes from reacquiring radio contact with Apollo 17. At 236 hours 31 minutes, this is Apollo Control, Houston.
236:52:03	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 236 hours 52 minutes. We're now a little less than 3 minutes away from the time we expect to regain radio contact with Apollo 17. And, at that time, we should get confirmation from the crew that America is enroute back to Earth. We have another clock counting, here in the Control Center, for the acquisition time that we can expect, if the Trans Earth Injection burn was not performed, and that now shows 14 minutes 42 seconds until acquisition of signal. That again is the time that we would acquire if the Trans Earth Injection burn was not done as planned. We have an interesting display at the present time, which is called up by our Flight Dynamics Officer, and this display shows what the computers here in the Control Center predict that the current velocity of the spacecraft and its altitude are, based on the assumption that the burn was performed as planned. And, if that assumption is correct, Apollo 17 at this time, is traveling at some 7800 feet per second and is at an altitude of about 237 miles above the Moon and climbing rapidly. And, we're now less than 1 1/2 minutes away from acquisition of signal.
236:54:34	PAO	We're now less than 30 seconds from acquisition of signal. The next call will be INCO's, the instrumentation and communications engineer letting us know that we have radio signals from the spacecraft. We'll be receiving Apollo 17 through a 210 foot dish antenna at Goldstone, Calif.
236:55:13	PAO	AOS, Goldstone.
236:56:11	PAO	We've acquired signal, but we're still waiting for a good solid lockup. And, our data shows that Apollo 17 has an altitude now of 335 miles above the lunar surface.
236:57:14		America, this is Houston. We'd like the high gain, please.
236:57:34	PAO	And, we're beginning to get a picture of the lunar surface.
236:57:53	PAO	This view's from 400 miles up.
236:57:57	Cernan	Houston, do you read America?
236:57:59		That's affirmative, America. And we have a picture. Over.
236:58:05	Cernan	Roger, Houston. America, has found some fair winds and following seas, and we're on our way home.
236:58:12	CC	Okay, that's great news.
236:58:20	Cernan	It sure is, Gordo.
236:58:22	Evans	You betcha, by golly. It's outstandingly good. That was a good burn, too. We'll give you the burn report in a bit.
236:58:28	CC	Okay.
236:58:57	Cernan	Okay, Houston, I'll try to give you Tsiolkovsky from about the nadir.
236:59:02	CC	Roger.
236:59:21	PAO	The crater Tsiolkovsky on the lunan far side is normally not visible from Earth. First seen by a Soviet Luna, an unmanned photographic mission.
236:59:30	Cernan	... focus. Yes, this - there you go.
236:59:44	PAO	That crater's about 160 miles in diameter.
236:59:50	Cernan	This is a grand place to be right now.
236:59:56	CC	I'll bet it is, and we've got a great picture of Tsiolkovsky. Got it right, in the center, and good focus. Great picture.
237:00:10	Cernan	I know there's not as many smiling faces down there as there are up here, but we're making up for the difference in numbers.
237:00:22	CC	Roger.
237:00:24	PAO	America 500 miles above the Moon now.
237:00:29	Schmitt	Gordo, I'll give you a quick burn report. The burn was on time. Burn time was 2 minutes and 23 seconds. DELTA-V was 3047.0. Attitude at the end of the burn was 184, 005, 359. That's 184, 005, and 359. There was no trim. The residuals are minus 2, plus 0.7 - Correction, minus 0.2, plus 0.7, and plus 0.2. DELTA-V was minus 18.1.
237:01:10	CC	Roger. We got those.
237:01:14	Schmitt	And, Gordy, the unbalance is about 30 pounds, and oxidizer is 2.8 and fuel 2.9, and I blew FULL DECREASE the whole burn.
237:01:24		Roger, Jack.
237:01:38	Evans	How's the picture look, Gordy?
237:01:40	CC	Real fine.
237:01:46	PAO	This view looking back across the lunar far side at the highlands.
237:01:50	Cernan	I'd tell you exactly what we're looking at, but I can't quite see it,
237:02:07	Schmitt	Gordy, the country Gene's pointing out, is south of the orbit that we've been following for several days, and Ron, even more than Gene and I. And it's some of the striking country of the far aide of the Moon that human beings don't very often have a chance to see, but a trend's been started in the last few years, and I suspect it will continue.
237:02:38	CC	Roger, Jack.
237:02:54	Evans	Gordy, America performed superbly.
237:02:54	CC	America, Houston. We need PAIS CAMERA OPERATE, now.
237:03:02	Schmitt	Thank you. PAN CAMERA going to OPERATE.
237:03:10	CC	And can you verify that you got the other SIM bay items that precede that?
237:03:17	Schmitt	We're verifying that right now.
237:03:40	PAO	The spacecraft panoramic and mapping cameras are both operating at this time to record this view of the lunar far side.
237:04:05	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. The SIM bay should be squared away.
237:04:08	CC	Okay. Thank you.
237:04:08	Schmitt	Pardon our slowness there.
237:04:13	Cernan	Gordy, I'll try and take you across the terminator, if I can.
237:04:17	CC	All right.
237:04:25	Schmitt	Of course, we're seeing country south of Tsiolkovsky that we've never seen before.
237:04:35	CC	Roger.
237:04:48	Schmitt	And when we get a picture of Tsiolkovsky back, I think maybe even you can see one of the things that both Ron and I have noticed about it is, number 1, it's a basin that is comparable in its freshness ana apparent age to the probably the Imbrium Basin on the near side of the Moon; and, secondly, it has an unusual area an its northeast quadrant that - from which the blanket is excluded. There is an apparent slide. We're not sure what it is, but the normal indications of an ejecta blanket are just not there.
237:05:34	CC	Roger that, Jack; and we can see those features you just described. The camera - -
237:05:40	Schmitt	Okay. And for - for your - -
237:05:41	CC	- - if you can figure out a way to hold it a little steadier, that would help, but we're getting good resolution.
237:05:49	Cernan	Okay, Gordo, I'm working on it. You'd think a guy that's been there for however many days we've been there could find it, don't you?
237:06:00	Evans	When you see Tsiolkovsky south, the central peaks form an arrow that points south, Gordy.
237:06:00	PAO	If you look closely at the northeast rim of Tsiolkovsky, you'll see a large landslide that Al Warden first described on Apollo 15. The crew now moving the camera apparently to a different window. Apollo 17 now at an altitude of 825 nautical miles.
237:07:34	CC	America, Houston. Your altitude right now is 820 - 835 miles. Over.
237:07:47	Cernan	Okay, 835 miles. And climbing out like a dingbat.
237:08:01	PAO	North is now at the bottom of this picture.
237:08:01	Schmitt	Frames 5 through 20 were taken on mag Papa Papa, at that altitude.
237:08:08	CC	Okay, Ron.
237:08:15	Evans	There's Smythii down there. I finally figured out where we are. Right down underneath the window. I can see it now.
237:08:28	Schmitt	Gordy, as far as we can, we'll try to run you a little bit along the orbital track. I'll be panning the camera more or less westward. Tsiolkovsky starting and Tsiolkovsky is itself in the crater Fermi, and moving on to the east, the next big pair of craters that we spent some time studying is Hilbert, which is just south, is right there, and just a little bit northwest of there is Pasteur.
237:09:11	CC	Roger, Jack.
237:09:21	Schmitt	Both Hilbert and Pasteur appear to be very old basins, much older than Tsiolkovsky and they have, as yon can see, a fill in them, apparent fill - very flat-looking at this distance, end very light colored. It's an event on the Moon of which we have relatively little understanding at this time, but possibly the Apollo 16 results, when they're fully known, through the analysis of the samples and other data, may shed some light on that event.
237:09:56	CC	Roger, Sorry to - -
237:09:58	Cernan	Hey, look here - ... - -
237:09:59	CC	- - interrupt, but we'd like PAN CAMERA, OFF; now. PAN CAMERA. STANDBY, rather.
237:10:02	Cernan	- - That's a full circle.
237:10:08	Cernan	Okay, STANDBY. Now we're going to be able to pan a little bit more east now of Pasteur and start to show the crater Smythii, the basin Smythii really. It's one of the older large basins on the Moon. It has none of the obvious features of big basins such as Imbrium or Serenitatis. But it's nevertheless roughly circular, has a mare fill, and a very - I'm point right now to the hint of a second ring outside, but the main ring is the one Ron's talked to you a lot about, and has his double-ring craters in it. And we're pointing at some of those right now.
237:10:57	Evans	Uh-huh.
237:11:00	Schmitt	Okay, Houston, we can now see Tycho. We're seeing probably about 75 to 80 percent, of the entire Moon - face, anyway lit up. The rays of Tycho are very obvious from here. Want the camera over there, Gene?
237:11:17	Cernan	Let me show it to them.
237:11:25	CC	We had a good tour there of Smythii. We recognized the Smith Brothers, the Wright Brothers and started to see Neper before you left, it.
237:11:49	PAO	This view from the Moon at an altitude of more than 1000 miles.
237:12:13	Evans	No.
237:12:13	Cernan	No?
237:12:14	Evans	No.
237:12:16	Schmitt	No, you won't see Tycho for a little bit.
237:12:32	PAO	The large crater in the lower right corner is the crater Humboldt.
237:12:36	Schmitt	You can - Langrenus is visible now at the edge of Fecunditatis there, if you want to show that one.
237:12:48	Cernan	Just this side of Fecunditatis?
237:12:53	Schmitt	And Humboldt is a crater that ought to show up very well on the television. That's the cracked floor crater there with a little dark mare.
237:13:00	Cernan	Okay.
237:13:09	Schmitt	There's all the swirls in Marginis. You can really see them now.
237:13:16	Schmitt	Oh, yes. Why don't you get -
237:13:18	Evans	Yes. Can you get some of the swirls - -
237:13:19	Schmitt	Okay. Early in our orbit, and particularly Ron, he had the chance to work on the question of these light-colored swirls and Marginis has outstanding examples of them and I'll try to get the camera pointed on those in the northern part of Marginis. Let me orient you, as soon as we're focused here. Okay - Smythii - I'll point right at the center of Mare Smythii, and then move up towards Neper and then into the swirl area a little bit more north. And Gene will zoom you in and let you see what some of that looks like. I don't think we have a full answer at what the swirls are, but some of the things that we saw in Taurus-Littrow and later from orbit around Sulpicius Gallus may suggest to people, from now on, that the possibility of alteration from fluids in the interior of the Moon is more than just a possibility.
237:14:39	CC	Roger. That's a nice shot there of Marginis.
237:14:44	Schmitt	Can you see the swirls, Gordy? - are the very diffused, light-colored areas that cross various topographic features.
237:14:53	CC	That's affirmative, Jack. They're visible from here.
237:15:06	Cernan	Okay. I'm going to give you an end-on view, if I can, of Mare - of the Crisium Basin. You should be seeing that now.
237:15:15	Evans	How is that, Gene?
237:15:17	CC	That's a good picture of Crisium as it is very evident on the right side of our picture.
237:15:24	Schmitt	Yes, that's right. And before long, we'll be able to show you the landing site and Taurus-Littrow and I think you probably see Proclus, which is the bright crater just off the horizon now. That's the one with the excluded ray zone on its western or southwestern side.
237:15:44	Evans	It's not in view yet.
237:15:45	Schmitt	We may not see it, I think we're going the other way.
237:15:47	Cernan	Right in the horizon. The landing area, Taurus-Littrow, and the edge of the Serenitatis Basin is probably just on the horizon now and I'm not sure it exactly - -
237:16:00	Evans	You can see the dark part of Serenitatis is sticking out of the Sea of Proclus the ray-excluded zone. No, that's Fecunditatis sticking up there, isn't, it? Because the ray perpendicular to our track now points right to the landing site right off of Proclus.
237:16:23	Schmitt	The area where one of the Russian vehicles set down and returned samples from is just about in the center of your field of view now. Just on the north side of Fecunditatis.
237:16:40	CC	Roger. And you're about 1300 miles up right now.
237:16:46	Schmitt	Wow!
237:16:47	Cernan	That's not a bad climb is it, Gordy?
237:16:51	CC	Pretty good rate.
237:16:52	Cernan	A friend of mine says "Wow woozle!"
237:17:00	Evans	Looking out window - window 3 now, and the Moon is just the size of the window, and I've got my face right up against the window.
237:17:11	Cernan	Or maybe his head's just the size of the Moon. We're not sure which.
237:17:13	Evans	(Laughter) That's right.
237:17:18	Cernan	I don't know what's happening down there now, Gordy, but this is where the action was one time.
237:17:25	Cernan	Okay, we're starting to, I think, in a little bit, be able to show you the edge of the Serenitatis Basin. It's moving a little slowly right now. It looks like it's creeping over the horizon.
237:17:39	Evans	It's going to creep over the horizon, maybe, but I think - -
237:17:42	Cernan	But I'll tell you what's on the horizon now. I'm not sure I can get it. Let me try the rendezvous window. I think I can show them Apollo 11's landing site.
237:17:54	Schmitt	You can probably get it at the south portion of Tranquillity there, if you - out the center window would be better.
237:18:00	Evans	Yes, the center window, you could get it.
237:18:07	Schmitt	See the southern part of Fecunditatis, and then the Tranquillitatis takes off to the west there, Gene, right along that southern edge of Fecunditatis is where Apollo 11 set down.
237:18:19	Cernan	Yes, and a little bit north of the line that - of the ray of those two craters.
237:18:47	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy, in the center of your picture is - about right in there, is the southern edge of Tranquillity and the Apollo 11 area and that was the ground track, of course, for Apollo 8 and Apollo 10.
237:19:08	CC	Roger.
237:19:17	Schmitt	Yes, we'll put you back on Langrenus, which is one of the Copernican-age craters, in this part of the Moon, and I believe it was Apollo 12 had an excellent opportunity for some several orbits to study Langrenus.
237:19:36	CC	Roger. We see that. It stands out like a beacon there, on the right side of the picture, and we also saw Messier with its rays.
237:19:54	Schmitt	Okay, our landing site's in view now, Gene.
237:20:04	Evans	You're a little bit off the field - let me move - you're almost out of the field here. Let's see, Proclus -
237:20:13	Schmitt	Our landing area is just about in the center of your field of view right at the horizon now.
237:20:18	CC	Roger.
237:20:19	Schmitt	That's the best focus we've got, Gene.
237:20:32	Cernan	Okay, full zoom, and right in that region in the center should be the landing site of Apollo 17, known, hereafter I guess, as the Taurus-Littrow area.
237:20:57	CC	You're now 1500 miles above the surface, and your climb rate was just computed at 295,000 feet per minute.
237:21:10	Evans	(Chuckle) Oh man, that is really moving out.
237:21:17	Schmitt	Sure glad they cleared the traffic out of the way. Let me - Gene, let me switch over briefly and show them the North and South Poles, which nobody really has done much with yet, except for Lunar Orbiter, and some of the Russian vehicles. There's a spectacular valley off - on the South Pole. I don't know the name. It looks like one of these long chain of - chain of craters.
237:22:04	Cernan	Does that snow up? Let me try it with - let me try some of these others. Well, oh, here's where it ...
237:22:33	Schmitt	Okay, Houston, we're in - -
237:22:37	Cernan	Huh? Good picture?
237:22:39	Schmitt	That's in the south polar regions. There's a - I think you can probably see a long chain of craters, which so far unvisited by man. In fact, the whole region has, and that goes for the north pole.
237:22:54	CC	Roger, Jack. That's very interesting. Can you zoom in on that whole valley?
237:23:00	Schmitt	I think that's the best we got, Gordy, That's full zoom.
237:23:04	CC	Roger.
237:23:11	Schmitt	It's one of the biggest crater - chain crater valleys that I've seen on the Moon. It - we saw some crossing Mendeleev, in the first few days, I think we talked about, similar in shape but not nearly as big.
237:23:31	CC	Roger.
237:23:33	Schmitt	Let me move over briefly to give you another view of Humboldt, which should show up very well now. We're just about directly overhead. It's unusual - one of the few craters on the Moon that have a fairly flooded floor, that appears to have been domed, and you probably can see some of the cracks in that floor.
237:23:56	CC	Okay, it's in the center of the field now; however, something is blocking the right side of the view.
237:24:03	Cernan	How's that?
237:24:04	CC	That's real good now.
237:24:10	Schmitt	Around the edge of the dome floor, you can see some of the dark mare which is prevalent elsewhere in the region but not so abundant within Humboldt.
237:24:25	CC	Roger.
237:24:33	Cernan	And you - you can see - if you can see - Check it ...
237:24:39	Schmitt	Langrenus, you mean?
237:24:41	Cernan	Tsiolkovsky is ... the terminis.
237:24:43	Schmitt	Oh, okay.
237:24:46	Evans	Out the window.
237:24:47	Schmitt	Oh, all right. Hey, there's another view, if you will bear with us, of our old friend Tsiolkovsky, Okay?
237:24:55	Cernan	Okay, I got it.
237:25:00	CC	Roger. It's hard to mistake that one.
237:25:06	Schmitt	Yes, it's one of the more pic - picturesque basins. I guess partly - although it's big, it's not so big you can't look at it all at once. Symthii and Crisium and Serenitatis and Imbrium, in particular, are hard to look at ail at once. You're always down inside of them in the 60-nautical-mile orbit.
237:25:33	CC	Roger. Just night mention the diameter for those who are watching at home. That's about l80 miles across, I think.
237:25:43	Schmitt	(Laughter) Okay. That's pretty good. I was going to say about 200 kilometers, I think, is what it is, but - -
237:25:50	Evans	That's right.
237:25:51	Evans	And, Gordy, of course, it's on a part of the Moon that you - you don't see from where you are.
237:25:58	CC	Roger.
237:26:04	Schmitt	Not yet, anyway.
237:26:12	Schmitt	Okay, let's see if we can move on along our orbital track that we've been following and see what's new that's come into view. Once again, I'll pick yon up at Smythii and move you into Mare Marginis, the Margin Sea. And, all the mare, you may recall now, we have pretty good evidence as a result of the Apollo - -
237:26:42	Evans	Change this ... around.
237:26:43	Schmitt	- - Program - -
237:26:45	Evans	Good.
237:26:45	Schmitt	- - that our theories of basalt flows that some 3 to 4 billion years ago, in round numbers, were erupted on the Moon and filled many of the low areas that existed at that time. Not an awful lot has happened to the Moon since - except for the impact craters, some of the younger ones, since 3 billion years ago, which is one of the reasons it becomes so interesting to man. It's - the Moon's frozen in a period of history 3 billion years and older, which is a period of history that we cannot recognize very readily on Earth because of the dynamic processes of mountain building and oceans and weathering that are taking place even at the present time. Understanding that early history of the Moon may mean an understanding of the early history of the Earth. And, I think we're well on our way to a first-order understanding of that history as a result of the Program. Okay, going to take you a little bit farther along. Again, to Proclus, which is the obvious partially rayed crater with a big excluded aone to the southwest. There's Mare Fecunditatis and its contact area with the Sea of Serenity, Mare Serenitatis; and the landing site now has to be just about on the horizon. I think we were a little premature before.
237:28:31	CC	Roger.
237:28:32	Evans	Yes, we were. That's Macrobius A and B just beyond Proclus, there. Yes. that's really Macrobius - -
237:28:44	Schmitt	Now, you're starting to - just to see the Mare of Serenitatis come over the horizon - -
237:28:49	Evans	Yes.
237:28:49	Schmitt	- - and, if you taKe a line Proclus between the two bright craters - -
237:28:57	Evans	You're not going to get more of the Moon and less of the space up there?
237:29:00	Schmitt	Yes, yes. How's that?
237:29:02	Evans	That's better.
237:29:04	Schmitt	Take that line, and that will take you just about to the landing area, right at the edge of the next big mare that you see.
237:29:09	CC	Okay, Jack, we can follow that just as you told us there. Those three craters are very obvious.
237:29:43	Schmitt	The site, Gordo, is now just to the left - left and a little below center of your picture.
237:29:50	CC	Roger.
237:29:53	Cernan	You can see that ridge of mountains that sticks out and the landing site is - well, from here, anyway, right in that area.
237:30:00	Schmitt	Right, I guess my line was a little bit north of where we actually should have pointed you. There's some dark area just showing up around the edge of Serenitatis on the horizon. I think that will show in your picture as I remember some of these from Apollo 10 before. And it's just this side of the dark area that the Taurus-Littrow area sits, in the mountains, there.
237:30:39	CC	We think we have Maraldi in sight now.
237:30:47	Schmitt	Yes, and you also - -
237:30:48	Cernan	Yes. They should.
237:30:49	Evans	Yes. You should.
237:30:49	Schmitt	- - Vitruvius should be visible to you just to the south of the landing area.
237:30:56	Cernan	Vitruvius is in the monitor, so they should have it.
237:31:08	Cernan	Jack, I think you got a good view. You can see Censorinus now. You can probably get a real good shot at the 11 site at Tranquility.
237:31:15	Schmitt	Yes, you're right.
237:31:19	Cernan	There's old Censorinus. It's awful big.
237:31:25	CC	How big is it, Geno?
237:31:27	Cernan	Okay, towards the southern border of - (laughter). Okay. Old Censorinus is right in the middle of the screen.
237:31:35	CC	We see it.
237:31:36	Cernan	You've been there before.
237:31:38	CC	Right.
237:31:45	CC	17, Houston. You've just passed 2000 miles.
237:31:52	Cernan	2000 miles. We've got about a 95-percent full Moon in front of us.
237:32:10	Schmitt	Not too far - matter of fact, I think the Apollo 16 landing area would be just about on the horizon, to the south of Tranquillitatis. And back up to something that's dear and near to our hearts. You probably now can pick out the mountains, the North and South Massif, if you really look closely. What do you think, Gene, from the monitor? Can they see that?
237:32:59	Cernan	I can't even see the Massifs with the naked eye. No.
237:33:03	Schmitt	See the dark area there next to ... - -
237:33:08	Cernan	I know where - Yes. I know where to look. But it's awful hard to pick them out. But you're looking right at it. You've got it right - Just to the left center. It's just about perfect, the landing site. There's a little dark area in that peninsula of mountains that sticks out and the site is just about right in that area.
237:33:25	CC	Roger, Gene, as you say - -
237:33:26	Schmitt	I wish we could show you - -
237:33:28	CC	- - we know where to look, but it's hard to confirm exactly the structure there.
237:33:37	Schmitt	Come on, you guys, 1 can even see the light mantle.
237:33:43	Cernan	Extrapolation is the nature of our art.
237:33:48	CC	I just saw a flash, Jack.
237:33:51	Schmitt	I wish we could - Okay.
237:33:55	Cernan	I didn't hear them. Say again.
237:33:57	Schmitt	Say again.
237:33:59	CC	I just saw a flash.
237:34:04	Schmitt	(Laughter) I wish we could show you some of the color we've seen on the Moon this trip, but I think we're a little too far away from it. We'll see if we can ... back in ... from here.
237:34:20	CC	We - we've been looking for that crater - -
237:34:25	Schmitt	Well, I can show you a picture of the commander. He's fairly colorful.
237:35:03	Cernan	That's about what we're seeing, Gordy. I can't give you the bottom half because I can't quite move around the post here.
237:35:13	CC	Geno, we're getting a great picture ... 50 percent of it.
237:35:15	Cernan	You getting the whole movie? I'll get it. Okay, I think you can orient yourself with the big basins Jack's been talking about. There's Crisium. You can see the landing site up in the - what is to me the upper left-hand corner of the picture, but you can pick it out by now, I know. Get a better relationship. You're looking at the Langrenus, down there, that bright crater. You ought to be able to see Humboldt. Maybe Jack can give you the whole thing. Just a second -
237:35:54	Schmitt	... this in.
237:35:55	Cernan	Can you get the whole thing?
237:35:56	Schmitt	Yes. He said minimum zoom.
237:35:59	Cernan	Yes. It's minimum zoom. Okay, that's pretty good, it's centered just about right in the center. It ought to fit your screen as we climb out. Just about a - tangential now.
237:36:18	CC	That's perfect right where you got it.
237:36:22	Cernan	Okay, we'll hold that for a minute. The terminator is coming across, of course, at the opposite side of the Moon from the big basin that you're looking at.
237:36:34	CC	Roger.
237:36:38	CC	Geno, what color does that mare look like to you?
237:36:44	Cernan	What color does the mare look like to me from here?
237:36:48	CC	Right.
237:36:48	Cernan	Now, I'm a commander; do I have the right to change my mind? (Laughter)
237:36:53	CC	I guess so.
237:36:59	Cernan	Tom, you know I always thought you could almost make it look whatever color you wanted to, it's so subtle. But the mare - the mare, to me, has got a grayish - a dark grayish mixed witn a very subtle tan, and that's what it looks like to me, from here.
237:37:22	CC	Roger.
237:37:24	Evans	This is the CMP. I agree with that.
237:37:29	Cernan	The tan is sort of like a dusted tan in spots in and around and on the mare. I'd say that the basic - if I could pick out a chunk of that gray mare from here, I would pick out a very steel gray - a dull steel-gray color, but if I just took a mass of mare out, I'd have to mix it with a subtle - very, very subtle pastel tan.
237:37:59	Cernan	That's perfect. You can see Tsiolkovsky now in the terminator, down there. I think Jack's just about got the Moon centered perfect. You got Tsiolkovsky on one end; the big basin's on the other end. how high are we, Gordy?
237:38:13	CC	... gray. Okay, you're 2327 miles.
237:38:24	Cernan	You know, I think it's worth noting, while we're looking back at the entire Moon as we see it here and you're seeing it there, that America could be proud of the Apollo heritage it's left here. I know we in the program believe that it's really and truly been a heritage that will prove itself to be one of the - most beneficial things that have happened to mankind in quite some time, although none of us can really predict the future. But I think everyone that has been part of this program has been proud of its accomplishments. I know we have. We're looking back at someplace, I think, we will use as a stepping stone to go beyond some day. And those aren't words. It's a faith I truly and dearly have. And I think we will all see it in our lifetime, not just as a nation, but as a world. I think the Apollo Program not only has given us the first steps to that sort of impossible dream, but has given us an opportunity to make the first steps in bringing a world together as one unit, so that we can make that step together. It's been a privilege sharing the program - that part of it that we've been in with as many people as we have and as many people as we can, because I've often thought and I've often said before that anything that's worthwhile doing and doing well, is certainly worthwhile sharing with others. This is history being made in our time, while you and I are alive, not 100 years ago or 1000 years ago, and it's sort of the real thing happening right now. You're living it, not just us. We hope that you're getting as much out of it, not just feeling of pleasure and excitement, but that of accomplishment, as we are.
237:40:26	CC	Thank you, Gene. Speaking for the ground, as part of the Apollo Team, we second those thoughts, which you put very well.
237:40:43	Cernan	Well, Gordy, it's not our accomplishment. It's the accomplishments of a nation. And I think the next set of accomplishments are going to be the accomplishments of mankind.
237:40:58	Schmitt	Gordy, in - in that vein, I think a couple words, I'd like to more or less reiterate what I tried to say as we finished our third EVA, and that was that the valley of Taurus Littrow and the orbit of the spaceship America saw the completion of mankind's first steps - first evolutionary steps from the Planet Earth into the universe. I think it's important that in doing so, we establish a tradition of peace and freedom within the solar system. From that larger home, now we move to greet the future.
237:42:04	Evans	Well, you know, Houston, and America, and the world, this is the Command Module Pilot of the spaceship America, and I just feel quite honored and proud to have been a part of this Apollo Program. The Moon, itself, is a magnificent, it's a dyn - well, I hate to use the word dynamic, because it's really not dynamic, but it's a marvelous planet. It has all the wonderful opportunity for exploration. Man must explore. We will continue to explore, and I hope that some day we may all have the opportunity to see mankind enjoy the benefits of the exploration of the Apollo Program.
237:43:04	CC	Thank you very much for the great TV show and the - and your final words. We enjoyed every bit of it.
237:43:14	Cernan	And, Gordy, with that, we're about behind out timeline, as we fully expected we might be at this point in time, but believe me, it has been a beginning, it is a beginning, I don't think there ever will be an end, not as long as man is alive and willing.
237:43:42	Cernan	... I turned it off.
237:44:33	CC	America, Houston. We didn't have data, of course, while you had the TV on. We're wondering if you configured the SIM bay on our voice call or had you done it earlier? Over.
237:44:47	Cernan	No, Gordo. We were late. When you called - I guess "PAN CAMERA, ON," we went back and configured a SIM bay and followed those steps in the Flight Plan that follow "TV, ON." We had not done that.
237:45:03	CC	Okay. No problem. We're just - just wondered what we had there.
237:45:18	Cernan	Okay, Are we up to date on the SIM bay now, or you satisfied?
237:45:23	CC	No, we're just now getting some data, and taking a look. We'll let you know. Okay. We'll take PAN CAMERA, OFF, now.
237:45:42	Schmitt	Okay. The PAN CAMERA power is OFF.
237:46:00	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy, S-BAND AUX TV is going to SCIENCE.
237:46:04	CC	Roger.
237:46:16	Cernan	Gordy, it's going to be hard to leave this attitude, but we're going to maneuver now.
237:46:21	CC	Roger.
237:47:00	Evans	And, Houston; America. Mag Delta Delta is empty now. The last 50 percent was used for taking pictures of the TEI.
237:47:11	CC	Okay, Ron.
237:47:23	Cernan	Gordo, going back at that burn. It was an outstanding burn. We were looking about a half a g throughout the burn. She lit off on time. She was a very steady burn. I think she reversed roll a - a couple of times in the dead band. The computer and the EMS were with each other all the way.
237:47:48	Evans	Chamber pressure on bank A started out at about 87. Bank B brought it up to about 92, 93. And when I first sat down, it was reading 0, now it's reading 5.
237:48:05	CC	Okay, Ron. We got 6 down here.
237:48:11	Cernan	Okay, so in all other respects, the burn was nominal, Gordy. You got the burn report and the residuals, and we'll leave the tracking to you.
237:48:24	CC	Roger.
237:48:36	Cernan	I might add, I don't think they built spacecraft any better than they built these two.
237:48:42	CC	I don't see how they could have.
237:48:43	Evans	I'll sure second that.
237:48:55	Cernan	I finally found what I was looking for. I got the man in the Moon.
237:49:01	CC	Roger.
237:49:09	Cernan	For all you nonbelievers, I verify he really is there.
237:49:14	CC	Okay.
237:49:35	Cernan	Gordy, these next series of maneuvers - bring us - bring our middle gimbal angle pretty close to the apple. We're watching it, but appreciate you not hesitating giving us a call, too.
237:49:50	CC	Okeydoke.
237:51:23	Cernan	Gordo. In answer to PP's question about the color of the maria down there, when you look at Serenitatis, of course we saw this earlier, when we were much closer, but when you look at it from up here, it's - it's got on the northeast side, a very - quite thick, laterally across the surface, dark - typically dark with the tannish colors I was talking about - mare - which sort of borders it. But just north of the - the overlap, between Tranquility and Serenitatis, that contact changes sharply to a - the grays are gone - it's a very sharp contrast and I think those who have seen it before will remember it, but Serenitatis from -where we stand is - much more tan dominated, than gray dominated.
237:52:33	CC	Roger.
237:53:29	Cernan	Gordo, we'll get those numbers out of the first state vector out of the computer here shortly. No hurry to do it though.
237:53:38	CC	Okay.
237:53:51	Cernan	Do you have our altitude now? About 4000 miles maybe?
237:54:00	CC	I lost that display. Let me check here.
237:54:05	Cernan	No, I'm just trying to relate it to when we were coming in. I'd say it's more like 5.
237:54:11	CC	3100.
237:54:16	Cernan	How many?
237:54:17	CC	3100.
237:54:22	Cernan	3100. Okay.
237:55:09	CC	America, Houston. Sorry to say that the LCRU has pretty well crumped, evidently. We were talking over the biomed schedule and suggest that with your choice, either Gene stay on it or Jack go on it, and then we'll get back to the Flight Plan rotation after the EVA. Over.
237:55:36	Cernan	Okay, I'll stay on it through the EVA. How's that?
237:55:40	CC	Okay, fine.
237:55:43	Cernan	And we'll pick - we'll pick Jack and Ron in the morning.
237:55:49	CC	All right.
237:55:53	Schmitt	Gordy, this is Jack. I fail to see the correlation between the LCRU crumping and me going on biomed. Don't tell me you were monitoring it on the Surgeon's console, there.
237:56:14	CC	Well, we don't see any correlation either, but we're trying to look for some.
237:56:23	Schmitt	Okay; let me know when you have an answer.
237:56:27	CC	Okay.
237:57:57	Cernan	Houston, America. When you get a hack on - on our track, I'd like to get a first-cut estimate at it.
237:58:09	CC	Okay; will do.
237:58:42	CC	Geno, it'll take about an hour to get a good hack, to get that much tracking. However, earlier, the Retro was betting everybody there wouldn't be any midcourses.
237:58:56	Cernan	That's a - that's a good way to feel. Okay, we'll - we'll talk to you in an hour about it.
237:59:04	Schmitt	Whose the wild man Retro? I don't want to play poker with him.
237:59:13	CC	It's old ... He's a former B-17 pilot. They're - they're always right on.
237:59:41	Schmitt	Now you're starting to scare me.
237:59:50	Cernan	You can pass the word to Captain Green, back there on the ... to clear the flight decks.
237:59:56	CC	Okay, we'll do it.
238:00:06	Schmitt	The last time I had anything to do with a bomber pilot, Gordy, he was getting me my airplane.
238:01:25	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 238 hours 1 minute. During the -
238:01:30	Cernan	Hello, Houston; America.
238:01:32	CC	Go ahead.
238:01:35	Cernan	We got PTC orientation in the computer?
238:01:41	CC	Negative, But we got it ready to come to you, if you give us ACCEPT.
238:01:56	Schmitt	Okay. It's all yours.
238:01:57	CC	Roger.
238:02:15	PAO	The significance of Capcom Gordon Fullerton's comment to the crew a few minutes ago that the LCRU had "crumped", as he put it, is that we're no longer able to get television from the lunar surface. The television picture comes back through the Lunar Communications Relay Unit. The Instrumentation and Communications; Officer here has tried numerous times to command the TV on, and the commands are not getting through. So, apparently, the TV is no longer available to us.
238:02:44	Schmitt	Gordy, I'm afraid the weather reports on the way back of the only planet that really has much weather visible, will be a little repetitive.
238:02:56	CC	Jack, we're heartbroken.
238:03:03	Schmitt	For your for - first report, you can just play the recording back; it's sunny and clear.
238:03:14	CC	Okay.
238:03:20	CC	You're right on that one - -
238:03:21	Schmitt	The only sign of any weather - -
238:03:21	CC	- - except that you left out the fact that it's - cold also, here.
238:03:30	Schmitt	Gordy, you didn't listen. I can't see the Earth. I'm talking about that other planet.
238:03:41	CC	Okay. Depending on what part you're looking at, it's cold there, too. We got you, though. You got your REFSMMAT, you can go back - -
238:03:51	Schmitt	There might be traces of an atmosphere - -
238:03:56	Cernan	Okay, Gordy. We're in BLOCK, and I might give my CMP one more chance at a P52.
238:04:03	CC	Okay.
238:04:03	Schmitt	Then, the LMP gets to start trying.
238:04:16	PAO	P52 refers to the rather tricky job of aligning the stable platform, does require a fair amount of practice, and Gene Cernan threatening to take over the job, of course facetiously, if Ron Evans didn't get a good P52 on his first try. This is the stable platform used as a - as an attitude reference by the spacecraft guidance and navigation system.
238:04:55	PAO	By virtue of the fact that the television is not available to us, we were not able to see the third of the explosive charges fired. The seismic data indicates that that charge was fired very close to the planned time at 237 hours 49 minutes 52 seconds. That would be just a little more than 2 minutes early, and we're getting good seismic data on it in the Control Center at this time.
238:08:24	Cernan	Gordy, I can look back and, with the glasses - binoculars, and I can see the white mantle and see all the massifs in the landing area.
238:08:33	CC	How about that?
238:08:39	CC	Back when you had the tube on it, I - I really think - I knew we were looking in the right spot, but you know it was just blurry enough that - you couldn't be sure of exactly what you were looking at.
238:08:55	Schmitt	Gordy, let me - since I don't have anything else to do right now, apparently, I'll see - tell you a couple of things I see right here. The annulus - =the dark annulus around Serenitatis, does not look complete in - in the due-north area. Oh, there are little partial pieces of dark material up there, but the main part of the annulus seems to cross into the mare region that's north of Serenitatis, and I can't remember the name of that right now. But it very clearly crosses right over there as a band and then dies out in that north region.
238:09:37	CC	Roger.
238:09:39	Evans	Okay, Houston. There's the torquing angles.
238:09:44	CC	Okay. We copy.
238:09:52	Evans	Okay. And I'll torque at - it looks like - at 238:10. I guess you really don't care, though, do you?
238:10:10	Schmitt	And, once again, albedo-wise and hue - color-hue-wise, the - that annulus is the same as at Tranquility, and essentially the same as most of Fecunditatis. The areas - although Tranquility and Fecunditatis are mottled locally with tan colors, the - that mottling seems to be local and, probably in large part, related to rays that cross those - those seas.
238:10:47	CC	Roger.
238:11:15	Schmitt	At this viewing angle, the dark mantle around Taurus-Littrow area is just a darker shade of blue-gray to me of the annulus, it's a - more just a medium gray, I guess. Whereas the Sulpicius Gallus dark mantle is a brown-gray, quite distinct in its color hue - to me, at any rate.
238:11:45	CC	Roger.
238:11:51	Evans	Houston, I can't see any stars out there, so I'm going to false torque it instead of coarse align.
238:11:59	CC	Okay.
238:12:07	Evans	Hopefully, the reason I can is because - cannot - is because the Earth is right in the field of view, and it's still pretty bright.
238:12:21	CC	Roger.
238:12:32	CC	America, we've got a little musical selection for you here. Stand by.
238:12:50	CC	(Music: Going Back to Houston, by Dean Martin)
238:15:38	Cernan	That's very appropriate. I remember that being played one other time after a TEI burn.
238:15:49	CC	Roger. I think it came the other direction that time, didn't it?
238:15:55	Cernan	If you stand by, we'll express to you our sentiments here, with a short little tune I think you will enjoy.
238:16:03	CC	Okay; standying by.
238:17:27	Evans	(Music: God Bless America, by Tennessee Ernie Ford)
238:19:24	CC	Hey, thank you very much. Very enjoyable and also very appropriate.
238:19:32	Cernan	It certainly has a twofold meaning for us.
238:22:17	Evans	That's about par for the CMP, now.
238:22:23	CC	Ho hum, another all balls.
238:22:28	Evans	(Laughter)
238:22:32	Cernan	You hit it right on the money.
238:22:43	CC	Okay; we've got those.
238:22:46	Evans	Okay; and we'll torque at 238:23.
238:22:52	CC	Roger.
238:23:48	PAO	Ron Evans' last comment referred to the platform alinement he just performed the so called P52 which came out perfectly no error at all. And, of course, he was referring back to the commander Gene Cernans previous remark that if the P52 did not go properly he would take on the job himself. This, of course, is a task that the Command Module Pilot is most proficient at and has done the most training and preparing for.
238:33:00	Cernan	Gordo, I'll maneuver in about 10 minutes.
238:33:04	CC	Okay; fine.
238:34:57	Evans	Hey, Houston; America.
238:34:59	CC	Go ahead, Ron,
238:35:04	Evans	You reckon you'd have one of the photo guys down there to figure out when we could get a full Moon with an 80-millimeter lens.
238:35:17	CC	Okay. I'll put them to work on it.
238:35:21	Cernan	Okay; appreciate it.
238:37:21	Schmitt	Houston, 17.
238:37:23	CC	Go ahead, Jack.
238:37:29	Schmitt	On the pan camera, you said to expect to see barber pole when we ran it. I did not see that, just for your information. It went barber pole and then gray.
238:37:44	CC	Okay; thank you.
238:37:56	Schmitt	And, Gordy, several times I have reminded myself to tell you guys something and I keep forgetting. I think it was yesterday, when we did an oxygen purge on fuel cell 3, after about - oh, I think it was a minute, possibly a minute and a half. The high O2 flow warning was triggered. Normally that is not triggered when we do the purge. That's the one and only time it's happened. This last one, prior to TEI, there was - it was within the green band and there was no fuel cell caution and warning. Just thought you might be interested in that one.
238:38:42	CC	Okay, Jack; thank you.
238:39:21	Evans	Houston, Ron here. I think I got - that - on fuel cell 3 too in one of my fuel cell purges, when I was up here by myself. Probably shows up on the data anyhow.
238:39:36	CC	Roger.
238:40:18	Cernan	And you can tell Farouk that - that crater out on Fecunditatis, that I've got a picture of, that we worked on back at the Cape and studied quite a bit, has got all the attributes of everything he told me about it.
238:40:35	CC	Roger.
238:40:37	Cernan	Yes, and that's the one - that's the one I was describing to him this morning.
238:40:43	CC	Okay.
238:40:57	Evans	Also, be advised the inner ring of the - the basin Arabia is quite visible. It looks like there is a - shallow depression outside the inner ring and when you get up at this altitude right around Saenger, it is indeed, it looks like a raised-up plateau crossing Saenger. And, also, in the vicinity is King - King is almost going into the terminator now, well, it's 10 or 15 degrees from the terminator. But you can see a little bit of a raised-up plateau, that takes in the crater King and goes about a crater - a King Crater diameter and a half or maybe 2 diameters to the south, and a crater and a half to the north of King.
238:42:08	CC	Roger.
238:43:30	Evans	You know, Houston, it's also interesting to note, that the - the range of color, from this altitude and from 60 miles, doesn't seem to change at all, really. In other words, the same impressions that I had of color in the 60-mile orbit are the same impressions that I have now, of the same areas.
238:43:58	CC	Okay, that's interesting. You're a little over 5000 miles out, at the moment.
238:44:12	Evans	Roger.
238:44:29	Cernan	Gordy, you don't have that number on the 80 millimeter camera, do you? We're going to maneuver and I'd like to get a last shot at it.
238:44:35	CC	Okay. Well, you're well beyond the point where you can cover the whole Moon with an 80. We were just trying to come up with an altitude for filling up the 250, but you'll get the Moon and then some with the 80, right now.
238:44:52	Evans	Okay, that's good. Then we'll take it with the 80.
238:44:56	CC	Roger.
238:50:40	CC	America, Houston. At 240:30, you'll be about 10,000 miles out, at which altitude the Moon will just fill up the 250 lens field of view.
238:51:00	Evans	Oh, okay. 240:30, it looks like for the 250 lens.
238:51:05	CC	Right.
238:56:42	Schmitt	Gordy, are you ready for an OMNI or you want to wait a little bit?
238:56:49	CC	17, Houston. Gordon's off the console for the moment. We'll wait a couple of minutes on the OMNI.
238:56:58	Schmitt	Okay.
238:58:26	CC	America, Houston. We need OMNI Delta.
238:58:39	Schmitt	Okay. You've got OMNI Delta.
238:58:44	CC	Okay.
239:15:02	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 239 hours 15 minutes. It's been very quiet, both here in the Control Center and onboard America. The crew, at this time, appears to be on the nominal flight plan, and they should be in the midst of an exercise period at this time. Also, they have the scientific instrument module bay in the Service Module of the spacecraft pointed toward Earth, with the ultraviolet and infrared spectrometers gathering their first data on Earth from lunar distance. The crew is scheduled to begin it's sleep period about 3 hours from now, at 242 hours 20 minutes Ground Elapse Time. And at the present time, we show Apollo 17 6782 nautical miles from the Moon with a velocity of 4537 feet per second.
239:18:38	Schmitt	Houston, America.
239:18:40	CC	Go ahead, America.
239:18:46	Schmitt	Looking at our sketches here and trying to figure out exactly what we're looking at in the dark part of the Earth. I guess it's you and, if it's a clear night, you ought to have a pretty full Moon looking back at you.
239:19:05	CC	That's right we do. In fact, it's nice and clear all day and I could see it as I came in this afternoon. Your subspacecraft point right now is over the Yucatan Peninsula.
239:19:24	Schmitt	Yes, it's just about the chart I'm looking at, Gordo. Looks like about right smack in the center.
239:20:16	Cernan	Gordy, do you have a general trend on the prediction in the recovery area?
239:20:23	CC	I haven't - haven't heard one, but I'll see if we can get one.
239:21:58	CC	America, Houston. The Sun is just about to enter the lens of the mapping camera, and we'd like you to retract it and then close the cover. We're not copying SIM bay data now, so we'd like you to get a MARK on both the start of retraction - give a MARK on the start of retraction and one when barber pole goes to gray.
239:22:24	Evans	Okay. We're going to retract the mapping camera. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 -
239:22:33	Evans	MARK it. There - -
239:22:35	CC	Okay.
239:22:35	Evans	- - barber pole. And that was at 20 - 22:30.
239:22:40	CC	Okay, and we want to keep it running to run the film out of it.
239:22:48	Evans	Okay, understand.
239:25:53	CC	America, Houston. How's the mapping camera talkback look?
239:26:01	Evans	Barber pole.
239:26:04	CC	Okay. We thought it should have been gray by now.
239:26:10	Evans	(Chuckle) Okay, let's see. I've got - we're coming up on 4 minutes.
239:26:27	CC	That's what I've got.
239:26:51	Evans	Hey, there we go. Gray.
239:26:54	CC	Okay, thank you.
239:26:57	Evans	Took a while - took a while, but it made it.
239:27:04	Evans	Okay, the COVER is going CLOSE; barber pole, gray.
239:27:11	CC	Okay, thank you.
239:28:04	CC	America, Houston. Got a couple of answers for you here. On this - the O2 caution/warning indication on the purge, at the time you were pulling 37.8 amps out of fuel cell 3 because the SIM bay was fired up and that'll result in about a flow of 1.37 pounds per hour which - and the trip limit is 1.2, so that's why you got the - the flag on it and you can expect to get the caution/warning anytime you've got 33 amps or more being pulled out of the fuel cells at the time you purge. Over.
239:28:53	Evans	Ah ha, okay. That sounds good, then.
239:28:58	CC	Also, we've tracked you a while now and midcourse 5 looks like a whopping 0.3 of a foot per second at the present time.
239:29:11	Cernan	Beautiful, Gordy, beautiful.
239:29:13	Evans	That is outstanding.
239:31:31	CC	America, Houston. In answer to your question about the weather at splashdown, the area right now is 2000 scattered and 10, winds variable at 10. And forecasting the same - 2000 scattered and 10, with 3-foot waves, variable at 10 knots on the wind, and some rain showers, but less than 10-percent coverage on the rain showers in the area. Over.
239:32:03	Cernan	Oh, you're full of good news tonight. Thank you.
239:49:00	Evans	Houston, America is about to maneuver.
239:49:03	CC	Okay.
239:51:44	Schmitt	Houston, 17.
239:51:46	CC	Go ahead and give us OMNI Charlie, please, while you're talking.
239:52:09	CC	Also, Jack, we'd like you - -
239:52:09	Schmitt	Hey, Gordy, this is Jack - since I can't give you - -
239:52:13	CC	- - we'd like H2 TANK 1 FAN, OFF.
239:52:16	Schmitt	Go ahead. H2 TANK 1 FAN is OFF.
239:52:24	CC	Thank you and go ahead.
239:52:29	Schmitt	Okay, we got all three of them off now. Right, Gordy?
239:52:33	CC	That's affirmative.
239:52:47	Schmitt	Hello, Gordy.
239:52:50	CC	Hello; go ahead, Jack.
239:52:54	Schmitt	Okay, since I can't help you out on the weather right now in the Pacific, can you give me a rundown of what things look like out there?
239:53:07	Cernan	I already got it.
239:53:07	Schmitt	Oh, I'm sorry. I wasn't on the loop. Apparently you already briefed somebody on that.
239:53:12	CC	I covered the recovery area. Not the rest of the Pacific. Did you want an overall briefing?
239:53:23	Schmitt	No. I was just curious what the recovery area looked like, and I'm sure that my compatriots will clue me in on it, if I'm nice to them.
239:53:31	CC	Yes. I'll save them the trouble. It's going to be 2000 scattered, 10 miles, 3-foot waves, variable at 10 knots, and less than 10 percent chance of rain showers. And that's just about what the weather is now, and also forecast.
239:53:55	Schmitt	Okay. Thank you very much.
239:54:23	CC	Jack, you've got a lot of SIM bay data stored up there that we'd like to get dumped. Can you give us the HIGH GAIN; PITCH, 30; YAW, 320?
239:54:37	Schmitt	Okay, PITCH, 30; YAW, 320.
239:55:20	Schmitt	Okay, it's the old HIGH GAIN for you.
239:55:24	CC	Thank you, sir.
239:55:53	Schmitt	Gordy, what altitude are we at now?
239:55:58	CC	Stand by, I'll check. 8500 miles.
239:56:11	Schmitt	You clipped. Say again.
239:56:13	CC	8500 miles.
239:56:20	Schmitt	Okay.
240:03:07	Cernan	Gordy, as we're maneuvering, I guess we got one of the most spectacular views of the Moon I've ever seen, from a position like this. It's like - just short of being 100 percent full. We can still see from Tsiolkovsky all the way across the Moon and it's just absolutely magnificent and I'm afraid we're talking here that pictures just won't capture the real three-dimensional picture we're looking at. But, uniquely with the binocs I can still see the light mantle in the landing area.
240:03:49	CC	Roger, Gene.
240:05:07	Schmitt	Hey, Gordy, I don't know whether your camera people have anything to do this evening, but I've got a little problem for them if they'd like to work on it.
240:05:17	CC	Okay, go ahead.
240:05:21	Schmitt	Well, it seems to me we're not only moving away from the Moon, but we're moving across the face, and I took a picture about 5 minutes ago of the Moon, and it seems to me we could take another one at some X-number of minutes and have pretty good stereo if we matched the printing of the two pictures in terms of scale. And, I'm wondering what's a good time elapse here for a good stereo of the whole globe?
240:05:55	CC	Okay, we understand the problem, but I'm not - Well, we'll try (laughter).
240:06:05	Schmitt	Well, I guess, if you could figure out what it would - how far we have to move across the face of the Moon and how long that would take to get about a - oh, shoot, a 30 to 1 base-height ratio'd probably be enough - 20 to 1 would probably be better, obviously, but 30 to 1, you could still see the stereo. And you ought to be able to figure that problem out. How fast do - do the guys know how fast we're moving across the face of the Moon?
240:06:43	CC	I'll, I'll put that one to FDO. Just looking at the big chart up here, I'm sure that the rate is slowing down rapidly, and - because you're - because the farther you get away, of course, the straighter away from it you're going. Stand by, I'll see what we can do.
240:24:59	CC	Jack, this is Houston with kind of a crude answer to your question.
240:25:07	Schmitt	Go ahead.
240:25:09	CC	Okay, it turns out right now that you're not moving across the lunar surface very fast, and you - it's getting less and less - right now, I guess it's about a mile per minute. It would take a lot of minutes to get much of a stereo base since you're 10,000 miles out. But, remembering back to Ron's final picture there before you went to the UV attitude, after he asked the question about how high he had to be to fill up the 80-millimeter lens, I think he took one at that time. We're thinking of combining a picture now with that picture, and then enlarging the one to get it to the equivalent diameter. And, some rough calculations of your longitude at that time and then - now, show that you've changed about 21 degrees across the surface of the Moon between that picture and the present time, which comes out, if you take the average altitude between that time and now, to - to about a 25-to-l stereo base, as best I can figure.
240:26:27	Schmitt	Sounds good enough, Gordy. We've got it - I got that one at 5 minutes. I mean at 240 on the hour, so those are probably pretty close.
240:26:42	CC	I would guess, you know, that the angle of looking at it - other factors have changed so much that it would be pretty hard to pull them together once you - even though you get the images reduced to the same size, but it might be interesting to try.
240:27:04	Schmitt	I agree.
240:27:46	CC	America, Houston. There's some items coming here now in the Flight Plan. A couple of them, MAPPING CAMERA, RETRACT, and COVER, CLOSED, you've already done. However, right now we still see the mapping camera film rolling, so we want to leave it running until we give you a cue to turn it off - get all the film run out. And, the uplink for a state vector that's shown there will not be necessary. Over.
240:28:18	Schmitt	We were looking forward to get to do something. Now, we'll wait a little bit longer.
240:28:29	Cernan	Couldn't you just flash a couple of lights on the DSKY just to keep us occupied?
240:28:36	CC	Send a crew alert or something?
240:28:41	Schmitt	Yes, throw it in once in a while just to keep us on our toes, Gordy.
240:29:35	CC	The Surgeon had a suggestion. He said if you really get bored, you could all put on your biomed harnesses.
240:29:54	Cernan	Only listen to about half of what goes down, will you?
240:30:02	CC	Okay.
240:42:06	PAO	This is Apollo control at 240 hours 42 minutes. Apollo 17 now 10,438 nautical miles from the Moon and coming up in about, oh, within the next 10 to 15 minutes -
240:42:22	Cernan	Gordy, you got any words on the SIM bay prior to going into PTC?
240:42:32	CC	Stand by.
240:43:01	CC	Nothing additional, Geno, go ahead as per Flight Plan with the one exception. We'll give you a cue when to stop the mapping camera as soon as the film runs out.
240:43:15	Cernan	Okay, we'll hold up on the mapping camera and its cover, and we'll get the IR, OFF.
240:43:24	CC	Roger.
240:43:34	Schmitt	Okay. Okay, Gor - Gordy, the IR is coming OFF now.
240:43:38	Schmitt	MARK.
240:43:39	CC	Roger.
240:43:44	PAO	The crew is getting ready at this time to set up the spacecraft in the Passive Thermal Control mode. This is the mode used to maintain proper thermal equilibrium during the translunar transearth coast phases of the mission. Rotating the spacecraft about it's longitudinal axis set about three revolutions per hour exposing each side equally to the Sun and cold.
240:43:57	Schmitt	And the COVER is CLOSED.
240:44:00	CC	Roger.
240:44:09	Schmitt	Hey, Gordy, this is Jack. is there any updated briefing on the status of the lunar surface equipment and SIM bay findings over and above what we got? I guess, I can't remember when it was, yesterday or some time.
240:44:28	CC	I can't think of anything really outstanding. We're just right now coming up on another charge detonation; however, I think I mentioned that the LCRU is "kaput." So, we won't be able to watch it. We're looking at the seismometer traces here. Other - I'll come back with any other words to update you on yesterday's report in a little bit here.
240:45:06	Schmitt	Okay, I - just updated stuff. If something new comes in or - is all we're interested in.
240:45:14	CC	Okay.
240:46:41	Evans	Okay, Gordy, we're going to maneuver now to PTC attitude.
240:46:46	CC	All righty.
240:49:01	PAO	This is Apollo Control. We're expecting the fourth of the seismic charges one of the lunar seismic profiling experiments to detinate on the lunar surface. The nominal time for the charge to go off is 240 hours 52 minutes. And it's been our experience with the previous three charges that their tending to go with in about five minutes either side of that targeted time. So, we would expect to see my seismic activity in the next oh 5 to 7 minutes. And as we mentioned previously, the television camera on the Lunar Rover is not available to us. Instrumentation and communications engineer at the previous detination attempted to bring up the camera, sent a number of commands and the lunar communications relay unit which transmits the television signal to Earth did not respond to the commands. We never got a picture from the camera and we're assuming that the communications relay unit and camera system on the lunar rover are out of operation. We don't at this point know what it is that has failed.
240:52:12	CC	America, Houston. You've just run out of mapping camera film. You can go ahead and clean up the items at 240:30 to power down the mapping camera.
240:52:27	Schmitt	Roger.
240:53:13	PAO	And it appears that our 4th seismic charge on the lunar surface has detonated. Very close to the planned time we copied the seismic activity at 240:53.
240:53:20	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy, we're going RETRACT.
240:53:26	CC	Okay, I think it should already be in, with the cover down.
240:53:31	Schmitt	Yes, you're right.
240:53:42	CC	And just now, the charge exploded at Taurus-Littrow, and we're seeing the results on the tracers here.
240:53:54	Schmitt	Which one was it, Gordy? Do you know?
240:54:04	CC	Okay, that one was number 8. A quarter-pound charge, and I guess it was fourth - I'm not sure which location that was. It was 0.4 of a mile from the LCRU, if that helps you decide.
240:54:28	Schmitt	Okay.
240:56:37	CC	America, Houston. We'd like H2 TANK 1 FAN, ON, please. That'll get it up for - prior to the sleep period.
240:56:52	Schmitt	Okay, TANK 1 is ON.
240:56:55	CC	Thank you.
241:00:48	Cernan	And, Gordo, the canister is changed.
241:00:52	CC	Roger.
241:01:21	Evans	Hey - Houston - or Gordo, Ron here.
241:01:23	CC	Go ahead.
241:01:28	Evans	Okay, Gordo. As a result of number 5 [?] today and a little bit of a feeling of a little bit of gas right now, with - well, the possibility of a - of the desire, I feel like it may be worthwhile for me to take a Lomotil, and I'd like to get your concurrence on that.
241:01:53	CC	Okay, stand by.
241:10:57	Cernan	Houston, America. How are our rates looking?
241:11:02	CC	Stand by. They're not down there yet. We want to wait a little bit, Gene.
241:11:11	Cernan	Okeydoke.
241:15:46	CC	America, Houston with a response to Ron's question. Over.
241:15:55	Evans	Okay, go ahead.
241:15:58	CC	Okay, for gas, we're recommending only - we're definitely not recommending the Lomotil; we're recommending the gas pills; however - -
241:16:08	Evans	Ya, I concur.
241:16:09	CC	- - we also don't recommend the Lomotils for a situation that really hasn't developed yet. If you want to discuss it in more detail we can set up a private loop or go ahead as you wish. Over.
241:16:33	Schmitt	Standby a minute.
241:17:18	Evans	Hey, Gordo.
241:17:20	CC	Go ahead.
241:17:23	Evans	Yes, we'd like to talk to you further, please.
241:17:27	CC	Okay. Fine.
241:17:44	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 241 hours 18 minutes. We are going to configure the network for a private conversation between the Flight Surgeon, Dr. John Zeiglschmidt and Ron Evans, and we'll have a summary of the content of the private discussion as soon as possible afterwards. Evans had reported a few minutes ago that it had been a slight bit of gas. He requested permission to take a Lomotil, which is one of the pills in the medical kit, which slows down intestinal activity. The Surgeon recommended for gas that a gas pill be taken. Lomotil will not be taken for a problem that has not developed, but if Ron would like to discuss the situation further we would set up a private conversation and a private conversation has been requested and will be taking place shortly.
241:52:28	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 241 hours 53 minutes. A private conversation is in progress at this time, with Command Module Pilot, Ron Evans. The conversation was initiated at Evans' request at about 241 hours 22 minutes. Evans had previously asked permission to take a Lomotil tablet for what he described as mild gas. The flight surgeon, Dr. Zeiglschmidt had recommended that a gas pill be taken instead, and we told Evans that if he wished to discuss the situation in more detail, we would set up a private conversation. Evans requested a private conversation and that has been in progress since shortly after 241:22. Participants are Dr. John Zeiglschmidt, Dr. Willard Hawkins, Charles Lewis, the Flight Director, and spacecraft communicator, Gordon Fullerton. And we will have a summary of the conversation as soon as possible.
241:59:51	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 241 hours 59 minutes. The private conversation with Command Module Pilot Ron Evans has concluded.
241:59:59	CC	America, Houston. It looks good right now to start the roll for PTC.
242:00:07	Cernan	Okay.
242:00:33	Cernan	She's GO, Gordo.
242:00:35	CC	Okay.
242:01:08	PAO	Hello, this is Apollo Control. That private conversation ended at about 241 hours 59 minutes, and again we will have a summary, as soon as possible. At the present time, we're in the process of getting the spacecraft set up for the Passive Thermal Control mode rotating it about the longitudinal axis and we'll be going through the pre-sleep checklist, getting the crew set up to begin their sleep period, as close as possible to the Flight Plan time.
242:01:25	CC	America, Houston. Sleep configuration on the hydrogen fans, and you can do it now, is H2 TANK 1 FAN, OFF, and 3, AUTO. That's 1, OFF; 3, AUTO.
242:01:43	Cernan	Okay, Gordy, we got 1, OFF and 3, AUTO.
242:01:46	CC	Thank you.
242:04:52	CC	America, Houston. Over.
242:04:57	Evans	Go ahead.
242:04:58	CC	On that PTC startup, there was only one jet that fired, and so we only got half the rate we need, and so the - I guess the only way to recover is to stop the roll and start damping the rates again and wait for our call to start it again - over again. Over.
242:05:24	Evans	Roger again.
242:05:28	CC	And we'd like the procedure on G8-2 using B-2 and D-2 for the spin up. Two jets.
242:05:45	Evans	Yes. That's interesting. B-2 and D-2 are both on.
242:05:56	CC	Okay, we understand that, Ron. Let us look into that a little further here, then.
242:06:03	Evans	I'm sorry. It's D-l and - Dog 1 and Bravo 2 are on.
242:06:10	CC	Okay, that's what did it.
242:06:14	Cernan	Delta 1 and Bravo 2 is what it calls for, and that's what was on.
242:06:19	Evans	Yes, those are the wrong ones though; that's the problem.
242:06:52	CC	Well, we're reading it both in the checklist and Flight Plan; Bravo 2 and Delta 2 are the ones to use for spinup.
242:07:06	Evans	Yes, you're right. Okay. We got - we're reading the wrong ones, I guess.
242:07:49	Evans	Okay, Gordy, is this a good attitude or should we go back to the UV/PTC sleep attitude?
242:08:01	CC	Stand by. G&C is on the other loop here. Just a second.
242:08:32	CC	America, Houston. You need to go back to the pitch and yaw in the Flight Plan, and the present roll will be okay.
242:08:40	Evans	Okay.
242:08:52	CC	Also for this damping, we want you to go to the jets called out at 240:50 in the Flight Plan. That's a - Well, you got it there.
242:09:06	Evans	Yes, we got it here.
242:10:20	Evans	Okay, give us a call when we get all damped out there. We got Alfa and Bravo for damping jets.
242:10:32	CC	Roger.
242:10:39	Evans	Hey, wait a minute; we got the wrong ones here, again. We'll get back to the - what's in the Flight Plan and do it.
242:10:46	CC	Roger. I would think - You're firing into the SIM bay - bay with the present configuration.
242:10:54	Evans	You're right.
242:14:07	Cernan	Hello, Houston; America.
242:14:09	CC	Go ahead.
242:14:13	Cernan	Gordo, how's it looking for a midcourse 5? Any further word?
242:14:24	CC	Our last information was still a half a foot. Or essentially no midcourse. I'm not sure if we've been affected by the PTC here or not, the singlejet spinup, but we'll let you know.
242:14:42	Cernan	Okay, fine. Don't worry about it. You won't have a final word on it until tomorrow anyway.
242:14:48	CC	That's affirmative. I doubt if we'll have any - enough tracking before bedtime here to give you any update tonight.
242:14:57	Cernan	Okay, no problem.
242:15:10	CC	And we'd like you to configure the HIGH GAIN for us. We'd like PITCH, minus 40; and YAW, 90, on the dials and then go directly from AUTO to REACQ.
242:15:29	Cernan	Okay, say again the numbers, Gordo. I'm sorry; I missed it.
242:15:32	CC	Okay, PITCH is minus 40 and YAW, plus 90.
242:15:42	Cernan	Okay, minus 40 and a plus 9 - 90.
242:15:46	CC	That's affirmative.
242:15:51	Cernan	And REACQ.
242:15:54	CC	Affirm.
242:15:58	Evans	Ohay, you have REACQ and NARROW.
242:16:00	Cernan	REACQ and NARROW now.
242:20:56	CC	America, Houston. Over.
242:21:02	Evans	Go ahead.
242:21:04	CC	Okay, this SIM bay jett configuration just isn't hacking the job of damping the rates. We're going to go to adjacent quads to try to get it dampened quicker. We'd like you to enable Charlie and Delta. To do that, just disable all Alfa and Bravo jets, enable all Delta jets, and also Charlie 3. Over.
242:21:36	Cernan	Okay, Gordo. Let me disable all Alfa and Bravo first.
242:21:48	CC	Okay, Geno. And then enable all Delta plus Charlie 3.
242:22:11	Cernan	Okay. You don't want Charlie 4 enabled? Or you do? ... - -
242:22:17	CC	That's affirmative. But it is already.
242:22:20	Cernan	Okay, you're - Yes, here's what I got. I got - I got Delta 1 and Delta 2 on B/D ROLL. I've got Charlie 3 and Charlie 4 for PITCH, and I've got Delta 3 and Delta 4 for YAW.
242:22:40	CC	Okay. That sounds exactly right.
242:29:41	CC	America, Houston.
242:29:47	Cernan	America here.
242:29:49	CC	Okay. The rates look good now. I'd like you to use Bravo 2 and Delta 2, and go ahead and spin up.
242:30:05	Cernan	Okay, Gordy. We'll do it - get it this time.
242:30:11	CC	Okay.
242:31:24	CC	America, Houston - -
242:31:25	Cernan	Okay, Gordy; they're all off. They're all off except Bravo 2 and Delta 2.
242:31:32	CC	Roger.
242:31:51	Cernan	Yes, we got the right amount that time. Let's hope it stays good.
242:31:55	CC	Okay. For Ron only, no Seconal tonight. Over.
242:32:08	Evans	Okay.
242:42:15	CC	America, Houston. G&C, with his years of experience, thinks that this PTC is going to hold. It's looking good so far, and so I think it's safe to go ahead and configure to go to sleep there, if you wish.
242:42:33	Cernan	Okay, we're in the process now, Gordy. Thank you.
243:04:14	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 243 hours 4 minutes. The shifts here in the Mission Control Center will be changing shortly. Pete Frank, and the Orange team, will be relieving the White team. Change of shift news conference is estimated for 1 AM Central Standard Time in the MSC news center briefing room. The crew is in the final portion of the presleep checklist and should be turning in shortly. At this time Apollo 17 is 16,242 nautical miles from the Moon traveling at a velocity of 4062 feet per second.
243:07:25	Cernan	Hello, Houston; America.
243:07:30	CC	Hello, America; Houston. Over.
243:07:36	Cernan	Bob?
243:07:37	CC	That is affirm.
243:07:41	Cernan	Okay. We're just about ready to turn out the lights. By my watch, about 7:20 in the morning is wakeup time, and I got the other guys on their couches and I'm going to stand the duty tonight and I'm going to leave my lightweight headset in my ear. But if the higjh gain bothers me during this PTC, I want to go ahead and take it out. And I've got the tone booster connected up and it does work. So, in any event, give me a crew alert in the morning, will you?
243:08:13	CC	Okay. You want a - are you telling me you want to get woke up after 8 hours or at 7:20 as planned?
243:08:21	Cernan	No, as - as by the Flight Plan. We've got to get up as by the Flight Plan.
243:08:24	CC	Okay. Talk to you in the morning. And we'd like OPTICS POWER, OFF, ... - -
243:08:29	Cernan	- - ... Okay, I just didn't want you to ... yes, sir; we'll get the OPTICS POWER, OFF, and we'll get the VOICE, OFF, too.
243:08:41	CC	Okay; that suits - makes everybody happy - -
243:08:42	Cernan	Okay, we'll see you in the morning then.
243:08:44	CC	See you in the morning.
243:08:47	SC	Okay, babe.
243:10:21	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 243 hours 10 minutes. We have said goodnight to the crew and the downlink subcarrier has been turned off on the spacecraft so we do not expect to talk to them any more this evening. As you heard Gene Cernan, the crew intends to stick to the Flight Plan rest period even though they got to bed a little bit late. Wakeup time at 250 hours 30 minutes or about 7:20 AM Central Standard Time tomorrow. We'll keep the line up for a few more minutes in case there's any post scripts from the crew, then we'll take the line down and come back up hourly. At 243 hours 11 minutes this is Mission Control, Houston.
244:23:10	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 244 hours 23 minutes. The change of shift news conference will be begin in approximately 10 minutes in the MSC News Center Briefing Room. Participants will be the Flight Director from the previous shift, Charles Lewis, and the Flight Surgeon, Dr. John Zieglschmid. There was a private conversation with the Command Module, Ronald Evans, between 241 hours 22 minutes and 241 hours 59 minutes. The private conversation was initiated at Evans' request after he had ask permission to take a Lomotil, a medication to reduce gastrointestinal activity. Participants in the private conversation were Dr. Royce Hawkins, Dr. John Zieglschmid, Flight Director Charles Lewis, and CAPCOM Gordon Fullerton. Evans said he had had a continuation of a gas problem, mentioned previously by all 3 crewmen. Both Evans and Gene Cernan said their main concern was for tomorrow's EVA. Dr. Hawkins and Dr. Zieglschmid recommended Evans take 2 Lomotil tablets tonight and 2 more after breakfast to reduce gastrointestinal activity. They recommended that he take a semethocone tablet after meals for gas. They also recommended changes in Evans' breakfast menu tomorrow. Asked if the other 2 crewmen had had problems similar to Evans, Cernan reported that he and Jack Schmitt had had persistant gas which the crew felt was aggrivated by hydrogen dissolved in the water used for rehydrating foods onboard the spacecraft. The crew reported the gas caused occasional discomfort, but that there was no serious problem such as nausea or pain. Dr. Hawkins said he was confident the medication and dietary changes recommended for Evans would preclude any problem for tomorrow's EVA. The news conference should begin approximately 5 or 6 minutes. We've had no further communications with the crew since saying goodnight to them about an hour ago. All going well aboard spacecraft America which is now 19,454 nautical miles from Earth. Velocity 3,997 feet per second. At 244 hours 26 minutes this is Mission Control, Houston.
245:37:01	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 245 hours 37 minutes. All going well with Apollo 17. The spacecraft, America is 22,219 nautical miles from the Moon. Velocity 3,955 feet per second. 4 hours and 52 minutes remaining in the crew rest period. At 245 hours 37 minutes this is mission Control Houston.
246:37:09	PAO	This is Apollo Control. 3 hours and 52 minutes remaining in the crew's resting period. All spacecraft systems continuing to perform well. Apollo 17, now at 24.542 nautical miles from the Moon. Drawing closer to the Earth at a velocity of 3,926 feet per second. At 246 hours 37 minutes this is Mission Control Houston.
247:38:05	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 247 hours 38 minutes. Apollo 17 now 26,914 nautical miles from the Moon. Traveling at a velocity of 3,902 feet per second. 2 hours 50 minutes remaining in the crew rest period. The spacecraft America will pass out of the lunar sphere of influence at an elapsed time of 250 hours 39 minutes 50 seconds. At that time it will be 33,822 nautical miles from the Moon and 171,593 nautical miles from the Earth. At 247 hours 39 minutes this is Mission Control Houston.
248:36:30	PAO	This is Apollo Control. Apollo 17 now 29,143 nautical miles from the Moon; velocity 3,883 feet per second. All spacecraft systems performing well, and 1 hour and 52 minutes remaining in the crew's rest period. At 248 hours 37 minutes, this is Mission Control, Houston.
249:37:01	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 249 hours 37 minutes. 52 minutes remains in the crew's rest period as Apollo 17 is 31,446 nautical miles from the Moon; velocity 3,866 feet per second. Apollo 17 will leave the Moon's sphere of influence at 250 hours 39 minutes 50 seconds at which time it will be 33,822 nautical miles from the Moon and 171,593 nautical miles from the Earth. The time at which Apollo 17 will achieve velocity match - that is the velocity both Earth referenced and Moon referenced will be the same - is 268 hours, 25 minutes, no seconds. At that time the velocity will be 3,839 feet per second referenced to both the Earth and the Moon. And Apollo 17 at velocity match will be 73,775 nautical miles from the Moon, and 137,356 nautical miles: from Earth. The Flight Dynamics officer has also computed a couple of other milestones: The one-half way in time will occur at 270 hours 30 minutes 7 seconds; distance from Earth, at that time, will be 132,654 nautical miles, and from the Moon 78,504 nautical miles. The half way in distance mark will be reached at 281 hours 32 minutes 45 seconds. Apollo 17's distance at that time from both the Earth and the Moon will be 104,396 nautical miles. At 249 hours 39 minutes, this is Mission Control, Houston.
250:28:00	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 250 hours 28 minutes. We're 2 minutes away from crew wakeup. Apollo 17 is 33,382 nautical miles from the Moon, velocity 3,853 feet per second. We'll standby now for the first call of the crew.
250:30:01	CC	(Music: HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS)
250:32:54	Cernan	Good morning, Robert. Good morning.
250:32:56	CC	Good morning, Geno.
250:33:02	Cernan	Hey, your choice of music is getting better down there. We're going to have to keep you there every morning.
250:33:12	CC	Well, if I'm here waking you up on Wednesday morning, fellow, you're in trouble.
250:33:21	Cernan	Yes, we're not going to count Wednesday. We'll - we'll work out something else for Wednesday. I - I know we're not much, but we're all you got for Christmas.
250:33:57	PAO	The wakeup song was, HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS sung by Jerry Vale.
250:35:03	CC	Okay, America, this is Houston. One little update for you on today's plans. At the present time, midcourse 5 is looking like a quarter of a foot per second, which means at the present time, we're not planning on burning it. But we reserve the right to change our mind sometime in the next hour and a half, if necessary. But that'll give you some thought to what to do today.
250:35:29	Cernan	Very good, Bob. Outstanding. We'll go along with whatever you want.
250:35:35	CC	You guys are getting easy.
250:35:41	Cernan	Oh, we get more likable as days go on.
250:38:21	Evans	Good morning, Houston. This is the Command Module Pilot of the spaceship America. And we're up and ready to particpita - participate in another day's activities.
250:38:33	CC	I got you there, Ron. And we're ready to part - participate with you, also.
250:38:42	Evans	(Laughter) Okay, Robert.
250:38:58	Cernan	Got cold up here last night.
250:39:01	CC	Well, I'll tell you, it was 27 at Ellington at 6 o'clock down here, too.
250:39:09	Cernan	Well, it's not quite that cold in here, but there sure is a difference.
250:39:56	Cernan	And, Bob, how's America looking to you down there?
250:40:05	CC	We're looking pretty good. We found nothing overnight to give us any concern, and we see nothing at the present time. Looks great. We're showing you at 66 degrees in the cabin.
250:40:22	Cernan	Yes, sir. We're going to get it warmed up here, though ... - shortly. Okay; America still looks good to us.
250:41:07	CC	And, America, you're now in the Earth control. We passed about 2 minutes ago.
250:41:20	Cernan	What was our - what was our velocity going through the changeover in influence?
250:41:26	CC	Stand by.
250:41:57	CC	And, Geno, you had 3851 feet per second going through the crossover.
250:42:07	Cernan	Okay. We're looking back at a - a very full and very bright, very beautiful Moon, right now. And the Man in the Moon is smiling as he's waving us on home.
250:42:30	CC	Copy that. We had a good picture of him last night here down in Houston, also.
250:52:26	CC	America, Houston. Over.
250:52:32	Schmitt	Go ahead.
250:52:33	CC	Okay. We lost you there with an antenna change that we didn't catch. So we're back with you again.
250:52:42	Schmitt	Yes, we noticed that.
250:52:57	Schmitt	Hey, Bob. What time does the old back room get up this morning?
250:53:03	CC	Which back room?
250:53:07	Schmitt	The geology back room, of course.
250:53:09	CC	Well, beats me. I don't know if there's anyone down there or not. Let me see if I can find out.
250:53:16	Schmitt	No, that's all right, Bob. I just want you to pass on a thought. I had a little trouble getting to sleep last night. And they've probably already thought of it. But it has to do with Van Serg.
250:53:31	CC	Go ahead. I'll copy it down.
250:53:36	Schmitt	No, just ask them if they've thought about the possibility that the - those Van Serg breccias might be - might be the old indurated regolith over the subfloor.
250:54:01	CC	Okay; I got that.
250:54:07	Schmitt	That's an alternative that in the - the heat of battle did not occur to me at the time. It should have, and it may have occurred to some of them.
250:54:17	CC	Okay. Thats as opposed to being a window through - to the - below the subfloor, which is what you suggested the other night.
250:54:25	Schmitt	Yes, sir. I think I - I think I like the regolith better. It - I think it makes sense from a lot of points of view: the size of the crater, the fact that we should have expected to see something but hadn't up to that time.
250:54:39	CC	Okay. I got that.
250:54:48	Schmitt	And the breccias were, thinking back on it, could very easily have been soil breccias and just getting coarser as you got closer to the base of the sub - to the top of the subfloor, which is what we were looking at down in the bottom of the crater.
250:55:07	CC	Okay. Got that.
251:00:01	Schmitt	Bob, is your EECOM friend going to let us practice the waste water dump again today?
251:00:11	CC	I kind of expect so. Stand by and let me find out for sure. Roger, Jack. There's one coming up at 252:50, about 2 hours from now.
251:00:33	Schmitt	Okay. We'll start reviewing that one. We'll be ready for him this time.
251:00:42	CC	We won't let you sneak behind the Moor, on this one.
251:03:48	Schmitt	Very good.
251:15:48	Schmitt	Houston, 17.
251:16:04	CC	America, Houston. Go ahead.
251:16:10	Schmitt	Who's the EECOM this morning?
251:16:14	CC	Charlie Dumis.
251:16:21	Schmitt	Hey, ask Charlie if it's all right if I turn on the commander's heaters?
251:16:35	CC	We don't - Would you clarify that request?
251:16:45	CC	I'll tell you - you can - you can use reel 2. About the only thing I can think of, Jack, would be reel 2.
251:17:14	CC	Jack, you might use reel 2 if you want to. It's about the only thing we can think of.
251:17:25	Schmitt	Yes, you get the idea.
251:17:34	Schmitt	Anyway, it's cold.
251:17:37	CC	Roger.
251:17:45	Schmitt	It's net really that bad, Bob, but we're hearing a lot about it.
251:17:50	CC	Okay. Well, we'll work it out here, if we can try.
251:17:57	Schmitt	Well, you might discuss it with SPAN.
251:18:01	CC	We are, believe me.
251:18:04	Cernan	I'd like not to - like not to waste reel 2. It's got some other good uses.
251:43:19	CC	America, 17. Say again - America, this is Houston.
251:43:29	Schmitt	Are you sure? Would you like to try again?
251:43:31	CC	Well, that's all right, Jack. We'll live with it for a while. We're looking at - and no need to acknowledge this - we're looking at your temperature problem. And there's a couple of obvious things I'm sure you've undertaken, but if you haven't, all the window shades off. Get some sunlight in there. And might crank on all the lights to get some more heat load in there. Also the - of course, the cabin fan and the temperature - CABIN TEMP control thumbwheel - it's your option on that. The other things, like mixing valve adjustment and powering up other items, we're looking at very seriously, but we would like to not do those items until after the EVA this morning. We'd like to remain the status quo on the ECS system with the exception of - you do have the cabin fans on your option there. But we would like to re - retain the rest of it status quo until after the EVA.
251:44:31	Schmitt	Well, thank you for all your research in there, Bob. I'll let the commander make the decisions. It - it's his thermostat.
251:44:43	CC	Roger.
251:44:45	Evans	The CMP feels pretty good so -
251:44:52	Cernan	l'll see if they can get me mad this morning. That'll warm things up. Temperature's on the way up.
251:45:07	CC	Roger. Trying to get reel 2 up to you, if you want.
251:45:14	Cernan	Pardon.
251:45:16	CC	Said, I'll bring reel 2 up to you, if I can get there.
251:45:24	Cernan	Well, reel 2 would sure be a ... start when you consider all I've got is Ron and Jack.
251:57:48	Cernan	Hello, Houston; America.
251:57:52	CC	Yes, sir.
251:57:56	Cernan	Okay, Bob, before we exit PTC at 20 past the next hour, we'll have to get your final words on the midcourse.
251:58:11	CC	Well, ve're working up the midcourse right now, but let's give you some preliminary words, that you won't exit PTC at that time because midcourse 5 is not required - it's less than 0.3 foot per second. Right now your gamma - flight path angle, et cetera, at entry interface is all nominal, and absolutely no midcourse 5 required at this time. And we'll be updating that as we refine the data.
251:58:34	Cernan	Okay, well, that's - okay, well, we still exit PTC, Bob. We go to a different attitude. We - Yes, you have a different roll angle. I'm looking at the right-hand column of the - of the Flight Plan. Yes, we still exit, so we're going to need some words on it by then.
251:59:12	CC	Stand by on that. I've just got - back at 252:20. I was just given the word that we will not -
251:59:33	Cernan	It's just a case of using coupled or uncoupled jets, Bob.
252:00:18	Schmitt	Bob, you want the IR on?
252:00:22	CC	Roger. We're ready for it.
252:00:27	Schmitt	MARK it. It's ON.
252:01:59	CC	America, Houston. We'll assume right now - go ahead and fly the Flight Plan using the notes - on the right-hand column there as - as filed, or as planned.
252:02:16	Cernan	You say we will use the notes on the right-hand side, correct?
252:02:19	CC	That's affirmative. And we have one update. We would like to move up to 252:10. We'd like to move up the IR COVER, OPEN - -
252:02:35	Cernan	Go ahead.
252:02:37	CC	- - ... - we'd like to move up the IR COVER, OPEN, which is at 252:22, - move that up to 252:10 - just put an arrow up there, please.
252:02:50	Cernan	Okay, we got it.
252:04:50	Cernan	Hello, Houston; America.
252:04:53	CC	Yes, sir. Go ahead.
252:04:56	Cernan	Quick update on the crew status report. The well being of the crew is very satisfactory, capable of carrying out everything that is required today. And, specifically, the health of the crew is excellent.
252:05:17	CC	That's real good news.
252:05:23	Cernan	Okay.
252:05:38	CC	Just for your information, Ron gets the same treatment today that the two - you two surface walkers got. During the mission, channel 8 in Houston is going to carry the full spacewalk in its entirety on live television.
252:05:57	Evans	Hey, Bob, I think that's outstanding. Thank you.
252:08:10	CC	America, Houston. I've got a Flight Plan update for you.
252:08:17	Schmitt	Go ahead, Bob.
252:08:19	CC	Okay, first of all - at 252:20, where it says, "Exit G&N PTC at roll angle 071," change the high-gain angles there to minus, a pitch of minus 64, yaw, 32 - 329.
252:08:40	Schmitt	Okay, we got those.
252:08:42	CC	Okay, at 252:30, close UV cover. And that's to be done regardless of the fact that we're scrubbing midcourse 5. Just close UV cover at 252:30.
252:09:01	Cernan	Okay.
252:09:04	CC	And if you'll jump over to 262:10 - 262:10, we've got a change on that attitude - as we're just tweaking it up a little bit - 039, 230, 297; HIGH GAIN angle: PITCH, minus 9; YAW, 339.
252:09:34	Cernan	039, 230, 297, minus 9, and 339.
252:09:39	CC	That's affirm. We're just shooting a slightly different point with the UV at that time.
252:09:45	Cernan	Okay.
252:10:36	Cernan	We're ready to - No, stand by.
252:10:50	CC	And we've copied the 93s. You can go ahead and torque.
252:10:56	Evans	Okay. We'll torque at 11.
252:12:07	Schmitt	Okay, the IR COVER is OPEN.
252:12:12	CC	Roger. Good show.
252:20:00	CC	America, Houston.
252:20:22	Cernan	Houston, America. Did you call?
252:20:25	CC	Roger. I called, but we're about ready to lose the high gain. I'll call you back as soon as we get back in.
252:24:46	Evans	Houston, America.
252:24:49	CC	Go ahead, Houston. Say it again - Go ahead, America.
252:24:55	Evans	(Laughter) Okay, we've got the commander's menu for yesterday.
252:25:01	CC	Roger. We're all listening.
252:25:06	Evans	Okay. Scrambled eggs, bacon squares, pineapple drink, orange drink, plain old coffee, and 10 pecans - that's 10 nuts, not packages. And a vitamin. For lunch: bread, a chocolate bar, an orange drink, and a can of tunafish. For dinner: a beefa steaka, butterscotch pudding, peaches, orange drink, and catsup. Medical: 17055, about 5 hours of fair, no medication, 4-1/2 cans of water. For the old Lunar Module Pilot: scrambled eggs, an orange PA drink, coffee, sugar cookie, and two pecans - that's two nuts, not two packages, and a vitamin. For lunch: peanut butter, jelly, bread, orange GF drink, pork and potatoes, coffee, and a fruitcake. For dinner: beefa steaka, butterscotch pudding, one peach, orange drink, and a coffee. The LMP medical log - he had about 6 hours of good sleep, no medication, and two cans of water.
252:27:43	CC	Break, Ron. We're going to have an antenna switch coming up. We'll call you back when we get good comm.
252:27:51	Evans	Okay.
252:29:19	CC	Okay, America. We're back with you.
252:29:27	Evans	Okay. Just a second.
252:29:35	CC	Just a reminder on the food report, if you want to shorten them. It's normally used negative reporting - only those things you don't eat on the menu.
252:29:54	Evans	Oh, well. I like to talk.
252:29:57	CC	Roger.
252:30:01	Evans	Okay, for the Command Module Pilot. For breakfast, he ate everything. Okay, for lunch - let's see, he ate everything down to the bread, then he had three slices of bread, didn't eat the cherry bar, add a tea, a chocolate bar, and a pack - Wait a minute, I've got the wrong day, sorry. Negate everything I've said on the CMP. Okay, we're on the CMP again. This time, it's day 11. Okay, make it six bacon squares instead of eight, didn't eat the peaches, add a coffee, package of brownies, and 10 pecans. And the vitamin, ate the vitamin. Okay, for lunch, scratch the cherry bar and add a coffee. For supper, add a catsup. Okay, CMPs medical log: 15054, about 6 hours of good, two Lomotil, two sniffs of nosedrops, four cans of water.
252:35:05	Cernan	Okay, Bob. We've stopped PTC, and we've got SIM bay jets on.
252:35:12	CC	Roger.
252:35:26	CC	And, America. We'd like to cov - close the UV cover, please.
252:35:35	Schmitt	Okay, the COVER's now CLOSED.
252:37:16	CC	America, Houston. If you're all on the headset, if you'd like, we've got the news for the morning.
252:37:26	Cernan	Okay; we're all on.
252:37:29	CC	Okay. We start today's newscast out with this historical fact. Today marks the 69th anniversary of man's first flight in a heavier-than-air powered machine. Back on December 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright, of Dayton, Ohio, took three historic flights on the sand beaches of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The brothers will be honored today at a ceremony at a visitor's center near the flying site. Now, a look at the news. There's apparently been a serious hitch in the peace talks between the U.S. and Borth Vietnam. Dr. Henry Kissinger, in a curt news conference at the White House, has said that the North Vietnamese have reneged on earlier agreements and have brought out - brought the peace talks to a halt. Dr. Kissinger said the unresolved problems, which center around the number of peace supervisors and their placement, is not acceptable to the President, and Kissinger feels, and we quote, "We have not yet reached an agreement that thi.-President considers just and fair." Final unofficial returns from the Federally supervisee election name Arnold Miller the new president of the United Mine Workers. His victory over Tony Boyle appears to be only his first step in his promise to clean up the union. Former President Truman remains in serious condition at a Kansas City hospital. Doctors say that the 88-year old Truman is not responding to treatment. In the congressional spotlight in Washington, it appears that the contest for the position of House Majority Leader will be between Representative Thomas O'Neal of Massachusetts and Congressman Sam Gibbons of Florida. The two will vie for the post left vacant by the absent and presumed death of Congressman Hale Boggs. Boggs disappeared in the crash of a light plane in Alaska, in October. Northeastern Ohio has been blasted by a blizzard. As much as 28 inches of snow has fallen, blocking highways and closing airports. An additional foot is expected - was expected before it was to move east. Cleveland has been very hard hit with the white stuff, and the snow is now moving into the northeast. They'll have a white Christmas up that way. Here in Clear Lake, it's a clear, crispy day, but a chilly Sunday morning. Ellington had a 27 this morning. Might take a look at sports here. Miami defeated Baltimore yesterday 16 to 0, to go undefeated in the American Football Conference of the NFL.
252:40:14	CC	America, Houston. The UV COVER appears on our telemetry to still be OPEN. Could you cycle it and see if we can get it CLOSED, or just give us what your onboard talkback looks like.
252:40:31	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. I got it - I only got it to the intermediate position.
252:40:40	CC	Roger; thank you.
252:40:42	CC	Okay. In a real hair raiser at Candlestick Park, San Francisco, John Brodie came off the bench late in the game, in fact, in the last 2 minutes of the third quarter, and led the 49ers to a 20 to 17 win over the Minnesota Vikings. The win gives the Western Division crown to the 49ers in the National Conference. His - the last touchdown thrown was with 5 seconds remaining in the game. That puts the Washington Redskins, Green Bay, San Francisco, and Dallas Cowboys in the NFC playoffs and closes out the NFC contest. In the American Conference, there's one key game today to decide the winner of the Central Division. Pittsburgh plays San Diego and Cleveland plays the New York Jets. Both Cleveland and Pittsburgh will get into the playoff's, but their position in the standings is not yet known. One will be the wild-card team, one will be the conference - division winner. Miami and Oakland are the other teams in the American Conference playoffs. Cincinnati plays here at Houston. And we'll keep you posted on that one. In local high school football, Baytown Sterling scored a major upset by defeating San Antonio Lee in the 4A semifinals. The score was 21 to 20 and the game in the Astrodome before 26,000 fans. The loss was the first in 28 games for the San Antonio school. In basketball, the Houston Cougars downed California last night, 79 to 75. Some other major college scores: Kansas, 60, over San Francisco, 58; Penn State, 65, over Boston, 63; New Mexico State, 69, Texas El Paso, 49; Indiana, 89, Ohio, 68; Minnesota, 87, Loyola, 81; Florida State, 85, Baylor, 67. And in pro basketball, Houston defeated the Detroit Pistons, 123 to 112. And just a final note from all your friends down at Cape Kennedy, they'd just like you to know that the Merritt island High School won the Florida State Championship, defeating Tallahassee Leon High School, 40 to 21. And, that's pretty much the update for the morning.
252:42:55	Cernan	Thank you, Robert, for that Sunday morning news break.
252:44:08	Cernan	Houston, America. Are we GO for the fuel cell and the waste water dump and the other dumps to go?
252:44:16	CC	Roger. You're GO for that, and we're watching them down here.
252:44:22	Cernan	Okay, we'll start the waste water dump.
252:47:39	CC	17, Houston. We'd like AUTO on the HIGH GAIN.
252:48:19	CC	America, Houston. I don't think I ever updated your consumables, and just a real quick update. You're above the line on all your oxygen tanks. You're above the Flight Plan line on all your hydrogen tanks or right on the line. And you're 3 percent above the line on the RCS. That's Flight Plan usage at this time, so you're above the line on everything.
252:48:47	Evans	Okay, Houston. Thanks much.
252:49:46	CC	America, Houston. The MC&W on the FUEL CELL an O2 FLOW HIGH is normal.
252:49:56	Schmitt	Yes. I guess I finally learned that, Bob, and it didn't bother me a bit.
252:52:25	CC	America, Houston. While you're working on the fuel cell area there, we'd like to reconfigure our H2 tank fans. We'd like H2 tank 2 FANs to ON, H2 tank 3 FANs to OFF.
252:52:43	Schmitt	Okay, you got it.
253:06:10	CC	For a while, until things stabilize.
253:06:16	CC	America, Houston.
253:06:19	Cernan	Go ahead.
253:06:21	CC	We haven't heard any report from you on - and we're just kind of curious. Have you had a lot of condensation moisture around the cockpit?
253:06:32	Cernan	Negative. No, it's been very dry.
253:06:36	CC	Okay; real good. Well, just a reminder; may not be applicable if you've got a good dry cockpit there. On 16 we had some - rather strange readings on the EVAP OUT temperature and a few other ones. And the potential is there for you to get those same readings - especially if you had had moisture - the potential is to get those readings at - after depress, and we'll be watching it closely. I guess - I don't want to say just ignore them, but we'll be watching them and take any readings for after depress there with a grain of salt. And while you're at it, you might go down and zero the optics If you've got somebody in the LEB.
253:07:16	Cernan	Okay, Bob, stand by. We'll get that. Listen, the tunnel is dry up to the hatch. However, when you put your hand up in the tunnel around the - the edge of the hatch and on the - on the outer periphery of the hatch itself, there is quite a bit of moisture up there. We looked up there yesterday and couldn't find any, but there is some up there today. And the face of the hatch is slightly moist, but it's not - nothing like bubbles.
253:07:45	CC	Okay. Well, we just want you to be aware that you may see some extraneous ECS readings. It's no problem at all, but, you know, just wanted you to be aware of it.
253:08:25	CC	Gene, the specific thing on 16 that occurred was - as we thought it out was that the ECU control unit back of that panel there had the freezing - we think - freezing of the water on it, causing the bad readings.
253:08:46	Cernan	Okay. When we changed the canister this morning, Ron tells me, there was water back there, too.
253:08:53	CC	Okay. We'll just - we can just expect some possible erroneous readings.
253:10:04	Cernan	OPTICS to ZERO. G/N POWER is OFF.
253:10:52	Cernan	Houston, America.
253:10:55	CC	Go, America.
253:10:59	Cernan	Okay, Bob. We're eliminating everything in the Flight Plan between 253:10, where you terminate the waste water dump, which has been done, and we're picking it up on EVA Checklist at 253:50.
253:11:17	CC	Okay; that sounds great, Geno. Press.
253:11:24	Cernan	Okay.
253:11:34	CC	And, 17, if we could have ACCEPT, we'll give you state vector.
253:11:43	Cernan	Okay, Mr. R. You've got ACCEPT.
253:11:46	CC	Okay.
253:13:51	CC	Say again? Oh, the computer's yours, America.
253:14:00	Cernan	Okay; thank you. The computer is ours.
253:14:03	CC	Roger.
253:16:38	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 253 hours 16 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. Apollo 16 [sic] coasting home now 167,091 nautical miles out from Earth. Velocity 3,034 feet per second. Midcourse correction burn number 5, which is nominally scheduled at 253 hours 42 minutes Ground Elapsed Time will not be performed in as much as the correction is less than a half foot per second required. Meanwhile, the spaceflight meterology group with the National Weather Service said this morning that weather conditions are expected to be satisfactory for the landing and recovery of Apollo 17 on Tuesday. The weather forecast for the planned landing area, approximately 360 nautical miles southeast of Pago Pago, calls for partly cloudly skies, widely scattered rain showers, variable winds at 10 miles per hour, seas at 3 feet, and the temperature near 80 degrees. Still approximately 4 hours away from the transearth EVA in which Command Module Pilot, Ron Evans, will go hand over hand back to the SIM bay and retrieve film cassettes from the cameras and instruments in the SIM bay, pass them back into the Command Module for return home. At 253:18 still up live as long as the crew is awake, this is Apollo Control.
253:22:23	Schmitt	Houston, 17.
253:22:29	CC	Go ahead, America.
253:22:34	Schmitt	Yes, take a look at the LMPs biomed and see how it looks to you this morning.
253:22:49	CC	LMPs biomed looks pretty good, America.
253:22:52	Schmitt	Okay.
253:43:28	Evans	Okay, Houston. The Command Module Pilot biomed should be on the line.
253:43:34	CC	Okay, Ron. We'll give you a word here.
253:44:05	CC	Ron, your biomed looks great.
253:44:12	Evans	Okay; mighty fine.
253:51:53	Evans	Hello, Houston. We just turned the CABIN FAN, OFF.
253:51:57	CC	Roger. We are copying it - cabin temp around 70. is it a little more comfortable?
253:52:06	Evans	Well, we got two extremes.
253:52:09	CC	Okay.
253:53:26	Evans	Okay; let's see now, the EVA umbilical bag is on the rock boxes - on the - LiOH cans now. What's next, Jack?
253:53:40	Schmitt	Yes.
253:54:32	CC	America, we're showing - -
253:54:33	Evans	... Go ahead.
253:54:39	CC	- - we're showing a slightly high O2 flow. We're just wondering if all the waste compartment vents and all your dump vents are closed as per the Flight Plan.
253:54:52	Evans	Well, as a matter of face, no. OVERBOARD DRAIN was OPEN - Let's see, BATTERY VENT's CLOSED during the water dump, but now it's to VENT. WASTE STOWAGE VENT is now CLOSED. We're thinking about opening that WASTE STOWAGE VENT, anyhow, to keep any possible breakage in there from coming back into the cabin. And that way it might go outside during the depress instead of inside. What do you all think of that?
253:55:25	CC	Let us debate that one. It sounds pretty good, but let us debate it here.
253:55:30	Evans	Okay.
253:55:32	Cernan	Tom, the principle concern is those BUSS samples.
253:55:38	CC	Roger. I understand your concern. I - we'll work on it here. I don't think there's any problem to it.
253:55:46	Cernan	Okay. But all I'm saying is that the BUSS samples have never flown before.
253:56:08	Schmitt	Yes, the EVA umbilical bag is snapped on there. Okay. They're hooked up there, but let me make sure it's hooked down at the bottom this time.
253:56:26	Cernan	I don't think - I don't think it has been yet. Yes, it would, as a matter of fact.
253:58:04	Schmitt	Okay; the A-2 rock bag is tied up. Yes.
253:58:18	Cernan	Okay; that A-7 bag's all squared away. Okay; and let's see what we got there, so we can reach those at the bottom. Temporary storage bag is clear in the top. Yes, we want to leave them there so I can open the bottom. Are they tied up? Okay; here we are. Okay.
253:58:54	Schmitt	Yes, I'll have to. Oh, it will hold up there as long as I snap it. Yes, the LEVA bags are okay.
253:59:12	Evans	Okay. We got everything we want in the jett bag now?
253:59:55	Evans	Hey, Houston, this is America. Obviously I'm on VOX here, so I'll try and keep you informed on how things are going.
254:00:15	CC	America, Houston.
254:00:20	Evans	Okay; go ahead.
254:00:21	CC	Some words concerning the waste management vent. We really don't care what you do with it up - now until a period 20 minutes prior to your suit integrity check. We would like to have it closed for a good stabilized reading during suit integrity check, and it requires to be closed 20 minutes prior to that time for a stabilized flow. After the suit integrity check, if you desire to open it during the cabin depress, that's okay with us.
254:00:49	Evans	Okay. We'll leave it closed now, and during cabin depress, we'll probably open it then.
254:00:57	CC	Okay. Would you like us to remind you on it or just press on like you are doing?
254:01:02	Evans	Yes, that's affirm. We can use all the help we can get.
254:01:07	CC	Roger.
254:01:13	Evans	Okay.
254:03:05	Cernan	Okay, Jack. The jett bag is taped. Okay. Temporarily stowed.
254:03:22	Schmitt	We're down to mag already.
254:03:26	Cernan	On the camera, yes. Okay; 8. Okay. Yes, this is a biggy. Okay, let me verify. I think I've already got that. Ah ha, there it is. Yes. Ah ha, there it is.
254:03:57	Evans	Okay; we've got that one. Check it. Yes; we're okay. Yes. I don't have mine on yet, but here it is. Yes, it's there. It's installed. Jack screws are fully open. Yes, I - I got it open, but I didn't take anything out. Everything was already out.
254:04:44	Cernan	Okay; TV pole. Right hand. Yes, I knew, rock box. No, not for me. Look good.
254:05:26	Evans	Gene, do you know how to run an extension on the OPS (laughter)? Okay.
254:05:46	Evans	Okay. What did you say? You want A-2 now?
254:05:59	Cernan	Okay; we're A-2.
254:06:07	Cernan	Okay, Houston; America. The OPS checks out at 5900 psi and is regulating to 3.9.
254:06:16	CC	Roger, Gene.
254:06:49	Schmitt	Okay. The old PGA bag is installed.
254:07:06	Evans	Okay. And the EV gloves are on. Okay?
254:08:14	Cernan	For some reason, they're called entry boots up here.
254:08:36	Schmitt	Okay. Tiedown rope. Where does it go? Okay. And the - Okay; everything goes ...
254:08:57	Schmitt	Okay. Vac bag is in there, headrest pads, tiedown ropes, and heel clips.
254:10:02	Schmitt	Okay; lunar sounder cassette bag is in the EVA bag.
254:10:10	Cernan	Yes.
254:10:16	Schmitt	What'd we do with that tissue dispenser, Gene?
254:10:22	Cernan	We use it up? ... new one.
254:10:49	Schmitt	Yes, just like that. Ah ha, there's the old pressure gauge. And it reads 0.
254:11:14	Cernan	Okay. It's in the wrist tether pouch?
254:11:18	Schmitt	Ah-ha, you're ... too.
254:11:32	Cernan	Okay. Ah ha ...?
254:11:40	Schmitt	Yes.
254:11:47	Cernan	(Laughter) I was just acting surprised; I really know where they go. That's a little - We listen that way.
254:12:02	Schmitt	They're not on yet.
254:12:09	Evans	Can't hold everything still to get the thing in there.
254:12:20	Schmitt	Bag go in there? Got it all stowed?
254:12:28	Evans	Oh, yes.
254:12:57	Schmitt	Hand controllers are stowed.
254:13:21	Schmitt	Okay; counterbalance is all squared away.
254:13:24	Cernan	Yes.
254:13:25	Schmitt	Okay?
254:13:38	Cernan	What kind of - what kind of lens?
254:13:52	Schmitt	Keep it in F-1 all the time.
254:14:01	Schmitt	Let's use that other DAC. It goes on the pole with the but you can hook her up. Well, let's put it on the pole first, I guess.
254:14:27	Schmitt	A-1, decon bag.
254:14:30	Cernan	Oh, okay. I didn't know what you meant. I've got to get in A-1 is what you are saying.
254:14:54	Schmitt	Don't forget my jett bag is down there. Okay; the old jett bag's on the other side now.
254:15:53	Cernan	In the volkswagen pocket.
254:15:58	Schmitt	Here Gene, can you attach this to something up there? Okay.
254:16:46	Schmitt	... out here again.
254:16:49	Cernan	... all this dirt out here again.
254:17:12	Schmitt	Okay, you get that ... finished?
254:17:46	Cernan	Here we go. Here comes the cable. Here comes the monitor. Well, go that way, I guess. Oh, okay.
254:18:30	Cernan	Here it is. There's the tape. Okay. What else do we need out of the - out of the A-1? Yes. Yes. Yes. Package of towels. Oh, okay. That's right. We need a package of towels, don't we? That's to clean off the - all the stuff when we bring it back in, you know? Who - whose towel do we use? Do we use the commander's? Well, I'll use one of mine (laughter). Okay; here's the package of towels.
254:19:37	Schmitt	Okay; you got a bunch of them? We're only going to need three or four.
254:19:50	Cernan	Yes. Well, yes. You guys aren't, but I still am.
254:19:56	Schmitt	Yes, okay. Well, I'm not really pressurized either, I guess -
254:20:13	Cernan	Okay; that's A-1.
254:20:50	Schmitt	Okay.
254:20:55	Cernan	The cable; the TV.
254:22:44	Schmitt	- cable on there first. Let's hook the cable up.
254:24:45	Schmitt	They should be okay, but ...
254:26:38	Schmitt	It just hooks like that.
254:26:58	Evans	Got one?
254:26:59	Schmitt	Got one.
254:30:17	Evans	Houston, in case you're wondering, we're still routing cables.
254:30:22	CC	Roger. We've got you down in the checklist, the step just prior to "S-BAND AUX TV to SCI." Do you concur on that?
254:30:31	Evans	Yes. We're still keeping TV and DAC cables and what have you up to the pole.
254:30:38	CC	Roger. We get you Ron.
254:32:48	Schmitt	... before we run out of those.
254:35:49	CC	America, Houston.
254:35:53	Evans	Yes, go ahead.
254:35:54	CC	Is Gene in the commander's seat at this time?
254:35:59	Evans	That's affirm.
254:36:01	CC	Okay; I'll delay then - a minute here. We're going to have a VERB 49 maneuver coming up to you. We're getting the SIM bay a little bit cold, and we want to warm up those handrails, so we'll be maneuvering here at about 4 - At 254:45, I'll have a maneuver for you.
254:36:20	Evans	Okay; we're ready from now on any time.
254:36:24	CC	Just stand by. We want to check out the numbers. I just wanted to give you the word that we were going to make this maneuver.
254:36:32	Evans	Any time, Bob.
254:38:06	Schmitt	Well, you're going to have to put on your helmet - It's really over that way a little bit more, because I got to get into the hatch to get it out.
254:38:15	Schmitt	Okay. Well, anyhow that's all taped up. ... next. Okay.
254:38:37	Schmitt	There's the old ... IV tether.
254:39:05	Evans	Ah. Found something we didn't practice.
254:39:08	CC	America, Houston. I've got the VERB 49 maneuver.
254:39:10	Cernan	Oh. Okay. Go ahead with the numbers.
254:39:20	CC	Okay. It's ROLL, 150; PITCH, 216; YAW, 330. And that's - we'd like that maneuver to start at 254:45 Just prior to starting that maneuver, we'd like the IR COVER CLOSED and the IR OFF.
254:39:56	Cernan	Okay. At 24:45 you want 150, 216, and 330. Prior to maneuver, you want IR CLOSED and OFF. And what about the jets on that, Bob?
254:40:12	CC	The same jets you have configured. Did you read ROLL, 150; PITCH, 216; and YAW, 330: is that what you read?
254:40:20	Cernan	That's what I read, and I'll stay in SIM bay jets.
254:40:23	CC	Okay, and you'll need these new high-gain antenna angles: PITCH, minus 32; YAW, 52.
254:40:36	Cernan	Okay. PITCH is minus 32, and YAW is 52. Got it.
254:41:10	Evans	Okay, and then what? Okay. Okay. I'll get off of the headset now then.
254:41:30	Schmitt	Okay. Panel POWER OFF, SUIT POWER OFF and AUDIO CONTROL NORMAL. Got it? CONTROL NORMAL. Okay. Panel 604, Geno, is SUIT PRESSURE ALARM OFF, verify.
254:41:46	Cernan	OFF.
254:41:47	Schmitt	All caps from 603.
254:41:49	Cernan	Removed.
254:41:50	Schmitt	Unsnap CMP comm carrier - cable from O2 umbilical, and we'll beep for you on it when you're - -
254:41:59	CC	America, Houston.
254:42:01	Schmitt	- - ready.
254:42:05	Cernan	Okay. We're going to go ahead and close the IR and turn it off at this time.
254:42:09	CC	America, Houston. Would you just close the IR, and we'll cue you on the OFF call. We'd like to see it here, and we'd like to do that as a cue.
254:42:20	Cernan	Okay. It's OFF.
254:42:22	Schmitt	Okay.
254:42:22	Cernan	CLOSED, rather.
254:42:23	Schmitt	COVER'S CLOSED.
254:42:25	Schmitt	MARK it. And it went gray.
254:42:33	CC	Roger. We copy that.
254:42:38	Schmitt	Okay. Route outboard of the strut and wires and connect CCU head to 603. ...
254:43:29	CC	Geno, I'd like to give you just one bit of information we just got from the simulator. When you go from this new attitude I gave you, this verb 49 attitude right now to the EVA attitude, you'll see a middle gimble angle of 66 degrees. That's right off the simulator.
254:43:49	Cernan	Okay, Bob. Thank you very much.
254:45:12	Cernan	We're maneuvering, Bob.
254:45:19	Schmitt	Okay, you got it connected? Secure cable to TV bracket and top of strut using two straps.
254:45:29	Schmitt	Okay. You understand that? Secure cable - and that's the same one, the comm cables - to TV bracket - top of strut using two straps. You got that?
254:45:55	Schmitt	Okay. Position the TV monitor. You got that. And - disconnect PGA bag from couch at four places, Ron. It's the old remove center couch bit.
254:46:48	Schmitt	Going to have to move the old jett bag, though. Back over to your side, I guess, Ron. Yes, let's get this jett bag over on the other side. You want to unhook the PGA bags. I've got the front two. Okay. Now you can take the center couch out.
254:47:31	Evans	Yes.
254:48:01	Schmitt	Think you can handle this in zero G, Ron?
254:48:20	Schmitt	It certainly comes out easier, doesn't it? I mean like you're going to have to - ... that way - that's right, because this place is fuller than the mock-up ever was.
254:48:56	Schmitt	Yes, it's the old full spacecraft story. Well, look what turned up here; the clock. Maps. Well, they should be in R-5. Wait a minute. Yes. Okay.
254:50:10	Schmitt	Secured? Yes. Okay. Close and lock your old marmon clamps.
254:50:47	Schmitt	Closed and locked? Okay. Open the old - the EVA umbilical bag.
254:50:56	Evans	Open.
254:50:57	Schmitt	Unsnap the top strap and remove spacecraft end of EVA umb all the way to the second tiedown strap. And you're going to attach that to 603, but verify that the EVA STATION O2 is OFF. Attach the EVA umbilical to 603. Route over couch beam and under wires.
254:52:53	CC	Jack, whenever it's convenient, you might turn off the IR now. It's looking great.
254:53:02	Schmitt	Okay. The IR ALARM switch is going to OFF.
254:53:07	Schmitt	MARK.
254:53:11	CC	Thank you, sir.
254:53:56	Schmitt	Okay. You got the O2 locked?
254:53:58	Evans	Yes.
254:53:58	Schmitt	ELECTRICAL locked?
254:53:59	Evans	Yes.
254:54:00	Schmitt	Umbilical tether to couch ring and lock and install pin.
254:54:04	Evans	Okay.
254:54:05	Schmitt	Got that? SCU OPEN, bleed system, SCU CLOSED.
254:54:21	Schmitt	Okay. And you can close it if your system has bled down. Unstow press gauge from EVA bag and connect the gauge to 603. And tape the flashlight to panel 603 guard, Gene.
254:54:38	Cernan	Okay.
254:54:39	Schmitt	And then we can - -
254:54:40	Cernan	... gage?
254:54:40	Schmitt	Yes, install the gage, tape the flashlight, and then we get rid of the tape, yes. Got one?
254:55:11	Schmitt	Leave the tape on that so the light won't get out, Ron. (Laughter) Jerry Griffin told me that one.
254:55:40	Schmitt	Once you're taped it you can stow the tape. Unstow from the left-hand temporary stowage bag, top pocket: PURGE VALVE, stow in EVA bag, PURGE VALVE patch - pouch. And then the waist tethers, also. (Humming) Waist tethers are in that bag.
254:56:22	Schmitt	Houston, do you have recommendation on whether we use 208 or 211 PURGE VALVE? You - you were very interested in that on the lunar surface. Here's yours, I guess.
254:56:33	CC	Stand by. We're getting it.
254:56:35	Cernan	Bob - Bob, we're using my OPS, so I assume it would be 208.
254:56:41	CC	That sounds good, Gene.
254:57:00	Schmitt	Okay. Here's some more tape, Geno. Stow in the EVA bag in the proper pouch, and then get the waist - both waist tethers out. And we can attach them up here to the guards.
254:57:46	Schmitt	Yes, I'll get it. And we want one over on the other side, wherever the other one is.
254:58:05	Schmitt	Okay. PURGE VALVE waist - and there's another waist tether in the EVA bag.
254:58:43	Schmitt	Yes, hook that up there. ... put that up ... Oh, that's yours. I'm sorry (laughter). I was looking for this one. All right.
254:59:27	Schmitt	Yes, that's the one. I verified that. Numbers? Okay.
254:59:59	Cernan	Okay, Bob - -
254:59:59	Schmitt	Okay.
255:00:00	Cernan	- - we're at the attitude, and the high gain is set. And I never did see that middle gimbal angle get to 60.
255:00:10	Schmitt	Unstow the CDRs LEVA, and leave the EVA bags in the LEVA bag - EVA gloves in the LEVA bag.
255:00:20	CC	Okay, Geno. It will be the next maneuver that you'll see that middle gimbal angle out around 60 - 66 degrees.
255:00:31	Cernan	Okay.
255:02:00	Schmitt	Should have vacuumed those things (laughter). And particularly since you're going to be looking into the Sun (laughter).
255:02:40	Evans	Hey ...
255:02:42	Schmitt	That's right.
255:03:12	Schmitt	Okay, where? ...
255:03:26	Schmitt	Put the - put them in the tan TSB. No, not yet. That's the - Yes, unstow the LMP LEVA and EV gloves. Put the gloves in the top pocket.
255:04:14	Schmitt	Oh, they're in the left-hand top pocket. We wiped those off quite a bit. They're not half bad now. I don't have any instructions.
255:07:16	Schmitt	Okay. I think we can stick these under the couch.
255:07:25	Schmitt	Yes. Put your LEVA on the helmet. Okay, LEVA bags go up in the tunnel. Then we need to get the CDR's helmet out, too.
255:09:00	Cernan	Houston, this is America. By my count, we're still about 30 or 40 minutes ahead here.
255:09:08	CC	Roger, Gene. You're looking good.
255:09:15	Schmitt	Oh, not too far. I'll have to - can't tell from the list. ... the next page? Huh? Yes. Oh ... I wouldn't know if my helmet was fogged up or not.
255:09:57	Schmitt	Supposed to have put them in the left-hand -
255:10:16	Schmitt	Got a place for that ...?
255:10:52	Schmitt	Somewhere I ceased to be careful with my helmet, I can see that because ... (Humming)
255:13:11	Schmitt	Okay. Have you got the CDR's helmet unstowed? The IV gloves?
255:13:55	Schmitt	Put your helmet stowage bag over there. Yes. Place accessory bag in the stowage bag. IV gloves in the temporary stowage bag.
255:14:22	Schmitt	Okay. You got your helmet on? Verified your visors? Verify the LEVA visors? Okay, and we antifogged. Okay. And the helmets and LEVAs are under the CDR couch. Stow loose items. Verify all your loose items, gents.
255:15:31	Schmitt	We've used it all.
255:15:43	Schmitt	Okay. Let me verify that we've got all the covers closed. One, two - Covers are closed. Panel 230, MAPPING CAMERA, OFF. SOUNDER RECORDER is OFF, IR is OFF, SELF TEST, HEATERS to - just about. You can get - you can work in that direction now. You're happy with loose items and everything?
255:16:25	Cernan	... first?
255:16:26	Schmitt	CMP first. Yes. They've gotten it. Yes. Then me, and then you. I'm just reading you the procedures is all.
255:16:55	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. For a little while things may sound a little bit confused. We're going to do the old thing about getting into suits.
255:17:01	CC	Roger. We're copying that.
255:17:03	Schmitt	And if you don't hear from us - if you don't hear from us, off and on; well, that's because we're not talking to you.
255:17:09	Cernan	And, Bob, the CDR's going off the loop right now. I'll be back in plenty of time for that maneuver.
255:17:15	CC	Okay.
255:17:24	Schmitt	And - let's see, continuing right here. SELF TEST is OFF, and the UV is OFF. And the DATA SYS - the ON, switch is to OFF, strange as that may sound. And - I can. Yes, I will. I'll stay on for a while, until Gene gets suited.
255:18:02	Schmitt	And the panel 5 INSTRUMENTATION SCIENCE EQUIPMENT SEB circuit breakers are coming OPEN. Two are open. Ron, you may want to watch that. Yes.
255:18:38	Schmitt	I already stowed mine in my temporary stowage bag. That's it ...
255:20:37	CC	America, Houston.
255:20:43	Schmitt	Yes, go ahead.
255:20:44	CC	Did Ron unplug from the biomed for a while?
255:20:49	Schmitt	Yes, he is off the biomed for a while.
255:20:52	CC	Okay. Thank you.
255:20:59	Schmitt	But you can look at me for a while.
255:21:05	CC	Yes, you're there.
255:30:09	PAO	This is Apollo Control, while the crew is suiting up, some spacecraft distance and velocity numbers. The current distance from the earth 163,130 nautical miles, velocity 3,131 feet per second. 255:30. And the crew is way ahead of the timeline in getting suited up and preparing for Ron Evans' EVA. However, it is unlikely that they will begin EVA early. That remains to be seen of course. And at 255:30 this is Apollo Control.
255:31:31	Evans	Okay, Houston. Gene's got his suit on now, and he'll help Jack get into his.
255:31:41	CC	Roger, Ron.
255:31:44	Evans	And in case you're won - in case you're wondering, we changed the procedure there a little bit. It was more convenient for them to get those guys suited first and then me.
255:31:52	CC	Okay. We'll buy that. You still are off of biomed. Do you concur on that?
255:32:03	Evans	Yes, if you want to take a look at it, I can plug it in here. I'm on Jack's headset now, but I can plug it in if you want me to.
255:32:08	CC	No, no problem - no problem. We just wanted to, you know, it's easier to remind you now than it is to have you unzip the suit or something, that's all.
255:32:17	Evans	Oh, okay. Yes, I understand. Let me check and see if it's still working. I'll go off first and then back on.
255:32:37	Evans	Okay. It's hooked up now.
255:32:42	CC	Roger, Ron. You look good. You're breathing.
255:32:48	Evans	I'm breathing, huh? .Okay.
255:41:26	Cernan	Okay, Bob, CDR's suited and back on the comm and biomed.
255:41:31	CC	Okay. We copy that.
255:43:04	Schmitt	Houston, how do you read the LMP?
255:43:07	CC	LMP, we read you loud and clear.
255:43:13	Schmitt	Okay. I'm in w suit and on suit comm now.
255:43:22	CC	And be advised the CDR and LMP both look good on biomed.
255:43:31	Schmitt	Okay. And we're going to get the old CMP in the suit here.
255:43:36	CC	Okay.
255:43:40	Schmitt	That or we'll let him do it by himself since he's so proficient at it now.
255:44:54	CC	America, Houston. We're copying you as being somewhat ahead on your time line, so don't rush on the - on the suit donning.
255:45:08	Schmitt	Roger. We're not rushing, just going at it systematically. We apparently learned how to do it, though, somewhere along the line.
255:45:17	CC	Okay. Well, just want you to be advised we don't particularly want to start early; and, therefore, you're ahead of the time line right now. You can take a break afterwards maybe.
255:45:28	Cernan	Okay, Bob, ... on that one.
255:45:34	Schmitt	Understand, Bob. Understand.
255:54:01	Schmitt	Houston, this is the LMP. I've got something for you you've been looking forward to. It's a number. It's 24173.
255:54:15	CC	Roger, Jack.
255:54:38	CC	Jack, I wasn't sure what you were talking about there for a minute, but it lit up the face on the panel next to me there. So everybody's happy now.
255:54:50	Schmitt	Good. I'm sorry about that, Bob. Tell them that it was not intentional to leave it in the suit. As a matter of fact, it might be worth a reminder when you think we're unsuiting - suiting to take it out.
255:55:17	CC	Well, if you wouldn't mind a reminder, we wouldn't mind giving it to you.
255:55:24	Schmitt	Fine with me.
255:55:27	CC	We're writing it into the EVA Checklist right now.
256:02:12	Schmitt	Houston. We're on the top of 3-8.
256:02:17	CC	Roger. Understand.
256:02:22	Schmitt	With the exception of the VERB 49 maneuver, the other pages are complete.
256:02:28	CC	Roger. Yes, you read my mind on that one.
256:02:34	Schmitt	Say again?
256:02:35	CC	You read my mind. That was the next thing I was going to ask you. I hadn't seen a VERB 49, and that's on that page that isn't required at this time.
256:02:48	Schmitt	Yes, right. We're ... by for your Flight Plan time.
256:02:50	Cernan	Bob - we'll maneuver in the Flight Plan - VERB 49.
256:02:57	CC	Roger. We understand.
256:03:01	Schmitt	Okay. Verify your SCU, CLOSED. You ready to go?
256:03:26	Schmitt	Panel 2, CRYO PRESS INDICATOR - INDICATOR is ... 3. Panel 603, EVA STATION O2, ON. Verify EVA STATION O2 gauge reads approximately same as surge tank. And surge tank reads 850. I guess that's approximately. (Laughter.)
256:04:07	Schmitt	Okay. SCU OPEN. Verify flow and purge umbilical. And then the panel 603, EVA STATION O2 OFF - O2 OFF.
256:04:36	Schmitt	Okay. You verified all that (laughter). Waist - remove waist belt stowage strap from umbilical and stow in EVA bag. Okay. That's done. Connect EVA umbilical electrical and O2 to CMP PGA, right-hand blue and lock. You're going to connect the EVA umbilical to yourself.
256:05:34	Schmitt	(Cough). Okay. Your electrical and O2 are connected, right-hand blue and locked.
256:06:08	Schmitt	Okay?
256:06:24	Schmitt	I transferred the LEB. I don't see that in here anymore.
256:06:40	Schmitt	There it is. Okay. Your next big step here is to connect the waist belt and lock; buckle on the left-hand side.
256:07:20	Schmitt	... down there now, Ron. Can I help you with the connections? You don't have me going down there, you know, until -
256:09:45	Schmitt	No.
256:10:52	Cernan	Okay. Yes, that's good. But you'd like it pointed down, right? Yes, that makes sense. Now, is your belt under the scissor pocket? Okay. We got our comm carriers on, so that's no problem. You ought to put your comm carrier on now. And then we do a comm check.
256:12:28	Evans	Hey, Houston. This is the old Command Module Pilot back on the loop. How do you read?
256:12:35	CC	Read you loud and clear, Ron, and biomed's clear.
256:12:40	Evans	Hey, okay.
256:12:43	Cernan	Okay. Some power at panel 10, Ron. POWER, AUDIO; SUIT POWER'S ON; MODE, VOX.
256:12:48	Evans	Okay, we're in VOX.
256:12:49	Cernan	VOX sensitivity as required, approximately 7.
256:12:53	Evans	Well, it works good at 9. I'll try it down here. I don't know whether - Well, I'll leave it all the way up. I '11 leave it on 9. It works that way.
256:13:04	Cernan	PAD COMM, OFF.
256:13:05	Evans	PAD COMM is OFF.
256:13:06	Cernan	S-BAND, T/R.
256:13:08	Evans	S-BAND is T/R.
256:13:09	Cernan	AUDIO CONTROL, NORMAL.
256:13:11	Evans	AUDIO CONTROL'S in NORMAL.
256:13:12	Cernan	INTERCOM, T/R.
256:13:14	Evans	INTERCOM, T/R.
256:13:15	Cernan	And VHF AM, OFF.
256:13:18	Evans	VHF is OFF.
256:13:20	Cernan	Okay. ...
256:13:23	Evans	Okay.
256:13:24	Cernan	Panel 3, S-BAND AUX ... verify.
256:13:39	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. AUX TV is going to TV now.
256:13:46	CC	Roger, Jack. We see it.
256:13:51	Evans	(Laughter) Not much of a picture. It was looking right at the floor.
256:13:56	CC	We don't see the picture, but we saw the S-BAND
256:13:57	Evans	Not at the camera.
256:13:57	CC	-- ... S-BAND AUX TV.
256:14:01	Evans	Oh, okay.
256:14:47	Cernan	Yes. Yes.
256:15:04	Evans	(Laughter) Okay. Yes, I read you loud and clear, Jack. Yes. Yes, we're going to have to move this TV a little bit, because I can't get the hatch open
256:15:20	Schmitt	Houston, I think you've heard from the CMP and the LMP. Why don't you try the CDR and see if he hears you?
256:15:29	CC	Roger. I thought I already had a contact with Gene. CDR, how do you read Houston?
256:15:35	Cernan	Still reading you loud and clear, Houston.
256:15:38	CC	Roger, CDR.
256:15:51	Cernan	Houston, America. That VERB 49 maneuver, you want me to be there at 56:30; you want me to maneuver at 56:30?
256:16:03	CC	Your choice on that, CDR. You're ahead of the timeline right now.
256:16:11	Cernan	Yes, we're - we're going to press on slowly through the system prep - preps for depress, and just to make sure we don't run into any problems there, and we'll probably - probably call a pseudo hold before I take any checks there, we'll take a look at it.
256:16:30	CC	Roger.
256:16:38	Evans	Oh, okay. Yes, let's press on.
256:16:49	Cernan	... panel 604, SUIT PRESSURE.
256:16:53	Evans	Okay. I don't hear a thing. (Laughter) I - I think I ought to hear that one.
256:17:11	Cernan	Sure ...
256:17:24	Evans	I guess I can pretend like I hear it.
256:17:38	Evans	Make sure I'm in AUDIO/TONE back here, but I don't think it makes any difference.
256:17:54	Evans	No. Don't hear a thing. Houston, any suggestions on the SUIT PRESSURE ALARM, ON, and no tone?
256:18:26	Evans	I didn't hear a Houston. (Laughter)
256:18:29	Cernan	Hello, Houston; America.
256:18:34	Evans	I hear you guys, though.
256:18:39	CC	America, Houston. Just for your information, we've got the TV, and we see the floor.
256:18:46	Evans	Okay, Robert. I just turned on the SUIT PRESSURE ALARM, and no tone. Seems like I should get a tone there. That right, Jack?
256:18:59	Schmitt	That's what it says. Verify ...
256:19:16	Cernan	Hello, Houston; America. Did you get that last?
256:19:19	CC	Roger. That's affirmative. And you should have gotten the tone, and we'd like you to try it again. And we're thinking it through right now.
256:19:32	Evans	Nothing. (Laughter)
256:19:52	Evans	Well, let's see now.
256:20:25	Evans	Houston, you got a circuit breaker or two we could check on that one?
256:20:30	CC	Affirmative, and we'll be right with you with it.
256:20:34	Evans	Okay.
256:21:56	CC	Ron, you might go over on panel 5 and check the INSTRUMENT, SCI EQUIPMENT, HATCH circuit breaker. That has to be IN for the tone to work.
256:22:36	CC	America, Houston.
256:22:42	Evans	Okay, Houston. It's - the HATCH circuit breaker is IN, and - Couldn't be my headset at all, could it?
256:22:58	CC	I wouldn't think so. Not your headset per se, since you're reading us and all.
256:23:05	Evans	Yes, that's what I'm thinking, too.
256:23:08	Cernan	Say - say, Bob?
256:23:10	Evans	Yes.
256:23:11	Cernan	How would it be if I just plugged into the comm cable on that umbilical, just to check out the entire suit headset system here on that tone?
256:23:22	Evans	You just cut out, in one ear.
256:23:37	Cernan	Okay. This is the CDR. I'm going off the line for a minute.
256:23:51	CC	Ron, you might verify that the NONESSENTIAL BUS switch on panel 5 is on MAIN A.
256:23:59	Evans	It's in intermittent in my headset. Okay.
256:24:06	Schmitt	That's verified. And Ron thinks he has an intermittent in his headset for some reason.
256:24:16	CC	Ron, your transmissions are okay, and you're not breaking up to us. It may be in your headset.
256:25:08	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. Gene's able to hear the tone, and Ron's getting it intermittently.
256:25:17	CC	Roger. We copy.
256:25:22	Evans	How about switching headsets with one of you guys, huh?
256:25:29	CC	If you decide to swap headsets, we prefer that you swap with the CDR.
256:25:39	Cernan	Any special reason?
256:25:42	Evans	Yes.
256:25:46	Cernan	... I think.
256:25:55	Evans	Oh, this?
256:25:55	Cernan	Yes.
256:25:56	Evans	Oh, I see. I'll trade with Jack, here.
256:26:07	Cernan	Bob, this is CDR. You got any answer to that last question?
256:26:11	CC	Roger, CDR. It's almost a tossup, but we would like to have the other man out on - with an absolutely good headset, although we don't think it's a real problem one way or another.
256:26:27	Cernan	We'll get him out with a good headset, okay?
256:26:33	CC	It's a tossup, CDR. Take your pick, I guess, really.
256:26:39	Cernan	Okay. Standby. We'll check one out here.
256:27:15	Cernan	Okay. We just made a swap. Okay. Ron is wearing Jack's headset, and he's got a good tone continually when the switch is on, and he loses the tone when the switch goes off.
256:27:32	CC	Okay. We've got that.
256:27:34	Cernan	So CMP and LMP made the switch.
256:27:37	CC	Roger.
256:28:12	Evans	You know, that - No - yes, I didn't - I didn't even know you could cut it off. If I'd known that, I'd have cut it off before. Yes. If I'd cut it off like that, I'd have my curly locks shaved off in front.
256:28:27	Schmitt	Okay, Houston; this is the LMP. Give me a call, please.
256:28:30	CC	LMP, Houston. Reading you loud and clear. How me?
256:28:36	Schmitt	Okay. You're loud and clear;
256:28:39	CC	Roger, Jack.
256:28:44	Evans	We're going to try the spacecraft - see if Jack hears the spacecraft tone or not. Just turn the power on and off - the caution and warning power. I got a tone.
256:29:22	Evans	Hey, that's good and loud. Okay. ALARM is OFF.
256:29:28	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. We're going to turn the TV off for a while.
256:29:33	CC	Roger.
256:29:46	Schmitt	Okay. I'm going to start my maneuver now.
256:29:57	Evans	(Humming)
256:30:41	Evans	Oh, 351. The CABIN REPRESS valve. Okay, I'll get it.
256:30:53	Evans	Okay. CABIN REPRESS valve is OFF on 351. And it's verified closed.
256:32:23	Evans	Yes, that's right. ... checklist.
256:33:17	Cernan	Okay, O2 HEATERS, three of them, are in AUTO.
256:33:32	Evans	Yes, that's a good number.
256:33:43	Evans	Okay. Got it? Yes, it's ON.
256:33:55	Evans	Okay. You ON or - -
256:34:00	CC	America, Houston. We'd like OMNI Delta, OMNI Delta.
256:34:06	Cernan	You got it.
256:34:12	Evans	Yes, got it in there. Okay. PCV is verified on. Okay. Yes.
256:34:39	Evans	If we decide to put this on later, then you can put it on for me, because it flops all over the place down here. Okay. Disconnect red ECS O2 hose. Okay.
256:34:58	Evans	Close the old purge valve, valve 208. It came from the Taurus-Littrow landing area of the Moon. Okay. Got the purge valve. Boy. Okay, just looking at some ... (Laughter) Okay. It's low, is it?
256:36:08	CC	America, Houston. We'd like OMNI Charlie.
256:36:12	Evans	Yes, you can't see it.
256:36:14	Schmitt	You're OMNI Charlie, now.
256:36:17	CC	Thank you, Jack.
256:36:22	Evans	It's low.
256:36:28	Evans	What's the matter with - I'm going to try the other one. That thing, I can't even move.
256:36:39	Evans	Oh! Sticks or something. Let's see. Okay. Let me try the other one.
256:37:16	Evans	Yes, this one's stuck here, stuck in something. Couldn't move that if I had to. Okay, we'll use 211 instead.
256:37:26	Cernan	Okay, Houston. He's going to wear purge valve 211. It's not perfectly matched, but I see no problems with it. It's a lot freer.
256:37:37	CC	Roger, America. And we anticipate no problems with using 211.
256:37:43	Cernan	Okay. Fine, Bob.
256:37:45	Evans	Okay. We want it in low, you say, Jack - Okay?
256:38:03	Evans	... that's low. Okay.
256:38:15	Evans	Okay. 302, SUIT FLOW is OFF.
256:38:30	Evans	Might just as well. I - I turned mine off, see.
256:38:46	Evans	Okay. ...
256:39:08	Evans	Stay up there in the tunnel, that way.
256:39:13	Evans	Yes. This other way - you are in the way there. Let's go the other way.
256:39:24	Evans	See, like so.
256:39:35	Evans	Okay. CMPs hoses are routed up across the tunnel, out of the way - we hope. Ah-ha! Finally getting some flow. Man, I feel a lot better. Okay, cabin pressure's coming up, and - Okay. Jack, I guess you could really go the LEB ... to help me now. Yes - yes, because I can -
256:40:49	Evans	Okay. I've got - yes, I've got the flow coming in here, so ... up around 5.7.
256:41:11	Evans	Okay, just a second.
256:41:29	Evans	Yes, I - I just - Okay, I see. Yes, it's below 2.5.
256:41:35	Evans	Okay.
256:41:52	Evans	Man, you guys got that thing dirty.
256:41:58	Evans	Here, let me get the hose out of here first.
256:42:03	Evans	Oop!
256:42:16	Evans	(Laughter) Well, put it on there, I guess. Yes. Close up a hole there next to the ... Okay, let's see, I guess we can button that back up.
256:42:56	Cernan	Okay, Houston. We're at attitude. I'm going to configure the DAP.
256:43:01	CC	Roger, America. We copy attitude.
256:43:25	Evans	Let's see. Am I getting all tangled up in the hose I don't think so. Am I?
256:43:30	CC	Okay, America. We're ready for the HIGH GAIN. PITCH, 43; YAW of 262.
256:43:39	Evans	Okay. Just a minute. MANUAL and WIDE. PITCH of 43; YAW, 262. HIGH GAIN. Okay. They want AUTO now?
256:43:58	CC	That's affirmative, Ron.
256:44:08	Evans	It still doesn't go full scale, but -
256:44:19	Evans	That good enough?
256:44:23	CC	Ron, we need it full scale.
256:44:30	Evans	Let me try it again. Okay? I'll go to MANUAL and WIDE.
256:44:32	CC	RE - REACQ and WIDE, and then step it down.
256:44:38	Evans	Okay.
256:44:47	Evans	Ah-ha! That works. Okay. You're REACQ and NARROW now.
256:45:28	Evans	Okay. There, you want to - -
256:45:30	CC	America, we see your cabin at 5.4, and We'll keep an eye on it.
256:45:37	Evans	Okay. Give us a little call there ahead of time, and I'll crack the ... Right now - -
256:45:42	CC	Roger.
256:45:46	Cernan	Okay, Jack. You're squared away.
256:45:49	Cernan	Okay, Bob. I've got the proper jets configured, and A/C ROLL, PITCH, and YAW, MAIN B, are OPEN.
256:45:54	Evans	What?
256:45:56	CC	Roger. And we would like to go back to AUTO on the HIGH GAIN to see if it holds your signal strength for us.
256:46:06	Evans	Okay. You got AUTO.
256:46:25	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. I'll verify that all the SCS switches are set as per 3-9.
256:46:34	CC	Roger, America. Thank you.
256:47:11	CC	And, America. Your cabin press is at 5.6, and you can crack the side hatch valve, if you like.
256:48:16	Evans	Okay. Get the old cabin pressure down here a little ways. That's about 5, isn't it?
256:48:27	Evans	Okay. ... there.
256:48:33	CC	Ron, we're seeing 4.9 on your pressure. You can stop venting there.
256:48:38	Evans	Okay, we're stopped.
256:48:39	Cernan	Okay, it's closed.
256:48:59	Evans	Okay.
256:49:18	Evans	Here, Jack. Why don't you stick that up there in that? Yes.
256:49:39	Evans	Up left.
256:49:51	Evans	Okay. Yes, that's right side up. Not, yet, I haven't got them all on there.
256:50:17	CC	America, Houston.
256:50:22	Cernan	Go ahead, Houston; this is America.
256:50:23	CC	Gene, you probably realize that the audio tone is a separate wire all the way to the earplug, and that's - and that's why there's no problem - the LMP should have no problem.
256:50:38	Cernan	That's affirm. We understand.
256:50:39	Evans	Yes, we understood that. Okay, Gene. The bottom ones look like letters up, right? Yes, okay. That works, okay. Now - we have - Oh, there's the other one. (Laughter) Thought I only had three straps. Okay.
256:51:06	Evans	Okay. I guess we're ready to strap this thing on, huh? No, I've got to have that first.
256:51:22	Evans	Okay. There's the old - 0 - OPS adapter bracket. It's hooked on. Yes, it floats around there a lot better than it did in the simulator. Okay, Jack. Can you kind of steady it there, and we'll - Some more? Wait a minute. Give me the lower one first. No, up on top, the other way. And then slip - Okay. And an upper one. Okay, need a left upper. There's a left upper.
256:52:15	Evans	Okay, the next one's coming around this way.
256:52:28	Evans	And then, the left arm's back over here. Ah-ha! There's the old OPS hose. Okay, that's installed and it's locked.
256:52:47	Evans	Verify locked. Okay.
256:52:53	Cernan	Okay, what do you need, Jack? Okay.
256:53:23	Evans	Uh-oh. (Laughter) Should have done that earlier. It's under your bench now. Here it is. Okay. Oh, okay. (Humming)
256:54:36	Schmitt	Okay, Houston; America. The LMP is donning his LEVA now.
256:54:42	CC	Roger, America.
256:55:08	Evans	Yes, it was - that - The back is the part I can't reach right now. Yes, okay.
256:55:15	CC	America, the cabin is at 5.6, if you want to vent a little bit.
256:55:21	Schmitt	Okay, I'll get it.
256:55:24	Evans	Okay, locked. I'll get the back of it. Can you lock - verify your own alignment?
256:55:35	Evans	Yes, I can see it.
256:55:38	Evans	Which one is locked? Let me twist it just a little bit.
256:55:41	Cernan	Okay, there we go.
256:55:43	Evans	Engage - locked. Okay, it's on that way. Yes. Yes. No, I ... - You're going to have to twist or something. Okay, that's the back.
256:56:43	Evans	One is in there, and then the other one was stuck in that bungee there.
256:57:09	Cernan	There's one, up in the tunnel.
256:57:28	Cernan	Houston, how does the cabin look to you?
256:57:32	Evans	Take a look. It's about 5-1/2 now, Gene.
256:57:36	Cernan	Okay.
256:57:37	CC	Roger, Gene. It's at 5.3. We're monitoring very closely if you - if it helps you any.
256:57:45	Cernan	Okay, very fine. I'm coming down very, very slowly on it.
256:57:49	CC	Roger.
256:57:49	Evans	Gene, can you look on your left side, over there? That's it. Now, just a second, Gene; hold it there.
256:58:49	Evans	Pull valve.
256:58:51	Cernan	Okay, it moving.
256:58:56	Evans	Okay, let's see. You're right. Okay. It's off. Just tell me when. You want it on yet?
256:59:30	Evans	Okay, that's that one? Lock. There's your lock on that blue one. Locked? Okay. You closed? Okay, that's locked. That's locked. Locked. Okay. Having trouble getting them on there, Jack, with the - shouldn't be too much pressure there. Let me - let me push it on you.
257:00:16	Evans	Twist? Doesn't look like it's on. Okay. is she locked? Let me see. Okay, let's see your - they're hooked on the right.
257:00:40	Evans	Okay. That's O2 - that's a lock lock. Okay, blue one is a lock lock. Okay, that pin is now locked in. That ... is locked in. Okay, and your helmet, I checked that once. Let's try it again; let's see Moves that way, doesn't it? Okay, it's locked. Here, let me - wrong way (laughter). Okay.
257:01:18	Cernan	Okay, Houston; this is America. The LMP and the CDR both got their helmets and gloves on, and all connections have been checked.
257:01:26	CC	Roger, America.
257:01:42	Evans	It's open.
257:01:42	Cernan	Okay.
257:01:44	Evans	It's locked.
257:01:44	CC	America, we are copying the cabin at 4.8. You can stop the venting at this time.
257:01:53	Evans	Okay, it's - Gene's closing the valve now.
257:01:56	Cernan	Okay, it's closed. And how are you reading CDR on VOX?
257:02:02	CC	Read you loud and clear on VOX.
257:02:06	Cernan	Okay, fine.
257:02:08	Evans	Okay, now she's low.
257:02:09	Cernan	Okay.
257:02:13	Evans	(Laughter) Yes. Got to get the dust cover on the ..., okay?
257:02:23	Cernan	Okay, we're going to do an integrity check, Jack.
257:02:26	Cernan	And, Houston, the CMPs connections are all verified locked.
257:02:31	CC	Roger.
257:02:32	Cernan	Okay, going to integrity check.
257:02:36	Evans	Let me know when you get up there because I've got to turn my O2 off. Well, I guess I can see it from here.
257:02:46	Cernan	Okay. SUIT CIRCUIT RETURN VALVE is CLOSED.
257:02:56	Cernan	Okay, it's CLOSED. DIRECT O2 is CLOSED. What's suit pressure indicating over there, Ron, about 4.7 to 5.3?
257:03:09	Evans	Yes, it's about 5.0.
257:03:11	Cernan	And O2 FLOW is low, isn't it? Okay.
257:03:13	Evans	FLOW is down, yes.
257:03:18	Cernan	I'll just take it off of here, huh?
257:03:21	Evans	Yes, just right off there.
257:03:22	Cernan	Okay, SUIT CIRCUIT RETURN VALVE is CLOSED. SUIT FLOW valve - You have flow, Jack? Suit pressure is okay, and O2 flow is less than 0.4. Suit test. Okay; I'm taking us up.
257:03:34	Evans	Okay.
257:03:43	Cernan	Okay. We're in PRESSURE, and DIRECT O2 is OPENED.
257:03:53	Cernan	Let me cycle the suit circuit return valve. Okay, it's OPEN, and it's CLOSED.
257:04:04	Evans	Okay. That's O2 flow.
257:04:08	Cernan	Okay. At 4 psi differential, I'll close the direct O2.
257:04:16	Evans	Okay, I'll turn my flow off here a little bit to keep the cabin from going up so far.
257:04:20	Schmitt	Okay.
257:04:22	Evans	If it starts to get hot, I'll turn it back on again.
257:04:24	Schmitt	Okay.
257:04:26	Cernan	Okay. DIRECT O2 is CLOSED.
257:04:30	Evans	Should take you up to about 4.5, I think.
257:04:33	Cernan	Okay, check suit pressure. What are you reading over there, Ron? Ron, what are you reading up on the - the suit - circuit?
257:04:43	Evans	Oh, I don't know. About - I don't know, 8.5 or 9.
257:04:47	Cernan	Okay. That's GO.
257:04:50	CC	Okay. We're reading 9.0 on the suit pressure.
257:04:50	Cernan	Okay. ... at 4.25, increasing slowly.
257:04:55	Cernan	Okay, very good. O2 flow, Ron?
257:04:58	Evans	Well, it's still off. Let's give it a chance to - -
257:04:59	Cernan	Less than 0.8? Let's wait for it here.
257:05:01	Evans	Yes. See, you've got to go up - you're sitting - -
257:05:03	Cernan	Yes. We're going through about 4.35, now.
257:05:05	Evans	Yes. Goes up to about 4.4 or 4.5.
257:05:24	Cernan	Let me know when it comes down up there, will you?
257:05:25	Evans	Okay. It's starting to come down now.
257:05:42	Cernan	Let me know when it gets stable.
257:05:43	Evans	Okay. It's 0.6 right now, but -
257:05:46	Cernan	Still coming down?
257:05:47	Evans	Still coming down a little bit.
257:05:48	Cernan	Okay.
257:05:53	Evans	0.55.
257:05:58	Evans	It's 0.5.
257:06:09	Evans	Well, it looks like it's going to stabilize right there at just a little less than 0.5.
257:06:14	Cernan	Okay. Let's see if it stays stable for about 30 seconds.
257:06:16	Evans	Okay.
257:06:17	Cernan	Yes? Not to me - oh - to you. Okay. Okay.
257:06:37	Cernan	Still stable, Ron?
257:06:38	Evans	It's coming down. You guys got pretty good suits.
257:06:41	Cernan	Yes. They are good, as a matter of fact.
257:06:44	Evans	(Laughter) Put dust in them, and it makes them good. Now it's down around 0.3.
257:06:52	Cernan	Houston, how does the suit circuit look to you?
257:06:57	CC	It's looking real good, Gene.
257:07:01	Cernan	If you're happy, I'll go to DEPRESS.
257:07:05	CC	Roger. We're happy with it.
257:07:09	Cernan	Okay. Coming down slow, Jack.
257:07:21	Cernan	Okay. We're coming down.
257:07:25	Evans	Is that okay? Or that okay? Okay. But you can't do that. It's going to have to be (laughter) - and -
257:07:44	Cernan	Okay. Let's see.
257:07:45	Evans	Okay. You guys are coming down; I want to give myself a little air here.
257:07:53	Evans	Wish I had some of that cold you were talking about this morning, Gene.
257:07:57	Cernan	Yes. It's plenty cool in here.
257:08:18	Cernan	Okay. We'll pick it up over here.
257:08:28	Cernan	Okay, Bob, I'll pick it up on page 3-13 as soon as we come down here a little bit more. I'm in SUIT TEST valve DEPRESS.
257:08:40	CC	Roger.
257:09:08	Evans	What's my next thing here? Suit and helmet donning, isn't it?
257:09:11	Cernan	Yes. We'll get your helmet and gloves on, Ron.
257:09:14	Evans	Okay. I can go ahead and start doing that now.
257:09:15	Cernan	Yes, you sure can.
257:09:20	Evans	Okay. I don't know if Jack will be able to get my helmet. I'm going to need my gloves. Well, no hurry yet. I need to get the helmet on first.
257:09:31	CC	America, Houston. You asked for a reminder - -
257:09:32	Cernan	Go ahead.
257:09:32	CC	- - you might want to get the waste management compartment vent prior to glove donning. That is your decision - your choice on that.
257:09:42	Evans	Oh, okay.
257:10:00	Cernan	Ron, can you see our suit-circuit pressure up there?
257:10:04	Evans	Yes. It's about 7.
257:10:06	Cernan	Okay.
257:10:07	Evans	Cabin's about 5 -
257:10:09	Cernan	Okay. We're 6 or so?
257:10:18	Evans	Oh. My clean gloves all dirty?
257:10:38	Evans	Look at all the water's coming out of that thing.
257:10:39	Cernan	Okay, Jack. You want to take us down the rest of the way?
257:10:47	Cernan	Okay, Houston, the SUIT PRESS valve - SUIT TEST valve is OFF, and I can verify we are in BOTH on DEMAND REGs.
257:10:57	Evans	I don't know which is the best way to do this here.
257:10:59	CC	Roger, America.
257:11:12	Cernan	Yes, that's that valve you just opened.
257:11:14	Evans	Yes. I just opened the waste stowage vent valve here.
257:11:18	Cernan	Okay, Ron. You've got the O2 ON yet, I guess. Huh?
257:11:22	Evans	Yes. It's still ON.
257:11:23	Cernan	Okay.
257:11:24	Evans	Well, let's see - -
257:11:25	Cernan	I'll let Jack help you with that.
257:11:26	Evans	- - ... OPS is in the way in the back here. See if I can squish down here.
257:11:38	Cernan	Okay. I'll hold your OPS out of the way.
257:11:40	Evans	Okay, wait a minute. I can't see where the - -
257:11:41	Cernan	Okay, you're in the back.
257:11:46	Evans	Wait a minute. Wait a minute. I think something's stuck in the - oh, I don't have a hose. Okay. (Laughter)
257:11:56	Evans	There's a cable here. The cable to the comm carrier.
257:12:01	CC	America, you're at 5.7 - -
257:12:02	Evans	Okay. Comm carrier coming up.
257:12:02	CC	- - on your cabin. You want to go ahead and vent a little bit?
257:12:06	Cernan	Okay. That's good. Half a second here.
257:12:08	Evans	Okay?
257:12:10	Cernan	Well, you're - There you go.
257:12:11	Evans	Wait a minute. Something's still in there. What in the world's in there? Everytime I look down, your comm carrier comes in -
257:12:17	Cernan	You're just not getting it aligned too well.
257:12:22	Evans	Let's see if on the sides over there or something.
257:12:25	Cernan	No. You're clear.
257:12:27	Evans	No, this buckle. I hadn't thought of it. That's the buckle on the OPS. Man. That's something that happened - doesn't happen in there - Wait a minute. That's the engagement right there. Okay. Yes. Yes. I think that's it, isn't it?
257:12:50	Cernan	Did it lock? Doublecheck it locked, and doublecheck it in the engage mark.
257:12:54	Evans	Okay, that's the lock mark, isn't it? Yes. Okay. Yes. So if I can - Think you know how to get it, huh?
257:13:16	Cernan	I got to pull the flap up on this side, Jack. You'll have to get it on the other.
257:13:25	Evans	Yes, something's not right the way I - There. Okay, that did it.
257:13:47	Cernan	Okay, Ron. You got - why don't you do a couple of other things before you go any further now.
257:13:50	Evans	Okay.
257:13:51	Cernan	Okay, give me another - pull the pin on the purge valve and give it to me. And activate it in LOW.
257:14:01	Cernan	Okay, going activated?
257:14:04	Evans	Okay. It's activated into LOW.
257:14:07	Cernan	Okay. DIVERTER valves - verify they're vertical.
257:14:09	Evans	Okay. Wait a minute. That one is vertical. Okay, that one is vertical - -
257:14:19	Cernan	Okay. Next step is not applicable - -
257:14:22	Evans	Wait a minute. Hold it.
257:14:25	Cernan	Now, you can adjust your PGA tiedown. And set your wrist rings to the ENGAGE position.
257:14:55	Evans	Okay, that one's engaged. That one's engaged. How's the noise down there, Houston?
257:15:03	CC	Not too bad, Ron.
257:15:06	CC	And the cabin is at 4.85. Terminate your vent.
257:15:12	Cernan	Thank you, Bob.
257:15:21	Cernan	And Houston, this is CDR. I'm on the cue card now.
257:15:36	Cernan	Jack, could you get his - his flap on the other side?
257:15:40	Schmitt	Yes, I got - Okay.
257:15:46	Cernan	Sorry, I didn't leave you -
257:15:49	Evans	Oh, let's see.
257:15:53	Cernan	I got it on this side.
257:15:57	Evans	Okay.
257:16:01	Cernan	Well, it'll do that, too, that's - let's push it down behind his OPS here and that'll - that's about the best you can do on that.
257:16:08	Evans	That cover on that - -
257:16:09	Cernan	Yes. If it's too loose, we can pull the snap and tighten her up.
257:16:16	Cernan	That' s all right. Looks good. ... Okay, Ron, you can -
257:16:30	Evans	What?
257:16:32	Cernan	A rock. Houston, we just found a small sample of the Moon floating around in the cabin.
257:16:42	Evans	Hold it there, will you? We can't go on to it now.
257:16:46	CC	Roger.
257:16:46	Evans	Go ahead ... systems.
257:16:51	Cernan	Let me look at that before you cover it.
257:16:54	Evans	Okay. Okay, that's locked.
257:17:00	Cernan	That's locked.
257:17:02	Evans	Okay. Let's - -
257:17:02	Cernan	Your right glove is locked.
257:17:04	Evans	Okay. I'm going to let you help me with the -
257:17:08	Cernan	Let go - put your other hand - -
257:17:08	Evans	Oh, okay. Put the strap on and - -
257:17:11	Cernan	- - the ring out.
257:17:12	Evans	Put it all - up here, yes. On the other side of the valve.
257:17:16	Cernan	Okay.
257:17:31	Cernan	Take the top and pull it down.
257:17:43	Cernan	Tight son of a gun.
257:17:47	Evans	That's over. Okay. I don't want that.
257:17:50	Cernan	You just ... keep pulling there.
257:17:53	Evans	Yes, but it won't go over that - it won't go over that other valve, Gene. There's no -
257:17:56	Cernan	Stick it under the gauntlet.
257:18:10	Cernan	There you go.
257:18:10	Evans	There we go.
257:18:11	Cernan	It's over the valve.
257:18:12	Evans	Over the valve, okay?
257:18:14	Cernan	Okay, your right glove is lock lock. Let's get your left one on.
257:18:25	Evans	Okay, she's engaged.
257:18:26	Cernan	Okay.
257:18:28	Evans	Wait a minute. I've got to turn the pressure off, babe.
257:18:31	Cernan	Okay.
257:18:43	Evans	(Laughter)
257:18:50	Cernan	Okay, on 603, EVA O2, OFF.
257:18:54	Evans	Okay. Wait a minute. I can't even reach it.
257:18:58	Evans	Okay, EVA O2 is OFF.
257:19:01	Cernan	Okay. Okay, get your other glove. Turn it some more. Turn it the other way. Okay now.
257:19:21	Evans	She's locked? Let's push her on up. Okay?
257:19:26	Cernan	Okay, you are locked.
257:19:28	Evans	Wait a minute, I'll get it. ... get some air.
257:19:30	Evans	(Laughter)
257:19:30	Cernan	Okay.
257:19:33	Evans	Okay, fully -
257:19:36	Cernan	On as required to pressurize.
257:19:41	Evans	Okay, we're coming up.
257:19:42	Cernan	Now, let's get that gauntlet.
257:19:44	Evans	Okay.
257:19:49	Cernan	Okay, Houston, the CMP is coming up.
257:20:05	Evans	Okay, looks like about 3.4 - 3.5.
257:20:12	Cernan	You pressurized already?
257:20:14	Evans	There we go.
257:20:17	Cernan	Okay, if you can reach the tone, turn the tone on.
257:20:20	Evans	Okay.
257:20:22	Cernan	And verify and turn it off.
257:20:26	Evans	Aaaaah, don't know how I can reach the tone.
257:20:47	Cernan	Want me to help you? Wait a minute, see ... - -
257:20:50	Evans	(Laughter) No wonder I can't move. Okay, wait a minute. Hook it in my thing.
257:20:55	Cernan	Okay. You want it locked in there?
257:21:00	Evans	No, that's all right.
257:21:00	Cernan	Okay. You got to get that. Yes, that's -
257:21:16	Evans	Hmmm, I don't have a tone.
257:21:20	Cernan	Did you turn it on?
257:21:21	Evans	Now it's off. Stupid thing.
257:21:27	Cernan	You got it? You said you did not have a tone, is that correct?
257:21:40	Evans	Yes, that's right.
257:21:43	Cernan	Houston, do you hear that?
257:21:46	CC	Understand. The CMP does not have the tone, again?
257:21:53	Evans	Oh, son of a buck.
257:21:55	Cernan	Pretty good ...
257:21:57	Evans	Okay, I'm reading 3.9, should have low suit flow because I got the purge valve.
257:22:11	Cernan	Okay. You got your EVA - on 603, EVA O2 is ON.
257:22:17	Cernan	Is it - is it still on, or have you got it off?
257:22:23	Evans	602 O2? Yes, it's ON; O2 flow is ON.
257:22:26	Cernan	Okay, and you're reading 3.7 to 4.0.
257:22:30	Evans	Yes. Maybe it's just not - maybe I'm still getting too much flow. That purge valve is open, isn't it, in LOW?
257:22:36	Cernan	PURGE valve is open to LOW. Did you open it? Let me see.
257:22:41	Evans	I think I did. Yes, it was open.
257:22:46	Cernan	Yes. You're open.
257:23:01	Cernan	Okay, turn the tone off.
257:23:04	Evans	Okay, I turned the tone off. Okay, it's off.
257:23:08	Cernan	Okay, how's your master volume? You happy with it? Or should I jack it up some more?
257:23:12	Evans	Houston, say something.
257:23:14	CC	Roger, Ron. We copy you. You might try and adjust your VOX, thumbwheel down a little bit. It might help us a bit, knock out some of the background noise.
257:23:26	Evans	(Laughter) Okay. Jack, you want to try to knock the VOX down a little bit? Okay, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 - 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
257:23:41	CC	Hey, you don't sound bad at all, Ron.
257:23:42	Evans	Houston, are you reading me?
257:23:44	CC	We're reading you loud and clear, Ron. No problem.
257:23:46	Evans	Does that - Okay. Did that knock some of the noise down?
257:23:53	CC	That's affirmative.
257:23:54	Evans	Is that - is that okay? Okay. You're going to get a little bit of noise, I think.
257:24:00	CC	Oh, that's affirmative. We realize that.
257:24:02	Cernan	Okay, Houston - -
257:24:04	Evans	Okay.
257:24:05	Cernan	Okay, Houston. Unless we hear otherwise, without the tone at that point, we are pressing on.
257:24:17	Cernan	Okay, Jack. On 351, get the EMERGENCY CABIN PRESSURE REGs OFF.
257:24:22	CC	America, that's affirmative. And we'd like to vent the cabin. You're at 5.7 again.
257:24:28	Cernan	Okay.
257:24:41	Cernan	Okay. It seemed like you - it's on 351.
257:24:55	Cernan	Okay, Houston, I'm 351, EMERGENCY CABIN PRESSURE'S OFF.
257:25:01	CC	Roger.
257:25:11	Cernan	Okay, Ron. It says - let me read this to you. "CMP monitor cuff gage" - it's "PURGE VALVE, HIGH, verify tone on at 3.1 to 3.4, then PURGE VALVE, CLOSED and verify tone off." Go ahead and turn the switch on.
257:25:24	Evans	Okay.
257:25:25	Cernan	You probably didn't get a tone there because you were already on up to pressure by the time you got that switch on. I think that's why you didn't get a tone.
257:25:32	Evans	Yes.
257:25:33	Cernan	So you should get one here. So turn the tone - you got the tone power on?
257:25:36	Evans	No, not yet. I can't get down there. Not until I get Jack out of the way.
257:25:39	Cernan	Okay.
257:25:42	Evans	Okay.
257:25:46	Cernan	Okay, get down there and turn the tone power on, and I think you'll get a tone this time around.
257:26:02	Evans	Okay. There.
257:26:04	Cernan	Okay, tone power's on. What I want you to do is go PUR - go HIGH on the PURGE VALVE, and I'll get that . . . - -
257:26:08	Evans	I'm going to let you - I'm going to let you do that, okay?
257:26:10	Cernan	Okay. Now, it's HIGH - -
257:26:12	Evans	Okay, coming on.
257:26:12	Cernan	- - 3.1 to 3.4. You ought to get a tone.
257:26:16	Evans	Now, I got the tone at 3.2.
257:26:18	Cernan	Okay, turn it back on.
257:26:20	Evans	Wait a minute.
257:26:20	Cernan	PURGE VALVE is CLOSED.
257:26:21	Evans	Okay. Back up to 4.
257:26:24	Cernan	Tone off?
257:26:25	Evans	Tone's off.
257:26:26	Cernan	Okay, PURGE VALVE is locked, and it's HIGH.
257:26:30	Evans	Locked and HIGH, okay.
257:26:31	Cernan	Okay. That's where you want it, huh?
257:26:32	Evans	Right.
257:26:33	Cernan	Why don't you come up here, and I'll install a pin for you.
257:26:36	Evans	Yes, I'll come up there. (Laughter) I'm stuck. Oh, I can - I can get it. Can you do it?
257:26:42	Cernan	Yes, I can get it. Okay. Okay.
257:26:47	Evans	Okay?
257:26:49	Cernan	Now, it's locked, the pin is in, and you are in HIGH. Okay, that's verified.
257:26:58	Evans	Okay?
257:27:00	Cernan	Okay. Verify flow and cuff gage reads 3.7 to 4.0. Ron?
257:27:10	Evans	Okay. I got 3.9 on the cuff gage.
257:27:14	Cernan	Okay, we're going to do an integrity check on you. On 603, EVA and STATION O2, OFF.
257:27:20	Evans	Okay. Can you reach that gauge, or do you want me to do it? Oh, I can get it.
257:27:27	Cernan	I can get it if I turn around here. I'll get it.
257:27:29	Evans	If I can - -
257:27:30	Cernan	Let me undo this before I pressurize. I'll strap them in again.
257:27:33	Evans	How you guys - always got it before, but I must be laying in a different way here.
257:27:49	Cernan	Did I get it off?
257:27:50	Evans	Okay, I've got the tone.
257:27:54	Cernan	Okay, now. Okay, monitor cuff gage; verify PCV closes. Monitor pressure decay for 1 minute; verify less than 0.8.
257:28:03	Evans	Okay, closed, and we're at 3.61.
257:28:07	Cernan	Okay, when did you start your time?
257:28:15	Evans	Okay.
257:28:21	Evans	Can you guys hear that tone?
257:28:23	Cernan	Yes, I can hear it occasionally.
257:28:24	CC	That's affirmative.
257:28:27	Evans	Oh, you can hear it on the ground, huh?
257:28:29	CC	That's affirmative.
257:28:30	Evans	Very good.
257:28:31	Cernan	Okay, Ron. How is - how is your suit pressure?
257:28:33	Evans	... pressure is stuck at 3.6.
257:28:36	Cernan	That's a good place for it to be. You have about 30 more seconds, don't you?
257:28:41	Evans	About 15 more.
257:28:42	Cernan	Okay. Okay, and you did get the tone on for low flow?
257:28:58	Evans	Yes.
257:28:59	Cernan	Let me know when you're satisfied with the time.
257:29:01	Evans	Okay, turn it back on.
257:29:02	Cernan	Okay. O2 ... is ON.
257:29:06	Evans	Okay.
257:29:09	Cernan	It's in.
257:29:11	Evans	Let me get it. Make sure it's all the way up. ... it all the way up?
257:29:16	Cernan	Yes, I think it is.
257:29:18	Evans	Yes, I can see it increasing.
257:29:19	Cernan	Here, let me get in there and push it. Put your guard down.
257:29:22	Evans	See it in there?
257:29:25	Cernan	Okay.
257:29:33	Evans	Okay?
257:29:40	Cernan	Okay, you happy?
257:29:41	Evans	Yes, 3.7 to 4.0. Stable?
257:29:44	Cernan	Stable, 3.9.
257:29:45	Cernan	No tone?
257:29:46	Evans	No tone.
257:29:46	Cernan	EVA pressure gage, 100 to 500 psi.
257:29:49	Evans	Yes. For some reason, the battery is burned out in the flashlight, but - Let me see, it's about - I would say 400, I think. Yes, let's see, its division marks on that gauge are 3, 6, and 900. And it's above the 3.
257:30:13	Cernan	Okay, it's good. I can see that.
257:30:14	Evans	Yes, it's good. It's about 350.
257:30:16	Cernan	Okay, verify surge tank pressure. Houston, can you give us a hack on the surge tank as a GO?
257:30:23	CC	Stand by on that.
257:30:28	CC	Roger. Looking good.
257:30:31	Cernan	Okay, very good. We're ready to press on with the cabin depress, Ron. GN2 valve handle, pulled.
257:30:43	Evans	Okay.
257:30:52	Cernan	Okay. We'll pick that up when he starts to move. Okay, gauge MIN and leave in the vent position. Pull the handle.
257:30:59	Evans	Okay.
257:30:59	Cernan	Leave in vent. Leave in vent.
257:31:01	Evans	Okay.
257:31:02	Cernan	Okay. Verify helmet and gloves locked.
257:31:05	Evans	Okay. ... smooth. Here, I need the - get that down.
257:31:12	Cernan	Okay.
257:31:12	Evans	... there. Okay, lock locked.
257:31:18	Cernan	Hey, babe; you looked good when you went by me.
257:31:20	Evans	(Laughter) Okay.
257:31:22	Cernan	Just stay that way.
257:31:23	Evans	We'll stay that way.
257:31:25	Cernan	Okay. Houston, we're standing by for your GO.
257:31:30	CC	You are GO.
257:31:33	Cernan	Okay, Ron. Hear the note.
257:31:36	Evans	Okay.
257:31:36	Cernan	EVA warning tone may come on momentarily during the ... depress.
257:31:40	Evans	Okay.
257:31:41	Cernan	Jack, are you ready?
257:31:43	Cernan	Okay, babe. When you get out there, just take it nice and slow and easy. You got all day long.
257:31:49	Evans	Yes, that's right. It's not like the zero-g airplane.
257:31:51	Cernan	Feel yourself around, and it's nice and easy to get around. Just don't let your body start moving too fast down there. Okay. Side hatch is coming open slowly.
257:32:02	Evans	There's a valve ...
257:32:04	Cernan	Valve? I can't see the gauge, but I know we're coming down.
257:32:17	Evans	Okay.
257:32:18	Cernan	Houston, can you give me a hack at approaching 3.25?
257:32:23	CC	That's affirmative. We will.
257:32:27	Cernan	Okay.
257:32:53	Cernan	Okay. That's O2 FLOW HIGH, as expected.
257:32:56	Evans	Okay. And that's - oh, about 3.95.
257:33:00	Cernan	Okay. ...
257:33:16	Cernan	Coming down a little faster, Houston.
257:33:22	CC	Roger. We're watching.
257:33:25	Cernan	Okay.
257:33:48	Cernan	And, Ron - -
257:33:48	CC	Okay. You're 3.4 right now - 3.4, Gene.
257:33:49	Cernan	- - when you get to the SIM bay, go around -
257:33:53	Cernan	Okay. Okay - -
257:33:56	CC	3.3, closing.
257:33:56	Cernan	- - ... get your feet in the -
257:33:58	Evans	Oh, okay. Yes, will do.
257:33:59	Cernan	Get your feet in the golden shoes, and then you can do anything. But get them there first. Okay, 3.25. O2 FLOW indicator is off scale low. Okay, can you verify our suit pressure down there?
257:34:18	CC	Roger. We're - you're locked up. Suit press, 3.8.
257:34:23	Cernan	Okay, very good. We're coming on the way open. Going to zero. You guys ready? Here we go.
257:34:30	Evans	Okay. I don't change. I'm already there. (Laughter)
257:34:34	Cernan	Yes, but Jack and I are coming up.
257:34:36	Evans	Yes, I know.
257:34:47	Cernan	Okay, we're coming up.
257:35:17	Cernan	Okay.
257:35:19	Schmitt	Nice day for an EVA, Ron. Go out and have a good time.
257:35:23	Evans	Yes, it ought to be pretty good out there. I ... - -
257:35:25	Cernan	Okay, we're coming off the ...
257:35:26	Evans	I just need that one visor down, don't I?
257:35:29	Cernan	No, you need your Sun visor down, too. Bring it - one is protective, and the other is the Sun.
257:35:33	Evans	It is? Well, it looks dark out there. Can't even see.
257:35:36	Cernan	Well, use your own judgment. If - if you're in the shade, you won't need it. But if you're in the Sun, you ought to have it down.
257:35:41	Evans	Okay.
257:35:46	Cernan	Okay, Jack. I'm at 2.8 and coming up.
257:35:51	Schmitt	Okay.
257:36:21	Cernan	Well, let's open her up a little more.
257:36:32	Cernan	Okay, the valve's all the way open. And I'm 3.5.
257:36:39	Schmitt	Okay, I'm still reading about 3.82, now.
257:36:47	Cernan	O2 FLOW HIGH light is off. Okay. Wait until we're stable, Ron, and we'll be with you.
257:36:59	Evans	Okay.
257:37:02	Cernan	Jack, it looks like I'm picking out at - peaking out about 3.75. How you looking? Okay, Ron. You're 3.7 to 4.0?
257:37:10	Evans	Yes, I'm reading 3.8.
257:37:12	Cernan	Okay. EVA station pressure gauge still up?
257:37:15	Evans	EVA station pressure gauge - it's ... I can't see it. Okay. Still - yes, about one-third - -
257:37:20	Cernan	Okay.
257:37:21	Evans	- - third ... there. ...
257:37:25	Cernan	Okay. You do not have a tone, right?
257:37:28	Evans	No tone.
257:37:29	Cernan	Okay, can you get panel 3, S-BAND AUX TV to TV?
257:37:33	Evans	(Laughter) Okay.
257:37:34	Cernan	If you can do it.
257:37:37	Evans	... the old jett bag in the way here. Okay, TV is going up to TV.
257:37:47	Cernan	You got it?
257:37:47	Evans	Yes.
257:37:48	Cernan	Okay. I've got lines on the monitor, and Houston, the CDR's going ... PTT.
257:37:56	CC	Roger, CDR.
257:38:01	Cernan	Okay, Ron. We're ready for the hatch opening. The lock pin release knob, unlock.
257:38:05	Evans	Okay. Lock pin release knob, the one on the side. Push it down to yellow, right?
257:38:10	Cernan	Unlock indicator release, white goes to yellow.
257:38:13	Evans	White goes to yellow. Okay.
257:38:14	Cernan	Gear box selector, unlatch.
257:38:16	Evans	Gear box selector to unlatch.
257:38:18	Cernan	Actuator handle, unlatch.
257:38:20	Evans	Actuator handle to unlatch.
257:38:22	Cernan	Unstow actuator handle.
257:38:24	Evans	Okay. We'll unstow the old actuator handle.
257:38:27	Cernan	And the hatch is yours. Unlock it.
257:38:29	Evans	Okay, here we go. 1,2,3,- Oop! I got ahold of it. And a bunch of junk going out there. (Laughter) Lost the - Oh, there goes the pen. Yes, ... (Laughter) Okay. It was a felt-tip pen. No scissors. (Laughter)
257:39:08	Cernan	Say, Ron. You want to - actuator handle select lock to L.
257:39:23	Evans	Okay, wait a minute. Actuator handle to latch. Okay, she's stowed. Yes, it's stowed in there. There it is, okay. There we go.
257:39:43	Cernan	Okay, now it's stowed.
257:39:43	Evans	Now it's stowed.
257:39:44	Cernan	Okay. Gear box selector to latch.
257:39:48	Evans	Gear box selector is latched.
257:39:51	Cernan	Okay, and you and Jack can both lo - lower your inner visors.
257:39:55	Evans	Okay, inner visor's lowered.
257:39:57	Schmitt	Okay.
257:39:59	Evans	That's the ... - -
257:39:59	Cernan	Okay. Open hatch slowly, and verify that our hex clears.
257:40:04	Evans	Verify the what? Oh, the hex. Yes. It's a good thing I hung on to it, or it would have been open by itself. ... Now you're going in - here, let me ... a little bit. Now it's got it.
257:40:45	Cernan	Okay, Houston. The hatch is open.
257:40:48	CC	Roger, America.
257:40:50	Evans	Almost.
257:40:59	Evans	Hey, there's the Earth, right out the hatch!
257:41:02	Cernan	Okay, Ron. You've got a - -
257:41:04	Evans	The crescent Earth.
257:41:05	Cernan	You've got a GO for egress.
257:41:07	Evans	Beautiful.
257:41:09	Cernan	And just take it slow.
257:41:10	Evans	Okay. First of all, I got to get back in, and get the old TV camera. Oop. Yes. That's right. I don't even know where the Sun is. Which way is the Sun? Okay, yes. Sun's on the right. Okay.
257:41:48	Cernan	Okay, Houston. Ron's putting the camera out there on the pole now - pole out there, rather.
257:41:53	CC	Roger. We see the EVA light out there.
257:41:55	Evans	... stay lower?
257:42:00	Cernan	Okay.
257:42:01	Evans	Man, that Sun is bright, Whoooo!
257:42:04	Cernan	Pull down that visor, Ron. You're going to need it.
257:42:07	Evans	Yes.
257:42:09	Cernan	Not the metal one, unless you really need it.
257:42:12	Evans	No, I don't want the metal one.
257:42:13	Cernan	No, just get the gold one. That's all you need.
257:42:25	Evans	I'm trying to - -
257:42:26	Cernan	Okay, you're clear back here.
257:42:32	Evans	Man, oh man. We're about to get the old TV pole in and lined up. Locked in there. Oh, oh, forgot to turn the camera on. You have it back? The - sequence, yes. Yes, let me just get on up in the - -
257:43:15	Cernan	You're a long way from home. We don't want to lose you.
257:43:18	Evans	Okay. ... Hey, I think I hear it buzzing. How's the TV picture, Houston?
257:43:27	CC	Really great, Ron. Looks great.
257:43:32	Evans	Okay. Hey, I see what you were talking about, Gene, on this blister. Something has really blistered on it. Like Quad Alfa. There's a good one? Okay.
257:43:53	Evans	Guess we're cleared to go down and get the old - the old lunar sounder cassette, huh?
257:44:01	Cernan	Okay.
257:44:04	Evans	Okay. Man, I got my foot hooked to something. Which way do I need to go? There we go. Okay. Okay. How's that? Okay. Forward? Go now? Am I clear?
257:44:51	Cernan	You're clear, babe. Go.
257:44:54	Evans	Okay. Hot-diggety-dog!
257:44:58	Cernan	Okay. Did you see him? He's out.
257:45:01	CC	Roger.
257:45:03	Evans	Am I on the tube?
257:45:08	CC	That's affirmative.
257:45:12	Evans	Okay.
257:45:14	CC	Outstanding quality picture, Ron.
257:45:18	Evans	Did you see me wave?
257:45:26	CC	That's affirmative.
257:45:26	Evans	(Laughter) Okay. Beautiful! Hey, the paint on here is just a - it's a silver paint - and it's just little blisters on it, is all. You just kind of peel it off with your fingers. Yes, it rolled off the other way. Hey, I can see the Moon back behind me! Beautiful! The Moon is down there to the right - full Moon - and off to the left, just outside the hatch down here, is a crescent Earth. Maybe I can get a picture of that - the Earth as I'm coming back in there. But the crescent Earth is not like a crescent Moon. It's got kind of like horns, and the horns go all the way around, and it makes almost three-quarters of a circle. Hey, that last mapping camera retract must have worked because the door is closed - everything is closed on it.
257:46:38	Cernan	Okay, Ron, you did get the camera? Right? The DAC ON?
257:46:42	Evans	Yes. Okay, DAC's working.
257:46:44	Cernan	Okay, you're GO to transfer to SIM bay and get in the foot restraints.
257:46:48	Evans	Okay. Here's a piece of the thermal blanket from the - from the SIM door jett. Hey, Houston, they're just kind of laying there underneath the EVA handle.
257:47:00	CC	Roger. We see it. Confirm.
257:47:03	Evans	Okay. But it's a pretty clean cut from the SIM bay itself. That's just a piece of that thermal blanket that's sticking around there. Man, it's black off this other way! The pan camera lens is all stowed.
257:47:32	Evans	(Humming) Okay. (Humming)
257:48:12	Evans	Hey, almost had my foot in there, then the cable was between my foot - Can you? Okay, I'm having a little trouble, right now, just torquing down to get my foot in the foot restraint, for some reason. Yes. No, not yet. Okay. Okay, the right one's in. And the left one's in. Hey, pretty stable right here. Let go of both hands? See?
257:49:10	CC	Roger. We see you waving.
257:49:13	Evans	(Laughter) Hey, this is great! Talk - talk about being a spaceman, this is it! Okay, back to work! My feet are a little stiffer, I think, or something than - than normal. Okay, let's try the old - Ah-ha, the ... is still there! Okay, here's the pan cassette cover and - Oops, there it goes. Okay, before we do anything else here, I guess I better - better hook the old tether on the thing. Okay, tether is on. And she's locked. Okay. It is behind my back? Oh, okay. It's nice and white down here. The UV cover's closed real well. Doesn't seem to be any ... at all on the white face, on the UV or the IR. Everything is in good shape. Looks like part of that - Oh, the cork insulation - chipped off again down here in the corner - in the corner that I'm looking at. Okay, let's try the old cassette. We'll push down on it until it goes past center. Ah-ha! I think that was more than 2 pounds of force to come out, but it came out. And got the film.
257:51:46	Evans	Okay, she's locked in there. These EVA handholds are - Hey, the foot just came out - okay - the EVA handholds are - okay, got them free - are rougher than - What was that? I just ... Oh, that was my pocket, okay. And it creates a torque when I cut - when I let go of that pocket, there, I let go with a little bit of a force, and the force has a tendency to throw your feet way up in the air. (Humming)
257:52:48	Cernan	Keep talking, Ron. I'm walking that one with you.
257:52:50	Evans	Okay. Coming right back. Oh, my feets are bouncing up in the air again. Shouldn't be any - Yes, can you do it? No. Ooooh. Hope I don't hit the end and bounce up again. Yes. See, you twist yourself down there, and then you got to twist to stop, or - or it - you hit - you hit the end and you bounce back up in the air again. Okay, there comes some of the paint. Oh, we'll get attached to the thing on there, before I take mine off. Okay, here comes the old cassette. That - yes - that close enough, Jack, or you want a little closer? Okay. Yes. ... Yes, hook them ... anyway. Okay, and you got the old lunar sounder cassette.
257:54:26	Cernan	Okay, Ron, you're GO to get the pan camera.
257:54:28	Evans	Pan camera's next, huh?
257:54:30	Cernan	We got a couple of hard and soft covers, don't forget.
257:54:33	Evans	Yes, yes, there's a couple of covers on there. You know, the old EVA pole, I thought when I was looking at that the other day - it depended on what kind of light you're in - it looked like it was burned a little bit. And, sure enough, it is. Okay, let's see, now, which way did I turn on on this thing. I'm still backwards down here. What the heck? (Humming)
257:55:23	Evans	Okay, well, we need to get that big old pan camera. (Humming) Oops.
257:55:55	Evans	Okay, I'm locked in there, and you can relax a little bit. Let's see, old suit pressure is - must be breathing a little bit, it's up to 4.0. (Humming)
257:56:14	Cernan	Houston, this is America. Everything is looking good from here.
257:56:19	Evans	Houston, this is - Let's see, when you're EVA, they use - they use your name, don't they?
257:56:25	CC	Okay, Ron. Yes, sir, we'll use it, Ron.
257:56:29	Evans	Houston, this is Ron. Okay? You hear me okay, I guess, huh?
257:56:37	CC	Roger, Ron. Read you loud and clear.
257:56:41	Evans	Okay. (Laughter) Oh, this is great, I'll tell you!
257:56:48	CC	Yes, we thought it was Mr. America.
257:56:52	Evans	(Laughter) Well, it is. Something like that. Oh, boy! Beautiful Moon! Full Moon down there. Runs back of - What? You know, you can't see anything. The only thing I can see is the SIM bay. I can see the - the engine bell sitting back here. That's a pretty good sized thing, too. And, of course, the UV - the VHF antenna - is still sticking out there. All of the - all of the poles are on it. So it's working all right. Oh, that's a little bit of a rest. Let's pull the old metal thing off here. Oh, okay, well - see it? Can you see that? The thing I'm holding up. Yes, it's the - it's the cover that's on the outside of the pan camera. It's a thermal cover, see, that covers up the cassette.
257:58:14	Evans	Yes, well, I'm in the shadows. There we go. Yes. See, that's right. That's the thermal cover that's on there, and then that's the - -
257:58:26	CC	Roger. Yes, we see it, Ron.
257:58:26	Evans	- - Whooooee (Laughter) Okay. Well, let's see. Ah-ha! There's the pan camera cassette down there.
257:58:50	CC	We just saw that cover.
257:58:54	Evans	Okay.
257:59:06	Evans	Okay. Let's see, that's hooked down. And lock it. Yes. ... hook laying there. Okay, it's locked so it won't come apart. Okay, where's the old pin. There it is. (Humming)
258:00:09	Evans	Okay, pin is pulled. Frees the handle. And out she comes. Nice and easy. This a heavy son of a gun. Not heavy up here, it just has a lot of - a lot of momentum to it. Once she starts pulling in one direction, it just takes a lot of force to stop it. And we'll just try and - Oops, there's a - ... right there. Wouldn't want to do that. Let me get this thing first and then get this foot out. Okay. I think I'll just kind of let that thing go and hang on with both hands. Get it started right in front of me. Have to look the best way to see that one. Okay. It's just kind of floating around up there. Both feet are free. Okay.
258:01:31	Evans	Hey, it's just kind of coming along with me. I'll just let her do that. Hey, she's just floating there.
258:01:57	Evans	Okay. Coming. She's still coming. Must be back behind me. That's good. Nice and slow. Because you don't want that thing banging around too much up there, I don't think.
258:02:24	Evans	Ahhh, there it is! Delivered it right to you. (Laughter) That's the way it ought to be done, isn't it? Okay, got it locked? Yes. Okay. Ah, you got it hooked on my French gauntlet - my truss guard. (Laughter) Okay. That's a good idea. Oh, that Sun's bright when you look into it. That is a biggy. (Humming) You know, I just kind of hook it along underneath me and just go backwards down there. (Humming) That's an unorthodox way to enter the SIM bay, but it works. Okay. We'll ease on up. Oh, okay. I'm going to rest when I get my feet in that thing. Wish you could kind of rest here. You could take it nice and easy. Yes, once you get your feet in there, except that - it kind of - you almost feel like maybe they might come out, you know. (Laughter) So I'm not sure you really trust them. The right foot's in good and tight. Hello, Mom!
258:04:41	CC	We see you, Ron. Looking great.
258:04:44	Evans	Hello, Jon. Hi, Jon. How are you doing? Hi, Jaime. Let's see, I'm supposed to rest, though, aren't I? What would you like to know about the SIM bay? Looks great. Nothing is scorched. I was kind of surprised when I saw it on this mapping camera - There was - the two - well, one's just kind of a steel plate there, and right on top of the door, there's something with a piece of tape on it. And I thought that piece of tape came off before launch.
258:05:21	CC	Ron, just a couple questions while you're standing there resting. is there any damage to the cable that the mapping camera - the cable between the mapping camera and the shelf?
258:05:34	Evans	Let me check on that one.
258:05:36	CC	Roger. Don't move and look at it. It was not that important. If you can see it, fine; otherwise, forget it.
258:05:42	Evans	Yes. Okay. I want to kind of take a look at it when I go by. There's Jack (laughter) Hey, how are you doing? You're looking right into the Sun, though, and I'm looking right at you. I should have a camera, and I could take your picture. And there - see the Moon back over there? That's a - Well, that's the way it goes. Hey, it's clearer down here when you take that visor up. I hope I took the outside one. I mean the gold one. No, that's both of them, I think. Better leave it down. There we go. Yes, you take the outside one up a little ways and then you can really see down in the SIM bay. You know, that tape down in here is not scorched one bit. The whole side of the spacecraft is scorched like a son of a gun - but the - you know, the panels, and everything. Man, there's bubbles, you know, on all that silver paint that's on here - is, you know, it used to be kind of a bright-looking silver paint. It looks like - it's in a shadow right now - but it looks like it's just been heated up one way or another. Yes, that's it up here between the SIM bay and the top of the service module. It actually looks like it's been burned, you know. Not just a little bit warm, it's just kind of burned because it's bubbled. Yes. That's what you were seeing from the LM, I'm sure. And - but - as far as I can - it's kind of dark down the other side of the spacecraft - the other side of the SIM bay - but it looks like the thrusters don't make any - hardly any marks on there. Now, I look - I look at quad A - the side of quad A thruster, though, and it's all scorched. So I'm not sure but what that might have been - what in the world could do that? Tower jett, do you suppose? I don't know. Might have. Well, let's take one of these covers off. Oh, this is - like it did in practice. (Laughter) Sticking underneath the door. Looks like I can jerk on it a little harder up here. In practice, I didn't want to break it. There's - a part of the - could you see that one?
258:08:28	CC	Roger. We see it. Looks like the outer-space Olympics going on up there.
258:08:34	Evans	(Laughter) Hey, this is great, I'll tell you! And let me see which way to throw it so you all can see it down there. There it goes. (Chuckle) Okay - -
258:08:50	CC	Roger. We see it reflecting off in the distance.
258:08:52	Evans	Did you see it? Okay.
258:08:56	CC	Never did that in the water tank.
258:09:00	Evans	(Laughter) Yes, That's the little - the Mylar. That's that tinfoil they make the LM out of, you know.
258:09:09	CC	Roger.
258:09:10	Evans	(Laughter) No, not really. You know, it's kind of an insulation-type stuff. And here we go.
258:09:24	Cernan	If that's what they made the LM out of, you'd never be able to pull it apart, I'll tell you.
258:09:27	Evans	(Laughter) That's right. I - I'm joking about that, you know. I'm really joking. Fellows, it was a good vehicle.
258:09:35	CC	We'll send your apologies to Bethpage.
258:09:40	Evans	And (laughter) - No, I guess Bethpage knows I'm joking, you know. Let me see. Hey, I got to make sure I get this on the right handle here, don't I?
258:10:12	Evans	Gee, that's why I wore my watch, and I forgot to start it. (Laughter) Okay. About 40 minutes, huh?
258:10:19	CC	We've got you 35 minutes - 36 minutes, Ron.
258:10:24	Evans	Oh, okay. Oh. Okay. Yes, the EVA lights are kind of blistered, also. No, they're back behind, toward the Sun. Put some hooks on there now. I'm hooked onto the (chuckle) cassette. No, maybe that tape's supposed to be on that pan camera, I'm sure. Put the old doors back in there real well. I don't know what - what would cause that thing to - ... those 4 minutes, anyhow. Ah-ha! There's the old mapper cassette. Well, I'm going to - am. I supposed to pick it up or what? I want to take a look down in there. Can't get out that way. (Laughter) Got my left foot stuck in there, and you can't go out in the left direction with - with my foot in there. You have to lean over to the right a little bit to take your foot out. (Humming) Yes, nice and clean - down in there. Yes, that cable's in the clear. I can see down in there. There doesn't seem to be anything hanging up on it at all.
258:12:44	CC	Okay, Ron; good show.
258:12:47	Evans	Okay. Put the old Sun visor down now. Whoops, come back here, little cassette. (Humming) Yes, I was going to try to lift that door up, but should have done that while I was punched down in there.
258:13:22	CC	There's no requirement on that, Ron; no requirement.
258:13:27	Evans	(Laughter) Okay. I want to check one thing while I'm out here before I leave, and to see the bottom of this quad A. Forgot to look at it. Yes, well, it looks just like the side almost. More blistered on the side than it is on the bottom, but I think maybe it's just the paint. Okay, I'm coming back in. Oh, Okay.
258:14:21	Evans	Man, the RTV is good out here. Looks brand new. Whatever they put on the hinge. Looks like that RTV stuff, you know. That's why they sealed around all their doors on here. And it's spanking clean as ever. (Humming) Okay, no hurry. ... Once (Chuckle) - Outstanding - once you get stable in a position, see, I can pretty much hang on with one hand, and I can twist - Oops. Yes, once you start going, it's a son of a gun to try - it's all wrist action. Working - Yes, but once you get stable on the thing, you can kind of relax there, and - Yes... drift, you know, and if I ever bang my foot against - against something, just - just barely touch it, and it bangs right back. And - Hey, America looks really great there. Still got that silver tape on him - or is it blue? Looks silver with this helmet. Let's see, I've got to get over this way farther this time, don't I? Okay. There we go. Hey, I got a picture of the waste water dump from the LM the other day, but it looks the same way now. There's all kinds of little ice particles all around the - the periphery of the dump nozzle itself. It covers up the - well, that kind of gold part that's - that's on the - on the end of the dump nozzle. And then, there are little particles of frozen water, I guess - must be - that are - that are all over - up the side of the spacecraft there, but only in the vicinity of the - the nozzle. It goes up just about to window number 1 - it goes up to window number 1 - well, maybe on up to - no, there's particles all the way up the side of the spacecraft, clear up to the top of the tunnel. But they're real fine. I want to see if they're stuck on there. Hey, you can just touch them, and they blow away. They're just little ice particles.
258:17:49	Cernan	Okay, Houston. We got all three cassettes inside.
258:17:52	CC	Roger, Good show.
258:17:54	Evans	Hey, here's something. You know, the one thing that really shows up - and it makes you kind of proud - it says United States, and it's got a United States of America flag right below it. That didn't get scorched or a darn thing. That's great. And - let's see now - I see what Charlie Duke meant. Man, it's dark out here. It is really dark. The scimitar antenna, right there - in no shape - no problem. Wish there were some more handholds, I'd go around the other side of the spacecraft. Take a look at the high gain. There aren't any more handholds.
258:19:39	CC	Okay, Ron, we don't need any more spacecraft commentary. We'd like you to go ahead and terminate the EVA. You're looking great. You're looking great. Everybody's really pleased, and we'd just like to go ahead and terminate.
258:19:56	Evans	Okay. Sounds good.
258:19:59	Cernan	Okay, Bob, we'll get back in.
258:20:03	Evans	Torque? I can't. How's that?
258:20:24	Evans	Okay, I guess we'll - start getting back in then. I'm up below the camera right now.
258:20:34	CC	Ron, you'd be happy to know, on the TV, we got a great view of your OPS [?] with the United States flag on it.
258:20:41	Evans	Hey, beautiful! Perfect! Let's see, which way do I want to get the umbilical down there? Oh, yes, but you're pulling me sidewise, okay. That's all right. Wait a minute. Okay. No, that's all right. Okay. You are in good shape now. Go ahead and start pulling in, now.
258:21:08	Cernan	Wait a minute, Ron, until we get Jack in the right place.
258:21:12	Evans	Okay.
258:21:44	Evans	Is it clear?
258:21:45	Cernan	Yes, the umbilical's in. Come on in.
258:21:48	Evans	Okay.
258:21:48	Cernan	You coming in head down or up?
258:21:51	Evans	Up. This way right now.
258:21:54	Cernan	You can't close the hatch that way.
258:21:56	Evans	I know it.
258:21:57	Cernan	Okay.
258:22:09	Evans	Not yet. What does that look like on the monitor?
258:22:20	CC	Well, you should have - test me, and I wouldn't want to guess. It's probably the full Moon, isn't it?
258:22:27	Evans	It is.
258:22:31	CC	You taught me well, Ron; taught me well.
258:22:35	Evans	Okay, you got - got you real well there. Okay, then I'm going to arc it around and ... See if I can turn around here and - Yes, I am. Trying to, anyhow. Yes, wait a minute, I can't - No, I'm not.
258:23:12	Evans	Yes, afraid I can't get to it. Can't point it. Okay, well, I'll just have to get back in.
258:23:18	CC	Okay, Ron, we know what you're trying to do, and we appreciate the TV show. We're looking - we're sorry to see you go, but we'd like to terminate.
258:23:26	Evans	(Laughter)
258:23:28	Cernan	We're terminating - -
258:23:29	Evans	Okay, we're terminating.
258:23:30	CC	And you might be advised you're right on the Flight Plan, you're right on the Flight Plan.
258:23:36	Evans	Oh, okay. Good. I didn't want to get - cut my time short, or anything, you know.
258:23:46	Cernan	Unless you can set it way back there. Okay, then I'll keep it right here.
258:23:50	Evans	Sure it's there, Geno? We can shove it underneath your couch.
258:23:55	Cernan	That's the best place to shove it.
258:23:59	Evans	Can you do that? I'll get up out of your way, here.
258:24:00	Cernan	Let me get it. Let me get out from under the cord. Okay.
258:24:07	Evans	And, if you can get the TV switch there, Jack, that kind of saves - all that stuff, I guess.
258:24:17	Schmitt	Okay.
258:24:18	Evans	If you can't, I'll get it when I come in.
258:24:22	Cernan	Okay, and I got it OFF up here, too. Okay, you're in STANDBY. That's all.
258:24:32	Evans	Okay. I'm going to have to come in there kind of - a little bit blinded, because, in order to get in, I got to look at the Sun. So you just got to point me in the right direction there.
258:24:49	Evans	(Laughter) Hey, one of our - Wait a minute - one of our - Kleenexes we're using to wipe the windows with is stuck in the - the gear thing. (Laughter) There it goes.
258:25:07	Cernan	Okay.
258:25:08	Evans	Okay.
258:25:10	Cernan	Okay, and back on down.
258:25:11	Evans	Well, let me see here - backing down - let me see, which way do I -
258:25:16	Cernan	Straight down.
258:25:19	Evans	Okay.
258:25:20	Cernan	I got your leg.
258:25:21	Evans	Got my leg?
258:25:22	Cernan	Okay, on the left, make sure that the - -
258:25:24	Evans	Wait a minute, let me - What? Swing on the leg, or what?
258:25:27	Cernan	No. Just kick it down, you'll be free. Kick your - kick your right leg down.
258:25:31	Evans	There we go. Okay.
258:25:32	CC	Hey, Ron. We assume the scissors went out the hatch. is that affirm?
258:25:39	Evans	(Laughter) I didn't see a thing.
258:25:41	Cernan	Can you pull it - let me get your umbilical.
258:25:43	Evans	(Laughter) The only thing I saw go out was the - -
258:25:46	Cernan	Okay, Jack - -
258:25:47	Evans	- - ...
258:25:48	Cernan	Ron, Ron, how's the hatch? Get down on the hatch. Your OPS isn't fitting through the top. Pull yourself down. Straight forward. Face down. Nose down. Now back.
258:25:57	Evans	Okay. How's that?
258:25:58	Cernan	Now back. Keep coming. Keep coming. Now, can you reach the hatch?
258:26:03	Evans	Yes, makes it sort of ... Let me get back in a little bit.
258:26:06	Cernan	Okay.
258:26:07	Evans	Let me get this visor up. One of them, anyhow. That's a pretty Earth up there.
258:26:14	Cernan	Okay. Keep - keep your - -
258:26:15	Evans	Keep your hand on the - the hatch here. ... crescent Earth.
258:26:20	Cernan	Now, does the seal look good to you, while you got your nose there?
258:26:23	Evans	Yes. Wait a minute - -
258:26:24	Cernan	Check that stuff on the ...
258:26:24	Evans	Got a cassette going out the window, there. Okay, it's clear.
258:26:30	Cernan	Okay.
258:26:32	Evans	You'll have to look.
258:26:34	Cernan	Kick that back.
258:27:03	Evans	Okay, now I think everything's clear out of the hatch.
258:27:06	Cernan	Okay.
258:27:07	Evans	You see, the reason we put that - -
258:27:09	Cernan	Okay.
258:27:10	Evans	Can we get rid of the - instead of pulling the pip pin, we put this little hex nut, see, because I can reach down there and grab hold of the - -
258:27:19	Cernan	Okay. Start pulling.
258:27:20	Evans	- - the hook and pull - and here she comes.
258:27:25	Cernan	Okay, she's coming. Here she comes.
258:27:27	Evans	Okay, and I'm already back inside here.
258:27:28	Cernan	Okay.
258:27:30	Evans	Man, it's dark in here!
258:27:31	Cernan	Yes.
258:27:34	Cernan	Okay. You got to - when you made your first turn, you got a pull light, there.
258:27:37	Evans	Wait a minute.
258:27:44	Cernan	Okay, get a couple turns on it.
258:27:46	Evans	Okay. There's one turn on it. I mean - I - I can release it?
258:27:50	Cernan	Okay, now get it back.
258:27:51	Evans	Okay. That's a little harder to pull shut than I - -
258:27:54	Cernan	The hatch is coming.
258:27:56	Evans	Yes, I thought it was.
258:27:57	Cernan	Keep going.
258:27:58	Evans	That's as far as it will go.
258:28:01	Evans	Let's see, does that line up with these little marks on there?
258:28:05	Cernan	Okay; and the hex is clear. That one's in good shape. Close the hatch and - Okay. Verify lock pin dropped in, white to white.
258:28:12	Evans	Yes. Okay, we're white to white.
258:28:14	Schmitt	Okay, stow actuator handle, ACTUATOR HANDLE in NEUTRAL.
258:28:18	Evans	ACTUATOR HANDLE is NEUTRAL, and it's stowed.
258:28:22	Schmitt	Okay, you still got white to white?
258:28:24	Evans	I still got white to white.
258:28:25	Schmitt	And the dogs over here look good to me.
258:28:27	Evans	The dogs look good, let me see if my pencil mark is on there.
258:28:31	Evans	Yes, they're lined up.
258:28:32	Schmitt	Okay. GEAR BOX SELECTOR - LATCH. Verify.
258:28:34	Evans	GEAR BOX SELECTOR is verified LATCH.
258:28:37	Schmitt	Okay. Cabin repress.
258:28:38	Evans	Wait a minute, I got to close the - Oh, okay, now I - -
258:28:41	Cernan	Let's get this, then we can start on cabin repress, okay?
258:28:43	Evans	Okay. Side hatch dump valve, close.
258:28:47	Schmitt	Okay. Side hatch dump valve, close.
258:28:49	Evans	Okay, we're closing it.
258:29:07	Evans	You know, it's funny. We didn't see anything come up around that crazy ... we put in there, but as soon as I opened the hatch, the whole world came out.
258:29:13	Schmitt	Okay.
258:29:14	Evans	Okay. Okay, it's closed.
258:29:16	Schmitt	Okay, on 326, REPRESS PACKAGE, OFF.
258:29:20	Evans	Stand by. Well, we got all the stuff in there.
258:29:26	Schmitt	Got it all.
258:29:27	Cernan	Okay. REPRESS PACKAGE is OFF. Ron, on 601, O2 - REPRESS O2 OPEN and ... CLOSED. Cabin pressure, 1 psi.
258:29:37	Evans	Okay, I can't see what the - -
258:29:39	Schmitt	Geno, then you'll have to give us a hack on 1 psi if you can.
258:29:42	Evans	Wait a minute.
258:29:43	CC	Gene, we're watching. We'll give you a hack at 1 psi. No problem.
258:29:48	Cernan	Okay, we're - REPRESS is OPEN.
258:29:52	Evans	And I can't get it off there. Wait a minute - -
258:29:54	Schmitt	It's going to come pretty fast, Ron.
258:29:57	Evans	I can't even - Wait a minute - I can't turn around far enough to see it.
258:30:07	CC	And, America, we see your cabin coming up. You're at 0.3.
258:30:12	Schmitt	Okay.
258:30:13	Evans	0.3? (Laughter)
258:30:16	CC	You're at 0.7, 0.7.
258:30:22	CC	Okay; turn it off, you're at 0.1 - I'll say again, 1 psi.
258:30:28	Evans	(Laughter) Okay.
258:30:30	Cernan	Okay; give us a GO when it looks good, Houston.
258:31:10	Evans	Oh, yes. See the hatch - -
258:31:12	CC	Okay, America, you're looking good. No ...
258:31:18	Evans	Okay, we're going to go REPRESS - -
258:31:19	Cernan	Okay, REPRESS - OPEN, and let it go to zero, Ron.
258:31:22	Evans	Okay.
258:31:24	Cernan	We'll end up with about 2 psi. Can you see the gauge?
258:31:30	Evans	Well, wait a minute. Let me turn ... I think I'm still hooked ... There we go. Okay, I can see - No, that's temperature. Okay, here it is.
258:31:42	Cernan	No, no. I mean the REPRESS O2.
258:31:44	Evans	Oh, the REPRESS O2?
258:31:46	Cernan	Right in front of you.
258:31:47	Evans	Yes, it's almost zero. Oh (laughter) I was looking at CABIN PRESSURE.
258:31:49	Schmitt	No, REPRESS O2.
258:31:51	Evans	It's about zero.
258:31:54	Cernan	Well, when you think it's zero, you can - -
258:31:56	CC	Okay, Gene, we got - we're indicating 2 psi down here at this time.
258:32:02	Cernan	Okay, Ron. If it's zero, you can close REPRESS O2 valve.
258:32:06	Evans	Okay, we'll close the REPRESS O2. What the - Okay, ... place for a valve.
258:32:21	Schmitt	Okay, we're going to let your flow bring ... rate.
258:32:25	Evans	Okay.
258:32:27	Cernan	And your next move, after we get a hack at 3, will be to disconnect your OPS hose and hold it directly into the cabin volume - -
258:32:34	Evans	Okay.
258:32:34	Cernan	- - and We'll get your OPS ...
258:32:36	Evans	Would you - would you believe I'll let you do that?
258:32:38	Cernan	Yes, I would.
258:32:39	Evans	(Laughter) Okay, because you'll be going through this thing.
258:32:42	Cernan	Yes. Yes, I'm almost down there, now.
258:32:45	Evans	Say, Houston, I was surprised when I closed the hatch here. It came closed real well, up until about an inch from the - Can you see the CABIN?
258:33:01	Cernan	No.
258:33:02	CC	Ron, we're watching the CABIN. It's 2.2. I'll give you a call at 3.
258:33:08	Evans	Oh, okay; mighty fine, Bob. I was going to say the - when you're closing the hatch, I expected it to come all the way closed, you know? And it came to within about an inch of the - of being closed on the outer - not the inside, but the other side, and wouldn't come any more, unless you really pulled on it.
258:33:28	Cernan	Yes.
258:33:29	Evans	So and then your - Of course, it was pretty easy to pull because you're kind of flattened down in there anyhow. You just pull it closed, and then once you get the lever over the - over the center, it comes right closed.
258:33:44	Cernan	Okay, Ron, what I'll do when we get up to 3, I'll disconnect your OPS hose, Jack, and I'll let you pull it around behind his back. And, then, you can hold it in the open cabin and I'll actuate his OPS.
258:33:56	Schmitt	Well, we got a lot of use out of that OPS.
258:33:58	Evans	Yes. Let me actuate it, okay?
258:34:01	Cernan	Okay. I'm glad I didn't have to earlier in the week.
258:34:04	Evans	Well, me, too, you know. I'm glad I didn't have to today either.
258:34:07	Cernan	Yes, I am, too.
258:34:17	Evans	You know, my gloves are dirty, but I think they're dirty from getting ahold of that - those dirty suits of you guys, you know. Jack, did you get ...
258:34:20	Schmitt	Okay.
258:34:37	Evans	Well, you know, you want to see if there's any residuals from the thrusters out there, you know. Well, I couldn't see anything anywhere except the - on the EVA handrails themselves. And that really didn't look like it was a residual to me. It's just a discoloration, and it's kind of a changing of the condition of the - whatever is on those things, you know. Hope they're not painted. I guess what I'm saying is that they were shiny burnished aluminum, I guess, or whatever, prior to lift-off, but now they're kind of a dirty-looking burnished stuff.
258:35:47	Cernan	Okay, Ron, when they give us that 3, I'll get your hose. Jack can hold it in the cabin, you can activate your OPS.
258:35:55	Evans	Okay.
258:35:57	Cernan	Then we'll watch the cabin come up to 5, and then the OPS will come off, then we'll get a HIGH O2.
258:37:04	Cernan	How we doing down there, Houston? This is America.
258:37:09	CC	America, you're looking great. You're up at 2.6. It's going up slowly, just like we expected.
258:37:18	Cernan	Okay.
258:37:35	Cernan	Not a bad performance by my CMP, was it?
258:37:38	Evans	(Laughter)
258:37:38	CC	That was beautiful. We had a beautiful television show. Really beautiful.
258:37:44	Evans	(Laughter)
258:37:54	Cernan	Well, we got your three packs here all snuggled away.
258:38:00	CC	Yes, indeed, you made a lot of people in the back room very happy. They're looking forward to getting that film.
258:38:13	Evans	Well, the best part about it is, from all indications, it ought to be real good film, too.
258:38:19	CC	Yes, sir. Looks like everything worked out great. You're at 2.7 and climbing very slowly.
258:38:41	Evans	(Laughter)
258:39:42	Evans	Hey, Houston. Tell Chuck Stahl [?] that attitude for the EVA was outstanding.
258:39:49	CC	Thank you, Ron, he's listening right here, and he's been on the console during the whole period. Got a big grin on his face right now.
258:40:40	CC	And, America, the cabin is at 3 psi.
258:40:49	Cernan	Okay, Robert, we're pressing on. Okay, Ron, I'll get your - -
258:40:52	Evans	Can you get them off?
258:40:55	Cernan	Yes. Okay, Jack, if you can get the - hose from behind him.
258:41:03	Cernan	Okay, go ahead and activate it, young man.
258:41:06	Evans	You got ahold of it, Jack? Okay.
258:41:09	Cernan	Yes, hold on to it tight.
258:41:17	Evans	You feel anything? Yes, it's really blowing in there.
258:41:21	Cernan	Okay, we'd like a hack on the cabin when we get to 5.
258:41:26	CC	Roger, America. We'll give you a hack.
258:42:05	Cernan	Probably can ... that out. O2 HIGH FLOW, Jack, that's a MASTER ALARM ... There it is. Yes...
258:42:14	Schmitt	That's the main regs coming in, I'll bet you.
258:42:16	Evans	Must be the main regs cutting in. (Laughter) That's right, you can't see MASTER ALARMs, can you?
258:43:57	CC	Okay, America; you got 5.1 cabin press.
258:44:03	Evans	Okay. I'm coming off.
258:44:09	Cernan	Okay, and I'm going ...
258:44:18	Evans	Okay. I'm going to pop the CABIN out there if I don't turn mine off pretty quick. Okay. Oh, no, it didn't come up that fast. There's not that big a hurry. We're waiting a long time to get - to get from 2 to 3. Yes, you get a HIGH O2 FLOW.
258:45:16	Evans	Yes, my - Oh, your accessory bag is in there, I guess. The - the gloves.
258:45:30	Evans	Just let me get the tone down here. Ding, ding, ding, ding. Okay, I got it. I think we did, didn't we?
258:46:06	Evans	Yes, if we can't find that one, let's find another one. Got to have something to stick - stick my gloves in, you know. Yes, the thing you put your gloves in, you know? There it is, right there. Yes, you got to use yours. (Laughter) Okay.
258:46:28	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 258:46 Ground Elapsed Time. To run briefly over the transearth EVA event times. Depressurization began at Ground Elapsed Time of 257:35. TV turned on shortly after Evans came out. Evans was clear outside the spacecraft at 257:45 approximately 10 minutes after hatch open - or depres-surization I should say. He brought back the lunar sounder film cassette at 257:54. His mean heartrate during this early period of the EVA was running around 139 and 140, and began to taper off as he got more accustomed to this new environment outside the spacecraft. The panoramic camera cassette was retrieved at approximately 258:03 back into the cabin. Mapping camera cassette 258:16. Evans returned to the Command Module at approximately 258:28 the hatch was closed the TV turned off just about 4 minutes prior to the hatch closure. Repressurization began at 258:28 at hatch closure and ended just a few moments ago at 258:44. At this time there is an orbital science briefing which will begin in the main auditorium. The air to ground circuit will be recorded for delayed playback at the conclusion of the lunar orbital science briefing and a followup of that will be the change of shift press conference with the flight director Neil Hutchinson. Now estimated to take place at about 4:30. At 258:48 this is Apollo Control.
258:46:43	Evans	... Okay.
258:46:45	CC	America, Houston. Your cabin pressure's up to 5.5, 5.5.
258:46:52	Evans	Okay, we'll turn this off now.
258:46:54	Cernan	Okay, we're right now at the point where we're going EVA STATION O2 OFF.
258:46:57	Evans	... off my clothes? Por favor.
258:47:02	Evans	Yes. (laughter) ... stick them in the bag ...
258:47:12	Evans	Okay.
258:47:25	Evans	Smells kind of funny in there. What'd you guys do? (Laughter)
258:47:32	Evans	Surge tank. Ahhhh, yes, it's 700 now, 725. is that what that - Yes, that's why -
258:47:44	Cernan	Better turn the ...
258:47:47	Evans	There we are. Okay, I'll turn the TV switch on. Well, we're really not transmitting down.
258:47:56	Evans	Okay? Yes, we can go to FILL. We got 600, 700, let's see - -
258:48:03	Cernan	Okay. ... FILL on the REPRESS at this time.
258:48:08	Evans	How low do we take this down to? 400? Probably stop before that, anyhow.
258:48:16	Evans	Okay.
258:48:24	CC	America, Houston.
258:48:28	Evans	Yes, go ahead. Go ahead, Houston.
258:48:31	CC	Roger. Ron, just two reminders here while you go through your unsuiting and cleanup procedures. We're trying to get established on a new biomed cycle, so we'd like to have the LMP on biomed. We'll be coming up with a complete scheduling here shortly, and just a reminder for the LMP and the commander, we want to make sure we retrieve their PRDs.
258:48:58	Evans	(Laughter) Okay, that's a good point.
258:49:00	Schmitt	Okay, I gave you a PRD about 2 hours ago, and just to bring you up to date to where it was, and we'll keep them out.
258:49:08	Cernan	And commander retrieved his yesterday.
258:49:11	CC	Yes. No problem. We just want to make - reminder. We just want you to be reminded that we need them.
258:49:16	Evans	Take mine out now. Wonder if I got any zaps when I was out there?
258:49:21	Schmitt	Thank you, Bob. I even forgot that I reminded you to remind me.
258:51:02	Evans	(Laughter) And 15055. I didn't get very many rads while I was out there, I guess. Like it was 51 this morning. Okay? Here, I'll hold this thing.
258:51:25	Evans	How about giving me a squirt? (Laughter)
258:51:34	Evans	That right there. Yes, three of them. I threw away all the dirty ones, I think. (Laughter) The whole time. Boy, it - Yes, it sure whipped out through there when I opened the hatch.
258:51:58	CC	Sure wish you'd seen the scissors go.
258:52:02	Evans	(Laughter) I'll bet - hey, I'll almost make a bet with somebody that it's down behind the optics.
258:52:11	Evans	Okay (chuckle). They don't look dirty to me, do they? Wash them off, anyhow, though.
258:52:33	Evans	Wait a minute, let me push them back ...
258:52:42	Evans	Should have used hot water. Or is that thing cold, you mean? is that cold? Boy, that is cold, isn't it? No, it doesn't fold there, just stick the whole thing in there like that. No.
258:53:09	Evans	Yes, now let's use some of that good food tape that's stuck over there. And there's some on the side of the - the light. You can use those to tape those holes ... Yes, just the mapping camera. Yes, that's all. No, just the map. Oh, it has? There's a chunk.
258:53:36	Evans	There's your hole through there. Oh, yes, we got a lot of tape, I'm sure. We want to tape this whole thing here.
258:55:18	Cernan	Okay, Bob, we're in the process of cleaning up the cassettes - -
258:55:19	Evans	The breather holes - see the holes in this panel.
258:55:24	CC	Say again, CDR, you were cut out on VOX there.
258:55:30	Cernan	Okay. I forgot Ron was still on VOX during this. I just wanted to keep you up to date. We're - we're taping up the cassettes now and cleaning them up and getting them stowed.
258:55:40	CC	Roger. Good show.
258:55:43	Evans	I'm sorry. I led myself astray. Yes, overlap it, because it won't stick to that thing very good. No, it just won't stick ... We'll just take tape and wrap all the way around the thing. Otherwise, it's not going to stick, period. Yes. It's up? That's right. ... (Chuckle)
258:57:04	Evans	Oh, we've been doing this for two or three flights, you know. Why change it for the last one? Yes, probably one all the way around. Get your corner, there. Yes, we got another roll of that tape you guys brought. Just about that size, I guess. You got it? Yes, they're down here. We missed them. (Laughter) Yes.
258:57:39	Evans	Keeps the light and the water out of it, I guess. Not the water because you got a breather hole, but keeps the light out that film slot.
258:58:44	Evans	Two of them are around this way.
258:58:49	Evans	Does take a lot of tape, doesn't it?
258:58:53	Evans	Yes, sure doesn't stick to a cassette. Sometime. I couldn't find mine. They must have been in the other set of gloves. I forgot about them. Well, that's ... No, there's nothing taped.
259:03:15	Cernan	Okay, Bob, we're on 3-20, and we're all going to get out of our suits and stow them before we get the center couch back in.
259:03:27	CC	Roger, Gene. Sounds good.
259:03:33	Cernan	And I guess I can get some DAP changes for you, if you'd like.
259:03:44	CC	Stand by on that.
259:03:49	CC	Okay, Gene; you're - you can go ahead and do the DAP change.
259:03:55	CC	America, Houston. Just one update. We won't give it to you as an update at this time, but wherever you see IR work just ignore it. Do not turn the IR on and no need to open the IR cover. We're through with it until just prior to entry interface.
259:04:18	Cernan	Okay, Bob; understand that.
259:09:14	Schmitt	UV is ON.
259:09:18	Schmitt	And the UV cover's, coming OPEN.
259:09:22	Cernan	Okay, Bob, I'm going to go down through the Flignt Plan down through about 259:45, get this maneuver started. And then we can press on.
259:09:36	Cernan	Hello, Houston; America.
259:09:39	CC	Go, America; Houston.
259:09:43	Cernan	Okay. I'm pressing on through the Flight Plan to about 259:45, and getting everything up to and including the maneuver, and then we will continue with our post-EVA.
259:09:58	CC	Okay. We'd like for you to hold on that maneuver, Gene. Don't start the maneuver.
259:10:06	Cernan	I've already started my roll. Do you want me to stop it?
259:10:12	Schmitt	And did you copy the IR was ON and the COVER OPEN?
259:10:17	CC	Okay, we copy that. IR ON and the COVER OPEN.
259:10:26	Schmitt	I'm sorry. I was UV - ON. UV COVER, OPEN.
259:10:39	Cernan	Hello, Houston; are you reading America?
259:10:41	CC	That's affirmative, America. Houston here.
259:10:46	Cernan	Okay. Did you get the word that it was the UV - ON and the UV COVER, OPEN?
259:10:54	CC	Roger. We got that word.
259:10:59	Cernan	Okay. And I'll stop my roll at 270 degrees and will not maneuver until I hear from you.
259:11:09	CC	Roger.
259:11:13	Cernan	You're not getting a good key down there, by the way.
259:11:17	CC	Say again, Gene.
259:11:21	Schmitt	Houston, your keying is cutting you out, I think.
259:11:28	CC	Okay; are you reading me now?
259:11:32	Schmitt	Yes, that was good. Did you understand Gene's transmission on his stopping the roll?
259:11:38	CC	That's affirmative.
259:13:15	Schmitt	Houston. CABIN FAN is coming ON.
259:13:20	CC	Roger.
259:13:31	CC	America, Houston, you're cleared to go to the VERB 49 maneuver as published in the Flight Plan.
259:13:37	Schmitt	Okay, Bob.
259:13:44	Schmitt	Houston, would you like OMNI Alfa now?
259:13:51	CC	Negative. We'd like you to go to OMNI Charlie for now.
259:13:56	Schmitt	Oh, I'm sorry. Okay, OMNI Charlie, right.
259:14:01	CC	No need to apologize. The Flight Plan says Alfa; we're just going to Charlie, which is the best antenna.
259:14:10	Schmitt	Well, that's all right. I misunderstood what Gene just told me about his maneuver.
259:26:40	CC	America, we'd like OMNI Alfa.
259:26:47	Cernan	Say again. You're cutting out badly.
259:26:49	CC	We would like OMNI Alfa. OMNI Alfa.
259:26:57	Cernan	Okay. You said OMNI Alfa. We'll go there.
259:27:01	Cernan	Houston, you read?
259:27:08	CC	America, Houston. Your comm is going to be a little ratty until you get into configuration here - or rather get into attitude.
259:27:18	Cernan	Okay, Bob, I'm reading you now. Say again please.
259:27:22	CC	I just said it's going to be a little bad comm until you get into attitude, se we should hold this for a while.
259:27:30	Cernan	Okay. Then when we get there you want OMNI Alfa. Right?
259:27:36	CC	That's affirmative.
259:27:39	Cernan	Okay. We'll give it to you when it's getting bad.
259:29:51	CC	America, Houston. If you. have somebody handy to the panel, we'd like to take the H2 tank 2, FANs to OFF.
259:30:03	Cernan	Roger. H2 tank 2 FANs, OFF.
259:30:07	CC	Thank you, Gene.
259:30:13	Cernan	We're OMNI Delta. We're reading you loud and clear. Do you want us to stay here?
259:30:19	CC	That's affirm, Gene. That's a good show. It's right - you know, it's right on the line there. It - Delta shows better on the signal strength and Alfa shows better for location. So let's stick with Delta.
259:30:33	Cernan	Okay.
259:47:12	CC	America, Houston. Please advise us of how you are going to handle the waste stowage vent. Is that open or you going to close it now?
259:47:22	Evans	It's open right now, but we're going to close it here shortly. Do you think we need it closed now?
259:47:29	CC	Negative. It's your option. We Just want to know what - in case we get an O2 FLOW HIGH, we might understand what it's from.
259:47:37	Evans	Oh, I see. Okay, we'll close it after a bit here.
259:53:22	CC	America, you might be interested in - while you're doing all this hard work up there you might be interested in how some of the Texas football teams have fared. Houston had a toughy today. Cincinnati took them 61 to 17.
259:53:34	Evans	... Wait a minute.
259:53:38	Schmitt	Houston - took who? 61 to 17?
259:53:41	CC	That's what they tell me. And the other one is those - the biggy up at Dallas right now. The Giants leading the Dallas Cowboys in the third period 21 to 3. 20 to 3; I'll correct that, 20 to 3.
259:53:55	Evans	Okay. 20 to 3. New York over Dallas, huh?
259:54:00	CC	That's what it looks like. That's in the third quarter.
259:54:09	Evans	Okay.
259:56:19	CC	And, Ron, we're going to do a site handover here in about 4 minutes, and we may lose some lock here
259:56:27	Evans	Oh, okay. That's all right.
259:56:31	CC	And how's the post-EVA checklist coming? You chugging along.
259:56:37	Evans	Oh, chugging along. We've got two guys that have their suits off now.
259:56:40	CC	Roger.
259:56:43	CC	Well, they say it always takes longer up there than in the - Got all evening to do it. There's no hurry on it.
259:56:53	Evans	(Laughter) That's right. Hey. Hope North American doesn't think I was badmouthing their spacecraft down there, because you know - a little bit of blistered paint on it, that doesn't hurt anything. It's still a dam good spacecraft.
259:57:05	CC	No, I don't think North American even - I think they think it was just great, but I don't know if I'd ever go to Bethpage if I were you.
259:57:14	Evans	(Laughter) Okay.
259:57:21	CC	Ron, that was such a great show, I don't think anybody would care. That was just tremendous.
259:57:27	Evans	(Laughter) Okay, Bob.
259:58:19	Cernan	Okay, Houston. This the CDR backup.
259:58:20	CC	Roger.
260:05:16	Cernan	Houston, America; the WASTE STOWAGE VENT valve is CLOSED.
260:05:21	CC	Roger, America.
260:18:37	Cernan	Hello, Houston; this is America. Looks like the repress package is up, and surge tank is back up. Would you like us to turn the cell off and turn the O2 heaters off.
260:18:50	CC	Geno, EECOM says affirmative to all that.
260:18:56	Schmitt	Okay, Gordo. How you doing?
260:18:58	CC	Pretty good. I saw Ron's stroll around the service module. Looks like he had a ball.
260:19:08	Schmitt	Yes, he did.
260:22:09	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 260 hours 22 minutes. During the time that we've had the air-to-ground lines down for the press briefings, there have been no major events in the mission. Things are continuing to progress smoothly and relatively quietly. At the present time, the crew is in the midst of an eat period, and we have about 18 minutes of accumulated taped conversation, which we'll play back for you at this time.
260:32:15	CC	America, Houston; over.
260:32:20	Cernan	Go ahead.
260:32:22	CC	We have ... up the DSE, so we'd like you to go ahead now and do the maneuver listed at 261. Give us the high gain so we can dump it. Over.
260:32:37	Cernan	Okay. Maneuver's coming at you.
260:32:41	CC	Okay. And for your information, charge number 5 just went off. It was a 3-pounder, and it's jiggling the instruments on the surface there properly.
260:32:55	Schmitt	Very good. Any new word on the gravimeter, Gordy?
260:33:01	CC	I haven't got it yet, Jack. Let me check. Have you heard anything since you asked me the question last night?
260:33:11	Schmitt	Well, whatever it was - No, I haven't heard anything.
260:33:14	CC	Okay. I'll try to get an update.
260:33:18	Schmitt	I was thinking of the lunar surface gravimeter, not the traverse. They apparently don't want to talk to me about the traverse gravimeter.
260:33:30	CC	Okay. We'll try for info on both of them.
260:38:20	Schmitt	Okay. Any other new stuff you might have heard or get a hold of, I might be interested in.
260:38:28	CC	Okay. America, Houston; we need OMNI Charlie, please.
260:38:33	Cernan	Houston.
260:38:40	CC	America, Houston. OMNI Charlie, please.
260:38:48	Schmitt	Hello, Houston. How do you read?
260:38:51	CC	Okay; loud and clear. Go ahead.
260:38:55	Schmitt	Okay. We apparently - in our struggles up here inadvertently hit the WASTE WATER to DUMP and it's back in RELIEF now. That dump is terminated; we have 30 percent waste water.
260:39:11	CC	Okay.
260:39:15	Schmitt	I'm not sure what we had when it started. I just noticed the streaming. I don't think it was on very long.
260:39:23	CC	Roger.
260:44:00	PAO	This is Apollo control at 260 hours 44 minutes. We're up live now that completes our tape playback. Apollo 17, 153,321 nautical miles from Earth, And one of the comments you heard from capcom advising the crew that the fifth of the explosive charges left on the lunar surface at Taurus Littrow had gone off as programed. The detonation occurred almost precisely on time at 260 hours 24 minutes. This is a one and a half or rather a three pound explosive charge located one and a half kilometers east of the lunar rover. And, we appeared to get good seismic data here in the control center. At the present time the crew is still in the eat period, and we've had relatively little conservation from them. It also from the flight plan looks as if we'll have relatively quiet evening. Very few things scheduled between now and the time the crew is to begin their rest period at 267 hours or about 6 hours 15 minutes from now.
260:46:19	CC	America, Houston. We need - we could use the HIGH GAIN now, NARROW and REACQ.
260:48:22	CC	America Houston high gain's not going to work in NARROW now, wait a while it's in a skin reflection area.
260:48:35	Schmitt	Yes, I'm having the same problem there - I noticed the same problem. How's this, leave it in WIDE?
260:48:43	CC	That will be fine.
260:50:12	CC	America, Houston. We'd like you to go to REACQ now, wait 30 seconds, and then go to NARROW.
260:51:01	Cernan	Hello, Houston. We're turning the CABIN FAN, OFF, for a while.
260:51:06	CC	Roger.
260:53:20	CC	America, Houston. We'd like NARROW beam width.
260:53:27	Schmitt	Thanks for timing 30 seconds for me, Gordy. I think that was beyond me.
260:53:37	CC	You're welcome.
260:54:31	Schmitt	Doesn't look like it's going to make it, does it?
260:54:34	CC	No, it sure doesn't. Stand by 1, and we'll give you an alternate plan here.
260:55:20	Schmitt	I'm back in WIDE.
260:55:30	CC	Roger.
260:57:27	CC	America, Houston. We're going to have to have the high gain for the dump and also for a little additional work with the HF antennas and the sounder that we're going to read you here in a minute. So, in order to get it, we'd like you to pitch up 20 degrees in your present attitudes; and when you get there, then we ought to be able to reacquire and go NARROW.
260:57:59	Schmitt	Okay.
260:58:25	CC	Once you get the antenna locked on in NARROW it will track back to this attitude, and that's what we'd like you do is come back down to this attitude, once you get the antenna locked on.
260:58:43	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy, we got a good lock now.
260:58:57	CC	Okay. Fine. Well, then go right on back to the program pitch attitude there, and it should hold.
260:59:09	Schmitt	In work - in work.
261:00:15	CC	America, Houston. We'd like to have somebody go to panel 230. I'll give you switches real time, save you writing them all down to get a couple of things cranked up here. Over.
261:00:38	Cernan	Okay. What do you want at 230?
261:00:41	CC	Okay. Basically what we're going to do is turn the IR ON with the COVER, CLOSED, to keep it warm so you can do that IR, ON, now. And then we're going to put out the HF antennas and listen to HF getting some data on background noise from the Earth. If you'll put HF ANTENNA 2 to EXTEND, we'll give you a cue when to go OFF when it's all the way out. Over.
261:01:06	Cernan	Okay. HF ANTENNA 2 to EXTEND on my MARK.
261:01:18	Cernan	MARK it.
261:01:20	CC	Roger.
261:04:02	CC	Okay. We'd like HF ANTENNA 2 to OFF, please.
261:04:16	Cernan	Okay. HF ANTENNA 2 is OFF. It maintained barber pole all the time there. It never went gray until we turned it off.
261:04:38	CC	Okay. It probably isn't out yet. The reason we had you stop was because the recorder that's watching that broke down, down here. We got to get that back on line.
261:04:51	Cernan	Okay.
261:05:29	CC	While you're waiting there, I can go over the football scores for the weekend, if you wish.
261:05:39	Schmitt	Just a minute. Let's see if we can get Ron on a headset.
261:05:42	CC	Okay.
261:05:50	Schmitt	He's walking - he's walking around here thinking he doesn't have to do anything any more after that EVA, but we'll get him back to work.
261:05:57	CC	Roger.
261:06:35	Evans	Okay, Houston. We're ready for those scores now.
261:06:40	CC	Okay. Just 1 second, Ron. I think we've got another switch for you here.
261:06:49	Evans	Okay.
261:07:01	CC	Okay. We'd like to take the sounder HF ANTENNA number 1 switch to EXTEND. We'll let the motor on 2 cool off. We do have the recorder fixed, so we can watch 1 now.
261:07:13	Evans	Okay. Number 1 is going to EXTEND. 3, 2, 1 -
261:07:18	Evans	MARK it; barber pole.
261:07:21	CC	Okay. I've got the whole list of scores here; some of these were yesterday you probably heard of, but I'll just go through them all. San Francisco beat Minnesota, 20 to 17. Miami made it, I guess 14 straight, 16 to 0 over Baltimore. And Buffalo beat Washington, 24 to 7, how about that? Cleveland beat the Jets, 26 to 10. Kansas City beat Atlanta, 17 to 14. Green Bay won over New Orleans, 30 to 20. St. Louis beat Philadelphia in a close one, 24 to 23. Denver beat New England, 45 to 21. Detroit beat the Rams, 34 to 17; and Oakland beat the Bears, 28 to 21. And here's some sad news. The Giants beat Dallas, 23 to 3. And one final score - Cincinnati, 61, Houston, 17. Over.
261:08:52	Schmitt	Over. Gordy.
261:08:54	Cernan	Gordo, we - don't have any contact - comment. All three of my teams lost today.
261:09:02	CC	Roger.
261:09:35	Evans	Hey, number 1 just went gray on the lunar sounder.
261:09:41	CC	Okay.
261:09:53	Evans	And I'll turn the switch to OFF, if you want.
261:09:57	CC	That's affirmative. OFF on 1 and then on 2, we'd like you to go to. RETRACT for 10 seconds, then put her in EXTEND, and we'll watch it.
261:10:10	Evans	Okay. RETRACT, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and about 10, I guess. Okay, then I'm going to -
261:10:29	Evans	EXTEND, now.
261:10:31	CC	Okay.
261:11:53	CC	Okay. We'll take number 2 to OFF, please. And we're going to let the motor cool down for 15 minutes so you got at least that long until the next time we bug you.
261:12:07	Evans	(Laughter) Okay. It's OFF now.
261:29:04	CC	America, Houston. We'd like to try antenna number 2 again.
261:29:14	Evans	Okay.
261:29:15	CC	What we want is you to go to RETRACT for 10 seconds, and then, EXTEND.
261:29:23	Evans	Okay. Wait 1.
261:29:30	Evans	Okay, RETRACT. There's 10 seconds. Back to EXTEND.
261:29:46	Cernan	It's going to EXTEND, now.
261:29:48	CC	Okay, and we're just wondering where you stood on the post-EVA checklist procedures.
261:29:59	Evans	Well, probably about 75 percent through. What we're doing is stowing all this stuff out here, and then we're going to go back through and check things off.
261:30:08	CC	Okay. Fine.
261:30:14	Cernan	Gordy, did our little waste-water burn there hurt us or help us?
261:30:21	CC	I guess we haven't been able to determine yet.
261:30:31	CC	Okay. HF 2 ANTENNA, OFF.
261:30:42	Evans	Okay. It was OFF, when you called.
261:30:45	CC	I guess the motor is - -
261:30:45	Cernan	And, Gordy - - ...
261:30:47	CC	- - just about stalled out. Doesn't seem to be much - making much - much progress there. Go ahead.
261:30:55	Cernan	I was just going to say we took time out here to grab something to eat, cause it's been a long time between breakfast and lunch so - I will try and do a little inventory here and give you a page and let you know about where it is.
261:31:08	CC	Okay. We're not intimating there's any hurry. We just were curious.
261:31:27	CC	Okay, a little more amplification on that antenna. The motor gets hot and it starts - slows down and stops making progress. But each time we make a little more progress to getting it out, and we're almost all the way. We're going to give it another cool-down period. We'll give you a call when we want to try it again.
261:31:46	Evans	Okay. Sounds good.
261:31:56	CC	I do have a bunch of short Flight Plan updates, none of which is very close in the future. So any time someone has nothing to do, I'll be glad to read them up.
261:32:15	Cernan	Okay. Let's eat for a little while, Gordy.
261:32:18	CC	Fine.
261:32:39	Cernan	Is it still sunny and cold back there?
261:32:46	CC	That's affirmative; it was clear and - were you talking about the Houston weather? Or the SIM-bay weather? The SIM bay's getting cold, also. It's cool, but it was sunny here today. It'll probably be a cold night since it's clear.
261:33:07	Cernan	Okay. Thank you.
261:35:42	Evans	(laughter)
261:38:43	CC	America, Houston. We're ready to give another stab on the HF ANTENNA.
261:38:53	Cernan	Okay.
261:38:55	Evans	You want to go RETRACT first, then for 10 again?
261:38:57	CC	That's affirm. Ten seconds RETRACT, then EXTEND.
261:39:02	Evans	Okay. Going to RETRACT and OFF.
261:39:19	Evans	Okay; going to EXTEND, now.
261:39:22	CC	Roger.
261:40:18	CC	Okay, Ron, it's getting out there inch by inch, but we got to back off and hit it again. Go to RETRACT for 10 seconds, and then back to EXTEND.
261:40:33	Evans	Oh, okay. I went to OFF there for a second, and I'll go to RETRACT now, and then to EXTEND.
261:40:39	CC	Okay.
261:40:52	Evans	Okay. I'm going to EXTEND.
261:40:58	CC	Roger.
261:41:34	CC	Okay, Ron, go to OFF, and it'll be another 10-minute wait.
261:41:45	Evans	Okay. We're OFF.
261:43:12	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 261 hours 43 minutes. The exercise that we've been going through with Ron Evans and the antennas aboard the CSM involve an attempt to extend the second of the two elements of the High-Frequency antenna used in the lunar sounder experiment. Each of these elements is about 34 feet 2 inches long. Both together comprising elements of a single antenna. And, one; of the - one of the elements is extended, and the second is balking at extending. Apparently, due to being cold, and the resistance of pushing the antenna out is heating the motor up. Therefore, we have to turn it on for a period of time until the antenna bogs down and the motor begins to heat, and then turn it off to let the motor cool down. In order to assist in getting it out, and you heard CAPCOM Gordon Fullerton advise the crew that it's going out inches at at time, we're backing off a little bit on it to relieve the tension, and then having the crew go forward, and with each of these steps gaining a few inches on getting the antenna extended. Apollo 17 at this time is 151,300 nautical miles from Earth and traveling at a speed of 3,440 feet per second.
261:52:55	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 261 hours 53 minutes. We've just had the sixth of the charges, left on the lunar surface by the Apollo 17 crew, detonate, and we're receiving the seismic data in the Control Center. This is the charge designated Number 2, which is a quarter of a pound of explosive, and it had been scheduled to detonate at 261 hours 59 minutes, or about 6 minutes from now. All of the charges we've seen so far have been detonating within about 5 minutes of the nominal or T-zero time.
261:54:16	PAO	These charges are part of the seismic profiling experiment and provide scientists with information about the subsurface structure in the landing site area.
261:57:19	PAO	This is Apollo Control. There's one more of the seismic charges to be detonated, charge Number 3, which will be the eighth and final charge, and it's scheduled to be exploded on command from the ground at about 264 hours 10 minutes, roughly 2 hours 10 minutes from now. This charge is the closest of the eight to the roving vehicle located about 65 meters away.
261:58:28	Cernan	Hello, Houston; America. Are you ready to maneuver here to the UV stellar target attitude?
261:58:44	CC	Stand by; I'll check.
261:58:52	CC	Okay. I guess everybody is in agreement. Go ahead and high gain should stay on during this maneuver.
261:59:05	Cernan	Okay; we're maneuvering. I hope the Sun comes in the window on this next maneuver.
261:59:12	CC	Is it getting cool up there?
261:59:17	Cernan	Well, I'm freezing something off.
261:59:22	CC	Hey, we got a little procedure to warm things up in the cockpit, if you'd like it.
261:59:28	Cernan	We - we heard that earlier, and we're passing on that right now.
261:59:39	CC	Was it the one about turning INVERTER 3?
261:59:46	Cernan	No, we didn't hear that one. Why don't you tell us what that one is.
261:59:50	CC	Okay, Cernan, put INVERTER 3 on MAIN A. That will put some heat load into the system, and then GO to MANUAL on the TEMP IN valve. Go down and adjust the EVAP OUT temperature to 59 degrees - make it 55 degrees, 55 degrees. And that should help warm things up.
262:00:22	Schmitt	Okay. We'll let you know if we give that a try and, Gordy, I guess we're ready to copy some of those Flight Plan updates.
262:00:30	CC	Okay. Fine. We'll keep an eye on the TEMP OUT so that - let you know if the - it's getting away. Let's see - let's start on - Stand by 1. Start on page 375 at 263 hours.
262:01:00	Cernan	Okay.
262:01:01	CC	Okay. Down at 263:40 where it lists the jets to use for spinup or for damping, rather, we're going to change the jets to be used for damping, since those ones listed didn't work so hot last night. Want to use all of quad Delta. Delta 1, 2, 3, and 4 and Charlie 3 and 4, those six jets in place of the ones listed.
262:01:45	Cernan	Okay.
262:01:47	CC	Okay, and just to the left of that box delete "IR COVER, CLOSE" and "IR, OFF."
262:01:58	Cernan	Okay.
262:02:01	CC	I guess - delete the deletion. I just got a call since turn the IR ON. We want to turn it OFF at this time, so leave the IR, OFF, call as is.
262:02:18	Cernan	You want - you want to delete COVER CLOSED, but - but leave IR, OFF, in, huh?
262:02:22	CC	Yes, the cover is closed, and we want to turn the IR OFF, at that time.
262:02:37	Cernan	Okay.
262:02:39	CC	Okay. Turn over two pages to 265:20, and make the same jet changes for that PTC rate damping, all of quad Delta and Charlie 3 ana 4.
262:03:12	Cernan	Okay.
262:03:14	CC	Okay, then turn over 1, 2, 3, 4, several pages - let me find the next one here. It's on 275:10.
262:03:32	Cernan	Okay.
262:03:33	CC	At 275:10, add "Charge BATT A."
262:03:44	Cernan	Yes, sir.
262:03:45	CC	Turn the page on 276:25, delete "IR, ON." Then down a few lines at 276:45 delete "IR COVER, OPEN, before dump," and a few more lines at 276:57, delete "Charge BATTERY A."
262:04:19	Cernan	We got them.
262:04:21	CC	Okay, turn over two pages to 279:05, and change "LMP don biomed harness" to "CDR don biomed harness." 279:30 - change - check CDR to - check LMP, change that to "Check CDR" and then make it "LMP doff biomed harness."
262:05:05	Cernan	Okay. I - I got those, but that's sort of slighting the CMP.
262:05:14	CC	Okay, we'll consider that. Go on to - -
262:05:22	Cernan	That's harness - that's harnessing the commander.
262:05:25	CC	(Laughter) Roger. Okay; let's go to 285:10.
262:05:44	Cernan	Okay.
262:05:44	CC	Okay. Right after the VERB 48 add three steps, number 1 is "RADAR, OFF." Number 2 is "HF ANTENNA to RETRACT (OFF, ON STDN cue)." And the next step is the same for ANTENNA 1. "HF ANTENNA 1, RETRACT, (OFF, ON STDN cue)."
262:06:33	Cernan	Okay. RADAR OFF, HF ANTENNA number 2 RETRACT OFF, on STDN cue and the same for number 1.
262:06:39	CC	Righto, and then same page, 285:30, "IR COVER, CLOSE." Delete it.
262:06:50	Cernan	Okay.
262:06:51	CC	Next page, 286:25, "IR COVER, OPEN," delete that. And on the next page, 287:13, "IR COVER, CLOSED" and "IR, OFF," delete both of those. And a little further down the page it says "LMP doff biomed harness." Change that to "CDR doff biomed harness."
262:07:41	Cernan	Okay. I got those.
262:07:43	CC	Okay; next page is another PTC spinup, same change, "Delta 1, 2, 3, and 4 and Charlie 3 and 4" instead of the listed jets.
262:08:11	Cernan	Okay.
262:08:12	CC	Okay, and then backtracking for one last one that was just handed to me; go back to 263:53.
262:08:28	Cernan	Okay.
262:08:29	CC	And the high gain antenna angles; change them from a "-40 and 90" to "20 and 180."
262:08:41	Cernan	Understand; plus 20 and 180.
262:08:44	CC	That's affirmative and that completes the list.
262:08:49	Cernan	What about 285:30 on the jets?
262:08:54	CC	I asked the same question, I think. Let me turn to it here. Yes, that one is a - just a short - a short run on it and they just as soon as it wobbles a little so they can leave those jets the same. That's for a UV scan.
262:09:13	Cernan	Okay. Okay.
262:13:16	CC	Okay, guys, it's time for another try on the HF antenna.
262:13:24	Cernan	Go ahead.
262:13:25	CC	Okay. HF ANTENNA to RETRACT for 5 seconds, and then EXTEND, please.
262:13:33	Cernan	Okay; for 5 seconds. Going to EXTEND -
262:13:44	Cernan	MARK.
262:14:33	CC	Hey, good work. It finally made it out. Put it OFF, please.
262:14:41	Cernan	It's OFF.
262:14:43	CC	Okay. And then got some more steps here, as soon as I find them. Okay. LUNAR SOUNDER OPERATE switch to STANDBY. That's a verify. Then RECORDER, ON.
262:15:02	Cernan	Okay. OPERATE is verified in STANDBY, and RECORDER is ON.
262:15:08	Cernan	MARK.
262:15:09	CC	Okay, and RADAR switch, ON.
262:15:21	Cernan	RADAR'S ON.
262:15:25	CC	Okay. RECORDER, OFF, and MODE, HF.
262:15:34	Cernan	RECORDER'S OFF, and the MODE's verified in HF.
262:15:38	CC	Okay. That does it. We'll let her tick away now for a while. Thank you.
262:15:57	Cernan	I don't believe it. (Music) (Laughter) Got a tissue? (Laughter)
262:16:17	Evans	Exactly what I was trying not to do, (Laughter) (Music).
262:33:36	Schmitt	Houston, 17.
262:33:40	FLIGHT	17, Houston. This is FLIGHT. Gordo's in the back with his family. Go ahead.
262:33:49	Evans	Okay. I just wanted to pass on an OPS pressure we owe you. That's 2000 psi.
262:33:57	FLIGHT	Okay; copy.
262:54:21	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 262 hours 54 minutes At present time, we are replaying the video tape of today's CSM EVA. Apollo 17 at the present time is 148 900 nautical miles from Earth. This is a quiet period in the Flight Plan for the crew and we have scheduled an exercise period. And following that the crew will be the spacecraft up in the passive thermal control mode, rotating about the longitudinal axis of the spacecraft at about three revolutions per hour. This is done during the trans-lunar and trans-earth phases of the mission to maintain proper thermal equalibrium while the crew is in the sleep period. The crew is scheduled to begin an 8 hour rest period at 267 hours, or about 4 hours from now.
263:03:03	CC	Hello, America; this is Houston. We're ready for that VERB 49 maneuver as shown in the Flight Plan.
263:03:12	Evans	Okay. We'll get to it here. Just a second.
263:08:23	Schmitt	Say, Gordy; this is Jack.
263:08:27	CC	Go ahead, Jack.
263:08:30	Schmitt	It may be in my imagination, but I thought I had a major blink in the lights of the spacecraft, not just the floodlights but just generally. Did you have any glitch or anything on the traces?
263:08:43	CC	We'll take a look. Stand by. Give us your best guess on how long ago it was.
263:08:57	Schmitt	About - now about 20 seconds, maybe 30.
263:09:01	CC	Okay.
263:10:34	PAO	That was Lunar Module Pilot, Jack Schmitt reporting what he described as an apparent blinking of the spacecraft lights, apparently a momentary thing. Schmitt asked if the ground would take a good hard look at the vehicle to see if there had been any sort of a - a glitch, presumatly electrical. Spacecraft Environmental and electrical systems engineer, John Aaron is looking at the data now in detail and so far has reported nothing amiss.
263:10:55	CC	America, Houston. Request the VERB 48 shown in the Flight Plan now.
263:11:06	Evans	coming up at you.
263:11:17	CC	And we're - we're rechecking on the EPS data. A first glance shows it solid, but we're not sure if it might have been static during that time. We're taking another look here.
263:11:30	Schmitt	Gordy, don't make a big deal out of it. It may have been just my imagination or somebody hitting the floodlight switch, but it - we tried - I - Gene tried that again, and it didn't seem like what I saw. It was just a very quick blink in the lights.
263:11:44	CC	Okay. We'll - we'll still chase it down.
263:11:48	Schmitt	Okay.
263:11:54	PAO	EECOM, John Aaron reports that the data we have available in Houston at this time, shows nothing - no problems - Nothing wrong with the spacecraft. We are going to double check the data by replaying tapes recorded in the the receiving station at Madrid Spain. And looking in great detail at all of the spacecraft electrical systems to see if there was any sort of a glitch. But, again, at this point, nothing shows up as being amiss.
263:13:53	PAO	And about 1 hour from now, at 264 hours 10 minutes Ground Elapsed Time, the last of 8 explosive charges placed on the lunar surface by the Apollo 17 crew, will be detonated to produce seismic waves that will assist scientists in understanding the subsurface structure of the - in the area of the Taurus-Littrow site. This charge is 1/8th of a pound. The smallest of the charges, but also the closest to the lunar roving vehicle, it's located about 65 meters from the Rover, and again the expected time of detonation is about 264 hours 10 minutes. Apollo 17 at this time is 148,300 nautical miles from Earth, and we've seen the velocity creeping up ever so slightly, now up to about 3,500 feet per second.
263:23:02	CC	America, Houston. The state vector up-link scheduled for now won't be necessary.
263:23:10	Evans	Okay, Gordy. How's the old trajectory looking these days?
263:23:24	CC	They're still carrying about one-half foot per second. However, they're not in a period right now of real solid track, I guess, and - so it - it'll take them some more hours to get a really good handle on it.
263:23:43	Evans	Okay.
263:23:58	CC	Nobody predicts any more maneuvers until midcourse 7 at the earliest.
263:24:09	Evans	What would it be at the latest?
263:28:58	Schmitt	Hey, Gordy; Jack.
263:29:03	CC	Go ahead, Jack.
263:29:07	Schmitt	I fail to understand why all my friends who used to operate the backroom, even though it's Sunday, why they haven't given you a sort of an interim report on what they - what they think happened at Taurus-Littrow. They usually have those things available.
263:29:31	CC	Well, I did - you mean, the whole geological summary?
263:29:38	Schmitt	Well, just the general thing that they pass around after a - a day or so, I think, is the time frame they work in.
263:29:48	CC	Yes, there has been such a thing that I think you're referring to. I guess there's a more formal version coming that's supposed to be due out tomorrow morning, but there was a summary, fairly lengthy, on entire science, including the field geology, which I'll try to dig up and maybe read to you if you wish. Over.
263:30:16	Schmitt	Well, I don't need a lot. I guess it might be useful to have a general summary maybe tomorrow morning some time, if we have some time in the Flight Plan, of what people have seen up to date on things that we wouldn't normally be familiar with for - in preparation for that press conference tomorrow.
263:30:42	CC	Okay. Sounds like a good idea. On the - your gravimeter questions, the TGE numbers for the comparison I believe you wanted, between the north - the North Massif and the Sculptured Hills, just aren't available. The whole TGE team took their data and - and left town, evidently. And we have been unable to come up with any good numbers on that question. The lunar surface gravimeter - Okay, break break here. We need a VERB 48 load as shown, and then - -
263:31:28	Schmitt	It's already in, Gordy.
263:31:30	CC	Oh, okay. So you can go ahead and do the maneuver then. On the LSG, still no positive success. They've sent just about all the commands that it can take with no luck at leveling the beam, and so they've decided to fall back and the whole team is regrouping to consider further course of action. They've turned off the command system to it until some time tomorrow when they'll try again, evidently, with whatever they come up with in their conference. Over.
263:32:18	Schmitt	Okay. We're certainly pulling for them, of course.
263:32:30	CC	Roger.
263:32:34	Schmitt	Gordy, do I have it straight, that it, apparently, it's a problem just in the leveling commands, or is it - it is receiving other commands, is that correct?
263:32:53	CC	That's the impression I have. I hate to - to say yes certainly. My impression is that it just won't - won't level. It - it will accept commands, but the beam will just not level for a - a reason that they don't fully understand.
263:33:23	Schmitt	Okay. Does that mean that you might - Maybe you could ask Bob when you see him or something - does that mean the beam is not free, or is not level?
263:33:37	CC	As I understand it - Stand by 1.
263:34:45	CC	Jack, I got a quick agricultural explanation of the problem. (Laughter) Evidently, it's the two plates between which the beam itself is suspended are adjustable, so that - by ground command, so that by driving these plates back and forth, they try to center the beam between them. And then the - the data is initiated when the beam vibrates between the plates, it changes capacitance, or at least that's the general principle. And the problem is that by drive, they can command the plates back and forth and stop the stop, but they cannot get the beam to leave - leave one of the plates. It just is hung up against one plate, and this would - could be caused by one of the wires that's suspended - sort of hang the beam, pendulum-fashion, being broken so that it has cockeyed off to one side. I guess that's the best guess as to the malfunction at the moment. It's presently in use as a seismometer returning data in that mode, but useless in its primary intended data-taking mode. Over.
263:36:12	Schmitt	Right. Did they see the beam leave the plates at all as I shook it there near the last of our third EVA?
263:36:31	CC	I guess the answer to that is "no." They saw you jostling it around and could tell where you were from the data but have no evidence that the beam ever moved from the one plate.
263:37:05	Schmitt	Is there any possibility that the telemetry is giving them a false indication of not leveling - or not centering, I guess, would be a better word?
263:37:25	CC	Stand by.
263:37:43	CC	No, Jack. Evidently, they've eliminated that possibility. They're certain it's a problem - a mechanical problem.
263:37:52	Schmitt	Okay.
263:38:59	CC	Jack, reference your - the blink you noticed or possibly noticed - we, looking at the data, see about 30 seconds prior to the time we think you mentioned that it happened but that's close to the time frame, I guess, a 1 or 2 amp oscillation in the main B voltage or current. And it only lasted for one or two data cycles, or like 0.1 or 0.2 of a second is all. We would like to know, though, approximately what setting all the floodlights are at right.now.
263:39:49	Cernan	LEB axe full BRIGHT, and the left hand are about three-quarters, right hand's about three-quarters. Jack's the only one who saw that. We didn't - Ron and I didn't see anything on that one, so if it - if it happened, it was awful quick.
263:40:04	CC	Okay.
263:41:26	CC	America, we'd like H2 tanks - H2 tank 1 FANS ON, please.
263:41:39	Cernan	They're ON, Gordy.
263:41:42	CC	Okay.
263:41:42	Cernan	And we're on a damping mode with Delta 1 through 4, and C 3 and 4.
263:41:48	CC	Roger, Gene.
263:43:18	CC	Okay, America. We've got another change to the changes. (Laughter) We'd like you to leave the IR on until our cue here.
263:43:33	Cernan	Okay. I'll change my change to my change.
263:43:41	CC	Rog.
263:52:11	CC	America, Houston. The rates look good. We're ready to spin it up.
263:52:22	Schmitt	Okay.
264:15:40	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 264 hours 15 minutes. The ALSEP staff support room here in Mission Control reports that the last of eight seismic charges left on the lunar surface by the Apollo 17 crew has detonated and a charge went off at 264 hours 14 minutes or about 4 minutes later than the nominal time of 264 hours 10 minutes and within the normal range that we've seen for the other seven charges of about 5 minutes either side of the planned time. This charge was a 1/8th pound charge located about 65 meters from the Lunar Roving Vehicle, the charge that was closest to the landing site of Apollo 17. These charges are part of the Lunar Seismic Profiling Experiment - the seismic waves produced by the explosions provide information that scientists can use in interpreting the sub-surface structure in the area of the landing site.
264:18:50	Schmitt	Houston, 17.
264:18:55	CC	Okay; go ahead.
264:18:59	Schmitt	Hey, I was just wondering how the high gain's working out for you?
264:19:04	CC	Looking good, Jack.
264:19:08	Schmitt	Okay.
264:21:20	CC	Jack, Houston. Over,
264:21:25	Schmitt	Go ahead.
264:21:28	CC	The high gain is holding on there, but we think we can improve our - the time we can hold on to narrow beam width a little bit if you'd tweak it to PITCH, plus 15, and YAW, plus 185, please.
264:21:55	Schmitt	Gordy, you said plus 15?
264:21:58	CC	Affirmative. Plus 15 and a plus 185.
264:22:03	Schmitt	Okay.
264:24:06	Cernan	Gordy, the canister's changed.
264:24:09	CC	Thank you.
264:28:08	Cernan	I guess you're looking at the orange light, too, huh?
264:28:13	CC	That's affirmative.
264:29:10	PAO	This is Apollo Control. The orange light that Jack Schmitt was referring to is a gimbal warning light - one of the caution and warning system lights that, in this case, indicates the attitude of the spacecraft approaching gimbal lock. However, this is of no concern. The passive thermal control attitude that the spacecraft is in was expected to bring them close enough to that limit to trigger the light, but will not cause any problems. The spacecraft at this time is in the passive thermal control mode, rotating about it's longitudinal axis at the rate of about 3 revolutions per hour to distribute the heating and cooling effects of sunlight on one side and the heatsink of space on the other, and produce uniform heating and cooling within the spacecraft structure.
264:37:02	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 264 hours 37 minutes. About an hour and a half ago Jack Schmitt reported what appeared to him as a transitory blink of the spacecraft lights. He asked if we'd seen anything in the telemetry that indicated any sort of a glitch or a problem in the spacecraft electrical system. At that time the EECOM looked at his telemetry displays and said everything appeared to be normal, but to be doubly sure, we had the data, replayed from the receiving site at Madrid where it had been picked up from the spacecraft and looked at the data second by second. Aaron has completed that review, John Aaron, the EECOM, and reports that he saw nothing abnormal during the period of time in question. However, there were a couple of instances where the spacecraft current levels increased or spiked, as they say, by about an amp or two, but this is an increase of 1 or 2 amps out of a total of 78 to 80 some amperes being drawn by the spacecraft at this time, and is not considered abnormal. Gene Cernan reported after Schmitt asked the question that neither he nor Command Module Pilot, Ron Evans had seen the blink in lights that Jack Schmitt reported. Schmitt also allowed as how it may have been a - a figment of his imagination. There is, as we say, no - no explanation for the apparent blink in lights. We see nothing here on the ground that indicates anything abnormal in the spacecraft. Crew also reported that the spacecraft cabin was a bit on the chilly side and we read to them a procedure to increase the cabin temperature. We don't have a direct reading of cabin temperature - we can deduce indirectly what that temperature would be from air inlet temperatures which generally read lower than the cabin temperature itself. The EECOM estimates that the temperature in the cabin has been running somewhere between 68 to 70 degrees - probably in the high sixties, and hopefully beginning to come up a bit now. At the present time Apollo 17 is 145,300 nautical miles from Earth, traveling at a speed of 3,600 feet per second now. The crew is scheduled to begin a sleep period at about 267 hours. They've completed the exercise period. Ron Evans, who is on the bio-medical sensors, was exercising and the surgeon reported seeing the - seeing his heart rate rise, indicating that he was exercising.
264:41:23	PAO	And at this time the surgeon reports Lunar Module Pilot, Jack Schmitt, is exercising as indicated by a rise in his heart rate.
264:51:26	Evans	(Music) Hey, Houston; America.
264:51:36	CC	Go ahead, Captain.
264:51:41	Evans	Okay, Gordo. I took my comm carrier apart - or, you know, cut this little cloth covering that goes from the plug on up to the headset, what have you. And sure enough, there's two little broken wires in there; and the next one is a little bit - the next one to it is a little bit loose, also. But I found a little piece of metal, and I bent it to the - conform to the shape of the wire and I've got it taped up real tight right now. And I'm going to see if it works for a while - make sure it doesn't cut in or out, you know, or something like that.
264:52:28	CC	Okay; good luck.
264:52:32	Evans	(Laughter) Okay. Of course, I still have the lightweight headset too. I'd just as soon wear the comm carrier for the reentry, if possible.
264:52:43	CC	Roger. Say, we've investigated a little more on that possible spike that - or glitch that Jack thought he might of seen. And we mentioned, I think, in response to that, about a 1 or 2 amp jump. Well, looking further, we see those all along; and we think they're probably due to minimum-impulse jet firings. We're trying to correlate that data. But the conclusion, right now, is that we really don't see anything on the data to support what Jack might have seen.
264:53:22	Evans	Okay, mighty fine. We - just wanted to - you know, in case there was something there - wanted to make sure you all took a look at it.
264:53:34	CC	You bet.
264:53:46	Evans	Yes. Knobby. Okay, Knobby, where are you? Hey, I can see a few stars out there on this side of the window.
264:54:21	Evans	Can't see anything there. That's right behind the - By gosh, there it is, though.
264:54:26	Schmitt	Houston, 17.
264:54:29	CC	Go ahead.
264:54:32	Schmitt	Gordy, this is Jack. is anybody watching my heart rate - heart rate over the last 15 minutes or so?
264:54:40	CC	That's affirmative. We have.
264:54:45	Schmitt	What - what did I peak out at?
264:54:54	CC	You peaked at 105, Jack.
264:54:59	Schmitt	Hummm, okay.
264:55:11	Evans	Well, what do you know. You got to be quick. Just disappeared behind the trunion limits.
264:55:51	Evans	No, not at all, Jack. Go ahead. Jack's going to stir the cryos again - not stir them but - de-stratify them. 36 Vega. Ahh, that Vega is nothing but a bear. (Laughter)
264:57:36	Evans	That really shakes the spacecraft, Jack. You can see it when you sit there marking on a star and it just shakes it back and forth. (Laughter) That's all right; no problem. No, no. That's what I say, no problem. No angle difference from 0.1; that wasn't too bad. Number 1 and 36. You got them down? Okay, Houston, and we'll torque at - if you're all set, anyhow.
264:58:33	CC	Yes, we're all set.
264:58:36	Evans	Okay, about 58:45.
264:58:41	CC	Okay. And then, when you do that, we want you to stop the PTC right now. But we want you to use the jet configuration - configuration we used to start at - That's - all of quad Delta and Charlie 3 and 4, rather than the jets listed in the Flight Plan. Over.
264:59:09	Evans	Okay.
264:59:20	CC	And while we are mentioning jet configurations, that jet configuration is - this is another change to a change to a change, and we're sorry about this. But we want you to use those jets, all of Delta and Charlie 3 and 4, for every stop and start of PTC from here on out, all the way through the final PTC exit, just prior to midcourse 7, which is shown in the Flight Plan - and - and the way we want it, using coupled jets for that final one. But use Delta 1 through 4, and Charlie 3 and 4 from here on out for going in and out of PTC. And I can read you all the time so that applies to - if you can just remember it, that will save some writing. Your choice. Over.
265:00:18	Evans	I'll write it down here in the spacecraft somewhere.
265:00:31	Evans	Put it on the back here. Yes.
265:01:00	Cernan	Gordy, you want Delta 1, 2, 3, and 4, and Charlie 3 and 4 for damping. And you want Bravo 2 and Delta 2 for spinup, as the Flight Plan says?
265:01:11	CC	That's affirmative. And the damping is for both entry and exit of PTC from here on out, except that final one, which is coupled just prior to midcourse 7.
265:01:25	Evans	Okay.
265:01:35	CC	And you don't need to wait until roll of 14. You can go ahead and stop it right now. We'd prefer it that way, as a matter of fact. Over.
265:01:48	Cernan	Okay.
265:04:52	Cernan	Is that a CDU glitch there, Gordy? We - Huh? We sure did. Hello, Houston, you read America?
265:05:07	CC	Yes. I was just trying to get an answer for you. Yes, it looks, at first glance, like maybe we saw one. Stand by. I'll get a better update.
265:05:23	Schmitt	Gordy, why don't you give me the best OMNI?
265:05:30	CC	OMNI Delta is the best right at the moment.
265:05:43	Schmitt	Well, we'll hang on to you here as we go. You're just on the verge of dropping out, but we'll stay with you on the high gain.
265:06:00	Cernan	Yes, Gordy, our ball - our ball - let's see - reads about 256 ROLL, and YAW - and PITCH is 2 - about 227, and YAW is about 42 degrees.
265:06:24	CC	Okay.
265:06:43	CC	Geno, evidently you definitely had a CDU glitch. We're trying to come up with an attitude that you can fly to on the ball as it stands right now in SCS. Stand by.
265:07:07	Evans	Houston, both the SCS and the IMU ball are okay, I think. They're both the same. Well, they're almost - yes, except for the GDC - except for the GDC drift, they're both the same. So the error is in the NOUN 20s in the computer.
265:07:38	CC	Stand by.
265:08:09	CC	Ron, does the - does the GDC and the IMU attitude agree right now?
265:08:19	Evans	Yes, they do. They agree, you know, except for the 2 or 3 degrees of GDC drift is all.
265:08:26	CC	Roger.
265:08:41	Evans	And there's our NOUN 20s on the computer now.
265:08:45	CC	Roger.
265:09:14	CC	America, Houston. What we'd like you to do is - Were those ball angles you read 256, 04 - well, let's see - get the right order - 256, 227, and 042 - Are those still about where you are?
265:09:32	Evans	Yes, that's affirm.
265:09:37	CC	Okay. We're going to try to compute a - an attitude that can get us - to high gain so we have a little more visibility into the system. That's our problem right now.
265:09:50	Evans	(Laughter) Okay.
265:12:56	CC	America, Houston. What we'd like you to do is roll 180 degrees to about 076 roll attitude.
265:13:15	Evans	Okay, we'll roll her back to 076.
265:13:20	CC	Okay. Then once you get there, the HIGH GAIN angle should be a PITCH of minus 50; and YAW, 205. Over.
265:13:31	Evans	Minus 50 and 205. Okay.
265:13:34	Cernan	We're on the way, Gordy.
265:13:36	CC	Okeydoke.
265:13:39	Cernan	You might check. I was loading NOUN 22. And you might just doublecheck and see what you saw down there and make sure I wasn't loading NOUN 20.
265:13:53	CC	Okay, good call; we'll do that.
265:14:13	CC	Can you give us best OMNI as you roll around?
265:14:21	Evans	Okay, we'll try.
265:14:27	Cernan	Okay, it's OMNI Delta now.
265:14:29	CC	Roger. Loud and clear.
265:15:58	Schmitt	Houston, I doubt if it's a problem, but the UV cover's still open.
265:16:06	CC	Roger, Jack.
265:16:23	CC	Okay, we'd like you to zero the CDUs now.
265:16:41	Schmitt	Looks about right.
265:16:59	Cernan	Looks good, Gordy. It matches the ball.
265:17:02	CC	Roger. We see that. We're getting high bit rate now, by the way, also.
265:17:09	Cernan	I don't know. You can track it down, but I called up NOUN 20 to check the roll angles, and it was not what we were using in the book here, of 14 degrees. And I very easily could have - could have loaded 20 instead of 22.
265:17:29	CC	Okay. We'll sure track that one down.
265:17:29	Cernan	... feel a lot better about it, if that were the case.
265:17:54	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 265 hours 18 minutes. The CDU glitch that is being discussed, refers to a small piece of - refers to a small piece of erroneous information which appears to have gotten through the CDU. The CDU being the Coupling Data Unit, which is a black box that receives information from various measuring devices on the spacecraft, and converts them to a form that is meaningful to the computer. The CDU or Coupling Data Unit in question, is one that handles this transfer of information from a measuring device, in this case the inertial measurement unit, to the computer. The indications that we've gotten so far from the checks run and the telemetry data that we've looked at, do not show any problem. The essential thing is to understand what the nature of the erroneous information that was fed through this CDU to the computer might be. It's very conceivable that there will be a ready explanation for an erroneous bit of information getting through. If, in fact, there is some problem, and the CDU can be expected to continue feeding erroneous information to the computer, there is a program that can be loaded into the erase-able memory of the computer which in effect allows it to question the information that's fed through and to in effect, make a determination as to whether that information is reasonable. If it's not reasonable, the computer then throws it out. And we now have high bit rate data from the spacecraft so we'll be able to look in great detail at this particular aspect of the guidance system.
265:20:33	CC	America, we're ready now for you to proceed on per Flight Plan with the VERB 49 to the sleep PTC attitude. We have not had a chance to go back over the data, but we'll give you a call as soon as we get a chance to check it. Over.
265:20:51	Cernan	Okay, Gordy. One other interesting thing while we went back and looked at NOUN 22 after the glitch. We still had the NOUN 22 angles I had loaded for the previous VERB 49 at 263:40, which either - even makes me feel more like I did not load 22 on this next time around.
265:21:16	CC	Yes, it sounds - it sounds like we might have the problem nailed down, but we'll doublecheck that.
265:21:30	Cernan	This is a gross admission, if that's the case; but I'd rather have it that way.
265:21:36	CC	We won't hold it against you.
265:22:13	CC	America, Houston. Why don't you hold the PRO on - on this VERB 49 until we have a chance to check and see if we're going to a gimble lock problem.
265:22:26	Cernan	Okay.
265:22:48	Cernan	Gordy, can I use the roll we got, 142? I'll stand by until you check that gimbal lock out.
265:23:08	CC	Stand by, we're checking here. Your answer is negative, Geno. The present roll - the maneuver should - it shows on our computer, you'll go to gimbal lock. So suggest you go to 14 and then start to maneuver. ... Over.
265:23:39	Cernan	Okay.
265:29:06	CC	America, Houston. Can you give us AUTO and NARROW on the HIGH GAIN? Present angles are okay.
265:29:32	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. The computer knows where the stars are anyhow.
265:29:39	CC	Okay. We'd like AUTO and NARROW, and make sure you've selected HIGH GAIN also.
265:30:08	Cernan	Wise ... wise guy. Works every time, doesn't it?
265:30:31	CC	Roger.
265:34:01	CC	Well, America, the final evidence is in, and we're all putting our EMP books back on the shelf. We played it back and we see a VERB 21 NOUN 20, which is what did it - and a 22 and 23 -
265:34:19	Cernan	Okay, I've been sitting here thinking about it. Yes, I had - and also the glitch occurred when I did the final ENTER, so - plus we had the two-axes glitch and a number of things. I'm - I'm glad you confirmed that. Makes me feel better.
265:34:38	Schmitt	We were discussing whether or not you needed an EMP or not.
265:34:47	CC	Well, there must be one for the situation.
265:35:42	Cernan	Getting a little quiet up here anyway, Gordy. That one sure snapped us out, though.
265:35:49	CC	Us also.
265:36:01	Cernan	Hey, how far are we from home?
265:36:06	CC	Well, I can give it to you in hours from entry interface right away - 38 hours 42 minutes and 4 seconds. And in miles, you're 143,500.
265:36:29	Cernan	Okay, thank you.
265:36:35	CC	Picking up speed all the way.
265:39:30	CC	America, Houston. Over.
265:39:35	Cernan	Go ahead, Gordo.
265:39:37	CC	I've been talking to Don Beaty and Dick Kruse and looking over a transcript of - of a science press conference we edited up. It was kind of ragged but possibly interesting summary of the science as it stands now. In response to your question of - of items that might help you prepare for tomorrow's press conference, I can come with you with those words any time you wish.
265:40:14	Cernan	... you can come up with them now.
265:40:17	CC	Okay. Let's start with the - the LSPE. All eight charges have now been exploded, and they were all on schedule and produced excellent signals. These data were used in conjunction with the ascent stage lift-off and also its impact data, which should give us an excellent picture of the geologic structure of the outer 3 kilometers of the Moon. This little summary I'm reading right now is - was written by Joel Watkins. The geophone array is functioning beautifully and and we're already talking about its potential in a listening mode for study of meteorite impact frequency. We still don't have precise EP locations from Ray Batson, so the following interpretation will almost certainly be changed when we get better data and field tapes, which we will use to refine our arrival times. Bearing the above in mind, my preliminary interpretation is as follows. The low-velocity layer seems to be thicker and higher in velocity than at either Apollo l4 or 16 sites. I think this may mean that the low-velocity layer here includes dark mantle material as well as the regolith. Details of the higher velocity substrate are fuzzy, but velocities increase with depth in a way which would be consistent with a thick accumulation of lava flows. This probably represents the subfloor material. And he concludes by saying, "You guys did a great job, see you after splash." On the same subject, Dr. Kovach went a little further, and he just recently admits to seeing evidence of two high-velocity layers, especially after the 6-pound charge was fired, that - that evidence showed up. He also mentions in - mentioned in his press conference yesterday that the - the data point allowed by the - the ascent-stage impact was - was very important - the fact that they - they got it in about 9 kilometers away and the - that data is right in a critical range where - where they see a big change in the - the percentage of - velocity change. I'm getting kind of balled up here in the words, but that data is very important because it's in - where the steep gradient of velocity change occurs. On looking through here, I guess, in - in summary, I'll read a couple of sentences again out of the press conference. We do find evidence of lunar crust as we did in the past, but we may have to thin it considerably. We may have, in fact, have to thin it as much as to 25 kilometers instead of 60 - that they believed it was up until now. And they're thinking they may have to lower the velocity of seismic ways - waves in the mantle, which, I guess, at last guess was around 9 kilometers per second. Now it's looking more like 7-5, and the crustal velocity is probably as low as 6.3 kilometers per second. Okay, yes. That was - that last data was really from Dr. Latham, and he was interpreting that data mainly from the S-IVB impact, reading from some of the other seismic sites. Any questions on that? I realize that this is pretty ragged. Over.
265:45:17	Schmitt	Oh, that's - that's great, Gordy. Did Kovach indicate his tentative depth for the second high-velocity layer?
265:45:32	CC	No. As far as the information we have here, he's just - no, I don't see any - the only thing I can see is he mentions we're getting a depth sample down to 3 to 4 kilometers, but that was before all the charges had gone off. So I think, as I say, he just doesn't really state that yet.
265:45:58	Schmitt	Yes, it's a little early. Okay, good. Sounds like what we saw in the field to a certain extent.
265:46:10	CC	Okay. On the heat flow, it's continuing to work perfectly. It's stabilizing out and, at the present time, they show about a degree centigrade per meter gradient. Apollo 15 is stabilized at about 1.8, and it looks like the 17 site's headed for about the same, which gives consistent data for the two sites. It looks like that's what is going to result when it's reached its final equilibrium. And so that - if you call that - those two sites typical of the Moon, then that leads one to the following conclusions; that that data requires that there be a total greater abundance of radioactive isotopes in the Moon as compared to the Earth, so there would be an implication here for a fundamental difference in the composition between the two. And the higher number of isotopes would in turn require that they be located very near the surface, implying substantial differentiation of the material, at least compositionally or stratisfactionally [sic]. It's not necessary that it had have to be stratified. It was only required that it be stratified in most of - in that most of the isotopes be concentrated in the upper layers of the Moon. I guess that's about what we've got on the heat flow at the present time. Over.
265:48:05	Schmitt	Gordy, does he indicate where his minimum temperature lay - zone is now at the site?
265:48:18	CC	Stand by. Let me look through here.
265:48:26	Schmitt	I think you mentioned something the other night about - I thought you said 2-1/2 meters, but I'm not sure.
265:48:56	CC	Let me just read it straight off here. There is some words to that effect, but it doesn't sound like 2-1/2 meters. At a large scale - let's see, he's describing a viewgraph here - the surface temperature at the time of this sample was 360 degrees Kelvin. At a depth of about 15 centimeters, it had dropped to 280. At about 65 centimeters, the temperature drops to 254, and that's the lowest temperature we see. Below that depth, the temperature begins to increase again, and it's 257 at the bottom of the probes. Over.
265:49:41	Schmitt	Where was the 254 again?
265:49:43	CC	At 65 centimeters below the surface.
265:49:48	Schmitt	Okay. That's about the same, I think, as 15. Very good. Some of our double cores will get that deep.
265:49:58	CC	Roger. Okay, the TGE has produced some - fair amount of excitement around here - and interest. The instrument really worked beautifully. It had some baro switches that turned it on for temperature control - right aft - right during lift-off - and so it had 3 days to stabilize before you got to Taurus-Littrow. And on landing, the bias measurement showed that the bias shift was extremely small, so they feel that they had a very accurate reading on all the readings. And I mentioned the other night that the number they got for the gravity field at the landing site should allow them to actually revise the value for the radius of the Moon at the landing site. But then you asked me about some of the variations in reading around the valley there. Well, it turns out that - if you call the landing site zero on the scale of milli-gals and then take the differences from the landing site, over at the South Massif, you have a minus 36; in other words, a lesser amount of gravity. And all these numbers, by the way, are corrected only for elevation, and there are some more sophisticated corrections to - to be put on them. But the - with - correcting for elevation, you have a 36-milligal negative anomaly at the South Massif. And the number at the North Massif was a minus 26. And there is very little difference, within a milligal or so, between the North Massif and the Sculptured Hills site. But you can see that there's a significant difference between the landing site and the foothills on both sides. The Shorty Crater showed a slight positive anomaly compared to the landing site, but it's less than a milligal, which is sort of - you start to think "Well, that means a localized volcanic center," but it's - nobody's really going out that far on a limb. The - they were especially appreciative of the 2A stop, which was - let's see - well, it verified the extremely sharp gradient of the anomalous condition from the foothills as you go back into the valley. The 2A stop - I'm trying to find the number here - Okay, went from minus 36 at Station 2 to a minus 29 at 2A, so it's - it really changes quickly as you get away from the - the mountains. Okay, he summar - summarized his feelings by saying that "the negative gravity anomalies which were measured right at the South Massif and the North Massif clearly indicate that the valley is filled with a higher density of material than the material which makes up the massif so that if the material underlying the floor at Taurus-Littrow - say, is basaltic in composition and has a density of about 3, the material which makes up the massif has a substantially lower density." He goes on to say that we're not sure exactly what the density difference is, but if it's as large as 20 percent difference, then the material in the floor of the valley and the - well, the thickness of the high-density material in the valley has to be on the order of about 1-1/2 kilometers thick. So that's a - I guess that's a minimum thickness, assuming the greatest difference in densities.
265:54:48	Schmitt	That's very interesting, Gordy.
265:54:55	CC	Yes. They're really - everything is really tied in the original theories on the structure and makeup of the valley. Everything seems to be falling right in there, and that's what has - has the whole crowd of scientists around here really smiling. Let's see - let me find out what's next here. Okay. It was Strangway's turn next, and he didn't have any results to present, of course, because he's got to get the tape back first, really. However, the orbital sounder - the command module sounder - when they made the pass across the site with the transmitter on - No, I got it backwards. When it was in a listening mode, listening to the ground transmitter's signals, they found that the signal was in exactly the frequency range that it was supposed to be, and they - they picked up the - exactly the right sequence rate, once every 0.8 second. And when they calculated the power levels, that we were putting out just exactly the 1 watt that we were expected to put out. So that - that everything looks good as far as the operation of the transmitter, and without going into all the details which you know as well as I do about the thermal problems on the receiver, they're still - well, he sums it up, we have no reason yet to be sweating it too badly. They're very hopeful that when the tape gets back, we'll have good data on at least some of the legs, and they're - they're waiting for you to bring it to them. Dick Kruse is here, and he mentioned that all your pains, Geno, in brushing dust off of it probably saved the day. If it's there, it was just due to that, that it did work, because it was really on the ragged edge here.
265:57:33	CC	About what's left, I think - is the field geology interpretation. And what I've got and can get tonight because there's no one really around here from the geology team at this time - it's about 11 o'clock at night - is so rambling that I'm not going to bother to read it to you. But I will leave a request so that when Parker get you up in the morning, maybe he can summarize that or answer any questions in that area that you might have. Over.
265:58:07	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. Thank you very much.
265:58:13	CC	No trouble at all.
265:58:46	Evans	Hey, Gordy. Everything under control at the homefront?
265:58:53	CC	Yes, Ron. As a matter of fact, talked to Jan and, well, her words to summarize the - the whole show that you put on this afternoon was "out of this world," which is, I guess, a pretty good way to put it. Jon and Jaime were speechless when you waved and called hello to them. And Jan closed by saying that you - you're going to have to hurry home and help rebuild the wall that was broken out by the huge mob of people that were in your house this afternoon during the EVA. Over.
265:59:35	Evans	Well, that's okay. We like a lot of friends, and I'm glad everybody enjoyed it and pass my love on - to everyone.
265:59:45	CC	Okay, will do.
266:00:02	Cernan	What about the other side of the tracks, Gordy? Got any words from over there?
266:00:09	CC	Hey - I haven't really talked to anyone in the other two families today. So I'm sure that everything is fine or we would have heard it, but I'll try to get a last-minute update on that before you hit the sack.
266:00:29	Cernan	Okay, thank you.
266:03:24	Schmitt	Gordy, this is Jack.
266:03:27	CC	Go ahead, Jack.
266:03:31	Schmitt	Did you have a table there of the various gravity readings, and if so, what did we get at Van Serg? in your - relative to - to the landing site - the landing point?
266:03:45	CC	No, Jack. I don't have it. I'll ask, but I think the ones I gave you, the four places, Shorty, North, South, and Sculptured Hills, are all we got. But I'll check.
266:04:06	Schmitt	Okay.
266:04:41	CC	America, Houston. The rates look good now. You're clear to spin it up.
266:04:53	Evans	Okay.
266:06:10	Cernan	Gordy, I'm sorry. I'm going to move.
266:06:31	Cernan	Boy, this isn't my day. I'll give you the damping again.
266:06:35	CC	Okay, fine.
266:11:13	CC	17, Houston. We're ready for spinup.
266:11:53	CC	17, Houston. We're ready for spinup.
266:12:05	Cernan	Gordy couldn't hack it any longer, huh?
266:12:10	CC	He's getting some more news for you.
266:12:15	Cernan	Okay, we'll try and get it right this time.
266:13:11	Cernan	I think I got it for you this time.
266:14:49	Evans	Houston, America. Are you ready for REACQ and NARROW on the HIGH GAIN?
266:14:55	CC	That's affirm.
266:15:01	Evans	Okay, you have it. REACQ and NARROW.
266:17:22	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 266 hours 17 minutes. The crew at the present time is establishing the spacecraft in its passive thermal control mode. This is rotating at about 3 revolutions per hour for thermal control which means that they're preparing to get some sleep. Sleep period is scheduled to begin at 267 hours and the PTC or passive thermal control mode is the normal set up for the spacecraft to maintain thermal equalibrium during a sleep period. The crew had reported a possible glitch as they referred to it with the CDU or coupling data unit about an hour ago at 265 hours 7 minutes. We looked in great detail at the telemetry data and replayed data from the time when this glitch occured, and by looking at the data, have confirmed that there is no problem with the coupling data unit, and the guidance and navigation system which it forms a part of. To summarize the sequence of events, Gene Cernan was in the process of loading numbers into the spacecraft computer, telling it to maneuver to the proper attitude for passive thermal control, when he noticed that his eight-ball attitude indicator and his computer attitude readout disagreed. These 2 readouts if everything is as it should be, should be in very close agreement. Noting disagreement there, he advised that there was a possible glitch in the CDU or coupling data unit which feeds information from the inertial measurement unit to the computer. The glitch being possibly that the CDU was feeding erroneous information to the computer. If this was in fact the case, the computer knowledge of the spacecraft attitude would become impaired. It would have been possible to work around this sort of problem if it were a transient problem. This would have been done by loading a program into the computer erasable memory which in effect would tell the computer to disregard imputs which were unlikely or unreasonable. As it turned out, Gene Cernan came up with the explanation for the glitch. He suggested that he may have loaded the incorrect numbers into the computer when he was asking the - or telling the computer to maneuver to a new attitude. Rather than telling the computer to maneuver to a new attitude, by punching in the wrong numbers, he in effect told it - that's it's attitude numbers were incorrect and that it should load a new set of attitude numbers which the computer proceeded to do. And at the same time, the next time that he looked at and compared the eight-ball with the computer, he of course, found that they didn't agree. We were able to confirm that this in fact had happened by replaying data, looking at the numbers that were fed into the computer second by second and sure enough just as Cernan had suggested, a wrong series of numbers had been inadvertently loaded. The computer had done precicely what it was told to do and the indication of an error from the coupling data units was displayed. Making a long story short, the coupling data units are functioning precisely as they should and there's no problem with the guidance aid navigation system. Cernan, I'm sure, a bit chragrived at a procedurel error but as with everyone on the ground, relieved that a potentially significant problem turned out to be no problem at all.
266:32:25	CC	America, Houston. We'd like to verify the present setting of the high gain knobs. We want minus 40 and a plus 90.
266:32:46	Schmitt	Gordy, that's verified.
266:32:49	CC	Okay, thank you. I - I have a number of sort of cleanup items before going to bed that I can give you any time.
266:33:03	Schmitt	Why don't you go ahead?
266:33:05	CC	Okay. We'll be calling you for the IR, OFF, before you go to sleep. Want to leave it ON right up to the last minute, I guess. Let me see if we can do this next one. Okay. Why don't you just go ahead and do this one? FANs for sleep - number 1, OFF, and 3 in AUTO.
266:33:37	Schmitt	Okay, we got that.
266:33:39	CC	And there'll be no cryo stir necessary. You can leave the OPTICs power switch ON, which will increase the heat input and keep it a little bit warmer in there. You won't have to turn that off per the presleep checklist, if you don't wish to. We are going to change the biomed - -
266:33:59	Schmitt	Okay.
266:33:59	CC	- - tomorrow, in deference to the CDRs intimated request anyway, and let the CMP take the next shift where in the Flight Plan it now calls for the CDR. It was really our mistake on the original change. I guess there's no need to call all those detailed Flight Plan changes now unless you want to copy them. A reminder also, prior to going to sleep, to burnp the cabin up to 5.7 with the OPS to start getting the gas out of the OPS. And I checked with the remaining two homefronts, Jack. Your - I talked to your mother and sister. Everybody's fine there, and they watched the top of your head a little bit this afternoon on the EVA. They're looking forward to seeing you tomorrow on the press conference and back on Earth shortly thereafter. I got one from Nassau Bay, too, if the commander's listening.
266:35:18	Cernan	He's listening.
266:35:20	CC	Okay, Gene. Your mother and family have arrived. They - in fact, they just walked in from a party with Barbara. They all wish you to hurry home and send their love. Over.
266:39:26	Schmitt	Houston, how do you read 17?
266:39:29	CC	Okay, 17. Loud and clear now. How me?
266:39:33	Schmitt	You're loud and clear.
266:39:36	CC	Okay. Did you - did you get the homefront update for the commander?
266:39:42	Cernan	Yes, I got it, Gordy, and that's great news and news I wanted to hear, and you can return my love to them for me if you would.
266:39:50	CC	Sure will. That completes our list of goodies with the exception of the normal presleep stuff, and we'll be standing by for that from you.
266:40:09	Schmitt	Okay. And you can tell the Arizona people, next time you talk to them, I tried to get more of myself out in that television picture but the CMP saw to it that my umbilical was limited in its length.
266:40:25	CC	Okay.
266:47:37	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 266 hours 47 minutes. Flight Contro1 teams are in the midst of a handover here in the Control Room. Flight Director, Chuck Lewis in the white team being relieved by Flight Director, Pete Frank in the orange team. There will be no change of shift news conference - no change of shift news conference.
266:48:40	PAO	The CAPCOM on this shift will be Bob Parker now relieving Gordon Fullerton.
266:58:17	CC	America, Houston. I'll turn you over to the crew astrologer here. Pleasant dreams.
266:58:25	Schmitt	Thank you, Gordy. And we enjoyed the day with you. See you tomorrow.
266:58:47	Schmitt	Well, so much for that handover.
266:58:57	CC	You guys call while we were unplugging?
266:59:10	Schmitt	Haven't you learned better than to unplug with an interval between?
267:16:20	Schmitt	Houston, we're going to turn the CABIN FAN, OFF, for a while. Sorry; it's already OFF.
267:16:28	CC	Okay; we copy. CABIN FAN is already OFF.
267:16:33	Schmitt	That's right. It turns out the request was to turn it on, so we will.
267:16:49	CC	Okay, understand you're going to turn the CABIN fan, ON. I think that's to keep it a little bit warmer in there for you guys.
267:16:54	Schmitt	MARK it. MARK it.
267:18:26	CC	America, Houston. We'd like to talk to Captain America, please.
267:18:33	Cernan	Give him about - 5 or 10 minutes and he'll be with you.
267:18:37	CC	Okay; have him give us a call when he gets ready.
267:18:41	Cernan	Okay.
267:27:03	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 267 hours 27 minutes. The crew has not yet turned in for the night and we'll continue to stand by, live, for any conversation, Apollo 17 now 139,456 nautical miles from Earth, velocity 3,776 feet per second.
267:27:10	CC	Apollo 17, Houston. We'd like to talk to you guys before you go to bed, please.
267:27:20	Cernan	Go ahead, Bob.
267:27:36	CC	Okay, we panicked there, I guess, or we got our - change, we - because we saw you go VOICE, OFF, and we wanted to talk to you guys about two or three things before you went to bed. For one thing, we don't see the cabin pumped up yet with the OPS as per Plan, and we don't have the onboard read-outs yet, and we'd like to find out who's going to be on the comm and talk to Ron about his headset. I guess the general concensus of opinion down here, unless we know more about the fix, is there are some possible serious consequences, like blowing up the audio panel, if those wires did get together and short out, depending on which wires they are. So there's some concern about that.
267:28:25	Cernan	Okay, let's get you the read-out first, and we're going to bounce up the cabin here very shortly with the OPS.
267:28:35	CC	Okay, we'd also like to get the INFRARED to OFF, please - the IR.
267:28:40	Cernan	Okay, it's coming off here shortly.
267:30:04	Cernan	Okay, Bob, the RC - RCS reads 65, 57, 61, and 60.
267:30:13	CC	Okay, copy those.
267:31:53	Cernan	Houston, are you reading America?
267:31:55	CC	I'm reading you now. The last thing we got from you was the RCS quantities. We didn't get the BATT quantities.
267:32:03	Cernan	You haven't heard Ron at all?
267:32:04	CC	No, haven't heard Ron a bit.
267:32:07	CC	Sounds like the headset - -
267:32:07	Cernan	Well, I'll tell him to try again.
267:32:10	CC	Okay.
267:32:26	CC	No, America, we're not reading Ron at all, right now.
267:32:31	Cernan	Okay, he's been on the lightweight headset talking to you all this time. Wait a minute, he's going to check a couple switches.
267:32:37	CC	Okay. Which headset is broken? The Snoopy?
267:32:42	Cernan	Yes, Ron's - Ron's Snoopy helmet.
267:32:44	CC	Okay.
267:32:45	Evans	Hey, are you reading me now, Houston?
267:32:47	CC	I read you loud and clear now, Ron.
267:32:50	Evans	Okay, I'm wearing the lightweight headset, now. On the comm carrier, there's a whole bunch of wires, about eight of them - looks like they're twisted pairs, you, know, twisted in fours really. They come up through the thing. And two of those eight wires are cut - are broken in two. The hot end, or the end that comes up from the plug going toward the headset - those two wires both come out individually and individually taped, each one of them. And then the whole group - you know, I bent them out of the way so they wouldn't be touching anything. So they wouldn't touch insulation or tape. I bent them out of the way and taped the whole side of it just to keep the rest of them from breaking in two, and it looks like a pretty good fix on the thing, really. However, if you have any concern about blowing the audio panel, I'll just go ahead and wear the lightweight headset.
267:33:47	CC	Okay, Ron. Yes, the concern here is not only which wires they are - the potential does exist if one of those shorts to ground to blow the audio panel or at least a circuit breaker, depending upon which wire it is. I gather that what you've done - is that you haven't wired the broken wires back together, but it's just sort of covered the bare leads and wired them out of the way. is that right?
267:34:11	Evans	Yes, that's correct. It was too close to the - there is a stiff piece of plastic that comes out of the headset itself, out of the bottom of the left earset, and it's broken off too close to the bottom of it there to - to strip the wires down and wire them together at all.
267:34:28	CC	Okay. Roger on that. I guess - let us think about it here overnight. Offhand, our opinion is, as long as you've got a spare headset, let's wear the spare headset - that spare meaning a lightweight. If you're going to be on comm tonight, I guess we offhand suggest wearing the lightweight tonight. Over. How does that strike you?
267:34:47	Evans	Okay. Yes, no problem. I won't be on comm tonight, but I'll be wearing the lightweight headset anyhow. The only time I was thinking about it - wearing the other one at all - would be for entry, and there's no problem there. I'll just stick to the lightweight headset around my neck and put that one around my ears just to use as a bump pad, is all.
267:35:08	CC	Okay; let us think about it overnight, and we'll talk to some people about it. Let's see, is Jack going to be on the headset tonight and the biomed, both?
267:35:27	Cernan	Yes, Jack will be on tonight with the biomed and the headset.
267:35:31	CC	Okay. We'd like to get one more valve check there, America. Like to check our WASTE WATER TANK INLET valve to AUTO. EECOM says he is in a flat portion and he can't verify that right now by buildup.
267:35:45	Cernan	Okay, stand by 1.
267:36:23	Cernan	WASTE TANK INLET is in AUTO, Bob.
267:36:25	CC	Okay, thank you on that, Gene. And we did not get the BAT read-outs for the onboard read-outs for the night, BAT C and pyro BATs A and B.
267:36:34	Cernan	Okay, guess you weren't reading. We're at 36.5, 36.9, 36.9, in that order.
267:36:41	CC	Okay, we copy that. And let me ask you a question here, Gene. Right now you're an hour behind getting to sleep. Do you want to sleep the 8 hours or get up by the Flight Plan?
267:36:53	Cernan	No, let's get up per the Flight Plan. We're very much aware of - of that; we've just been doing some restowage and a few other things around here. But let's get up per the Flight Plan, that's fine.
267:37:05	CC	Okay. We'll talk to you in the morning. As soon as the cabin is pumped up, you're GO for sleep and you can turn VOICE back OFF, at your convenience.
267:37:13	Cernan	Okay, you'll see the cabin pumped up, we'll go to 5.7 and turn the OPS back OFF.
267:37:18	CC	Roger. We'll be watching.
267:37:21	Cernan	Okay, babe. Take care.
267:37:23	CC	See you in the morning.
267:37:57	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 268 hours 9 minutes. We expect that will be our last conversation with the crew prior to the rest period. We'll leave the line up for a few more minutes and then take it down and come back up with hourly reports. Apollo 17 now 137,900 nautical miles from Earth. Velocity 3,823 feet per second.
267:42:59	Cernan	We're looking at 5.7 in the cabin.
267:43:02	CC	So are we.
267:43:26	Cernan	Bob, are you going to want to do that again tomorrow?
267:43:33	CC	Yes, Gene. I will do it again prior to finish emptying the OPS.
267:43:38	Cernan	Okay.
267:49:01	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 268 hours 19 minutes. The crew has turned off the voice downlink now indicating they are ready for bed and do not intend to talk to us any more this evening or this morning. We'll take the line down now and come back up with hourly reports. At 268 hours 19 minutes, this is Mission Control, Houston.
269:22:02	PAO	This is Apollo Control. All spacecraft systems operating normally,. The crew is asleep with 5 hours 37 minutes remaining in the rest period. Spacecraft America now 135,212 nautical miles from the Earth, traveling at a speed of 3,904 feet per second. At 269 hours; 22 minutes, this is Mission Control Houston.
270:22:05	PAO	This is Apollo Control. Apollo 17 is now 132,949 nautical miles from Earth, velocity 3,973 feet per second. 4 hours 37 minutes remaining in the crew rest period. At 270 hours 22 minutes, this is Mission Control, Houston.
271:22:00	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 271 hours 22 minutes. All still going well with Apollo 17. 3 hours 37 minutes remaining in the crew rest period. Apollo 17 has passed the half way point in time on its return to the Earth. That coming at 270 hours 30 minutes 7 seconds. Half way point in distance will occur at 281 hours 32 minutes 45 seconds about 10 hours from now. At that time, Apollo 17 will be 104,396 nautical miles from both the Earth and the Moon. At this time the spacecraft America is 130,605 nautical miles from Earth traveling at a speed of 4,047 feet per second. At 271 hours 23 minutes, this is Mission Control Houston.
272:22:01	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 272 hours 22 minutes. Apollo 17 now 128,282 nautical miles from Earth and velocity has increased to 4,120 feet per second. Crew sleeping and began this rest period an hour later than the planned time because of some entry stowage they were doing at the time, and although going to bed later, they have requested to be awakened at the regular Flight Plan time. 2 hours 37 minutes from now is wakeup. At 272 hours 22 minutes this is Mission Control Houston.
273:22:00	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 273 hours 22 minutes. Apollo 17 now 125,884 nautical miles from Earth. Velocity 4,198 feet per second. 1 hour 37 minutes remaining in the crew's rest period. Entry clock is counting and shows 30 hours and 55 minutes until Apollo 17 enters the Earth's atmosphere. At 273 hours 22 minutes, this is Mission Control Houston.
274:22:00	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 274 hours 22 minutes. Apollo 17's velocity is continuing to build as it draws closer to EArth now at a distance of 123,440 nautical miles, speed 4,279 feet per second. 37 minutes remaining in the crew's rest period. It's been a quiet night. All spacecraft systems continuing to perform very well. The spaceflight meteorology group with National Weather Service said a short time ago that weather conditions are expected to be satisfactory for the landing and recovery of Apollo 17 crew and spacecraft tomorrow. The weather forecast for the planned landing area, which is located approximately 360 nautical miles southeast of Pango Pango, calls for partly cloudy skies, widely scattered rain showers, variable winds of 10 miles per hour, seas of 3 feet and a temperature of near 80 degrees. At 274 hours 23 mintues, this is Mission Control Houston.
274:58:02	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 274 hours 58 minutes. We're 2 minutes away from crew wakeup. Apollo 17 is 121,953 nautical miles from the Earth, velocity 4,329 feet per second. Today's wakeup song will be in keeping with the crews theme that Apollo 17 is a beginning and not an end. We'll stand by now for the wakeup
275:00:02	CC	(Music - "We've Only Just Begun")
275:03:09	CC	Good morning, America. This is Houston.
275:03:14	Schmitt	Good heavens. It sounded like Bob Parker.
275:03:17	CC	Roger. And in case you didn't recognize it, that was "It's Only Just the Beginning."
275:03:24	Schmitt	Or words to that effect.
275:03:35	CC	And, Jack, if you give us a call when all three of you get in the headsets, we've got something else to play for you this morning.
275:03:50	Schmitt	You have a call.
275:03:52	CC	Say again.
275:03:56	Evans	... Houston, good morning.
275:03:56	Schmitt	I just gave you - I just gave you a call.
275:03:59	CC	Okay. We'll cue up something else for you guys. And, Ron, this was something that was recorded over at your house yesterday morning. I think you'll recognize it.
275:04:22	Evans	(Laughter) I'll have to wait and see.
275:05:05	CC	(Music: Christmas carol recorded by Ron Evans' neighbors) Hi, Dad.
275:07:10	CC	And, America, if we could do some business this morning. At 275:10 - we'll give you a hack on it, we need UV COVER to go to CLOSE, and we'll give you a call on that one. It's about 3 minutes.
275:07:31	Evans	Okay.
275:09:01	CC	Okay. One minute to COVER CLOSE - UV, that is.
275:09:13	Evans	Hey, Houston; America. Sounds like people are getting in the Christmas spirit around the Houston area there.
275:09:20	CC	That's affirm. It's a little bit warmer this morning, but it still feels and looks a lot like Christmas down here.
275:09:30	Cernan	Well, Bob, it feels and looks a lot like Christmas up here, too.
275:09:39	Schmitt	Matter of fact, the LEB reported a temperature of about a minus 2 last night (laughter).
275:09:46	CC	Okay; and 15 seconds to UV COVER CLOSE. Five seconds.
275:09:59	CC	MARK, UV COVER, CLOSE.
275:10:07	Schmitt	It's closed.
275:10:09	CC	Copy that.
275:10:10	Schmitt	Yes, the LEB was cloudy, cold, and snowy last night.
275:10:15	CC	Snowing too, hey? We're showing you 61 degrees in the cabin this morning, with a suit temperature of 48 degrees.
275:10:28	Schmitt	Glad I'm not in those suits.
275:10:33	CC	You could have crawled inside the L-shaped bag, I guess.
275:11:24	CC	Okay. And America, we'd also like to get BAT A to CHARGE.
275:11:33	Schmitt	That's in work right now, Bob. Thanks for the call.
275:11:38	CC	You're welcome for the answer.
275:11:44	Schmitt	Well, we're trying to keep your spirits up today.
275:12:55	Schmitt	Hey, Bob, what's 4 degrees equal in distance from the Earth?
275:13:05	CC	This is the new CAPCOM one. Say again the question. Four degrees equals distance from the Earth?
275:13:13	Schmitt	Yes, sir. What does 4 degrees equal in miles from the Earth?
275:13:57	CC	Retro says that 4 degrees essential angle equals 94K. You guys are out at about 125K right now.
275:14:11	Schmitt	Okay, Bob, I was looking at the Flight Plan, and it said field of view is 4 degrees.
275:14:24	CC	And we're going to have a network handover. We may be a momentarily - momentary dropout.
275:14:31	Schmitt	Okay.
275:31:23	Schmitt	Houston, 17.
275:31:26	CC	17, did you call?
275:31:30	Schmitt	That's affirm. I've got some reports for you, if you're ready to copy.
275:31:39	CC	Okay, We've all set.
275:31:43	Schmitt	Okay. CDR menu - I'll try negative reporting. He did not eat three apricot cereal cubes, pears. And at lunch he did not eat half a cereal bar. And at dinner he did not eat tomato soup, half a hamburger, and the date fruitcake. And, on lunch he had also - positive now - lemonade, two pecans, and one-fourth of a chocolate bar. Okay, and - last night, he had about 5 hours of fair sleep, no medication, and 2-1/2 cans of water. And his PRD is 17060? That's right, 60. Okay. For the LMP, day 12: He did not eat for breakfast; pears. For lunch; looks like he ate it all. For dinner, he did not eat the tomato soup, half a hamburger, mustard, pudding, and that's it. And add to breakfast another cup of coffee - bag of coffee; excuse me. And the lunch, an orange drink, an orange-pineapple, another coffee, graham cracker cubes - four of them, two pecans, and one-fourth of a chocolate bar. And - his PRD is 24188, and 6 hours intermittent sleep, 1-1/2 cans of water, and took one Lomotil last night, just as we were turning in, as a result of the Evans affair catching up with the LMP. The CMP - negative reporting again - did not eat sausage, fruit cocktail, orange beverage. And for lunch, he did not eat the peaches. And for dinner, he did not eat tomato soup and the caramel candy. Add to breakfast, coffee, four sugar cookies and four jelly candies. That's for breakfast. To lunch, add lemonade, coffee, two pecans, and one-fourth of a chocolate bar - one-half of a chocolate bar; excuse me. Okay. His PRD is 15058. He had about 5 hours of fair sleep and two sniffs of nose drops and two Lomotils yesterday. And he had five cans of water. And that should do it, Bob.
275:36:23	CC	Roger, Jack.
275:36:24	Schmitt	Thank you for your indulgence.
275:36:25	CC	Thank you for your report. We appreciate it.
275:36:56	Schmitt	Houston, 17.
275:36:58	CC	Roger, Jack. Go ahead.
275:37:02	Schmitt	We thought we'd warm up the cabin. And if I recall correctly, the - you approve of us putting INVERTER 3 onto MAIN A and going to MANUAL on the TEMP IN and taking the - EVAP TEMP up to about 59 degrees.
275:37:23	CC	That's affirmative.
275:37:52	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. INVERTER 3 is going onto MAIN A.
275:38:01	CC	Roger. We're watching it.
275:38:07	Schmitt	Okay.
275:38:08	Schmitt	MARK it.
275:38:21	Schmitt	And - Stand by.
275:38:53	Schmitt	TEMP IN is MANUAL.
275:44:10	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 2 -
275:44:11	Schmitt	Okay, Houston, I think we're pretty close. We're showing about 62. We'll watch it a little bit; and If it doesn't come down, we'll tweak it again.
275:44:27	CC	Roger, Jack. And the ground is showing about 60 degrees.
275:44:35	Schmitt	Okay.
275:46:10	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 275:46 Ground Elapsed Time. Apollo 17 now 28 hours and 31 minutes from entry back into the Earth's atmosphere. Approaching Earth at a velocity of 4,397 feet per second. Still 119,924 nautical miles out. There were 2 wakeup pieces of music this morning. The first was "We've Only Just Begun" by the Carpenters and the second was an unidentified Christmas Carol by the neighbors of the Evans family, recorded yesterday. Since awakening, the crew has passed up their medical and sleep report and food consumption negative reporting of what they didn't eat out of their daily menu. Meanwhile, the Spaceflight Meteorology Group of the National Weather Service said this morning that weather conditions are expected to be satisfactory -
275:47:20	Schmitt	Bob, EECOM's procedure's almost like having a fire in the fireplace.
275:47:27	CC	Roger. Glad you're comfortable.
275:47:40	PAO	Meanwhile, back in the South Pacific, the weather forcast for the planned landing area, approximately 360 nautical miles southeast of Pago Pago, calls for partly cloudy skies, widely scattered rain showers, variable winds at 10 miles per hour, seas of 3 feet and temperature of 80 degrees. At 275:48 standing by, this is Apollo Control.
275:57:47	CC	America, Houston.
275:57:52	Schmitt	Go ahead, Bob.
275:57:53	CC	How would you like a quick look at sports here and then into the news summary while you're having your breakfast?
275:58:02	Schmitt	We'd like the whole thing.
275:58:05	CC	Well, I guess that we all assume maybe you're like the rest of us and turn to your sport page first sometimes. So we thought we'd recap the pro football action yesterday, in a rather strange day, since there were only - only two games that really made any difference. And I think the scores kind of showed the day. In the American Conference playoff games coming up next weekend, Oakland will play at Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh getting into the playoffs for the first time in 40 years. The Cleveland Browns will take on the undefeated Miami Dolphins, who have won 14 straight. In the National Conference, Dallas will be at San Francisco Saturday, and Green Bay plays at Washington on Sunday. Quickly recapping some of the scores from yesterday. On that sad, sad one here in Houston, Cincinnati rolled over the Oilers, 61 to 17. There were three touchdowns scored in the fourth quarter within less than 5 minutes of play, all on interceptions - on - the part of Cincinnati. New York Giants, it says, upset Dallas 23 to 3. I question the upset since Dallas was already in the playoffs; and, in what I watched, it looked like they were aware that they were already in the playoffs. Buffalo upset Washington 24, - 17. And again it's a questionable upset because O. J. Simpson had a great day, and Larry Brown from Washington was kept on the bench for the whole game. Oakland, 28, over Chicago, 21; Detroit, 34, over Los Angeles, 17. Los Angeles' hopes for any playoff berth had been knocked out by San Francisco's win on Saturday, and it looked like they played that way on Sunday. Cleveland, in a real tough one up in New York with 30-knot winds and a - gale - gale-force winds and lots of snow and cold, defeated New York Jets, 26 to 10. Green Bay, 30, over New Orleans, 20, in a tough one, which saw two - two touchdowns being scored off of blocked punts. Kansas City, 17, over Atlanta, 14. And, again, Atlanta's chances for a playoff berth had been wiped out on Saturday; and, apparently, they played that way on Sunday. Denver, 45, over New England, 21; St. Louis, 24, over Philadelphia, 23. Pittsburgh defeated San Diego 24 to 2. On Saturday Miami had taken Baltimore 16 to nothing, and as I previously mentioned, San Francisco defeated Minnesota on Saturday 20 to 17. Just one little note, Jack, you might be interested in this mornings paper, concerning the New Orleans Saints. One of the - Dave Parks from the New Orleans Saints, announced his retirement, and he kind of took a rap at the Saints in claiming that they were a team that did not want to win, and that he was retiring unless they would trade him to a winner. It sounds like our friend over there might have some problems this winter come contract time. In pro basketball last night, the Houston Rockets beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 110 to 109. Jack Marin had 35 points, Mike Newlin had 34. In college basketball, UCLA remains number one in the latest ratings. Second ranked Florida State was beaten this weekend by Princeton, 61 to 59, Third ranked Maryland won, as did fourth-ranked Marquette, fifth-ranked Minnesota and number six, North Carolina State. Indiana is rated 15th, Houston is 16th. We can't find Purdue, Kansas or Cal Tech in the ratings right now. There's one bowl game tonight. Iowa State, who has taken a 5 game losing streak into the Liberty Bowl, will meet: Georgia Tech at Memphis, Tennessee. In local hockey, the Aeros and the Los Angeles Sharks of the World Hockey Association, battled to a 4-4 tie.
276:01:53	CC	Now, for page 1 news. The outlook for a quick peace settlement in Vietnam has taken an apparent turn for the worse. The Hanoi government radio announced last night that U.S. planes have dropped more mines in Haiphong harbor and has also carried out bombing and rocket attacks on the city of Haiphong. There was no immediate comment from Washington on the charges. The snag in the Paris peace talks apparently hinges on a few key points, according to press association reports. Among them, the North Vietnamese will not accept the idea of two separate Vietnamese states and the method of policing a truce, the two-Vietnam policy being the major stumbling block. The weather here is making news. Yesterday's reading at Intercontinental Airport was a frigid 22 degrees. Downtown Houston was 32. The airport reading was the lowest since 1932. Up north in the upper Midwest and northeast, it's going to be a white Christmas, and more snow is moving into the area. Chicago had a low of 5 above Sunday; Kansas City, 19; and Albuquerque, 18. Anne Armstrong, long a power in Texas Republican politics, is reportedly about to be named to a high post in the Nixon administration. Harry Truman still clings to life. The 88-year-old Presi - 88-year-old former President is holding his own, according to his doctors. Debris found floating in the Gulf of Mexico off the west coast of Florida has been identified as that of a Coast Guard Helicopter that crashed. Earlier the chopper had rescued four fishermen from a sinking shrimp trawler. The helicopter was headed back to Saint - Saint Petersburg when it went down with the four fishermen and the crew of four. It's a lot safer up there where you are than on the Texas highways. The State Highway Patrol reported a high number of serious accidents on Texas roads this weekend. A Houston newspaper reports that industrial demand for Trinity River system water will not produce enough money to finance the project and that the City of Houston's water and industrial district funds will have to make up the difference. Meanwhile, the Clear Lake City Water Authority is tossing around a proposal that would require developers to pay 50 percent of the cost of all lateral water and sewer lines. Up around Conroe, in Montgomery County, a transformer blew up Sunday morning and electrical power went out for several hours. Several thousand homes were affected. Baytown was the scene of four armed robberies Sunday. Four business establishments were hit in a l4-minute period. The masked gunmen got about $500 cash. No one was injured. And a final note, today in history, actress Betty Grable is 56 years old. That's from your news editor, Jim Kukowski.
276:04:44	Cernan	Thank you for the news, Bob.
276:04:47	Schmitt	And notice the disclaimer.
276:04:51	CC	(Laughter)
276:04:52	Cernan	And you're right, the traffic's not too thick up here, as a matter of fact.
276:04:57	CC	Yes, I was wishing that - -
276:04:57	Cernan	We've been looking for the big man with the white gray beard.
276:05:01	CC	- - I was kind of wishing it would get a little thicker up there one of these days.
276:05:07	Cernan	It will.
276:05:10	CC	I'm counting on it.
276:05:16	Cernan	Hang in there, babe.
276:05:27	CC	It looks like we're going to have some good football to watch next week, and I think they're going to have a pretty light schedule for you all - so - until after the holidays - and we ought to be able to sit back and relax a bit.
276:06:18	CC	And one additional weather report, I'm sure you're interested in. The weather in your primary landing area is looking great, and we anticipate no weather avoidance maneuvers whatsoever. Things are great out there. And I'm thinking of going out and enlisting the Apollo 17 chaplain, so we can maybe get some warmer weather for your arrival back here on Thursday.
276:06:54	Cernan	Well, I guess if - if anyone can do it, he can do it, if you can find him.
276:06:59	CC	He's - he's been around. We've seen his picture a number of times in the paper over at - visiting your house, there, and rooting us home.
276:07:11	Cernan	I thought I told him to stay away from there. Only kidding, he's always a welcome addition.
276:07:29	CC	Roger.
276:07:35	Cernan	And I might add, he usually is.
276:07:57	CC	I've got a telegram here that was sent out to the U.S.S. Ticon - Ticonderoga, I thought you might be interested in. Coming up on antenna switch, I'll read it to you in a minute.
276:09:01	CC	Are you ready for this telegram that was sent out today?
276:09:53	CC	Okay, would you like to hear the contents of this telegram that went out of here today to the U.S.S. Ticonderoga?
276:10:00	Cernan	Yes, sir.
276:10:01	CC	It's to the U.S.S. Ticonderoga, passed to the NASA Team Leader. It says, "Stullken, we know exactly where the spacecraft is, and we know exactly where it's going to land. Now, if you can figure out approximately where you are, we will be in good shape. Pull yourself together, and move 50 feet from the target point. Let's end this program right." Signed, The Guys in the Trench, MCC, Houston.
276:10:30	Cernan	Beautiful, Bob, beautiful.
276:10:34	CC	Thought you'd like that one.
276:20:14	CC	America, Houston. We'd like you to stop the roll that you're in right now, and stop it at roll of 60 degrees. Be convenient if you'd do it right now, it'd help us keep us on Flight Plan here.
276:20:28	Cernan	Six degrees, okay. Won't go to 14 -
276:20:29	CC	No, 60, 60, six zero, six zero, you're right about there.
276:20:33	Cernan	That's affirm. Six zero, I'll stop it now.
276:20:38	CC	Okay, and there's some HIGH GAIN angles that go with that: PITCH, minus 54; YAW, 225. You're on HIGH GAIN now, so unless you lose lock you shouldn't have any problem.
276:27:42	CC	America, Houston. We'd like to have the UV COVER, OPEN, now, if somebody's over there.
276:27:54	Schmitt	All right, Bob. We may not be by that part of spacecraft for a couple of more hours. Can you hold off?
276:28:01	CC	Well, we don't mind. Although if somebody's over -it's convenient, we'd sure like it.
276:28:11	Schmitt	Okay, I'll make a special trip.
276:28:19	Schmitt	UV COVER is OPEN.
276:28:22	CC	Thank you, sir.
276:29:03	Evans	Okay, Houston. There are the torquing angles. And if you're satisfied, I'll go ahead and torque.
276:29:12	CC	Roger, Ron. We've got them, and you're clear to torque.
276:29:18	Evans	Okay, torqued at 29-30.
276:30:10	CC	America, Houston. Now that you're not eating and working, we've got a couple of configuration on the H2 tanks and the O2 tank heaters, we'd like to have accomplished.
276:30:25	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. I was just over there.
276:30:31	CC	Roger.
276:30:33	Schmitt	Okay, go ahead.
276:30:34	CC	H2 tank 3 FANS to OFF; H2 tank 2 FANS to ON.
276:30:48	Schmitt	Okay, 3 is OFF, and 2 is ON.
276:30:53	CC	Roger. And O2 tank 2 and tank 1 HEATERS to AUTO, if they're not there.
276:31:04	Schmitt	Okay, you want 1 and 2 to AUTO. They're going.
276:31:07	CC	Okay, and anytime this morning, we would like to get an OPS read-out, whenever it's convenient on that.
276:31:28	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. It was 1000 after we stopped bleeding last night and I'll check it again in a little while.
276:31:37	CC	Okay. That sounds good enough now. We just needed the reading, so we could figure out what to do with it. You might be interested in your consumables. Right now on the RCS, you're right on the Flight Plan at 51 percent remaining. Your oxygen tanks are all either on the Flight Plan, or just slightly above it, or within the noise level - maybe a tad below it - you're just right on for all intents and purposes. You're in good shape, and your hydrogen is in good shape. You're in good shape on all your consumables.
276:32:50	Cernan	Bob, we got a GO to start our dumps?
276:32:54	CC	Say again.
276:33:22	Cernan	Hello, Houston; America. Have we got a GO to commence our dumps?
276:33:26	CC	That's affirmative, and on your waste water dump, we only want it dumped down to 45 percent on your gauge - 45 percent on your gauge.
276:33:42	Cernan	Okay, Bob. I guess we're reading about 52 percent now, so we'll dump a little bit.
276:33:49	CC	That's affirmative.
276:34:45	CC	And for whoever is the keeper of the Flight Plan this morning, we've got a couple of changes to your Flight Plan, in addition to those we called as you were eating there, so we've got a couple additions to it - or changes.
276:35:02	Cernan	Go ahead, Bob.
276:35:04	CC	Okay. The first one is at 281:02 - 281:02. Change the call "Manually roll left" to "Manually roll left 60 degrees to a roll angle of 071." We want 60 degrees in a roll angle of 071.
276:35:34	Cernan	Okay; we got it.
276:35:37	CC	Okay. At 281:10, change register 2 of NOUN 78 there to minus 019-74.
276:35:59	Cernan	Okay; got it.
276:36:02	CC	That's it for the Flight Plan updates this morning, so far.
276:36:08	Cernan	Okay, thank you. And the waste water is dumped to 45.
276:36:15	CC	Roger. We see it.
276:53:32	Cernan	Houston, America. We're about to maneuver.
276:53:41	CC	Okay, we're standing by.
276:55:24	CC	America, Houston.
276:55:30	Schmitt	Go ahead.
276:55:31	CC	Jack, we're trying - This is for Jack - we're trying to consolidate and think through what your request was for some sort of a geology surface update. We - we're just wondering if maybe you don't have the better material at your hands there than we've got down here as far any conclusions or preliminary estimates might be.
276:55:53	Schmitt	Okay, I just thought that you guys may have had some new ideas. We had a good briefing last night from Gordy on the surface experiments. I guess we might want to be updated on the orbital experiments, if there's anything new. And field geology, yes, I guess we got a pretty good feeling for it, but I thought they might have had some new ideas, or something along that line.
276:56:23	CC	Well, I'm sure they do, and I don't mean to shortchange our geology - geology back room, Jack, but on the other hand, I think - I think really we're just waiting to get the answers from you or tie up maybe their thoughts with you. And I, you know, from a bystander's standpoint, if I read you anything that they've - maybe conclusions that they may have made, we just may be fudging the data because there's - -
276:56:47	Schmitt	I'm not looking for conclusions, I'm looking for ideas.
276:56:50	CC	Hey, Jack.
276:56:52	Schmitt	Tell them don't - don't worry about it. You know, I just thought they might have something to say.
276:56:58	CC	Yes, they got plenty to say, Jack. But they're down here and they can say it, and I think what you ought to say up there is what you're familiar with and just confine it to that.
276:57:07	Schmitt	Oh, you can count on that, Deke, I just like to think about things.
276:57:12	CC	Roger, you're going to have lots of time to do that.
276:57:22	CC	We'd like AUTO and high gain.
276:57:36	Schmitt	Okay, you got AUTO.
276:57:38	CC	Thank you.
277:02:44	CC	America, Houston. We may have not been looking at the right displays at the right time, but we didn't see an O2 purge. Did you do O2 fuel cell purge?
277:03:03	Schmitt	Sorry about that, Bob. I misunderstood. I thought - I see it now - it's H2 and O2. I'll go into that now.
277:03:12	CC	Okay. We'd appreciate it. We're just keeping you honest.
277:03:25	Schmitt	That's what you need to do.
277:03:47	Cernan	By the way, Bob, that - 59 degrees on the manual temp control setting made it very comfortable in here.
277:03:57	CC	Real fine - real fine.
277:04:35	CC	We'd like OMNI Delta - OMNI Delta.
277:09:49	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. I'm up to date on the O2 purges now.
277:10:54	CC	Roger, Jack.
277:30:45	CC	America, Houston.
277:30:49	Schmitt	Go ahead.
277:30:50	CC	About 15 minutes or so ago, we noticed - or detected a transfer on your ECS FLOW CONTROL proportioning valve from number 1 to number 2 and we were wondering if the switch, ECS RADIATOR FLOW CONTROL AUTO switch, is still in the AUTO position. And if it is in the AUTO po - -
277:31:14	Schmitt	It is in the AUTO position. And we see the "2" here also.
277:31:18	CC	Okay, we're - we'd like to just leave everything like it is, and we'd like to go off and study this awhile. And we don't - -
277:31:27	Schmitt	Okay.
277:31:27	CC	- - anticipate any problem here and it's - number 2 which should work as good as number 1.
278:00:02	PAO	(Here it comes.) This is Apollo Control at 278 hours Ground Elapsed Time. 26 hours and 17 minutes until Apollo 17 reenters the Earth's atmosphere for splashdown near Pago Pago, American Samoa in the South Pacific. Spacecraft at the present time is 114,147 nautical miles away from the Earth, approaching at a velocity of 4,600 feet per second. Rather quiet work day for the crew of Apollo 17. Earlier in the day the morning news was read up to the crew after they were wakened by two different musical selections. One of which was recorded yesterday in the Evans home by some neighbors who had come in. And the first one was a rendition of "We've Just Begun" by The Carpenters. The singing group Carpenters, that is. At 278:01 Ground Elapsed Time, this is Apollo Control.
278:04:48	Schmitt	Houston, America here. We'll probably VERB 49 out to the thermal attitude.
278:04:54	CC	Roger. We're standing by waiting for it.
278:04:58	Evans	Okay.
278:11:00	Schmitt	Houston, 17. The OPS is now reading 1100; 1100.
278:11:09	CC	Roger, Jack. We've got that data.
278:12:01	CC	America, Houston.
278:12:07	Evans	Go ahead.
278:12:08	CC	Rog, if - if you're stowing the OPS, we might want to hold here a second. We're going to want to dump that OPS down to as low as possible pressure, and we'll be wanting to give you a GO on that. Let me get on - get hooked up here around the room.
278:12:26	Evans	Okay. You know, we've still got it out. We thought we'd, you know, stow it later this afternoon sometime.
278:12:33	CC	Okay, fine.
278:12:36	Evans	You know, after we can dump it again.
278:13:36	CC	America, Houston. Your cabin is down to 4.8 now, so you're cleared to dump the OPS at any time. And we expect with 1100 pounds it would pump it up to about 5.7, so we'll probably have to stop you prior to reaching zero.
278:13:55	Evans	Oh, okay. Hey, mighty fine. We'll do it.
278:14:40	Evans	Okay, Houston. That OPS is dumping now.
278:14:46	CC	Roger, Ron. We'll watch it.
278:19:41	CC	America, Houston.
278:19:45	Schmitt	Go ahead.
278:19:48	CC	We've identified a humber of cracks and crevices up in the - in the area - any area above the couch plane along the X-axis or just above the couch plane that could possibly be places where the scissors disappeared to. And we would like those areas searched if they haven't been searched already. As an example, the crack between the top of the main display panel number 2 and the - the hatch opening area, that kind of crack and crevice area there. We would like that looked into. I kind of assume you've already done that. We don't want you to remove any panels or anything like that to look in. But have you looked in those areas, or do you plan to look in those areas here shortly?
278:20:41	Evans	Hey, Bob, I've looked in some of those things. But just to make sure I've covered everything and the fact that we checked it again, why don't we go over it again.
278:20:55	CC	Okay.
278:21:04	Evans	Wait a minute and I'll get my flashlight, and then we can start doing it again systematically.
278:21:10	CC	Okay.
278:21:16	Schmitt	It's scissors, my dear Watson, scissors.
278:21:21	CC	Seriously, it would have saved a lot of problem if you'd seen them floating out, Jack. We would have just not had to have done any of this.
278:21:44	Cernan	Houston, America.
278:21:46	CC	Roger. Go ahead.
278:21:49	Cernan	Bob, it looks like we're going to make it on this OPS depress. She's reading 0, and she's just barely bleeding out. We're somewhere around 5.5, so I'm just going to let it bleed out now. And then we'll stow it.
278:22:01	CC	Real fine; real fine.
278:27:04	Evans	Okay, Houston. Checked it out above MDC number 2.
278:27:11	CC	Okay; and - -
278:27:12	Evans	Also, looked - -
278:27:15	CC	- - there was the area around - -
278:27:16	Evans	Go ahead.
278:27:17	CC	- - each of the plus XX - the XX struts and the PLV vent there, and the other XX strut. You might check - pay particular attention to that area.
278:27:30	Evans	Yes, we checked that. And also checked it again now.
278:27:34	CC	Okay. From our pictures, and this may not really be the case, on the - above main display panel 3, where it says - where the handhold, the structure part of handhold, looks like there's some cracks and crevices right above - right around that handhold area that could, between the handhold and panel 6, that a pair of scissors could slip up into.
278:28:22	Evans	Okay. We're looking around there, and it doesn't look like they could - Well, they could possibly fit in there maybe. But, anyhow, we checked it, and they're not there.
278:28:32	CC	Okay. And then on the other side of the cockpit in the same area around handhold, back behind the - that crevice area back behind the COAS power panel, panel 15, and the handhold. And then also that little area in front of the handhold, where - the cutout for main display panel 2, you might look - take your light and look in there.
278:28:58	Evans	Okay. I'm over there now.
278:30:43	Evans	Okay, Houston. No joy on that part either.
278:30:46	CC	Okay, Ron. The next couple are really down in the lower equipment bay area, and then I've got one area up in the tunnel - two areas up in the tunnel that are suspect areas, and then that does it. Which would you like first?
278:31:04	Evans	I'm up in the tunnel, now.
278:31:05	CC	Okay; the tunnel area. The only thing we show up there is the - the four handholds around the - around the tunnel. I don't think scissors could get up there, but there - they - maybe they could slip in something like that. Anyway, those four handhold slots up there, you might check in those two areas.
278:32:02	Evans	Those scissors couldn't fit in those handholds, but it's good to check them. Something else might be in there.
278:32:07	CC	Okay. The - Oh, in the other one up in that area, Ron, and I assume you - you've put that outlet bag over the cabin fans - and we wouldn't want you to fool with that at all, because it's probably all full of dirt and everything - but if you didn't, then the outlet to the cabin fan area might be a potential place.
278:32:31	Evans	Let's see. We installed that the first day out, I think. And it's been on there ever since.
278:32:39	CC	Yes, we assumed you did. I just was trying to cover all bases here. Okay; the last three items are - I think you've actually called one of them - are down in the lower equipment bay. One of them is the - the crack just below panel 101, down in the lower equipment bay. I think you called that one the first night, didn't you?
278:33:05	Evans	Not below 101; no.
278:33:09	CC	Okay. Our pictures show a crevice below 101, and also while you're right there, I - I don't think it's even - there's a crevice above the door for the optics stowage area that you might check up in there. It might have lodged. And, also, while you're right there, Ron, our picture, of course, shows your hoses stowed, and they kind of come out right there to the right of panel 120, the optics stowage area. And so you've got some area behind those panels - behind those hoses and that - where it might have lodged, but I believe you had to move those in order to do your EVA yesterday, anyway.
278:33:59	Evans	Yes, the hoses in the tunnel have all been moved around in here, as far as the hoses are concerned. I still think the biggest probability is - is right above the optics stowage, and that's what I was talking about before. Because it's about - oh, an inch. You know, the crack is at least an inch deep in there and as long as the optics stowage thing itself.
278:34:27	CC	Okay; and let me - We'll have one more recommendation for you. And then over panel -
278:34:34	Evans	Okay.
278:34:34	CC	- - 250 there's a little bitty opening - it shows in the pictures - over panel 250.
278:34:42	Evans	Okay; we'll check that in a second here.
278:35:43	CC	Our only thoughts, Ron, on the - any other position that you might see - You know, if it's above the couch plane and you really think it might be a suspect area, you might consider taping the crack, if you desire. The tape probably isn't going to hold it in if it wants to come tumbling out, but it - it's something you could do if you wanted to.
278:36:10	Evans	Okay. Yes, I understand that, Bob. That's a good point.
278:36:53	CC	And, Ron, while we're talking to you, we'd like to tag up with you on one more item unrelated to the scissors search, and that is your headset situation. And we just want to leave the - make sure you're going to do as was said last night and will not plug that - the headset with the broken wire, you will not plug in again, and we'll arrange your entry configuration in some configuration that does not require that headset to be plugged in. Is that affirm?
278:37:23	Evans	Yes, that's affirm, Bob. I think what I'll do, I'll wear it as a bump hat, you know, and then - and then use the lightweight headset with the - you know, with the earplugs underneath that. I'll put the lightweight headset around my neck, and then have the mike sticking up in front of me, and with the earplugs on. I - I tested that configuration; it's comfortable. No problem. It'll work. And I will not plug in the comm carrier at all.
278:37:51	CC	Roger. We just wanted to tag up with you on that. That's what we'll be expecting, and we'll - we'll put this to bed forever.
278:38:58	Evans	Okay; mighty fine.
278:42:26	Cernan	Houston, America.
278:42:28	CC	Go ahead.
278:42:34	CC	Go ahead, America.
278:42:38	Cernan	Okay, Bob. We got the major compartments inventoried and stowed for entry, with the exception of the things we need, of course, between now and then in the sleeping areas and what have you. We'll finish that off, of course, as we finish up with gear and as we get up in the morning. But there's very little left to do, and any contingency weight changes, which there may be just a couple at the most, we'll inventory those and give them to you in the morning.
278:43:16	CC	Roger.
279:08:20	CC	America, 17. Say again. 17, Houston.
279:08:25	Evans	Go ahead.
279:08:26	CC	I've got an interesting little press release here. Jack Schmitt - and I'm sure all of you will be interested in, but based upon your work up in the Shorty area on the surface, the people out at Flagstaff went back and looked at the Apollo 14 250-millimeter camera frames from - and showed that it had colored frames that showed brownish and orangish colorations on a bulbous dome in the Crater Langrenus and on a 4-kilometer dark halo crater on the ejecta blanket of Theophilus. And they've made that news release today.
279:09:11	Schmitt	Very good. We may have triggered something.
279:09:15	CC	Yes, sir.
279:09:33	Evans	Bob, I'm ready to maneuver.
279:10:53	CC	America, we'd like OMNI Delta.
279:11:04	Schmitt	You have OMNI Delta now, Bob.
279:17:40	CC	17, Houston. OMNI Alfa.
279:17:51	Schmitt	You got it.
279:26:20	Evans	Houston, America. Would you like the HIGH GAIN?
279:26:26	CC	That's affirmative.
279:27:17	CC	America, you can go to AUTO on the HIGH GAIN.
279:27:24	Evans	You got it.
279:27:27	CC	Thank you.
279:41:33	Cernan	Houston, America.
279:41:36	CC	Go ahead, America.
279:41:40	Cernan	Okay. We might be 5 or 10 minutes late on starting ALFMED. We're still putting some sensors on.
279:41:48	CC	Roger.
279:41:58	Cernan	Hello, Bob.
279:42:00	CC	Yes.
279:42:03	Cernan	Can you get a reading? is it the same two subjects on ALFMED as we had going out, or is this a case where you want all three of us? it's not exactly clear.
279:43:39	CC	Jack, we agree with you that it's not clear, and FAO tells us we want the two - same two subjects wearing the blindfolds as on the transearth coast as was on the translunar coast.
279:43:53	Cernan	Okay. Well, this has been Gene, and that's the way we'll do it.
279:43:58	CC	Roger, Gene.
279:45:50	Schmitt	Houston, this is Jack.
279:45:54	CC	Go ahead.
279:45:58	Schmitt	Yes. We've got pretty good comm attitude here, and the - ask FAO if they want them on VOX and if they also want the notes recorded up here.
279:46:09	CC	Okay. I'll check on that.
279:46:52	CC	The easiest way to do it would be to just go ahead and do it on VOX, and we'll get everything recorded down here.
279:46:59	Schmitt	I agree, because taking notes is good when you're having dropouts, but it's hardly the same as tapes.
279:47:07	CC	That's affirmative. And since you do have - you're locked up on comm and HIGH GAIN and that, well, let's just go ahead and we'll just record it all down here for you.
279:47:20	Schmitt	Okay.
279:49:08	CC	Jack, Houston.
279:49:12	Schmitt	Go ahead.
279:49:13	CC	This is your option, Jack. But if you want to, you can put the other set of blindfolds out and see what you see, too, in VOX and give us the data.
279:49:27	Schmitt	Roger. Maybe I will. One problem is, though, that I notice that once things get going with two, that they were starting to interfere, and three might do the same thing.
279:49:41	CC	Okay. Your option. No - -
279:49:41	Schmitt	I may put them on anyway.
279:49:43	CC	It's your option. No problem.
279:49:46	Schmitt	I may put them on just to watch.
279:49:49	CC	Roger.
279:49:53	Schmitt	It's the only movie we have this afternoon.
279:50:18	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 279 hours 50 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. Apollo 17 spacecraft, America, now 109,179 nautical miles from Earth, velocity increasing ever so slightly - now 4,784 feet per second. 24 hours 27 minutes away from entry and splashdown, tomorrow afternoon in the South Pacific. The crew, at the present time, is preparing to conduct the light flash visual phenomenon experiment on the Flight Plan time. A few minutes late perhaps, if anything. Jack Schmitt may or may not don the third set of eye shields to -
279:51:15	Evans	Houston, America.
279:51:17	CC	Go ahead.
279:51:20	Evans	Roger. Would you ask the Surgeon to check and see if the Command Module Pilot is alive and well.
279:51:39	CC	Okay. They're seeing data. It looks sort of squirrelly and - but it looks - they want it to settle down for a little while.
279:52:14	Evans	Better go VOX.
279:52:51	Schmitt	...
279:52:53	Cernan	Got to unplug that there.
279:54:07	Evans	Yes, I'm ready.
279:54:23	Cernan	Okay, Bob. CDR and CMP have got their blindfolds on.
279:54:28	CC	Roger.
279:54:39	Evans	I got it.
279:54:51	Cernan	Okay. We're starting.
279:56:22	Evans	Houston, this is Ron. While we're getting dark adapted here, probably won't see any for a while. Let me just record on the tape my impression of these light flashes as they occurred around the Moon and at other times. In general, they've all been essentially - just a - as - as it says - a flash, with a - with a little bit of a glow, and usually in one eye or the other eye. And for some reason, most generally, they've been kind of - if you - you'd almost say it's in - it's in the periphery of your vision, because you get the feeling that maybe there was a flash over to the left or down to the right or something like that. But you don't get a distinct impression as to where the flash came from. Well, you can - you can see where it came from, but not - you can't see the flash itself. Like it was just beyond your vision. Most of them have been like that. At one time and one time only throughout the flight, I can remember kind of a triple flash, so to speak. And in that case, there was a bright flash in the left eye on - on - about 10 o'clock in the left eye. And then it repeated itself again about 2 o'clock in the left eye. And then about, oh, 10 o'clock, a quarter of the way out, in the right eye. I just got a bing, bing, bing, just like that. Three - three of them right in a row. And the rest of the time, though, they've all essentially been single flashes to me.
279:58:21	Cernan	This is Gene here. I'll just remark that both Jack and I did see them on the lunar surface. I guess the best summation I can make of that is I think I saw both lines and - and the spots or the flashes a little bit more sharply, but that might be because of the adaptation - dark adaptation in the LM prior to going to sleep was probably a little bit better. And I'd guess - it's awful hard to tell time when you're under - when it's dark, ... but I guess I want to say they were quite frequent, and I'd say that means two to three a minute now. That could be way out, but that's what I'd guess.
280:05:53	SC	(Cough)
280:13:41	Evans	(Cough) ... In my ... or something. I don't see anything.
280:14:03	SC	(Cough)
280:24:35	CC	America, Houston. We haven't heard anything. Have you seen any flashes at all?
280:24:42	Evans	Haven't heard a - I haven't seen a thing, Bob. Can't understand it.
280:24:47	Cernan	Same here from the CDR. I haven't seen anything.
280:24:49	CC	Roger. I understand. Your heart rates are down pretty low, like maybe you fell asleep or something.
280:24:56	Evans	Oh, no. Well, the LMP dozed a couple of times but - I thought I saw one, Bob, but I'm not sure. I squinted hard about that time. I may have just triggered something.
280:25:09	CC	Roger. Okay. We're just standing by.
280:25:17	Schmitt	The last time we were in PTC, were we not?
280:25:22	CC	Yes, you were, and that's one reason you had to copy it down, because we kept losing comm on you.
280:25:28	Schmitt	Yes, as I recall, they seemed to come in batches when - when I was taking notes. is that what you people observe - or recorded, rather?
280:25:53	CC	That's affirmative, Jack. And the thought that occurs, of course, is that you may be blocking with the shielding on the spacecraft somehow.
280:29:17	Evans	Houston, has my biomed settled down?
280:29:23	CC	That's affirmative.
280:29:26	Evans	Okay.
280:46:34	Schmitt	No, I haven't been able to see any flashes. I rotated 180 degrees along the rotation axis along Z and saw no change - LMP.
280:50:11	CC	America, Houston. The light flash observation time is up, and we'd - we'd like to move on into the Flight Plan. And this call - it is for Ron - -
280:50:22	Schmitt	Hey, Robert.
280:50:24	CC	The EMS entry check is on - at 281 as shown. We'd like you to do that now prior to the maneuver, which is at 281, or delay it until about 281:50 when you're not maneuvering. We'd like to do that check when you are not in - not maneuvering.
280:50:46	Evans	I'll go ahead and do it now. What's going up this minute - coming up here?
280:50:50	Cernan	Okay.
280:50:51	Evans	Let's see what's coming up first.
280:50:52	CC	Okay. You can do it now. You've got about 5 minutes prior to the VERB 49 maneuver.
280:50:59	Cernan	What would that be? EMS check? Okay. Why - why don't you go over it now?
280:51:07	Schmitt	Your eyes all right?
280:51:08	Cernan	Give yourself a chance to open your eyes.
280:51:09	Schmitt	Yes.
280:51:11	Evans	That must prove something, the fact that we didn't even see them, huh?
280:51:15	CC	It would probably tell you that there's a point source, and the spacecraft is blocking it somehow.
280:51:23	Cernan	Or the Earth. Or the Sun.
280:51:25	Schmitt	I believe it.
280:51:26	CC	Oh, yes. Yes. Yes. If I wanted to get technical, something's blocking them. That's right.
280:51:31	Cernan	(Laughter) Much as we have been seeing them, I can't believe that. Okay, Ron. Why don't you go ahead and do that, huh? I just put mine up.
280:52:56	Evans	Okay. I'm on page 1-3, and the EMS FUNCTION is OFF. Circuit breakers are CLOSE. MS MODE to STANDBY. And FUNCTION to TEST 5 - or TEST 1. EMS to NORMAL.
280:54:08	Evans	Okay. The hairline is over the notch in the self-test pattern and in test pattern number 4. Okay; 0.05G light came on in TEST 2. Go to TEST 3.
280:55:01	Evans	Okay; it's 10 seconds, and the down light came on.
280:55:29	Evans	Okay; it's 58.O in the range counter. Okay; TEST 4. She's counting down, and trace went down. Going straight along.
280:55:55	Evans	MARK it. 10 seconds. 0.0. How about that? And it stops at the lower right-hand corner of the trace.
280:56:34	Evans	Okay; with TEST 5, trace went up, and 10 seconds later the upper light came ON.
280:56:59	Evans	Okay. We'll go to RANGE SET here. ... cool down a little bit. And the trace moves on up to zero. It looks like it worked good, Houston.
280:57:12	CC	Roger. Sounds great.
280:57:19	Evans	Okay; we'll go to STANDBY and OFF.
281:03:35	CC	America, Houston.
281:03:38	Cernan	Go ahead.
281:03:40	CC	Just some words for Ron. When he gets into the P20 option 2, the maneuver there was tried on the simulator, and it got out to 71 degrees on the middle gimbal angle. And they got a gimbal warning light, although 71 degrees is the maximum yaw angle they got.
281:04:01	Cernan	Okay; we'll try it.
281:04:15	Schmitt	Bob, for your recorded information there, mag Tango - Tango on the 35-millimeter camera - frames - let's see - 8 through 13 have the ALFMED prime observer position data on them.
281:04:43	CC	Roger. We've got it recorded.
281:10:18	CC	Just another piece of data, guys. On this maneuver you're in right now, it should go out to a 67-degree middle gimbal angle right in this maneuver.
281:12:14	CC	America, Houston. We'd like to close UV cover until we're in attitude now.
281:12:22	Evans	Okay; we'll close the cover.
281:12:34	Evans	UV COVER is CLOSED.
281:16:04	CC	America, Houston.
281:16:08	Evans	Houston, this is America. Go ahead.
281:16:10	CC	Roger. We've got a procedure we'd like to go through to eventually put the ECS RADIATORS FLOW CONTROL over to AUTO, and we have a bunch - several steps we'd like to go through before you do that move.
281:16:27	Evans	Okay. Wait a minute; I'll write them down here so we can ...
281:16:31	CC	Roger. Are you ready to read it - or copy it?
281:16:37	Evans	Okay. Go ahead.
281:16:38	CC	Okay. On panel 5, the ECS RADIATORS CONTROLLER circuit breaker AC1, verify CLOSED. Panel 2 ECS RADIATORS FLOW CONTROLLER to position 1. ECS RADIATORS FLOW CONTROL POWER to OFF, CENTER then POWER. Wait 20 seconds. ECS RADIATORS FLOW CONTROL to AUTO. Over.
281:18:02	Cernan	Houston, America.
281:18:04	CC	Go ahead.
281:18:08	Cernan	Do you suspect it was a - a power glitch, or do you think the controller actually failed and you're just now verifying it?
281:18:18	CC	Negative on either of those cases. We've just had lots of spurious changes in the past history on flights. John's sitting here saying you had a number of times on 10, and so - since we're not - We just think the power controller probably saw a temperature glitch or something, and we think it will just come right back. No problem.
281:18:39	Cernan	I - Come to think of it, I guess we did, now that he recalls it.
281:18:48	CC	We'd like OMNI Charlie.
281:18:59	Evans	Okay; you have OMNI Charlie.
281:19:03	CC	And while you're there, we'd like the UV COVER to OPEN now.
281:19:11	Evans	Okay; we'll open the UV cover.
281:19:40	Evans	Okay, Houston. I'm ready to proceed on this pitch maneuver.
281:19:45	CC	Roger.
281:20:23	Evans	And, Houston, the readback on the flow controller there. We'll check panel 5. ECS RADIATOR CONTROL circuit breaker AC1, verify it's CLOSED. Then we'll put the ECS FLOW CONTROLLER to position number 1. And we'll turn the ECS FLOW CONTROLLER POWER, OFF, then CENTER.
281:20:55	CC	It's OFF, CENTER, Ron, and then up to the POWER.
281:21:00	Evans	Okay. I couldn't figure out my writing. Okay; that's right. The power is OFF, CENTER, and then - back to POWER. Then wait 20 seconds, and put the ECS FLOW CONTROLLER in AUTO.
281:21:14	CC	That's affirmative.
281:21:53	Evans	Houston, America. You want to start that now?
281:21:56	CC	That's affirmative. Any time. And in case you're wondering -
281:21:59	Evans	Okay.
281:22:00	CC	- - case you're wondering about that middle step, that's a reset to logic step by going OFF on the POWER and then back to POWER.
281:22:09	Evans	Okay.
281:22:23	Evans	Okay. ECS FLOW CONTROLLER is going to position 1. Okay; ECS POWER is OFF, and it's back to POWER. And we're waiting 20 seconds.
281:23:03	Evans	Okay; FLOW CONTROLLER is going to AUTO now - and stays gray, it looks like.
281:23:13	CC	That's what we expected. And needless to say, Ron, we'll be watching your ECS system very carefully for you, just in case it flips back. We don't expect any problem.
281:23:28	Evans	Oh, Okay. Mighty fine.
281:26:36	CC	And, America, Houston. I've got a midcourse 7 and a MIDPAC entry pad.
281:26:47	Evans	Okay. Just wait 1, please.
281:26:50	CC	Roger.
281:29:21	CC	And, America, Houston. We'd like to bring up the high gain, so we can get the dump going and get the data down. It's a YAW, plus 15; PITCH, 204. Say again. PITCH, plus 15; YAW, 204.
281:29:32	Evans	Okay. PITCH, 15; YAW, 204.
281:29:38	CC	Roger.
281:30:36	Evans	Houston, America.
281:30:38	CC	Go ahead. Go ahead, America.
281:30:45	Evans	Okay; I assume this line in here, "Stop pitch rate at 146 degrees," means stop at 146 degrees in pitch. is that correct?
281:30:56	CC	Roger. Stop at 146 degrees pitch.
281:31:00	Evans	Okay. Thank you.
281:31:37	Cernan	You've got the high gain, ... told us, Bob.
281:32:31	CC	And, America, Houston. I've also - besides these pads, I've also got a Flight Plan update. For the first one, item is at 282:10. Either one you want to take first?
281:32:46	Cernan	Okay; why don't you go ahead with the Flight Plan update first.
281:32:50	CC	Okay, Gene. At 282:10, manually - manual roll left 40 degrees prior to the VERB 49 maneuver. Insert "Manual roll left 40 degrees." And that'll give you a roll angle of 342 prior to starting that maneuver.
281:33:19	Cernan	Okay; I've got it.
281:33:26	CC	Okay. The next one's quite a ways over. It's at 284:55.
281:33:38	Cernan	Okay; I've got it.
281:33:40	CC	Okay. First thing at 284:55, we'd like a VERB 48; first register, 11102; second register, 01111.
281:33:58	Cernan	Okay.
281:33:59	CC	A VERB 49 maneuver to lunar sounder thermal attitude at 285:00. The attitude is PITCH, 122 - say again, ROLL, 122; PITCH, 065; YAW, 047. That's 122, 065, and 047. HIGH GAIN angles with that will be PITCH, minus 24; YAW, 160.
281:34:40	Cernan	Okay. At 285:00, a VERB 49 to ROLL of 122; PITCH, 065; YAW, 047; HIGH GAIN is minus 24 and 160.
281:34:50	CC	Roger, Gene. And then at 285:10, where we had you write in the "Antenna retract," we want you to delete that. The purpose of the maneuver above that is to heat up those antennas, and we will retract them on a cue from us when we feel the temperatures are warm enough.
281:35:09	Cernan	Okay. What about the "RADAR, OFF" at that point?
281:35:11	CC	Delete "RADAR, OFF" also.
281:35:20	Cernan	Okay. I've deleted the whole update at 285:10 I had.
281:35:25	CC	That's affirmative.
281:35:37	Cernan	Bob, Jack's ready to take the pad.
281:35:41	CC	Okay. They just pointed out there's also VERB 48 at 285:10, which is not applicable either. And, Jack, I've got the MIDPAC area - say again. Let's do the midcourse 7 pad first. MCC7.
281:36:00	Schmitt	Go ahead.
281:36:01	CC	RCS/G&N; 26735; NOUN 48s are not applicable. 301:17:57.78; plus 0001.9, plus 0000.0, minus 0000.1. Roll is 082; pitch, 041; yaw, 331. HA, not applicable. Plus 0022.9; plus 0001.9, 0:04, 0001.9. Sextant star is 31, 328.9, 34.4. Rest of the pad is not applicable. And in case I cut out and came off ray key too fast, back up there in NOUN 81s, that's a plus all zeros for Delta-Vy. Set stars are Sirius and Rigel; 256, 152, 069. It's a four jet; plus-X. Assumes a PTC REFSMMAT. Over.
281:37:59	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. I assume that DELTA-Vz plus all zeros also.
281:38:11	CC	No, I'm sorry. DELTA-Vz was minus all zeros .1 - .1 on DELTA-Vz.
281:38:28	Schmitt	Okay; midcourse 7 readback. RCS/G&N; 26735. NOUN 48 is NA. 301:17:57.78; plus 0001.9, plus all zeros, plus 0000.1; 082, 041, 331. HA is NA. Plus 0022.9; 0001.9, 0:04, 0001.9; 31, 328.9, 34.4. Rest of the pad is NA. Sirius and Rigel; 256, 152, 069. Four jet; plus-X. Assumes PCT - TC REFSMMAT.
281:39:15	CC	Roger, One change. On DELTA-Vz on your NOUN 81s, that should be a minus four balls 1 - minus four balls 1.
281:39:29	Schmitt	Roger. Thank you. Minus four balls 1.
281:39:36	CC	Okay, Jack. That got us warmed up for the MIDPAC area entry pad.
281:39:42	Schmitt	Go ahead.
281:39:44	CC	MIDPAC area; 000, 153, 000; 304:01:37, 268. NOUN 61: minus 17.89, minus 166.13; 06.4; 36090, 6.49; 1047.2, 36172. RRT time: 304:18:37; 00:28. NOUN 69s are nonapplicable. D0 4.00, 02:08; 00:17, 03:37, 07:39. Sextant Stars 13, 117.3, 15.5. Boresight Star is not applicable. Lift vector is UP. Over.
281:41:38	Schmitt	Okay. MIDPAC area; 000, 153, 000; 304:01:37, 268; minus 17.89, minus 166.13; 06.4; 36090, 6.49; 1047.2, 36172; 304:18:37; 00:27. NOUN 69 is NA. 4.00, 02:08; 00:17, 03:37, 07:39; 13, 117.3, 15.5. Boresight is NA. Lift vector, UP. Over.
281:42:32	CC	Roger. The RET of 0.05G is 00:28 - 00:28.
281:42:49	Schmitt	Okay. I'll change that to 28 for RET 0.05G.
281:42:54	CC	That's right, and I've got one - we've got seven assumptions here on - or comments.
281:43:05	Schmitt	Go ahead.
281:43:07	CC	Comment 1: Use nonexit EMS pattern. Comment 2: RET 9OK - -
281:43:18	Schmitt	Go ahead, Bob.
281:43:20	CC	Roger. Comment 2: RET 90K, 06:01. RET mains, 08:26. RET landing, 13:18. Break break. UV COVER, CLOSED, please.
281:43:52	Schmitt	Okay; it's CLOSED. And, Bob, you're cutting out every once in a while. I missed your comment 1.
281:43:57	CC	Okay, Jack, let's try comment 1 over again. Use nonexit EMS pattern. Comment 2: 90K time, 06:01; mains, 08:26; landing, 13:18. Comment 3: Constant g is roll right. Comment 4: GET of moonset, 304:16:13. Comment 5: Assumes midcourse 7, MCC7. Comment 6: Assumes entry REFSMMAT. Comment 7: GDC align for entry REFSMMAT. Stars are Sirius and Rigel. ROLL, 273; PITCH, 256; YAW, 347. Over.
281:45:33	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. Somehow I got more than seven, but I'll give you the ones I got. 1: nonexit IMS pattern; 2: RET at 90K is 06:01; 3: mains are 08:06; 4: landing is 13:18; 5: Constant g is a roll right; 6: 304:16:13 is moonset; 7: assumes MCC7; 8: assumes entry REFSMMAT. And 9: GDC align is Sirius and Rigel; 273, 256, and 347.
281:46:14	CC	Roger. You've got a good readback there, Jack. The reason why is those times are all lumped into comment 2. However you want to do it they're fine.
281:46:26	Schmitt	Okay.
281:46:27	CC	One correction here. RET main times - I thought you read to me 08:26. It is 08:26 is the time on RET mains.
281:46:40	Schmitt	Okay. I read 08:06.
281:46:43	CC	Okay, 08:26. 26 is the time.
281:47:03	Schmitt	Okay. I got mains at 08:26.
281:47:07	CC	Roger, Jack.
281:48:20	CC	America, Houston. We'd like AUTO on the HIGH GAIN, and we'd like you to do that manual roll and VERB 49 maneuver, which is listed at 282:10. We'd like you to start it now.
281:48:35	Cernan	Okay, Bob.
281:49:06	Cernan	Hey, Bob. I don't think your 342 is going to work out. I've just - Correction, if you will. Roll left. Left 40 degrees coming up.
281:49:15	CC	Okay. I'm just sitting here, staring at FAO, and asking why it doesn't work out. Let me handle that. That's fine.
281:49:21	Cernan	No, it - Hey, Bob, it will. I was thinking of rolling right. I'm on my way left now, and we will get 342.
281:49:28	CC	Okay.
281:49:28	Cernan	Close to it. We'll get about - about - let's see now, 20 - whatever - whatever 360 minus 20 is. That's about 342.
281:49:39	CC	Okay.
281:54:09	Cernan	Okay, Bob. We're there.
281:54:14	CC	Roger.
281:54:17	Cernan	Bob, I press right on to the VERB 49?
281:54:25	CC	That's affirmative. Press right on with the VERB 49.
281:54:34	CC	We're just using this as a little addition here to get more time - more thermal heat on those antennas.
282:00:40	CC	America, Houston. We'd like OMNI Delta.
282:00:46	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. I gave it to you a few minutes ago.
282:00:54	CC	You got one on INCO that time.
282:01:00	Schmitt	The first one.
282:05:34	CC	America, Houston. We'd like UV COVER, OPEN, please.
282:06:01	Evans	Okay; it's OPEN.
282:06:07	CC	America, Houston. We'd like ACCEPT. We've got a state vector that goes with those pads we've called up.
282:06:15	Cernan	Okay, Bob. You've got ACCEPT.
282:06:18	CC	And you can get into the Flight Plan. We gave you about a 15-minute bonus on your eat period there. You can jump right into the eat period if you want.
282:06:26	Cernan	Okay. Thank you, Houston.
282:09:21	CC	America, Houston. The computer is yours.
282:09:27	Cernan	Thank you, Houston.
282:25:25	CC	America, Houston. This is for Ron. It looks like one of your sensors may have come loose. We're getting bad data. And don't interrupt your eating but when you get a chance you might try and push them on or service them or whatever needs to be done.
282:25:40	Schmitt	Okay, he'll get it. is it by any chance printing upside down?
282:25:51	CC	No, it's correct according to the - -
282:25:53	Evans	I'm upside down in the tunnel.
282:25:53	CC	- - doctor. Okay. (Laughter) Do you like eating that way? is that the new trick?
282:26:04	Schmitt	I don't see how his family is going to live with him.
282:26:09	Evans	We're not going to be able to do that for very much longer, you know.
282:26:14	CC	About 21 hours and 52 minutes.
282:27:14	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 282:27 Ground Elapsed Time in the Apollo 17 Mission. 21 hours 51 minutes until reentry into the Earth's atmosphere tomorrow afternoon in the South Pacific. The crew, presently, is in the evening meal. Just after the completion of this eat period is the great press conference in the sky, starting at approximately 5:00 Central Time with the onboard TV turned on. Earlier in the afternocn the initial midcourse 7 numbers were read up to the crew. Ah, for Ground Elapsed Time of ignition at 301:17 velocity change of 1.9 feet per second. Also, the initial entry times and the post-entry event times were passed up to the crew assuming that midcourse correction burn number 7 is performed. Presently the spacecraft is 101,703 nautical miles out from Earth. Velocity gradually building now, 5,080 feet per second. Flight path angle staying at about minus 6.49 degrees in the present tracking. Current numbers on entry interface Ground Elapsed Time of 304:18:37. There will not be a change of shift press conference for the off going Gold Team. And at 282:29 Ground Elapsed Time this is Apollo Control.
282:51:08	PAO	This is Apollo control at 282 hours 51 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. Apollo 17 now 21 hours and 27 minutes away from splashdown, or actually entry back into the Earth's atmosphere, tomorrow afternoon in the south central Pacific. Presently, 100,586 nautical miles out from the Earth streaking in at a velocity of 5,126 feet per second which will build up at the time of collision with the atmosphere to about 36,100 feet per second. The entry tomorrow afternoon will take place at approximately 304 hours 18 minutes Ground Elapsed Time which is about 1:11 Central Standard Time and at 282 hours 52 minutes Ground Elapsed Time in the mission of Apollo 17, this is Apollo control.
282:56:25	Evans	Houston, America.
282:56:28	CC	Go ahead.
282:56:31	Evans	Okay, Bob. I've kind of fiddled around with the sensors, now. Are they working okay now?
282:56:39	CC	Stand by, Ron. Ron, your sensors look good, right at the moment.
282:57:03	Evans	Okay. Good enough.
283:02:54	Schmitt	Hey, Houston; 17.
283:02:58	CC	Go ahead, 17.
283:03:01	Schmitt	Yes, we'd like to run a check here on this TV setup. Are we going to disturb you if we go to TV on the S-BAND AUX switch?
283:03:12	CC	Stand by on that. Let me check with OSO.
283:03:25	Schmitt	And, Bob, if it is an inconvenience, could you look ahead and find the time we can have 10 or 15 minutes, if possible, to work this out.
283:03:36	CC	Roger.
283:07:41	CC	America, Houston.
283:07:45	Schmitt	Go ahead.
283:07:46	CC	You can have the TV switch to TV for about 35 minutes starting right now, if you'd like. And, while while - if you're working around there, we would like to take BATTERY A off the CHARGE and put BATTERY B on CHARGE.
283:08:05	Schmitt	Okay, it's in work. And, we probably won't need it for that long. And, we'll get back with you as soon as we can.
283:08:14	CC	Roger.
283:08:18	Schmitt	Okay; we're in TV now.
283:09:59	Schmitt	Okay, Bob, BATTERY B is on CHARGE and 7 Alfa reads 1.3.
283:10:10	CC	Roger. We got that.
283:15:55	PAO	This is Apollo control at 283 hours 16 minutes. We've completed a shift handover in mission control. Flight Director for this shift is Charles Lewis the spacecraft communicator astronaut Gordon Fullerton. The crew is completing their meal at this time and beginning preparations for the televised press conference which is to begin at 5 p.m. Central Standard Time. Apollo 17 at this time is traveling at a velocity of 5,178 feet per second just under one mile per second and is 99,350 nautical miles from Earth.
283:18:35	Cernan	Okay, Bob, I'm going to pick up the manual roll right for the VERB 49.
283:18:42	CC	Okay, Geno. You've got a new capcom now. Good evening.
283:18:47	Cernan	Good evening, Gordo. How are you doing?
283:18:50	CC	Real fine. How about you?
283:18:53	Cernan	Very fine. I'm going right for my VERB 49 maneuver, now.
283:18:59	CC	Okay.
283:20:35	CC	America, Houston. We need OMNI Charlie, please.
283:27:12	CC	America, Houston. Suggest you try to get the HIGH GAIN up at a PITCH of 10; YAW, 210.
283:27:23	Evans	PITCH, 10; and YAW, 210; okay.
283:27:27	CC	Roger.
283:40:09	CC	America, Houston. We've filled up the DSE with science data. And, so if you're through with the TV rehearsal, we'd like the AUX band - the S-BAND AUX switch back to SCIENCE, so we can get the rest of the data real time.
283:40:26	Schmitt	Okay. We just finished and going to SCIENCE.
283:40:29	CC	Roger. Thank you.
283:54:28	Cernan	Hello, Houston. America.
283:54:31	CC	Go ahead.
283:54:34	Cernan	Gordy, how far out are we?
283:54:38	CC	How far out? 100,000 miles, approximately.
283:54:43	Cernan	Okay. Thank you.
283:58:07	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 283 hours 58 minutes. And we're about 9 minutes now from the start of the televised Press Conference with the Apollo 17 crew. The network controller has checked out the lines from Goldstone, California to Houston.
283:58:22	CC	America, Houston. A little more precise answer. You're 97,500 miles, and you passed the halfway point about 2 hours ago. And we're going to have a site handover here on the hour.
283:58:38	Schmitt	Got all that, Gordy. Thank you.
283:59:08	PAO	The television pictures from the spacecraft will be received at the 210 foot dish antenna at Goldstone, California and relayed to Houston.
284:04:26	Cernan	Hello, Houston; America.
284:04:28	CC	Go ahead, America.
284:04:31	Cernan	We'll stand by for your call to power up the TV.
284:04:35	CC	Roger.
284:05:14	CC	America, Houston. We're ready for TV.
284:05:21	Schmitt	Roger, Gordy.
284:06:36	Cernan	Okay. We're going to TRANSMIT on the TV now.
284:06:39	CC	Roger.
284:06:43	Cernan	And let us know when you've got a picture.
284:06:46	CC	Will do.
284:07:14	CC	American, Houston. We've got a picture. Looks good, looks in focus, and we see the flag in the patch.
284:07:23	Cernan	Okay.
284:08:35	Schmitt	Houston, here's the crew of Apollo - Apollo 17, Spaceship America.
284:08:41	CC	Roger, Apollo 17. If you're ready for the questioning, I'll begin.
284:08:49	Schmitt	Go ahead, Gordo.
284:08:52	CC	Okay. As usual in these inflight news conferences, the questions that will be asked of you were prepared by correspondents covering the Apollo 17 mission at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston. They will be read exactly as written and in the order determined by the newsmen. The first question is for Jack Schmitt. If you, as a geologist, were coming home from a field trip on Earth, you'd be drafting a preliminary report and discussing it with fellow geologists. In terms understandable to laymen, can you summarize what you would be saying in your preliminary report about your field trip to Taurus-Littrow?
284:09:36	Schmitt	Well, I'll - I'll give that a try, Gordy. I think the thing we had hoped to accomplish at Taurus-Littrow was to look at a - as broad a spectrum of the history of the Moon as possible in one small area, as the concluding flight to the Apollo Program. And I think we did that. I think we had look - did look at some of the oldest rocks that it is possible to see with our capability in the breccias of the South and North Massifs. I think we saw some intermediate-age rocks of fairly unexpected character, I believe, in the subfloor crystalline or igneous rocks, the gabbro, as we called them there. And we also understood, I think, that those rocks, in fact, had intruded into the breccias of the North Massif. We found, I believe, in the - at the Crater Van Serg, on the third EVA, that the regolith, or the garden zone, on the top of that subfloor gabbro, or the igneous rocks, was quite thick, or appears to be very thick, which is an expected result, and will - hopefully, those rocks will have much information about a fairly extended period of lunar erosion. And, we found that there was indeed a dark mantle over the area of - variable thickness; but, apparently, of relatively recent age, and that in turn had a light mantle of material of which we do not yet understand, and I think that the samples are going to have to tell that story. It may well be a land slide that has come off the South Massif. And, then, possibly as important as any finding, we found that even later than that relatively young light mantle deposit are avalanche - possible avalanche - we have alteration reminiscent of the alteration by hot waters or hot gases on Earth, and that was the orange - appears to be the orange soil that we found around the Crater Shorty. And, subsequently, in orbit we started to pick up, and particularly through Ron Evans' efforts, pick up more and more of the apparent evidence of such alteration taking place in fairly recent time on the Moon. All of those items, I think, are extremely significant and go through the full range of our present knowledge of lunar history. And, a report I would write would initially summarize that particular sequence of events.
284:12:43	CC	Question number 2 is for Jack, again. What other probable explanations, besides volcanic origins, do you have for the orange rock and colored soil that you found at Shorty Crater?
284:12:58	Schmitt	Well, they don't necessarily have to be volcanic, Gordy. I refer to them as alteration, and much of the hydrothermal, or hot water, alteration we see on Earth is related to recent volcanism, or ancient volcanism; but, also, we know of that kind of alteration of preexisting materials to take place as a result of - of just fluids working their way up through the Earth's crust, and I presume that such a process is also possible on the Moon. The ones we saw seem to be associated with areas of dark mantle, of various types, and most of the photographic evidence we have is that those dark mantle deposits are associated with volcanism, but it is not necessarily proved yet, I believe, that the - the orange soils or the alterations we've seen are volcanic. However, the process would be a related process, that is, one of internal origin.
284:14:01	CC	The third question is for Cernan or Schmitt. Your voices are so much alike that it is unclear to some of us which one of you found the orange rock and who first spotted the layer of orange soil on the crater rim.
284:14:17	Cernan	Jack found it. He uncovered it as he was walking on the rim, and we worked with that, and then, as I went around the crater to take the stereo base pan from within the crater, I could see alterations radially down from the rim farther beyond where we were working down to the center.
284:14:38	Schmitt	I don't think that that question of who found it is as specifically as important as that that we were there with the equipment and the training jointly to not only recognize that but to take advantage of having recognized it, and I hope that we did.
284:14:57	CC	Okay. The next one's for Ron Evans. Why do you think you were able to see so much orange material from lunar orbit, after your partners had found some on the ground, where none of the previous Apollo crews reported seeing anything but grays, tans, and browns?
284:15:17	Evans	Well, I think, for one thing, that we were in, essentially, a different orbit than some of the other crews that had been up there before. And even though each of us has a color tone in our own eyes, what we come up with, I think, is a function pretty much of what you'd like to believe and what you'd like to see out of things. If you feel it has a tint of orange with it, and this is in a new area that we really haven't flown over that much, and this is primarily - where we were seeing this type of thing was on the western rim of Serenitatis, and some of the - well, at least it looks like known volcanic deposits along the rim of Serenitatis.
284:16:09	Schmitt	Gordy, let me add quickly that there's no such thing as a truly objective observer; and, I believe, that once you start looking for something, and when Ron heard about what we were doing, I'm sure he started looking, himself, to see what we had seen. That leads you to see things. Now that's not seeing things that are not there. It makes you look for things that are there, and that's extremely important; and that's where the kind of training all three of us have had and I think has made it possible for us to find a lot of things that might not otherwise have been found.
284:16:48	CC	Here's one addressed to all three crewmen. What will you remember most about this mission?
284:16:59	Cernan	Boy, that's a loaded question, Gordy. There's so many things, but I think probably the thing that - when I think about it - that will stick with me most is the same thing that stuck with me - for my last two missions - not so much being there, but it's getting the chance to get home and share what you've seen and what you've done with other people.
284:17:23	Evans	I think in my case, the lift-off itself was something brand new for me. It's something beyond - The booster ride itself was something beyond what I could really comprehend. So, I think that's - oh, it's a very important part of it. I will always remember that part of it. But I'm kind of like with Gene; I feel that even though the three of us have been up here and had the opportunity to observe the Moon, look at what we could find and that type of thing, I think that we have an obligation to share our experiences with the rest of the people.
284:18:04	Schmitt	Well, Gordy, that is a difficult question. It has been a fascinating experience from so many detail aspects. I guess, generally speaking, the thing I carry back with me, I hope, is an increased perspective not only for the history of the solar system, but I hope for the future of mankind within that solar system.
284:18:31	Cernan	Gordy, this doesn't mean that that last 50,000 feet won't stick in my mind for a long time.
284:18:39	CC	Roger, Gene. Again for all three crewmen. Now that you are returning home from what may be the last lunar exploration of this century, what short-range and long-range plans do each of you have for the future?
284:18:57	Cernan	Well, my short-range plans are certainly to enjoy Christmas with my family, think about the flight, get its data down on paper. My long-range plans are to turn around and look at the next flight whenever that may be and put my efforts and experience toward that flight and get to work on it.
284:19:23	Evans	I think my short-range plans - of course, first of all tomorrow I want to make a real good reentry, and that's kind of the real short-range part of it. From that point on, as I mentioned before, I think we have a responsibility, at least, I feel we have responsibilities to share our experiences with the rest of the people not only in the United States, but with the people of the rest of the world. Beyond that, I also have a strong desire to continue participating in manned space flight in whatever capacity that I might be able to.
284:20:04	Schmitt	Well, I can do nothing but echo Gene and Ron's words and maybe add, Gordy, that I hope that through the next few years I'll be able to make some contributions that guarantee that this Apollo 17 flight is not the last exploration program in this century in space.
284:20:27	CC	Again, for all the crew. Throughout the mission there were periodic reports from each of you about gastric distress in one form or another. Does this trouble make you think that the three Skylab missions of 28, 56, and 56 days scheduled for next year are too ambitious?
284:20:47	Cernan	No, not at all. I don't think they are too ambitious, Gordy. I think that's the reason we're flying each and every one of these flights one at a time. To find out if there really are potential problems in diet or what have you, and I think we solved a lot of them from Apollo 15 and 16, and those few that we had I'm sure we can solve, accordingly, prior to Skylab flying.
284:21:12	Evans	I don't think I can add anything to that.
284:21:16	Schmitt	I think we've made a big improvement over the problems that occurred on Apollo 16, and I think as a result of our observations in conjunction with the medical people, primarily at NASA, that solution - a very clear solution will be found for Skylab and any other mission we want to fly.
284:21:37	CC	Okay. For Ron Evans. You seemed almost euphoric during your space walk yesterday, and other space walkers before you seemed to have had this same reaction to the experience. Can you describe what it was like and how it made you feel?
284:21:59	Evans	Well, I think for those of you who had the opportunity to watch yesterday, it is pretty obvious how I felt out there. I'm not sure euphoric is the word. I - it's an opportunity - Well, to me I guess it was an opportunity to be what I call a "real space man." And - you're out there in the deepness of space, with nothing there but your spacesuit on, and you're doing the job that has to be done. And we're riding around in space out here, and this is in a capsule and we look out the window, you know, but it's nice firm feeling. It's a solidly built vehicle, and you get the zero g effect on the thing, but you don't get the feeling of - really getting out and walking in space. And once I became accustomed to what it was like in the EVA environment, then you relax and you take it easy, you try to accomplish what you can and observe what you can and really enjoy it. And I think I really enjoyed it.
284:23:10	Schmitt	I had a hold of his umbilical most of that time and I didn't notice that he was ready to jump out into space If that's the kind of euphoria you're talking about.
284:23:21	CC	Okay. For Eugene Cernan and any other later comments. You talked a lot about this mission being the end of the beginning, but a lot of people don't agree. Recognizing the United States is stopping lunar exporation for the forseeable future, how do you feel?
284:23:43	Cernan	When we look back at the Apollo Program I don't think anyone can privately to themselves and publicly say that this isn't truly indeed really a beginning - a beginning of man's really first venture out into deep space. And once there's a beginning, there's a continuation. The probing into deep space by man, the next landing on the Moon, a trip to Mars may not be for 10 years, a decade; it may not be until the end of this century. But I personally have faith that it will happen. I think it's a restraint, an abnormal restraint of man's intellect at this point in time to restrict or tend to think that he will restrict his own feeling of exploration, his own quest for knowledge. He's had an opportunity. He's proved that he could take advantage of this opportunity, and I think that the nature of mankind is going to just press on. That's why I believe not - we of Apollo 17 - yes, it's a beginning; but the whole Apollo Program is really the true beginning of what's to come in the future. And I firmly believe that. We can look back in a 100 years or 200 years and the 5-year or 10-year period of time, we may be slowed down here. I think we'll be - we'll be lost in the merit of what is really accomplished during the next several decades.
284:25:12	CC	The next question is for all the crew. The American people seem to be getting fairly blase about space flight and television coverage of Apollo 17 has been at a minimum. But this is not the case abroad. For example, in the Republic of Zaire, the former Belgian Congo, an estimated 20 million people are watching extensive coverage on TV sets set up in the villages. What do you have to say to the people of underdeveloped nations?
284:25:46	Schmitt	Well, Gordy, first of all, I'm not sure that the amount of television coverage is necessarily a measure of the interest of the American people. I don't have those figures at hand. I'm sorry to hear that the adventures we had and the insight that maybe we gained into not only ourselves, but to the history of the solar system was not shared extensively with the American people, if that's true. As far as the rest of the world is concerned, and also the people of the United States who may not participate as much in the affluence that we all would like to share, I think that's what space flight in general and the Apollo Program in particular has offered, is many new avenues from which we can provide for those people abroad and for our own people, the kind of quality of life and the material - including the material quality of life that everybody aspires to. I think, we've just begun the adventure of understanding how - what we've learned and how we've learned to do it in space can be applied to these particular kinds of problems. That is one of the great challenges that I think NASA and other agencies within the United States Government and other governments abroad have, is to use this base of technological information now for their own people.
284:27:21	Cernan	I'd like to just add to that very briefly, Gordy, that America has led the way into space in the past. I believe we will in the future. But, a point I tried to get across, several days earlier in this flight, is that the real promise of the future for all the peoples of the Earth is to weld themselves into a coherent group of people who can live and work together and then enjoy all the benefits and all the knowledge that is to come from future space explorations. I think we are doing this not just as Americans but as human beings and everyone throughout these countries throughout the world who are watching us right now are also human beings no different than we are. It's their accomplishment as well as it is ours.
284:28:14	CC	Question 11 is for Jack. Do you think the United States waited too long to send a geologist to the Moon?
284:28:26	Schmitt	We're grinning because I think we predicted that question. Gordy, I think the United States waited too long to go into space in the first place, and I think they're probably going to wait too long to go back. I will always feel that way no matter who goes or what qualifications he may have or may think he has. I think that the most important thing that maybe I have done is to - to be able to show that we can build a transportation system that allows you to fly people of a wide variety of disciplines. And I think that we have shown that, and I think that it's occurred at about as soon as possible within the Apollo Program.
284:29:11	CC	The last couple of questions are in a lighter vein for Ron Evans. There has been a lot of discussion about missing a pair of scissors in the command module. Who really lost the scissors?
284:29:27	Evans	Well, I think it must have been one of those other guys because I was asleep and I got up the next morning and it was gone.
284:29:32	Schmitt	Didn't happen on my watch.
284:29:38	CC	And also, Ron, did the squeaking of those mice onboard keep you awake?
284:29:48	Evans	No, the mice really didn't - there are plenty of other things going on inside the spacecraft here that we can hardly even hear the mice. As a matter of fact I really haven't heard them yet.
284:30:06	CC	Okay. This completes the list of questions submitted by the newsmen here in Houston. There are a little less than 7 minutes left on our scheduled time for any other further remarks you might like to make.
284:30:21	Cernan	Yes, Gordy, I think we'd like to take this opportunity to each say a word or two.
284:30:28	Schmitt	Well, just briefly, Gordy, I feel that I have done something that's vex-y significant here in my life. I hope that - and will do everything I can to see that it is not the most significant thing I ever do. But, I feel that the fact that I had the opportunity is due in a large part to the tangible and intangible effects that my mother and father had on my life and to them I send my thanks and I hope that I continue to live up to their expectations.
284:31:11	Evans	You know on Apollo 17, here, we've had two outstanding vehicles and that's the - don't let me get you wrong, I'm not discounting the booster either. But, I've watched a lot of people work on a lot of spacecraft, and I'm very proud to be able to say that all the vehicles that have been associated with Apollo 17 have been outstanding. And, the reason they are outstanding is because of the people that have been working on them. And, I'd like to give our thanks and a "well-done" to people who worked on our spacecraft.
284:31:53	Cernan	Gordy, prior to leaving and I guess I can certainly assume during the flight we've carried many, many well wishes and carried many prayers aboard from people throughout the world. I personally believe that those prayers played no small part in any success that we were able to achieve on this flight. I ask those people, however, to continue their prayers in particular for some of our friends and some of our comrades who are still in southeast Asia - POWs, MIAs who may not - although God willing I hope they will - but who may not have the opportunities to get home and enjoy the Christmas that we're looking forward to. And with that from Apollo 17 spacecraft America on December 18, 1972, we all wish you a very, very Merry Christmas and a happy holiday season. Godspeed and God bless you all.
284:33:08	CC	Thank you, guys. That was a good show. We enjoyed every minute.
284:34:42	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy. I presume you want to go back to SCIENCE in the comm configuration, and we're getting squared away here for a big VERB 48.
284:34:54	CC	Okay. That's affirmative. Back to SCIENCE, please.
284:38:49	Cernan	Gordy, if you like, I'll go ahead and maneuver now.
284:38:55	CC	No. We want to hold the manuver until 55.
284:39:03	Cernan	Okay.
284:45:07	CC	America, Houston.
284:45:10	Schmitt	Go ahead.
284:45:12	CC	Okay. We're ready to go with that VERB 48 and then the VERB 49 as listed a little bit early here. That'll put us in the hot-soak attitude.
284:45:23	Cernan	Okay, Gordo. Be with you in about 30 seconds.
284:45:26	CC	Okay.
284:47:21	Cernan	Houston, America is on her way.
284:47:24	CC	Okeydoke.
284:52:48	Schmitt	Houston, 17's getting the high gain up, if you want it.
284:52:56	CC	Yes. We think we're already on it, Jack.
284:52:59	Schmitt	Well, I meant to have the other angles.
284:53:17	CC	I think you can just leave it alone. It is holding from - during the maneuver and should hold until the end of it.
284:53:25	Schmitt	Okay. Good maneuvers. Over, Gordy.
284:53:28	CC	Roger.
284:53:31	Schmitt	Now we're even.
284:53:52	Cernan	Hello, Houston, America.
284:53:54	CC	Go ahead.
284:53:58	Cernan	Okay, Gordy. With these relatively fixed attitudes most of the afternoon, we got the - the tunnel about totally dry, but the forward hatch is awful wet. I just thought I'd throw that out.
284:54:13	CC	Okay.
285:14:22	PAO	This is Apollo control at 285 hours 14 minutes. At the present time in mission control we've got a group of engineers, from the crew systems division, clustered around the capcom console going over a set of recommended procedures which capcom Gordon Fullerton will be discussing with Ron Evans for fixing his communications carrier, the so called Snoopy hat, that the crew wears that has the earphones and microphone attachments built in. Evans reported several days ago that the comm carrier - communications carrier was intermittant and last night he took it apart looked inside and found that in fact a couple of wires had broken and made a temporary fix. The procedures that we'll be reading up to him are to ensure that in so far as possible that the Snoopy hat communications carrier is fixed up to work properly during entry. If for some reason the Snoopy hat carrier couldn't be used Evans would plan to wear the light weight headset using the Snoopy hat to hold it in position but the preferable arrangement during entry would be to have a working comm carrier built into the Snoopy hat. Apollo 17 at this time is 93,270 nautical miles from Earth. And the speed is 5,444 feet per second.
285:16:54	Cernan	Houston, America. If you're ready, we'll maneuver.
285:17:03	CC	Stand by; we're checking.
285:17:22	CC	Not yet. Temperatures aren't up as high as they'd like. We'd like to hold 5 minutes at least.
285:17:29	Cernan	Okay; we'll just stand by for your call on the maneuver.
285:17:33	CC	Okay.
285:24:27	PAO	This is Apollo control at 285 hours 24 minutes. Here in mission control we're at the present time being paid a visit by a jolly gentleman in red cap and coat with white whiskers who is going around the room dispensing things from a bag of goodies.
285:25:08	PAO	For flight director Chuck Lewis out of Santa's bag is a toy flight directors console for Skylab complete with spinners.
285:25:48	PAO	A can of Skylab food for capcom Gordon Fullerton.
285:25:55	CC	America, Houston.
285:25:59	Cernan	Go ahead, Houston.
285:26:02	CC	You guys aren't going to believe this, but Santa Claus just walked in the MOCR with a long white beard, red suit, black boots and all, and he's passing out presents to everybody.
285:26:14	Schmitt	How did he get there before we did? We just saw him up here about 5 - 5 days ago.
285:26:21	CC	Well, he beat you back.
285:26:24	Cernan	Gordy, I'd - I'd believe anything. Has he got anything with our name on it?
285:26:31	CC	I'll ask him. I don't see anything yet.
285:27:10	CC	America, Houston. You can go ahead and start the VERB 49 maneuver. Have a change in the high gain angles, though, as printed there. Make it a plus 30 and 190, instead of minus 40 and 90. That's a plus 30 and 190 on the high gain.
285:27:31	Cernan	Okay, I got them, Gordy.
285:27:44	PAO	Flight Surgeon, John Ziegelschmitt, received a small telephone for private conversations out of Santa's bag,
285:27:53	Schmitt	Gordy, when you get a minute, would you ask one of the Surgeons there what my heart rate peaked out at in the last 15 minutes or so?
285:28:02	CC	Okay, I'll do that. I'm just looking at some of the presents here. Mine was a little Skylab food can - flip-top can. It says, "CAPCOM's Postflight Dinner." And I'm pretty sure there's absolutely nothing in it, but I'm afraid to pull the lid off. The Surgeon's got a little plastic telephone that says "For Private Conversations Only."
285:28:27	Schmitt	(Laughter)
285:28:35	CC	And your heart rate went to - -
285:28:35	Schmitt	I'd be more worried about what might be - -
285:28:38	CC	Your heart - -
285:28:38	Schmitt	Ought to be more worried about what might be in that can, Gordy.
285:28:42	CC	(Chuckle) Yes, I am. Geno's heart rate peaked at 115 to 120.
285:28:52	Schmitt	Okay, what did the LMP's peak at? He wasn't doing anything.
285:28:56	Cernan	I'm not even on biomed, as a matter of fact, Gordy.
285:28:59	CC	Oh, I'm sorry. My mistake. (Chuckle) Not the Surgeon's. That was the LMP's.
285:29:19	CC	Stovall, on the front row there, got a little shovellike gadget with a sign on it that says "Trenching Tool."
285:29:29	Schmitt	Beautiful. (Laughter)
285:29:32	Cernan	I thought they might give him a coin. A flipable coin.
285:29:55	CC	He's got a coin like that. It says "CSM Active" on both sides.
285:30:02	Cernan	Yes, that's what I figured.
285:35:24	CC	America, Houston. We're ready for a spinup now.
285:35:28	Schmitt	Okay.
285:37:15	Cernan	We're spinning, Gordy.
285:37:16	CC	Okay. It's looking good.
285:54:53	CC	America, Houston. We'd like to throw a few switches on panel 230 and try to get the HF antennas retracted. Over.
285:55:03	Schmitt	Okay. Go ahead.
285:55:05	CC	Okay. First of all, RADAR - OFF.
285:55:13	Schmitt	Okay, Gordy, the RADAR is OFF.
285:55:18	CC	Okay; then HF ANTENNA number 2, RETRACT. And give us a mark, please. It should take about a little over 2 minutes.
285:55:28	Schmitt	Okay, going to RETRACT -
285:55:30	Schmitt	MARK it. Oh, HF-2? Gordy, I started 1. I'm sorry.
285:55:37	CC	That's all right. Keep it. It doesn't matter; just keep working on 1 there. Keep it in RETRACT
285:55:44	Schmitt	Okay, it's in RETRACT - and stayed there.
285:57:40	CC	America, Houston. As you come up on roll of 30, we'd like you to - Okay, break, break - we would like the ANTENNA 1 switched to OFF now.
285:57:54	Schmitt	It is OFF.
285:57:57	CC	And we got a good retract. Okay, for the guy on the - -
285:58:01	Schmitt	Gordy?
285:58:04	CC	Go ahead.
285:58:05	Schmitt	It was still barber pole when I went to OFF.
285:58:10	CC	Okay, that's the one we had trouble with before. That's what we expected. Okay, you can go number 2 to RETRACT now.
285:58:25	Schmitt	Okay, number 2 - RETRACT -
285:58:29	Schmitt	MARK.
285:58:31	CC	Okay, and for whoever is driving the spaceship there, we'd like to stop the roll - stop the PTC at a roll angle of 30 instead of what's in the Flight Plan. That's 30 degrees. And you're passing through 73 right now. Over.
285:58:49	Cernan	Okay, Gordy. I got it. I'm looking at NOUN 20. We'll stop it at 30.
285:58:53	CC	Okay, and I have different high gains to go with that attitude. They'll be minus 24 and 206.
285:59:06	Cernan	Okay. We got them.
286:00:53	CC	Jack, Houston. You should be retracted now and have a gray. And you can go OFF if you do.
286:00:59	Schmitt	That's affirm and congratulations.
286:01:05	Schmitt	And the switch is OFF.
286:01:06	CC	Okay, and those high gain angles I passed you are probably misleading. It looks like the high gain ought to just hang on when you stop this maneuver.
286:01:17	Schmitt	Okay.
286:01:27	CC	America, Houston. It'll be about 5 or 6 minutes until we finish the dump before we can go ahead with that VERB 49, in case you got something to do.
286:02:37	Cernan	Okay, Gordy. Thank you.
286:09:50	CC	Okay, America. We're ready for the maneuver now.
286:09:55	Cernan	Okay, Houston. Here she comes.
286:10:14	Cernan	America is on her way again.
286:10:16	CC	Okay.
286:10:24	Cernan	Gordo, I see two DAP changes here. You want to change this one during the maneuver or - after the maneuver - and then the next one before the next maneuver?
286:10:55	CC	We want the DAP load after you get to attitude and then the other DAP load before you start the next maneuver.
286:11:03	Cernan	Sounds - that sounds good here. Okay.
286:12:08	CC	America, Houston. We need the UV cover closed. The Sun's getting in there.
286:12:16	Schmitt	CLOSED, Gordy.
286:12:17	CC	Thank you.
286:14:43	CC	We should be safe now. Open the UV cover, please.
286:15:05	Schmitt	Gordy, it's OPEN.
286:15:07	CC	Thank you.
286:15:13	Schmitt	Doesn't it bother you to wield such power, Gordy?
286:15:19	CC	I'm getting accustomed to it.
286:18:24	Schmitt	Gordy, for the first time in seemingly several days, we see the Earth.
286:18:32	CC	Roger. Standing by for a weather report.
286:18:40	Schmitt	(Laughter) Afraid I don't know whether or not there's any weather down there.
286:18:57	CC	Guess you can't see too much of it, huh?
286:19:02	Schmitt	No, sir. You're down to a fingernail, if you'll pardon the expression. It - Oh, let's see - it's about a - what do you think, Gene? - about a one-eighth Earth - one-sixth to one-eighth Earth?
286:19:23	Schmitt	Got picture, Ron. (Chuckle) You can see it later. (Laughter)
286:26:36	Cernan	Hello, Houston; America.
286:26:38	CC	Go ahead.
286:26:41	Cernan	Okay, Gordo, 286:52 on the Flight Plan and 287:40 - is there an update on that? CMP put his biomed harness on - oh, I guess 4 to 6 hours ago.
286:27:01	CC	Yes, let me check on that. I - There was something on this when I left last night, but I'll have to get the latest here.
286:27:12	Cernan	Okay.
286:34:26	CC	America, we're ready now for the steps at 1 - 286:43 - CMC MODE - FREE and AUTO. VERB 48, VERB 49, and so forth. On the biomed, we're going to leave it up to you. Whoever - draw straws or whatever - whoever you decide to wear the biomed tonight, it's your choice.
286:34:53	Cernan	That's easy. Jack and I will put it on in the morning. How's that?
286:34:58	CC	Okay.
286:35:13	Evans	You get to watch Captain America tonight then.
286:35:18	CC	Okay, Captain.
286:37:36	CC	America, Houston. We'd like OMNI Alfa.
286:39:44	CC	America, Houston. We can take the high gain now that you're there. The angles in the book, minus 37 and 48 and AUTO.
286:44:43	CC	America, Houston. We're ready for VERB 74.
286:44:51	Cernan	Coming at you, Gordo.
286:44:52	Cernan	MARK it.
286:47:47	CC	Okay, we got a good dump. Thank you.
286:47:53	Evans	Okeydoke.
286:57:31	CC	America, Houston; over.
286:57:36	Cernan	Go ahead.
286:57:37	CC	Okay. We've been thinking about the - the busted Snoopy hat and have a suggestion on a - on a configuration that we'd like to present to you as an alternative to the plan you mentioned earlier. See what you think about it.
286:57:59	Cernan	Hey, Gordo.
286:58:00	CC	Go ahead.
286:58:01	Cernan	Can - can you hold off with that update? Ron's off the headset right now, and it'll be a few minutes. And I'd like to hear him - have him hear that.
286:58:10	CC	Okay. And just as a brief introduction before he gets on, we're really thinking about letting Jack have the broken one. Nothing personal, Jack, but think that it's probably more important that you and Ron have the - the all-up ones. Over.
286:58:31	Cernan	Yes, we've already discussed that, but let - let Ron talk over with what his plan is, and let's hear yours.
286:58:38	CC	Okay, give me a call when you're ready.
286:58:41	Cernan	Okay. And for food for thought, you might think about that. We looked at a way of just taping the electronic part of the lightweight headset right to - to his helmet. It looked pretty good. So chew on that one for a while, and we'll be back with you and you can come up with your plan.
286:58:58	CC	Yes, that sounds like that's - that's our plan, essentially, but I'll go through it in case there's anything that either you or us haven't thought of about it.
286:59:09	Cernan	Okay.
287:02:03	CC	America, Houston.
287:02:07	Schmitt	Go ahead.
287:02:08	CC	We'd like to give you what EECOM has said should be the final H2 fan configuration for this mission. H2 FAN 2, OFF, and 3, AUTO.
287:02:26	Schmitt	Okay, FAN 2 is going OFF, and 3 to AUTO. And this is truly a historic event.
287:02:38	CC	It's been a pleasure to share it with you, Jack.
287:02:39	Cernan	Isn't that the way we started? Isn't that the way we started?
287:02:45	CC	I think it is. Affirm.
287:02:49	Schmitt	Very appropriate, my congratulations and my hat off to the EECOM.
287:02:57	CC	Thank you, sir.
287:03:56	CC	America, Houston. We'd like you to spin it up on B-2 and D-2, and we have one change in the HIGH GAIN REACQ and NARROW angles. Instead of a YAW of 90, we want a YAW of 45.
287:04:19	Cernan	Okay, I'll set them at a YAW of 45.
287:04:26	CC	Roger.
287:05:08	CC	You probably weren't aware of it, but your IR is chilly. Would you turn it on up until bedtime to warm it up a little, please?
287:05:21	Cernan	Okay, that's only - that's only appropriate. IR is ON.
287:05:32	CC	Roger.
287:05:46	Evans	Okay, Gordy. I just spun up America for you.
287:05:51	CC	Thank you.
287:32:08	PAO	Apollo control at 287 hours 32 minutes. It's been a relatively quiet period in the control center and aboard the spacecraft. Apollo 17, at the present time, is rotating slowly about the X axis with it's ultraviolet spectrometer pointed toward Scolatic sources of ultraviolet. The crew will be conducting some housekeeping activities aboard the spacecraft changing the lithium hydroxide canisters. They have one more eat period before retiring for an 8 hour rest period at 290 hours even. And, we're now showing some 16 hours 45 minutes until Apollo 17 enters Earth atmosphere. The spacecraft now 85,800 nautical miles from Earth, and velocity increasing to 5,795 feet per second.
287:44:03	Evans	Houston, America. The - the CMP is in biomed.
287:44:10	CC	Okay, CMP.
287:44:15	Evans	Very good.
287:44:21	CC	This probably isn't too good a time to have an emergency.
287:44:26	Evans	(Laughter)
287:44:28	CC	The reason I say that is we got a big Chinese feast going on here in the MOCR.
287:44:35	Evans	(Laughter) Oh, you do?
287:44:37	CC	Had some food brought in, and everybody's probably more interested in eating than the America right now, I must admit.
287:44:46	Evans	(Laughter) Uh-oh.
287:45:17	Evans	Houston, America. How's the delivery girl situation? Is it as good as it used to be?
287:45:22	CC	Oh, yes. Better, if anything.
287:45:26	Evans	Outstanding.
287:46:22	CC	Ron, I have some words on our suggestion, probably the same as what you've done already on rigging up the headsets for - for entry tomorrow any time you have a free moment to listen.
287:46:37	Evans	Oh, sure. Go ahead. I'm just sitting here right now.
287:46:42	CC	Okay. Geno mentioned that you'd already essentially taped the electronic part to your Snoopy hat. I guess, first of all, we're suggesting that you rig - rig this up for Jack, and let you have the good one just to be sure. And I'll - I'll quickly run through the steps we have. I think maybe this will be the easiest way. And you can then listen and if you've done it already or if you - if this mentions something that you haven't thought of, it'll at least accomplish the job. They have about 15 steps here, but I don't think it'll take long to summarize it. They suggest taking the headband off the lightweight headset; in other words, taking the electronic part off the headband, straighten the mike boom, and straighten the - the comm carrier boom, the appropriate one for whichever ear Jack wears his molded earpiece in, then rotate the lightweight headset mike boom 90 degrees. They found that was necessary to get it to face your mouth when - when you end up with this all taped on there. You have to sort of twist it, force it 90 degrees. Then lay the lightweight headset boom along the comm carrier boom with the electronic part on the outside of your - your earpiece on the Snoopy hat. And the - the hose that goes to the molded earpiece facing downward coming out down and with the - the mike boom 1 inch beyond the comm carrier mike boom tip. And then tape the two booms together for the entire length of the comm carrier boom. And then rebend the whole works back so that the tip is back in front of your mouth. And then tape the electronics box onto the side of the earpiece, and you can run tape all the way around the lower part of the earpiece, and you can lift up on the leather-covered doughnuts on the inside there, pull that loose and then run tape underneath. Just pull the lower part of it loose, run tape all the way around to really securely anchor the electronics box to the outside of the - the earpiece so there's no chance that that will slip off or shift. Then you can kind of push the leather earseal back down on top of the tape inside. Let's see. Then - -
287:49:43	Evans	Yes. So far - so far, we're right with you.
287:49:56	CC	Okay. Then take the comm carrier electrical lead and double it back on itself, and - and tape it together so that it doesn't flop around. And now you've got it essentially set up. I - I've lost my place here on the sequence. Just a second. Okay. Place the molded earpiece - Well, actually, one further modification was then to run the - the hose, which is now external, up underneath the leather doughnut and out through the ear opening, and - and pull it on through. Now you - to put this all on, you'll have to stick the molded earpiece in your ear and then as you pull the Snoopy on, sort of pull the slack out of the - the audio hose there so you don't end up with a lot of hose coiled up in the earcup. And the - the remaining hose then just sort of dangles down beside your neck. Fasten the chinstrap, and make sure that the hose isn't pinched or - anywhere. Readjust the mike boom to a half inch from your - in front of your lips, and make sure one of the foam parts of the mike boom is facing your mouth. Okay. Then you just route the - the electrical lead and the - the plug on down through the slot and ICG, and put - put all the excess length of the connectors and the - the excess stuff down inside the ECG [sic] so it doesn't flop around, and of course mate the pins, the connectors, and snap the ICG closed at the front to be sure that it'll capture. One thing they did try in this configuration is - was - was to see if you could get the helmet on over all that, in case a suited reentry became necessary at short notice, and it does go on. Randy Hester tried it. And with just a little cocking of the head, you can get the helmet on over. How's that sound to you?
287:52:27	Evans	Hey, Gordy. That sounds essentially what we were thinking about. We hadn't got to the extent of trying to hook them up yet, you know, put them together yet, but we're thinking along the same lines anyhow. And you brought up a couple of points that are good.
287:52:43	CC	Okay. If you got any questions or anything, I've got a demo model sitting right in front of me here, so that we can just discuss it real time as you get it set up. I assume you're going to try to work that up tonight. is that right?
287:53:02	Evans	Yes, we can, I guess. Okay, and the - the reason you'd rather have Jack do it than me is simply -simply because of the redun - redund - I can't say the word. (Laughter) Redundancy.
287:53:16	CC	That's affirmative. It gives you and Gene the - the prime - best equipment, and we see no reason why this won't work, but like you say, it's only one mike in place of two on the other ones.
287:53:38	Schmitt	I'm surprised you didn't have us tape two headsets to the Snoopy helmet.
287:53:46	CC	Well, Jack, we'll just take that chance.
287:53:55	Schmitt	Well, it took 14 days, but I finally know where I stand.
287:54:03	CC	I do have a question. Well, first of all I give you a little weather for the South Pacific tomorrow, if you're interested.
287:54:15	Schmitt	Stand by and let's get the commander on the headset here in a minute. Then you can pass it up.
287:54:20	CC	Okay.
287:59:11	CC	Not bad.
287:59:15	Evans	Well, I'll let her go this time.
287:59:35	CC	Okay, we got them.
287:59:39	Evans	Okay, we'll torque at 59:45.
287:59:43	CC	All righty.
288:00:11	CC	America, we would like to stop the roll this time around as you come up on 146 roll.
288:00:30	Evans	Okay, we'll stop it on 146 roll.
288:05:51	CC	America, Houston. When you get her stopped there, we'd like you to hold the attitude until we get the DSE dump before doing the VERB 49,
288:06:01	Evans	Okay, Gordo. We're there now.
288:08:22	Cernan	Hey, Houston; America. We can take those words on the weather in the recovery area, if you like.
288:08:29	CC	Okay. It can be summed up by one word, "Excellent." 2000, scattered, and high-scattered forecast. I'm looking at a satellite picture - high-resolution satellite picture that shows you in the middle of a big high, and she's just - very faint hint of clouds in the area. And the trend of the weather movement is such that you're going into a - an even clearer area by tomorrow. The wind will be 090 at 10; visibility, 10; 2994 on the altimeter. It's of no consequence to the Navy guys, but the landlubber will be glad to learn that there is 3-foot wave heights, and the temperature is 77 degrees. Over.
288:09:29	Cernan	Sounds like a fighter pilot's day to come aboard. I think they'll be able to take those seas.
288:09:38	CC	(Laughter) Roger. Okay, you can start the VERB 49 if you wish.
288:10:43	CC	America, Houston. One other request you might be thinking about that you'd - and that is any deltas to the nominal entry stowage that we might not know about we'd like to know about before you go to sleep tonight so we can think about the CG.
288:11:03	Evans	Okay, Gordo. We'll be able to give you those.
288:20:27	CC	America, Houston. We're ready to spin it up.
288:20:36	Evans	Okay.
289:08:02	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 289 hours 8 minutes. We'll be putting the crew to bed in about an hour, actually about 50 minutes from now. And they're eating dinner at this time. No major items scheduled on the Flight Plan between now and the time they begin their sleep period. During the night, the Flight Dynamics Officer and the Retro Return to Earth Officer will be compiling their last stretch of tracking data on the spacecraft and computing the final midcourse correction which would be performed at about 3 hours prior to entry. At the present time that midcourse correction would appear to be very small, around 2 feet per second. Apollo 17 at this time about 80,000 miles from Earth and the spacecraft velocity going through 6,000 feet per second and we'll see an ever more rapid buildup in that velocity as the spacecraft nears Earth.
289:18:38	Cernan	Hello, Houston; America.
289:18:42	CC	Go ahead.
289:18:45	Cernan	Gordo, we're just finishing chow and doing a little cleaning up, and I'm doublechecking the stowage and so forth. But we do have a minute. Is there by any chance any late news? Anything going on today that might be of interest?
289:19:01	CC	Okay. I haven't heard of anything. You did get a news report this morning? is that correct?
289:19:07	Cernan	Yes. We sure did.
289:19:08	CC	Okay. I'll see if there's any deltas to that. It'll take me a couple of minutes.
289:19:12	Schmitt	Okay. How's the Houston weather today?
289:19:16	CC	It was overcast but warmer. Kind of standard winter weather for around here. Not nearly so frigid as it has been the last couple days.
289:19:29	Schmitt	Okeydoke.
289:34:10	Cernan	Hello, Houston; America.
289:34:13	CC	Go ahead, Gene.
289:34:17	Cernan	Okay, Gordo; the entry stowage will be as - as in the Flight Plan Supplement, with the exception that there is a - a small LM jettison bag, max weight of about 25 pounds, which will be - which is already, as a matter of fact, packed in A-7.
289:34:47	CC	Okay. We got that.
289:34:50	Cernan	And the presently used jettison bag weight really isn't very much at all, that's just for housekeeping trash and so forth. We will tie between A-2 and A-3, and there's probably not, at the most, more than 5 pounds there.
289:35:10	CC	Okay.
289:35:14	Cernan	And right now we haven't seen any specific spot to tie down the LEVAs. If you've got a recommendation, we'll take it. If not, we'll just pick a spot down in the LEB area to tie them down.
289:35:31	CC	Okay. I'll see if we have a plan for that.
289:56:02	CC	America, Houston. I've got an update to the news.
289:56:02	Cernan	Okay, Houston. America's listening.
289:56:02	CC	Okay. It's some more like human interest stuff rather than pure news. One thing the - in the Liberty Bowl football game Georgia Tech beat Iowa State. Well, I guess it's not quite over yet - this is a fourth quarter score, Georgia Tech 315 Iowa State 24. And, there is a story about the Moonship that's streaking smoothly homeward. There's nothing in it that you don't know about, though, except maybe one little part of the article describing a quote from William E. Fastie of Johns Hopkins University, member of the Orbital Science Team, who said that a rather startling discovery is the Moon is simply not degassing. It has nothing left in terms of anything that you think - that can create an atmosphere. Much to his surprise, even the amount of hydrogen, an element that should have been the most abundant outgassing candidate, turned out to be about 1 percent of its predicted value. He speculated that the absence of a planetary magnetic field on the Moon works to the purge surface of any atmospheric accumulation. The atoms of gases that have vented to the surface, he theorized, pick up an electrical charge then - and are then swept away by the solar wind, which is a stream of electrified atoms pushing far out into the solar system of the Sun. Former President Truman is stabilized is the word they are using now. His heart condition is unchanged. His kidneys are failing him, and he's termed to be still in a very serious condition but resting comfortably. A declining birth rate and a desire for fewer children in the years ahead have caused the census bureau to reduce sharply its estimates of future population growth in the United States. By the year 2000, for example, the estimate is now 20 million fewer people than had been forecast on the basis of previous statistics. Reduction could have major implications for American society in many areas. And it reflects changes in birth and child planning, which now suggest that the U.S. may eventually reach zero population growth. The last one is pretty interesting, and more so if you can see the picture that goes with the story, about James L. G. Fitzpatrick who for 40 years has been interested in copying natural flight. And he has now designed a batlike flying machine that may be ready for a test run next summer. Fitzpatrick said that the first - that first, every small part of the ungainly structure must be tested carefully. Otherwise you end up either in a disaster or a grave, and we try to avoid that sort of thing. After three decades of trying, Fitzpatrick, who's 66, believes his latest device comes closest to the real thing, although it still needs a small motor to flap the wings. Asked whether his device, as yet unnamed, works on the flight principle of a bird, he said, "I don't know anyone who knows what principle a bird works on, but I guess this is more like a bat of a pterodactyl. Fitzpatrick's ornithopter or flapping wing airplane is equipped with cockpit controls that include a throttle that regulates the 1-horsepower engine and up-and-down flight. Other equipment includes rudder pedals to regulate a power steering system, a parking brake, a pseudopaddagieum, I don't know what that one - that word is, it's a new one on me, to transfer power from the engine to the wings, and a two-way radio. It has a maximum 40-foot wingspan and weighs 320 pounds. It is 6 feet long and it looks like a cage of scaffolding covered in parts by canvas. He said he's far enough along on building his device that he will be able to test the way the wings move in the Staten island Community College gym by the first of the year. However, there will be no free flying. The gymnasium test will involve tying weights to the wing tips and flapping the wings. He said that his bird is rather slow in maturing; and it's been a long gestation period which involved 9000 hours of experimentation, $40,000 in his money, and the dissection of 300 birds of various species. "I've been interested in flight since 1930," he said. "Basically, I was curious as to why various things flew, and I've been painfully finding out ever
289:56:02	Schmitt	Huh! Merry Christmas.
289:56:02	Cernan	Thank you for the news , Gordo.
290:02:30	Cernan	That's a very enjoyable evening to go to bed with on our final night of the flight.
290:02:30	CC	Before you turn in, we got a little shopping list to run down with you If you're - nothing to write down, but if you're ready to listen.
290:02:30	Cernan	Okay, go ahead.
290:02:30	CC	Okay. The Surgeons are, first of all, request that Ron press on his sensors. They're looking like they're getting loose according to the data here. They also reco - recommend for Ron that if he's still using the nose drops - I guess he has been - they recommend that he take one decongestant pill before going to sleep and one after breakfast in the morning. It's a suggestion. It's his option. The thought being it might help in clearing your ears during that final descent. You may leave the optics power on for more heat in the cabin if you wish. We'd like you to stop charge in battery B. Over.
290:03:54	Cernan	Okay. He's taking that off the line now; off the charge.
290:03:54	CC	Okay. And we'd like the IR, OFF.
290:04:05	Cernan	Okay. It's OFF, Gordy.
290:04:05	CC	Okay. Let's see, we owe you an answer on what to do with the LEVAs. I guess they were supposed to be on the helmets in the PGA bag. is that going to be a real pain to get at, and put them there?
290:04:05	Cernan	No, it's not going to be a pain at all, Gordo; it's just impossible.
290:04:05	CC	Okay, well -
290:04:05	Cernan	There's just no room in there at all - not - none at all.
290:04:05	CC	Okay. I'll - probably not have an answer for you tonight, but first thing in the morning - someplace to put them.
290:04:05	Cernan	Okay. It won't be any problem strapping them somewhere, but we thought maybe you had a better idea than we did; if not, when we get our rock bags tied down and all in place, -we'll take a look at a good spot for the LEVAs and let you know.
290:04:05	CC	Okay. G&C - I don't know where you are on the checklist - the - just a reminder to zero the optics before you turn in. And I'd like to -say for the whole White Team, who are just - here in another hour, will finish up their - their work with the Apollo Program, and myself included, that this sure has been a pleasure working with not only the two best spacecraft the program has seen but we think the best and most cooperative and -crew also. And it's been a privilege in my esti-matio and a real pleasure, too, and looking forward to seeing you on Thursday.
290:04:05	Cernan	Well, Gordo, those are awful kind words, and we do appreciate it very much, but I think you know how we feel about the help you guys give us down there. And - well, it really makes our job easy up here. From the Cape back to the Pacific is -it's the guys from the trench all the way up to the top back there, and that's what it's really all about. We thank you, those are good words, but just consider them reciprocal also.
290:04:05	CC	Thank you.
290:04:05	Evans	We appreciate it there, White Team.
290:04:05	CC	Thank you, Ron.
290:04:05	Cernan	Gordo, we'll hang on the air here and we're going to finish up our presleep checklist and we'll just give you one final buzz before we go off on the voice switch.
290:04:05	CC	Okay; very good.
290:04:05	Cernan	By the way, the Earth is sure starting to get big.
290:04:05	CC	Okay. You're about 80,000 miles out.
290:04:05	Cernan	Okay, outstanding. I guess, based upon your midcourse 7> that that's a good sign, isn't it? That it's getting big?
290:04:05	CC	That's what it's supposed to do.
290:07:45	Cernan	It's a - although there's not much of it to see, it's really sort of spectacular because the crescent is getting smaller and smaller although the Moon is getting - is getting larger, and of course the crescent we're looking at now is the Pacific. But even if there were landmasses in there, I don't think we could see much besides the reflection off the clouds - and a - well, in this case, the ocean. But - it's really a pretty spectacular sight because out the other window, now that we're on an intervertical [?] PTC, we've got a full Moon looking back at us. And it's sort of a poetic place to be the night before entry.
290:07:45	CC	Yes, I'll bet it is.
290:07:45	Cernan	Hang in there, babe, and we'll see you for sure Thursday.
290:07:45	CC	Okay; it's a deal.
290:25:53	Evans	Houston, how's the CMPs biomed now?
290:25:53	CC	Okay, Ron, looks real good.
290:25:53	Evans	Okay; mighty fine.
290:25:53	CC	I got a final on the Liberty Bowl. Must have been exciting. John Young should be happy. Georgia Tech squeaked through, 31 to 30.
290:25:53	Cernan	Looks like there's some pretty good football games coming up this weekend, too.
290:25:53	CC	That's right, in the pros.
290:28:20	Cernan	Houston, America.
290:28:20	CC	Go ahead.
290:28:20	Cernan	Gordy, we'd like to go back to AUTO on the GLYCOL EVAP TEMP IN, you concur?
290:28:20	CC	That's fine with the EECOM. Your choice.
290:28:39	Cernan	Okay. We're just going to go back to AUTO on the switch.
290:28:39	CC	Okay.
290:28:39	Cernan	And we also would like to take that inverter off. It's getting a little warm in here now and this PTC ought to be pretty comfortable tonight.
290:28:39	CC	Okay.
290:28:56	Cernan	Okay, we'll take INVERTER number 3 OFF. And I think the POWER'S OFF, also.
290:28:56	CC	Okay.
290:40:15	Cernan	Houston, America.
290:40:15	CC	All right. Go ahead, America; Houston.
290:40:15	Cernan	We bid you hello, Bob, and at the same time, good night.
290:40:15	CC	What can I say? I'm crying.
290:40:15	Cernan	Well, we thought we'd give you about 8 hours to think about it.
290:40:15	CC	That's about all I've got to do.
290:40:15	Cernan	See you in the morning, babe.
290:40:53	CC	Roger.
298:08:53	CC	(Music: Anchors Aweigh and the National Anthem)
298:11:31	Evans	Hey, Houston. This is America. That's mighty fine.
298:11:31	CC	Roger, America. It's Houston. We're ready to have you come home today.
298:11:31	Evans	Hey, mighty fine. We're all set, too.
298:11:31	CC	Okay, might read you a page - -
298:11:31	Evans	. * .
298:11:31	CC	Go ahead.
298:11:31	Evans	Okay, we've been waiting a long time for Anchors Aweigh. And we've missed it. (Laughter)
298:11:31	CC	I imagine - -
298:11:31	Evans	You going to play it again?
298:11:31	CC	- - imagine you'll hear it a couple of more times today, too.
298:11:31	Evans	Oh, okay. But if we could hear it again, that'd be great.
298:11:31	CC	It'll take them awhile to cue it up, and maybe we'll work on that. Let me give you guys a few items here while you're thinking. Number 1, the old weather report: 2000 scattered - high scattered - 10 miles visibility, 3-foot seas, winds are out of the east at 10 knots. Just about exactly what you had yesterday, and probably what we've been telling you for 2 or 3 days. Looks like we're going to have a midcourse 7 this morning, about 2 feet per second. Pretty much just to really center us in the corridor. We're already within the corridor now, with no problems. We're going to exit PTC at a different roll angle. We'll read that up to you later when you get the Flight Plan out; but just so you don't go ahead and exit early, we will be sending you something up on that exit PTC to new roll angle. And as far as the LEVAs are concerned, you guys were looking for a place to stow those last night, and what we're suggesting is putting them in the sleep restraint on top of A-8 where you've got one suit stowed, apparently. And we're suggesting you put one of those on the helmet on that PGA. And the other one, as it were, loose and in the bag. Over.
298:13:47	Evans	Houston, America. We've got the PGAs in the bag. (Laughter) Hope that's right.
298:13:47	CC	You got all three of them in the L-shaped bags, or have you got - The understanding down here, apparently, in talking last night was that one was in a sleep restraint on top of A-8 - in the sleep restraint bag.
298:13:47	Evans	Well, we've got CMP and LMP suits in the bottom -I mean, the commander and LMP suits at the bottom part of it. CMP suit's in the top of it - of the L-shaped bag.
298:13:47	CC	Okay, we'll work on that. And we've got something else for you here - just a minute.
298:13:47	CC	(Music: Anchors Aweigh)
298:13:47	Cernan	Thank you, Robert. Most appreciative.
298:13:47	CC	Okay, we aim to please. That's also, I might tell you guys, the third time we've played that this morning, although you's only heard it twice. We played it once before we sent the crew alert.
298:17:11	Evans	CMP has no comment.
298:17:11	CC	Okay, America, we'd like to request MEDIUM on the HIGH GAIN antenna, please.
298:17:11	Evans	Okay, you have REACQ and MEDIUM.
298:17:11	CC	Okay. And I guess now on the LEVAs, what we're suggesting is you put them - put the two of them in by themselves in a sleep restraint and tie it down on top of A-8. And I've got a lot of fancy words about how to tie it down on top of A-8, if you guys can't figure out how to do it. I can read it off to you, or we can leave it to your intuitive good sense.
298:17:11	Evans	Well, so far, we've kept pretty much with most of your recommendations around here. I think we could probably hack that one, too.
298:20:27	CC	Roger.
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298:20:27	CC	Go ahead, America.
298:20:27	Cernan	We're looking at your big smiling crescent. How far out are we?
298:20:27	CC	Stand by. You're just about to cross the 40,000-mile line here in the MOCR.
298:47:08	Cernan	40,000 miles. Okay.
299:17:54	Evans	Houston, America.
299:17:54	CC	Go ahead, America.
299:17:54	Evans	Okay. Good morning, Robert. I've got the INJECTOR VALVE temps for you.
299:17:54	CC	Roger. We're ready to copy. Five Charlie, 3.95; 5 Delta, 4.4; 6 Alfa, 4.15; 6 Bravo, 4.05; 6 Charlie, 4.3; 6 Delta, 4.2.
299:17:54	CC	Okay, Ron. Those sounded good.
299:19:10	Evans	Okay.
299:26:57	Evans	Got that now.
299:28:08	Evans	Houston, America, with the food and medical report.
299:28:08	CC	Stand by on that, Ron. We've got an antenna switch coming up. As soon as we get you back on comm, -we'll go ahead with it.
299:28:08	Evans	Okay.
299:28:31	CC	Okay, Ron. The switch has been made. You're ready - we're ready for the copy.
299:28:45	Evans	Map. Oh.
299:28:57	Evans	Okay, Houston. ...
299:29:11	Evans	Okay, Houston. On the commander's menu, we use negative reporting. Okay, did not eat potato soup, chicken stew, and peach ambrosia. I'm sorry, I started with meal C instead of A. And then to add on meal Charlie, three-fourths jelly candy. Okay, we'll start with A again, on the commander. Did not eat peaches and cocoa. Meal Bravo, did not eat chicken and rice soup and fruitcake. Add one-fourth jelly candy. Okay, for breakfast on day 14. Did not eat mixed fruit. Did not eat cinnamon toast and bread. Did not eat coffee. And add one can of peaches. Okay, commander's medical log: PRD, 17065; 5 hours, fair; none; and five cans of water. Okay, for the LMP, start with meal A, day 13. Did not eat bacon squares, apricots, cocoa. Meal Bravo, did not eat chicken and rice soup. And add - add on graham cracker cubes and a plain coffee. Meal 13, did not eat chicken stew, peach ambrosia, grapefruit drink, and add on a plain coffee and sugar cookies. Day - day 14, meal A, did not eat a half a sausage and a mixed fruit and scratch the potassium in the coffee - A plain coffee. Okay, LMPs PRD, 24227; 6 hours of good; none; and three cans of water. Okay, CMP, meal A, Day 13: did not eat four bacon squares, apricots, and add on a car - a carmel candy. Meal Bravo, did not eat one-fourth of the fruitcake. Add on two tea, three-fourths jelly candy and graham cracker cubes. Meal Charlie, did not eat chicken stew. Add on one-fourth jelly candy. For breakfast, did not eat mixed fruit. Scratch the with K in the coffee. Drank the coffee, but it was black. Add on peaches. Okay, CMPs medical: PRD, 15062; 7 hours of good. The rest of the guys said it was noisy, but I thought it was good. Let's see - medication: one decongestant, one Seconal; and three cans of water. And that completes the medical/food readback.
299:35:12	CC	Roger, Ron. Just a word on your consumable status this morning. You're in good shape on RCS, oxygen, and hydrogen. You're in real good shape.
299:35:26	Cernan	Okay, Houston, America. When you get that roll angle, let us know, will you?
299:35:32	CC	Yes, the roll angle is 306, exit G&N PTC at roll angle 306. And we'll call you when we get there - when you get there.
299:35:44	Cernan	Okay, we're watching it, Bob, 306.
299:36:23	CC	And, America, Houston. The HIGH GAIN angles to go with that roll angle of 306. HIGH GAIN angles are PITCH, 34; YAW, 267. Over.
299:36:38	Evans	Roger. 34 and 267.
299:37:20	CC	And, America, Houston. I've got a couple of other items on this Flight Plan updates, if you're ready to copy now.
299:37:27	Cernan	Go ahead, Bob.
299:37:29	CC	Okay, at 301:50, 301:50, add "UV COVER, CLOSED."
299:37:50	Cernan	Okay, got it.
299:37:52	CC	Okay, and then on the other page there. At 302:06, delete the line, "UV COVER, CLOSE."
299:38:06	Cernan	Okay.
299:38:07	CC	The next change here is to the Entry Checklist and to the entry cue card.
299:38:25	Cernan	Okay, go ahead.
299:38:27	CC	On the Entry Checklist, page 1-3 between steps 23 and 24, it's actually part of step 23. S-BAND OMNI antenna Charlie, change that to Delta - OMNI - S-BAND OMNI antenna, Delta.
299:38:48	Cernan	Okay, we've got Delta at horizon check attitude.
299:38:53	CC	Roger. And if you'll go over to 2-4, Entry Checklist, where it says, "Yaw back to zero degrees" after SEP, we would like you to insert, "Select OMNI Charlie" - OMNI Charlie, at that time. And that will be also required on your entry cue card at 45 minutes where it says, "Yaw to zero," you'll have to be OMNI Charlie, select OMNI Charlie.
299:39:30	Cernan	Okay, we've got it covered everywhere.
299:39:33	CC	Okay, and the reason for that is for better coverage going through Hawaii and that and then OMNI Charlie is coming back up on the ARIA.
299:39:45	Cernan	Okay, Bob.
299:40:10	CC	And, America, Houston. Just one word for the CMP, if you have a chance. One of your EKG sensors seems to be loose, if you can tighten it up a little bit.
299:40:20	Evans	Okay, I'll start pressing on it.
299:46:28	CC	America, Houston. You're getting pretty close to your 306 roll.
299:46:34	Cernan	I'm watching here, Bob. NOUN 20.
299:46:36	CC	Okay. Real fine.
299:46:53	CC	We'd like AUTO on the HIGH GAIN.
299:47:19	CC	America, Houston. We'd like ACCEPT; we've got your entry REFSMMAT.
299:47:28	Cernan	Okay. You have ACCEPT.
299:47:35	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. IR is coming ON. Houston, do you copy? The IR's ON and the COVER's coming OPEN.
299:47:50	CC	Affirmative.
299:47:53	Cernan	Okay, Bob. Spacecraft is configured in SCS as per the Flight Plan up through the P52.
299:48:05	CC	Roger.
299:48:59	CC	America, Houston. The computer is yours.
299:49:10	Evans	Roger. We're with the BLOCK.
299:54:48	PAO	This Is Apollo Control at 299 hours, 54 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. 4 minutes - 4 hours, 23 minutes away from entry into the atmosphere. An hour and 22 minutes until -
299:55:04	Evans	And, Houston; America. Have you copied the DSKY?
299:55:09	CC	Roger, Ron. We've got you NOUN 05.
299:55:12	Evans	Okay.
299:55:16	PAO	One hour, 22 minutes until ignition on midcourse burn number 7 which will be a two jett RCS maneuver.
299:55:26	CC	And we've got your NOUN 93s.
299:55:36	Evans	Okay, we'll torque at 55:45.
299:56:07	PAO	Midcourse 7 is now standing at about 2.1 feet per second. The spacecraft presently is 33,435 nautical miles out from earth. Velocity continuing to build up: 10,359 feet per second which will grow to 36,000 feet per second at the time the spacecraft enters the Earth's atmosphere at approximately 85 miles altitude. At 299:56 up live on the air to ground circuit through entry and splashdown. This is Apollo Control.
299:57:12	CC	Ron, while you're doing your maneuvering, no need to answer, but just a reminder. Due to the - stopping your roll angle differently, you're under the EI REFSMMAT attitude, your roll will be about 046, and you'll see a max yaw of about 64 degrees during this gyro torquing.
299:57:27	Evans	(Laughter) Okay, thanks for telling me.
299:57:41	Evans	It sounded like yesterday you might have had a cold, and it sounds like it might be a little worse today.
299:57:54	CC	No, no. Feeling great.
299:58:03	Evans	Okay, mighty fine.
299:58:07	CC	That's my "get serious and get you home" voice, see?
299:58:14	Evans	(Laughter) Okay, perfect.
300:08:32	Evans	Okay, Houston. This is the coarse align torquing angles, and we'll torque at 08:45.
300:08:46	CC	Stand - Okay, go ahead. That's fine.
300:08:50	Evans	You want me to read them down to you?
300:08:52	CC	No, that's all right. We didn't need them.
300:08:54	Evans	Okay, I didn't think so.
300:08:57	CC	And just for your information, I might pass along the drift checks on the platform have been extremely good, and the platform is in real good condition. I'm sure you're - -
300:09:10	Evans	Hey, mighty fine. What kind of values - average values have you been coming up with? I remember some in lunar orbit, but I don't know if - they haven't come back since then.
300:09:27	CC	You're down like 0.005 degrees per hour, down in the thousandths of degrees per hour.
300:09:35	Evans	(Laughter) That's - that's not bad at all, is it?
300:09:38	CC	No, that's - you could take it right back to the Moon if you wanted to, by golly.
300:09:42	Evans	Yes, sure could.
300:10:51	Cernan	Hey, Bob. GDC is aligned, and we are in CMC.
300:10:57	CC	Roger.
300:11:15	CC	America, Houston. If you'll give us ACCEPT, we'll give you an MCC7 target load, a target vector, and an entry vector.
300:11:25	Cernan	Okay, you have ACCEPT.
300:11:34	CC	And, America, we've got the MCC7 and the entry pads for you whenever you're ready to copy.
300:11:42	Cernan	Okay. Stand by 1. And you might be interested to know, we have had no problems whatsoever locking the YY strut on this flight.
300:11:53	CC	Good show. We copy that.
300:13:03	Schmitt	Okay, Bob. Ready for midcourse 7.
300:13:09	CC	Roger. Midcourse 7, RCS/G&N; 26686; NOUN 48s are not applicable; 301:18:00.34; plus 0002.1, plus all zeros, minus 0000.1; 000, 130, 000; HA is not applicable, plus 0022.9; 0002.1, 0:09, 0002.1; sextant star is 31, 329.9, 34.8. Rest of the pad is not applicable. Set stars, Sirius and Rigel; 273, 256, 347. One note, we would like two-jet plus-X RCS using quads Bravo and Delta. I'll say again, two-jet plus-X RCS quads Bravo and Delta. Another note, HIGH GAIN angles: PITCH, minus 83; YAW, 244. Over.
300:15:27	CC	And, America, the computer's yours.
300:15:30	Schmitt	Okay, going to BLOCK. Okay, Bob. Here's your readback, it's a midcourse 7, RCS/G&N; 26686; NOUN 48 is NA; 301:18:00.34; plus 0002.1, plus all zeros, minus 0000.1; 000, 130, 000; HA is NA, plus 0022.9; 0002.1, 0:09, 0002.1; 31, 329.9, 34.8. Rest of pad is NA. Sirius and Rigel; 273, 256, 347. Ullage is two jets plus-X RCS quads B and D. That's Bravo and Delta. HIGH GAIN: PITCH, minus 83; and YAW is 244. Over.
300:16:37	CC	Roger, Jack. Good - good readback except it's not ullage. It's just your two-jet burn.
300:16:43	Schmitt	Well, okay. Two-jet burn, then.
300:16:53	CC	And, Jack, we have the entry pad. Standing by for your call.
300:17:10	Schmitt	Okay, Houston. We're ready to copy.
300:17:13	CC	Okay, it's into the MIDPAC area; 000, 153, 000; 304:01:37, 268; NOUN 61s minus 17.88, minus 166.13; 06.4; 36090, 6.49; 1044.9, 36172; 304:18:37; 00:29; NOUN 69 is not applicable; D0 4.00, 02:09; 00:17, 03:37, 07:39; sextant star is 13, 117.3, 15.5; boresight star is not applicable; lift vector is up. I've got six comments. You can take those now, or we can get the readback and then go through the comments.
300:18:59	Schmitt	Go ahead on the comments, and take them a little slower than usual, Bob.
300:19:03	CC	Okay. Comment number 1: Use nonexit EMS pattern. Comment number 2: RET 90K, 06:01. RET mains, 08:26. RET landing, 13:17. Constant g is roll right. And the last comment: GET moonset, 304:16:14. Over.
300:20:28	Schmitt	Okay, Roberto. That's MIDPAC; 000, 153, 000; 304:01:37, 268; minus 17.88, minus 166.13; 06.4; 36090, 6.49; 1044.9, 36172; 304:18:37; 00:29, NOUN 69 is NA; 4.00, 02:09; 00:17, 03:37, 07:39; 13, 117.3, 15.5; boresight star is NA; lift vector is up. Comments, 1: use nonexit EMS pattern; 2: RET 90K is 06:01; RET mains, 08:26; RET landing, 13:17; comment 3: constant g, roll right; 4 is GETT moonset, 304:16:14. Over.
300:21:47	CC	Roger, Jack. Good readback. That should be the last of the pads.
300:21:55	Schmitt	Okay, sir. Give my hand a rest.
300:28:53	Evans	Okay, Houston. Changing the DAP for BD on the two-jet plus-X.
300:28:59	CC	Okay, we're watching.
300:31:23	Cernan	Hello, Houston; it's America.
300:31:29	CC	Go ahead.
300:31:33	Cernan	Okay, Bob. Looks like CDR has - there's no biomed electrolyte sponges in the spacecraft, either in the LM kit we brought back or in the Command Module kit. So it looks like I'll be going in without biomed.
300:31:58	CC	Roger, Gene.
300:32:11	CC	Hope you can make it, Geno, without that.
300:32:15	Evans	(Laughter)
300:35:00	Cernan	Okay.
300:35:03	Evans	Let me know when you want the numbers there, Gene.
300:35:22	Evans	... 86.8, going normal. (Laughter) There's the commander's ALARM. That's good.
300:35:43	Evans	Okay, plus 329.90. Plus 34.800. And we - star 31.
300:36:08	Evans	And, Houston, we've got a minus 29.2 on the DELTA-V test function of the EMS.
300:36:16	CC	Roger. We copy that, Ron.
300:36:29	Evans	And star - star sextant check is good there, Houston.
300:36:34	CC	Roger.
300:36:44	Evans	Okay. You guys can go ahead and dump now.
300:37:32	Evans	(Laughter) Must be accelerating like a son-of-a-buck ... the EMS pump.
300:38:42	Evans	Well, I'll be darned.
300:38:53	Evans	And, Houston, you go to ENTRY and NORMAL on the null bias check. EMS is counting like a son of a gun. (Laughter) Almost as fast as the DELTA-V test but not quite.
300:39:07	CC	Roger. You're really smoking along, aren't you?
300:39:14	Evans	(Laughter) Well, I wouldn't think it would sense that, but - -
300:39:17	CC	Roger.
300:39:25	Evans	Anyhow, we'll use burn time and - NOUN 85 for the - the burn.
300:39:37	CC	Roger.
300:40:28	CC	Ron, you're happy with your EMS and null bias check, aren't you?
300:40:33	Evans	Negative. Not on the null bias check, no. I'll give you a count in a minute. I'm going to redo the EMS DELTA-V test, and then go back and try another null bias check. But it looked like it was counting from about 100 to - to 75 in 30 seconds, but let me check that out.
300:41:13	Evans	Okay. Did the DELTA-V test, and that time we got a minus 20.3.
300:42:05	Evans	Okay, Houston. They started at minus 100 on the null bias check; 30 seconds at 118.8.
300:42:46	Evans	One minute, 137.8.
300:42:54	CC	Ron, would you verify those are negative numbers?
300:42:57	Evans	That's affirmative. They're negative.
300:43:26	Evans	Okay, a minute and 40 seconds, minus 162.7 or so.
300:44:22	Evans	Okay, Houston. We've got a little bit of time here. And looks like I've still got three EMS tests left. I'd like to go ahead and do another EMS test on that, and we'll see if that integrator is all fouled up completely - on the range integrator.
300:44:48	CC	Okay, Ron. We agree.
300:44:50	Evans	Okay.
300:45:41	Evans	Okay, TEST 1 looks alright.
300:46:00	Evans	And TEST 2 is okay; .05 G light is ON. Okay, going to TEST 3; 10 seconds -
300:46:20	Evans	MARK it. Upper light came on.
300:46:40	Evans	Okay, a 58.0 in the range counter -
300:46:54	Evans	MARK it. Okay, it's slowing down going across -
300:47:04	Evans	MARK it. Ah-ha. Okay. G line comes across at 9 z - g's (laughter), and range indicator indicates 0.0. Outstanding.
300:48:09	Evans	And test 5 works all right.
300:52:35	Evans	Okay.
300:53:02	Evans	Well, looks like a P41 here. Watch it count down.
300:53:09	Cernan	... 9, 130, and 359. Oh, about 25 minutes from the burn, 25.
300:53:17	Evans	Think you can get those things done by that time?
300:53:29	Evans	Okay, just so I won't forget it, let's go ahead and trim it.
300:53:43	Evans	Okay, we are trimmed. About 1 minute. ... 24 minutes to the burn.
300:55:10	Evans	...
300:56:13	Evans	Houston, America. Does it look like we're going to hack it on the waste water tank there? ...
300:56:19	CC	Ron, yes. We're not going to dump the waste water tank at this time, and we won't dump it after midcourse 7 of course.
300:56:26	Evans	(Laughter) Okay. Just wanted to make sure.
300:57:05	Evans	Yes. BAT C, up around 36.5. Pyros, 36.9, 36.9.
300:57:25	Evans	... Okay. Fuel cells are looking good, too.
300:57:34	Evans	A/C is looking good.
300:59:16	Evans	About 18 minutes yet.
300:59:24	CC	America, Houston.
300:59:26	Evans	Roger. Go ahead.
300:59:28	CC	Oh, Ron, we've been kicking around this EMS test and the null bias test and that, and we concur on this burn using NOUN 85s and your burn time as your cues and not using EMS. We would like, however, for you to bias the EMS. Set in a plus 118.8 at - and it will go to NORMAL at Tig minus 30 seconds and we'd just be interested in what the EMS does under a very small g field like this.
301:00:01	Evans	Okay. We'll set in at plus 118.8 and turn it to NORMAL at Tig minus 30 seconds. And I'll try to look at it at the end of burn time or go to STANDBY at that point in time so we can make a good hack on it.
301:00:15	CC	Roger. That'd be great, Ron, and we see no problem for entry with EMS.
301:00:20	Evans	Roger. Mighty fine.
301:00:30	Evans	We've really got the Christmas spirit out the window here. Looks like it's really snowing.
301:00:37	CC	(Laughter) Roger. Glad it's not snowing on us with that stuff.
301:00:45	Evans	(Laughter) Oh, it's frozen.
301:02:50	Evans	Okay, Gene. Let me read through the P41 here just to make sure we got everything. Okay, we're in SIM basic configuration, I guess. Yes, the IR's ON, and it won't hurt anything. UV's ON, but at this point in time, it won't make any difference, I guess. CMC is ON, ISS is ON, SCS is operating. We tested the caution and warning, the DELTA-V test works, null bias ... And DELTA-Vc, we'll set that up.
301:03:48	Evans	Okay. We got 118.8 and DELTA-V in STANDBY. BMAGs are caged and RATE 2.
301:04:03	Evans	Okay. AUTO RCS SELECTS. We'll put those on for trim. We're just going to trim the X-axis only? Okay, I'll leave the A/C OFF. Okay, I got the DAP. VERB 04 NOUN 46 ENTER. CSM. Don't use A/C. Use B/D for plus-X. ... DEAD BAND, one-half degree per second. Use B/D for ROLL. Okay.
301:04:45	Evans	Okay, ROT CONTROLLER ACs are ON, DIRECTS are ON. ... 13 minutes. Okay, I got the DET set. Looks like it agrees. And we're in CMC and AUTO. We're in the burn attitude. Done the boresight and sextant star check. We're in P41, have maneuvered to the right attitude.
301:05:18	Evans	And we're still in RATE 2. CMC, AUTO. Okay, let me realign the old GDC.
301:06:51	Evans	Okay, the old GDC is aligned. Let's see. MANUAL ATTs are in RATE COMMAND.
301:07:00	Evans	The DEAD BAND RATE to LOW. LIMIT CYCLE is OFF. ATT 1, RATE 2.
301:07:14	Evans	Okay, stand by for 5 minutes. And we're 10 minutes from the burn, Gene.
301:07:33	Evans	And, Jack, burn time is 9 seconds - 9 seconds. And we'll trim X only to 0.2 foot per second.
301:08:12	Evans	Houston, America. Does this kind of change our entry angle, what, about 0.2 - 0.2 degree?
301:08:24	CC	0.2 of a degree, Ron.
301:08:27	Evans	Oh, okay.
301:08:37	Evans	Which way? Does it steepen it or shallow it up?
301:08:41	CC	It'll make you a little more shallow. Or, it'll shallow it up - -
301:08:45	Evans	Oh, okay. Okay.
301:08:59	CC	Ron, it's going to run you from 6.7 entry angle to a 6.49.
301:09:05	Evans	Oh, okay. Yes, that's what I thought, okay.
301:09:40	Cernan	Eight minutes to go. ...
301:10:01	Evans	Next time we do this, we'll have to allow a little more time for the - the BUSS/dumping, I think, prior to the burns.
301:11:00	CC	America, Houston. You're GO for MCC7.
301:11:05	Evans	Roger. We're GO for midcourse number 7.
301:12:53	Cernan	Is one of those going the other way?
301:13:01	Evans	I guess they go in all directions. It just looks like they're - they're whipping by window 1 here.
301:13:36	CC	Go ahead.
301:13:57	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 301 hours 14 minutes Ground Elapsed Time, 3 minutes 48 seconds away from midcourse 7 maneuver. Distance currently 25,408 nautical miles. Velocity 11,928 feet per second. Three minutes, 20 seconds mark to midcourse 7, 2.1 feet per second, 2 jet RCS maneuver.
301:14:05	Evans	That's only 2.2 foot per second.
301:14:53	Evans	TRANS CONTROL POWER is ON. Okay. We're ON and armed.
301:15:06	Evans	Okay, we have trim. There ... down there.
301:15:50	Cernan	Okay, Houston; America. We're coming up on 2 minutes, and we're ready for MCC7.
301:15:56	CC	Roger, America. You're looking good.
301:16:14	Evans	Yes, burn time is 9.6. Clock's right on.
301:16:33	Evans	Yes, that's right. It'll go out automatically within 30 seconds. Okay.
301:16:47	Cernan	(Laughter) I wonder what we've got now. ...
301:17:00	Evans	... 30 seconds, we'll go EMS to NORMAL.
301:17:13	Evans	DEAD BAND, TRANS CONTROL, AC DIRECTS, CMC, AUTO.
301:17:18	Evans	Okay. There we go, 30 seconds. EMS to NORMAL.
301:17:26	Evans	Okay.
301:17:40	Evans	... Ten seconds to go, Jack. 2, 1 -
301:17:52	Evans	MARK it.
301:17:55	Cernan	We're burning, Houston.
301:17:57	CC	Roger.
301:18:06	Evans	Okay, got her? And I stopped it right at 9 seconds. There's your NOUN 85.
301:18:14	CC	We're looking at them.
301:18:15	Evans	Okay, EMS is 100.1. Okay, TRANS CONTROL POWER is OFF. DIRECTs are OFF, Hand controllers are safed.
301:18:37	Cernan	Houston, looks like the burn was right on the money. You saw the residuals, and the burn was a 9-second burn, on time.
301:18:47	CC	Roger, America. It looked good.
301:18:51	Cernan	And the VERB 66 is in.
301:18:56	CC	Roger.
301:19:00	Evans	Ah-ha, I get to get out of my g suit.
301:19:06	Evans	You know, while I think about it, Houston, I've noticed it throughout the - the flight here. In the simulator, CMC control will allow your rates - you know - to bounce back and forth maybe up to, oh, sometimes 0.1, more than likely 0.05 degrees per second as it trims within the dead band. In four-jet translations, as well as in two-jet translations, your rates get up to about almost 0.4 degree per second as it's damping within its own dead band there.
301:19:51	CC	Roger, Ron.
301:20:26	CC	America, Houston. Just to make doubly certain that we don't get any venting from the waste tank, we would like on panel 352 the WASTE WATER RELIEF valve to OFF, please.
301:20:42	Evans	Okay, we'll get that. BATTERY VENT presumably will stay OPEN, though, is that correct?
301:20:57	CC	Stand by on that, Ron. That's affirmative, Ron.
301:21:04	Evans	Okay, we'll leave the BATTERY VENT OPEN.
301:21:34	Evans	Okay, Houston. The dump PRESSURE RELIEF valve is in OFF.
301:21:42	CC	Roger.
301:22:40	CC	And, America; Houston. We'd like WIDE on the HIGH GAIN.
301:22:48	Evans	Okay, the old HIGH GAIN is on WIDE and AUTO.
301:22:53	CC	Roger.
301:38:23	PAO	This is Apollo Control at 301 hours 38 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. 2 hours 39 minutes away from entry into the atmosphere for Apollo 17. Velocity now 12,611 feet per second. This velocity will triple by the time they reach the atmosphere. Current predicted velocity at atmospheric entry 36,090 feet per second at an angle of minus 6.5 degrees. Command Module Pilot, Ron Evans, at the present time, is donning the so called counter-pressure garment which is being evaluated for possible future space programs as a protection against cardiovascular changes that occur to the human body after long missions. The midcourse correction burn number 7 went off on time very nominally. Little over 9 seconds burn time with two RCS jets. A change in velocity of 2.1 feet per second. In the landing area in the South Pacific the National Weather Service said, this morning, that weather conditions are expected to be satisfactory. Weather forecast for the planned landing area, 360 nautical miles southeast of Pago Pago is for partly cloudly skies, easterly winds at 10 miles, seas at 3 feet, and a temperature of near 77 degrees. 2 hours 38 minutes away from entry and at 301:40 Ground Elapsed Time in the mission of Apollo 17, this is Apollo Control.
301:40:46	CC	America, Houston.
301:40:50	Schmitt	Go ahead.
301:40:51	CC	Jack, we're just more or less trying to fill up our data book down here and if you haven't already done one, we'd - like any free time, if Ron would run another null bias check just to see if the drift changed when we did that little bitty burn.
301:41:07	Schmitt	Okay. I'll mention that to him.
301:42:33	Schmitt	Houston, 17.
301:42:46	CC	Go ahead, America.
301:42:47	Schmitt	Yes, Bob; this is Jack. You have any problem reading me with this comm configuration I got on now?
301:42:54	CC	No, we're reading you loud and clear. If I was a little late on that, it's because I've got some problems down here on my console, that's all. The whole room yelled at me that you'd called.
301:43:05	Schmitt	No, that's no problem. I just hadn't made a check with you and I wanted to make sure I was readable.
301:46:54	Evans	Okay, Houston. This is America, Command Module Pilot on the LMP's comm carrier. How do you read?
301:47:02	CC	Read you loud and clear, Ron.
301:47:04	Evans	Okay, good. I understand you want a null bias check again?
301:47:08	CC	Yes, we're just wondering if maybe the - maybe it was an air bubble or something in there - in the - small g-field of that midcourse 7 burn might have changed something. Just like to take a look at it.
301:47:20	Evans	Okay. We'll take a look at her.
301:48:24	Evans	Okay, in 30 seconds, 94.0; starting at plus 100 that time, for some reason.
301:48:55	Evans	One minute, 87.8.
301:49:42	Evans	Okay. It was 79.0 at a minute and 40 seconds.
301:49:48	CC	Okay, Ron. We got that.
301:49:58	Evans	Do you want to try the minus 100 part of it? Really think it's worth it?
301:50:05	CC	Well, Ron, we'd like it if you could dat - data gathering point, that's all - -
301:50:11	Evans	Okay. Let's do - -
301:50:11	CC	You know what's due on entry.
301:50:14	Evans	The other guys are crawling around down under the couches. They're trying to get that stuff locked in there anyhow. I think I must have shrank, my shoes went on easier now than they did on the fitting. I must have shrunk, I guess, is the correct terminology. Shrank? Shrink?
301:50:46	CC	Whatever you like.
301:50:48	Evans	(Laughter)
301:51:53	Evans	Okay, minus 105.8 at 30 seconds.
301:52:23	Evans	Minus 115.7 - I mean 111 - 111.7 at 1 minute.
301:53:04	Evans	And it's minus 119.1 or 2 - about 2 - about 119.2 about a minute and 40.
301:53:12	CC	Okay, Ron. That's very consistent data both ways on that - after the burn. It doesn't tie up with the data prior to the burn too well.
301:53:22	Evans	Uh huh.
301:54:00	Evans	Houston, UV COVER is CLOSED and talk back's gray.
301:54:06	CC	Roger.
301:59:15	CC	Ron, we're going to break lock here a minute. We've got a site handover.
301:59:20	Evans	Okay. I understand.
302:05:50	Cernan	Hello, Houston. How do you read CDR?
302:05:54	CC	Read you loud and clear, Ron - Gene.
302:05:57	Cernan	Okay, Bob. I'm back up now and I'll stay with you.
302:07:55	Evans	Okay, and IR can come OFF. And the UV, OFF; IR cover, CLOSED. S-BAND AUX TV, OFF. OFF, yes. And DATA SYSTEM, OFF. Through with the old Flight Plan. Let's check and see if we've got those other two items first. I think we do. Yes, that was one.
302:08:48	CC	Okay, Ron, we'd like to make sure that the LOGIC POWER on 181 is OFF, center.
302:08:56	CC	Okay, stand by 1. Yes. Yes, they're in DEPLOYMENT RETRACT. Let's put them to OFF.
302:09:25	Evans	Okay, DEPLOY MAIN A, MAIN B are both OFF, center.
302:09:36	CC	Okay, Ron. Thank you.
302:09:49	CC	And it's sad to shut off the SIM bay, it's operated so tremendously in this mission.
302:09:56	Evans	SIM bay has been outstanding.
302:18:04	Evans	Okay, Houston. We're coming up on 2 hours here. How about the logic sequence check?
302:18:12	CC	We're standing by.
302:18:15	Evans	Okay, SECS LOGIC, two of them are CLOSED; SECS ARM, two are CLOSED; ELS CSM SEP, BAT A, BAT B are CLOSED. Okay, ELS LOGIC is ON; ELS AUTO is ON. Okay, Houston, you all set for the SECS LOGIC?
302:18:53	CC	That's affirmative.
302:18:56	Evans	Okay, number 1 is ON. SECS LOGIC number 2 is ON.
302:19:13	CC	America, we're GO for PYRO ARM.
302:19:16	Evans	Okay, that sounds good. We're go for PYRO ARM. Okay, SECS LOGIC number 2 is coming OFF; SECS LOGIC number 1 is OFF. ARM BAT B is OPEN; ARM BAT A is OPEN; ELS LOGIC is OFF; ELS is to MANUAL. Okay, the old SEP breakers are OPEN.
302:19:51	CC	Roger. God show, Ron.
302:19:53	Evans	Okay, we've got her.
302:22:08	Cernan	Hello, Houston; this is America. We are stowed for reentry.
302:22:15	CC	Roger.
302:22:57	Cernan	And, Bob, as a note of interest, the spacecraft is dry. Both the forward hatch, the tunnel, and the tunnel hatch.
302:23:07	CC	Roger. We got that.
302:35:15	Evans	Okay, Houston, this is America. We'll whip into a P52 here.
302:35:21	CC	Roger. We're watching it.
302:36:50	Evans	There goes the Earth. Man, it was just a sliver.
302:36:50	Evans	Houston, you'd be happy to know that the Moon, now, has finally gotten back to its normal size for us.
302:36:50	CC	Roger.
302:41:07	Evans	Well, that's not 5 balls, but that's not a bad way to end, I guess. You know, I never noticed it before, but I'm looking next to the - to the Earth, right now. And, of course, that makes it a kind of bluish reflection inside the - the sextant, and you can't see the reticle brightness at all. It just - you know, it just comes through as a black - black line in there. And there are two lines. You know, I've got two - One of them must be - there are two - two reticles - no, there are two reticles. One's in focus, but the other one isn't.
302:41:07	CC	Roger, Ron. We can accept the NOUN 05.
302:41:52	Evans	(Laughter) Okay. There we go. There's NOUN 93.
302:41:52	CC	Then you can torque those, Ron.
302:41:52	Evans	Okay, we'll torque at 45 - 42:15.
302:41:52	Evans	Okay, Houston. We're going to maneuver to the horizon check attitude now.
302:43:06	CC	Roger, Ron.
302:43:06	Cernan	Houston, America. I'll go OMNI Delta now.
302:43:06	CC	Roger. We concur.
302:43:06	Evans	Got the commander's ALARM.
302:43:06	CC	Roger. Copy.
302:49:36	Cernan	Houston, America. The horizon star check is GO.
302:49:41	CC	Roger. Good word.
303:03:11	Evans	Okay, it's 10 seconds. Looks good - indicator light. This one. That always comes on on TEST 1, I don't know - .05 G light always comes on TEST 1. Okay? And still got two of them left. Let's try number 2, I guess. Never pass up a gas station, if you really need it. Okay, TEST 2.
303:04:08	Evans	Okay, it's out.
303:04:08	Evans	Okay? There we go -
303:04:30	Evans	MARK it.
303:04:40	Evans	MARK it. Okay, 10-second timer works. Always comes out.
303:04:40	Evans	Okay, we got 58, is that in there? Okay; wait a minute. Okay, here we go. There goes zip. TESTs are going down. Stops at 9gs going across, counting down.
303:05:43	Evans	MARK it. Okay, it stopped at 0.0. Stopped right at the old black line there. That's good. Okay, .05 G light on. Okay, 10 seconds later or so, here we go.
303:06:10	Evans	Yes, it's going out. It stopped at 0-2. It advanced 10 seconds and the light came on. Okay; let's see, we can go to 37K. Hey, Houston, let me doublecheck on this. The .05 G light was on, in EMS TEST 1, when I went to NORMAL. And it seems to me like that's normal but it may not be. Could we check on that for sure.
303:06:10	CC	Okay, we're checking on that.
303:06:10	Evans	Can - press on with the activation here.
303:07:25	Cernan	Houston, we're pressing on with the primary water evap activation at this time.
303:07:25	CC	Stand by 1. It's affirmative - to Ron - that he can press on with EMS jun - TEST.
303:07:25	Evans	Okay; thank you much.
303:07:25	CC	And to Gene, on those water boilers, that's affirmative.
303:07:25	Cernan	Okay; fi ne.
303:07:49	Evans	Okay, nonexit pattern, that's what we want. See the line on 37K. Okay; we go to RANGE SET - Flick! There it goes, up to the top. Okay, we're in RANGE SET, and we'll stand by now.
303:08:25	Cernan	Houston, we're going to activate the secondary.
303:08:25	CC	You are GO on the secondary.
303:08:25	Cernan	Okay.
303:08:25	CC	Okay, Ron, as you're going through the test, just a word on that EMS TEST 1. It is not normal for the zero - .05 G light to be on in ENTRY TEST mode 1. It is probably a result of that drifting accelerometer. It's - we'll have to just wait and see what the rest of the test looks like.
303:08:25	Evans	Okay; the rest of the test was GO.
303:08:25	CC	Okay. Again, it's probably the result of that drifting accelerometer, and possibly under the high-g load of entry, it will be no problem at all. It's all probably in the - drifting in the -in the mud.
303:08:25	Evans	Okay. Mighty fine.
303:08:25	CC	And, America, if you can give us ACCEPT, we've got a vector for you.
303:09:44	Evans	Okay; you have ACCEPT.
303:10:18	Cernan	Okay, Houston; both evaporators are up.
303:10:18	Evans	Well, I just -
303:11:22	Cernan	Hello, Houston; on the preheat, we've got 5 Charlie, at 38.
303:11:22	CC	We copy that. And we're running the cal curve.
303:11:22	Cernan	And we've got 6 - Okay, and we've got 6 Bravo, at 385-
303:11:22	CC	America, the computer is yours.
303:12:02	Evans	Okay, we're going to BLOCK.
303:12:02	CC	America, Houston. We looked through the cal curve, and we recommend no preheat on the RCS.
303:12:02	Evans	Roger, Houston. I understand. No RCS preheat -command module RCS preheat.
303:12:02	CC	That's affirmative.
303:15:13	CC	America, Houston. Somebody standing by on the VHF? We'd like to get the VHF voice check out of the way, if that's possible.
303:15:13	Cernan	Okay; go ahead.
303:15:13	CC	Stand by. We'll reconfigure here.
303:16:45	CC	America, Houston. We'd like to verify that the left antenna is selected, and that we are in VHF SIMPLEX Alfa.
303:16:45	CC	America, Houston. America, Houston.
303:16:45	Evans	I'll get them on S-band. Houston, this is America. Go' ahead on S-band.
303:16:45	CC	Roger. Did you get my last call? We'd like to verify, in left antenna, and in SIMPLEX Alfa? And we'll give you VHF check here shortly.
303:16:45	Evans	Affirmative. Maybe that was feedthrough, but we were on - Jack was on - VHF, called you back on VHF. Must have been S-band feedthrough, though. But verified; we're antenna left and VHF SIMPLEX Alfa.
303:16:45	CC	Roger, Ron, and we are going to simul. I understand Jack is reading us on the VHF.
303:16:45	Evans	Yes, that's affirm. And he was retransmitting on VHF; evidently, you weren't reading our VHF.
303:16:45	CC	Roger. It's normal to have VHF up-link prior to receiving VHF down-link. We're satisfied here.
303:16:45	Evans	Okay. Mighty fine.
303:19:20	CC	And, Ron, just for clarification, we will make another VHF check when you get a little closer, so we can get a down-link signal on you.
303:19:20	Evans	Oh, okay, real well.
303:19:20	Cernan	Hello, Houston. We have a GO on the pyro bats, they're both 37, we're picking the checklist up on the top of 1-6.
303:19:20	CC	Roger. We understand.
303:20:50	Evans	Okay. On Panel 8. Okay, DIRECT ULLAGE are OPEN. COMMAND MODULE HEATERS are OPEN. Okay, DOCKING PROBES are OPEN - Whoops, stand by, stand by - let's CLOSE the RCS LOGIC, then. RCS LOGIC - MAIN A, MAIN B are going CLOSED. Okay, DOCKING PROBES are OPEN; SPS PITCH - and YAW - We'll open two more -that leaves four of them OPEN; three FLOAT BAGS are OPEN; and SECS, ARM are OPEN; EDS BATs are OPEN; ELS CSM SEPs are OPEN; POSTLANDING VENT is OPEN. Okay, they're all - all the others are CLOSED.
303:20:50	Evans	GDC seems pretty good, let's recheck it here. Okay, GDC is realigned.
303:20:50	Cernan	Okay, Houston, if you're ready, we're going to pick up the command module RCS activation.
303:20:50	CC	Roger. We're standing by.
303:22:57	Evans	Okay, SECS ARM circuit breakers, two of them, are going CLOSED. Okay, Houston, ready for the LOGIC ARM.
303:22:57	CC	You're GO for LOGIC.
303:23:08	Evans	Okay. LOGIC 1, LOGIC 2.
303:23:08	CC	America, you're GO for PYRO ARM.
303:23:25	Evans	Okay, GO for PYRO ARM. PYRO ARM A, PYRO ARM B.
303:23:25	Evans	Okay.
303:23:25	Cernan	Okay, Houston, coming up on the command module RCS pressure. 3, 2, 1 -
303:23:44	Cernan	MARK it. And we got it.
303:23:44	Evans	Boy, you sure can hear it flow in somewhere.
303:23:44	CC	America, Houston. We've got two good rings.
303:23:44	Cernan	Very good, Houston; they're looking good onboard.
303:24:23	Evans	Okay; SAFE the PYROs.
303:24:23	CC	Okay, America; Houston. I've got a short update on your Entry Checklist.
303:24:23	Cernan	Go ahead.
303:24:23	CC	Over on page 2-4 of the Entry Checklist, middle of the page, we would like to delete, "EMS MODE to NORMAL" at that point. "EMS MODE to NORMAL," delete. We'd like to move it over on the 2-5 at 0.05 G time. Put "EMS MODE - NORMAL."
303:24:23	Cernan	Okay; we'll get the EMS NORMAL at 0.05 G.
303:24:23	CC	Roger. We have no update on the entry pad. You are nominal at this time. I do have your weather information and your ship recovery call signs. Over.
303:24:23	CC	Okay; generally, the weather is good. It's 3000 foot, scattered, 10-miles visibility. Wind is 130 at 10; wave heights, 2 to 3 feet. Altimeter, 2994. The altimeter 2994 will give you a minus 17-foot DELTA-H which means, Gene, that when the altimeter says zero, you'll still be 17 feet in the air. The closest recovery forces, the prime recovery ship is the Tico, call sign "Tico. Closest recovery will be - aircraft will be a helicopter, call sign "Recovery," and a backup will be call sign "Swim," and they'll be on scene at splash. In case of a constant-g entry for any reason, the aircraft call sign is Samoa. Rescue 1 will be downrange and in the vicinity of the constant-g point. Over.
303:24:23	Cernan	Okay, we got Tico. And the prime recovery ship -prime chopper - is Recovery. The backup is Swim, and we've got Rescue 1 Samoa, downrange.
303:24:23	CC	I guess that's uprange, depending on how you look at it, Gene.
303:24:23	Cernan	(Laughter) Okay.
303:24:23	CC	Geno, with weather like that, even a Navy captain like you should make a good landing.
303:24:23	Cernan	We'll hang in there, T. P. You know nobody likes a pitching deck, not even a Navy captain.
303:24:23	CC	Roger.
303:28:09	Cernan	Houston, we'll be back with you and pick it up at 45.
303:28:09	CC	Roger.
303:28:09	Cernan	America, Houston. We'll do our best to put it all together and come right down the stack, like you got me.
303:28:09	CC	America, Houston. We would like Jack to give us a call on VHF Alfa. We are reading good signal strength down-link at this time, and we'd like to get a signal strength up-1ink with him at this time, also. Check, please.
303:28:09	Schmitt	Okay, this is the LMP on VHF. How do you read? 1, 2, 3, 4, 3, 2, 1. Over.
303:28:09	CC	Roger, LMP. You're coming through a little bit scratchy but sounds - we can read you. You're sounding good. How me on VHF?
303:28:09	Schmitt	You're loud and clear, Bob. Loud and clear.
303:28:09	CC	Okay; good VHF check.
303:32:31	CC	America, Houston.
303:32:31	Cernan	Go ahead.
303:32:31	CC	Just a note of amplification on our change on 2-5 moving the EMS MODE NORMAL at .05 G time. If the .05 G light does not come on at .05 G time when you go to NORMAL there, plus 3 seconds, go to the normal backup procedures to start the EMS.
303:32:31	Evans	Okay; I understand that, Bob. Thank you.
303:32:31	CC	Okay, Ron; just a little reminder.
303:32:31	Evans	Mighty fine.
303:33:23	Schmitt	TAPE RECORDER is REWIND.
303:34:52	Evans	Okay, we're in RANGE SET. Okay, crank in 1049.9.
303:35:18	PAO	This is Apollo Control 43 minutes now to entry into the atmosphere. Altitude 6,868. Velocity 20,768 feet per second -
303:35:30	Evans	Okay, crank in 1044.9. Okay, inertial velocity, set. Slew to 36,172.
303:36:09	PAO	Some of the post atmospheric entry events are - begin blackout 17 seconds after entry end blackout 3 minutes, 37 seconds; Drogue parachute deploy 7 minutes, 39 seconds; main parachute deployment 8 minutes, 26 seconds; Landing 13 minutes, 17 seconds after entry.
303:36:40	Evans	Okay, we got 36,172. Set. Okay, velocity at .05 G - Okay, let's see - ENTRY and STANDBY. Okay? FDAI SOURCE to ATT SET. ATT SET to GDC. EMS ROLL is ON. Okay, turning the old YAW. And it's 45 degrees to the right. And 45 degrees to the left. Okay; RSI is zero. EMS ROLL is OFF. Okay, let's align the old GDC again.
303:37:46	Cernan	Houston, America. The EMS is initialized; the RSI is aligned; and we're ready to pick up the command module RCS checks.
303:37:54	CC	Roger. We're standing by, Gene.
303:38:05	Evans	Okay; GDC is aligned to the IMU. Okay? Verify A/C ROLL is OFF. RCS LOGIC, two circuit breakers are CLOSED. Okay, SCS. MINIMUM IMPULSE.
303:38:46	Cernan	Okay, Houston, we're going to transfer the command module.
303:38:49	Evans	Okay. Just a little bitty blunk. Okay, the ring 1 is going OFF. Okay; we're operating on ring 2. Ring 2 is all MAIN B. You can hear it go click, click. Click, click, okay. (Laughter) Happy with ring 2. Okay, 1 is going up to ON; 2 is coming OFF Okay, ring 1 is all MAIN A. Okay. Yes, you can see it, too, can't you? Okay, it works. Okay, ring 2 is going back to MAIN B. 1 is MAIN A; ring 2 is MAIN B. Okay? Okay. Okay, we still got control of the service module.
303:40:34	Cernan	Okay, Houston, the RCS check looks good onboard.
303:40:38	CC	Roger, America; and it looked great down here.
303:40:41	Evans	CMC in AUTO. Yes, clock's running to RRT. Yes, it is.
303:41:07	Cernan	Okay, Houston; America. We're on top of 2-2. We're going to stand by for 30 minutes.
303:41:14	CC	Roger. We're following you right on the line.
303:41:20	Evans	...
303:41:44	Evans	Twenty minutes to horizon check time. Okay, I'll get hack into - what is it - 268? That's good. Yes.
303:42:52	Evans	Okay, 29 seconds until .05 G, Vcirc is 02:09. Drogue, 07:39. Okay. And no .05 G light, P64 is running. We'll go to BACKUP, VHF RANGING at .05 G plus 3 seconds. Yes. We'll get the NORMAL first, that's the main thing; these things can come later. And then we'll get EMS ROLL on .05 G. Yes, let's see, the third one is really not going to -
303:44:05	PAO	This is Apollo Control. Apollo 17 spacecraft now 5,381 nautical miles and approaching ever faster to Mother Earth. 22,566 feet per second at the current time.
303:44:06	Evans	Yes, these are plus 3 seconds - .05 G time is 29 seconds plus 3 - plus 5 - and 29 plus 5. The way I understand it, anyhow, from what the ground said, is that the .05 G light will probably come on as soon as you go to NORMAL, anyhow. Yes. Yes
303:44:55	Evans	Slide sideways - you can just slide your foot in and out of the thing.
303:45:15	Evans	I wonder what 6-1/2 g's is going to feel like? That half a g on TEI (laughter) felt like I was in the back of the couch.
303:45:57	Evans	Thirty-three minutes. Yes, it will. Yes, it's right on. When is - begin blackout? And - Okay. Blackout 17 seconds. Okay. That's comm blackout, by the way. (Laughter)
303:46:52	Evans	Okay, getting ready for the BUS TIEs.
303:46:56	Cernan	Okay, Houston, BUS TIEs are coming ON.
303:47:00	CC	Roger, America.
303:47:06	Cernan	A/C is ON and verified, and B/C is ON and verified
303:47:27	CC	America, Houston. The batteries are online, and they look good to us.
303:47:32	Schmitt	Okay, and TAPE RECORDER'S ON here.
303:47:52	Evans	Okay.
303:48:44	Evans	Okay. Let's start sep - sep checklist here.
303:48:46	Cernan	Okay, Houston. We're pressing ahead here, about 5 minutes early.
303:48:51	CC	Roger.
303:48:55	Evans	Okay. ELS CSM SEP, BAT A. BAT B - CLOSED. Yes. Okay. I'll BYPASS the old primary RADIATORS. Okay, REPRESS PACKAGE valves going ON - O N. Okay. We'll cut off the service module's supply of oxygen. Okay. SURGE TANK is verified ON. Okay. PRESSURE RELIEF valves are verified NORMAL. Okay. We're verified in RCS COMMAND. Okay, SECONDARY FUEL is As, Bs, Cs, and Ds. All OPEN. VHF is off. HIGH GAIN.
303:50:38	Schmitt	Houston, loads appear to be balanced on main A, main B, fuel cells.
303:50:45	CC	Roger, Jack. We copy that.
303:51:31	Evans	Okay. Don't see anything yet.
303:51:33	Cernan	Houston, step 5 on 2-2 is complete.
303:51:38	CC	Roger, America.
303:51:40	Cernan	Or parentheses 5; I guess it is.
303:51:51	Evans	Okay.
303:53:50	CC	America, Houston. You may be interested. We've just taken another look at your last batch of data, and it confirms your pad. You are absolutely nominal - right on the pad.
303:54:03	Cernan	That's good news, Robert. Thank you.
303:54:05	Evans	Outstanding.
303:54:09	CC	We aim to please.
303:54:12	Cernan	Okay, and we're going to keep it nominal.
303:54:26	PAO	The velocity now is increased to 25,371 feet per second. The next major event will be separation of the service module and the SIM bay and all the scientific gear that has fed data down to the Earth for the past 12 1/2 days. 23 minutes now away from entry. We're standing by as communications continue to be quite good on the OMNI antennas through the Hawaii station. 36 minutes away from landing. At 303:55, this is Apollo Control standing by.
303:58:22	Evans	That's okay. We'll go in a little bit early.
303:59:19	Evans	Yes, they look pretty good. Hey, you can go ahead and go on through there and then I'll - RATE COMMAND. DEADBAND, MIN; V RATE to LOW - RATE - HALF - ya, okay, RATE to HIGH - Yes, that's better - DEADBAND MIN; RATE to HIGH. SCS. Oh, 1 minute. Okay. I doubt if we'll see it - we might, though.
304:00:14	Evans	Think you will? Yes, I don't know (laughter). I've got the Sun shining right in my left window here, so -
304:01:38	Evans	I don't see anything. Do you see anything, Jack? (Laughter) I don't either. Did it?
304:01:54	Evans	Yes, see I got too much shining in - light - sun shining in on there - glaring on the window. That's good, as long as it's there, somewhere. Oh, I see it! it's off to the left! Oh, it's out the left window (laughter). Okay, Yes. That's a dark horizon, though.
304:02:11	Cernan	Okay, Houston. We've got the horizon, now. We're going out of plane, now.
304:02:15	CC	Roger.
304:02:32	Evans	Yes - see - see - You can see it better when you're out of plane. We must be just seeing the horn. Yes, it's the airglow, but see that's the horn that's been - we've been seeing all the time that's off to our left.
304:02:52	Evans	Yes, verify BYPASS.
304:02:56	Evans	Okay, and stand by. Hey, Jack, when I yaw down here, can you get a picture?
304:03:16	Evans	Okay, BMAGs, ATT l/RATE 2; RATE COMMAND; SCS. DEADBAND MIN; RATE to HIGH. COMMAND MODULE RCS LOGIC is ON. SECS LOGIC verified ON. Okay. Here come the pyros - PYRO A, PYRO B.
304:03:40	Cernan	Okay, Houston. On ray mark - I'm going to hit the CM/SM SEP.
304:03:44	CC	Roger.
304:03:46	Cernan	3, 2, 1 -
304:03:50	Cernan	MARK.
304:03:51	Cernan	We got it.
304:03:51	Evans	Oh, ho! Did we get it! That thing really bangs, doesn't it?
304:04:01	Cernan	Looks like we got a good separation, Houston.
304:04:04	CC	Roger.
304:04:06	Evans	Okay; MINIMUM IMPULSE. RATE 2.
304:04:12	CC	We're going to be handing over sites in 1 minute. There'll be a slight break of comm here.
304:04:17	Evans	Okay.
304:04:20	CC	We'd like you to go to OMNI Charlie.
304:04:27	Evans	OMNI Charlie.
304:04:33	Evans	Okay. We're yawing back to zero.
304:04:47	Evans	(Laughter) We've got junk all over the place (laughter). Okay, yes, wait a minute.
304:04:57	PAO	Altitude 1781 miles. Velocity 29,486 feet per second. 13 minutes away from entry, 26 from landing.
304:05:07	Evans	I'm going to take a look at the horizon here first. ENTRY; STANDBY; 36 170 1044. Okay. We're MINIMUM IMPULSE, RATE 2, SCS, DIRECTS are ON; AC, DC.
304:05:58	Evans	Yes, you can go ahead. I'm SCS, anyhow. It will be.
304:06:31	Evans	You know the sound of the jet firing is a lot louder than what we usually have the simulator set for.
304:06:51	Evans	Okay. We're back to the dark horizon again, but we'll pitch her on down. On? Okay, there you go. Got everything up.
304:07:19	PAO	Flight director, Neil Hutchinson, here in the control center is taking a final check amont the flight controllers for reentry, an inevitable event in any case. 304:07 Ground Elapsed Time, 11 minutes away from entry, 24 minutes away from splashdown. Apollo Control standing by.
304:07:54	Evans	Okay. Okay, 4,153 miles to go. Velocity is 31,253 feet per second, increasing.
304:08:22	Cernan	Okay, Houston. We're at 63, and we're just standing by for .05 G.
304:08:27	CC	Roger, America. You're looking great. We've got a TV picture of the weather in the recovery area, and the ship Ticonderoga, and it's looking great.
304:08:58	Evans	Probably warmup afterwhile, I bet. Well, this thing kind of wants to - wants to yaw left all the time.
304:09:40	CC	America, at 9 minutes prior to entry interface here, you're looking great down here.
304:09:46	Cernan	Okay, Bob. We're looking good onboard and standing by for .05 G.
304:10:14	Evans	(Laughter)
304:10:38	Evans	(Laughter)
304:10:45	Schmitt	Houston, be advised that hydrogen tanks 1 and 2 still seem to be with us. At least I get gage readings - plus 200 psi.
304:10:55	CC	Roger. We'll run that one through EECOM.
304:10:59	Evans	(Laughter)
304:11:10	Evans	Well, that'll save you - save the 5/5 for a minute. DIRECTS are MAIN A and MAIN B? Both controllers are on? Think they got AC1. Should be 153, I think, isn't it? Here it is, right here. Yes, no more eating upside down. I was just getting used to that. It's a lot of fun. Getting use to it? I was use to it after the second day - first day. You know the - the - it wants to trim itself; pitch up too. I got to keep blapping the right yaw - and I got to keep pitching down, to make it go down. See the - the rate just decreases
304:12:23	Evans	Two minutes until moonset. I don't even see a Moon. There it is up there. Can you see it, Jack? it's out of window 3. It should be off to your right. You might be able to see it. That's the way the Moon looked about 13 - 14 days ago, isn't it? Small one like that.
304:13:19	Evans	Try the pressures on both rings? They still okay? Okay.
304:13:41	Evans	Five minutes to RRT.
304:14:03	Evans	304:16 on my card. What -
304:14:33	Evans	Yes, it's got a little bit of a cross - coupling on it. We might be picking up C-55 - might be picking up a few rates, anyhow. Probably not yet. Usually about 59.
304:15:01	R-l	... Loud and clear, now. Nothing coming through on that transmitter.
304:15:11	Evans	Voice disappeared -
304:15:22	Evans	Couldn't see a star out there if you had to. There's all kinds of little white particles floating around out there from the jets.
304:15:33	PAO	Switching communications now, from the Hawaii tracking station, through the Apollo range instrumented aircraft in the Pacific.
304:15:47	Evans	Pitch is good.
304:15:49	R-l	Four ... you're coming through now on the 18, loud and clear.
304:15:53	R-2	Roger. Stand by.
304:16:23	Evans	Houston, America. Do you still read?
304:16:26	CC	America, Houston. Read you loud and clear. We're going out through ARIA.
304:16:31	Evans	Okay.
304:16:33	Cernan	And, Houston, mode set was on time.
304:16:35	CC	Roger.
304:16:38	Cernan	And we're coming up on 2 minutes from RRT, and we're going for it.
304:16:43	CC	Roger, America. You're looking great.
304:16:46	Evans	There's the horizon.
304:16:48	Cernan	Got the horizon, now.
304:17:17	Evans	... We're GO to CM.
304:17:25	Evans	Pressure's looking good. We got RATE COMMAND to go yet. And I'll get that? RATE 2 on the BMAGs.
304:17:35	Evans	Okay. You got a minute. 400,000 feet.
304:17:44	Schmitt	... really moving, isn't it.
304:17:46	Evans	Look at that ... go by.
304:17:53	Schmitt	Okay. Needle's off the peg now. It's looking good.
304:18:11	Evans	Jack, can you take a picture of that, too? Get a picture of that horizon - -
304:18:14	Cernan	Is that pointing at the horizon?
304:18:16	Evans	Okay. No. That's all right; I'll get it. That's all right; I'm sorry.
304:18:32	Cernan	Houston, we're 5 seconds from RRT.
304:18:37	CC	Roger, America.
304:18:40	Cernan	RRT.
304:18:44	Evans	Okay. You want to go to RATE COMMAND?
304:18:53	Evans	Okay. .05 G is 29.
304:18:57	Cernan	We have a ...
304:19:01	PAO	And the beginning of blackout was at the predicted time of approximately 17 seconds after entry interface into the atmosphere - 400,000 feet or approximately 85 miles above the Earth. Come out of blackout in a total time of about 3 minutes 27 seconds. Following reappearance, at least from a communications standpoint, of the spacecraft. The drogue parachutes, which are 16 1/2 foot daimeter, two of them, will be deployed by a mortar - pyrotechnic device at 23,000 feet above the surface. The main parachutes, which consist of three 83 1/2 foot diameter ring sail parachutes, will be pulled out by pilot parachutes - small pilot parachutes at an altitude of 10 1/2 thousand feet. The spacecraft will splash down at approximately 22 miles per hour with 3 fully inflated parachutes. Meanwhile, the crew is using the entry monitor system to steer for the desired aiming point which is some 1,044 miles down range from the actual entry point into the atmosphere. The Entry Monitor System - or EMS as it's referred to, gives a display to the crew which gives them the roll angle to steer to the desired track downrange - to hit the aiming point. Now the position of the recovery ship, Tyconderoga, may or may not be near the aiming point. The accuracy of the landing is dependent on the distance from the aiming point, not from where the ship is at the time. Should be coming out of blackout, as mentioned earlier, at 3 minutes 37 seconds into entry. Less than a minute away and hopefully we will have confirmation from the crew on drogue deployment, and main parachute deployment, assuming that communications through the Apollo range instrumented aircraft called ARIA is good. The Tico - the Ticonderoga, prime recovery ship has reported that they have radar contact with the spacecraft. Probably a skin track of the spacecraft with the ship's radar. We've re-entered blackout - reappeared from blackout, I should say. We're waiting for a call from the space - from the CAPCOM.
304:22:52	Evans	Roll right 50 - still at 3 g's.
304:22:58	Cernan	Okay.
304:22:58	Evans	... Okay. 3 gs. Got a potential of 130 - got a 130 range.
304:23:10	Evans	Looking good - 3 g's. Right on.
304:23:11	Cernan	Okay. Roll right 40.
304:23:13	Evans	Okay, right 40.
304:23:14	Cernan	Okay, right -
304:23:16	Evans	Right 45.
304:23:18	Cernan	Okay - -
304:23:20	Evans	Okay, the g is good - move left about 2.8.
304:23:23	Cernan	Okay - -
304:23:26	Evans	There's reverse. Okay. Over the top.
304:23:30	Evans	Okay. It's still about 2.9 g's. Took some more pieces off the outside of the spacecraft. Hey, it didn't stay on there very long. Okay.
304:23:42	Evans	Up ... About 2.8 g's here. Got a potential of 65, 65. 8,000 feet a second.
304:24:04	Evans	That's about 40 - that's right. Yes, that's right. Thirty feet.
304:24:08	Cernan	Okay, roll.
304:24:09	Evans	Okay. ... 3.1 g's. Okay. There she goes over the - -
304:24:15	PAO	Drogue deployment in two minutes. Mark.
304:24:15	Evans	- that ought to relax the g's a little bit. Hey, that's good - beautiful computer.
304:24:21	Evans	Okay, about 3.1 g's. We're about 4500 feet a second. ... roll, 22 miles - 4000 feet a second, zero plus 88 degrees. Okay. That's good. Okay, looking good. Okay. We ought to be in there. Roll left, okay - about - about 2.2 g's. Okay. It feels like there's a mag around here. Okay. Okay. Roll that baby - still good. Okay. 2 g's. Steam pressure's pegged - Okay. is that on time? Pressure's up 39 - okay. Okay, first ... 67. ... at 67. Put 1.8, it says, okay. Call it out.
304:24:35	Cernan	Hello, Houston. This is America. We're showing ... 1.8 short.
304:25:42	Evans	ARM the PYROs. CABIN PRESSURE to BOOST.
304:25:44	Cernan	This is America. We're showing 1.8 miles short. 17.86 by minus 167.5.
304:25:52	Evans	They're ARMed. We're stable. Looking good. Coming down like a son-of-a-buck. Man, oh, man! Okay, there's 35K. Stand by for ELS LOGIC, right? Okay? There goes all the paper off the spacecraft. Okay, that's 30K. ELS to AUTO - LOGIC - and then AUTO. Okay, stand by for the apex. And it bumps. Okay, there we go!
304:26:22	Evans	There goes the drogues. Okay, back them up. Hey, come here, Jack. What? Okay ... to go. Man, oh, man! - Hey, it really vibrates! Okay.
304:26:22	Cernan	Okay, Houston; America in the blind - we got the mains - we got the drogues, we got the drogues. Okay, there's 12, 13K. Okay. 12K.
304:27:14	Cernan	Mains at 11K. Mains ... -
304:27:18	Schmitt	There's the mains. Okay. They're reefing.
304:27:39	Cernan	Bearing 350.
304:27:46	PAO	A great deal of cheering and clapping here in Mission Control as the large Eidophor television projector shows the spacecraft hanging on three good main parachutes.
304:27:47	Cernan	Through 8000 feet.
304:27:49	Cernan	... about 1 mile short.
304:28:22	Cernan	Okay, Recovery, this is America. We've got three good mains; we're at 6500 feet.
304:28:39	R-l	Zero, zero at 3.5. Apollo 17, this is Recovery. Good morning.
304:28:46	Cernan	Hello, Recovery; it's a beautiful day! We're out of 610; we've got three good mains.
304:28:51	R-l	This is Recovery. Have a visual on you, and they're blooming nicely.
304:28:55	PAO	Three minutes from splash.
304:28:57	Cernan	Outstanding! And all is well onboard, all is well onboard.
304:29:04	R-l	Wonderful.
304:29:06	Cernan	You sound good down there.
304:29:08	R-l	Waiting for you.
304:29:18	R-l	One hundred, zero, zero. Our positive, 280 at 11.
304:29:28	R-l	I have visual, bearing 243.
304:29:35	Cernan	Hello, Recovery, this is America. We're out of 4000 feet now, and all is well.
304:30:04	R-l	... Tico.
304:30:05	Cernan	Go ahead.
304:30:06	R-l	Any report on computer read-outs. Over?
304:30:08	Cernan	Not yet.
304:30:10	R-l	... standing by ... feet up.
304:30:13	Cernan	... Houston, DSKY shows minus 1.3. Lat is minus 17.88; long is minus 166.11.
304:30:46	Cernan	Hello, Recovery; America, is through 2000 feet.
304:30:49	R-l	Recovery, Roger.
304:30:51	P-l	This is Photo. ... the command module as it descends . Their three main parachutes are fully deployed.
304:30:54	PAO	1 minute MARK to landing. Predicted landing time.
304:31:06	Cernan	America's out of 1500 feet.
304:31:22	P-l	The parachutes are fully deployed. The Command Module is descending, and Photo is circling as it descends.
304:31:31	Cernan	And America is now out of 800 feet.
304:31:47	P-l	Command Module is descending, stand by for splashdown.
304:31:50	Cernan	America's at 300 feet.
304:31:59	P-l	SPLASH.
304:32:00	Cernan	MARK.
304:32:08	Schmitt	Recovery, America stable 1 and the crew is go.
304:32:13	PAO	A great deal of cheering is going on here in control center, as the splashdown was watched in real time from Recovery Helicoptor. And MARK the time at 304:31, Ground Elapsed Time even.
304:32:28	Schmitt	Smarts doesn't it.
304:32:31	RECOV	Command Module is stable 1, the sea state is mild. The 3 main parachutes are arrayed around the Command Module at approximately 120 degrees apart.
304:32:42	Schmitt	Okay.
304:32:45	RECOV	(Garble).
304:33:03	Schmitt	It's just us.
304:33:07	Schmitt	Okay,(garble) looks like we've had a - this is our MARK.
304:33:10	Schmitt	(garble)
304:33:14	Schmitt	Oh, that.
304:33:15	Schmitt	(Laughter) Have a little water.
304:33:24	RECOV	Helo S approaching the Command Module, photo is approaching to the southern side.
304:33:41	Schmitt	There's the Chopper, right out here.
304:33:44	RECOV	Helo S approaching the Command Module to deploy the first of the ELS swimmers.
304:33:48	Schmitt	Guys jumped in the water.
304:33:50	RECOV	The first 2 swimmers have been deployed.
304:33:57	RECOV	ELS is approaching their main parachutes.
304:34:02	RECOV	The second ELS swimmers have been deployed.
304:34:09	Schmitt	(Laughter)
304:34:13	RECOV	Two sets of ELS swimmers have been deployed. Helo S is coming around for a third pass on the third main parachute.
304:34:25	Schmitt	Beautiful. (Laughter)
304:34:38	Schmitt	(garble) things closed, I need some help.
304:34:42	Schmitt	(garble)
304:34:47	Schmitt	(garble) won't they.
304:34:47	Schmitt	(garble)
304:34:50	RECOV	Helo S is commencing an approach to drop the third set of ELS swimmers. Helo S is approaching the Command Module on the starboard side. Photo is hovering alongside to the right.
304:35:06	RECOV	Recovery is waiting downwind.
304:35:08	Schmitt	(garble)
304:35:14	Schmitt	(garble) America alpha
304:35:25	RECOV	This is photo at 3-1/2 miles.
304:35:28	Schmitt	3.6?
304:35:29	CC	3.5.
304:35:36	SPKR	(garble)
304:35:39	RECOV	Yes. You're 3-1/2 miles.
304:35:42	Schmitt	Okay, thank you. I guess we're going to have to argue with the captain whether he was on station or we were.
304:35:47	SPKR	You both were - compromise.
304:35:54	P-1	And the third set of ELS swimmers have been deployed.
304:35:57	Schmitt	Okay, we'll have to meet them at the hatch.
304:36:02	RECOV	And the main parachutes are completely clear of the Command Module.
304:36:05	Schmitt	Oh, (garble)
304:36:17	RECOV	Helo S is hovering near the Command Module.
304:36:21	Schmitt	(garble) pull back now.
304:36:34	SPKR	(garble) keep cranking that thing, keep cranking.
304:36:37	SPKR	(garble)
304:36:44	RECOV	The ELS swimmers are deploying two sets of 1 member rafts.
304:37:01	Schmitt	I ought to be doing something, right?
304:37:06	RECOV	The Helo S is approaching with one of the sets of ELS swimmers to deploy the rafts.
304:37:14	SPKR	Very good. (garble)
304:37:17	Schmitt	You made (garble) right?
304:37:19	Schmitt	Yeah, yeah.
304:37:21	RECOV	Life rafts have been deployed.
304:37:25	Schmitt	Okay. (Laughter) Feels like we've been here a long time.
304:37:32	Schmitt	Good show, beautiful by God.
304:37:34	CC	Second rafts have been deployed by ELS.
304:37:37	Schmitt	Very good. Beautiful (garble).
304:37:44	Schmitt	(garble) get my hand up there.
304:37:48	RECOV	The Command Module is riding very well, main parachutes are completely away from the Command Module.
304:37:55	RECOV	Recovery is -
304:38:16	SPKR	There you are.
304:38:19	Schmitt	(garble).
304:38:25	RECOV	Request you have America secure recovery beacon at this time, over.
304:38:31	P-1	America, this is recovery. Would you be good enough to secure your beacon, please. Stand by for (garble) impossible.
304:38:37	Schmitt	No, I've got ... deployed ...
304:38:45	P-1	No, the transmitter please.
304:38:48	Schmitt	... yeah, the recovery beacon is OFF.
304:38:55	Schmitt	Thank you.
304:38:59	P-1	And the ELS is hovering near the ELS swimmers and raft hovering over the apex cover.
304:39:23	P-1	Recovery is descending and beginning his approach toward the Command Module.
304:39:28	P-1	(Garble)
304:39:29	P-1	Get it, get the hatch opened. Don't bend it too much.
304:39:34	P-1	Recovery is approaching the command module. (Garble) on approach.
304:39:41	P-1	America, you now have (garble).
304:39:45	Schmitt	Roger.
304:40:03	SPKR	And the swimmer is at the command module.
304:40:08	Schmitt	Okay, and the crew is doing fine. We've all got our sea legs. (Laughter)
304:40:14	CC	Roger.
304:40:15	Schmitt	Sure was, thank God.
304:40:18	SPKR	(Garble)
304:40:20	Schmitt	We were only a hundred feet on the gauge. (Laughter) I was going to call a hundred feet and we hit the water. (Garble) run up later.
304:40:39	SPKR	And the swimmer has attached the sea anchor.
304:40:51	Schmitt	(Garble) America.
304:40:54	CC	Go ahead, America.
304:40:56	Schmitt	Okay, in about a minute and a half here we'll go ahead enter our float bag.
304:41:02	CC	(Garble) Recovery right there?
304:41:04	SPKR	And we'll give you a call before we start pumping them up.
304:41:07	CC	Roger.
304:41:17	SPKR	The ELS is (garble) between the command module and photo.
304:41:23	SPKR	And the swimmer has deployed the sea anchor, swinging it out to the end of the attaching cord.
304:41:31	Schmitt	Beautiful trip. Boy ... what a life. (Garble)
304:41:43	SPKR	The ELS has deployed a third set of men out.
304:41:54	Schmitt	(Garble)
304:42:02	SPKR	A swimmer has returned to the command module. The sea anchor has been deployed, and the water is extremely clear, and I can see the sea anchor is deployed properly.
304:42:12	SPKR	(Garble)
304:42:19	PAO	We've had confirmation that the sea anchor has been attached to the spacecraft. Ron Evans still on voice actuated circuit.
304:42:35	SPKR	Recovery descending to 10 feet and approaching the command module, putting on the collar and the swimmers are in the doorway.
304:42:47	SPKR	... CMP. ... somewhere go.
304:42:51	SPKR	Flotation collars have been deployed and we have thumbs-up from the swimmers.
304:42:58	Schmitt	Now.
304:43:02	SPKR	... cleared at this time. Okay.
304:43:10	SPKR	Swimmers are at the command module with the floatation collar.
304:43:14	SPKR	And Recovery, looks like a beautiful day for recovery out there.
304:43:18	RECOV	We ordered it especially for you.
304:43:20	SPKR	Outstanding.
304:43:28	SPKR	The swimmers have positioned the flotation collar on the downward side of the command module. Now, Recovery is hovering downwind and slightly to the left. The three uprighting bags are being inflated. ...
304:43:51	SPKR	Port ... Standby.
304:43:58	SPKR	The last swimmer -
304:44:01	SPKR	- - in the raft, and swimmers hovering and working near the apex cover.
304:44:10	SPKR	... tied up ...
304:44:13	SPKR	The ... is being attached to the Command Module.
304:44:17	SPKR	... should give us a ... time and distance from contact ...
304:44:29	SPKR	And the swimmers are returning to the flotation collar.
304:44:41	SPKR	... warning. Apex cover, apex cover. Presently off your port beam, 200 yards. And, the flotation collar is being deployed around the command module.
304:44:54	SPKR	Is there a drogue blown up out ...
304:45:00	SPKR	... our parachute ...
304:45:10	SPKR	Flotation collar's deployed and it's being attached.
304:45:15	Schmitt	Yep. We're really rolling around in this place. (Laughter)
304:45:22	Schmitt	You bet.
304:45:25	SPKR	Looks lika a ... swimmer ..., and the flotation collar is around the command module, and is being adjusted.
304:45:39	SPKR	... Michael, what's your position?
304:45:42	SPKR	Overhead at this time (garble).
304:45:44	Schmitt	Did you hear that?
304:45:44	Schmitt	Pick 'em up and hook them on to it?
304:46:12	SPKR	And, the flotation collar's attached and the swimmers are checking the flotation collar and adjusting it.
304:46:38	Schmitt	Yeah, that's about it.
304:46:43	SPKR	One uprighting bag appears to have fully inflated, and the other two are still in the process of inflation.
304:46:59	SPKR	The flotation collar is being inflated.
304:47:07	Schmitt	Recovery, this is America. Sounds like those guys are doing a super job out there.
304:47:11	SPKR	Well, you've got the first team here today.
304:47:16	Schmitt	Yeah.
304:47:26	SPKR	All parachutes secure and strapped. Over.
304:47:29	SPKR	Hey, helo's copying. Were you asking me something?
304:47:40	SPKR	Flotation collar has been inflated and the swimmers have climbed on to the flotation collar.
304:47:47	Schmitt	It's just that I'm kind of tired. (Garble)
304:47:52	Schmitt	There. (Laughter)
304:47:54	SPKR	The swimmers are attaching the tie-bolt straps. And, the main parachutes are in the ELS raft. The swimmer is signaling to Recovery for the egress raft.
304:48:14	Schmitt	There's (garble).
304:48:17	SPKR	Recovery is descending and moving towards the command module.
304:48:27	Schmitt	I guess I think I ought to step away with you (garble).
304:48:31	Schmitt	The egress raft has been deployed.
304:48:42	RECOV	And swimmer has reported recovery of the egress cover. The egress raft is at the flotation collar.
304:48:52	Schmitt	Roger.
304:49:04	RECOV	Egress raft is staying attached to the flotation collar.
304:49:12	PAO	Swimmers in the water around the command module who jumped from the Recovery Helicopter. Swim team leader, Lieutenant Jonathan Smart of Belmont Massachusetts, Chief Aircraft Mechanic, Terrence M. Moy of Newport, Rhode island, and Radioman Seaman Roy A. Buehller of Carleton Missouri. Recovery - Recovery Helicopter is piloted by Commander Edward E. Dale, III of South Dartmouth, Massachusetts.
304:49:49	RECOV	GARBLE also.
304:49:53	RECOV	Ticonderoga is in the background at approximately 1/2 mile.
304:49:56	Schmitt	...
304:50:06	RECOV	Two swimmers in the egress raft. They're making final attachment.
304:50:14	PAO	It has been reported that the apex cover of the spacecraft and all three main parachutes have been recovered by the recovery forces on the scene.
304:50:33	RECOV	And the Ticonderoga has launched the motor whale boat.
304:50:39	Schmitt	And a row boat.
304:50:43	RECOV	And the whale boat is enroute to ELS swimmers and the main parachute.
304:50:53	Schmitt	(Laughter) My computer. I'm more concerned with the ... out there. I couldn't see this little dot - all I could see was the top of something.
304:51:08	RECOV	All three swimmers all are in the egress raft.
304:51:14	RECOV	... Recovery swim, the ELS and photo are ... immediate are of the command module.
304:51:21	Schmitt	(Laughter) ...
304:51:47	RECOV	Three swimmers are out in the egress raft, and are attaching it to the flotation collar.
304:51:56	Schmitt	Man they are really working along.
304:52:01	SPKR	The uprighting bags are fully inflated. And the swimmers are signalling the recovery to deploy the drop bag.
304:52:28	Schmitt	Recovery this is America, we're standby for your call on opening the hatch.
304:52:46	Schmitt	Hello, Recovery, America.
304:52:49	RECOV	Go ahead, America.
304:52:50	RECOV	Okay, I'm going to standby for your call on opening the hatch.
304:52:55	Schmitt	Recovery, roger. Trying to get your signal from UTD crewman there.
304:52:59	RECOV	Okay, fine. Thank you. ...
304:53:12	RECOV	... command module ... on the drop bag.
304:53:27	Schmitt	(Laughter).
304:53:38	RECOV	And Recovery is moving in towards the command module, positioning the drop bag at the egress raft.
304:54:21	RECOV	And Recovery is positioning the drop bag - at the egress raft.
304:54:33	RECOV	And the swimmers have the drop bag and they're disconnecting it from the recovery hoist.
304:54:42	Schmitt	Well, I can't believe it (laughing). ...
304:54:50	Schmitt	...
304:55:10	RECOV	Recovery has moved back and the swimmers have the drop bag.
304:55:27	Schmitt	I'm thinking I'll get a black eye this way.
304:55:30	Schmitt	Yep, you sure will.
304:55:32	RECOV	One swimmer on the floatation collar near egress hatch.
304:55:37	Schmitt	(laughter) Hey, hey.
304:55:38	RECOV	And the swimmer has opened the egress hatch.
304:55:42	Schmitt	Got ...
304:55:46	Schmitt	Help us, okay.
304:55:53	RECOV	And the swimmer has passed the drop bag to the astronauts and has reclosed the egress hatch.
304:56:11	PAO	Texas Congressman Olin Teague visiting the control room now, shaking hands with management and flight controllers as we observe the recovery operations on the Eidaphor Television projector in the front of the control room.
304:56:38	RECOV	Swimmers are wading to the egress raft and the astronauts have given the -
304:56:43	PAO	Congressman Teaque has been joined in the control center by Congressman Bob Casey, from the Houston area, who is shaking hands with some of the flight surgeons at the flight surgeon console.
304:57:21	RECOV	Swimmers are in the egress raft, one swimmer is on the flotation collar. The motor whale is at the ELS is approaching the ELS raft. The swimmers have the apex cover aboard their raft. Swimmer is on the flotation collar peering into the command module.
304:58:37	RECOV	GARBLE. Completed and attached and RECOVERY photo ... and ELS hovering in the area of the command module.
304:59:23	RECOV	And the three swimmers are in the egress raft. And command module and swimmers are riding extremely well. The swell is very moderate, maybe 2 feet. 2 to 4 foot swell.
305:00:18	PAO	Flight Director, Neil Hutchinson, has asked every one in the control center to restrain themselves from lighting their splashdown cigars until the crew is on the deck of the recovery ship.
305:00:32	RECOV	A swimmer has opened the hatch slightly and is talking to the astronauts. The swimmer has fully opened the egress hatch. The astronauts have passed a box to the swimmers and the swimmers have placed it in the egress raft. And the first astronaut is exiting the command module. ... is on the floatation collar. The swimmer is inflating the astronaut's life preserver unit. And the first astronaut is in the egress raft. The second astronaut is exiting the command module. The second astronaut's life preserver unit is being inflated. The astronauts are shaking hands with the UDC swimmers. The third astronaut is egressing from the command module. And the third astronaut's life preserver unit has been inflated. And that third astronaut and the UDC swimmer are on the flotation collar and are closing the egress hatch. The egress hatch has been closed and secured. ...
305:08:59	PAO	This is Apollo Control. The control room here is quite full of people. Off shift flight controllers, management people watching the recovery operations in progress on the large television projector at the front of the control room. Waiting for that moment when the crew is safely on the deck of the ship to fire up their traditional splashdown cigars.
305:15:22	SPKR	Land only long enough to drop off several of the photographers, the still photographers and the motion picture photographers from NASA who have been onboard. They will get themselves into position to photograph the ceremony and then the chopper will go back upstairs. Because Sam Drumy - our cameraman - the man who is giving us all thos wonderful shots - the closeup shots of the command module on the water - we want to get back up topside so we can get more pictures of the Ticonderoga during the ceremony. The ceremony, itself, is outlined rather extensively in the instructional sheet and the Astronauts are reading perhaps right now.
305:16:14	PAO	This is Apollo Control here in the Control Center. The Network controller has climbed a tall ladder to hang the final in the Apollo plaques along the upper wall of the Control Center. All the cigars are still unlit, waiting in the mouths of the flight control team, for the actual time the crew is safely on deck of the Ticonderoga. Waiting as the helicopters approach the ship, great deal of joviality under way here in the control center. Hand shaking, best wishes, from management, flight controllers, other people who have been associated with the Apollo Program for the past ten years. Network controller still at the top of his ladder spring loaded to hang the plaque on the wall.
305:21:57	SPKR	Since they are to go below deck and undergo a rather extensive medical - examinations maybe they'd just like to delay that just a little bit.
305:22:08	SPKR	....
305:22:11	SPKR	That was Samoa rescue 1. The airplane that has been up overhead and that was available if any other kind of rescue operation had been indicated, it wasn't. Everybody will start circling back toward this ship, including the radar planes that had been out to assist.
305:22:35	SPKR	And locate on the spacecraft as it came down toward the Pacific. And there will be some celebration on this ship. This evening a party with the astronauts and special guests - but most of the time after they get on the ship they will be spending in the scientific laboratories aboard. The ones that are prepared for the Skylab program that are being used here on the Apollo 17 mission. They won't even get a chance to take a shower for more than an hour. The other thing that they'd probably like to be doing is calling their families at home but there's no time located in the schedule for that. No time allocated for that until 5 o'clock this afternoon. Quick calculation tells us that that will be about 9 o'clock Houston time ladies so they will be calling you at that time. Now 001 and 002 moving in toward the deck of the Ticonderoga. Already the men are prepared to roll out that red carpet. And there's a shot from our photo helicopter. You can see landing on the fantail, 001 helicopter, you can also see 002 as it flies away. It will not be landing now because the recorders turned on and the ceremony will be ready to begin.
305:24:56	PAO	This is Apollo Control with the helicopter safely on the deck. The network controller, Dave Young, will hang the final placque in the Apollo series on the upper wall of the control room here. And this circuit, known up until now as Gemini Control and Apollo Control will reappear as Skylab Control in the spring. This is Apollo Control out at 305:25 Ground Elapsed Time.
305:25:32	SPKR	- as soon as the door is opened. Also in the foreground the bald headed man in the middle of the picture, Dr. Don Stalkin who is a NASA team leader. He will be the first man on the deck to be seen by the astronauts. He will be the man who will step up to greet them, and to remind them again of what they have already been told on the instructional sheet. Watch out for your heads - for Schmitt and Evans. Step down three steps. Wave and smile. And the instruction sheet says follow me. ...
305:26:22	SPKR	.. arriving.
305:26:25	SPKR	The carpet is down. (Music) All three men, one at a time. And now they are out on the deck. The middle man is Evans all right. (Cheer) And they are in proper array as the band strikes up Anchors Aweigh as could be predicted. Cernan in front, Schmitt in the middle. Being greeted by Admiral Butts, by Captain Norman Green and by Air Force General David Jones. Some pretty happy looking astronauts. On the stage that is prepared for them - Captain Green.
305:27:32	GREEN	It gives me great pleasure this morning, to welcome the crew of Apollo 17 back from the Moon to the deck of Ticonderoga. We on Ticonderoga are very proud to be a part of this historic mission. Chaplain John Ecker will offer our prayer to almighty God for the safe return of these three astronauts.
305:28:01	ECKER	The heavens declare your glory oh Lord. The planets, the sun, the moon, and the stars which you set in place, in humble gratitude we thank you for the safe return from your heavens of these pioneers in space. May their achievements contribute to the unity of mankind and peace for all your people in this holy season. Amen.
305:28:30	SPKR	Commander of Manned Space Flight Recovery Forces Pacific. Rear Admiral John L. Butts.
305:28:41	BUTTS	(Applause) Captain Cernan, you and your crew of Apollo 17, all the men of the Recovery Force, all the ships, units and aircrafts, join me in expressing our great pride in your accomplishments today. And as you noticed Captain Cernan, on your left we have distinguished members of the Congress of the United States here to welcome you back aboard, as well as the Govenor of American Samoa. And all of these gentlemen join me in telling you how happy we are to have you home. I'd like to introduce Major General David M. Jones, The Department of Defense Manager for Manned Space Flight Support Operations. General Jones.
305:29:23	JONES	(Applause) On behalf of the entire Department of Defense Apollo Support Team, we're honored to welcome the crew of Apollo 17. The Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Teams that have supported the Apollo - entire Apollo Program are particularly pleased to offer our congratulations on your flawless performance. I am proud to present the crew of Apollo 17, Captain Gene Cernan, Dr. Jack Schmitt, and Commander Ron Cernan. And I believe it's all yours.
305:30:07	CERNAN	(Applause) Let me say that first of all, how good it is to be home. You know, no matter where you go or where the trip takes you, it's always good to get home. Admiral Butts, I'd like to congratulate you and really thank you for for allowing the three of us to be part of your recovery team, because, today was just absolutely fantastic. And a day I know we'll never forget as long as we live. And in all due respect to General Jones, we got our start on the Atlantic Missile Range so to speak. But, I think we just proved over these last 13 days, that when you want to end something right, whether it be a recovery or whether it be an Apollo Program, by golly, you've got to call on the Navy. (Cheers) And I'm going to see if I can talk Captain Green into splitting the miss distance with me today. And I don't think we have too much to quarrel about. I do want to say, this has been an extremely rewarding 13 days for us. Thirteen days that I hope, people throughout the world can share with us, when it was happening, and certianly, I hope, in the future after we sort of gather it all together and find out how much we really learned. We think we flew a good mission, we think we accomplished something, and by golly, we're proud of it. You know, a few years back, I was on a deck of a carrier like this after Apollo 10, when I came back from the Moon and I was extremely excited and enthused, certainly no more than I am now. But, I said at that time, when I came back and I just have reproved it to myself that, that nothing is impossible in this world, when dedicated people are involved. And it's a fundamental law of nature, that either you must grow, or you must die. Whether that be an idea, whether that be a man, whether that be a flower or a country, I thank God that our country is chosen to grow. I'm really proud to be here, I'm proud to be part of Apollo 17, I'm proud to be a part of NASA, I'm very proud to be a Captain in the Navy, and most of all, I'm proud to be an American. And I'd like to present another guy who's pretty proud to be an American, and in turn I'll let him present the 3rd member of our crew. But first, Commander Ron Evans. (Applause)
305:32:55	EVANS	Thank you, Gene, General Green, - Captain Green, (Laughter) Admiral. You know, about 6-1/2 years ago, I was fortunate enough to be on the Ticonderoga, where I was notified, of my selection to the Astronaut Corps. I think it's quite fitting that I should happen to have the opportunity to be picked up by the Tico after our journey to the Moon. To me that's really something. The fact that, it was the Ticonderoga, is part of the United States Navy, the fact that I'm a Commander in the United States Navy, and I flew the United States Spacecraft America, to the Moon and back, I'm really honored and I'm proud. That's about the best way I can express it. And I think right now I'd like to present our, not our 3rd crew member, but the 3rd member of the Apollo 17 crew. Jack Schmitt. (Applause)
305:34:08	Schmitt	Thank you. I'm happy to be here and I guess I never will be Navy. (Laughter) I'm sorry. But, if there was ever a team I'd like to be part of it's this one. Thank you very much. (Applause)
305:34:33	SPKR	And so the Astronauts are done with their ceremony and are doing what the sheet told them to not to do, they're shaking hands over there. The sheet said just step off the platform turn left and wave or salute, but they either forgot or decided to go ahead and do their thing anyway. The doctors had thought that the shaking of hands would take too much time away from their experiments. And now, Dr. Don ... is herding them away. He's got one, he's got two, he's got three. They're all going down below, for their medical examinations. (music)
305:35:24	SPKR	And so, again, man has been to the Moon; man has returned. Within an hour, while the astronauts undergo extensive physicals on the hanger deck below, the Ticonderoga will pluck the Command Module, America from the Pacific. Within a few days, scientists will being anew their probe into the origins of the universe. And while NASA people onboard are stiff-upper-liping it, there is a sense of nostalgia, a sense of loss. For them, Apollo has dated an era. Today, that era is done. This is David ... onboard the carrier, Ticonde